Perspectives
Perspectives organizes essays across five areas of inquiry. Each track offers disciplined analysis and structured thinking on contemporary power, technology, institutions, philosophy, history, reflections, and reviews.
History and Politics & World Order
Examines institutions, authority, legitimacy, and the structural dynamics of governance during periods of transformation and crisis.
AI & Life
Explores how artificial intelligence, digital infrastructures, and technological systems reshape institutions, decision-making, and political authority.
Philosophy & Thought
Investigates governance under pressure – institutional breakdown, reform, adaptation, and the long-term conditions of stability.
Reflections & Reviews
Critical engagement with books, essays, events, and cultural works that shape contemporary debates on power, technology, governance, and political imagination.
All Perspective Essays
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How Experience Shapes Social Perspective
We often hear the claim that experience shapes perspective. This ideology, especially in the context of traditional societies, is often treated as a comforting truism. Many of us even falls for it without questioning whether perspective also shapes experience. It is true that prior experience filters present interpretation. A person raised despite conflict may read…
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The Richest Man in Babylon
One of the most enduring meditations on wealth was set not in a modern city of glass and steel, but in Babylon, a city of dust and rivers, long returned to the earth. George S. Clason could have written a manual. Instead, he wrote something closer to a fable. And in doing so, he stumbled…
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The March of the Ten Thousand: The Story of the Kurds in Xenophon’s Anabasis
In 401 BCE, a Greek mercenary army of roughly 10,000 soldiers found itself stranded deep in enemy territory after the failure of a Persian dynastic coup. Their leader had been killed and they were surrounded. Their only way home was north through the mountains. And what they met there changed history’s record forever. The Greek…