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Joan Westenberg

Joan Westenberg

Chip Wars Are the New Cold War

Chip Wars Are the New Cold War

Embargoes didn’t stop the Soviets, and they won’t stop AI in China.
Joan Westenberg 18 Apr 2025
Trump Has Not Been Proven Right About Pretty Much Everything

Trump Has Not Been Proven Right About Pretty Much Everything

The Telegraph’s Trump apologia by Liz Truss trades facts for fantasy and calls it insight.
Joan Westenberg 17 Apr 2025
Harvard Didn’t Blink. The Fight Starts Here.

Harvard Didn’t Blink. The Fight Starts Here.

Harvard stood its ground. Now every university faces a choice: comply or resist.
Joan Westenberg 16 Apr 2025
What Happened to the Exhausted Majority?

What Happened to the Exhausted Majority?

Why two-thirds of the public just walked away from the noise
Joan Westenberg 15 Apr 2025
The Crisis Machine

The Crisis Machine

A culture addicted to escalation can’t plan for anything else.
Joan Westenberg 14 Apr 2025
The Epistemic Costs of Erratic Empire

The Epistemic Costs of Erratic Empire

When reality loses meaning, the system stalls by design.
Joan Westenberg 11 Apr 2025
America, the Isolated

America, the Isolated

This is a superpower in freefall—self-sabotaging through tariffs, jingoism, and imperial fantasy.
Joan Westenberg 10 Apr 2025

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