Featured Essay
The Cartel in the Costume of a Country
The choice between resistance and sovereignty is a trap: Hezbollah and its rivals keep each other alive while the state remains the missing thing.
Read essay ->The Register
Every essay we've published, ordered by the editor — for return rather than for scrolling. Filter by topic, sort by length, find the piece you half-remember.
Political Economy · Sovereignty · State Failure · Infrastructure · Sectarianism
The Generator Republic
A generator in a basement explains the country: every missing public service becomes a private sovereignty, every private sovereignty defends the failure that made it necessary, and every household becomes its own small state.
Sovereignty · Foreign Patrons · Diplomacy · State Failure
Sovereignty Theatre
From Resolution 1701 to IMF reform language, Lebanon supplies flags, signatures, and communiques for agreements that rarely travel downward into authority.