In 1958, with the publication of the twenty-fifth volume of Econometrica, Trygve Haavelmo assessed the role of econometrics in advancing economics. While he praised its ‘repair work’ and ‘clearing-up work,’ he also found reason for despair: We have found certain general principles which would seem to make good sense. Essentially, these principles are based on […]
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Infamous marriage-inequality enthusiast and former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis made headlines again this month...
Trump aims to expel Abrego Garcia as his global gulag expands to Uganda, which has a long record of human rights abuses.
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Like a fool, I used to resist, but no more. In the past, I railed against the rise of AI. I preached small-minded sermons to students who had to sit through my tirades to get a passing grade. I used to curse and mutter at the head of the class, as the commercial for Grammarly played when I tried to show a YouTube clip about permaculture. Now, I search for the Grammarly commercials, show them in their entirety, then try to convert any students who, somehow, remain unconvinced of AI’s absolute utility.
I call such pitiable souls The Lost. Some of them are still writing their own essays, if you can believe that. Some of them even aspire—and I promise you that I’m not making this up—to write an entire book at some point in their life. Thankfully, there is still hope for The Lost, and it comes, now as ever, in the form of embracing salvation, which looks like this:
DHS’s social media is at it again, and while I’m looking forward to more deep...
A Trump-connected regulator with a home-building empire is on a rampage at the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, which may benefit his business.
The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.
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More than even a poet, Nietzsche was a prophet—a jaundiced, nihilistic, and cracked prophet, but a prophet nonetheless.
My friend was bitten by a dog this summer. For British readers: being bitten by a dog elsewhere in the world isn’t merely painful, scary and shocking. It brings with it a real possibility of rabies. For non-British reader – really, I’m not making this up, there’s no rabies in the UK. My friend is […]
By age three, your authoritarian should be able to blame juice spills on political enemies, such as a baby sibling or a weird uncle. If he or she (but likely he) can’t, you should begin offering assistance. Tip over his cup of juice and see if he diverts the blame.
By age four, your authoritarian should be starting to demand loyalty from others, such as their stuffed animals.
Your authoritarian should start to create alternative facts by age five. If they haven’t, they might be dumb. Don’t worry, though—a lack of intellect doesn’t preclude them from becoming an authoritarian.
By age six, your authoritarian should have convinced a younger sibling that vegetables are a leftist conspiracy. The conspiracy itself should be easy for them to grasp, as it is true. What you want to look out for is their persuasion skills—are they developing at a normal pace? And if your authoritarian doesn’t have a younger sibling, make one. You don’t want them falling behind.
August 25, 2025 Education for What? By Alfie Kohn To talk about curriculum (what to teach) or pedagogy (how to teach) is to bump up against the question of why to teach. What is the purpose of education? And why do so few people address this topic directly? Something similar can be observed in the field of psychology. A therapist’s ... Read More
I think we can put a peg in this. For years everyone’s being “we’re going fascist.” It’s done. It’s over. The US has gone fascist. Purges of the military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies to install personal loyalists; Troops in the capital, armed, with law enforcement rights, and a promise to do the same in […]
I often get asked about cryptocurrency. And I immediately become bored. The sort of claims that people have made about this phenomenon, which is historically just another speculative asset, are over-the-top to say the least. There are two realities that seem to be ignored. First, we already have mainstream digital money and have had for…
A much-needed history lesson on why we’re one SNAFU away from disaster.
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