New at the Belmont Club. Are we facing a destructive period of renewal? Or can we finesse our way forward in history?
The year 2023 is shaping up to be the start of long period of destruction and renewal. The old global world is collapsing under the impact of the war in Ukraine, the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic, high energy prices, supply chain disruption and a declining public confidence in public authority. The coming year will see the demolition continue until the point is reached when it is simply easier to start over again.
Books: Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order Kindle Edition by Michael Walsh (editor). In this timely and necessary book, Michael Walsh has gathered trenchant critical perspectives on the Great Reset from eighteen eminent writers and journalists from around the world. Though I wouldn’t exactly consider myself an eminent writer, mine is one of the 18 chapters in this book, and I think it’s worthwhile.
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, First Edition by Craig L Symonds. From America’s preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two.