Month: October 2026
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The World on Fire? Geopolitical Realignment and the Horizon of 2040
We have become remarkably skilled at creating the crises that threaten us, yet strangely helpless at resolving them. Wars, political fragmentation, technological upheaval, and ecological damage are largely self-inflicted. But history is also a story of adaptation and recovery. Looking toward 2040, I explore how shifting global power, aging societies, and new technologies might reshape our troubled world.
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What Makes Things Happen? Reflections on Causality
What does it mean to say that one thing causes another? Beginning with Aristotle’s final causes, I trace my longstanding fascination with causality through Hume’s skepticism, Kant’s categories of understanding, and quantum mechanics. Perhaps causality is neither a fundamental property of nature nor merely a habit of thought, but an emergent structure through which we understand the world and act…