All these educated takes on AI shall seem absurdly ignorant in a few years.

This is the official account of a U.S. government department.

I don’t think Americans quite grasp how low they’ve sunk.

Knock knock.
— Who’s there?
— Freedom.
— Freedom who?
— Freedom delivered via B-2, please stand clear of the blast radius.

News alerts on my phone on July 23, 2018.

Iran. Libya. Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. Syria. Haiti. Chile. Nicaragua. The Congo.

Name one place where American-backed regime change brought lasting peace. It leaves behind anarchy and a sea of refugees, then complains when they wash ashore.

Genius speaks all tongues and belongs to no flag.

This week on my blog, I wrote about how Nigel Farage’s crude, cut-price populism found its footing in Britain.

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I started a small blog called Wayfarer.

My first post is on the German elections.

With mounting economic and political pressures, Germany is at crossroads. Can save itself and Europe?

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Trump is the best thing that could have happened to Europe. The old world, now no more than a museum, will stir again, will find its way back to life.

I must acknowledge the quiet efficiency of the border agents at Heathrow, who did exactly what their duty required: they respected the documents issued by their country and refrained from the needless, prying questions so common elsewhere.

Cheers for your service.

Bashar al-Assad—a stain on the name we share—has fallen, his reign of terror ending in the rubble it created.

Will Syria reunite as a nation whole and functional, or will its fractured sects turn against each other?

For the first time in years, though, hope stirs — fragile, but alive.