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The Limits of Interior Truth

Revelations of inner feelings now often overshadow shared reality. Richard Martin explores the profound implications of this shift in “The Limits of Interior Truth.” He delves into two critical areas: gender identity and sexual violence, revealing how the elevation of personal experience can clash with societal structures. As children navigate their identities and victims seek justice, the tension between emotional truth and objective reality becomes increasingly apparent. Martin argues for a necessary balance, emphasizing that compassion must not devolve into coercion, and that justice relies on more than just personal revelation. Discover the complexities of this contemporary struggle.

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No One Knows How Hard It Is to Be Me

In today’s political landscape, the refrain “no one knows how hard it is to be me” has transformed public discourse from a focus on justice and collective action to a theater of personal suffering. This shift elevates pain as the new currency of authenticity, creating a moral economy where empathy is declared impossible. As we navigate a world increasingly defined by individual grievances, the challenge lies in recovering a language that fosters shared meaning rather than division. Discover how we can move from confession to communion and reclaim the essence of politics meant to unite us.

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Solar Panels Don’t Smelt Steel: Why Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Endure

Civilization runs on physics, not promises. Fossil fuels and uranium dominate because they’re dense, portable, and flexible. Wind and solar are diffuse, intermittent, and tied to geography. They can support the system, but they cannot replace its foundation. If decarbonization is truly needed, the answer isn’t to dismantle what works, it’s to manage carbon and boost efficiency while keeping the fuels that built the modern world.

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Solar Panels Don't Smelt Steel

Civilization runs on physics, not promises. Fossil fuels and uranium dominate because they’re dense, portable, and flexible. Wind and solar are diffuse, intermittent, and tied to geography. They can support the system, but they cannot replace its foundation. If decarbonization is truly needed, the answer isn’t to dismantle what works, it’s to manage carbon and boost efficiency while keeping the fuels that built the modern world.

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Judging Strategy Ex Ante: Vietnam, U.S. Grand Strategy, and the Lessons of Context (1955–1965)

The Vietnam War is still argued over as either unnecessary or strategically successful, often using the very same outcomes as evidence. That shows why hindsight cannot settle the issue. Strategy has to be judged ex ante, by what leaders knew, feared, and believed at the time. Between 1955 and 1965, U.S. leaders saw Vietnam not in isolation but as part of a chain leading from Indochina to ASEAN, Indonesia, Japan, and ultimately the global order. My new essay sets out eight principles for analysing strategy in this way, using Vietnam as a case study with lessons that remain relevant today.

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The Myth of the “Stolen” Land

The claim that Israel is a colonial usurpation collapses under history: Jews returned to their ancestral land, legally purchased unwanted swamps and deserts, and built a thriving society where none had existed.

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Pyramids and Meshes: Rival Orders of Rule

The clash between sovereign and parasovereign orders is not chaos versus order, but two rival geometries of power—one rising upward into centralized rectitude, the other spilling outward and downward into resilient, ground-level networks.

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If You Won’t Fight for Bitcoin, You’re Letting It Die

Bitcoin was made for people, not people for Bitcoin. As Bitcoin Mechanic (YouTube, 13 Aug 2025) makes clear, it’s not self-steering—it’s an engineered parasovereign system for sound money via unmediated P2P exchange. If you won’t act to keep it on mission, you’re allowing it to drift.

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China’s Hybrid Regime: Echoes of Fascism in the 21st Century

A defining characteristic of fascist states—whether Adolf Hitler’s Germany or Benito Mussolini’s Italy—was the concentration of authority in a single leader who symbolized the nation’s destiny. Similarly, Xi Jinping has consolidated power within the CCP to an extent unprecedented since Mao Zedong.

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From the Republic of Letters to the Protocol Stack

Long before the internet, Enlightenment thinkers built a network of ideas, discourse, and mutual recognition—the Republic of Letters. Today, parasovereign protocols like Nostr and Tor carry forward this legacy, enabling symbolic coordination beyond sovereign control. This article explores their shared structure, purpose, and promise.

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Bitcoin and the Return of the Free Cities

This article explores the historical parallels between the rise of free merchant cities in the Late Middle Ages—such as Antwerp, Amsterdam, and Lübeck—and the emergence of Bitcoin as an engineered, parasovereign monetary network. It examines how non-sovereign systems of trade, law, and constraint fostered durable economic coordination in the past and how Bitcoin and its layered protocols now echo that role in the digital realm. Rather than overthrowing the state, these systems limit its reach by creating alternative structures grounded in rules, not rulers.

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