Reading Time 🕘: 19 minutes Artificial Intelligence. That was the topic. I ‘d collected notes and was sitting down to explore them when a decidedly non-artificial intelligence grabbed my attention: It was none other than Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and here’s what he led me to think about: Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. RATIONS… Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 7 minutes We all know how kindly Lenin’s people’s militia turned out to be. And if I might add: Lenin’s kids at least dreamed of the Workers’ Paradise. Ours dream of its perversion: a Non-Workers’ Paradise where the citizen reclines upon a bed of universal income under a cloud of burning cannabis.
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Reading Time 🕘: 20 minutes Traveling across Mesopotamia and the Holy Land a few months back, I took along William Dalrymple’s fine travelogue, From the Holy Mountain. It was meant to be a colorful diversion along the lines of the author’s earlier Middle East offering, In Xanadu, in which he traced the steps of Marco Polo. Xanadu was great fun,… Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 11 minutes The White House had been in the hands of a liberal progressive who infuriated religious conservatives…As the contest intensified, the nation became polarized as it had not been in decades. In the middle of it all, a foreign power staked a claim.
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