Category: Geopolitics

‘They can target the money’

Recently, in The Signal: Why are there so many toxic chemicals in food? Rashmi Joglekar on where they come from and what they’re doing to people and the planet. Today: What is financial repression? Félix Maradiaga on how autocratic regimes are using the global banking system, international law, […]

JD Vance Declares Multipolarity

Constantin von Hoffmeister May 24, 2025 “The era of uncontested U.S. dominance is over,” JD Vance says into the sunlight at his commencement speech at the Naval Academy in Annapolis on May 23, 2025, and the sentence cracks the sky open. The uniforms gleam, fixed to bodies about […]

The Istanbul Talks Were a Success

View this email in your browser READ ON SITE NOW Predictions to the contrary, Ukraine and Russia’s first direct talks in three years, held in Istanbul on May 16, went quite well. Most importantly, the two sides agreed to keep talking. For the Trump administration, which has made ending […]

The Desolation of Smog

Sponsored by Reaktion Books Jonathan Mingle An EPA Without Science The agency’s rollbacks under Lee Zeldin suggest that Trump’s war on the administrative state has become, effectively, a war on the future. Alice Kaplan Zionism Without Zion Rachel Cockerell’s family saga shows that in the search for a […]

“Make Iberia Great Again”

An invitation to join our imaginal al-Andalus Kevin Barrett May 15, 2025 Cross-posted from Al-Andalus Tribune and Al-Andalus Tribune Substack I saw her not with these eyes of clay, But with inner gaze born of love’s own ray. Al-Andalus—shimmering face of the Real, Unfolding where only the heart […]

Rapprochement with Iran?

Sponsored by Duke University Press Christopher de Bellaigue Iran: A Grand Bargain? The conditions necessary to negotiate a new nuclear deal and revive commercial ties between Iran and the US are in sight. Linda Greenhouse How Brown Came North and Failed The effort to desegregate Detroit’s public schools required not […]

China’s ‘China shock’

Week XX, MMXXV Brought to you by Congo Clothing Company Recently, in The Signal: What are the risks of “killer robots” to civilians? Lucy Suchman on the automation of modern warfare. Today: Why are millions of factory jobs leaving China? Victor Shih on the country’s extraordinary self-inflicted loss. […]

Trump’s Mega-Blink on China Tariffs

MONDAY, MAY 12, 2025 It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance […]

Dugin’s American Turn

by Alexander Markovics Alexander Markovics May 12, 2025 Alexander Markovics argues that Alexander Dugin’s sudden admiration for America is not a betrayal of his anti-globalist philosophy but the natural outgrowth of his multipolar vision, which sees in Trumpist populism a potential ally in the struggle against thalassocratic liberalism. […]

Veritatis splendor

Week XIX, MMXXV It’s not every week that Russia invades a neighboring country, or the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, or there’s a new pope. But there’s always news. Do you sometimes wonder, though, what exactly news is? We tend to talk about it as if it’s a thing […]