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The shape of tomorrow

The post-pandemic world doesn’t look peaceful at a first glance, and that impression is likely to continue: conflict will intensify and unrest will necessarily follow due to underlying, long-term realities. The existing chasm between the…

The Flying Machine

“Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT,” President Donald Trump tweeted some time ago. He added, “I see it all the time in many products.” Of course he does: The…

All Globalists Now

With an election climaxing in not just an uncommon rhetorical shrillness but also actual violence, Americans now recognize that we are engaged in a cold war that is turning increasingly hot between “globalists” and “nationalists.” Or, at…