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The Thinker challenges the conventional wisdom
The Thinker has always challenged the conventional wisdom.
Challenging received wisdom is the first duty of a Thinker because, as everyone knows, the conventional wisdom is always wrong.
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Is the Academy Preparing America for its National Security Challenges?
The rise of China, the spread of AI-driven weapons systems, the spread of authoritarianism, and other security challenges demand forms of knowledge that cannot be surged or improvised in a crisis: language skills, regional expertise, histor...
Happy Birthday, USA
On this occasion of the 250th birthday of the United States, Blue Blaze gathered some friends and asked them their thoughts and advice for the country.
What’s Right with America
Dan Reiter (Emory University)
Happy 250th birthday, Am...
Burning Down the House
I’m driving back to the hotel after the conference dinner and Mark Blyth in the passenger seat is pointing energetically, urging me to make the left turn in his Scottish lilt, “Go! Go!”
I’m thinking, who is this dude?, and during the confe...
Seth Jones's The American Edge
Welcome to Scouted!
As the US-China competition intensifies, international security scholar Seth Jones warns that China is already well along the way toward mobilizing for war—while the United States remains on a peacetime footing.
Seth J...
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Editor in chief of Blue Blaze. Dartmouth professor. Fellow at Chatham House, London and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard. Mom and Ridgeback mom.
Jonathan Kirshner is a Professor at Boston College. His books include An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics, and Hollywood's Last Golden Age: Politics, Society and the Seventies Film in America.
I teach at Georgetown University and am a senior fellow at CSIS.
Director of Research at the European Council on Foreign Relations
I run this podcast and substack
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