Originally Posted by
Noah Ebner
My good sir, you must read All You Zombies and By his Bootstraps (written under the pen name Anson MacDonald). I've read a fair amount of mid-century science fiction and those two texts are the only examples I can think of of perfectly consistent time travel paradoxes.
As a geographer, I cringe when policy wonks like Zeihan abuse farcical theories of geographic determinism in defense of this sort of jingoistic nonsense. Also, anyone who thinks their grandkids won't be speaking Chinese actually has zero knowledge of contemporary geography and geopolitics. Here's a sobering anecdote that may help to partially explain why this will likely be the future: I teach more online geography classes in China at Chinese Universities than I do in the US. That is to say, China takes geography far more seriously than Americans do (the US has never taken it seriously as an academic subject, even compared to Europe).
As for me, I'm just finishing up Say Nothing a new book about the Troubles which focuses on the role the IRA leadership had in the disappearance of a single mother of 10. Not a particularly flattering portrait of the IRA, but not a bad read either.