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Post-Brexit Britain’s Collapse Is So Extreme, It’s Genuinely Unprecedented — I know I’ve discussed it a bit recently, but it needs discussing. In this little essay, I want to tie up some of the loose threads, with a simple observation. The scale and speed of British collapse is staggering. I mean that. Watching Britain turn into what it is now…

It’d be wonderful if a new year magically marked a new beginning. But 2022, like all years, reminded us that the same things keep happening, that world events continue on in their own unpredictable way and that in the end, we control very little but our own actions and opinions. …

We Need to Think a Lot Bigger About a Better World If We Want to Save Our Civilization From Collapse — When I look around the globe these days, at the state of ideas, politics, economics, there’s a question going unasked. But it’s perhaps the most crucial one of all. It’s as daunting as it simple to say: what kind of world, future, planet should we want? “We” just means sane…

How two men tricked a stadium full of geniuses. — I hate pranks. Usually. They’re too mean-spirited and involve humiliating people in front of a crowd under the guise of humor. However — I can make an occasional exception, and this one is hard to top. It’s also highly underappreciated. Insert two Yale students, Mike Kai and David Aulicino. They…

Ukraine can beat Russia if the next six months are especially violent and bloody — Is an intensely violent two or three months during which tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers will die a bad thing to hope for? As a human, it probably is. The alternative to this “speed-warring” version is for hundreds of thousands more to die gradually over the next…