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Politics
Power, policy, and what the news cycle gets wrong.
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· History
The empire that would not end
On the strange afterlife of dead empires, and what they tell us about our own.
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· Culture
The quiet death of the local bookshop
It is not what you think. The villain is not Amazon.
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· Technology
The deep argument against AGI optimism
A 12,000-word essay on why "AGI by 2027" is not as obvious as the tech press claims.
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· Politics
How a constitution actually breaks
The historical patterns of constitutional collapse, and what every healthy democracy gets wrong about its own resilience.
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