Essays
The Grain That Never Came
Bengal, 1943, and the Architecture of Starvation
Nazem Alkudsi
At the intersection of civilizations — where belief, power, and capital shape what nations build and what they forget. 18 years at ADIA. Former SWF CEO. CFA.
The Coup That Never Ended
How the 1953 removal of Mosaddegh set a structural precedent for everything that followed — from the Islamic Revolution to the ghost fleets drifting dark in the Gulf today.
The Underwriter's War
How an Actuarial Calculation Closed the Strait of Hormuz
The Friday Deadline
Read slowly. The building has no windows on the side that faces the river. I don’t know why I noticed that first — maybe because the man walking into it had spent three years building something whose entire promise was transparency. Dario Amodei walked into the Pentagon one day in
When India Said No to Bill Gates
The Moment Morality Reclaimed the Stage at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 Reports say the chair sat empty. That was the thing people noticed first — before the speeches, before the pledges, before the Delhi Declaration. An empty seat in the front row of the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi,
Essays
Rock, Water, and Wire
The AI race is not a software competition. It is a geology competition. The future is not being built in the cloud. It is being pulled from the earth, carried by the wire, and cooled by the water.
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Technology & AI
Your Children’s Teachers Will Be Machines. Who’s Writing Their Values?
A letter to those who hold the future in trust — from one who has watched these civilizations from within.
Geopolitics & Energy
What the Ancients Knew
In 1995, I was in Tokyo, sitting across from executives that Wall Street had already buried.
Sovereign Capital
Welcome to The Long Arc
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