Because contingency frightens us Cross-posted from Aurelien’s Substack Imagine the scene if you will. The Reichstag buzzing with excitement and decked with flags, the brown-uniformed Party functionaries straining for a glimpse of their leader. A […]
Or, Europe after Ukraine Cross-posted from Aurelien’s Substack I’ve written several times about how the Ukraine war might end, and what might follow it. I’ve covered the inability of the West to understand what is […]
Masochism for fun and profit. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s Substack You won’t be surprised to learn that the French media have been consumed for the last month or so by the coming to power of Donald […]
How will they turn out the lights? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s Substack Over the last eighteen months, I have produced a couple of essays on the question of how the war in Ukraine might “end.” I’ve […]
Years are all given (sponsored) names, rather than conventional dates Cross-posted from Aurelien’s Substack Somewhere, maybe hidden in Substack’s conditions of use, is the injunction to write some kind of end-of year-summing up each end […]
There are expressions that creep up on you when you are not looking, that come from nowhere, and seem to take over the media all at once. The latest, and the subject of this week’s […]
A failure of understanding in Ukraine. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s Substack I’ve written a number of times now about the unreality with which the West habitually approaches the continuing crisis in and around Ukraine, and the […]
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