Review of Peter Turchin's "End Times"

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy  “Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is ...

The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis   “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post  “A fascinating and combative intelle...

写在前边Chat GPT虽然并非严格意义上的通用人工智能（AGI)，但它的横空出世，已经在很大程度上改变了我们的工作和生活。泰格马克在《生命3.0》中写道：“如果在未来的某一天，机器可以用最低的成本生产出今天所有…

呈现多元观点 认识复杂欧亚

Among American foreign policy whisperers and assessors of the state of the world, no one had a more checkered reputation than Walt Rostow—academic economist, influential author, adviser to presidents, and, as the U.S. diplomat Averell Harriman once called…

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American lawmaker questions rational for downsizing as China threat grows

政府は22日、米国企業の特許を使って国内で生産した地対空誘導弾パトリオットミサイルを米国に輸出することを認めた。同日の閣議や国家安全保障会議で防衛装備移転三原則と運用指針を改定し、武器の輸出制限を大幅に緩和したことを受けた。

Doctrine for tactical nuclear weapons outlined in training scenarios for an invasion by China

Modern European history is sometimes told as a story of growing secularization. But the Catholic Church played a central role in 20th-century Europe as one of the main purveyors of anti-communism and a frequent ally of far-right reaction.

History, for Hegel, is a progressive process, leading toward the realization of true freedom. Hegel attempted to unite a philosophy of mind, politics, and logic with a philosophy of history. Because of his unabashed embrace of a teleological history, many…

If a single image can stand for Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, it is the one that begins and ends the novel: the American guerrilla fighter Robert Jordan prone on the pine-needled floor of a forest near Segovia, awaiting the appearance of enemy…

Treason is a matter of timing, Talleyrand said, and he should have known. Aristocrat by birth, priest by original profession if no very sincere vocation, consecrated a bishop only months before the storming of the Bastille in 1789, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand…

Wars and ideology simplified

novel by Richard Condon

A misconfigured North Korean Internet cloud server has provided a fascinating glance into the ...

A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"

The Mexican army has acknowledged for the first time that some of its soldiers have been killed by drug cartel bomb-dropping drones.