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17 connected korrents · 17 moments from 28 Jan 2022 to 21 Oct 2026.
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Read this korrent: Democratic power ultimately rests on ordinary people controlling resources rulers depend on, like labor and tax revenue
Democratic power ultimately rests on ordinary people controlling resources rulers depend on, like labor and tax revenue
Last stated 5 months ago
4 Jun 2026
TM
Tom MacWright — holds since 2026-06-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: 'As long as it takes' lacks urgency, and it is a formula available to Ukraine's allies precisely because they are not the ones doing the fighting. — tap to centre the map on it
'As long as it takes' lacks urgency, and it is a formula available to Ukraine's allies precisely because they are not the ones doing the fighting.
Last stated a year ago
10 Oct 2025
LF
Lawrence Freedman — holds since 2025-10-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ceasefire along the current lines would end the killing and still leave a long-term settlement between Russia and Ukraine possible. — tap to centre the map on it
A ceasefire along the current lines would end the killing and still leave a long-term settlement between Russia and Ukraine possible.
Last stated 2 months ago
26 Aug 2026
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Branko Milanovic — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country whose economy and military are deeply entangled with a dominant neighbor will keep getting stuck with choices that run counter to its own national interests. — tap to centre the map on it
A country whose economy and military are deeply entangled with a dominant neighbor will keep getting stuck with choices that run counter to its own national interests.
Last stated 2 months ago
15 Sept 2026
HF
Henry Farrell — holds since 2026-09-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A military optimised for aesthetics and culture-war goals is not being optimised for efficiency or lethality. — tap to centre the map on it
A military optimised for aesthetics and culture-war goals is not being optimised for efficiency or lethality.
Last stated 2 months ago
26 Aug 2026
CR
Catherine Rampell — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A military that disconnects its orders from the law and from legal advice has no limit on what it will do when commanded. — tap to centre the map on it
A military that disconnects its orders from the law and from legal advice has no limit on what it will do when commanded.
Last stated 2 months ago
27 Aug 2026
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Scott Greenfield — holds since 2026-08-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A nation of a million people cannot rule hundreds of millions by warfare; the Mongol Empire lasted because it offered its subjects things they actually wanted. — tap to centre the map on it
A nation of a million people cannot rule hundreds of millions by warfare; the Mongol Empire lasted because it offered its subjects things they actually wanted.
Last stated a year ago
31 Jul 2025
JW
Jack Weatherford — holds since 2025-07-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A war made round watches fashionable because all military watches were round. — tap to centre the map on it
A war made round watches fashionable because all military watches were round.
Last stated a month ago
23 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: After interviewing hundreds of people inside America's secret military and intelligence programs, there is no reason to believe aliens have ever visited Earth. — tap to centre the map on it
After interviewing hundreds of people inside America's secret military and intelligence programs, there is no reason to believe aliens have ever visited Earth.
Last stated 3 years ago
22 Mar 2024
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Annie Jacobsen — holds since 2024-03-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company doing something at the edge of the Overton window has to hold two cultures at once — the true believers and the serious professionals who think they are crazy — and integrating them is what makes it work. — tap to centre the map on it
A company doing something at the edge of the Overton window has to hold two cultures at once — the true believers and the serious professionals who think they are crazy — and integrating them is what makes it work.
Last stated 3 months ago
7 Aug 2026
MH
Max Hodak — holds since 2026-08-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A heavily centralised state is the most fragile kind: when Rome’s centre failed, its successors were left without the resources or administration to do what it had done. — tap to centre the map on it
A heavily centralised state is the most fragile kind: when Rome’s centre failed, its successors were left without the resources or administration to do what it had done.
Last stated 5 years ago
28 Jan 2022
BD
Bret Devereaux — holds since 2022-01-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A movement of lawyers in defense of social, labor, and rights movements will become increasingly necessary in Portugal. — tap to centre the map on it
A movement of lawyers in defense of social, labor, and rights movements will become increasingly necessary in Portugal.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
21 Oct 2026
RV
Raquel Varela — holds since 2026-10-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: “Happy Juneteenth” is an oxymoron, since the promise it marks has been perpetually broken. — tap to centre the map on it
“Happy Juneteenth” is an oxymoron, since the promise it marks has been perpetually broken.
Last stated 5 months ago
19 Jun 2026
RJ
Robert Jones, Jr. — holds since 2026-06-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Super Intelligence" is being used as a signal of fealty to President Trump. — tap to centre the map on it
"Super Intelligence" is being used as a signal of fealty to President Trump.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
11 Oct 2026
MS
M.G. Siegler — holds since 2026-10-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ban on diesel exports would raise overall fuel prices and damage America's energy superpower status. — tap to centre the map on it
A ban on diesel exports would raise overall fuel prices and damage America's energy superpower status.
Last stated a month ago
1 Oct 2026
AE
Alex Epstein — holds since 2026-10-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ban on AI is unlikely. — tap to centre the map on it
A ban on AI is unlikely.
Last stated 4 months ago
18 Jul 2026
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John Horgan — holds since 2026-07-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute. — tap to centre the map on it
A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute.
Last stated a month ago
22 Sept 2026
TC
Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-09-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A border wall through Big Bend would be a monument to corruption that makes no one safer. — tap to centre the map on it
A border wall through Big Bend would be a monument to corruption that makes no one safer.
Last stated 4 months ago
13 Jul 2026
JT
James Talarico — holds since 2026-07-13 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2015 to today — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are