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Life and Death in AI - First Things (opens the original)
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In a life of reading, there are special times of wonder and delight. Books come into your hands that address your central concerns and discuss matters you’ve long pondered. But they do so in fresh and unexpected ways. I’m reading one now: Climbers, a novel by M. John Harrison. As I read, I experience again my lifelong passion for rock climbing in sentences and images that manifest an unnerving and disorienting beauty, which is very much how one can feel on a rockface or mountainside. Marvelous.
The Stench of Corruption - First Things (opens the original)
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The Trump family’s exploitation of every opportunity to enrich themselves demoralizes me, as I’m sure it does many readers. Don Jr. and Eric Trump are the Uday and Qusay Hussein of our unhappy times, harvesting great sums from investors who seem interested in influencing the White House. (Kevin Williamson made this observation back in 2016.) Earlier this year, it was revealed that powerful figures in Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates invested $500 million in World Liberty Financial, the Tru
While We're At It - First Things (opens the original)
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♦︎ The Republican Party and the Trump White House protect and promote vice industries that exploit Americans, especially young American males. So observe Brad Wilcox and James Lynch in “Republicans Embrace the Vice Economy” (Compact, August 12, 2026). The supposedly conservative side of the aisle eases regulations on marijuana, curtails scrutiny of cryptocurrency, and winks at “prediction markets” that have put gambling apps onto every smart phone. Wilcox and Lynch rightly note: There is nothing
The Ivory Tower Is Falling - First Things (opens the original)
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The big news story of early August was Jason Arday. Appointed to a professorship at Cambridge University in 2023, the black scholar had been championed by university leaders as a sign of their great commitment to righting racial injustice and achieving “real” diversity. Unfortunately for Cambridge, Arday was exposed as a plagiarist, fabulist, and academic fraud. The public revelations led Arday to resign on August 5. A week later, he committed suicide. I regard Arday as a victim of the mostly wh
Bin Laden’s Bequest - First Things (opens the original)
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It came as a shock. The image of a plane disappearing into a building as flames erupt. Then another. Sirens. Morning TV shows superseded by first confused then speechless newscasters. A plane strikes the Pentagon. Tiny specks—people—fall a thousand feet to their deaths. A collapsing skyscraper. Then another. A great column of smoke. Thousands dead. On the morning of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush was reading to second-graders at an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida. The kids w
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