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Book review: The Best American Short Stories 2024, ed. by Lauren Groff

posted: December 13, 2025

tl;dr: Lauren Groff well-deservedly becomes the first guest editor of the O. Henry and BASS series...

AI slop: a failure to count

posted: November 30, 2025

tl;dr: Grok wasn’t able to count the number of items in a list produced by Grok...

Book review: The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust, by Francis S. Collins

posted: November 29, 2025

tl;dr: Francis Collins’s naïveté and gullibility permeate this exceedingly pedantic tome...

Book review: Social Justice Fallacies, by Thomas Sowell

posted: November 27, 2025

tl;dr: A condensed summary of the mistakes that social justice crusaders make in their arguments...

Book review: PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order, by Robert W. Malone and Jill G. Malone

posted: November 23, 2025

tl;dr: Propaganda and censorship work, which is why our politicians spend so much time on them...

Baseball’s ruined, here’s how to save it

posted: November 2, 2025

tl;dr: A pragmatic approach for avoiding the 2027 MLB lockout...

Book review: The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners, ed. by Amor Towles

posted: October 26, 2025

tl;dr: An above-average collection whose overall narrative arc I was unable to detect...

Book review: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz

posted: September 21, 2025

tl;dr: A portrait of the artist as a young man wildly out of sync with his culture and heritage...

Book review: The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson

posted: September 6, 2025

tl;dr: A fictional account of life in North Korea that seems all too true...

Book review: The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI, by Ray Kurzweil

posted: July 5, 2025

tl;dr: An AI virus risk worth taking?...