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Artificial Intelligence Coming for Your Job? It May Be Coming for Your Way of Life.
The coming (and coming soon) future of AI is as a tool.
 • Jim Freeman
The 250th Anniversary of “A Republic, Madam, If You Can Keep It.”
Those were the words of Benjamin Franklin, in answer to a lady’s query of “What kind of government have you given us, Mr.
 • Jim Freeman
Peter Thiel’s Annual Dialog Retreat, Where the Elite Meet to Eat, and Decide Our Fate
This year it will be held in Ireland, somewhere near Dublin, where early foxhunting horns are not the only call to the chase.
 • Jim Freeman
Are Democrats Going to Change with the Nation, or Simply Become Irrelevant?
Anyone who doesn’t understand that the Chuck Schumer days of Democratic leadership (if it can even be called that) are over, simply hasn’t been paying…
 • Jim Freeman

June 2026

The Billionaire Class Has Shit-the-Bed, and All Humanity Must Sleep in It
Part One, of many parts to come
 • Jim Freeman
‘You Can’t Make Billions Without Hurting People’: So Says Cory Doctorow, on Elon Musk, the AI Bubble and Bosses’ Cruel Fantasies
My immediate reaction to that headline by Zoe Williams, in my June 24th edition of the Guardian UK, was to wonder if it was an admission of defeat or a…
 • Jim Freeman
It’s Not Great to Criticize the Dead, but Dying Doesn’t Get You off the Hook
Alan Greenspan, Fed Chairman Through Prosperity and Crisis, Dies at 100
 • Jim Freeman
Another International Conference That Doesn’t Give a Shit
Written from the perspective of America, where the U.S.
 • Jim Freeman
The Doomsday Book, a Plea for Rationality in an Irrational America
It’s quite likely that you don’t know what that is.
 • Jim Freeman
Trump May Be the Public Face, but It’s the Supreme Court That Is Destroying America
The two, obviously, are not disconnected, as our president stacked the court in its current 6-3 conservative majority.
 • Jim Freeman
The Thirst for Surges on Wall Street Never Subsides Until the Tsunami Comes In
And so it is with hope in the place of reflection.
 • Jim Freeman
If you read nothing else from me today, please read https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/12/trump-ufc-fighting-cage
 • Jim Freeman
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