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Addition by Subtraction: The upside of US exit from international institutions
While the Trump regime’s retreat from a welter of international institutions is mainly a sop to the MAGA home crowd, the U.S. exit from the UNFCCC and…
Jan 9
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The Speculative Architecture of Collapse
Three filmic visions of the American endgame
Dec 15, 2025
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An Open Letter to the Trump NatSec Team
The United States is still the most powerful nation on earth, but the gravest challenges we face go beyond those that even the most powerful state can…
Dec 9, 2025
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The Dutch Auction Theory of Authoritarianism
Why Inflection Points in Regime Power Constitute the Period of Maximum Danger
Dec 2, 2025
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Nils Gilman
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The Duopoly of Doom
How Two Competing Collapse Narratives Define the Modern Political Divide
Dec 1, 2025
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Nils Gilman
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Climate Leviathan
A possible (even likely) future, if the U.S. doesn't get its act together
Nov 24, 2025
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Nils Gilman
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The Sovereign Individual Does Not Exist
The biological discovery of the holobiont gives the lie to liberalism's foundational concept of the autonomous individual as well as methodological…
Nov 19, 2025
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