Realms of Salt & Iron began as a journal of statecraft and sea lanes — dispatches from seven ports of call, London to Beijing. This is where the same journal keeps its longer, slower writing: essays on the ideas travelling alongside the trade routes, the treaties, and the arguments of the age.
Essays
- AI Disinformation in the Second Age of Nuclear Proliferation The world is rearming with nuclear weapons just as artificial intelligence learns to counterfeit reality. The gravest near-term threat may be not the warheads themselves, but the fog of falsehood now forming around them.
- The Balancing Act of Privacy & Safety Online On zero-knowledge proofs as the narrow path between blanket social-media bans, invasive ID checks, and two decades of regulatory failure.
Dispatches
Fourteen dispatches from seven ports of call live on the interactive atlas — turn the globe, choose a port, and read what the tide brought in.