Tag: World Cultures

  • The Long Ledger, Addendum

    The Realignment Has Already Begun The Iran Conflict, the Petrodollar, and the Economic Pivot Nobody Voted For A caveat before anything else: this post was written in late March 2026, while the conflict is still active and the full picture is still forming. Some of what is documented here will look different in six months;…

  • The Long Ledger: Part 3

    Free Markets as Foreign Policy Trade Agreements, Capitalist Hegemony, and the Limits of Economic Freedom, 1991–2008 When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, something unusual happened in Western intellectual life: a significant number of serious people decided that history had ended. Not literally, of course, but in the sense that the great contest of…

  • The Long Ledger: Part 1

    The economic motivations behind conflicts from 1914 to 1945 shaped wartime decisions, international relations, and postwar policies, revealing deeper motivations beyond ideological narratives.

  • A Vision Arrived Too Late: Reading James Canton’s Future Smart in 2025

    Book: Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends That Will Transform Your World by James Canton Publisher: Da Capo Press (2015) Audience: High School (Advanced) to College Level Recommended for: AP Human Geography, Economics, English Language Arts, Technology and Society electives Rating 3.75 of 5 Stars Why This Book Matters (and Why Timing Matters More) There…

  • Understanding Global Politics: A Review of Prisoners of Geography

    Tim Marshall’s updated “Prisoners of Geography” audiobooks offers educators engaging insights into how geography influences global politics, making it a valuable resource for teaching current events and history.

  • Cuba’s Quiet Revolution: Angola

    How a Cuban Generation and Battle of Cuito Cuanavale Changed the Course of Apartheid Fifty years later we need to reevaluate the broader Cuban geo-political power from 1970-1990. When we teach about the end of apartheid in South Africa, we typically focus on the internal resistance movement, international sanctions, and the moral leadership of figures…