By: Christian Schneider – nationalreview.com – June 20, 2024 When we reward the trolls, it ruins great stuff for everyone else. On May 8, residents of the Flatiron district of Manhattan were treated to what was being billed as a transformative new public art installation: The Portal –­ a large round screen — beamed live video of the New York street scene...

It’s time for decisive action to protect our young people. The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor. Adolescents who spend more than three hours a day on social media face double the risk of anxiety and depression symptoms, and the average daily use in this age group,...

A disembodied woman’s head mugged and grimaced, aping the facial expressions of a user on a nearby laptop as visitors to the China Humanoid Robot Developer Conference watched in fascinated unease.

By: Ryan Mills – nationalreview.com – April 21, 2024 In the summer of 2022, a new restaurant began serving high-quality, but shockingly affordable Mediterranean dishes at a food truck park in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood. For as little as $6.99, customers could get bowls of Za’atar chicken, shredded lamb, or chickpea falafel served on beds of rice with sauces...

In his famous essay, “The Age of Reason,” American Founding Father and deist, Thomas Paine, sharply critiqued organized religion in general, and Christian theology in particular.

Meritocratic medicine scores another triumph with a genetically modified pig kidney—but the STEM diversity crusade threatens to replace discovery with identity-driven mediocrity.

By: Peter Landers – wsj.com – April 7, 2024 Telecommunications company NTT and leading newspaper Yomiuri to issue manifesto calling for new laws to restrain generative AI. TOKYO—Japan’s largest telecommunications company and the country’s biggest newspaper called for speedy legislation to restrain generative artificial intelligence, saying democracy and social order could collapse if AI is left unchecked. The Japanese companies’...

By: Jean M. Twenge – nationalreview.com – March 28, 2024 Parents need government to help protect children from social-media tyranny Imagine that a company began mass-producing a new toy. This was not a toy for little kids; instead, it appealed most to adolescents. The toy became wildly popular, first with teens and eventually with younger children as well. The toy...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. told CNN on Monday that President Biden is a greater “threat to democracy” than Donald Trump.”I can make the argument that President Biden is much worse,” Kennedy said. “And the reason for that is President Biden is the first candidate in history, the first president in history that has used the federal agencies...

By: Ted Cruz and Phil Gramm – wsj.com – March 25, 2024 Bill Clinton’s regulators, by contrast, produced prosperity by encouraging freedom on the internet. The arrival of a new productive technology doesn’t guarantee prosperity. Prosperity requires a system, governed by the rule of law, in which economic actors can freely implement a productive idea and compete for customers and investors....