November 2020 will be consequential in ways that are almost impossible to predict.
Elite barbarism
How the famous failed civilization
Revolutionary saints
The sacramental nature of revolutionary chic
Mao as Dr Frankenstein
The price of China envy
The triggerless world
In the future you will give no offense.
Disillusion
When you can’t trust the people on TV.
Why does the world seem so crazy
And why can’t I remember?
The Pacific
America’s domestic troubles don’t mean the rest of the world has stopped happening.
The rise of risk
The last hurrah of the monster institutions
Dying from your immune reaction
If Lockdown is the new public health nuclear bomb is it possible to suffer from fallout?
The China election
The CCP is on the ballot.
Does Beijing conciliate?
Or does fear win more friends than playing nice?
Try the Wuhan test
Q: What can save us from ourselves?
Forbidden knowledge
Can we choose not to do things within our capability? Like destroy the earth?
Recovering the world
Planning the great escape from house arrest — and from the Communist Party of China. Can we make it?
Nature takes a hand
The virus forces the survival of the fittest.
The battle of the epidemic models
Never in the field of human history have so many hung on the calculations of so few.
World War V
The world must emerge from the coronavirus crisis either reformed — or doomed.
Under a pall
If the virus crisis drags on human relations and our old ordinary life may well come under siege
The future of the herd
Are people doomed to lose their privacy?