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- The inventors of America’s most dangerous idea.
- How will we know when COVID is over?
- Examining Henry Kissinger’s diplomacy.
- China and quantum decryption.
- Could Trump take the 2024 election?
- Facebook’s Metaverse heralds a brave new underworld of Metacrime.
- Hoover Institution featured fellow: Dr Amy Zegart.
- Twitter is again losing Jack Dorsey.
- Meet the woman making viral portraits of mental health on TikTok.
- The Taiwan triangle.
- My 2020 Monash University political science PhD dissertation The Development of Strategic Culture in Terrorist Organisations.
- My public archive of grant applications.
- My 2003 strategic foresight presentation on the SARS outbreak, which is now relevant to the COVID pandemic.
- It wasn’t a hoax.
- ‘Activism’ isn’t a coherent ideology.
- Farewell to Stephen Sondheim.
- Washington is trying to create true tech monopolies.
- The new “Nu” [Omicron] COVID variant is of our own making.
- China’s disappeared.
- The new Polar Silk Road.
- Black Friday’s supply chain problems are really labour problems.
- The system only worked because it was pushed.
- How I fight racism in the world and within me.
- The rise of Mexico’s cartel influencers.
- Is Vladimir Putin preparing for war?
- Her kind: a memoir.
- Are you part of the “exhausted majority“?
- A private-jet battle in East Hampton.
- Growing American leadership on the Sustainable Development Goals.
- The future of the Digital Order.
- Justice for Ahmaud Arbery.
- The end of trust.
- In Charlottesville, the Nazis were finally held to account.
- The best way to fight inflation: ditch fossil fuels.
- Republicans are rigging elections for the next decade.
- Art Basel Miami Beach is back with a vengeance.
- Do Liberals believe in democracy or not?
- Carlsen vs. Nepo.
- The push for equity in education hurts vulnerable children the most.
- What does a portrait of community stress look like?
- Why Russia hasn’t cracked down on COVID-19.
- The real threat to academic freedom.
- How Fortress Europe is becoming a reality.
- We all live in the John Birch Society’s world now.
- There’s nothing natural about hierarchy.
- The importance of Freddie Mercury.
- Where Paul Thomas Anderson finds inspiration.
- Reining in COVID-19 disinformation from China, Russia, and elsewhere.
- Will Putin miscalculate?
- Iran’ss nuclear choices.
- Elon Musk and the dangers of another stock bubble.
- Republicans will be sorry if the Supreme Court overturns Roe.
- Biden is smart to reappoint Jerome Powell to the Federal Reserve.
- International failure in Sudan.
- The stuck boat tried to warn us.
- The political risk of Big Data dominance.
- The First Amendment protects everyone, even Facebook and Twitter.
- A posthumous shock.
- Weighing entanglement risks of United States security relationships.
- Enhancing democratic partnership in the Indo-Pacific region.
- The fraying of US-China relations.
- The terrifying future of the American Right.
- Tyler Cowen’s favourite fiction of 2021.
- An earthquake in British media.
- Digital espionage tools and Africa’s authoritarianism.
- Inflation meditation.
- The storm over the American revolution.
- Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction.
- The enemy of my enemy.
- How diplomacy could be used to discourage Russian arms sales.
- The elephant who could be a person.
- The teacher who invented The Oregon Trail.
- Taylor Swift’s quest for justice.
- The enduring cruelty of America’s sanctions regime.
- Iman’s perfumed tribute to David Bowie.
- What COP26 did and did not accomplish.
- What does current inflation tell us about the future?
- The changing face of social breakdown.
- Former CIA analyst on crypto regulation.
- Afghanistan is on the brink of humanitarian disaster – and the West is culpable.
- The bad guys are winning.
- Can Russia’s press ever be free?
- Republicans are helping to crack down on global tax dodgers.
- End the Generation Wars.
- Last Letter to a Reader reviewed.
- Biden, Xi seek cooperation in longer-than-expected summit.
- Which countries are the biggest carbon emitters in history?
- China’s search for allies.
- Tracking news manipulation by malicious state actors.
- The genius of John von Neumann.
- The desperate scramble to stop an insider election threat.
- Fossil fuel companies owe reparations to the countries they are destroying.
- How Britney Spears got free, and what comes next.
- Taylor Swift knows the Internet all too well.
- Watching Mikhail Gorbachev resign in Moscow.
- How do South Koreans feel about Squid Game?
- Have the founders of the University of Austin been in a classroom lately?
- Why Pfizer won’t share its $36 billion secret vaccine formula.
- I multiplied myself.
- The failure of democracy promotion in Venezuela.