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The A(braham) Bomb

What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead

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The Impending Singularity in Politics

The idea that history is moving towards some sort of climax or ultimate point is something all the Abrahamic faiths share and liberal democracy and Marxism also share. The approach of a singularity actually strengthens religious and especially Abrahamic thought all over the world, he says. "This is existential politics becomes religious war with the salvation or the survival of humanity as the stakes"

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