Have been adding ingredients to this mix as it is eaten. You could say it's a... Snack of Theseus!

I wonder if it's a COVID stimulus effect: a LOT of US households felt like they had breathing room on their budgets, could achieve some long-desired purchases, etc. People paid down credit cards. Child poverty dropped.

The rush out of that support feels bad even w/decent wages.

See also:

Are we talking Palácio da Alvorada in Brasilia?

The original metalheads.

Whatever the press, definitely sci fi or fantasy.

Blackthorne: Tell him that states are self-interested but are able to develop cooperation through institutions that preserve long-standing reputations and relationships. Power and coercion are inescapable but may be moderated.

Mariko: He says he believes in a utopian international system.

Midwestern Zest Level: maximum

Security and strategic studies folks: I know Sun Tzu quotes are nearly pro forma, but maybe let's be real about how much mileage we're getting.

See also: Bell Riots, September 2024

Our awkward national secret is that that minivans are both more fuel efficient and more useful for hauling than pickups.

But you don't even need the tower in the middle!

Similar dynamic in the '60s and '70s among nationalist movements.

"Grand strategy" spiked in the 1930s. Any thoughts on which publication(s) or other usage driving this?

I thought Liddell Hart, JFC Fuller, etc, but I don't yet see obvious pubs from them.

CURIOUSLY, "Fiction" is the bulk of the spike. Is something miscoded or was the term in some popular novel??