There was a time when the world could sit down and write new rules. The decades after 1945 saw an extraordinary wave of treaties: the Geneva Conventions, the Law of the Sea, the Nuclear ...

You write that any act of self-preservation feels like a slight at your own ideals. The answer is not to just give up on self-preservation — that approach can literally kill you. Instead, you need an ...

The rise of generative AI and intelligent knowledge systems is eroding the dominance of static precedent-building.