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Digest 8: JFK’s greatest speech; “Avoid World War III — Vote Trump” (?); Ex-CIA Officer Frank Snepp
A few weeks ago I supported Elon’s attempt to propose/broker peace plans in Ukraine. Here is an interesting historical counterpoint, and an example of a…
Edward M. Druce
Nov 27
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Digest 8: JFK’s greatest speech; “Avoid World War III — Vote Trump” (?); Ex-CIA Officer Frank Snepp
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Best of, round up for new subscribers...
Here’s a taster of a fortnightly digest, with eight of my favourite, timeless pieces to date… 1) Cinéma vérité – Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close…
Edward M. Druce
Nov 15
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Digest 7: Chip War; cinéma vérité; a ‘world safe for diversity’
Why are 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductors produced in Taiwan? Are we risking a re-run of Pearl Harbor? If China were to invade Taiwan, could…
Edward M. Druce
Nov 13
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Digest 7: Chip War; cinéma vérité; a ‘world safe for diversity’
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Digest 6: what Vietnam can teach us about Ukraine; most misguided policy of the 2020s; why do we keep using sanctions (when they don’t seem…
Edwin Reischauer - Here’a a very interesting clip on how JFK’s ambassador to Japan thought about escalation/de-escalation in Vietnam in the 60s. For six…
Edward M. Druce
Oct 30
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Digest 6: what Vietnam can teach us about Ukraine; most misguided policy of the 2020s; why do we keep using sanctions (when they don’t seem to work)?
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Digest 5: who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines? What does Bridgewater think the Fed is going to do? The most inspiring school principal...
Slightly conspiratorial question to begin, but we should be allowed to ask this type of thing. Firstly, attacks were so numerous they were clearly no…
Edward M. Druce
Oct 16
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Digest 5: who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines? What does Bridgewater think the Fed is going to do? The most inspiring school principal...
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Digest 4: Rishi Sunak and Reagan; the neglected prophet of airpower; hedge fund managers vs venture capitalists
Is Rishi Sunak on a candidacy path similar to Ronald Reagan? This for four minutes (to 1:13:40) on Ronald Reagan’s loss of the Republican candidacy to…
Edward M. Druce
Oct 2
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Digest 4: Rishi Sunak and Reagan; the neglected prophet of airpower; hedge fund managers vs venture capitalists
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Digest 3: the EU’s doomed grand plans, Shorism, Young the Giant
Why the EU’s grand plans for building back better are going to fail spectacularly. The problems the EU is having are not down to peak use being too…
Edward M. Druce
Sep 18
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More on Bikini Atoll...
Operation Crossroads: the fourth and fifth detonations of nuclear bombs, 1946
Edward M. Druce
Sep 5
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Digest 2: Volcker’s mystique, performative government, 999 origins
Highlights of the most interesting things I’ve read/watched/seen the past two weeks... Argentina raised interest rates to 69.5 per cent as inflation…
Edward M. Druce
Sep 4
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Digest 2: Volcker’s mystique, performative government, 999 origins
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Governments screwing up food production: how the Cold War affected our health, and unintended consequences of food aid
I’ve recently been taken with many arguments of Effective Altruism (EA) and longtermism – a co-movement promulgated by Will MacAskill, amongst others…
Edward M. Druce
Aug 31
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Governments screwing up food production: how the Cold War affected our health, and unintended consequences of food aid
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Was Edmund Burke a pioneering longtermist?
Will MacAskill’s new book: Reminds me of Niall Ferguson’s 2012 Reith Lectures. I clip the relevant part on inter-generational accounts here (link to…
Edward M. Druce
Aug 21
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Digest 1: Journal problem in science, Blinken’s reading, Bridgewater’s CIOs
Brian Armstrong A commendable attempt at solving the Journal problem in science: ~5 minutes: https://www.researchhub.com/ Tim Palmer This on climate…
Edward M. Druce
Aug 21
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