China, notes Daniel Green in The Mercury, “fields the largest navy in the world and the largest missile force on the planet.” It’s also “the world’s fastest growing nuclear power.” What to do? Certainly not the rhetorically impressive but empty “integrated deterrence” of the Joe Biden Administration. Securing peace, urges Green, requires preparing across the board for conflict: increasing the size of the armed forces, building far more missiles and ships, and reindustrializing North America.
Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.
