Time flies – blink and we’re staring down the end of 2022. Wait, isn’t it still 2020?
I find myself back in London, where I was 34 months ago; so much has changed yet so much still remains familiar. The madding crowds on Oxford Street, all clamouring for a look at the Christmas lights, but absent a sea of Chinese tourist faces.
England (and a brief border crossing into Wales last weekend), you’ve been good to me this time, but I can’t wait to fly home tomorrow. We’ll see you next year.
Now on to the Monday briefing:
A Typology of the New Right – interesting especially if this is the sort of thing you keep tabs on.
One of the most important articles I’ve read last week, by Mercedes Valmisa, which lays out the language of complexity inherent in Classical Chinese philosophical concepts. I’ve already ordered her book Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action.
Umair Haque is usually a poster boy for disaster porn, so I hope he’s right when he says that he thinks the US is at the forefront in the new race for global economic leadership, because a new world order still requires some residual stability from the previous one.
As a corollary to the above, speaking of orders and systems, Alana Newhouse thinks the real struggle is not between right and left, but between those who want to build new systems and those who are too invested in current ones to want that.
I was ahead of the curve with all this send-to-self messages.