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Two birds with one stone

Checks paid by robots. Climate reparations from the cemetery.

‘Global Warming’ Meets the Kobayashi Maru | The Pipeline

Do we celebrate the decrease of people in productive economies or fear it?

Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives 2nd Edition by Vaclav Smil. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in a realistic appraisal of the current state of energy transitions in various nations and regions and the likely future development of the global energy supply.

The Twitter Files

New at the Belmont Club. The autocrats take no prisoners.

Pitiless Politics

Everyone’s playing for keeps

How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future, Kindle Edition by Vaclav Smil. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on, Vaclav Smil explains the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity – from energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to our environment and its future. This book offers a much-needed reality check and answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead?

What is money?

New at the Belmont Club. One gold ring to rule them all, and in the network bind them.

Reinventing the Root of All Evil

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ’em

The Greatest Trick

New at the Belmont Club. Which vision will rule the world?

The Return of Satan

Putin takes on the Devil. But which is which?

Miracle, mystery and authority

New at the Belmont Club. I review my own article on religion and The Great Reset

Heretics Against the Cult of Authority

White on a throne or guarded in a cave there lives a prophet

The problem with nuclear power is it works

New Nukes, More Nukes, not No Nukes | The Pipeline

The advantage of solar and wind over nuclear is it sets a hard limit on the lifestyle it will support.

Trust but verify

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

New book

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

Chance can f with a Biden

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

Fatalism Before Armageddon

What me, worry?

The shadow of the past

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

The third term

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

Nothing in the box

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?

It lives on in our minds

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

The Shadow of the British Empire

Long live the King

Fail unsafe

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

Single Point of Failure

Always update the threat display

The battle of the black boxes

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

The age of idols

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.