Poland has more to lose from this than Hungary does, but it’s happy to let Hungary feel the heat for impeding Ukraine’s plans, unless Orban is ousted next spring and Poland is then compelled to replace its role. The EU is making a renewed push to speedily grant Ukraine…
Research indicates that we can reasonably distinguish between the “Extreme Male Brain” and the “Extreme Female Brain.” The former is interested in logic and systematizing to the neglect of emotion and how people feel. The latter is focused on the emotions of others, on empathy, and on ensuring everyone…
Even the big banks that welcomed the revolution are finding that the cost of managing security could rise out of control and exceed the labor cost of the analogue system. Wells Fargo warns: “In today’s digital world scammers are using advanced tools like AI to make impersonation scams harder…
The American think tank, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, has published an article that offers the most realistic assessment of the causes of the war in Ukraine I’ve seen since its escalation in the West in 2022. Because the author understood the causes of the war, he was able…
Revolutions are funny things. They start out almost imperceptible. The final straw itself may be as inconsequential as a single voice in the crowd whose words unleash a tidal wave that sweeps aside the seemingly intractable old order forever. Even as the cracks in the Eastern Bloc began to…
The Jeffrey Epstein headache just won’t go away. For years there has been a lot of consternation about the refusal of federal agencies such as the CIA and FBI to disclose what they know about Jeffrey Epstein (as well as about the assassination of JFK, the 9/11 terrorist attacks,…
There are four dynamics that define the entire socio-economic-cultural-political system. To answer the question, is the Everything/AI bubble the last one, we need to start with an even larger question: has the current system reached its limits? If so, reforms–regardless of their nature–won’t save it.The context here is the way that socio-economic-cultural-political…
For the first time ever, President Trump on Thursday gathered the five presidents of Central Asia in Washington, DC. This unprecedented gathering continues a string of bold diplomatic accomplishments that he and his team have achieved in less than a year since recapturing the presidency. Trump is not stopping with…
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes has triggered a week-long meltdown of Jews and their conservative defenders. There doesn’t seem to be any end in sight, either. The hysteria is very similar to Trump Derangement Syndrome, except that the sufferers more often have kippahs than quiffs of blue hair.
The author is an optimist. I’m not. At some point, the S&P will end its upward trend, but job openings will continue to fall. AI isn’t like tractors replacing farmers—an irrelevant analogy. Tractors weren’t anti-human, and their manufacturers weren’t crazed disruptors trying to destroy the world. Arch-technocrat Marc Andreessen predicted…
