If you fear that AI will increasingly do our thinking for us and thereby deprive us of the capacity to reason, analyze, and create, the best thing you can do to forestall that in your own life is to read good books closely, often, and joyfully.

The Ukrainian military—the toughest, most experienced, most adaptable, most successful on the modern battlefield—is beardy old men, women, artists, gamers who can’t deadlift sh*t but can fly a drone into a Russian helicopter rotor Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory

A new article, “Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific,” by @drmagomez.bsky.social (CAG), @ghwinger.bsky.social (University of Cincinnati), and @laurensukin.bsky.social (LSE), is out now. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Journal of Information Technology & Politics is calling for papers for a special issue on “Cyber-Conflict in the Indo-Pacific.” Deadline: 1 August. If you have any questions, reach out to our own @drmagomez.bsky.social‬, who’s co-editing this issue. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

This is my love letter to an America I can no longer visit, an elegy in the form on an essay. So glad the @guardian published it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Hitler’s rise to power shows how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following.