
History



The Unfinished Conquest: How Colonialism Remade Africa
·355 words·2 mins
Explore the rapid conquest of Africa by European powers between 1880 and 1914, the brutal exploitation that followed, and the persistent legacies that continue to shape the continent.

The Logic of Imperialism.
·3230 words·16 mins
A structural analysis of imperialism as the operating logic of the modern global economy — tracing how the state-capital nexus drives territorial expansion, enforces peripheral dependency through debt and military force, and reproduces extraction across formal and informal empire alike.

The Glyptapanteles Gambit: Proxy Armies and Client States
·424 words·2 mins
A historical exploration of how parasitic mechanisms in biology mirror geopolitical strategies of proxy armies and client states.

The Alchemy of Empire: How Europe Forged the Modern World System
·311 words·2 mins
A critical analysis of how Europe's competitive fragmentation and imperial innovations created the modern global system of power, finance, and inequality.

A Brief History of Colonialism
·991 words·5 mins
A timeline of colonialism from the 15th to the 20th century.

The Re-Skinned Hammer
·1312 words·7 mins
An exploration of the Tupolev Tu-104, a Soviet jet airliner that was essentially a bomber with a new coat of paint.

The Mathematics of Tyranny: A Systems Analysis of Power's Darkest Form
·639 words·3 mins
A mathematical framework for understanding how tyranny emerges, persists, and can be prevented through institutional design.

The Mathematics of Tyranny - Part 1: The Three Variables That Predict Absolute Power
·1456 words·7 mins
Exploring the mathematical framework that predicts when democracy falls to tyranny through the alignment of personal ambition, institutional weakness, and coalition strength.
