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New at the Belmont Club. Military pointlessness is disproportionate.

The Belmont Club: A War Designed To Be Perpetually Inconclusive Is Not Always Moral

One of the most poorly informed debates in the media coverage of war, is the concept of ‘proportionality’. The average person understands it as a kind of transaction. If X kills N citizens of Y, then Y can fairly retaliate by killing N*(1+i) citizens of X, i being a penalty. But what it really means…

New at the Belmont Club. Making war worse than it is.

Belmont Club: A Bellyful of War

The unforgiving siege

My latest at the Pipeline. The worrying environmental impact of Green Energy.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. A primer on tunnel warfare plus urban war. What the IDF will likely find in Gaza.

The Gateway to Hell

War beneath the earth

My latest at the Belmont Club. Biden’s plans falls apart just when he thought he had the answer.

The Forever War

Advice from Obama

My latest at PJMedia VIP.

Q: How do you say “thanks for $6 Billion” in Farsi?

A: “Death to America!!!!”

Will We Survive the Next Intelligence Failure?

The march of folly hits a wall

New at the Belmont Club. The public knows it’s an act but the show goes on.

Life as a Rubber Stamp

A republic of toons

New at the Belmont Club. Solving the most complicated puzzle since the end of the Cold War in the capital of intrigue.

The City Under the Capitol

The nameless.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. When philanthropy becomes about lying in a good political cause, there is a price for everything and a value to nothing.

Sam Bankman-Fried, Dark Money, and Defective Altruism

The ends justify the means

My latest at The Pipeline. Politics, not prosperity, is usual cause of environmental disaster striking communities.

Destroying the Dams of Derna | The Pipeline

When things run down, time runs out.

New at the Belmont Club. The new empires. What is 21st century greatness? The rivalry between America and China.

Julius Caesar Versus Harlan Sanders

The greatest conqueror

New at the Belmont Club. When you face the unknown, don’t be too confident in your assumptions.

Navigating Terra Incognita

Oops.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Green doesn’t have to be real, just a convincing simulation.

Our Bucolic Future

Check out any time, but never leave

New at the Belmont Club. The market for infinitely valuable goods. When what is at stake is saving the world, no price is too high to pay.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. The kingdom of victims. All great empires fall from within.

Looking for Winners in a World of Victims

Have we lost our way?

New at the Belmont Club. We must surrender our freedom so we don’t lose it.

Runaway AI Train

Maybe AI can learn to become the state

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Converting the world to Woke. Has a pointless new colonialism started a new anti-colonialism?

The Woke Missionaries and the World

Obama’s cultural legacy

My latest at The Pipeline. Solar radiation management, AKA ‘blocking the sunlight’, is no longer the stuff of conspiracy. Once you start, can you stop?

Blocking the Sun to ‘Save the Planet’ | The Pipeline

The world won’t end if it warms by more than 1.5 degrees.

New at the Belmont Club. Politicians as lords of innovation. They think they are in control.

Politicians and Technological Complexity

Your half thought wish is my command

My latest at PJMedia VIP. What the billionaire survivalist islands really stand for: the Dark Tower against the village.

Virtue Gone Wild

Gods versus gomers