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Computer, do a breakthrough. No mistakes.
11+ hour, 19+ min ago (724+ words) Welcome to The Weekly Scroll! The Weekly Scroll is a once-a-week roundup of the funniest, most interesting, and strangest stories from around the social internet. The internet is not just a strange, hyperselected web of people hiding from reality; in…...
Bernie’s bad bet on OpenAI
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (1734+ words) Right now, the financial future of American labs like OpenAI and Anthropic is built upon their ability to charge a premium for their services. Elected officials like Sen. Bernie Sanders are also counting on the dominance of these Big Tech…...
Will you still have a job in 2030?
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1031+ words) When I quit my job at The Atlantic to start The Argument, I used AI every day to help me figure out how to build a new company. I had no idea how people raised money or what kinds of…...
The Odyssey proves the online right isn't conservative
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (537+ words) The Argument The Odyssey proves the online right isn't conservative The anti-woke warriors came for The Odyssey (and failed) Some spoilers below, we have marked the one paragraph with a major spoiler for the end for those who would like…...
John Thomason joins The Argument as senior editor
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (270+ words) The Argument John Thomason joins The Argument as senior editor Welcoming the newest member of The Argument's growing editorial team. The best opinion journalism doesn’t just sling takes. It requires editors who know how to turn a promising argument into…...
The left’s climate denial problem
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (1171+ words) The Argument is thrilled to announce that John Thomason is joining our growing editorial team as our senior editor. Join us. We’re Libbing Out. Climate policy is trade-offs all the way down. That’s because we’re trying to balance the harms…...
You can't diversify the finish line
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (221+ words) My grandmother — whose family fled Austria in 1939, when she was three — grew up in New York City. When she was in middle school, she passed the extremely selective test to attend Bronx Science, one of New York City’s specialized public…...
A specter is haunting North America
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (1558+ words) Welcome to The Closing Argument, our verdict on the news, plus everything The Argument published and appeared in this week. In the summer of 1816, it snowed in New England. Across the Atlantic, Europeans still reeling from the end of the…...
Shakespeare saw Andrew Tate coming
1+ week, 1+ day ago (573+ words) “You don’t ask a fish how to fish; you ask a fisherman,” is the manosphere’s most important sales pitch. These men have built their careers on the idea that women are unreliable sources of information about their own desires. The…...
Does the oligarchy exist?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (680+ words) The notion that there is a handful of wealthy, powerful people who are secretly pulling the strings is seductive. It appeals to people’s sense that extreme inequality is unjust, while also offering a simpler explanation for political failure than one…...