Joe Manchin’s 2024 Senate campaign will generate so many hot takes that the internet will go supernova: Joe Manchin strongly signaled in 2018 that his brutal reelection campaign that year was hi
Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him. Future submarines with inflatable sails? Some perspective on the Biden administra
Men were better, or more timid. Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions. Questions and answers about the civil war in
As part of a broader project on finance and national security, I wrote a bit at the Diplomat about a new report out on Chinese international lending practices… The study assembled a dataset of 1
As part of an ongoing project on finance in war, my latest at the Diplomat looks at some of the chicanery that Japan tried in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War… Having only a fledgling d
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock. What happened with HMS Defender in the Black Sea? Switzerland pic
Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let’s think about what’s the whole battle. Flying and fighting in the F-111! The Navy buys things just to throw them away. A dro
As part of a broader project on international security and finance, I wrote a bit about how financial regimes in the Ancient Mediterranean affected the Han Dynasty… A better understanding of Rom