What Happened at Hanoi, What You’re Supposed to Think Did, and What Should Happen Now
What you’re supposed to think happened at Hanoi, didn’t happen at Hanoi and Donald Trump is no Forrest Gump because though a moron Gump wasn’t a hustler.
Riding the Escalation Ladder with North Korea Risks Intentional Nuclear War
From before Hanoi we’ve been riding the escalation ladder with North Korea, and it looks like liberals and neoconservatives don’t mind nuclear war too much.
North Korea’s Reassembly Activity at the Sohae Satellite Launch Facility
Post Hanoi news has been dominated by reassembly activity at Sohae. What might it mean for North Korea’s space programme and nuclear talks with the US?
Me!2: On the Collapse of the Hanoi Summit.
When Melos gets the H-bomb Athens should get what it can get. But Athens wants more. That’s the lesson of the Hanoi fizzle.
From Hubris to Nemesis: Aleksandar Vucic and the 1 of 5 Million Protests in Serbia.
The 1 of 5 Million protests in Serbia are symptomatic of a wider social catastrophe in the Balkans brought about by its reincorporation into the third world
Incommensurability: Mostly Harmless
The incommensurability thesis of Thomas Kuhn is mostly harmless and mostly trivial. Think about something else. You’ve only got one life.
Will Fissile Materials Lead to a Fizzle Summit at Hanoi?
Dismantling North Korea’s fissile material production facilities has become the metric to assess the second Kim-Trump summit at Hanoi. That risks a fizzle.
The Quantum Moment, Roads to Reality, Wittgenstein and All That
On the cultural impact of quantum mechanics, physical reality and the completion of quantum mechanics, and the wonderful life of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Washington Announces Intent to Withdraw from the INF Treaty
Might Russia and the US have tacitly agreed to end the INF Treaty, and is all the action really on ground launched intermediate range missiles in Asia?
Hans Blix Redux: US Wants Full Declaration of North Korea’s Uranium Enrichment Plants for the Second Kim-Trump Summit
John Bolton demanded Iraq provide a declaration of its WMDs but invaded anyway. For the second Kim-Trump summit Bolton calls on North Korea to do the same.