CLAIRE BERLINSKI, PARIS Pretending to be an aide to the Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny prank-called the spook who tried to assassinate him with Novichok. The result was Edgar Allen Poe, Saki, and James Bond all at once.
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI China is putting its cards on the table: It’s the pivot of the Pacific in trade, technology, and information networks. It sees neither India nor Japan as impediments. Xi has presented Biden with a fait accompli: China is now the region’s hegemon.
THE COSMOPOLITAN GLOBALISTS What kind of story is right for the Cosmopolitan Globalist? Why is a turtle our mascot? We explain.
CLAIRE BERLINSKI, PARIS Rapmail, blackmail, snitches, snivelers, and white stooges: The philosopher David Berlinski weighs in on Critical Theory. He tells us that if you understand the Slingshot—due to Frege, Gödel and Church—you see that the lunatics might well be right.