GENERAL
How the United States survived an assault on its democracy – at least for now
John Ibbitson and Thomas Homer-Dixon | The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol failed to make an autocrat out of Donald Trump, thanks in part to the public shields erected against his dangerous campaign of baseless election-fraud claims.
Interview with Tom Rand
Watch my video interview with Tom Rand from MaRS Impact Week (32:34)
There May Yet Be Hope
by Arno Kopecky | A review of Commanding Hope by the Literary Review of Canada
Pandemic Log
A running commentary on the unfolding pandemic
The world seems dire. But we must not give up on hope
To believe in the possible and to make the possible real, we must recognize that the right kind of hope can be a tool of change, and we must give our hope the muscle it requires in our present crisis.
Hope has seen better days. But Thomas Homer-Dixon has written a book for ‘those who choose to fight’
The rising risk of nuclear war. Donald Trump’s 2016 election. Vast clouds of wildfire smoke. A global pandemic. These four things seem like apples and oranges, but they share one key similarity: each signals that something is going awry in the story of human progress.
