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Getting past the 2010s
If you’re an anime fan, or if you just grew up in the 1980s, you might have seen the classic Japanese animated movie Akira. Although the movie’s main plot is about psychic children, the backdrop is a futuristic Tokyo in chaos, with protesters clashing brutally
Russia is not actually a very nice place to live
Tucker Carlson came back from his recent trip to Russia amazed by what he saw. He compared Moscow favorably to American cities: What was radicalizing, very shocking and very disturbing for me was the city of Moscow, where I'd never been, the biggest city in Europe…is so much nicer than any city in my country. I had no idea…If you can't use your subway, for example, as many people are afraid to in New York City because it's too dangerous, you have to sort of wonder like, isn't that the ultimate measure of leadership?…It's radicalizing for an American to go to Moscow. I didn't know that. I've learned it this week, to Singapore, to Tokyo, to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, because these cities, no matter how we're told they're run and on what principles they're run, are wonderful places to live that don't have rampant inflation.
2024 could be the pivotal year for Cold War 2
When I write about world affairs, I tend to use some terms like “New Axis” and “Cold War 2” might seem melodramatic. But my purpose in using those terms isn’t to rile people up or scare them; it’s because I think they effectively describe what’s going on in the world today. Cold War 2 is just
The Dark Forest hypothesis is absurd
WARNING: This post contains major spoilers for Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death’s End. As you know by now, I’m a fan of Cixin Liu’s sci-fi series Remembrance of Earth’s Past. The writing is excellent, the characters are original and deep, the plots are gripping, and the concepts are highly imaginative. The first two books chronicle humankind’s encounters with an alien civilization, the Trisolarans, who almost destroy Earth. In the second book, Earth is saved when a sociology professor, Luo Ji, realizes that the Universe functions according to a principle called the
Anyway, I’m so grateful to all of you for reading my blog. When I started it, I never imagined that my audience would get this big. I’ll do my very best to keep providing you with content that’s both informative and entertaining.
