“There is an old Soviet saying: Russia is a country with a certain future; it is only the past that is unpredictable. In post-Stalinist Russia, the battle over history continues. Vladimir Putin has recently been adopting some of the same tactics as Stalin,” argues Andy Owen for Areo Magazine. Patriotism corrupts history.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe […]

“The more a competition mimics warfare, the more men will attend to cues of one another’s masculinity. Because men use sexual orientation as a rough proxy for one another’s warfare-relevant traits, these homophobic insults may be men’s way of saying, be a better warrior; don’t let the team down,” argues Tania Arline for Areo in

“The selective exercise of compassion is inevitable if we regard society as a zero-sum game between competing interest groups,” argues Julian Adorney for Areo Magazine. As Angel Eduardo writes, the word woke “has lost all useful meaning when it comes to communication between people on opposite sides of the culture war.” We do, however, need…View

“Any regulatory regime that stifles small-scale experimentation with AI is worse than useless. Such experimentation, if done openly and under the aegis of reasonable laws, would allow us to gather valuable information as to how to make safe, sane and virtuous AIs,” argues Toadworrier in this week’s feature. The release of large language models like

“Britain has a longstanding and honourable tradition of diversity. We must tolerate the existence of a wide variety of views, including those characterised by religious bigotry. But we need to stop appeasing extremist groups by treating them as if they were legitimate representatives of British Muslims,” argues Khadija Khan. The violence that unfolded in Leicester