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Since the publication of The Decline of the West in 1918, Oswald Spengler’s theories of civilizational decline have never truly gone out of fashion…
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When discussing the humiliation of Empires, September 11th is a busy anniversary. The epoch-shifting attack on the World Trade Center happened twenty…
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Just when you thought that the world could not become more similar to a parody of Black Mirror, reality imposes itself. The Columbia Broadcasting…
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On a rainy day, 500 years ago, a small troop of Spanish soldiers conquered the city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, after two long…
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Despite claims to the contrary and the understandable Schadenfreude of the Empire’s enemies, the true meaning of Afghan War’s abrupt ending (?) remains…
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Apparently, no one’s ever seen a dystopian sci-fi movie in which a futuristic, authoritarian government keeps society on a leash by appealing to primal…
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Despite the meme of the World entering a New Cold War is becoming every day more widespread, the question of who is who is just becoming intelligible…
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Yersinia pestis is a Gram-negative, non-motile, stick-shaped bacterium. It enjoys vacationing in damp places, riding fleas, and unleashing God's Wrath…
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Last year marked record numbers of illegal immigrant arrivals to the Canary Islands, Spain’s Atlantic exclave off the Moroccan coast. More than twenty…
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News surfaced a couple weeks ago that the German government offered to pay the Trump administration up to a billion euros in exchange for lifting…
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A couple decades ago, European restaurants paid thousands of Euros for a kilogram of caviar. Currently, they manage to get it for a fraction of the…
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In these times, it has become something of a cliché to criticize the notion of “Rule by Experts”. That is, the expectation that decisions should be…
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