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Realpolitik and its failures

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, a tight member in the elite and trade-centric Davos foreign policy establishment, this week published an editorial suggesting that America lacks flexibility in its foreign policy. Unfortunately, Continue Reading

Posted On : March 22, 2023 Published By : Ari Bai
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East Asia’s war footing

Three of the major states in East that can be, to differing extents, described to be under the American military umbrella, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, are each taking steps Continue Reading

Posted On : January 22, 2023 Published By : Ari Bai
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Godless – A review

Ari: After seeing Jack O’Connell for the first time since war film ’71, and previously on Skins, he was at first almost unrecognizable. His scraggled beard and posture was a Continue Reading

Posted On : January 6, 2023 Published By : Ari Bai
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Why (Western) growth is really over

The English magazine “The Economist” has this month twice editorialized on the end of an infatuation with the concept of economic growth through a deemphasis on free trade. It never Continue Reading

Posted On : December 25, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai
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Should the West decide where Ukraine’s borders end?

Another Kissinger foray into the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the backlash it attracted show that the American-backed NATO armament of Ukraine has convinced many in the West that it has earned Continue Reading

Posted On : December 20, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai
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The “Culture Gap”

One of the most prominent features of social media is not it’s ability to connect regular people to elites, but rather to substitute in person interactions for largely one-directional elite Continue Reading

Posted On : December 16, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai
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Sinema Apple Pie

This week has seen a flurry of contradictory editorials responding to the choice and repercussions of Kyrsten Sinema’s shedding of the label of the Democratic Party. There are those who Continue Reading

Posted On : December 13, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai
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Orson Welles Macbeth: A film review

Ari: Having read it recently and knowing all of the twists and turns, it was less thrilling or mysterious than it could have been, and watching it was a less Continue Reading

Posted On : December 8, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai
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國族主義與全球化

Nationalism has attracted a notorious reputation for its association with primordialist, and in particular ethnic elements to the exclusion of many. However, in the wake of Ukrainian nationalism serving as Continue Reading

Posted On : November 27, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai
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Cassette tapes and instant gratification

In a somewhat modern 2015 article, a New York Times article bemoaned the rebirth in enthusiasm for an old analog relic that maybe only a select few have nostalgia for: Continue Reading

Posted On : November 13, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai

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