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From the Archives: Gothic Revival Architecture Is Like Dreadlocks • You can try embedding ideology into a style but if people like the look, the meaning will get diluted over time.
From the Archives: Gothic Revival Architecture Is Like Dreadlocks
You can try embedding ideology into a style but if people like the look, the meaning will get diluted over time.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
From the Archives: Gothic Revival Architecture Is Like Dreadlocks • You can try embedding ideology into a style but if people like the look, the meaning will get diluted over time.
Why the Anti-Promethean Backlash? • Jason Crawford asked me a tough question. Could this chart hold an answer?
Why the Anti-Promethean Backlash?
Jason Crawford asked me a tough question. Could this chart hold an answer?
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November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Why the Anti-Promethean Backlash? • Jason Crawford asked me a tough question. Could this chart hold an answer?
From the Archives: Joel Mokyr on the Industrial Enlightenment • The great economic historian Joel Mokyr has won the Nobel Prize. Here I reprint a column on his book The Gifts of Athena.
From the Archives: Joel Mokyr on the Industrial Enlightenment
The great economic historian Joel Mokyr has won the Nobel Prize. Here I reprint a column on his book The Gifts of Athena.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
From the Archives: Joel Mokyr on the Industrial Enlightenment • The great economic historian Joel Mokyr has won the Nobel Prize. Here I reprint a column on his book The Gifts of Athena.
From the Archives: How Job-Killing Technologies Liberated Women • Progress is more than space adventures.
From the Archives: How Job-Killing Technologies Liberated Women
Progress is more than space adventures.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
From the Archives: How Job-Killing Technologies Liberated Women • Progress is more than space adventures.
What Brings You to DC? • Varieties of abundance, reading Middlemarch, too many mosquitoes
What Brings You to DC?
Varieties of abundance, reading Middlemarch, too many mosquitoes
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
What Brings You to DC? • Varieties of abundance, reading Middlemarch, too many mosquitoes
AI Slop and Human Play • Computers can win at chess and Go, but how about a rap battle?
AI Slop and Human Play
Computers can win at chess and Go, but how about a rap battle?
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
AI Slop and Human Play • Computers can win at chess and Go, but how about a rap battle?
From the Archives: The Faux Populism of Trumpified Architecture • What looks “civic” depends on experience, not architectural theory. In Los Angeles, where I live, traditional civic buildings are not classical.
From the Archives: The Faux Populism of Trumpified Architecture
What looks “civic” depends on experience, not architectural theory. In Los Angeles, where I live, traditional civic buildings are not classical.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
From the Archives: The Faux Populism of Trumpified Architecture • What looks “civic” depends on experience, not architectural theory. In Los Angeles, where I live, traditional civic buildings are not classical.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation • Reading good books and an occasional lousy one. Plus lots of podcasts.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Reading good books and an occasional lousy one. Plus lots of podcasts.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
How I Spent My Summer Vacation • Reading good books and an occasional lousy one. Plus lots of podcasts.
Wanted: Manly Jobs for Manly Men • Or at least for manly men who don't have their acts together.
Wanted: Manly Jobs for Manly Men
Or at least for manly men who don't have their acts together.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Wanted: Manly Jobs for Manly Men • Or at least for manly men who don't have their acts together.
Reposting: Waiting for Trump Fever to Break • With hopes for progress and abundance after Trump.
Reposting: Waiting for Trump Fever to Break
With hopes for progress and abundance after Trump.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Reposting: Waiting for Trump Fever to Break • With hopes for progress and abundance after Trump.
Waiting for the Fever to Break • With hopes for progress and abundance after Trump.
Waiting for the Fever to Break
With hopes for progress and abundance after Trump.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Waiting for the Fever to Break • With hopes for progress and abundance after Trump.
Next Zoom Meeting for Paid Subscribers • We'll fool around with AI on Monday.
Next Zoom Meeting for Paid Subscribers
We'll fool around with AI on Monday.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Next Zoom Meeting for Paid Subscribers • We'll fool around with AI on Monday.
More AI Testing • An equine analysis and a laborious quotation search
More AI Testing
An equine analysis and a laborious quotation search
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
More AI Testing • An equine analysis and a laborious quotation search
Experimenting with ChatGPT • Still not a replacement for what I do but a potential time saver and getting better fast.
Experimenting with ChatGPT
Still not a replacement for what I do but a potential time saver and getting better fast.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Experimenting with ChatGPT • Still not a replacement for what I do but a potential time saver and getting better fast.
Managing Generosity Takes Work • And mysterious Google algorithms don't help.
Managing Generosity Takes Work
And mysterious Google algorithms don't help.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Managing Generosity Takes Work • And mysterious Google algorithms don't help.
California Has Its Own Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • And one of them is FIRE. Updates and a guest post from Reason Foundation president and SoCal native David Nott
California Has Its Own Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
And one of them is FIRE. Updates and a guest post from Reason Foundation president and SoCal native David Nott
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
California Has Its Own Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • And one of them is FIRE. Updates and a guest post from Reason Foundation president and SoCal native David Nott
Reflections on Burning Cities • I'm safe in Orange County, waiting to see what happens in the next couple of days.
Reflections on Burning Cities
I'm safe in Orange County, waiting to see what happens in the next couple of days.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Reflections on Burning Cities • I'm safe in Orange County, waiting to see what happens in the next couple of days.
From the Archives: You Can’t Fight California Fires With Political Hot Air • Why we have those fires and how to think about preventing them. And, yes, I'm safe.
From the Archives: You Can’t Fight California Fires With Political Hot Air
Why we have those fires and how to think about preventing them. And, yes, I'm safe.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
From the Archives: You Can’t Fight California Fires With Political Hot Air • Why we have those fires and how to think about preventing them. And, yes, I'm safe.
If You Aren't Reading These, It's Easy to Unsubscribe • Cleaning up your in box is a good New Year's activity.
If You Aren't Reading These, It's Easy to Unsubscribe
Cleaning up your in box is a good New Year's activity.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
If You Aren't Reading These, It's Easy to Unsubscribe • Cleaning up your in box is a good New Year's activity.
Recommended Links and Call for Questions • Jonah Goldberg talks to me on his podcast. Plus features for paid subscribers.
Recommended Links and Call for Questions
Jonah Goldberg talks to me on his podcast. Plus features for paid subscribers.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Recommended Links and Call for Questions • Jonah Goldberg talks to me on his podcast. Plus features for paid subscribers.
America's Religious Exceptionalism • A Christmas mediation from a Jew by choice
America's Religious Exceptionalism
A Christmas mediation from a Jew by choice
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November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
America's Religious Exceptionalism • A Christmas mediation from a Jew by choice