When the Central Bank Goes Political
The case before the Supreme Court about Federal Reserve board appointments is not abstract. The evidence on what happens when ...
Tag: THE ARGUMENT
AI’s Power Bill
The capability story has been told without its electricity story. The second is the constraint that decides what is buildable.
Capability Was Never the Bottleneck
The 2026 AI Index reports a sharp gain in agent capability. The deployment data tells a different and more important ...
On reading the Lancet Commission’s ’45 per cent’ figure correctly
The 2024 Lancet Commission on dementia prevention is substantive and important. The public life of its headline number — that ...
The case against treating AI infrastructure as a technology decision
The roughly seven hundred billion dollars of annual capital expenditure committed for 2026 by five firms is discussed as a ...
The case against reading benchmark scores as capability
Frontier language models have risen very rapidly on most published benchmarks. It does not follow that capability has risen at ...
Reasoning Is Not Intelligence
The new generation of AI models produces longer inference chains. That this constitutes reasoning in any philosophically meaningful sense is ...
What a government owes a festival — and what it does not
The Home Office withdrew Ye’s travel authorisation and an entire festival collapsed behind it. The ban was defensible. The wreckage ...
Prices Are Not Forecasts
Prediction markets have become a preferred interface between political uncertainty and public belief. The case is that the prices being ...
Loneliness Is Not a Wellness Problem
The health consequences of social isolation have been quantified with precision. The policy response has treated it as a personal ...
The attention economy’s biological cost. This is what distraction is actually doing.
The conversation about smartphones and social media has been conducted almost entirely in the language of psychology and productivity. The ...
Prediction markets know things first. That is the question Congress is avoiding.
The Polymarket investigation frames the issue as one of insider trading. The more fundamental question is epistemological: what does it ...
The first human de-ageing trial is running. Nobody is asking the right questions.
Life Biosciences received FDA approval in January 2026 for the first Phase 1 human trial of partial epigenetic reprogramming. The ...
AI is eliminating professions. The economics coverage is missing the real cost.
The analysis of AI-driven job displacement focuses almost exclusively on income. Work in advanced economies is not primarily an income ...
The Louvre has nine million visitors a year. That is the problem.
A high-profile theft, a parliamentary inquiry, and a decade-long fraud scheme revealed an institution in distress. The coverage treated it ...
Your data from 2025 will be readable in 2035. That is not a metaphor.
The quantum threat to encryption is routinely described as a future problem. The most consequential attack vector is already operational. ...
Ageing is not damage. It is a conversation that stops.
For three decades, longevity science pursued molecular defects. The emerging systems biology consensus holds a different premise: the body does ...
