A project of the Open Society Foundations, The Ideas Letter is an online magazine and newsletter that delivers diverse political and cultural perspectives.| www.theideasletter.org
Quinn Slobodian, whose new book—Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right—is being debated far and wide, has penned for The Ideas Letter a magisterial romp…| www.theideasletter.org
China’s independent media has been largely dismantled under President Xi Jinping, but grassroots bloggers, exiled journalists, and small online communities continue to carve out fragile spaces for free expression. Despite…| www.theideasletter.org
Weatherby argues that the current discourse around AI, especially the buzz around “artificial general intelligence,” is a distraction from its actual impact: the expansion of bureaucracy through massive data systems…| www.theideasletter.org