On the Verge of the Great Unraveling: The View From 2050
Nov 11, 2015 As everyone now knows, the spirit of integration imbued in international trade pacts would go down to defeat as the bloodlands of the 20th century gave way to the splinterlands of the 21st. The sense of disintegration and disunity that settled over our world came at precisely the wrong moment. We needed more unity, not less.
The Star Trek Fallacy
Sep 17, 2015 Might it have been better for the universe as a whole if the Enterprise had never left earth and earth hadn’t meddled in matters beyond its own solar system? As our country contemplates future military interventions, as well as ambitious efforts to someday colonize other planets, Americans would be smart to address this fundamental question.
The Worst of All Possible Worlds: Why Global Society Is Becoming the Un-Sweden
May 27, 2015 We might all be eating off of IKEA tableware, listening to Spotify and reading the latest "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" knockoff, but we are not living in a giant Sweden. Forget about the “new industrial state.” Our world is converging in a far more dystopian way.
The Collapse of Europe?
Jan 29, 2015 The European project is teetering on the edge of failure. Growth is anemic at best and socio-economic inequality is on the rise. The countries of Eastern and Central Europe, even relatively successful Poland, have failed to bridge the income gap with the richer half of the continent. And the highly indebted periphery is in revolt.
The Pacific Pivot
Jan 30, 2014 The administration's much-vaunted pivot looks ever more like a divot -- a swing, a miss, and a hole in the ground rather than anything approaching a hole-in-one.
Dumb and Dumber
Sep 6, 2012 President Obama's version of “smart power” has been anything but smart. It has maintained imperial overstretch at self-destructive expense, infuriated strategic competitors like China, hardened the position of adversaries like Iran and North Korea, and tried the patience of even longtime allies in Europe and Asia.
