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Romancing the Machine
A friend of mine asked a researcher at Anthropic whether Claude was conscious. He replied, “Are you talking about any single session of Claude, or the aggregation of all...
Charlie Kirk, Christian Vitalist
The Christian norms that once underwrote America’s liberal democracy have eroded. This “great unraveling,” to borrow James Davison Hunter’s term, inverts e pluribus unum; “from many, one” gives way...
Israel, Hamas, and the War of Absolute Enmity
Located about a mile from Gaza, Kibbutz Kfar Aza is a lush communal farm reminiscent of a quiet suburb. When I visited in April, our guide, a Kibbutz member,...
Fanon’s Seduction of the Left
Over the weekend, one of my friends from high school, a Harvard graduate, posted to Instagram an image of Hamas terrorists climbing atop a commandeered Israeli tank. Superimposed on...
