Tag: power dynamics

• Visionary Leaders Of Small Nations

  February 1, 2025

  As the great powers battle it out over the shape of the world order, visionary leaders of small nations are pragmatically positioning themselves as best they can for whatever comes… more ›

• Elon Musk and the Decline of Western Civilization

  January 20, 2025

  Back in 2021, I wrote a blog post for American Purpose on “Silvio Berlusconi and the Decline of Western Civilization.” In it I argued that when historians 50 or 100… more ›

• Stephen Miller, Channeling Trump, Has Built More Power Than Ever

  January 17, 2025

  When Stephen Miller met with Mark Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago late last year, the 39-year-old Trump adviser was in a position of power that would have been unimaginable a decade ago.… more ›

• GZERO World with Ian Bremmer: The Top Geopolitical Risks of 2025: A live conversation with Ian Bremmer and global experts

  January 9, 2025

  https://ift.tt/MqGNYPi It's officially the new year, and 2025 will bring a whole new set of challenges as governments react to the shifting policies of the incoming Trump administration, instability in… more ›

• Past Present Future: The Great Political Films: The Social Network

  January 5, 2025

  https://ift.tt/kO3QYnT The second David Fincher film in our series (after Fight Club) is The Social Network (2010), the Aaron Sorkin-scripted take on how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and the price… more ›

• Past Present Future: The Great Political Films: Jeanne Dielman

  January 4, 2025

  Today’s great political film is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), voted the greatest film of all time in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll. A… more ›