In my 2022 post on Soylent Green, I traced how the film’s revelation, “Soylent Green is people,” dramatically literalized overpopulation as self‑consumption, a horror that lingers because it feels both absurd and, from an ecological perspective, plausible. That image was a cultural zygote: mutating into other forms of demographic dread across decades. In 2025, weContinue reading “The Demographic Shadow”
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Tyrants and Eugenics
Khan Noonien Singh is my favorite Star Trek character. In Space Seed (1967), Ricardo Montalbán plays Singh the genetically engineered despot known as the last tyrant from the Eugenic Wars:: KIRK: Name, Khan, as we know him today. (Spock changes the picture) Name, Khan Noonien Singh.SPOCK: From 1992 through 1996, absolute ruler of more thanContinue reading “Tyrants and Eugenics”
The Russian Way of War
Tyler Cowen pointed to >this< post by Gilbert Doctorow on The Russian Way of War, a title that alludes to Hanson’s seminal work. Doctorow is a convincing writer and has a corpus of work that builds a defense of Putin’s position. I admire his intelligence and flair as demonstrated >here< in melding Bulgakov with AmericanContinue reading “The Russian Way of War”
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