In Law & Liberty, John O. McGinnis finds two causes behind the increasing polarization of western society. First is the rise of identity politics and the related need to label everything as either friend or foe. The second, perhaps surprisingly, is that our era of relative prosperity has made such activity possible. “Voters can indulge extreme beliefs because society and the world have been so relatively stable,” he writes.
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.
