Democracy & Strength

Trust-fund kids are in the news.

A short note on the glaring contradiction in the first sentence of Anthropic’s evaluators announcement.

Was it misalignment?

This tweet thread about leaving Anthropic has gone viral. In brief, the poster, Jacob Coxon, left because he saw the extreme recklessness of 1) believing that AI can (or will) destroy humanity and 2) building it anyway.

Nan Ransohoff argues that we’re at the dawn of the third wave of American philanthropy.

For me, as for many in my generation, the Iraq War was a defining political event. I was 19 and in my second year of college when the Bush Administration began to press its case, and the first political event I ever attended was an anti-Iraq War rally in downtown Chicago. Those of us opposed to the war saw in those…

How does a nation endure?

On July 4, I wrote about Ezra Klein’s conversation with Bryan Stevenson, and what it means to love America despite its faults.

Graham Platner is once again the political story of the week, this time for defeat rather than victory.

Happy Fourth of July.

The most unexpectedly fascinating class I took in law school was Federal Courts: when federal courts have jurisdiction, and which federal courts have jurisdiction. It didn’t leap off the page of the course catalogue; it looked like the kind of dry class you slog through because studying the law is unfortunately often…