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The End of America, Again

Most people discussing America’s decline have already reached their conclusion before examining the evidence. They see debt and think Rome. They see division and think civil war. They see hesitation and think weakness. Reality is less convenient. History does not repeat mechanically, and lazy analogies are not analysis.
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A bruised and partially decayed red apple sits on a stone surface, its skin split open and collapsing inward, revealing rot beneath an otherwise intact exterior.
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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Person falling through a foggy sky, symbolizing the collapse of political illusions and the return of geopolitical reality.
The Return of Gravity
For decades we lived inside comforting abstractions: sovereign equality, rules-based order, democratic virtue, and political unions presumed eternal. But illusions age…
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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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The Temperature of Panic

My hometown of Vienna is currently simmering beneath another oppressive heatwave. The thermometer is edging uncomfortably close to forty degrees…

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The Idiot’s Ladder

Every sufficiently stable system eventually produces the same crop. Not merely a few fools by accident, but a steady procession…

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