Today’s revelation that Mike Flynn resigned from his post as National Security Advisor is another strong sign that the struggle between Truth and Politics is not a foregone conclusion. Indeed, we ought to actually celebrate the fact that when Flynn lied about...
In 2013, Bannon is reported to have told Ron Radosh of the Daily Beast that he was a Leninist. He is quoted as saying “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring...
Having recently attended a workshop and conference on beneficial artificial intelligence (AI), one of the overriding concerns is how to design beneficial AI. Â To do this, the AI needs to be aligned...
This is the nerd equivalent of a dad joke. A pair of posts today from political scientists I admire prompts me to postpone my musings on the Hunger Games and to talk about how to get to graduate...
Yes, it's soon to be back. Now if you've read A Clash of Kings, you might rightly wonder who the "priest" is in this allegory, since while Season 2 will feature kings and rich men the only important religious figure is actually a woman. But if you're read A Clash of Kings closely and obsessively you know that the narration by Varys in the trailer is only passingly related to setting up Season 2 itself, and is instead a more generic tale about political power that serves as part of the dialogue (and not a particularly important part at that)in a particular scene on p. 50. “In a room sit three...
Because I shouldn't assume that all of our readers also read The Monkey Cage, I note the debate between, on the one hand, Raymond "Bud" Duvall and Alex Wendt, and, on the other hand, Henry Farrell, about Bud and Alex's Political Theory article, "Sovereignty and the UFO." Round I: Henry engages (with special guest appearance from PTJ).Round Ia: Henry taunts?Round II: Bud and Alex respond.That's all, for now.