The Scholar's Stage

PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated.

THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own.

THUS WE BOMB Iran.

LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic.

ALEXANDER KARP AND NICHOLAS ZAMISKA'S The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West may not be the worst book I have read this year, but it is by far the most disappointing.

I WILL NOT ATTEMPT to eulogize the martyr.

OVER THE LAST WEEK Christian Whiton’s essay “How Taiwan Lost Trump” has ricocheted its way through the Taiwanese media.

NEITHER THE MALE AUTHORS NOR THE MALE READERS most preoccupied with middle age are inclined to face it cleanly.

LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China strategy under Trump.

THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame.

In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation.