By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – September 15, 2025 If we honor Charlie Kirk’s legacy of good-faith engagement, we will reflexively step back from the precipice. If you spent time this weekend interacting with your physical environment, that experience likely did not leave you dismayed by the rapid deterioration of the American social fabric. Maybe you saw one of the...

The Minneapolis shooting was a warning sign that our modern era is breeding nihilistic evil.

By: Paul Winfree – nationalreview.com – September 1, 2025 America’s economic strength has never come from Washington’s ability to pick stocks. The Trump administration’s deal to purchase shares of Intel opens the door for systemic economic corruption. The Trump administration’s proposal to take a 10 percent equity stake in Intel in exchange for government grants fundamentally misunderstands what makes America an...

Silicon Valley elites believe AI will generate massive wealth and propose using it to fund a universal basic income, but a better solution is to use it to fund Social Security.

By: William A. Galston – wsj.com – August 26, 2025 While the technology carries risks, some critics’ alarmism seems excessive. Every Tuesday evening, the Rationalists gather to read and discuss “The Sequences,” a collection of essays by AI researcher and writer Eliezer Yudkowsky. It’s “almost like a Bible study,” Mr. Metz writes. Ilia Delio, a Catholic theologian whom Mr. Metz...

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America was built on the foundational belief that every man is created in the image of God with purpose, responsibility, and the liberty to chart his own course. We were not made to be managed.

By: Nicole Nguyen – wsj.com – July 23, 2025  The tech giant’s acquisition is its latest move into the burgeoning AI-gadget business. It’s funny. After a decade of Amazon AMZN 3.37% saying Alexa isn’t listening to your every word, the company is buying a bracelet that can. Bee’s wearable transcribes all the conversations in your day—including when you talk to...

We are forgetting about other ways AI may be affecting people close to us, even ourselves.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 20, 2025 Power shortages are coming thanks to wind and solar subsidies. Here’s how they distort energy investment. As we’ve been writing for years, the reliability of the U.S. electrical grid is in trouble. The Energy report projects potential power shortfalls in 2030, as 104 gigawatts of baseload power retire in the...