The Return of the Golden Kite: Japan’s Return to the Strategic Stage
In ancient Japanese mythology the Golden Kite, one of the highest decorative orders of the Japanese military, was a messenger bird which enabled the Emperor Jimmu to…
War and History: Jan Patocka, Martin Heidegger, and the Crisis of History
To read Jan Patocka, the tragically understudied Czech philosopher, one needs to peel back the accretion of post-Cold War rhetoric to fully understand him. Patocka sees modern…
Populism and the Crisis of the Knowledge Elite
When the French Revolution abolished the Estates General and appeared to usher in the Enlightenment virtues of egalitarianism, the accepted liberal historical view was that the age…