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Nicholas Migli
Book Recommendation: Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Nicholas Migli
June 19, 2024
In a change of pace from my normal subjects, I wanted to write a short recommendation for Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitary Walker. I read this within the last year and had come across it by accident. Not intending to read it through, I found it forgotten about on one of my shelves and decided to take a look and see what it was about. I soon realized a few minutes into reading that I was quickly being pulled in.
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Responsibility for Our Time
Nicholas Migli
May 2, 2024
Almost 80 years ago, George Orwell published an essay titled Books v. Cigarettes in which he explored a common gripe among his contemporaries that books were simply too expensive a past time to afford. In response Orwell compares the relative costs of drinking and smoking, common hobbies of the complainants, and their associated costs with that of a reading, eventually concluding that even in the case of a very heavy reader, the costs of both habits are roughly the same over the period of a year. The point of the essay was to demonstrate that the inability to afford books was a product of decisions made in the spending of one’s salary, not the...
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Sleepwalking into Catastrophe
Nicholas Migli
February 14, 2024
Over the past several years, American intellectuals and politicians have been wielding a new term to describe the relationship China has with the United States and the Western world: the Thucydides’ trap. This term, now widely accepted as fact in the US, describes the rise of China and its
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Technologies Impact on Warfare
Nicholas Migli
April 10, 2024
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan must not cloud the vision of US policymakers on what the future of warfare holds. It will be a mix of the new and old and to succeed, we must come to understand this: Without the infantryman, the drone is useless; but with the drone, the infantryman becomes unassailable.
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A Lens Through Which to View Geopolitics: The Democracy of it All
Nicholas Migli
March 20, 2024
After forty years of the Cold War and thirty years of American unchallenged dominance, many Westerners have, and naturally so, begun to view the world in very simplified terms. We tend to view states under authoritarian rule as being monolithic, serving only the interests of a single leader and reducing their decision-making processes to the wishes of a single person.
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