In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT with two goals: to better understand how AI “reasons” and to use its capacity to better understand how we humans reason. There’s a big difference, which ...

Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror. Both ...

In the wake of a broader insurgency movement, the militant group Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has intensified its attacks against Pakistan’s government and security forces. On March 11, BLA ...

Our global society is going through a difficult period that is producing a lot of anxiety, alienation and anger. What underlies these negative feelings is a social transition known as an inflection ...

[This is a response to the piece “On Women’s New ‘Right’ to Have ‘Sex Like Men, ” which Rahul Sur published in Fair Observer on December 17, 2023.] After more than half a century of the sexual ...

What is behind US President Donald Trump’s bromance with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Is it essentially personal? Is there a strategy involved? Is it ideological? Is it the first step within a ...

In Part 1, we began a discussion of the arguments developed by economist Jeffrey Sachs concerning the historical causes and geopolitical lessons to be drawn from the war in Ukraine. Sachs, like many ...

Your pushback is exactly why AI—if it is to be useful for dialogue—must be careful not to adopt establishment framings as default truths. My initial response showed a bias toward prevailing Western ...