The Machine's Viewpoint
Governments across the spectrum are now regulating what AI models may say, not just how they are used. Why viewpoint regulation is structurally incoherent—and what it leaves ungoverned.
Power Concentration in AI
A handful of people now direct AI at nation-state scale, through structures built to keep their control beyond reach. A look at the machinery, and the gap no institution is sized to close.
Careful About the Wrong Things
Mission-driven organizations deliberate the hotel booking and wave through the two-year program. Why scrutiny should track reversibility, not cost or visibility, and what operations is actually for.
From Sunningdale to Good Friday
Two Northern Ireland peace deals, twenty-five years apart, built on nearly identical terms. Why the first collapsed and the second held, and what it reveals about institutions under low trust.
When Does Alliance Anxiety Become Nuclear Proliferation Risk?
A structured forecast of when a US ally might decide to build the bomb, working through the conditions that would have to break first, in Bayesian terms.