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From the Desk of George Friedman

COVID-19: Made in China?

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In a recent interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked whether he was confident that COVID-19 developed naturally. He has long maintained that though it...

Bill Gates, Monks and Nerds

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Ken Olsen was the CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, a powerful competitor to IBM in massive corporate and government computing. I learned to program...

Gaza: Morality and Reality

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Fighting is intensifying between Israelis and Palestinians, though it would be a mistake to think of this as another war. The war had been...

An Evening With Bach

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A friend of ours, Shem Guibbory, who is a violinist with the MET Orchestra in New York, came to our house last week for...

From Pandemic to Pan-shortages

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With some notable and grave exceptions, the COVID-19 crisis is winding down for much of the world. But as it does, another problem is...

The Decline of Births and the Transformation of All things

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The U.S. birth rate fell by 4 percent in 2020 compared to 2019, resulting in the lowest number of babies born since 1979. The...

Germany, May 8, 1945

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On May 8, 1945, Germany formally declared defeat in World War II. As others have said, there was one war in Europe that began...

Apple and the Past

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A few days ago, my phone – a 10-year-old iPhone 6 – died. Or, more precisely, it continued to work as a phone but...

Anzac Day, Memorial Day and the Geopolitics of a Friendship

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In history, and in the history of my family, Memorial Day and Anzac Day are intimately bound. On Memorial Day, which comes next month,...

History and Memory

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Earlier this week, I published a piece on Afghanistan, and in the course of writing that piece, I mentioned the origins of the U.S.-Afghan...

Remembering al-Qaida

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The United States invaded Afghanistan 20 years ago, soon after the attack on Sept. 11, 2001. By 2008, then-President Barack Obama made it a...

Texas on My Mind

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Last weekend, my wife and I went to the town of Bandera, in the western part of the Texas Hill Country. (We live in...
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