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Philosophy, Ukraine, and the Return of Finitude

Wisdom of Crowds

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The Job of Statecraft Is to Tell Good Stories, but Ultimately Fictions

The idea of violence as a veto is a pretty powerful one, and it's a kind of ground or necessary condition for all kinds of other things that are happening. But i'm not sure that that makes it sufficient to the things tat you're trying to explain. And may maybe we do take even the puten case, which is am, in in some sense, how much a sense of morale matters when you're in a war. The more you sort of look at this stuff, you see that on its own terms, any, any any narrative can be, can be moving.

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