A Conversation with Dr. Xi As many of you know, I usually write a newsletter only once a month. This is an exception. My last one, distributed on January 20 and titled “AI, Musk, and Oligarchy,” was an imagined conversation with Thomas Paine. It generated a slurry of positive responses. With that as a model, […]
A conversation with Thomas Payne Thus began an essay that inspired American farmers and fishermen to fight the world’s largest and best-trained army. Their goal was to gain independence from the British oligarchy (the king and the East India Company). Thomas Paine’s words were both fiery and rational. His Common Sense and The American Crisis were read aloud in […]