Deepfake War Is Here

How Clausewitz's fog of war has gone hyperreal, as the actual, real Iran war continues.

A. Iran’s new Supreme Leader.

B. On the Department of War’s Pete Hegseth (political psychology as attack PR).

C. China has closely studied Western classics (to better understand its foundational strategic thought, and to differentiate this from modernity).

D. Catalyst events (war) + prediction markets now facilitate insider trading: a new threat to national security.

E. Today’s MIT OCW free course is an Introduction to International Relations, created by Professor Richard Nielsen.

F. The deep harms of deepfakes, redux.

G. How to read 100 books a year.

H. Palantir and the US Federal Government workforce. What Palantir’s ontology is.

I. The heterodox economist Michael Hudson on Iran’s grand strategy in the Middle East.

J. An album that was part of my undergraduate years.

K. Dr Brian Keating (Peterson Academy) on cosmology.

L. Disinformation alumnus and Magick.me founder Jason Louv on strategic communications and perception management.

M. I listened to this on the weekend: Adam Tooze on the War in Iran.

N. Netflix has a new documentary on the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ early years, out on 20th March 2026.

O. The Santa Fe Institute on the origins and future of economic inequality.

P. A 90-minute Bloomberg special about the Iran war oil shock.

Q. James Baldwin, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X interviewed in 1963.

R. Some useful strategic studies lectures from Dr Julian Spencer-Churchill (Concordia University).

S. A talk by the late United Kingdom cultural critic Mark Fisher: “All this is temporary.”