Vol. II · No. 156
Established 2025

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Friday, June 5, 2026
160 writers in the library
Lessons and narratives from the past
Department

History.

Lessons and narratives from the past.

Lately on the shelf

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CHINA: THE THREE MINDS

Understanding China: Part II

Negative Covenant

Objections to the Metacritique of Palestine

Broken Mirror

On Jewish Self-Presentation and Its Failures

CHINA: BIRTH OF THE DRAGON

Understanding China: Part I

A Metacritique of Palestine

On the Political Economy of a Word-Symbol

Written in the stars

A Short History of Mesopotamian Astrology

Photographs of Old China

Twilight of the Qing Dynasty

Western Civilization And Its Defense

Civilization, Historicism, and the Liberal Invention of Tradition

Where should we map next?

Choose our next civilisation to explore

The War On the Abraham Accords

How a Coordinated International Campaign is Targeting the UAE

THE COMING TECTONIC COMPETITION

How tectonics will shape the geopolitics of the next century

Everything Has Changed

The World and Times of Naguib Mahfouz 3

THE TECTONIC ORIGINS OF CIVILISATION

How tectonics creates different types of landscape, which in turn create different types of civilisation

ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS EMERGED ON TECTONIC PLATE FAULTLINES

Cartographia

Why Is There No Redemption in the Arabic Novel?

On Third-Worldist Literature, Mimetic Economy of Despair, and the Singularity of the Person

THE STEPPE HAS ALWAYS SHAPED HOW HUMANS MAKE WAR

A brief history of the steppe's influence on military technology, from the chariot to the drone

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Feed the Jews to the Mob

The Democratic Party Embraces Third Worldism

THE STEPPE, THE STEPPE

An ode to the grasslands

THE STRANGENESS OF YAHWEH

By Sam Jennings

IRAN: SERIES WRAP UP AND READING LIST

Understanding Iran: Epilogue

The Limits of Postmodern Statecraft

Rise, Ambition, and Crisis of Emirati Statecraft

The Beginnings of Mahfouzland

The World and Times of Naguib Mahfouz

IS THIS THE END OF FREE SEAS?

How drones brought back a very old tax

IRAN: THE PLATEAU ABIDES

Understanding Iran: Part VII (and final)

Antisemitism Has a Big Future

On the Production of Prejudice and the Prejudice of Production

IRAN: THE VIEW FROM THE PLATEAU

Understanding Iran: Part VI

One Damn Thing After Another

Cycles of Power and Ambition in the Middle East

Where Do We Go From Here?

The Strategic Endgame of Operation Epic Fury

IRAN: GRIEF, GUILT, AND THE MAKING OF A THEOCRACY

Understanding Iran: Part V

Years Of Crisis And Decision

The World and Times of Naguib Mahfouz