Kissinger, Gewen writes, acquired his “dim view of humanity” while growing up in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s and ’30s, when its democratic institutions were being overtaken by Nazism. In 1938, ...

When Satoshi Nakamoto wrote and released the first code that began the Bitcoin experiment, it was an inherently optimistic act in response to the economic and monetary turbulence referenced in the ...

The word “inevitable” offends our moral sensibilities. It feels like surrender, like an abdication of agency, like a shrug in the face of forces that ought to be resisted. It sounds cold, technocratic ...

Some people call it “Murphy’s Law.” Personally, I’ve come to know this phenomenon as the “Law of Perverse Inevitability.” Bear with me as I explain. If you’ve studied “Chaos Theory” you may know that ...

An Episcopal priest who writes for the NY Times Op-Ed page (5/2/22) conveys a message that entirely resonates for me. In our current “crisis of loneliness,” exacerbated by the long pandemic, she ...

Bitcoin has risen from the dead so many times, it makes Lazarus look lazy. Yet its doubters persist: “Bitcoin is a bubble,” they say; a “risky speculation with little chance of ever becoming an ...

“Hope we’re not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable.” — Elon Musk Note that Musk does not say “inevitable” but rather ...

Joe Biden isn’t running for president. Yet. But it’s already becoming clear what sort of campaign he will run when he officially enters the race sometime next month: One based on the idea of his ...

While many accept that the process of hyperbitcoinization is a given, we shouldn’t be so ready to revel in our victory. Bitcoiners are optimists. When Satoshi Nakamoto wrote and released the first ...