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Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
The New Aristocracy of Intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 30 July 2026 The Industrial Revolution created factory owners. The Information Age created software […]
Five Philosophers Before the Machine: Wittgenstein, Dennett, Searle, Chalmers and Nagel on the Consciousness of Large Language Models
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 29 June 2026 Few questions have exposed the fault lines of contemporary philosophy as […]
The Quiet Architects of Escalation: Chinese Technology, Russian Intelligence and Iran’s Expanding Reach
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 28 July 2026 Wars are often described in terms of those who pull the […]
The Caspian Front: Ukraine’s Expanding War Against Russian and Iranian Logistics
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 28 July 2026 Wars have a tendency to expand beyond the geographical boundaries that […]
Would the Later Wittgenstein Have Considered Large Language Models to Be Conscious?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 28 July 2026 Few philosophical questions have emerged so suddenly into public consciousness as […]
The Sound of a Voice: Signals Intelligence and the Hidden Value of Presence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 28 July 2026 Modern warfare has transformed information into a weapon as potent as […]
Putin’s political survival and the limits of battlefield logic
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 28 July 2026 Wars are often described in terms of territorial gains and losses, […]
Laura Loomer in Kyiv: When Experience Collides with Ideology
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 27 July 2026 Politics rewards conviction. Reality, however, has a persistent habit of challenging […]
The War Comes to the Checkout: How the Attacks on Wildberries Threaten Russia’s Consumer Economy
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 27 July 2026 For much of the war, Ukraine’s long-range strikes inside Russia concentrated […]
Infiltrator tries to turn on Starlink for Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 26 July 2026 Wars have always depended upon communications. From mounted couriers and semaphore […]
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