Adam Tooze argues in Foreign Policy that the economic growth infatuation with Asia is more buzz than substance as the world lurches towards 2030. Tooze illuminates the demographic, economic and geographical factors that, in his mind, set up Africa to have an unprecedented impact on the world stage over the coming century – whether we’re ready for it or not.

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.


