I. THE SCENE The ESA Commercialisation Gateway panel on Future Space Transportation, SLPP Spring Session 2026. The Polish head of agency says dual-use technology is not a choice but an urgency. Satellite imagery, secure communications, the ability to see and to speak without being seen or silenced—these decide whether a state survives. The Polish position…
Let’s cut through the noise for a moment. Europe’s industrial base is not dying because Europeans forgot how to make things. It is dying because the energy math no longer works, the demographic math no longer works, and the geopolitical math no longer works. The question is not whether production migrates. The question is where…
Nativism is not eternal; it was invented. In the 1600s, colonial planters in the Caribbean invented “whiteness” to divide poor European servants from poor African slaves. Before that, you had caste, creed, and citizenship – but not race as we know it. The idea was exported: to India by the British, to Algeria by the…