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.
Western observers misread the Third World because they assume corruption is an exception rather than a rational adaptation to incentives, power, and weak moral consciousness.
Why societies change slowly, and why institutional reform fails when deeper moral habits remain unchanged.
Discussion on the escalating Iran-US tensions, India’s dangerous energy vulnerability, and the deeper cultural patterns behind its foreign policy failures.
Jayant Bhandari discusses Indian culture, caste mentality, spirituality, and why Third World societies remain trapped in dysfunction.
Analysis of the Iranian frigate incident, India’s vassal-like foreign policy, and its dangerous energy vulnerability.