Looming Crisis

What unites Trumpism with all the other isms of every age is the demand for authority. What makes authority attractive...

The biggest mistake we make in the Trump era is assuming Trump is doing everything. Trump isn’t doing everything. He’s...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UJOjTNuuEVw We're in the money. Come on, my honey, Let's spend it, lend it, send it rolling along.   What’s...

Today the Netherlands celebrates 80 years of peace and freedom. It began yesterday at 8 pm with 2 minutes of...

Read any conventional history of the 20th century and you will find one big event missing. The 1918 “Spanish Flu”...

The test of democracy doesn’t occur when a candidate promises to do monstrous things. It doesn’t even come when the...

Zoe Kooyman is now running the Free Software Foundation. People I know and trust say she’s a good choice. She had...

Arguments about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) have become almost religious in nature. They shouldn’t be. It’s not a question of...

It’s as difficult to maintain control over technology as it is to maintain control of the polity. It’s the one...

It’s wrong to say Americans are urban people. It’s right to say city folk are a minority that Red America...