Show threadM. GrégoireNov 4

That's from #TannerGreer, at https://scholars-stage.org/learning-from-our-defeat-the-skill-of-the-vulcans/

RIP, Dick Cheney.

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Learning From Our Defeat: The Skill of the Vulcans

The national security teams of Bush 41 and Bush 43, America’s most accomplished and most reviled set of statesmen officials… were the exact same set of people. The authors of America’s Cold War vic…

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Steve Randy WaldmanJul 24, 2024
"It matters that the average American associates the great software giants with the feeling of lost agency." #TannerGreer https://scholars-stage.org/uber-is-a-poor-replacement-for-utopia/
Uber is a Poor Replacement for Utopia

Two items of interest passed through my feeds this week. The first is the podcast Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz released to explain why they are endorsing Trump for president. The second is an ev…

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Steve Randy WaldmanMar 30, 2024

A fascinating essay by #TannerGreer on Wang Huning as a kind of Chinese Tocqueville of the late 20th Century. Long but worth it. https://scholarstage.substack.com/p/american-nightmares ht #TylerCowen

(fixed broken link, thanks @marick)

American Nightmares

Wang Huning and Alexis de Tocqueville’s Dark Vision of the Future

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Steve Randy WaldmanNov 1, 2023
“the extremist must find a way to change the politics of the situation from a 0-100 sliding scale into a binary choice between 0 and 1. In other words: Where thoughtful men once queried ‘what is your preferred policy outcome given the means at our disposal?’ they now must demand ‘whose side are you on?’” #TannerGreer https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/israel-zionism/2023/10/the-extremists-gambit-helps-explain-why-hamas-attacked-now/
The Extremist's Gambit Helps Explain Why Hamas Attacked Now » Mosaic

Heinous violence meant to force everyone to choose sides has long been the recourse of a radical minority that fears time is not on its side.

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Steve Randy WaldmanJan 1, 2023

"There are eerie parallels between the Chinese strategy for cross straights reunification in this era and America’s parallel bid to incorporate China into a Western led world order." ~Tanner Greer https://scholars-stage.org/we-can-only-kick-taiwan-down-the-road-so-far/

// I pray this can gets kicked into a future far enough that its contours today are entirely obsoleted. Greer seems to want a kind of clear decision his own analysis suggests we won't so deliberately make.

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We Can Only Kick the Taiwan So Far Down the Road

Over at Foreign Affairs, Ryan Haas and Jude Blanchette have published an interesting argument. Hass and Blanchette are worried that the United States and China are needlessly inching towards armed …

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