REVIEW: South Africa's Brave New World, by R.W. Johnson
by John Psmith at Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf
Of Interest
November 2026
The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone
by Cosma Rohilla Shalizi at Three-Toed Sloth
Democrats want to lead on AI – but can’t agree how
by Daniel Strauss at Transformer
China’s Economy Has a Huge Weakness
by Michael Schuman at The Atlantic
AI-Generated Articles Are Flooding Academic Journals
by Anna Wexler at The Atlantic
October 2026
Scientists can’t figure out what makes ultraprocessed foods unhealthy
by Lori Youmshajekian at Scientific American
Longevity Research Has a Bullshit Problem
by Saul Justin Newman at Nautilus
How is music possible
by Henrik Karlsson at Escaping Flatland
What If AI Is the End of the World?
by Peter Wehner at The Atlantic
Chinese Robots Could Decide the AI Race
by Scott Singer and Pavlo Zvenyhorodskyi at Foreign Affairs
How to Make an AI Deal With China: Trade Throttling for Pacing
by Simon Goldstein at Lawfare
China’s AI Rollout Has No Off Switch
by Agathe Demarais at Foreign Policy
Are We Really on the Path to AGI?
by Yuval Levin at The New Atlantis
Rationalism and Divergent Sinomodernity
by Farrell Gregory at Palladium Magazine
AI Exports and the Dream of a “Tech West”
by Alexander Rosenquist at American Enterprise Institute - AEI
The Looming Closure of China’s AI Frontier
by Alexander Rosenquist at American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?
by Matthew Green at A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
Who Is Claude Trying to Kid?
by Dariusz Jemielniak at Nautilus
September 2026
Europe Can’t Get Out of Its Own Way
by Andrew McAfee at Foreign Affairs
DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
by Jake Pearson and Chris Alcantara at ProPublica
How Big Tobacco flooded the FDA with public comments to kill a menthol cigarette ban
by Jason McLure at STAT
How Iran Changed War
by Michael C. Horowitz at Foreign Affairs
“Network” at 50: Now We’re All Mad as Hell
by Katherine Alejandra Cross at Liberal Currents