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Silicon Valley’s AI-Powered Dream Machine
Jan 27, 2025 The people most in agreement about AI hype tend to have a net worth directly related to AI hype.
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The Idealist Destruction of Syria
Jan 17, 2025 Revisiting the inter-left debate on the Assad regime with a specific eye to the staunch moralists who supported his overthrow.
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What the Book Section Likes
Jan 10, 2025 Publishing isn’t dying, but book media — narrow, conventional, status-obsessed — needs critical review.
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The Scourge of ‘Wouldn’t It Be Cool’ Science
Jan 6, 2025 Most of the Internet’s breathless and increasingly AI-driven science coverage fails to meet minimal evidentiary requirements. But it does get clicks.
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The Media’s New Product: Permission to Do Whatever You Want
Dec 20, 2024 Cultural commentary once tried to explain how society could do a little bit better. Now the point is to tell people only what they want to hear.
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Don’t Panic
Nov 15, 2024 There's no doubt that it's bad. But that's nothing new, and in the absence of hope, we can at least keep perspective.
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If the Democrats Want To Win, Someday They’ll Need To Give People Something To Vote for
Nov 5, 2024 Vote, then ask yourself: Do you want left-wing votes enough that you're willing to listen and try to persuade to get them?
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The Wonks Who Refuse to Apologize for NAFTA
Oct 10, 2024 Why is it so hard to say you’re sorry to the victims of deindustrialization?
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Time To Get Serious
Sep 19, 2024 Fifty days out, a small national polling advantage for Harris plus Electoral College weirdness equals a dead heat.
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About That Trump Assassination Conspiracy Theory
Sep 10, 2024 It is lunacy to believe the Pennsylvania shooter was part of a "psyop."
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