Part the First: Dealing with Scientific Misconduct. Trust in science has declined during my professional work life. Some, but not all, of this is due to misconduct by scientists, as it should be. The recent case of Sylvain Lesné is one of the more spectacular examples. We have discussed this previously. Dr. Lesné published a […]
Read more...The War on Iran aims to break Tehran, curb a rising Sunni bloc, and secure Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. But it’s not working
Read more...AI’s reputational crisis is triggering a massive backlash against data centers including two attacks on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and another against an Indiana city council member.
Read more...Airborne ISR has long been treated as a source of persistent, reliable battlefield awareness. But the conditions that enable this capability also create structural vulnerabilities. As sensor networks improve and contested environments intensify, ISR effectiveness becomes conditional rather than assured.
Read more...POTUS Trump’s ugly and open social media conflict with Pope Leo XIV is a new chapter in the information war that shows some deep sectarian cracks in the American pro-war consensus.
Read more...Part the First: War Begets War, A Conversation. Daedalus hosted a conversation among Robert Jay Lifton (1926-2025), Neta C. Crawford, and Matthew Evangelista last year. It was preprinted recently in The MIT Press Reader. I immediately noticed the participation of Robert Jay Lifton. Back in my dark ages, when the university had a University Bookstore […]
Read more...The Iran War has accelerated the emergence of a new world order, but the world system remains the same. This distinction is crucial.
Read more...Reactions to yesterday’s news of a ceasefire in the US-Iran Ramadan War have varied due to cognitive dissonance and conflicting agendas among key players including POTUS Trump, Israel, Iran’s Supreme Leader, the IRGC, the UAE, the Saudis, China, and Pakistan.
Read more...U.S. global air power depends on aerial refueling, but the tanker fleet that sustains it is under growing strain. What appears sufficient on paper becomes fragile in practice, revealing a widening gap between strategic ambition and the physical limits of force projection.
Read more...Weak links OpenAI, Oracle, and the UAE are strengthening their ties even as the Ramadan War exposes their increasing vulnerabilities.
Read more...Good afternoon. Time for a break. Given the wall-to-wall coverage by Yves and others here, nothing explicit on this Good Friday about the Ramadan War in West Asia. Instead, herewith a few reflections during holy season of the three great Abrahamic traditions. Part the First: Ethical Capitalism? Some argue about whether business can be ethical. […]
Read more...The Iran War and the Hormuz struggle could end U.S. oil and financial unilateralism, ultimately dismantling Western cultural dominance
Read more...While global attention has been focused on the Ramadan War with Iran, the long-awaited collapse of OpenAI is quietly accelerating.
Read more...The pursuit of an “invulnerable” missile defense system confronts technical, economic, and strategic limits. Perfect interception is unattainable, validation is inherently incomplete, and a fully realized architecture drives costs into the trillion-dollar range.
Read more...The moral imbeciles ruling the United States have blundered into disaster because they are incapable of recognizing the stakes of the game.
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