Sohrab Ahmari

Spectacular events — such as this weekend's attempted assassination of President Trump and his Cabinet in Washington — can tempt us into thinking

Marjorie Taylor Greene gives Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) the ick. Asked by a student at a recent event about progressives collaborating with the Right, AOC said she was happy to work with Rep.

The scenes were chaotic, verging on slapstick. Was this real life — or another episode of The Thick of It ? As camera crews and presenters jostled

Britain is embarrassing itself

News flash, courtesy of The Daily Wire: the US Civil Rights movement strategically planned many of its most famous protests, including Rosa Parks’s defiant refusal to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. As part of a broader reassessment of the movement, Matt Walsh, the Wire’s self-described “theocratic fascist”, presented this well-known [...]Read More...

In November 2014, several hundred protesters marched through London's West End before gathering in front of the old US embassy on Grosvenor Square.

A two-millennia-old institution with one foot in the Roman Empire challenges Silicon Valley's masters of AI and automation to do better.

A two-millennia-old institution with one foot in the Roman Empire challenges Silicon Valley’s masters of AI and automation to do better. That’s the generic read on Pope Leo XIV’s debut encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, dramatized by photos from the Vatican of the pontiff shaking hands with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah. And that’s true enough: “artificial intelligence” is right there in the encyclical’s subtitle, and many of its 245 paragraphs are devoted to the topic.

President Trump jokingly posts a doctored photo of himself leading an alien in chains out of Area 51, while, on a more serious register, his

Donald Trump has grown distant from his Vice President, JD Vance, compelling the latter to abandon a 2028 bid. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has advised Vance to quit beefing online. The GOP’s hawkish, pro-Israel wing doesn’t trust him and, increasingly, neither do the more populist, anti-intervention wing and its podcast tribunes. Polymarket [...]Read More...