Bruno Macaes

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Bruno Macaes |Graham McAleer |Michael Lucchese |Joseph Holmes

Techno-futurists commonly believe that a totally human-made future will advance individual liberty. Bruno Maçães is doubtful, arguing in World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics that the future will more likely see us living inside a metaverse crafted by one of the superpowers.

Jan 8, 2025 | newstatesman.com | Bruno Macaes

Many international human rights organisations now use the term “genocide” to describe Israel’s conduct in Gaza, but that has had no impact on developments on the ground. A ceasefire remains unlikely. If one is somehow agreed in the coming weeks, it is not expected to last. In Israel, calls for the US to strike Iran will likely intensify. The regime in Tehran has been weakened and seems much less of a threat to Benjamin Netanyahu, let alone the US. Will Donald Trump pull the trigger?

Dec 16, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Bruno Macaes

With the second coming of Donald Trump, it may now be prudent to try to understand him. Neither episodic nor properly aberrant, the Trump phenomenon is striking in its clarity. Trump has a theory of American power. When he first put it forward, it was a relatively marginal theory. Now it is seemingly almost uncontested. As the differences between Donald Trump and Joe Biden started to look more contextual than substantive, the former’s victory in November acquired the tinge of inevitability.

Oct 23, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Bruno Macaes

During the 22 years he spent in Israeli prisons, Yahya Sinwar busied himself learning Hebrew, translating the autobiographies of Israeli military and security leaders into Arabic, studying Israeli news and, perhaps more surprisingly, writing a novel. The Hamas leader, who was killed by Israeli troops on 16 October in Rafah, in the south of the besieged Strip, was 49 when he was released in a hostage exchange deal in 2011. He became the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip in 2017.

Oct 21, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Bruno Macaes

There is very little left to learn about Donald Trump the man. So when I attended one of his town halls this autumn in Michigan, I was mostly curious about his supporters. What kind of people were they? What could I ask them to help me make sense of the whole thing – that a convicted felon accused of trying to subvert American democracy is on the verge of returning to the White House? As I arrived outside the event in Warren, Michigan, a long line had already formed through the car park.