Years of Lead

As Europe's managerial state grows, it drifts further from the historic peoples it once claimed to represent, and the question of who governs gives way to whom the state exists for. From Belfast to Ceuta, the answer points not to civil war but to Italy's Years of Lead.

Miquel Vila

American Warlords: The Potential for a New Renaissance

Renaissance Italy's mercenary captains helped dismantle feudalism and build the modern state. Today a new class of private warlords, from defense contractors to tech billionaires, may be doing the same to the liberal order.

Johannes Mogk

Gen-Z and the Triple shock of AI, China, and Oil

November