Conservative Conversation + Podcasts

Aaron Miller

| September 27, 2018

5 COMMENTS

In 2009, Microsoft brought the game show format online through Xbox Live. Every owner of an Xbox 360 video game console had a cartoonish avatar to represent the player in a variety of virtual interactions. In the trivia game show 1 vs 100, these avatars could fill a virtual crowd of a hundred players competing […]

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By Susan McDaniel

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Susan McDaniel

For the better part of 30 years I was a Caretaker for my parents. For the last 13 years I took care of Mom 24/7. During that time, I wrote 2 blogs; Voice of a Patriot and The Determined Christian. Both blogs were removed from the internet last year. I am focused on writing cultural commentaries to provoke thought that may lead to positive action on the part of the reader. I write from a Christian/Conservative point of view, and look forward to productive conversation about many subjects. Find me… [more]

| September 17, 2018

27 COMMENTS

The last couple of months have been full of learning experiences and tests. The most recent test has to do with technology, and I am failing. After almost 10 years of using Windows Vista on a wonderful computer, my system crashed; dead as a doornail. So, after my initial meltdown I went on the journey […]

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By Aaron Miller

Aaron Miller

| September 12, 2018

24 COMMENTS

Arthur C Clarke famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Likewise, any sufficiently advanced automation will be mistaken for life. Recently, I watched Netflix’s Altered Carbon series, based on the science fiction novel by Richard K Morgan. The core premise is that the essence of humanity is intelligence or consciousness alone. Therefore, […]

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City Journal's 10 Blocks

Zero Hour for Gen X

August 22, 2018

With guests Matthew Hennessey & Paul Beston

Matthew Hennessey joins City Journal managing editor Paul Beston to discuss Matthew’s new book, Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials.

More than a decade after the introduction of social media, it’s evident that Silicon Valley’s youth-obsessed culture has more drawbacks—from violations of privacy to deteriorating attention spans—than many of us first realized. For many millennials, though, who grew up with the Internet, there’s nothing to worry about. And to hear the media tell it, this tech-savvy generation, the largest in American history, is poised to take leadership from the retiring baby boomers.

By DrewCline

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DrewCline

On Twitter: @Drewhampshire. President, Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, Concord, N.H. Former editorial page editor, NH Union Leader. Independent writer. Alternative music radio host & podcaster (Suburban Underground, on iTunes, Stitcher, GooglePlay, etc.). Free market guy. Tar Heel. Camera enthusiast. Would rather be in the mountains right now.

| April 22, 2018

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I wrote this column about Paul Ryan’s retirement for USA Today, and C-SPAN was nice enough to have me on this morning to talk about it. An excerpt: More

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The Libertarian

The Economics of Amazon

April 19, 2018

Hosted by Richard Epstein, Troy Senik

Richard Epstein parses President Trump’s economic criticisms of Amazon — and examines a Supreme Court case that will determine how online retailers pay taxes.

By MichaelHenry

MichaelHenry

Michael Henry, B.A. Tulane, LLD UVA Law, recovering LA lawyer and politician, MS investment advisor and novelist/writer.

| April 6, 2018

7 COMMENTS

The speed at which information is available is difficult to comprehend. Like magic, an e-mail, text, or breaking news appears on our devices in a second or two.

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore noted in 1965 that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits doubled each year. “Moore’s Law” has since been broadened beyond semiconductors to encompass accelerating breakthroughs in digital electronics, memory capacity, sensors, A.I., and other technological fields.

By Midget Faded Rattlesnake

Midget Faded Rattlesnake

Bio: Other rattlesnakes make fun of the Midget Faded Rattlesnake because even though it's a rattlesnake, it's both midget and faded (how embarrassing). Mainly it puts up with this, because it's fairly even-tempered (for a rattlesnake), though it's surprisingly venomous for such an unprepossessing creature. The Midget Faded Rattlesnake hibernates from time to time, but is usually back within a few months. The M: The M stands for “Moderator”. For more info on what Moderators o… [more]

| January 15, 2018

65 COMMENTS

Dear eater, are your mushrooms dysfunctional? Do they just lie there on your plate, limply, underperforming? Then we have great news for you! Functional mushrooms are just one of Whole Food’s food trends for 2018. Yes, now your mushrooms can function again!

Well, not your mushrooms. Not the dull, familiar mushrooms you’re used to eating. They’re just edible, not functional – these days, merely functioning as food simply isn’t functioning hard enough. No, we mean mushrooms with names like “reishi, chaga, cordyceps, and lion’s mane”. Which are not a kind of massage, disease, surgical implement, or feline fringe, respectively, though we understand the confusion. Whole Foods explains,

By ViktorVaughn

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ViktorVaughn

| January 2, 2018

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I was going to title this “2017 Was a Miserable Year”, but it really wasn’t. So many good things happened. However, there just seemed to be a lot of depressed people last year. Obviously, most of this happened on Social Media. In real life, I’ve noticed that simply being positive in as many interactions as […]

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By Midget Faded Rattlesnake

Midget Faded Rattlesnake

| December 15, 2017

36 COMMENTS

The 2017 winner of the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been announced. From a tightly-packed field burgeoning with upthrusting contenders, Christopher Bollen finally plunged into the lead with a memorable billiard-rack scene from his novel The Destroyers. It’s magnificently ghastly. In other literary news, the good folks at Botnik have used a predictive […]

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The Libertarian

Privacy Rights in the Digital Age

December 14, 2017

Hosted by Richard Epstein, Troy Senik

Richard Epstein examines Carpenter v. United States, a Supreme Court case testing the limits of the government’s ability to engage in digital surveillance, and explains the ideal balance between liberty and security.

By Aaron Miller

Aaron Miller

| October 1, 2017

17 COMMENTS

A house-size island in swampland apparently only costs about $8000. Slightly more technical than the paperclip, this dam-tubing is a great example of rudimentary innovation. More

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Book Review: Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy

By Seawriter

Seawriter

Seawriter is a former Shuttle software engineer who successfully made the transition to the oil and gas industry as a technical writer after the end of the Shuttle program. It is not the first career

| September 25, 2017

6 COMMENTS

Today’s economy is complex with many moving parts. Most participants in the world economy are unaware of the parts. Not just unaware of their importance; often people are unaware they exist.

Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford examines some of the most important factors in today’s global economy. Fifty Things contains 50 five-page essays about items Harford feels are most indispensable to the modern economy. Some are ancient. The plow permitted civilization to develop. Some, like the iPhone, are from the 21st century.

By John Walker

John Walker

John Walker is a member of Ricochet.

| September 9, 2017

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Alex Pournelle reports that his father, Jerry Pournelle, has died. Jerry Pournelle (to whose name we can now, sadly, append [1933–2017]) was a technologist, author of science fiction and fact, political operative, computer and technology journalist, and one of those people who more than deserved Robert Heinlein’s designation as a “fair witness”.

Jerry Pournelle played a key part in developing the strategy which became President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative. He opposed both Gulf Wars, arguing that the money spent on them could be better spent on developing energy independence, including deployment of solar power satellites.

AEI Podcast Channel

‘New Skills Marketplace’ — Introducing a new podcast from Andy Smarick and John Bailey

September 7, 2017

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Welcome to the New Skills Marketplace podcast on the AEI Podcast Channel. Hosts Andy Smarick and John Bailey will be exploring new and innovative approaches to education, human-capital development, and preparation for the workforce in a world where technology and globalization have changed the nature of work.

Each Tuesday, starting September 19, they’ll interview some of the most innovative and prominent thinkers and practitioners across the landscape of education and workforce development, including leaders in American secondary and postsecondary education, philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, the research and policy communities, and more.

Area 45

A View from across the Aisle

August 23, 2017

Hosted by Bill Whalen

Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat from Silicon Valley and vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, discusses the feasibility of re-creating the technology economy in other parts of the United States. Is there room for working with the Trump administration, or are his fellow Democrats preoccupied by Russia and impeachment talk?

By GrannyDude