The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Green Pipe Dream Meets the Real World Where climate change hysteria collides with wartime and existential realities Dr. Mathew Maavak When I first sketched the following observations in the spring of 2026, during the opening salvos of the US-Israeli war on Iran, I wondered if the climate hysteria would survive contact with the real world. Five months later, the answer is a resounding no. The lofty, policy-driven push for a global “green transition” has not just collided with wartime realities; it has been utterly pulverized by them. For years, I have watched the growing chasm between the green transition and the brutal, mundane impracticalities of the real world. I have often wondered what exactly the rabid climate change activists were smoking. It was not just the blatant hypocrisy of the Davos set, flying their private jets to conferences to lecture the hoi polloi on the virtues of substituting meat with insect protein. It was their profound, almost comical detachment from ...

  When Argument Becomes Opium: Amartya Sen, Indian Paralysis, and the Indianization of the West Words without actions and the magic of turning defeat into victory Hua Bin I wrote an essay titled “The Myth of India Becoming the Next China” last November to debunk a popular but fallacious Western narrative. https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-india-becoming-the-next The essay continues to get views and feedback. A reader recommended the 2005 book The Argumentative Indian , by an Indian author Amartya Sen, to understand the cultural roots of the state of affairs in the self-claimed Bharat empire. I got a copy and skimmed through. While Sen’s title seems to suggest a cultural weakness, his central argument is the opposite. India, Sen argues, possesses a millennial tradition of public debate, skepticism, and pluralism. This argumentative heritage, far from being a weakness, is the true source of Indian democracy’s resilience. It is why famines have been prevented, why secul...