The Traditional Pragmatist
A clear-eyed look at where we are, how we got here and how we might get out
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Part 1: Iran, Hormuz and the Price we pay (Redux)
This essay is a revised and substantially reworked version of the first piece in the Britain’s Fragility: The Hormuz Test and Beyond series. The original was written in real time as events in the Strait of Hormuz unfolded, amid the flurry o...
Conclusion: The Director State and the Guardian betrayed
This essay is intended as the conclusion to a series that has taken a different turn than I initially expected. It began as a response to the unfolding crisis in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, when it became clear that distant events were i...
Part 4: The Weight of the Leviathan
“So also the earthly city, whose life is not based on faith, aims at an earthly peace, and it limits the harmonious agreement of citizens concerning the giving and obeying of orders to the establishment of a kind of compromise between human...
Part 3: Swords into Ploughshares
Part 2: The Hollowed Arsenal
And Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
The postwar liberal consensus insists that the national instinct to go to war must be co...
Part 2: The Retreat of British Statecraft
At a foundational level, any state exists to fund and organise for war—or, more precisely, to organise collective defence against existential threats and secure the conditions for prosperity. The spread of agriculture gave humans enough abu...
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