Essays
Long-form writing on power, innovation, history and the ideas that shape our world.

🇪🇺 THE THEATRE OF RE-ARMAMENT: HOW EUROPE’S POLITICAL CLASS MISTAKES ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR STRATEGY
Plato warned us. When governance falls to those more skilled in appearances than in truth, the city is already on the road to ruin. Europe, today, still has a choice. But it will not have that choice forever.

The Saturation Trap: How Information Abundance Broke Discernment
Empirical research drawing on nationally representative linguistic data in the United States reveals that, after controlling for educational attainment, adult vocabulary scores have declined steadily since the mid-1970s
"To understand the future, we must first understand the ideas that made the present possible."
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