Institutions & trust
The Flat Earth Is a Trust Problem, Not a Science Problem
Scientists keep answering flat-earthers with evidence. The evidence is right. It is not what is missing.
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Current events. Enduring questions. Independent arguments, with room to think.
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Work & economy
What The Economist Gets Wrong About AI and Jobs
The jobs come back in the totals. They do not come back to the people who lost them.
Europe & global affairs
Can Europe’s Social Model Save Itself?
Most of Europe’s pension and care systems have no working way to correct course in time. Some built one and switched it off. One kept it.
Work & economy
The Posting Has Outgrown the Job
Every hire fills a hole. The posting has stopped describing it.
Work & economy
The Hiring Blind Spot
The more exactly a company describes the person it wants, the less it can tell whether it got one. The only part of hiring that still knows was never written down.
Technology & society
Trust in AI Is Checked Now, Not Assumed
Users, labs, and lawmakers each have to check whether the others can be trusted. Anthropic’s new usage policy shows all three doing it at once.
Institutions & trust
Data Centers Have Exposed Big Tech’s Trust Deficit
Americans used the products for twenty years without trusting the companies. A data center is the first thing they could vote on.
Technology & society
You Are Not the User
What AI does when someone else is using it on you
Institutions & trust
The Durable Organization
Why strong is not the same as lasting
Institutions & trust
Wrong Date, Wrong Institution, Wrong Scale
Three careful answers about AI, and where each was aimed
Culture & ideas
The Truth Will Set You Free
AI and the Promise Over the University Door
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