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You can't use it without becoming like me

Clausewitz, kill markets, and the limits of copying your enemy.

Oct 3 • Martin Sustrik

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September 2026

Let’s Own the Term “Elitism”

Michael Magoon suggests that we stop using the term “populism”.

Sep 12 • Martin Sustrik

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May 2026

James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State

Don't get me wrong, but metis is YOLO.

May 17 • Martin Sustrik

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April 2026

The Blast Radius Principle

Decentralize or die.

Apr 12 • Martin Sustrik

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February 2026

Life at the Frontlines of Demographic Collapse

What the real degrowth looks like.

Feb 14 • Martin Sustrik

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Eunification: a Historical Perspective

With the weakening of the trans-Atlantic alliance, the debate over European integration has entered a new phase.

Feb 7 • Martin Sustrik

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January 2026

Ada Palmer: Inventing the Renaissance

A supposed book review that wanders off into weird places.

Jan 26 • Martin Sustrik

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November 2025

Erasmus: Social Engineering at Scale

When Sofia Corradi died on October 17th, the press was full of obituaries for the spiritual mother of Erasmus, the European student exchange programme…

Nov 3, 2025 • Martin Sustrik

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October 2025

EU explained in 10 minutes

If you want to understand a country, you should pick a similar country that you are already familiar with, research the differences between the two and…

Oct 21, 2025 • Martin Sustrik

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Gnashing of Teeth

The lessons from the Peace of Westphalia

Oct 15, 2025 • Martin Sustrik

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Emil the Moose

Moose became extinct in most of Germany around 1000 CE, and in Bohemia, Moravia, Austria, most of southern Poland, and Hungary by the XV.

Oct 11, 2025 • Martin Sustrik

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Notes from European Progress Conference

Dyson spheres, democracy, Schuman roundabout, Art Nouveau.

Oct 7, 2025 • Martin Sustrik

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