In November, I posted one of the short essays I wrote last February in application to a program at the University of Austin. Now I post my other short essay. I did not save the exact wording of the question, but the question was a variant of the famous question posed by Peter Thiel at […]
In February, I applied to–and in March was rejected by–a program at the University of Austin. A question on the application was, Limit: 250 words. In your opinion, what is the most significant issue in the United States (or, if an international applicant, your home country) today? Why? The question is worth pondering by every […]
Don’t believe mainstream news sources. They are liars. Follow @CarolineGlick for truth and reason in Israel. Listen to her 18-minute report and analysis posted on Saturday. To understand the ideas involved, see my 2014 post, Hamas is the Realization of the Leftist Ideal. The difference now is that we are weaker, and our enemies are […]
For arguing that the 2020 presidential election (as well as the 2022 election) was stolen, were these blog posts of mine criminal? Fight for Election Integrity The 2020 Election and the Burden of Proof Fight for Election Integrity, Continued State Legislatures Should End Statewide Presidential Elections America Has the Most Virtuous Right and Most Evil […]
In my previous post, my dialogue with the language model Claude–created by the company Anthropic–revealed that political bias comes not only from being explicitly left-leaning, but more subtly and perhaps more importantly from being more committed to compromise than to principles. Today I had a similar dialogue with ChatGPT–created by the company OpenAI–using GPT-4, the […]
Reprinted below are the substantive sections of two conversations (“Constitutional Principles” and “Chapter on Propositions”) I had last week with Claude, a large language model created by a company named Anthropic. Time Magazine on July 18 published an informative article entitled “What to Know About Claude 2, Anthropic’s Rival to ChatGPT.” As the two dialogues below demonstrate, […]
The following post is by Charlotte Cushman.I agree with it.–Ron Pisaturo Yaron Brook, chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute, could not be more wrong in his podcast of June 28, 2023, in which he blasts conservatives for boycotting Bud Light. Brook states (23:45), This boycott by conservatives, right, I mean the passion, […]
James Ellias asked me excellent questions in a recent series of interviews about my book, A Validation of Knowledge. James has published the first two episodes: Discussing “A Validation of Knowledge” With Ron Pisaturo: Part 1: on Hierarchy (1:04:16) Discussing “A Validation of Knowledge” With Ron Pisaturo: Part 2: on Hierarchy (1:50:39) The remaining episodes are even […]
In 2019, Encounter Books published America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It, a landmark book by C. Bradley Thompson. (See my brief review.) Now Prof. Thompson has launched his own imprint, Loco-Foco Press, with the publication of his beautiful short book, What America Is. This new book consists of […]
This post consists of a section I omitted from yesterday’s essay because I did not want to bury the good under a pile of evil. If you, dear reader, are not fully convinced of the evil of the LGBTQ movement, or if someone you care about is not fully convinced, then this post is for […]