The African Origins of Democracy

By Bernd Reiter In this short essay, I argue that democracy started in ancient Africa, not in ancient Greece. Along the way, I demonstrate that world history’s hegemonic focus on civilization is misplaced and misleading. Such a focus, after all, gears our collective attention toward empires, kingdoms, and […]

The Ins and Outs of Omicron

By Peter Zeihan on January 26, 2022 I’m sure a lot of you have noticed that I haven’t mentioned much at all the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. It really boils down to one factor: reinfection. Coronavirus is fast. With the original strain out of Wuhan, as well as […]

Let’s Not Have a War

By Matt Taibbi The American foreign policy establishment, chasing decades of failures, appears to be seriously considering the unthinkable in Ukraine. Joe Biden last week said the American response in Ukraine would be proportional to Vladimir Putin’s actions. “It depends,” the president posited, thoughts drifting like blobs in […]