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Trying to Understand the World

Aurelien
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A newsletter devoted not to polemic, but to trying to make sense of today's world.

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While We Were Sleeping.

I’m reliably informed that there are people in Washington and other western capitals who were “surprised” by the ineffectiveness of the recent US/Israeli campaign against Iran, and by the effective surrender of the US as demonstrated in the...

4 days ago
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21st Century Schizoid Man.

Last week’s essay on the importance of psychological factors in international politics sparked a lot of interest and some debate, but I was conscious that, once again, I had been obliged to skate over the surface of many important subjects,...

12 days ago
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People Are Strange.

Last week, we discussed the huge gulf that exists between the thinking of the political class and its parasites in the Professional and Managerial Caste (PMC) on the one hand, and the attitudes and desires of ordinary people on the other. T...

18 days ago
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Nothing In Common...

At the end of the Second World War, George Orwell recorded several times in letters and in articles his feeling that the British people had seemed curiously happier during the War, than in the immediate past. Now of course Orwell did not me...

a month ago
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You The People....

Democracy, we read these days, is under threat from people like you and me. Or at least something labelled “Democracy;” whether it’s defined as an ideology, a series of procedures, or just not really defined at all, is under threat from peo...

a month ago
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