It’s safe to say the Pantsir air defense going up on Moscow rooftops is not meant to defend against US ICBMs but something else.
Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
Building A Civilization of Discovery
Mistrust over the Davos project to reset the world and increasing doubts over whether health authorities fully anticipated the consequences of the anti-Covid MRNA vaccines have dismayed the proponents of governance. Are we facing an era of disorder or just learning to cope with uncertainty? The era of a unified narrative is probably over, felled …
They Can Always Classify Their Secrets
New at the Belmont Club. Maybe the Big Guys would care more about protecting data if they didn’t have all those extra ways of protecting it.
Control vs Adaptation
De-globalization must be stopped, environmentalists argue, because only a Global World has the institutional power to stop Climate Change. Without world government the planet is doomed. Conventional wisdom since Brave New World held that technology would make it easier for hierarchies to control things. What was less appreciated was technology would also increase complexity and …
The True Newspaper
Maybe we are living in a partial simulation with the parts we sense indirectly only through the media and the network consisting of complete fakes. I am fairly sure the keyboard under my fingers is real, but how do I know whether Elizabeth Warren is tribal, George Santos matriculated from Baruch or Nancy Pelosi’s ice …
In defense of longing
CS Lewis observed that our wishes, no less than our acts, are part of agency. Desires, petitions and prayers are not less futile than works simply because they may not succeed. Longing is legitimate in an interactive world and we should dare to live; dare to pray. Lewis returns to the theme of the poverty …
A Bump in the Road
New at the Belmont Club. The end of a century long project to control the future. Who needs God if you have DEI?
Let nothing ye dismay
An excerpt from my chapter in the book Against the Great Reset
Proof of Work is what we pay to protect us from ourselves
Kathy Hochul tried to color it Green, but Bitcoin is the color of money. How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future, Kindle Edition by Vaclav Smil. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on, Vaclav Smil explains the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity …
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Two birds with one stone
Checks paid by robots. Climate reparations from the cemetery. Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives 2nd Edition by Vaclav Smil. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in a realistic appraisal of the current state of energy transitions in various nations and regions and the likely future development of the global energy supply.
The Twitter Files
New at the Belmont Club. The autocrats take no prisoners. How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future, Kindle Edition by Vaclav Smil. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on, Vaclav Smil explains the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity – from energy and …
What is money?
New at the Belmont Club. One gold ring to rule them all, and in the network bind them.
The Greatest Trick
New at the Belmont Club. Which vision will rule the world?
Miracle, mystery and authority
New at the Belmont Club. I review my own article on religion and The Great Reset
The problem with nuclear power is it works
Trust but verify
New at the Belmont Club. Solving the institutional trust problem is the secret to rebooting our information civilization.
New book
Got an author’s copy of Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order of which I contributed. Featuring Essays by:Michael AntonSalvatore BabonesConrad BlackJeremy BlackAngelo CodevillaJanice FiamengoRichard FernandezDavid P. GoldmanVictor Davis HansonMartin HutchinsonRoger KimballAlberto MingardiDouglas MurrayJames PoulosHarry SteinJohn TierneyMichael Walsh
Chance can f with a Biden
New at the Belmont Club. We need to be lucky in the coming days.
The shadow of the past
New at the Belmont Club. The Ukraine war brings back memories from before we were Woke.
The third term
New at the Belmont Club. The Obama era mindset’s time has passed. But does Biden know?