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^{Mark Mills
November 15, 2023
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Energy Realities at the Nexus of Techno-Optimism

_{Mark Mills
November 15, 2023
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Every annual gathering of the technology glitterati at George Gilder’s COSM summit gives us a glimpse of a future that’s exciting for many, even if scary for some. It’s an optimistic vision of the future quite different from what is so often proposed by many myopic forecasters. The one thing though, that won’t be different in the future, regardless of the technology vision, is the central animating role of energy. Read More ›

Human vs artificial intelligence concept.

^{Robert J. Marks II
November 13, 2023
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

AI Inbreeding Produces Artificial Idiocy

_{Robert J. Marks II
November 13, 2023
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Can today's artificial intelligence systems be used to train superior artificial intelligence systems of tomorrow? Can AI write better AI that writes better AI leading to a potentially god-like general artificial intelligence? Read More ›

American flags on tombs of American Veterans on Memorial Day, Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky (Blur Effect)On National Register of Historic Places

^{Scott S. Powell
November 11, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

Veterans Day Is A Call To Sacrifice, And Americans Who Love Liberty Must Answer

_{Scott S. Powell
November 11, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

Veterans Day, which was originally founded around the virtue of the cessation of hostilities in World War I rather than the commemoration of any individual, should be a holiday beyond reproach. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
November 11, 2023
Discovery Institute}

Presidents and Aspirants

_{Marvin Olasky
November 11, 2023
Discovery Institute}

We’re one year away from what promises to be a tumultuous presidential election. You might prepare by reading any or all of these four books. 1. The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America’s Best—and Worst—Chief Executives, by Brian Lamb and Susan Swain (Public Affairs, 2019), turns their C-SPAN interviews with historians into chapters on presidents in order from best to worst, Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
November 10, 2023
Homelessness}

A Small City Homeless Shelter Faces Internal and External Problems

_{Marvin Olasky
November 10, 2023
Homelessness}

The city’s name, Liberal, grew out of the compassion of 19th-century pioneer Seymour Rogers. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
November 10, 2023
Foreign Policy}

Threats to the United States now at a Whole New Level

_{Scott S. Powell
November 10, 2023
Foreign Policy}

It turns out that nations do not stumble into wars and conflict. Wars are generally the result of globalist forces with ulterior motives or political leaders who seek to shore up and protect their political position by demonizing a target, like Russia, and then rallying the people’s support around the enemy of that target, like Ukraine, in the name of patriotism and American interests. Read More ›

^{Jonathan Choe
November 8, 2023
Homelessness}

Tents Pop up as Burien Sanctioned Camp Opens Without Warning

_{Jonathan Choe
November 8, 2023
Homelessness}

Young couple sending their children to school

^{Keri D. Ingraham
November 7, 2023
Education}

School Choice Hypocrisy: Good for My Children, but Not Yours

_{Keri D. Ingraham
November 7, 2023
Education}

There are five major categories of people working to block school choice for others despite taking advantage of it themselves. The most hypocritical — those who send their own children to private schools as their wealth allows but don’t want others to have that opportunity. Read More ›

Silhouette of terrorist holding rifle against burning tank

^{Scott S. Powell
November 2, 2023
Foreign Policy}

Weakness and Underestimating Enemies Invites War

_{Scott S. Powell
November 2, 2023
Foreign Policy}

The talk about whether the United States could prevail in a two-front war—against Russia in the European theater to defend Ukraine and against China in the Pacific theater to defend Taiwan—has suddenly been eclipsed. Read More ›

^{Bruce Chapman
November 1, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

Strange and Maybe Wonderful Case of a New Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

_{Bruce Chapman
November 1, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

It is now newsworthy (in the New York Times) that North Dakotans are in the process of building a $333 million Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. It is a private philanthropic venture not connected to the National Archives collection of presidential libraries that go back to the middle of the last century. Read More ›