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Conspiracy Theories and Other Comfort Blankets

Perhaps the most frightening possibility is not that secret elites control everything. Perhaps it is that nobody does. No mastermind. No hidden committee. No grand design. Just billions of people improvising their way through a complex world, making mistakes, chasing incentives, and colliding with consequences nobody fully understands.
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The Ponzi Empire
For two decades, China was presented as the inevitable future. The dragon would rise, the West would decline, and history itself…
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The Luxury of Victimhood
Civilizations rarely collapse because solutions are unavailable. They collapse because comfort becomes more important than truth, victimhood becomes social currency, and…
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After the Peak

Back in 2022, I advanced what was, at the time, a rather unfashionable prediction. The great climate panic, I argued,…

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