Category: Geopolitics

A Dignified Death for Europa

by J. R. Sommer Arktos Journal Jul 21, 2025 J. R. Sommer lays bare the funereal masquerade of modern Europe, where glossy images veil the truth that immigrant fertility fills the cradle as the native race fades. Europeans1 are going extinct; there is no reversing this. Both in […]

Tariff Day Is Here, Again!

View this email in your browser Tariff Day Is Here, Again! Released on Patreon on July 8, 2025 We’re excited to announce our next Live Q&A for the Analyst members on Patreon on Wed, July 30! Peter Zeihan will be answering a mix of pre-submitted and live questions. If you’d […]

‘We’re the last generation’

Week XXIX, MMXXV Recently: Around the world, some cities and regions are getting wealthier; others are increasingly left behind. Why? Sir Paul Collier on hyper-centralization and the economic origins of the populist blame game. Today: What happened to the Chinese Dream? Yi-Ling Liu on declining opportunities, increasing malaise, […]

Letters to Zelensky

This week on the NYR Online, Linda Kinstler writes about a system in Ukraine that enables citizens to petition their government: Ever since the government introduced the service in 2015, civilians and military personnel have routinely used it to submit appeals and request relief from the effects of […]

Xi Père

Sponsored by Bodleian Library Publishing Ian Johnson Lessons of the Father New biographies of Xi Zhongxun and Hu Yaobang provide insights into the opaque culture of the Chinese Communist Party and the political ascent of Xi’s son, Xi Jinping. Anahid Nersessian How Can I Help You? The hypocrisies […]

America in the Age of Multipolarity

Constantin von Hoffmeister Jul 11, 2025 “Multipolarity does not mean America vanishes — it means it shrinks, focuses, retreats from the insane delusion of universal rule and remembers how to be a proper nation again. Isolationism will not come as a strategy. It will come as a reflex, […]

Argentina Onward

View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW It’s a good time to be an Argentine. That is, at least in modern history, an unusual statement, but for a country used to economic chaos and national decline, the vistas are all the rosier. Inflation in May […]

Coming to America

Recently: Why are studios releasing so few original new films? Andrew deWaard on how movie franchises have conquered Hollywood. Today: Why are so many companies moving to America from Europe? Philippe Aghion on the Continent’s failure to build a competitive innovation ecosystem. + Why are Americans losing interest […]

Tariff Mythbusters: A Recap

July 9, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, After a pause on the “Liberation Day” rates, Donald Trump has recently announced that the United States will impose a 25% tariff […]

Eternal return

Week XXVIII, MMXXV Brought to you by Codecademy Recently, in The Signal: What does Germany’s new military expansion mean for Europe? Liana Fix on Berlin’s mission to build the Continent’s most powerful army. Today: Why are studios releasing so few original new films? Andrew deWaard on how movie […]

Why Trump Should Stay Out of Israel’s War on Iran

View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW President Donald Trump’s admission last week that Iran had refused to abandon uranium enrichment—even after U.S.–Israeli strikes in June—exposes the harsh reality of Mideast power politics. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington on Monday, ostensibly to discuss Gaza, but, according to a well-informed […]

Trump Makes the Right Move on Syria

View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW T he Trump administration bandwagoning on Israel’s strikes against Iran appears to have had the entirely predictable effect of making Iran less diplomatically cooperative, which is not an altogether welcome development for people who would like to achieve some kind […]

The US/Israeli War vs. Iran, Rationality, Opportunity, Conceding the Obvious, Continued American Dominance, Iran as Paper Tiger, TURBO AMERICA

“There’s no time like the present!” The US/Israeli War vs. Iran, Rationality, Opportunity, Conceding the Obvious, Continued American Dominance, Iran as Paper Tiger, TURBO AMERICA Niccolo Soldo Jul 08, 2025 Share In the Realist School of International Relations Theory, (nation -) states are the primary actors on the […]

NATO’s Trump Manipulation Campaign

View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW President Donald Trump was the dominant figure at the latest NATO summit. But the president was easy to manipulate. Basking in the praise of his European supplicants, Trump declared that “this was a tremendous summit, and I enjoyed it very much.” Indeed, he added, […]

The course of human events

Week XXVII, MMXXV As we transmit this week’s member’s despatch your way, it’s Independence Day weekend in the U.S.—one of the few moments in the year when millions of Americans, possibly the most always-on people in the world, switch off; step out of their day-to-day (or even normal-weekend) […]

The Sociology of Geopolitics

Atlantis or Athens: The War Between Land and Sea in Every Soul Alexander Markovics Jun 30, 2025 Alexander Markovics conjures a war map of spirits where Atlantis and Athens rise again within every soul, calling each to choose between the rooted hero of the land and the drifting […]

War and peace

Why didn’t China or Russia help Iran? What on Earth is “the West”? New music from Four Tet, Mary Halvorson, & Amon Tobin. + What’s a pandeiro? &c. … The member’s despatch, Week XXVI. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ […]

Lawfare and the Future of Europe

Europe’s elites use courts to block change but the tide is turning. Kenneth Schmidt Jun 27, 2025 Kenneth Schmidt argues that Europe’s liberal elites are using lawfare to suppress populist leaders — most recently in the Czech Republic — yet believes the right will endure and rise. In […]