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Where Steven Hayward, Max Cossack, 'Ammo Grrrll,' John Yoo, Anthony (who Hates Mayo) Lucido, Lloyd Billingsley, "Lucretia," and other contributors explore topics in political philosophy and popular culture, usually over a glass of quality single-malt.
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The Mid-Term Election Psy-Op (opens the original)
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“When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.”—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in AmericaOur fellow Substack author-in-arms Rod M
Seeing a Rat Inside the AI Bubble? (opens the original)
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When I heard President Trump say after his White House meeting with the potentates of the Artificial Intelligence revolution that AI was going to be renamed, I was certain he was about to declare that henceforth AI would be known as “AMERICAN Intelligence,” because of Gulf of America, and Lake America! And America-America! And just plain ‘Murica. But no, it’s going to be “Superintelligence.” We’ll have to see if this new name sticks. More serious was Trump’s position that for the moment the AI/S
Heroes and Legends of Public Policy (opens the original)
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I am way late alerting southern California readers to a seminar series I am launching tomorrow at Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy on “Heroes and Legends of Public Policy.” You’re all invited! I know—contain your excitement at the scintillating topic! Actually it should be quite interesting. The purpose is to acquaint our graduate students with some of the legendary thinkers of recent decades whose insights into issues such as crime, poverty, education, etc., remain relevant today,
Podcast Time (opens the original)
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Lots of hot podcast action ready for your weekend. First, on the Ricochet podcast, we take up the question of what the fight to save Piddington in Oxfordshire, the public betrayal of Najya Hannah-Jones by her activist mom, Trump’s deal with Greenland, Russia’s cultural inferiority complex, and a “COVID-conscious” lesbian bar in Massachusetts have in common? For those of us who haven’t worn an N-95 mask in at least five years, the distinctions are clear. Even so, they each command our attention,
Out of Whack! (opens the original)
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In a long, healthy and unaccountably blessed life, I have nevertheless spent a great deal of time in that life “out” of something. As a teenager, I was one of all but a small coterie of cool kids who were considered “out of IT.” Nobody could really define what IT was or how one achieved the inside track of IT, but everybody knew instinctively who was on the outside of IT.I did not need to go to any lengths to attempt to be interesting by being deliberately weird, e.g., The Goth Period, the Hippi
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