I was thinking of doing a 1-2 day trip to Kyoto yes

first time

going to be in tokyo for a couple of weeks. the plan is to walk around aimlessly but if anyone has other suggestions I'll hear it

kind of op-ed that could have only been written in the innocent days of 2014

did you ever read the Schroeder-Elman debate in IS? it did not make IR look good

it's going to take another decade for IR people to absorb this

it's brutal. the two great prophets of international relations are now tim snyder and john mearsheimer, two men thoroughly captured by their own theories

yea I agree...

we should let switzerland win one war...just to see...they've been so patient

I remember listening to an interview of Laruelle on the Bear Market Brief podcast on whether Putin’s Russia fit the definition of fascism and just ultimately found the “well it’s complicated” answers completely besides the point. It felt like missing the forest for the trees.

a blasphemous comparison for some, but that’s part of Laruelle's point: they are two prophets opposed in substance but united in form a clever but unsatisfying analogy

first dolly parton now this

NATO condemns nuclear destruction of Berlin as a troubling escalation of Russian hybrid tactics

responding to Marlene Laruelle's recent essay