by Aseem Gupta | Jun 23, 2024 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
On June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. With 51.9% of votes cast in favour of leaving, the referendum delivered one of the most consequential political decisions in modern British history. Supporters celebrated a victory for national...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 22, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama follows humanity’s first encounter with an extraterrestrial spacecraft: a vast, apparently deserted cylinder passing through the Solar System. When a human expedition enters the object, its crew discovers an artificial world...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 15, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Published in 2013, Zac Lasson’s Build a Brilliant Bug Out Vehicle to Help You Survive takes one familiar idea from prepper culture—the 72-hour bug-out bag—and asks what happens when a backpack is no longer enough. His answer is to build preparedness in layers: plan...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 7, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
In Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a bounty hunter must identify and kill six escaped androids in a world where genuine animals are precious, human emotions can be programmed, and the distinction between living creatures and artificial...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 1, 2024 | Economics, Markets & Money
Australia’s housing market entered an unusual downturn in 2026. By September, national home values had fallen 5.2% from their March peak, property sales were slowing, and more homes were sitting unsold. Yet rents were still rising, mortgage repayments remained...
