A man in California allegedly set fire to a warehouse and recorded a video explaining why. His justification wasn’t geopolitical, ideological, or even Continue Reading
Contemporary Affairs
Lost Connection
Last week, millions of Verizon customers found themselves disconnected from service and stuck in SOS mode. Initially, I didn’t think much of it when Continue Reading
The Alibi Factory
The cleverest racket in public life is not corruption. Corruption is almost refreshingly honest. It leaves fingerprints, invoices, cousins on payroll, Continue Reading
Compassion, Now in Luxury Trim
Nothing in America is more profitable than a sacred category with a billing code. Give a scheme the right moral costume and half the country will Continue Reading
Communism With Better Branding
For an ideology that allegedly died in disgrace, communism’s had a fantastic second act. Not a comeback exactly. More like a wardrobe change, a media Continue Reading
Once You Strike the Match, You Don’t Get to Lecture the Fire on Its Manners
There is a comforting lie we tell ourselves about violence: that it can be summoned, directed, and restrained according to our intentions. That we can Continue Reading
BuildNow: Why America’s AI Future Depends on Veterans and the Workforce We Choose to Build
By Mike Sarraille and Kirk Offel As artificial intelligence accelerates global competition, the United States faces a defining question: Can we Continue Reading
The Broken Chair Club
There’s a giant broken chair sitting outside the United Nations in Geneva, and for once public art accidentally told the truth. One leg blown off, Continue Reading
The AI Alibi
There is no technology more perfectly suited to our age than artificial intelligence, because there is no age more desperate to avoid Continue Reading
Drones, Strategy, and the Modern Airpower Revolution
By Darin Gaub The advent and trajectory of drone warfare reflect the evolution of manned aircraft in warfare since World War I. In the early Continue Reading
The Grievance Franchise
America has developed a thriving luxury market in moral melodrama, and its flagship product is the explanation that explains everything while Continue Reading
The Soft Bigotry of No Identification
There are few spectacles in American life more obscene than watching a well-moisturized professional moralist explain that requiring identification to Continue Reading