According to a new political science article highlighted in the Guardian, "Misinformation and radical-Right populism must henceforth be understood as inextricable". Apparently, everyone else always only tells the truth.
AI is a demonic force, promising power and dominion while lying to us and leading us astray, says James Alexander. It's a serpent, Babel and Antichrist all rolled into one, beyond our understanding and control.
"King's was not queer, completely, and Cambridge elsewhere was certainly not as queer as King's." Prof James Alexander reviews Simon Goldhill's Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History.
James Alexander reflects on celebrity bloodlines through the unlikely union of Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell, whose surrogate-born child links the legacies of Oliver Twist and Caligula!
Can the death spiral of the United Kingdom be reversed? If it can then Jon Moynihan is the man with the plan, says Prof James Alexander as he reviews Volume II of Return to Growth: How to Fix the UK Economy.
How are we going to get rid of racism when we have expects and intellectuals paid to find us guilty of racism at all costs? The answer is never, says Prof James Alexander.
Veni, vidi, vici, said Caesar: "I came, I saw, I conquered." Well, Trump, of his first week, could well say: "I spoke, I signed, I listened." Read Prof James Alexander's review of the opening days of Trump's second term.
Why was Keir Starmer's recent speech on AI written like a Mr Men book? Prof James Alexander wonders if the Prime Minister knows what he's talking about. Is AI really "the ultimate force for national renewal"?
Have you heard of the "Habermas Machine"? It's a Google AI tool that reaches compromise between contending arguments. But what's the point if it doesn't actually make people agree, asks Prof James Alexander.
Is democracy dying? That's what everyone is saying. Killed by populism, apparently. Prof James Alexander suspects the educated classes may not know what they're talking about.
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