Tag: Opinion
-
Has public opinion turned against Taylor Swift?
[ad_1] Swift is at the top of her game critically and commercially, but is she now more corporation than artist? ADVERTISEMENT It’s been a busy week for the world’s biggest popstar. At the Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift became the first artist to win the Album of the Year award four times when she won for…
-
Opinion | Biden Took New Hampshire for ‘Granite’
[ad_1] Joe Biden is running as if he were unopposed for the Democratic presidential nomination, but he may face a comeuppance in New Hampshire. In the name of “diversity,” the Democratic National Committee demoted the Granite State from its traditional status as the first-in-the-nation primary in favor of South Carolina, where Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign…
-
Opinion | SBF Faces Prison, but ‘Effective Altruism’ Lives On
[ad_1] Proponents of the movement funded the Biden administration’s executive order hindering AI development. [ad_2] Source link
-
Opinion | Davos Devotees Deindustrialize Europe
[ad_1] Political, business and security leaders gather in Davos next week under the mantra of “rebuilding trust.” Key topics include security cooperation, artificial intelligence, energy security and job growth “for a New Era.” Undoubtedly there will also be calls to phase out fossil fuels and aspirations for a hydrogen-based green economy. Amid this grand planning…
-
OpenAI’s GPT store launch is bigger than you think
[ad_1] Like with Apple in the last tech generation, it’s OpenAI’s race to lose. OpenAI’s GPT Store is going to be bigger for entrepreneurs than Apple’s App Store. I was an early developer on eBay’s platform, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook—you name it. Being an expert at building sustainable businesses on volatile, emerging developer platforms is…
-
Opinion | Give Yahya Sinwar the Eichmann Treatment
[ad_1] Two top Palestinian commanders—Hezbollah’s Wissam Hassan Al-Tawil and Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri—were both killed over the past two weeks in suspected Israeli airstrikes. Hamas’s figurehead and the suspected mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, Yahya Sinwar, is still at large, but it’s fair to assume he is high on Israel’s list of targets. After the…
-
Opinion | The President’s Men Don’t Go AWOL
[ad_1] Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s disappearance story will strike anyone who has served in a senior administration role as bizarre. When you are entrusted with high-level public responsibilities, the expectation is that you are always available. Top officials like Mr. Austin occupy what is known as the PAS level—presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed. PAS officials don’t…
-
Opinion | For Country and for Yale
[ad_1] James Freeman is assistant editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and author of the weekday Best of the Web column. He is the co-author of “Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts and Bailouts at Citi,” recognized as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Financial Times Business Book of the…
-
Opinion | Alan Sokal’s Joke Is on Us as Postmodernism Comes to Science
[ad_1] When I taught physics at Yale in the 1980s and ’90s, my colleagues and I took pride in our position on “science hill,” looking down on the humanities scholars in the intellectual valleys below as they were inundated in postmodernism and deconstructionism. This same attitude motivated the mathematician Alan Sokal to publish his famous…