Mamdani’s story reminds me a lot of this:

Here’s what I don’t understand about use of AI in the liberal arts - I do understand that it can create term papers. Essays etc. But I don’t know what I think until I write it down. I learned to how think by learning how to write. That’s a lot of what college was for me.

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Honoring 250 years of the U.S. Marine Corps: Join us at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery as we honor the legacy and brotherhood of the Marines who fought the battle of the Belleau Wood. ⤵️ For the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps, ABMC will highlight Marines honored at

We've had a lot of current events episodes on School of War in recent weeks. Here's a shift in gear for today: an introduction to Sun Tzu. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-…

And Aaron MacLean talks to Annie Jacobsen about nuclear war. open.spotify.com/episode/2uO1QF…

how full of wisdom was the past; how fully aware of the sacred in small things; how deep the dedication to enshrine these sacred things in ritual so meticulously. very moving, this.

The weaker Iran is, the better the chances for a new, peaceful Middle East shaped by US allies and partners: Israel, Saudi-Arabia and Turkey.

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

Coming later this year in School of War miniseries form!

Donald Trump is many things. “Restrainer” isn’t one of them. In his presidency the US is like TR who, his daughter said, wanted to be “the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the child at every christening.” wsj.com/opinion/trump-…

My speech in the House of Lords yesterday on the transferral of the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/c5… #Chagos #DiegoGarcia

A pleasure to join and talk shop with Aaron MacLean.

BREAKING: A source inside the White House says that NORAD has confirmed that the unidentified object passing by the moon is indeed a spacecraft NOT FROM THIS PLANET.

Great episode about an American hero.

Asia-watchers--watch this space. I've long argued that the issues surrounding China's desire to contest/control the Dalai Lama's succession are among the most significant potential drivers of tension between India and China along the border. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Correct; for all the reasons I set out in my book 'The Storm of War'

The more I use ChatGPT the more I think it just can't be good that a lot of people are getting accustomed to having conversations in which they're endlessly congratulated on their great questions and repetitively told how brilliantly insightful and clever they are

Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. We have a great view above the clouds, so