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Why nations win or lose the technological race
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The editor of Commentary magazine and the film critic for The Weekly Standard, John Podhoretz served as a speechwriter in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. He is the author of Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies.

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Why nations win or lose the technological race
September 3, 2026
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His republic had flaws—but citizens could reach toward that “more perfect union.”
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Hoover Institution fellow Sean Westwood sounds the alarm after an AI bot he programmed was able to fool online surveys into thinking it was a human respondent. Westwood says or 75 years, the problem with polls was that they sometimes got human opinion wrong. The problem now is that they may not involve humans at all.
September 3, 2026