Carl Schmitt, the three ages of humanity, and the new Cold War. Can America and China divide the planet?

I have just read a fascinating essay in dialogue form by Carl Schmitt. The title is Dialogue on New Space (1955). I highly recommend it. Short and crisp — but distilling years of focused reflection on one or two problems — it is Schmitt at his best.

The core of the essay is about the connection between technology and the sea. England was both the birthpl…