Governments can rebuild budgets and reopen institutions. Rebuilding trust is far more difficult. This article explores how the dismantling of diplomacy, development cooperation, and other instruments of soft power creates an accountability vacuum, eroding relationships, institutional memory, and influence that have taken decades to build.
Every year I spend in education, I become more convinced we’re confusing efficiency with learning. AI can be a powerful tool, but what happens when it starts replacing the very struggle that teaches us to think? Somewhere along the way, we’ve stopped asking how to protect learning and started asking how to automate it.
Most people look at AI as a better calculator. I don’t see it that way. The logic behind these models makes a quiet philosophical claim: that human expression is nothing more than a set of regularities, a history that can be fully exhausted by math. What gets left out is the one thing that actually…
A reflection on how the erosion of international institutions removes the friction that once restrained escalation and made catastrophic war harder to initiate. What happens when the systems built after 1945 to slow conflict are steadily dismantled, leaving threats to operate without constraint?
