Countries like Iran, Ukraine, and the US have started attacking cargo ships during conflicts. This is dangerous for the whole world. In the first two weeks of the Iran war, 16 cargo ships were hit. After that, hundreds of other ships stopped moving and stayed in the Gulf because they were scared of being attacked….

For most of the twentieth century, capitalism rested on a simple institutional arrangement: governments governed, corporations produced, and markets mediated between them. That architecture is now undergoing a structural mutation. Multinational corporations increasingly control the systems through which modern societies operate—data networks, cloud infrastructure, global supply chains, financial platforms, and artificial intelligence compute capacity. The…