Schools, roads, courts, elections, and technology do not automatically reform a society. Without the underlying habits of truth, trust, conscience, and self-command, imported institutions are captured by the culture beneath them.
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I examine why irrationality cannot simply be reasoned away when beliefs are embedded in identity, loyalty, fear, shame and the subconscious—and why reforming a society is harder still.
Love, respect, truth and self-respect require distinctions that do not arise automatically from instinct. I examine the civilizational origins of moral emotions and moral concepts.
I join David Oualaalou to discuss BRICS, India’s foreign policy, China, the yuan, UPI, India’s economy, Manipur, Kashmir and Asia’s changing balance of power.
Cheap wages can conceal enormous hidden costs. I examine how productivity, quality, supervision, reliability, and cultural attitudes toward work determine the real cost of labor.
Why does China work while India so often does not? I examine the deeper habits of competence, responsibility, quality, and social order that distinguish the two societies.
I join Farzin Irani on Connecting the Dots to discuss democracy, Western decline, India and China, East Asia, capitalism, natural-resource investing, and the preservation of wealth.
In this article, I examine how corruption, amorality, hierarchy, dowry, inheritance conflict, and institutional failure begin in the family, using India as a case study in how imported institutions fail without a moral substratum.
In this Geopolitical Trends interview with David Oualaalou, I discuss India’s youth anger, the Cockroach Janta Party, unemployment, exam leaks, fake degrees, visa fraud, cyber scams, and the deeper institutional decay behind India’s crisis.
In this Geopolitics & Empire interview with Hrvoje Morić, I discuss global chaos, Iran, Ukraine, US hegemony, Pax Sinica, India’s collapse, mass migration, surveillance, and why individuals should diversify across jurisdictions.