ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Penalties need to be broader and stronger to help Ukraine push back Putin’s invasion. Two years ago, in response to Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, the International Working Group on Russian Sanctions was formed. I serve as coordinator of this group, which last week published its nineteenth working paper, Action Plan 3.0: Strengthening Sanctions against the Russian Federation. …
Right-wing senators collaborating with the German Nazi. Watch the Video
The debate on Cold War II is heating up. On Tuesday I chaired a fascinating symposium on “Cold Wars” — plural — at the Hoover Institution in California. We gathered together, in person or over Zoom, a pretty good proportion of the leading historians in the field. After a day of debate, three different schools of thought had …
OpenAI and Microsoft are apparently planning to build a $100 billion data center codenamed Stargate. We discuss how this compares to existing data centers and other planned investments into AI centric infrastructure. They don’t seem to have enough time to design special purpose networking and other hardware, but it is a massive investment compared to …
The normalization of antisemitic terror we have witnessed among protestors since the October 7 attacks on Israel is a portentous landmark on the West’s road to civilizational degeneration. Every dimension of our socio-political order––all three branches of the federal government, and many blue-state governments; popular entertainment and high-brow culture; mainline churches; corporate boards and C-suites; …
1. Tax On a workaday Oslo street, I take the lift to the top of an office block, where splendid views of the city, its hills and its water open out in every direction. On this crisp day, we can pick out the Edvard Munch museum, the odd island and the ferry to Denmark. This …
Great background info as a prelude to using AI. Watch the Video
That postmodernism is indefinable is a truism. However, it can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning. The term “postmodernism” first entered …
A presentation of Hayek’s “The Use of Knowledge in Society” in video format. Watch the Video
Vladimir Putin happened to turn 71 last October 7, the day Hamas assaulted Israel. The Russian president took the rampage as a birthday present; it shifted the context around his aggression in Ukraine. Perhaps to show his appreciation, he had his Foreign Ministry invite high-ranking Hamas representatives to Moscow in late October, highlighting an alignment …