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New at the Belmont Club. Solving the institutional trust problem is the secret to rebooting our information civilization.

The Civilization That Knew Too Much

It was better before the Internet

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 Anton
Salvatore Babones
Conrad Black
Jeremy Black
Angelo Codevilla
Janice Fiamengo
Richard Fernandez
David P. Goldman
Victor Davis Hanson
Martin Hutchinson
Roger Kimball
Alberto Mingardi
Douglas Murray
James Poulos
Harry Stein
John Tierney
Michael Walsh

New at the Belmont Club. We need to be lucky in the coming days.

Fatalism Before Armageddon

What me, worry?

New at the Belmont Club. The Ukraine war brings back memories from before we were Woke.

Lessons From a Mini World War

Because no one is left from the Big One

New at the Belmont Club. The Obama era mindset’s time has passed. But does Biden know?

Shifting From Utopia to Survival Mode

It will be a long crisis

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

Protecting Lies With Disinformation

Suppose there is no truth inside the bodyguard of lies?

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

The Shadow of the British Empire

Long live the King

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

Single Point of Failure

Always update the threat display

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

Trust the Artificial Intelligence Part Two

My black box is better than your black box

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.

Trust the Artificial Intelligence Part One

Beware the pronouns behind the curtain

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

The Hunger Weapon

Unleashing a loose cannon.

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

The Bait Car of History

Don’t count your utopias before they’re hatched

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

The Management of Fanaticism

Zombies we have known

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

Sword and Sorcery

The age of ignorance and wonder

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

The War of the Zombie Empires

The old world is really old

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

Beware the ‘Sure Thing’

Information superiority doesn’t replace judgment

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

A Society Convinced It Needs Seeing Eye Dogs

What Twitter should have been

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

Prisoners of Our Own Device

The infallibility trap

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

When Do Things Go Back to Normal?

The elusive crystal ball