Articles written by Isthmus Wright

Isthmus Wright, Special to the Observer|Updated Sep 17, 2026

Peter Zeihan's latest clip is seven minutes and fifty-one seconds of a question his Patreon crowd keeps asking: do the people running American policy actually see the map he draws - demographics, trade routes, energy chokepoints, industrial geography - or are they improvising from a different script? His answer is not subtle. Most administrations, he says, already look at the world through a narrow professional lens: law, business, campaign politics. This one made the tunnel...