Author of novel Community Day and newsletter Governing Right. Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute. Contributor, The Dispatch. Views my own.
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Get my new novel COMMUNITY DAY now. The tragic comedy about our time. amazon.com/Community-Day-AND…
I'm a Notre Dame fan, but I gotta give BYU credit. That defense is quick, tough, relentless. Allows no separation outside. Gang tackles. Impressive.
It is not elitist or swampy to want very sharp, highly experienced individuals with good judgment to hold high government positions. Patriotism and civic virtue includes recognizing the importance of public roles and the required attributes of those who hold them.
What should conservatives think of capital punishment? governingright.substack.com/…
We're accepting applications for the next cohort of the American Conservatism and Governing Fellowship. If you want to study and discuss the principles that inform governing decisions, apply now. job-boards.greenhouse.io/man…
It is remarkable how many IHE leaders say they want political diversity among faculty and then explicitly state that they won't hire for political diversity. insidehighered.com/news/facu…
Periodic reminder that I never use AI for anything related to my writing. Not for brainstorming, drafting, editing. Nothing. That goes for my fiction and nonfiction. AI use is corrosive to an active mind. The more writers who commit to never using it, the better.
My views of capital punishment...in light of the Catholic Church's shift. governingright.substack.com/… cc: @thedispatch
"Virtually none of the seminal texts of conservatism spend much time at all on the death penalty—most don’t even mention it." governingright.substack.com/…
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Tonight we write to share good news: Dilan has been found!
My latest, on how the ed reform movement went far left and lost lots of allies. How can it reengage the many expats? "Does Education Reform Have Regrets?" governingright.substack.com/…
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A decade (!) ago, I enthusiastically stayed up to post poll results on here at midnight.
I am no longer that person, and am unreliable past 10. 😐
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Just the occasional reminder that before long we are going to regret allowing students to offload their schoolwork to AI and that, until we wise up, we're setting up a generation of students to be unable to brainstorm, reason, write, or edit for themselves.
My heavens. Remarkable hubris to believe other people ought to accept dangers caused by the things you're doing.
“We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”
In a conversation for the first edition of Decoded, a new daily newsletter and podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked with POLITICO’s @BrendanBordelon about trade-offs, AI safety, and how his company is different from Anthropic.
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