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The AI Race is a Myth: Why "Who's Winning" is the Wrong Question
Who’s winning and losing in AI plays like a wacky race in that every week there seems to be a new leader. But that’s actually the wrong way of thinki…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Strategic Hibernation: A Business Survival Guide for Turbulent Times
“May you live in interesting times,” is supposed to be a Chinese mantra. But according to Cambridge University China expert, Christopher Marquis, our…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Italian Football: The Art of Defense and The Soul of a Nation
Few journalists, certainly non-Italians, know Italian football as intimately as The Athletic’ James Horncastle, co-author of The Soccer 100. For Horn…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
From Feudal Lords to AI Billionaires: Capitalism's Thousand-Year Conquest of the World
Should we be giving thanks today for our capitalist system? Maybe. But we should certainly be thankful for a 1100-page book about the history of capi…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Football's Greatest Player Might Be Its Most Boring: The Problem (Yawn) of Lionel Messi
In The Soccer 100, the Athletic’s list of the greatest footballers in history, Lionel Messi is ranked number one. Perhaps. But he might also be its m…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Maradona, Pele or Messi: Who is the Greatest Footballer of All Times?
Maradona, Pele or Messi? It’s the eternal debate. Who is the greatest footballer of all time? According to The Soccer 100, The Athletic’s new book ra…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
All Sparta, No Athens: The Decline and Fall of Empires
Whither America? It’s the question that the Swedish writer Johan Norberg examines in both a recent Washington Post op-ed as well as his new book, Pea…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Where Does Abundance Come From? How to Reinvent a Fairer Future in our AI Age
I’ve spent this week in Washington DC where most people seem suspicious and sometimes even downright hostile about the future. Especially the suppose…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Zakaria Paradox: Fareed Zakaria on the Triumph of Reactionary Politics in Our Revolutionary Post-Industrial Age
Call it the Zakaria paradox. We live in revolutionary times, the CNN host and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria explains, and yet it’s the rea…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
How American Eugenics Fueled Nazi Euthanasia: Psychiatry's Forgotten Complicity in the Holocaust
Did American eugenics really fuel the murderous euthanasia programs of the Nazis? Yes, according to Susanne Paola Antonetta, author of The Devil’s Ca…
10 months, 3 weeks ago