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The Trapdoor Summer: On Closed Exits, Open Wagers and Long Hours
I. The Waterway
At midday on July 20, the oil supertanker Acheloos and a smaller fuel tanker were struck in the Strait of Hormuz, their hulls breached by munitions that turned the waterway into a shooting gallery. The ships’ manager, Dy...
Orange Skies, Burning Bridges, and the Long Escalation
I. The Colour of the Air
On a Thursday morning in mid-July, a man in Chicago stepped outside and tasted metal. The sun over Toronto had turned the colour of a bruised yolk. In Manhattan, the skyline simply vanished behind a wall of part...
The Narrowing Corridor: War, Heat, Machines, and the Erosion of the Democratic Idea
The Fourteen Ships
On the morning of July 13, maritime trackers in Dubai and Singapore watched a number so small it seemed like a data error: fourteen. Fourteen cargo vessels had transited the Strait of Hormuz in a single day, down from...
Learning to Lose Less: A Review of How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy
The Vise Closes: War, algorithms, and the machinery of exclusion in a fracturing world. July 9-10, 2026.
I. The Straits Are Burning
At the Ankara summit this week, Donald Trump declared the US-Iran ceasefire over in the morning, i...
The Long Table: Power, Performance, and the Personalization of the World
Introduction
In the predawn hours of July 7, in a London pub crowded with England supporters who had stayed awake through the small hours, a man drinking his seventh can of Red Bull watched his team overcome Mexico with ten men. Three t...
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