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New Arsenal

Wars have often accelerated technological change. The machine gun altered infantry tactics, the tank transformed mobility, and air power redefined strategic reach.

Tariff Reboot

President Donald Trump’s trade policy has acquired a second life. After the US Supreme Court curtailed key elements of the architecture that defined much of his economic agenda, the White House has returned with a familiar instrument wrapped in a different justification.

Cattle Shed Answer

On 28 February 2026, the war that diplomats had spent two years rehearsing began. American and Israeli aircraft struck Iranian nuclear and missile installations; Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed, and by 2 March the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had formally closed the Strait of Hormuz to merchant traffic, laying mines and warning off shipping.

Unwritten Histories

More than a century after she broke into one of Britain’s most exclusive medical institutions, Jamini Sen is only now being restored to public memory ~ through a recent biography and renewed institutional recognition.

Sanctions Waiver

When the United States Treasury Department authorises the sale of oil from Iran while simultaneously prosecuting a conflict against it, policy ceases to be doctrine and becomes improvisation.

Witness and the Machine

Anthropic has since launched a formal programme to study “model welfare.” These are serious claims from serious people. They deserve a serious answer ~ and that answer was formulated, with far greater precision than anything Western analytic philosophy has yet managed, in the forests and universities of ancient Bharat.