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Higher Education Must Overcome Comforting Delusions
It is comforting to suppose that the resentment and anger we provoke arise from misunderstandings on the part of others.
September 14, 2026
In 2018, the House went Democratic and the Senate remained Republican – both, as expected. Now, the presidential cycle begins. Hoover senior fellows and Stanford political scientists David Brady and Douglas Rivers, conductors of a recount poll on political trends, discuss what 2018 told us about American politics, the health of the Trump presidency, and what to look for in the new year.
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It is comforting to suppose that the resentment and anger we provoke arise from misunderstandings on the part of others.
September 14, 2026
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Amidst rogue AI swarms, autonomous math breakthroughs, and proclamations of extinction risk from inside the labs, society is waking up. And this is why I don’t buy claims of imminent extinction.
September 14, 2026
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It’s not just the next 9/11, enabled by AI, that is coming. It’s the next global financial crisis. It’s the next pandemic. It might even be the next world war. What, if anything, can we do about it?
September 13, 2026