Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

New at the Belmont Club. When disinformation is nothing but lies all the way down.

New at the Belmont Club. The empire that was dissolved but would not die.

New at the Belmont Club. Enormous power controlled by a single key.

New at the Belmont Club. Institutions will prefer that you fear their black box if you won’t believe it.

What happens when ‘trust the experts’ gets worn out by politics? Why invoke ‘trust the expert systems’ of course. When you have no credibility of your own, create an idol.

New at the Belmont Club. A theory of victory that relies on unleashing chaos may have no winners.

New at the Belmont Club. How what looked like Obama’s third term became a nightmare ride.

New at the Belmont Club. Every civilization experiences an invasion of True Believers. It’s the West’s turn.

New at the Belmont Club. Where do magic and bad luck come from?

New at the Belmont Club. A globe on the edge of either renewal or catastrophe.

New at the Belmont Club. Big Iron, the Big Network and the plan to rule the world.

New at the Belmont Club. Information is too valuable to be squandered on placing ads and selling political ideologies.

New at the Belmont Club. When people incapable of mistakes get things wrong.

New at the Belmont Club. Can the computer predict how long till we’re back to business as usual?

New at the Belmont Club. Don’t look in the mirror if you won’t like what you’ll see.

New at the Belmont Club. Both Putin and Biden are dealing with consequences they never expected. It was a tale of two blunders. Both Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin made the mistake of believing that the Russian army could conquer Ukraine in two days. The New York Times wrote in perplexity, “In Afghanistan, intelligence agencies …

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New at the Belmont Club. Getting ready for the long haul. It’s a marathon not a sprint.

New at the Belmont Club. Remembering the days when the only problem the great and good had was how to save the world from Climate Change.

New at the Belmont Club. Getting past dead empires and mid-20th century visions of the future.

New at the Belmont Club. When a nuclear armed supervillain loses his shirt at a poker table, what happens next?