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← It is entirely possible to be both morally wrong and geopolitically weak at the same time.
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Read this korrent: It is entirely possible to be both morally wrong and geopolitically weak at the same time.
It is entirely possible to be both morally wrong and geopolitically weak at the same time.
Last stated 2 months ago
30 Aug 2026
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Timothy Snyder — holds since 2026-08-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A government's foreign-policy failures often stem from its policymakers' laziness rather than strategic miscalculation. — tap to centre the map on it
A government's foreign-policy failures often stem from its policymakers' laziness rather than strategic miscalculation.
Last stated a month ago
9 Sept 2026
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Daniel W. Drezner — holds since 2026-09-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Donald Trump has forfeited America's claim to moral superiority over China. — tap to centre the map on it
Donald Trump has forfeited America's claim to moral superiority over China.
Last stated a month ago
20 Sept 2026
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Noah Smith — holds since 2026-09-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Republican foreign policy is systematically bad due to inattention to the risks of hawkishness. — tap to centre the map on it
Republican foreign policy is systematically bad due to inattention to the risks of hawkishness.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
23 Sept 2026
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Brad DeLong — holds since 2026-09-23 — tap for who they are
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Matthew Yglesias — holds since 2026-09-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The Nordic and Baltic push for confrontation with Russia is irresponsible, hypocritical and immoral, and it risks a catastrophe. — tap to centre the map on it
The Nordic and Baltic push for confrontation with Russia is irresponsible, hypocritical and immoral, and it risks a catastrophe.
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: Trump's team of super-hawks seems to have kind of wrecked his second presidency. — tap to centre the map on it
Trump's team of super-hawks seems to have kind of wrecked his second presidency.
Last stated 4 weeks ago
23 Sept 2026
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Matthew Yglesias — holds since 2026-09-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Believing that Trump might yet help Ukraine is not harmless optimism: it is part of a manoeuvre that buys Putin time. — tap to centre the map on it
Believing that Trump might yet help Ukraine is not harmless optimism: it is part of a manoeuvre that buys Putin time.
Last stated 2 months ago
23 Aug 2026
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Phillips P. OBrien — holds since 2026-08-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: There is nothing wrong with people playing political games or with seducers and con artists; it is just reality — tap to centre the map on it
There is nothing wrong with people playing political games or with seducers and con artists; it is just reality
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Robert Greene — holds since c. 2010 — tap for who they are
Same subject: How dense a neighbourhood ought to be is a moral and political argument, not an empirical question with a discoverable right answer. — tap to centre the map on it
How dense a neighbourhood ought to be is a moral and political argument, not an empirical question with a discoverable right answer.
Last stated 2 years ago
29 May 2024
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Daniel Herriges — holds since 2024-05-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it. — tap to centre the map on it
A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it.
Last stated a year ago
15 May 2025
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Hannah Ritchie — holds since 2025-05-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country's scientific trajectory can keep advancing even if political instability or economic uncertainty slows its broader progress. — tap to centre the map on it
A country's scientific trajectory can keep advancing even if political instability or economic uncertainty slows its broader progress.
Last stated 7 months ago
21 Mar 2026
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Tanner Greer — holds since 2026-03-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A declining manufacturing share of GDP as an economy matures reflects economic success rather than decline. — tap to centre the map on it
A declining manufacturing share of GDP as an economy matures reflects economic success rather than decline.
Last stated 11 months ago
23 Nov 2025
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Andrew Batson — holds since 2025-11-23 — 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 2 months ago
7 Aug 2026
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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
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Bret Devereaux — holds since 2022-01-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A new world order based on raw power is being drawn right now, and Europe has to fight for its place in it. — tap to centre the map on it
A new world order based on raw power is being drawn right now, and Europe has to fight for its place in it.
Last stated a year ago
10 Sept 2025
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Ursula von der Leyen — holds since 2025-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it. — tap to centre the map on it
A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it.
Last stated 2 years ago
1 Dec 2024
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Alice Evans — holds since 2024-12-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment. — tap to centre the map on it
A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment.
Last stated 2 months ago
31 Aug 2026
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Daniel W. Drezner — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A citizen deciding politically should ask what is good for the community, not what is good for themselves — tap to centre the map on it
A citizen deciding politically should ask what is good for the community, not what is good for themselves
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Joseph Tussman — holds since c. 2000 — tap for who they are
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