
When I was a kid in Boonville, N.C., I’d occasionally hear a grownup say, “He ain’t got a lick of sense,” meaning someone had just done something really stupid. I’d also hear, “That old boy’s too smart for his own good,” meaning someone with an overabundance of brains unchecked by common sense can bring himself
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington in 1963 sounds innocent enough. Indeed, it sounds so uncontroversial that many conservatives and conservative groups are fond of quoting it as a gotcha against the farthest fringes of recent woke race theory. “I have a dream that my four
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In a recent article for Plough, Paul Kingsnorth posed the following question: “How long will it be, after all, before AI manipulation means that we cannot trust anything we read, see, or hear online? Months? A year?” Already, AI can generate text, audio, and video that can only barely be distinguished from human-produced content. “Deep fakes” abound.
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Elon Musk, a vocal champion of large families, is now in a custody battle with the most recent mother of his children. Musk is no stranger to such battles. He is estranged from his transgender-identified son who publicly calls him a “pathetic man-child.” He fought a years-long custody battle with one of his wives, the mother of
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A number of media outlets are gleefully running headlines about a “civil war” within the conservative movement in America. While the term “civil war” is a little overblown, it’s true that fissures and fractures are appearing on the right, with prominent conservative voices – many of whom were formerly allied – turning on and denouncing
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