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“A decade is a lifetime in AI development.”Read Wesley Hodges & Daniel Cochrane's piece in COMPACT:
08/05/2025

“A decade is a lifetime in AI development.”

Read Wesley Hodges & Daniel Cochrane's piece in COMPACT:

During consideration of the Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law by President Trump last month, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) inserted a measure that would have discouraged state-level regulation of artificial intelligence for a decade.

“The anti-woke right is not worthy of this heritage; its militants haven’t earned the right to claim ownership over Thuc...
08/04/2025

“The anti-woke right is not worthy of this heritage; its militants haven’t earned the right to claim ownership over Thucydides, Cervantes, Shakespeare, or Goethe, let alone defend them.”

Read Ralph Leonard’s piece in COMPACT:

One of the great lines from Goethe’s Faust states: “What you inherit from your forbears, must be earned before it is owned.” Today’s anti-woke culture warriors would do well to heed this lesson.

“The second iteration of the tech right is succeeding where the first failed in part because the transformation heralded...
08/01/2025

“The second iteration of the tech right is succeeding where the first failed in part because the transformation heralded by Toffler has not led to a flourishing of Toquevillian civil society.”

Read Geoff Shullenberger’s latest newsletter

Why the 1990s effort to align Silicon Valley with the GOP failed

“It was his own intrigue that was his downfall.”Read Edward Luttwak’s piece in COMPACT:
08/01/2025

“It was his own intrigue that was his downfall.”

Read Edward Luttwak’s piece in COMPACT:

Maurizio Serra’s biography of Curzio Malaparte mostly consists of digressions, which is just the right approach in recreating the “mythomaniac, exhibitionist, and serial turn-coat” Kurt Erich Suckert, born in industrial Prato south of Firenze to a well-paid Austrian textile expert.

“Sweeney and the transfluencers … share the same eugenic logic.”Read ’s piece in COMPACT:
08/01/2025

“Sweeney and the transfluencers … share the same eugenic logic.”

Read ’s piece in COMPACT:

By now you’ve seen the ad: A sultry and supine Sydney Sweeney zips up her denim suggestively, while saying in a voiceover, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, even eye color. My genes [jeans] are blue.”

“Trump’s tariffs … threaten to undermine the fundamental justification for the European Union.”Read Philip Cunliffe's pi...
07/31/2025

“Trump’s tariffs … threaten to undermine the fundamental justification for the European Union.”

Read Philip Cunliffe's piece in COMPACT:

Though the details of the recent trade deal between the United States and the European Union continue to emerge, it is clear that Donald Trump has secured an enormous diplomatic victory.

"If the purpose of including mentions of past injustice is to improve the lot of Native Americans, then this measure has...
07/31/2025

"If the purpose of including mentions of past injustice is to improve the lot of Native Americans, then this measure has completely failed."

Read Carlos Dengler's piece in COMPACT:

In March, President Donald Trump issued an executive order forbidding federal properties such as museums, parks, and monuments from displaying “content that inappropriately disparages Americans past or living.”

“Less erratic trade policy would likewise offer more clarity for monetary decisions.”Read Juan David Rojas's piece in CO...
07/30/2025

“Less erratic trade policy would likewise offer more clarity for monetary decisions.”

Read Juan David Rojas's piece in COMPACT:

Last week, President Donald Trump paid a visit to the Federal Reserve which is currently undergoing renovations.

“America must maintain its global leadership.”Read Eli Sennesh’s piece in COMPACT:
07/30/2025

“America must maintain its global leadership.”

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Currently the Senate Appropriations Committee is preparing to advance a bill laying out fiscal year 2026 funding for scientific agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

"The conspiracy theorist is a loser, but not because he’s crazy. He’s a loser because he heard that anybody could change...
07/29/2025

"The conspiracy theorist is a loser, but not because he’s crazy. He’s a loser because he heard that anybody could change the world with evidence, and he believed Them."

Read Emmett Rensin's piece in COMPACT:

Harek, who was Hildirid’s son, whispered in the ear of King Haraldr: His trusted hersir Thorolf, hero of Havsfjord, lord of Sandnes, was a traitor.

“The coalition is an awkward mixture of neo-imperial and post-colonial powers.”Read Heather Penatzer’s piece in COMPACT:...
07/28/2025

“The coalition is an awkward mixture of neo-imperial and post-colonial powers.”

Read Heather Penatzer’s piece in COMPACT:

BRICS—originally an acronym referring to the rising economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later South Africa—held its first formal summit in 2009 in Yekaterinburg.

"If power consists of specific malefactors doing specific crimes and you’ve claimed that your man is a kind of superhero...
07/25/2025

"If power consists of specific malefactors doing specific crimes and you’ve claimed that your man is a kind of superhero, it becomes a lot harder to account for why he isn’t taking down the bad guys."

Read Geoff Shullenberger's latest newsletter

On the shifting political valences of Epstein trutherism

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