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Foreign Policy Matters in Elections
A data-backed plea to anyone who wants to avoid a repeat of 2024
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The Sources of Trumperialism (why this sh*t is happening)
What nobody gets about empire as an American exception.
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Four Great Reads
I have no specific commentary that unifies the following four pieces, but each is truly a must-read in its own right if you vibe with this…
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Is National Security #Resistance Over?
During Trump 1.0, many national security technocrats unironically conceived of themselves as part of a #NeverTrump resistance. Where are they this time?
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America is the Preeminent Revisionist Power
I originally wrote this on January 2, 2023.
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Silicon Valley’s Class War and the New Defense-Industrial Complex, w/ Max Read
For months, I’ve been a bit tortured over the storm clouds I see forming and have tried to give coherence to it in an essay I’ve been working on.
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Hans Morgenthau Wouldn’t Recognize Elbridge Colby
Drop Site News ran a piece critically profiling Elbridge Colby, a well-known MAGA foreign policy thinker with very hawkish views on China.
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Stephen Wertheim on War and Peace in Europe and Asia
Stephen Wertheim (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) joined me during today’s livestream on Twitch to talk about the future of Europe and Asia…
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The Geopolitics of American Homelessness and Rent Distress
The homeless folks you see in the streets of the United States are part of the price paid to sustain a militarist foreign policy.
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December 2024

Falling Out: The Politics of Generation GWOT
20 years of global war has many consequences, none greater than a crisis in the social reproduction of US primacy.
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A Capitalist-Ethnonationalist Contradiction in the MAGA Coalition
The limits of Elon Musk and the Big Tech overlords’ alliance with white supremacists
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Dumpster Fire: Militarism Against Trans Kids, Gen Z’s Prospects in IR, Breakfast Cereal and Capitalism, Trumperialism
Checking in on the dumpster fire that is world politics
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