An interesting video essay titled “How CGI Changed Animation” has been making its way across the internet this week. If you have not watched it yet, you really should. The essay’s content reaches further than its title would suggest. It is really less about technology than it is about stories–specifically, how the archetypes in our […]
Image Source The most important thing you will read this week—likely the most important thing you will read this month—is Anne-Marie Brady’s report “Magic Weapons: China’s political influence activities under Xi Jinping.” In this report Dr. Brady describes in detail what is known about Chinese influence and intelligence operations inside New Zealand. In many ways […]
Image source. Now that the affair in Doklam has come to a close, analysts of various stripes are trying to make sense of what happened and what lessons can be learned from the episode. One of the smartest of these write ups was written by Oriana Skylar Mastro and Arzan Tarapore for War on the […]
