In this Geopolitics & Empire interview with Hrvoje Morić, I discuss global chaos, Iran, Ukraine, US hegemony, Pax Sinica, India’s collapse, mass migration, surveillance, and why individuals should diversify across jurisdictions.
In this musing, I discuss my essay Predation Wearing the Mask of Civilization, which builds on Institutions Cannot Be Transplanted, and examine the CYG/CAML arbitrage opportunity in the mining sector.
I speak with Richard Kary on Beyond The Official Narrative about China, immigration, BRICS, fiat currency, commodities, Taiwan, and the decline of the West.
I speak with Chris Baker on Fountainhead Forum about why I now think India can decline rapidly, not merely slowly, and why the country’s problems are civilizational rather than merely political or economic.
In this essay, I examine the insecurity, mimicry, and status anxiety often hidden behind exaggerated immigrant displays of superiority, identity, and cultural pride.
My essay, Institutions Cannot Be Transplanted, examines why Western institutions cannot simply be imported into societies that lack the moral and cultural substrate that gave rise to them. I also discuss the EUR/CRML arbitrage and an options-based way to improve the economics.
An essay on India’s institutions, corruption, bureaucracy, moral decay, and how predation can survive beneath the outward forms of civilization.
A two-hour discussion with Richard Kary on the Iran–U.S. war, China today, India’s deeper weaknesses, and the shifting global order.
Why does Western modernity fail in the Third World? Advanced tech grafted onto pre-modern minds creates fragile “second-hand modernity.”
An essay on why institutions cannot be transplanted from one society to another, and why law, democracy, markets, rights, and governance depend on deeper cultural and moral foundations.