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One thing that characterized the 1950s was its optimism. Despite the era's troubles (and there were many), people believed in the future. Moreover, we live in the glorious future they imagined. AI has the potential to create an even more glorious future, provided we don't let leftists and other naysayers stampede us into a blind panic that gives China a strong advantage.

SOURCES

Disney's "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow." Fair use of a short clip for editorial purposes.

Living Unlimited (1951). Public domain from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

A is for Atom (1953). Public domain.

When AI Agents Started Working Together by Willis Eschenbach.

Although I'm creating this on 9/11, it's not about 9/11. Our volunteer writers have expressed themselves with passion and moral clarity, so I don't feel the need to add anything. Instead, I want to discuss how America is a place in which high school and college students—including those in Red States—feel comfortable celebrating and mocking Charlie Kirk's death.

A young man I know asked a very important question: If we stop people from voting for socialism or Islam, aren't we violating the entire principle of our Constitution, which is representative democracy? I thought about that a bit and have some ideas

One of the most powerful tactics Democrats have in the upcoming Midterm election is their demoralization campaign. By downplaying or ignoring news about Trump's success entirely and by skewing polls (see Patrick Ruffini's essay), they make Republicans, who should be happy warriors, inert blobs. Inert blobs do not vote, which allows angry leftists to win.

To resist this, Republicans must focus on Trump's successes and be there to cheer him on. And one of the main ways you cheer on a politician is to vote for him, for his policies, and for those down-ticket candidates who support those policies. Now is not the time to give up; it's the time to fight harder.

Beginning in the 20th century, and with accelerating ferocity in the 21st, leftists have ensured that America's colleges and universities have entirely abandoned education. Instead, they are dedicated solely to leftist indoctrination, focusing primarily on intersectional victimhood.

This podcast takes you on a quick jaunt through just a few days' worth of reports about the complete collapse of academia in America—and to the extent that your taxpayer dollars are funding this, you and all other taxpayers are the victims of some serious fraud.

These are the articles quoted in the podcast:

The San Francisco Standard: I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can't do middle school math

Mazelit Airaksinen: Palestinian-American Professor calls for "Death to Zionists Everywhere", says they "Worship the Devil"

Joanne Jacobs: Engaging, culturally relevant and useless: Teachers aren't trained to teach writing

Complete Colorado: SCOTUS takes up pre-K religious discrimination case against Colorado

City Journal: Why Is the University of Michigan Hiding Grades?

Campus Reform: Universities threaten students with investigations, disciplinary actions over 'deadnaming'

It's fun to treat Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez as a joke, given that she frequently says exceptionally foolish things. And ridicule is a very powerful weapon. Nevertheless, it would be a terrible mistake to underestimate just what a formidable political presence she is. She'll come into the campaign with good looks, a demographic advantage, a recognizable brand, and a crazy-like-a-fox ability to be politically quite clever no matter how stupid she sounds.

The new law in Massachusetts allowing abortion to birth is a Moloch law, and AOC's decision to freeze her eggs is a weird, creepy, anti-woman way of announcing a run for president, but those topics are so obviously awful that they didn't leave a lot of scope for me.

Instead, I wanted to discuss how an unearthed video of Hasan Piker just a few years ago perfectly illustrates the non-black Muslim disdain for blacks. You don't have to look far for examples, since Muslims ran parts of the African slave trade for 1,200 years, and uncounted millions of Blacks vanished into the Muslim world as slaves.

Germany was unified in 1866, bringing together a hodgepodge of duchies and kingdoms, none of which was very powerful, but all of which shared a sort of Germanic culture.

Kaiser Wilhelm's dreams of an All-Powerful German nation died on the battlefields of WWI, while Hitler's dreams of a racially pure Thousand-Year Reich died on the battlefields of WWII. Germany was broken in half, and that seemed to be the end of its ability to be a problem.

However, Germany was not done making mischief. When it was finally reunified in 1990, it became the most powerful country in the EU and, in 2015, opened the door to mass radical Islamic immigration, destroying Europe and, potentially, the entire West.

If you want to see me get mad, rub my face in the fact that South Carolina has an open primary. Listen to this video to hear why, complete with examples from how the largest circulation paper in the state, the Post and Courier, is trying to game the open primary system.

Also, I offer my personal endorsement (this is NOT an endorsement from American Thinker) to my friend Duke Buckner, someone whom I know personally and respect greatly, whose prescience I admire, and whose pro-American values I strongly support. If you want to learn more about Duke, you can find his campaign website here.

Chick-Lit used to be wholesome and patriotic. A perfect example is a book by D.E. Stevenson, a very popular British mid-century women's writer. Her book, Listening Valley, embodies the patriotism necessary for a country to win wars. We no longer have that patriotism, so it's questionable whether we can still win wars.