Some liberals might shake their virtuous heads and tut-tut disapprovingly. But, as the Brookings scholar William Galston (https://www.brookings.edu/people/william-a-galston/) argues, Donald Trump’s Old Testament politics of retribution has exposed the limitations of liberal thought. In his new book, Anger, Fear, Domination (https://www.brookings.edu/books/anger-fear-domination/) , Galston argues that liberals must recognize the dark…
“It’s happening. The question is whether it’s a dream or a nightmare. This week, OpenAI introduced Pulse (https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-pulse/) , an AI assistant that knows what we want to do and think before we do. That Was The Week (https://www.thatwastheweek.com/p/openai-just-shifted-the-interface?open=false#%C2%A7editorial-openai-just-shifted-the-interface-and-the-power) publisher Keith Teare welcomes Pulse as a “habit” that will “shape…
Episode 2569: Micah Sifry on Kirk, Mamdani and the End of the Biden-Clyburn-Pelosi Era https://keenon.substack.com/p/trump-is-not-popular-how-a-sub-40?utm_source=youtube
Episode 2568: Jacob Ward on How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back https://keenon.substack.com/p/the-idiocracy-trap-why-smart-machines?utm_source=youtube
Episode 2567: On the first eight months of Trump's second term https://keenon.substack.com/p/halfway-to-hungary-jonathan-rauch?utm_source=youtube
Donald Trump made his own controversial case against the United Nations at the UN today, lecturing world leaders that “the UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create them and not finance them.” But he was beaten to this anti-UN manifesto by the New York City based journalist Seth Barron…
As the prize-winning author of Dreamland and The Least of Us, Sam Quinones is one of the most acclaimed authorities on America’s deadly drug epidemics. So it might seem a little surprising that his follow-up to these two best-sellers is a book in praise of the bass horn, a relatively…
Episode 2564: How YouTube, Substack, and social platforms are making traditional media gatekeepers irrelevant https://keenon.substack.com/p/kimmel-kirk-and-the-end-of-the-television?utm_source=youtube