Commentary in 2020: Rob Long on Dolly Parton, a marvelous person.
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Modern Times
Ordinary authoritarians are content to forbid people to say things they believe to be true. Totalitarians want to force people to say things they believe to be false.
- Robert P. George
First Paragraph
Her name is Ana Alvarado, and she's having a bad day. She spent all week preparing for a job interview, the first one in months to reach the videoconference stage, but the recruiter's face barely appeared on-screen before he told her that the company has decided to hire someone else. So she sits in front of her computer, wearing her good suit for nothing. She makes a half-hearted attempt to send queries to some other companies and immediately receives automated rejections. After an hour of this, Ana decides she needs some diversion: she opens a Next Dimension window to play her current favorite game, Age of Iridium.
- From "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" - a short story in Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Monday, August 24, 2026
Learning How to Learn
My upcoming Substack essay will be on Learning How to Learn.
It will be posted today.
Bear with me.
Sunday, August 23, 2026
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