Volume XXXI

Need something to watch while Destiny is on hiatus?

Thomas Ullmann/Reasonriffs had a chat with Kafka about religion, give it a watch! https://www.youtube.com/live/6aBrolDiCoc?si=GNSXy7a2eLklkKW4

It gets a little weird when Kafka starts talking in a jamaican accent, but stick it out.

Articles in this Volume

Stephen Miller: The Bureaucrat of Cruelty

A portrait of Stephen Miller—the bureaucrat who turned Trump’s instincts into policy and made cruelty the organizing principle of American immigration.

Putin’s Links to European Far-Right Networks

How Putin’s KGB past forged a strategy to weaponize Europe’s far-right — a blueprint still destabilizing Western democracies today.

Trading Law for Loyalty: The Quiet Death of the Neutral State

The rule of law is dead; loyalty rules now. Trump’s America shows how democracies don’t collapse—they suffocate while everyone watches.

Ceasefire and Contiguity: How the Gaza Truce Could Reshape the West Bank

Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas masks a deeper shift: quiet in Gaza, expansion in the West Bank, and a crisis of Palestinian legitimacy.

Meet the Authors

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After completing his philosophy degree in 2009 Thomas turned down the opportunity to continue his studies, disillusioned with what accademic philosophy had become. By the end of that year he was working as a farm hand in Belgium. The following year, accom…

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u/Demosthenes_Rex

"Politics, geopolitics, history and stuff. I've worked in local government for over a decade, which is to say I've developed a professional familiarity with bureaucracy in both its functional and ornamental forms. I probably smoke too much and write too l…