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Jun 29, 2026
This week, the American Enterprise Institute’s new Council on AI Ethics released a “founding document” outlining its principles and goals in the pages of The New...
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Jun 16, 2026
When was America great? Despite all that divides Americans today, I suspect a large cross-partisan majority of us, if pressed, would locate the nation’s modern apogee somewhere...
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Jun 8, 2026
In my obituary for the great Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who died last year, I cited Fredric Jameson’s controversial 1986 text “Third-World Literature in the...
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Jun 1, 2026
Henry Farrell and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi begin their new paper, “AI as Social Technology,” by noting that “debates about ‘AI’ grow out of 1990s science...
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May 26, 2026
Last week, the (wonderfully named) French tech bro Brivael Le Pogam set X alight with an apology on behalf of his nation for having loosed “French Theory” on the world.
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Apr 27, 2026
In 1995, dozens of academics and intellectuals descended on Warwick University for the conference “Virtual Futures: Cyberrevolution.” Presided over by the enfants...
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Apr 13, 2026
In his 1971 presidential memoir The Vantage Point, Lyndon Johnson concluded his chapter on the space program as follows:
On the morning of July 16, 1969, at President...
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Apr 6, 2026
On March 30, The Guardian reported on a US State Department cable that directed embassies and consulates worldwide to “launch coordinated campaigns against...
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Mar 23, 2026
This week, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared war on “introspection.”
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Mar 17, 2026
Donald Trump is going to complete the system of German idealism!”—so declared the Twitter philosopher Kantbot on a Manhattan street corner shortly after the 2016...
Jun 29, 2026This week, the American Enterprise Institute’s new Council on AI Ethics released a “founding document” outlining its principles and goals in the pages of The New...
Jun 16, 2026When was America great? Despite all that divides Americans today, I suspect a large cross-partisan majority of us, if pressed, would locate the nation’s modern apogee somewhere...
Jun 8, 2026In my obituary for the great Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who died last year, I cited Fredric Jameson’s controversial 1986 text “Third-World Literature in the...
Jun 1, 2026Henry Farrell and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi begin their new paper, “AI as Social Technology,” by noting that “debates about ‘AI’ grow out of 1990s science...
May 26, 2026Last week, the (wonderfully named) French tech bro Brivael Le Pogam set X alight with an apology on behalf of his nation for having loosed “French Theory” on the world.
Apr 27, 2026In 1995, dozens of academics and intellectuals descended on Warwick University for the conference “Virtual Futures: Cyberrevolution.” Presided over by the enfants...
Apr 13, 2026In his 1971 presidential memoir The Vantage Point, Lyndon Johnson concluded his chapter on the space program as follows: On the morning of July 16, 1969, at President...
Apr 6, 2026On March 30, The Guardian reported on a US State Department cable that directed embassies and consulates worldwide to “launch coordinated campaigns against...
Mar 17, 2026Donald Trump is going to complete the system of German idealism!”—so declared the Twitter philosopher Kantbot on a Manhattan street corner shortly after the 2016...