Ain Jalut — When Expansion Met Structure
Egypt, under the Mamluks, stopped the Mongol war machine at Ain Jalut in 1260. A reflection on Baghdad, Cairo, violence, military structure, and the former slaves who imposed a limit on expansion.
Empire
When Soldiers Return Home
A reflection on how states receive their soldiers after war, from the homeless veterans of today’s United States to the land grants of Rome and the cosmic order of ancient Egypt.
M.A.G.A. — Make America Ghosting Again
A country built by strangers, sustained by newcomers, now dismantling itself through contempt for them.
As workers disappear, streets fall silent, and power concentrates, the United States risks hollowing itself out from within—economically, democratically, historically.
Empire Begins at Home
Renee Good’s killing was not an anomaly but a symptom. As authoritarian power consolidates at home while the world watches elsewhere, dignity is traded, institutions kneel, and humiliation becomes strategy. This is not foreign policy. This is domestic empire.