Steve Payne·Aug 19Can Think Tanks Regain Public Trust?[This essay is part of the Series “Why Our Institutions Don’t Fit the World We Live In.” You can read the Series introduction here.]
InThe Web of LettersbyMike Oplinger·Aug 3AI Doesn’t Replace Think Tanks. It Makes Them Possible Again.Think tanks, research institutions, and large organizations all pay a hidden tax. It isn’t a financial tax, though it certainly has a…
InThe Web of LettersbyMike Oplinger·Jul 6The Institute for the Painfully Obvious: Why the AI Age Needs a New Kind of Think TankIn a previous post, I talked about my idea for the Multi-Domain Think Tank (MDTT), which was an idea for a structural framework for…
Muzammilisani·Jun 21Walking Into a Think Tank Uninvited: What I Learned From Dropping My CV at CISSI never imagined I’d walk unannounced into one of Pakistan’s most respected strategic research institutions and ask to meet the HR manager…
Khalid Alkhaja·May 1Conspiracy Theory or Predictive Analysis?When I say that the West planned the “Iranian Spring” of 1979, which brought Khomeini to power, intellectuals end the conversation with…
Christian Baghai·Mar 31The Bullshit Factory: How America’s Most Expensive Thinkers Managed to Think About Absolutely…Here’s what happened in the spring of 2026. Iranian forces mined the most important oil chokepoint on the planet. Tanker traffic through…
Matthew McLemore·Feb 13How to survive in UX design.AI is the least of your worries. We are about to enter a world of static. The 4th revolution, where ideas are much less sweated over but…
Christian Baghai·Jan 12The Billion-Dollar Bullshit Factory: How War Profiteers Bought themselves Some Fancy Opinions About…Or: That Awkward Moment When Silence Tells You Everything You Need to Know
Angeldustspirits·Nov 29, 2025Natasha Yar and the Shadow of Armus, Star Trek’s Skin of Evil and Today’s WorldBy: April Seldon
