Todd Zywicki June 21, 2026 – The takeover of Auburn University is analogous to receivership for a struggling business. Read More
Bankruptcy and Higher Education
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‘The Origins of Efficiency’ Review: Rise of the Machines
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By Mark Mills Oct 21 2025 – AI, similarly, has been available for decades (for specialists and in supercomputers). But now the AI ecosystem, thanks to a similar pattern of ingenious gains, is exhibiting precisely the same efficiency and scaling trajectory as the automobile more than a century ago…….all efficiency gains emerge from changes in five basic features: the inputs, the design of the process or product, the pursuit of reliably repeatable processes, the nature of how people or machines do things, and the role of volume (scale). How these features combine to improve efficiency depends on human ingenuity, imagination, tenacity and that elusive thing called “tacit knowledge” that comes from experience. Read More
America’s Success Against Iran May Prove a Distraction
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By David H. Petraeus April 15, 2026 – War is increasingly defined by unmanned systems, artificial intelligence and mass precision. The Gulf offers useful insights, but Ukraine is the more demanding laboratory. There, the true challenges of unmanned systems at scale and the rapid emergence of autonomous capabilities are already on display….The Ukraine war involves remotely piloted systems, electronic warfare, layered air defenses and relentless adaptation. …This is industrial-scale warfare, in which success depends less on exquisite platforms than on mass, resilience and constant innovation. Read More
Justice Thomas: Progressives vs. the Declaration AA
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By Justice Clarence Thomas- Progressivism was the first mainstream American political movement—…—to openly oppose the principles of the Declaration. Progressives strove to undo the Declaration’s commitment to equality and natural rights, both of which they denied were self-evident….But we were fortunate not to trade our Lockean bounds for the supposedly enlightened world of Hegel, Marx and their followers. Fascism—which, after all, was a national socialism—triggered wars in Europe and Asia that killed tens of millions. The socialism of the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China proceeded to kill more tens of millions of their own people. This is what happens when natural rights give way to the higher good of notions of history, progress, or, as Thomas Sowell has written, the “vision of the anointed.” Read More
There’s a New Way of War, but Is It Evolution or Revolution? AA
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By Yaroslav Trofimov July 7, 2026 – The key feature of the war between Russia and Ukraine, and likely of other major conflicts to come, is that what used to be cutting-edge weapons and technologies becomes outdated within months. “If you have an adaptive adversary, it’s the speed of iteration and the rate of learning that matter, rather than the technology per se,” Mosley added….One example of adaptability is Ukraine’s new procurement system for drones, which account for over 90% of enemy losses, electronic warfare systems and some other key weapons. It is fundamentally different from how Western militaries, with their centralized defense budgets, operate. Read More