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Poland shows how religion can be removed from public life without being banned
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Poland shows how religion can be removed from public life without being banned
August 21, 2026

Administrative secularisation is quiet by design. Its instruments are technical; its consequences are not.

Pentagon drafting new nuclear strategy to expand options for tactical nuclear weapons use
August 20, 2026

The strategy is being overseen by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, who has long called for the US to prepare to fight a “limited nuclear war”

Pentagon drafting new nuclear strategy to expand options for tactical nuclear weapons use
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Today in Dystopia: ‘We have cameras everywhere in that town’
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Today in Dystopia: ‘We have cameras everywhere in that town’
August 20, 2026

All these wrongful arrests based on faulty Flock camera evidence is another illustration of the way people are making themselves dumber by outsourcing their thinking to machines.

This mighty scourge of war
August 19, 2026

Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, often described as a prose-poem for its surprising brevity and deep meaning, is the most moving work of political discourse I’ve ever read. In that short speech, Lincoln captured the horrific nature of war and the terrible burdens of an American history built literally on the backs of slaves.

This mighty scourge of war
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Estonia rejects majority of Swedish prisoners
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Estonia rejects majority of Swedish prisoners
August 19, 2026

More than half of the prisoners that were to be transferred to Estonia as prisons are overcrowded in Sweden have been rejected over alleged gang links and concerns about radicalization.

How Anthropic became the AI industry’s black sheep
August 18, 2026

The company has refused to embrace openness and competition.

How Anthropic became the AI industry’s black sheep
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Elon Musk’s fortune comes from not paying taxes
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Elon Musk’s fortune comes from not paying taxes
August 18, 2026

Trillionaires are creatures of the tax code. If they paid taxes like working people, we wouldn’t have any.

Trump shouldn’t make another Iran mistake in Cuba
August 17, 2026

There is little upside and much downside in a gamble on regime-change in Havana.

Trump shouldn’t make another Iran mistake in Cuba
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