Author: nick
AI may replace narrow technical skills, but the liberal arts equip students with the critical thinking employers increasingly demand. Source link
An unrelenting winter and circumstance dictated a most uncustomary form of interview with Gay Talese: a phone call. Another ice storm in New York kept Talese in his Upper East Side townhouse, where he first occupied a bachelor pad as a New York Times reporter at 26 and then bought the whole property with his wife, Nan, by 1973, when he was a writer – and subject – at Esquire. On a January late afternoon, when the call arrived, Talese was pushing 95, and I was in Pennsylvania, laid up on crutches and recovering from a knee injury. There was…
The American empire appears to be in retreat. Humiliated by Russia in Eastern Europe, outmaneuvered by China in East Asia, and bogged down in a conflict with Iran in the Middle East, the United States has turned its gaze southward. Unable to win the great power competition across Eurasia, the Trump administration has increasingly embarked on the most aggressive militarization of Latin America policy in a generation, seeking victories in what Washington has long considered its backyard. The result has been what observers are calling the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, a framework that envisions the Western Hemisphere as…
Still from The Matrix. Are The Terminator, The Matrix and other such films entertainment, or are they prophecy? With the fast progress of artificial intelligence over the last few years, that’s become a real question of real concern to real people. Out at the edges of the opinion bell curve, we have “doomers” on one end and extreme “optimists” on the other. The former warn us that AI will eventually supersede humankind, quite possibly enslaving, or even exterminating, us because it won’t like us (or maybe just won’t care about us either way) and because it will be able to…
Billionaire climate activist and former presidential candidate Tom Steyer has won a key union endorsement that helps solidify his position as the party’s leading contender for California governor. This follows the dramatic collapse of former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaign and his resignation from Congress Tuesday amid additional allegations of sexual assault. The California Teachers Association, one of the state’s most powerful labor unions, delivered Steyer a major boost Tuesday evening by endorsing him after yanking its support from Swalwell. The CTA joined the Services Employees International Union and top California Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Adam Schiff,…
To advance in competition, Miss North Florida 2025, Kayleigh Bush, was told to sign a contract that forced her to compete against men. She refused. “Miss” America and “Miss” Florida advertise as women-only competitions, which is misleading and may violate FL law. This is wrong! pic.twitter.com/UJoAzyUOl1 — Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) April 10, 2026 The Florida AG sent a letter to the Miss America organization objecting to its policies that appeared to allow contestants who had “fully completed sex reassignment surgery via vaginoplasty (from male to female) with supporting medical documentation and records.” (The Miss America organization claims this…
When global supply chains collapse, the pain is not felt immediately. Tankers that left their destinations before the war with Iran began are still arriving at their destinations, products that were manufactured prior to the war still fill our shelves, and we are still eating food that was produced last year. So even though global supply chains are collapsing all around us, most people don’t feel it yet. But if this war with Iran drags on for months, the pain that we will soon experience will be unbelievable. Anyone that thinks that the global economy can continue to function at…
What is the difference between extraordinarily difficult to see and invisible? The line is a thin one indeed. Source link
A short excerpt from Judge Julia Munley’s long decision last month in Vespico v. Kass-Gerji (M.D. Pa.) (note that the quote from the title and the subtitle is from the court opinion, which in turn cites a transcript of an anti-stalking order hearing): Each June, the Miss Pennsylvania competition is held in York at the Appell Center for the Performing Arts. The winner goes on to represent the Commonwealth in the Miss America pageant. Leading up to the 2024 competition, what may have started as a backstage rivalry escalated into something uglier. According to Defendant Robyn Kass-Gerji, it was the…
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said that he approved attack plans for Iran and Lebanon. The statement was made in the middle of a two-week ceasefire. On Wednesday, Zamir said he “approved plans for the continuation [of the war] – both in Lebanon and in Iran.” Israel, the US, and Iran are currently in an uneasy truce as Washington and Tehran attempt to broker a deal to end the conflict. The ceasefire, which came into effect last week, was intended to cover all warring parties in the Middle East, including Lebanon. However, after agreeing to the truce, Washington and…