
A Postcard from the Power Vacuum
From Kefalonia to Hormuz and Korea. What beautiful places remember about the collapse of order.
Edited by essayist Claire Berlinski, this is Substack's top forum for the discussion of international news among readers and writers, around the world, who are concerned about the future of liberal democracy and the gathering storm of global war.
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From Kefalonia to Hormuz and Korea. What beautiful places remember about the collapse of order.

Two systems of catastrophic power have escaped the cages we built to contain them.

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The Democrats have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.

Sergei Cristo on the €5 billion “sustainable” investment scandal and the way the West finances its own subversion.

Dalibor Roháč joins the symposium to discuss economic power, democratic paralysis, and the West's new strategy of dismantling our greatest advantages.

Tom Kent on Ukraine’s battle for the world's attention, Russia’s vulnerabilities, and a news industry that keeps seeing turning points where there are none to see.

Someone in Congress shows a sign of life—just in the nick of time.

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The video of our symposium with Gabi Mitchell about the challenge of building new pipelines in the Middle East

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