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October 2026

  1. The Climate Bomb, Part 2: Collapsing Towers of Ice and Stone Echo 9/11
  2. The Climate Bomb, Part 1: Collapsing Polar Peaks Portend a New, Menacing “Absolute Weapon”
  3. The Trilateral Triumph: As Nuuk Out-Negotiates Its Suitors, the Real Win is for Arctic Exceptionalism

September 2026

  1. The Genocide Next Door
  2. The Rebel Realist: My Arctic and Realist Journeys Converge

August 2026

  1. The Sovereign Sea, Part 4: A Coalition of the Whaling, Redux
  2. The Sovereign Sea, Part 3: Maritime Foundations of Tribe-State Collaboration
  3. The Sovereign Sea, Part 2: Cultural Survival, Ecological Realism, and the Geopolitics of Whaling
  4. The Sovereign Sea, Part 1: Remembering the Great Bowhead Hunt of 1991
  5. Between “Arctic Doom” and “Arctic Boom,” Part 2: Inuit Autonomy and Sovereign Restoration: Nunavut and Greenlandic Self-Rule
  6. Between “Arctic Doom” and “Arctic Boom,” Part 1: Navigating a Path to a Secure, Prosperous and Free Arctic
  7. The Altar of Total War: Sumida, Hiroshima, and the Mass Sacrifice of the Innocent
  8. Hansai, or the Cleansing Fire.
  9. A Coalition of the Whaling: Why America Should Embrace Marine Mammal Diplomacy for the Arctic

July 2026

  1. My Arctic Journey, Part 7: Historical Manifestations and Structural Taxonomy of Constructive Realism.
  2. My Arctic Journey, Part 6: Constructive Realism as a Bridge: Rethinking Western Order, from the Polar to the Global
  3. My Arctic Journey, Part 5: Arctic Exceptionalism: Cooperation in a Contested World (2024)
  4. My Arctic Journey, Part 4: Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom (2010)
  5. My Arctic Journey, Part 3: On Thin Ice (2009)
  6. My Arctic Journey, Part 2: Breaking the Ice (2008)
  7. My Arctic Journey, Part 1: A Northern Perspective on World Politics and IR Theory
  8. My Realist Journey, Part 5: Our State of Recovery.
  9. My Realist Journey, Part 4: Navigating the State of Chaos.
  10. My Realist Journey, Part 3: Strategy After Hiroshima (State of Doom).
  11. My Realist Journey, Part 2: Our Enduring Realist Tradition; 2500+ Years of Constructive Realism.
  12. My Realist Journey: Looking Back Upon 2,500 Years of Realist Theory as America Turns 250
  13. The Return of the State of Doom: Drone Strikes, Desperation, and Putin’s Nuclear Temptation

June 2026

  1. Escaping the Fatalism of the Thucydides Trap: A Manifesto for Constructive Realism
  2. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is OUT!
  3. How Greenland’s Independence Could Catalyze Canada’s Balkanization
  4. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is OUT!
  5. Greenland and the Spirit of 1776
  6. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is OUT!
  7. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is OUT!
  8. Code Blue: How America Can Help Heal Greenland’s Rural Health Crisis
  9. After Greenland’s Liberation: Inuit Sovereign Expansion
  10. An Arctic Deal of the Century: Why It’s Time to Liberate Greenland

March 2026

  1. “Must Liberalism be Atomistic?” by Jacob Rodriguez
  2. “India, the Jigsaw Piece that Didn’t Fit” by Jens Norrby
  3. Print version of 4.1 (2026) is now available
  4. “Betting on Better Governance” by George Agbesi & Joshua D. Ammons
  5. “Of Lamb and Man” by Onyinyechi Ndukaire
  6. Fundraising Drive for an Institutional Home
  7. “The Twelve Delusions of the Lollards” by Lucy Swan
  8. “Incorrigible Rudeness, The Strategy For Social-Political Impotence” by Paul Poenicke
  9. “Anarchists and Crime” by Katrina Gulliver
  10. Print copies of Isonomia Quarterly’s latest issue (4.1 Spring 2026) are now available

February 2026

  1. New Episode of Mutual Exchange Radio with Kevin Carson on the Methodenstreit
  2. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out now!
  3. Economics and the Mirror of Nature

January 2026

  1. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly coming out soon
  2. The Cruel, Conceited Follies of Trump’s Foreign Policy: 2026 Edition

November 2025

  1. “Towards a Complete Libertarianism”

September 2025

  1. What I’ve been working on
  2. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out!

July 2025

  1. Notes On Liberty is Now On Bluesky
  2. In the Ruins of Public Reason, Part III: When the Barbarians Are at the Gates; Fascism, Bullshit, and the Paradox of Tolerance

June 2025

  1. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out

March 2025

  1. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out

August 2024

  1. New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out

May 2024

  1. Some arbitrage free Byzantine rates of return

March 2024

  1. Piece of music

February 2024

  1. Dirigisme and Social Polarization.
  2. Second-hand bookstores and the souls of cities

November 2023

  1. Lit in Review: Things that move people
  2. An infinite (or maybe indefinite) loop of good and bad sense in public policy

October 2023

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap

September 2023

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. Nightcap
  5. Nightcap
  6. Nightcap
  7. Nightcap
  8. Americanization in the wild
  9. Nightcap
  10. Africa’s quest for sovereignty
  11. Nightcap
  12. Sovereign territory and decolonization movements
  13. Nightcap
  14. Nightcap
  15. Nightcap
  16. Americanization in the wild
  17. Against Hayek’s globalism
  18. Nightcap
  19. Americanization in the wild
  20. The market in attention
  21. The homogenization of America, and the Americanization of Europe and East Asia
  22. Nightcap
  23. I’m back here on WordPress

March 2023

  1. We’ve moved!
  2. We’ve moved!
  3. We’ve moved!

August 2022

  1. Albania: People and Ruins

July 2022

  1. We’ve moved!
  2. We’ve moved!
  3. We’ve moved!
  4. We’ve moved!
  5. We’ve moved!
  6. Hayek, or the Recursive Model of the Rule of Law
  7. Some Monday Links
  8. Before the Fourth
  9. Two Bald Eagles: Symbols of Divided Attitudes?
  10. Monday’s Equality Lessens

June 2022

  1. Stimuli For Your Moral Taste Buds [June 2022 Edition]
  2. Gold Rush ducks (rushed in Monday)
  3. Fighting for Every Inch of Ukrainian Soil
  4. Meanwhile, back in Iran: The demise of JCPOA
  5. Classical Liberalism versus Liberal Internationalism
  6. Some Reflections on Liberal Democracy, Political Meritocracy, and Critical Rationalism
  7. Some Monday Links
  8. Lit in Review: The impact of epidemics on historical economics, part 1

May 2022

  1. A couple of “how” Monday Links
  2. On Persons, Individuals, and Humans
  3. Two visions of multilateralism are competing in the Indo-Pacific
  4. Stimuli For Your Moral Taste Buds
  5. Nightcap
  6. Some Monday Links
  7. On the open texture of conflicts
  8. Nightcap
  9. In the Ruins of Public Reason, Part II: The Barbarians at the Gates
  10. In the Ruins of Public Reason, Part I: The Problem of Dialogical Illiberalism
  11. Nightcap
  12. Some Monday Links
  13. Nightcap
  14. Why developing countries need to reduce their economic reliance on China
  15. A short reflection on the unintended political consequences of the right of due process
  16. Some Monday Links
  17. The meaning of Hayek’s main views on monetary theory
  18. Nightcap
  19. May the Fourth…
  20. Nightcap
  21. Nightcap
  22. Some Monday Links
  23. A few words — and many quotations – about the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein on Friedrich Hayek

April 2022

  1. Nightcap
  2. Nightcap
  3. Nightcap
  4. From the Comments: French social scientists
  5. I Don’t Want to Fight to the Last Ukrainian
  6. Nightcap
  7. Some Monday Links
  8. Nightcap
  9. Nightcap
  10. Nightcap
  11. Some derivations from the uses of the terms “knowledge” and “information” in F. A. Hayek’s works.
  12. Nightcap
  13. Nightcap: Primitive communism
  14. “What’s in a name?”

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