Essays: Index

Longer pieces. Most cluster around military history, political economy, and the question of how technological discontinuities reshape institutions.

Index

• Before the Music Stops
• Breakthrough Tactics
• The Feeling You Can't Verify
• Coordination Without Authority: Zhang Zuolin and the Fengtian Clique
• Endogenous Reform Destruction and Recursive Institutional Failure in the Soviet Economic System
• The Durak is Dead! Long Live the Durak!
• Discontinuous Utility and the Jutland Paradox
• Manufactured Enmity and Institutional Paralysis in Tanović's No Man's Land
• Faith, Silence, and Artistic Labor in Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev
• Gaidai's Shurik and the Social Function of Soviet Comedy
• Sincerity Under Institutional Constraint: Soviet VIA Music at Bagram
• Red Star Over China (Edgar Snow, 1937)
• A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway, 1929)