Hidden Forces

Why America Needs a New China Strategy | Kurt Campbell & Rush Doshi

Who Profits in a Post-American World? | Adam Posen

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity | Paul Kingsnorth

How the Internet Went From Counterculture to Technofeudalism | Douglas Rushkoff

In this episode of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas interviews media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, exploring Rushkoff's career from his communal upbringing and theater background to his role as a media critic during the rise of the internet. The conversation traces the internet's evolution from a collaborative medium t...

How Stablecoins Will Transform Banking | Charles Calomiris

Thematic Investing in an Age of Global Entropy | Marvin Barth

The Great Rebalancing: Why Debt, Demographics, and Politics Will Crush Forward Returns | Sony Kapoor

America Under Occupation: Truth, Power, & Imperial Decline | Jonathan Kirshner

God Mode: The Technological Battle for Global Domination | Bruno Maçães

Geopolitical power functions as a form of "world building," where states construct artificial, increasingly virtual environments that dictate the rules of human interaction. This process represents a departure from traditional territorial competition, shifting toward a contest to control the technological and memetic a...

Failed State: Inside Britain's Governance Crisis | Sam Freedman

The British state suffers from deep-rooted systemic dysfunction driven by extreme centralization, unchecked executive power, and the corrosive influence of a high-speed media cycle. England’s governance model concentrates decision-making within Westminster, overwhelming ministers with administrative minutiae and hinder...

Investing in a World of Permanent Stimulus | Vincent Deluard

The Final Phase of the Debt Supercycle | Edward Chancellor

Stablecoins are Fueling a New Era of Dollar Dominance | Vance Spencer & Michael Anderson

The evolution of the crypto asset class centers on its transition toward institutional adoption, marked by the success of Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs and the integration of tokenized real-world assets like Treasury bills on-chain. Framework Ventures founders Vance Spencer and Michael Anderson highlight a strategic pivot ...

Why Japan’s Elections Could Blow Up Global Bond Markets | Weston Nakamura

Capital Flight, Trade Policy, and the Fate of the Dollar | Joseph Wang

Investing in the Chaos: Macro Signals in a Bot-Filled World | Le Shrub

Trump Doctrine: A New Era of Gunboat Diplomacy | Stephen Walt

Tehran to Taipei: the Risks of Strategic Overreach | Dmitri Alperovitch

Israel-Iran War: Economic and Strategic Consequences | Kamran Bokhari

The Party Comes First: Power & Politics in Xi's China | Joseph Torigian