In The Spectator, Travis Aaroe knits together the seemingly isolated instances of bland functionaries suddenly thrusting themselves into politics and quickly being installed to govern a troubled Western country. Aaroe regards this rise of what he terms “liberal Caesars” as globalism’s answer to populist democratic nationalism, a view that clarifies the otherwise inexplicably meteoric political rises of Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Donald Tusk – and Mark Carney.

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.


