The Anti-China Policies Come Out Of A Familiar Playbook Of American Imperialist Policy-Making. The Aim Is To Prevent Economic And Technological Competition From A Major Rival. China’s economy is slowing down. Current forecasts put China’s GDP growth in 2023 at… Read More ›
Cold War
On Deep States in “Der Arbeiter”
In Der Arbeiter, Ernst Jünger wrote in some length about how the State of Total Mobilization must participate in the education and upbringing of the next generation. The goal of the State’s involvement is to instill the Figure of the… Read More ›
Fragment on Historicism and Scientism in Straussian Philosophy
Philosophy is an intellectual exercise in the pursuit of knowledge, wisdom, and truth. When Philosophies become political, they yield Worldviews that can potentially inform Ideologies, which in turn can provide the means by which to govern the State. History and… Read More ›
Crisis in the Kremlin (1991) Review
At the time of this writing, more than thirty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, creating the geopolitical conditions of post-Soviet Russia. For Western and non-Western observers alike, the Soviet Union’s dissolution has been a subject… Read More ›
Update (9 September 2023)
Bogumil of the ARPLAN Blog once confided to me that he had played Crisis in the Kremlin, the original 1991 version rather than the more recent 2017 remake from Kremlingames. I finally got a chance to play that game in… Read More ›
Early Signs of US Dollar Decline?
There is another important justification for why a Third Edition of The Work-Standard needs to be written before the year is over. A few years ago, I was writing entire Blog posts and later Entries where I argued that Jeffersonian… Read More ›
Other Observations of “Fallen Eagle”
Okay, so I did another playthrough of the latest DLC for China: Mao’s Legacy. I am beginning to notice some roughness around the edges, which I cannot help but wonder if it has to something to do with two developers… Read More ›
Narratives of Democratic Capitalism
Readers of The Fourth Estate should take heed to my deliberate designation of Neoliberalism as “Liberal Capitalist Parliamentary Democracy.” The term describes a political, economic and social framework guided by a shared Ideology and united around a common Weltanschauung. It… Read More ›
Update (20 May 2023)
I know that Bogumil has not posted anything new for the ARPLAN Blog, so I thought I should contribute my own research to his area of interest. Even though it has been a century since the interwar period, a lot… Read More ›
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