It was 250 years ago that Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations. In it, he looked back on the contact that various distant peoples had had with Europeans, following the discoveries of Christopher Colombus and Vasco de Gama. The results, by Smith’s time in 1776,...
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The Kyle Anzalone Show [Guest] Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski: Trump Orders Hormuz Blockade After Talks Fail—Ceasefire at Risk?
A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a clean, decisive move until you run it through the real world: geography, international law, ship insurance, and the uncomfortable question of what happens when the other side shoots back. We sit down with Lt Col Karen...
US Officials: Ceasefire Extension Not Open-Ended
Three US officials speaking with Axios claimed that President Donald Trump does not plan to have an open-ended ceasefire with Iran, and is planning to give Tehran under a week to present a proposal to Washington. "Trump is willing to give another three to five days...
Dozens of Iranian Ships Have Broken Trump’s Blockade
Data from the shipping tracking firm Vortexa found that at least 34 Iranian ships have bypassed the US blockade since President Donald Trump imposed it on April 13. The US has only stopped two Iranian ships. Trump has argued that his blockade is a tremendous success...
A Palantir Manifesto
Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic, is a clarion call for Silicon Valley to abandon its consumer trinkets and rush headlong into the arms of the military-industrial complex. According to Karp, America's future depends on wielding hard power...
Report: US Used Over Half of Its Advanced Missile Interceptors During Iran War
A report by the Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) found that the US depleted half of its missile interceptors. According to CSIS, the US military had 2,330 Patriot interceptors before the conflict, and used an estimated...
Rules for Radicals: In the Beginning w/John Weeks
John and I continue the reading and commentary on Rules for Radicals
Trump Says Iran Ceasefire, Blockade Will Remain Indefinitely
President Donald Trump made a sharp reversal and announced that the ceasefire with Iran will continue indefinitely. “Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime...
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I used to think it was because I wanted to tell stories, invent characters and worlds. To steer these imaginary depictions of who and what I know, into a creative realm to share it with familiars and strangers. It was a way to express philosophy and values, to insert...
Searching for Truth w/Paisios Wainwright
My good friend Paisios Wainwright joins me to discuss his struggles and path to Orthodoxy. Wainwright Ceramics
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