‘Climate denial’ shouldn’t be illegal
You can tell the environmentalists are on the back foot. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is issuing doomsday proclamations in parliament, branding…
No, Rachel Reeves: Britain doesn’t look ‘open for business’
Rachel Reeves wants Britain to become a shareholder democracy. In her annual Mansion House speech to the City’s bankers, accountants…
Prizes, bets and venture capital: how Democrats plan to win
“The old ways of doing business just aren’t cutting it” for the Democratic Party, the New York Times wrote. Democrats…
Rachel Reeves’s mortgage reforms reek of desperation
Just how desperate is Rachel Reeves to achieve her elusive economic growth? Desperate enough, it seems, to risk a rush…
The MoD Afghan leak is a national embarrassment
Some days the British state really does embarrass itself. It can now be revealed that a Ministry of Defence data…
Is there anything worse than being an American ‘soccer’ fan?
New York People are too into politics. I used to be called gay for liking politics in middle school. They…
What happens when AI surpasses humans?
I recently sat down to dinner with some very smart economists. I am the chief executive of an artificial intelligence…
The race to superintelligence
This summer, two of the leading contenders in the great AI race have suddenly, alarmingly, declared that the endgame is…
Should AI have rights?
Mary Shelley was challenged by Lord Byron to write a ghost story during a summer of “incessant rainfall” on Lake…
How we lost the ability to think
I’m sitting in a meditation class at a yoga studio in Chicago, neon lights pulsing pink and purple while the…
In the age of AI, humans must keep learning
This year, colleges stopped teaching students to write. As artificial intelligence chatbots allow students to generate unique essays that can’t…
How should AI be regulated?
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly sophisticated, the time has come for humanity to choose. Should the nations of the world…
The 2020s are too far-fetched for fiction
I write thrillers for a living. All kinds of thrillers. At one point I was in the business of penning…
The internet is dying and so are we
Sometime in the mid-2010s, a conspiracy theory called the “dead internet theory” started circulating on the darker parts of the…
What’s the matter with Chicago?
As the song goes: “Chicago, that toddlin’ town.” It was certainly toddlin’ in the 1950s and 1960s, when that song…
James Cleverly’s case against the revolutionary right
There is a revolutionary air on the right at present. Whether it is Kemi Badenoch’s call to ‘rewire the state’…
Where is Jared Kushner?
Where is Jared Kushner? In the first Trump term, as senior advisor to the President, he was everywhere and into…
The mullahs mean their threats
I write at the very beginning of July. Where I live in Connecticut, people are unpacking flags and bunting in…
Could Xi Jinping’s time be up?
Stories about Xi Jinping’s father, Xi Zhongxun, are blowing up on social media. He died in 2002, so why the…
How progressivism killed American Protestantism
Mainline Protestantism, once a primary cultural and political pillar of American life, is in freefall. Traditional Protestant denominations – Episcopalians,…
Will we stop Saudi Arabia developing a nuclear weapon?
Though clearly resolved to declare victory over Iran’s nuclear program and move on, Donald Trump has been beset this summer…
Who replaces the ayatollahs if the Iranian regime falls?
The masked gunmen of Jaish al-Adl are probably not the kind of people Donald Trump had in mind when he…
Why President Trump can’t stop talking to reporters
The best time to call is the weekend. Or early in the morning. Or late at night. Definitely not when…
The lessons of Ron Paul
As Elon Musk feuds with Donald Trump and looks to launch a political party of his own – the America…
