Tuesday, June 2, 2020

India's March into the light and the great lie of the golden bird

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Sherif! As long as you Arabs are a bunch of small tribes, you are a small people, a silly people: greedy, barbarous, and cruel. Lawrence of ...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

The pull of forward and backwardness and the paradoxes of life

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How does culture affect the success of capitalism?  The common charge levelled at communism often is that it fails to account for human n...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Part 1: The soul of a civilization

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 "German Engineering, Japanese Productivity, American Ingenuity and Obesity, European Decadence, French Romance and rudeness, the term...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The power of distractions: The forces that drive the world around us

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         Distractions in politics are a fascinating concept. For the longest time, I've seen them as the purest form of Realpolit...
Friday, December 7, 2018

The Forging of the Man

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 Click! Click! Click! Click! It was a sharp slope that they climbed, slowly trudging up the hill on a dark muddy day. The air was silent,...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

The Greatest Plan Ever Made

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Part 1: This will be beautiful Tell me we won  The words slip out of my mouth, my voice shaky and weak from the serum. I'm hazy, ...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

The absolute power of Tenacity: The siege of Masada

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 I have always found Zombies fascinating. Or precisely our fear of them. Zombies are relatively weak creatures. Very often slow, dragging a...