Politics by Other Means
A newsletter about civil civics, rational national security, and courting the law in an Age of Rage while drinking way too much coffee
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Why I Won’t Read, or Cite, AI-generated Content (opens the original)
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There’s been quite a bit written lately about AI’s increasing collision course with academic scholarship — the extent to which experts do, or should, rely on AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT to brainstorm, outline, draft, revise, and finalize their intellectual production. There is this recent story about a University of Chicago professor who has, it would seem, produced more than 200 papers and 14 books in less than a single year using AI to an undisclosed degree.<div class="subsc
Political Satire Isn’t Dead. Yet. (Part III) (opens the original)
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Political Satire Isn’t Dead. Yet. (continued) (opens the original)
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Political Satire Isn’t Dead. Yet. (opens the original)
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Speaking Truth (and law) to Power (opens the original)
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Missy Ryan and Nancy Youssef of The Atlantic (writing on July 10) recently wrote a startling piece on military subordination to civilian government. The highest-ranking military officer in this country (the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), General Dan Caine, gave a speech recently at the graduation of senior military officers at the National Defense University (a stop for those officers very likely to be promoted to flag rank [unless a woman or minority in Hegseth’s DoD,
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