The Works of John McPhee Since the beginning of the pandemic, I’ve been reading just about everything ever written by John McPhee. I don’t know why this is, exactly. But something about the ever-present, intertwined feelings of malaise and crisis of the past year make me want to read about geology, and impossible places, and […]
The Peasant War in Germany
By Friedrich Engels
After participating in the German Revolution of 1848, Friedrich Engels reflected on its aftermath and began a study...
Angela Merkel: The Chancellor and Her World
By Stefan Kornelius
After 16 years as the most powerful person in (arguably) the most powerful country in Europe,...
Why We're Polarized
By Ezra Klein
The day after a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol to try to obstruct the certification of a democratic election,...
Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future
By Marko Papic
Back when folks could still meet for drinks in a hotel lobby, I found...
Man’s Fate
By Andre Malraux
One of the great works of the 20th century was “Man’s Fate,” by Andre Malraux, about an abortive communist revolution in...
A History of Warfare
By John Keegan
Waxing philosophical about war is nearly as old as war itself. Sun Tzu, Winston Churchill, Thucydides, Shakespeare; among these...
Sakhalin Island
By Anton Chekhov
Earlier, during my studies, I read a lot of Russian classical literature, including the works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Chekhov is...
The Geopolitics of the American President