I’m growing increasingly frustrated with how Hollywood treats female superheroes. They create uninteresting characters with little to motivate them beyond trauma and resentment. Men are allowed to be optimistic and undamaged. A girl clearly cannot be strong and inspiring without being damaged in some way. The contrast between Supergirl
In the 2010s, Russian diplomats and GRU-linked personnel were reported to have maintained contacts with the Hungarian National Front, Magyar Nemzeti Arcvonal, or MNA, a neo-Nazi paramilitary group based around Bőny. On 26 October 2016, the group’s leader, István Győrkös, shot and killed Péter Pálvölgyi, an officer
Why the War No Longer Serves Russia, and Why Escalation Risk Is Rising Executive Summary * The war increasingly appears to be a negative-value proposition for Russia as a state. The costs in manpower, equipment, fiscal stability, demographics, energy infrastructure, and geopolitical position are now far greater than any plausible
The concepts of conservatism and liberalism are increasingly outmoded in today’s politics. One side now professes belief in a kind of ethnonationalist, big-government, protectionist, America First ideology. The other too often pushes social and economic ideologies that focus excessively on group claims, redistribution, and suspicion of wealth creation.
Reform, elite capture, and the erosion of republican equilibria Core thesis: The Gracchi brothers correctly identified a substantive crisis in the Roman Republic, but they misdiagnosed the level at which the crisis had to be solved. Land reform was necessary, yet by the late second century BCE institutional rigidity and
I am increasingly tired of the right-wing neoreactionary fantasy that democracy is a decadent inconvenience and that America should be run by something like a CEO-monarch. This argument, now laundered through the vocabulary of efficiency, realism, civilizational renewal, and technological competence, is not a serious solution to the
Die Herausforderung, vor der Europa bei der Migration steht, ist Integration. Anders als in den Vereinigten Staaten, wo es keine vergleichbar tief verwurzelte gemeinsame kulturelle Vergangenheit gibt und gesellschaftliche Codes oft leichter zu erfassen sind, sind viele europäische Gesellschaften Hochkontextgesellschaften: Kultur, Institutionen, Bürokratie, Bildungswege, Arbeitsnormen und soziale Erwartungen sind tief
A doctrine that weakens allies, politicizes markets, erodes institutions, legitimizes coercion of weaker states, and defines national renewal through cultural purification does not strengthen America.
The war in Ukraine is frequently described in Western discourse as a humanitarian crisis and as a defence of the international legal principle that borders should not be altered by force. These descriptions are accurate, but incomplete. They identify important moral and legal dimensions of the conflict while leaving underdeveloped
A Worked Example with a Filtered Complex, a Cellular Sheaf, and an Explicit Obstruction Abstract This note gives a compact worked example of the general cohomological framework for elite interlinkage analysis. The purpose is methodological. Rather than arguing in the abstract that filtered simplicial complexes and cellular sheaves are useful
Core Observation Using absolute normalized volatility-of-volatility, defined here as: gamma = Abs(normalized vol-of-vol) the data show a clear post-2006 increase in market instability, with both Trump periods showing higher gamma than the Biden period and the current Trump period showing the highest value in the
Toward a Cohomological Framework for Russian Elite Interlinkages From Multiplex Networks to Persistent Sheaf Cohomology March 2026 Abstract This paper develops a rigorous algebraic-topological framework for studying interlinkages across the Russian military, civilian, political, economic, industrial, and criminal classes. The central claim is methodological rather than sensational: if an