What Went Wrong

Sometimes There is Nothing Wrong with Letting a Child Drown

"This Direct Monetization of Prior Government Service Is Beyond the Pale"

What Iranian Dissidents Can Learn About Regime Change From the Mistakes of 1979

Greg Abbott Once Called Texas the 'Epicenter' of AI. Now He's Freezing Data Center Construction.

What connects Ottessa Moshfegh, a fired professor in Florida, and a prudish college president? A creeping puritanism

Open Thread

Open Thread

What Happened to al-Qaeda?

Towards an AI for Africa

Researchers Convert Carbon Dioxide into Recyclable Plastic

OpenAI says its AI model ‘went rogue’: What do we know?

What Anthony Fauci's Defenders (and Critics) Get Wrong

This Is the Wrong Way to Police Student Visas

Hasan Piker and Code Pink Went to Cuba. Now They Might Be Under Investigation.

David Cole's Qualified Defense of the Supreme Court

Patrick O'Brian invented his Irish childhood, his years at sea, his very name. His readers forgave him 

Alain de Botton On Love, Perversion And Suffering

A Bit on Pentagon Contractor's Wiretapping Claim Over Hidden Date Recording by O'Keefe Media Group

Walt Whitman's American Vistas

'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation