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Kevin Rudd reads Xi's ideological writing in the original Mandarin, a rarer qualification than it sounds. Klein makes him explain what Xi believes, not merely what he does.

The oil price is the number everyone watches and the least of it. Tanker insurance, rerouting and refinery runs are where a blockade does its real damage.

Set aside whether the models are any good. The case here is that as engineering, the buildout is grotesquely wasteful — a trillion dollars spent like nobody is counting.

Weizenbaum built a crude script in 1966, then watched people ask for privacy so they could talk to it alone. Sixty years of chatbot behavior turn out to be a footnote to that.

At six you drew constantly without once asking whether you were good at it. Kantrowitz studies why that stops, and the exercises here are aimed squarely at getting it back.