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Wednesday, June 04, 2025

AI and National Defense

 "Artificial intelligence is no longer merely a commercial or academic pursuit. It is now a matter of national survival, and a decisive factor in the geopolitical competition of this century."

- Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska in The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

On My List

 


"In clearing so large a place for himself, he left a vacuum no one since has been able to fill. This is the absence so many feel today - adversaries and apostates as well as advocates and admirers. A founder of our world, he speaks to us from a different one, beyond our reach but hovering near, if only we can discover in ourselves the imagination and generosity, the kindness and warmth, that Bill Buckley demonstrated time and again in his long and singular life."

- Sam Tanenhaus

Tuesday, June 03, 2025

The Coming European Wars

The Free Press: "How the Muslim Brotherhood Is Capturing Europe" by Simone Rodan-Benzaquen.

A classified report from the French Ministry of Interior reveals the plan.


Let's Have Beautiful and Practical

 From a letter that John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail on May 12, 1780:

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Painting and Poetry Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.

Ah, if only the world were so nice!

The fact is, as the people of Ukraine and Israel can tell us, the world is not that nice. There are barbarians out there who would like nothing more than to take over a nation of artists.

I have no doubt that John Adams knew that. He was a very intelligent leader of a successful and bloody revolution.

The secret then and now, of course, is not to avoid dreams, but to know when you are dreaming.

Monday, June 02, 2025

For Clarification



We are at a point where we do not need daily news as much as daily dictionaries.

As noted in "The Great Clarification."


[Photo by Jake Blucker at Unsplash]

A Glass of Wine

"If we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.... If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it!"

- Richard Feynman

Segovia Story

 Michael Chapdelaine's account of the Andres Segovia incident.

Sunday, June 01, 2025

Find Something Beautiful Today


 

[Photo by Arthur Yeti at Unsplash]