Reflection Essays

The world of 2025 is no longer comfortably bipolar. China asserts. Russia regroups. Europe hesitates. The Middle East simmers. Yet amid the global flux, the U.S.-Saudi relationship holds—not out of habit, but from a mutual belief that something larger remains possible. In an unsteady world, there is still nobility in the quiet, persistent pursuit of prosperity.

There is a quiet unease threading through the current age of artificial intelligence—not fear exactly, but a kind of philosophical...

Joseph Nye passed away on May 6. The world, for a brief moment, seemed quieter—less principled, less clear, somehow less possible. He...