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The Electrifying Musk

Peachy Keenan

Other tech billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Bill Gates, and Sergey Brin may be smart and savvy, but none can match Elon’s pure showmanship and wry wit. He is an impresario and a circus ringmaster. Since seizing Twitter, he has scared the circus clowns back into their clown cars and they are hightailing it to the White House to cry at press briefings. 

Still Against the ‘Dead Consensus’

Josh Hammer

A return to the “dead consensus” status quo ante would be a disaster for the American Right and the Republican Party—and for the nation as a whole. Trump’s manifold personal flaws and recent headline-grabbing self-inflicted wounds aside, there is still much to learn from his dominance of the 2016 Republican presidential primary field. 

'THE ROUNDTABLE' EPISODE #149

TAM: The Artificial Mind

The Editors

AI-generated images have taken the internet by storm over the last week. Are AI profile pics the cute veneer over a coming existential threat to human self-worth? Meanwhile, Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk released a Twitter thread with the first fruits of what Taibbi dubbed “The Twitter Files.” The thread confirmed suspicions that Twitter and the government were tightly aligned with one another in censoring inconvenient information. Plus: Warnock defeated Walker in Georgia’s runoff race for a hotly contested Senate seat, giving ultimate control of the Senate to Democrats. Our editors analyze the boring dystopia we find ourselves in.