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Season 2 of Why Postliberalism Failed is finally here: youtu.be/C5RKTnm_9qo?fe…

This piece is my first pass at the ideas in my next book, which will develop a 21st-century form of fusionism (conservative liberalism).

NEW: "The rise of AI, and its energy demands, highlights a truth that only becomes more obvious by the day: the net-zero coalition never had solutions to the end of fossil fuels." My latest for The Daily Economy (American Institute for Economic Research). Link below. CC Jerry Bowyer Sam Raus Scott Lincicome

Official results are in - Gemini achieved gold-medal level in the International Mathematical Olympiad! 🏆 An advanced version was able to solve 5 out of 6 problems. Incredible progress - huge congrats to Thang Luong and the team! deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

It wasn't just OpenAI. Google also used a general purpose model to solve the very hard math problems of the International Math Olympiad in plain language. Last year they used specialized tool use Increasing evidence of the ability of LLMs to generalize to novel problem solving

Google also won gold.

213000 hours saved. Maybe the returns for those very familiar with AI are small, but the gains to the unfamiliar appear to be massive. Also: Claude is awesome. Thank you Anthropic!

📢I'm pleased to announce the 1st American Finance Association Junior Faculty Mentoring Program (JFMP) event, which I'm co-organizing w/ Veronika Pool (Vanderbilt University). The JFMP is hosting a day-long mentoring workshop at the '26 AFA meetings in Philadelphia. 1/3

Ohio’s voucher system will let you send your kids to the school you choose. EdChoice is funded, operational & available for Ohio parents. The three-year-old lawsuit has not stopped anything. Carrfully consider: what’s in the best interest of your child? daytondailynews.com/local/edchoice…

For what it is worth, few industry leaders, less than a half-dozen companies & no policy-making bodies are taking actions that suggest that they expect AGI is really a few years away. This may be because they don’t believe it or they think it won’t matter much in the medium term

i wake up. something’s wrong with the clock on the wall. the numbers are jumbled. my hands aren’t right. i tell my wife. she responds: “that’s not just an observation—it’s a powerful insight.” i scream.

Moving reflections. I have to admit that AI will come for some aspects of analytic philosophy soon.

The spirit that Michael Novak describes in The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism is already alive in #Africa, even if unnamed. We see individuals acting by way of initiative, risk-taking, and moral conviction, yet doing so in systems that do not adequately reward or protect

Neat example of AI in the humanities. A Google model trained on Latin text fills in lost parts of Latin inscriptions & identifies related texts Historians increased their accuracy by 44% when working with the AI (Though AI alone beats historians, historian + AI was usually best)

The White House AI Action Plan gets it right on infrastructure, federal adoption, and safety coordination. It reflects many policy aims core to Anthropic.

Our Aeneas AI model gives historians valuable new insights into ancient inscriptions & ancient history that may have taken years to uncover otherwise. Published in nature today: deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

One of the basic mistakes socialists make is claiming that markets aren’t efficient or rational but assuming that states are—even though state actors are as fallible as market actors and have weaker incentives to make good decisions

In the year of our Lord 2025, I cannot fathom how any Christian can boast in their denominations. It happens enough among Christians to make me think that the problem is me. But it always seems full of the strife and rivalry that the Gospels everywhere condemn.

Congratulations to Ismail!

Few things in history have ever been as confirmed as my upcoming stay