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Sunday Cutdown CXLI (20 September 2026)
A Sunday cutdown on Trump’s compounding strategic, economic, and institutional wreckage: a world hedging against American credibility, local powers inheriting America’s wars, and an increasingly performative presidency leaving its succe...
I Told You How to Do It Already
Canada is integrating with somebody, and if Europe can offer associate membership across an ocean while America offers only tariffs and taunts across a shared continent, then we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
Thomas P.M. Barnett’s...
The Kids Aren’t Stupid (video remix)
The first rule of institutional decline is this: when reality changes faster than the institution can adapt, the institution blames reality. That is where we are with education today.
Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Global Throughlines is...
Stop Worshiping the Machine God
The AI race worth winning is not to build a machine god before China does, but to build a REAL civilizational operating system—one that makes societies more resilient, explainable, anticipatory, and lucid before the next cascading crisi...
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