Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Suddenly the public has discovered that the President is missing, substantively speaking. With the chief missing, the race between those who would replace him and foes who would seize their chance is on.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. The way of the frontier. First come the explorers. Then comes the sheriff.

My latest at the Belmont Club. Hiding hostages behind layers of civilian human shields doesn’t always work. When the raiders have information superiority you will need a Plan B.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Why accountability is not the same as revenge and why “moving on” doesn’t take you to the future but mostly to a repeat the past.

My latest at the Belmont Club. When two groups decide to divorce they build increasingly separate lives. Although competition will predominate, conflict is also inevitable because of the winner take all nature of the game.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Activists who would change the world want history’s approval in advance. Alas, sometimes history has other ideas.

My latest at The Pipeline. What’s the difference between modifying the climate to make war and geoengineering to save the planet? AI and good intentions.

My latest at the Belmont Club. How a 19th century theory that failed in economics returned as a 21st century theory of everything.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. A cold civil war where the hated Other still needs to pay his taxes.

My latest at the Belmont Club. You don’t walk but stumble into conflict.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. In a century where information and sentience have become tangible realities, governments will do anything to control the collective mind. The next big industry is censorship.

My latest at the Pipeline. Maybe we can save the world better through the process of debate rather than through the acceptance of official doctrine.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. The population doomsters may have prevented the rise of China by persuading Beijing to kill its children. How people become valuable again.

New at the Belmont Club. Why has religion frequently been viewed as a threat by worldly leaders? Something to be repressed, replaced or derided?

My latest at the Belmont Club. With the battlefront static, the war in Ukraine has become a war of logistics in which deep strikes are critical. This creates a problem for Washington: do they embrace stalemate or try to break it?

My latest at PJMedia VIP. When the object of Duty changes from Country to the World, priorities change.

My latest at The Pipeline. The politics of de-growth. Communism was supposed to control nature so man could be rich. Now it is still trying to control nature — so that man can be poor.

My latest at the Belmont Club. The Western world thinks of itself as secular and rational. But is it?

My latest at PJMedia VIP. In the last few years both maritime traffic and navies have been challenged in the Black Sea and Red Sea. The world waits with bated breath for a similar challenge in the South China Sea.

New at the Belmont Club. Why Woke censorship is so powerful and so dangerous.