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, […]
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 […]
Much has happened in the world since my last blog post on March 12. I have resisted blogging because of other projects. One project has been my study of artificial intelligence. I conjecture that my work in epistemology, as expressed in my book A Validation of Knowledge, will have applications to AI. At the least, […]
How do you defend against a nefarious attacker? You prepare for the threat years in advance, so that you possess overwhelming superiority. Western leaders have blown that opportunity—again. Our side won World War I, and un-won it less than a generation later. We won WWII, and un-won it less than a generation later. We un-won […]
Thankfully, capable intellectuals are fighting back against the neo-Marxist “woke” ideology, which encompasses critical race theory, intersectionality, LGBT ideology, queer theory, gender studies, feminism, postcolonialism, disability studies, fat studies, and social justice. For a partial list of counters to the woke coalition of malcontents, see my recent blog post entitled “Farewell, Cedar City.” With so […]
Expel the state-run university, save your freedom. The video embedded below is an expanded version of a talk I gave on August 5, 2021, bidding farewell to Cedar City, Utah. I left this rural town because critical race theory has thoroughly infected the local state-run university, Southern Utah University. To save the town, local citizens […]
I celebrate Atlas Shrugged Day (September 2) each year by opening to a random page of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, and reading a passage. Here is what I found today, on page 790 of the hardcover book (New York: Random House, 1957), Part III, Chapter II (“The Utopia of Greed”): Of any one person, of any […]
Some readers of this blog may wonder why I have not written recently on politics. Sadly, the disastrous Biden administration is a predictable sequel to the Obama administration, which I blogged about for eight years. Thankfully, I live in relocated to a red dot in a red state, where Biden got less than 20% of […]
The Imaginative Conservative has published an essay of mine entitled “Abolish the Electoral College… or Abolish the Popular Vote?” The essay begins as follows: Instead of the United States abandoning the Electoral College, state legislatures should take us in exactly the opposite direction. From now on, they should abandon a statewide popular vote for president, […]