politics

Before everyone starts publishing “Best of 2023” stories, here is the Lie of the Year. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This...

The world is at war. The war is not going well. People are anxious, depressed, and withdrawn, fearful that the...

The events of the weekend at OpenAI remind me of an African coup. And countercoup. UPDATE: The Countercoup also failed....

The Internet reflects the world. The world is getting its war on. Netizens whom I’ve always taken to be serious...

I’m no foreign policy expert. Nor am I willing to foist my prejudices about the Middle East on you. They’re...

Almost 15 years ago, I published a piece here called The Obama Thesis of Consensus. I believed the 2008 election...

The Internet has evolved as a Tower of Babel. The Tower is collapsing. It’s doing so in two ways. The...

If we’ve learned anything over the last half century it is that when people get some prosperity and hope they...

A few thoughts from an armchair technology analyst follow. War has utterly changed in this decade. Individuals and smaller groups...

Maybe I am wrong. I’ve been wrong before. But I am beginning to believe the refusal of Americans to get...