Volume XXXI

Need something to watch while Destiny is on hiatus?

Thomas Ullmann/Reasonriffs had a chat with Kafka about religion, give it a watch! https://www.youtube.com/live/6aBrolDiCoc?si=GNSXy7a2eLklkKW4

It gets a little weird when Kafka starts talking in a jamaican accent, but stick it out.

Articles in this Volume

Stephen Miller: The Bureaucrat of Cruelty

A portrait of Stephen Miller—the bureaucrat who turned Trump’s instincts into policy and made cruelty the organizing principle of American immigration.

Putin’s Links to European Far-Right Networks

How Putin’s KGB past forged a strategy to weaponize Europe’s far-right — a blueprint still destabilizing Western democracies today.

Trading Law for Loyalty: The Quiet Death of the Neutral State

The rule of law is dead; loyalty rules now. Trump’s America shows how democracies don’t collapse—they suffocate while everyone watches.

Ceasefire and Contiguity: How the Gaza Truce Could Reshape the West Bank

Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas masks a deeper shift: quiet in Gaza, expansion in the West Bank, and a crisis of Palestinian legitimacy.

Meet the Authors

Blakely B.

Thomas R Ullmann

ReasonRiffs

After completing my philosophy degree in 2009 I turned down the opportunity to continue his studies, disillusioned with what accademic philosophy had become. By the end of that year I worked as a farm hand in Belgium. The following year, accompanied by…

A. Mercer

Marcus C.

Demosthenes Rex

Politics, geopolitics, history and stuff. I came up through a state university system, picking up a BA in political science and later a master’s in public administration, formalizing what was already a long standing fascination with how societies organize…