Alan GouldThe Death Throes of Informational Autocracy.As war increasingly moves onto Russian soil, it takes on the very characteristics of the regime itself: opaque, paradoxical, and utterly…Jul 2, 2023Jul 2, 2023
Alan GouldPsychic War at Fortress Bakhmut.As an ongoing Ukrainian counterattack materialises at Bakhmut, winning back weeks worth of Russian gains in hours, we see in the…May 13, 2023May 13, 2023
Alan GouldOn What Can Be Changed and What Cannot: Of Ocean waves and Adolescent Marxists.This has been a time of change for me. After years of frustration and months of planning, I finally took a long-anticipated leap and have…Mar 3, 2023Mar 3, 2023
Alan GouldChina at the Precipice: A Warning.With credible sources asserting that the CCP intends to send weaponry to Russia, we see the terminal phase of a sequence of decisions that…Mar 3, 2023Mar 3, 2023
Alan GouldPutin’s Terror Attacks and the Foundering of Informational Autocracy.I wanted to publish this article today, which I wrote some months ago in July, to highlight how quickly the Russian regime’s tactics have…Dec 24, 2022Dec 24, 2022
Alan GouldWhy is Christianity Susceptible to Inflicting Great Suffering in its Bids to ‘Do Good?’Christianity acts this way thanks to its separation of humanity into the saved and the damned, and its genuinely altruistic belief in the…Aug 1, 2022Aug 1, 2022
Alan GouldHow Dangerous is War Journalism?My father sometimes likes to go to a very particular club to unwind with a drink and catch up with his old buddies. Sometimes he takes me…Aug 1, 2022Aug 1, 2022
Alan GouldOn Joan of Arc and the Nature of Genius: a Prompted Musing.Restored from Quora, these are some of my very vague and scattershot thoughts on the nature of genius, human talent and its place in…Aug 1, 2022Aug 1, 2022
Alan GouldThe Rich History of Non European Seafaring: a Response to a Faceless Troll!As happens too often on Quora, I responded to a silly question. It annoyed me, so I had to debunk it, perhaps against my better judgement…Aug 1, 2022Aug 1, 2022