What it Really Means to Win the AI Race
On the morning of July 17, 2026, Xi Jinping took the stage in Shanghai for his first in-person address to China’s World AI Conference, and he began his keynote by crediting the United States. Seventy…
Politics and Society
Liable for Your Own Actions
The Accountability Gap in Alex Karp’s AI Nationalization Pitch
The Automation of Certainty
How Stale Priors and Epistemic Arrogance Cascade from Synthetic Text to Kinetic Warfare
Nobody Voted for the AI Race
The United States has a long history of treating technological competition as a crisis, and of building permanent institutions on the strength of that crisis.
The Rise of Anti-Intellectualism
Where It Comes From, How to Spot It, and How to Outlast It
Enclosure, Again: The Human Cost of Progress
The AI buildout and the oldest bargain of the industrial age
Don’t Build the Blackwall
How the fight against rogue AI is being hijacked to rebuild the mid-century telecom monopoly.
Nobody to Sue — A country is about to let a company exist with no person behind it
In 2024, a man named Jake Moffatt lost his grandmother. He went online to book a flight home for the funeral. Air Canada’s website chatbot popped up and told him he could apply for a discounted…
The AI Data Center Problem in 2026
The people who packed the Tucson city council chambers on the sixth of August, 2025, had been told almost nothing, and what they had figured out on their own was enough.
Building the Bridge to UBI — It doesn’t mean what you think it means
Elon Musk has been warning about falling birth rates for the better part of a decade. In 2019 he called population collapse the biggest problem the world would face in twenty years. In 2022 he argued…