Trump’s industrial revival collides with demands to restrict AI. Mike examines Fetterman, Anthropic, Effective Altruism, and the battle over America’s economic future.
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland’s first ministers push independence as Labour betrays Brexit. Carney’s Canada–Ukraine 100-year pact, EU associate talk, and rate-hike “noise” target Trump’s midterms.
The ongoing assault on American culture has now reached staggering proportions. In particular, what is spewed forth by Hollywood and the legacy media is degenerate almost beyond belief. The first thing to recognize is that this is a dying oligarchical culture. Its days are numbered, and it can not possibly survive. Secondly, it now lies with us to build something new, something better. To do this, we have a great asset to draw upon.
This Saturday we shall examine the principles and culture which created our Republic, which guided us through most of our history. We shall look at Benjamin Franklin and others — what they did and what they created — to shed light on the approach we need to take today.
Author, historian, political organizer. Published books on American history, Dante, the global drug trade, the Anglo-Dutch Empire and National Banking. Former Editor at Executive Intelligence Review.
Bruce Director digs into your comments from the Aug 29 class: why the British System is inherently entropic, why no equation can predict a creative discovery, and how frontier science backs the American System’s idea of man.
Cable news is arguing eggs, beef, gas, and Iran. Bruce Director spent Saturday night on the real midterm question: American System vs. British System — two flavors of the same entropy, and nine weeks to pick a future.
Chatbots dominate the AI argument. Brian Lantz spent Saturday night on the other kind — robots, machine shops, and factory floors — and why manufacturing, not the data center, is where the country actually gets richer.
Nixon called it “temporary.” 55 years later it’s still policy. Will Wertz reads the paper trail — the secret Kissinger memo, the Volcker Group, Britain’s run on Fort Knox — and the principles of the new Bretton Woods Trump’s Treasury says is underway.