Religion did not work like you think it did. “over time, these customs won’t seem so strange anymore. Humans have a tendency to assume that whatever the customs – for instance, for diplomacy – are in our time, that this… Read More »Practical Polytheism, Part I: Knowledge
Empires are not what you probably think. “Empire, I should note, seems to be one of – if not the – dominant form of large-scale human social organization since at least the bronze age (which is to say: since as… Read More »Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires?
Bad money. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I have no idea what to think about this. “As I ate dinner one night at the Ritz-Carlton, in a Chinese restaurant overlooking the indoor swimming pool, I reflected that the promise of a five-star hotel is insulation, a cocoon… Read More »How Many Comedians Does It Take to Change a Country?
Diplomacy has changed many times in the past. Why should it stay the same now? “A new chapter started with a bang. In 1814, the Austrian foreign minister Prince Klemens von Metternich was convinced that diplomacy had to make a… Read More »We need a planetary system of diplomacy for the 21st century
Good tips to get yourself educated. “My recommendation is to pick three very different historical periods that you find fascinating. They can be any three, really, but ideally they will be a bit separated from each other in space, time,… Read More »A Study Guide for Human Society, Part I
War is more complicated than shown in movies. “Victory, then, is not always the annihilation of enemy forces—it is the collapse of the enemy’s will to resist.” https://mwi.westpoint.edu/a-clausewitzian-lens-on-modern-urban-warfare/
It is more complicated than 5 steps of separation.
This is why census and biometrics exists. “In August 2023, over one million Paraguayans disappeared. Results from the 2022 census, released that month, put the number of Paraguayans at 6.1 million — 1.4 million fewer than the numbers projected by… Read More »Why Governments Can’t Count
Politika má byť o politikách, nie ľuďoch a emóciách. “Nuž a toto v zásade SmeroHlaSNS vyhovuje, pretože to vyzerá, že je to jedna k jednej, všetci sú rovnakí, len niektorí sú viac proruskí, niektorí viac prozápadní – niektorí LGBT pozitív,… Read More »A NENÍ TO MÁLO, IGORE MATOVIČI?