On the front page of today’s New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/technology/ai-elections-democracy.html?searchResultPosition=1 It can no longer be denied or ignored–Artificial Intelligence, whether used by China and Russia or domestic players, is having a negative impact on the very concept of democracy. The Big Tech billionaires rushing to create ever more powerful AI tools are doing it for […]…
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The Evidence Mounts: China’s Xi Jinping is turning himself into another strongman
The fact that President Xi Jinping is establishing rigorous centralized control over so many different aspects of Chinese life and politics, as per this latest article in the New York Times, is very significant. This is a return to the sort of China that most Americans have never witnessed and can scarcely understand. I caught the tail-end […]…
The Travesty of Steve Rattner Writing For The New York Times
If you ever wonder why Americans are so profoundly uninformed about what needs to be done to fix our economy, thank The New York Times and Steve Rattner for book reviews such as this one today. Rattner was an investment banker until he got caught in a pay-to-play scheme with New York state pension funds […]…
The New York Times And Its Weird Take on Japan
Here they go again! The New York Times, for years, has persisted in putting trivialized pieces like this one on their front page. I recall one about farmers in a remote area who couldn’t find wives and I recall another about the high-pitched sing-songy voices of elevator women in Japan, who greet riders when they […]…
