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  • The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West Disliked

    In form and tone it resembles a business class airport book—and this comparison is insulting to the airport paperbacks.

    scholars-stage.org 2025-12-10

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  • Stoner Loved

    Williams sees a soul where others see a stand-in.

    scholars-stage.org 2025-06-20

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  • Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 Recommends

    David Graff's Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 is actually a political-institutional history of China from 200 AD-1000 AD, and is probably the best political narrative history we have for the time period.

    scholars-stage.org 2022-07-01

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  • Early China: A Social and Cultural History Mixed on

    Feng Li's Early China: A Social and Cultural History is a staid yet serviceable overview of the pre-imperial period.

    scholars-stage.org 2022-07-01

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  • The Early Chinese Empires: Han and Qin Recommends

    Mark Edward Lewis' The Early Chinese Empires: Han and Qin is probably the best companion piece to your Sima Qian readings

    scholars-stage.org 2022-07-01

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  • I strongly recommend you all read @ginevlily's essay "Silicon Man." I'v spent the last five minutes attempting different adjectives to describe this essay--and… 4 Sept
  • Sort of thing that Trump should be openly touting. 4 Sept Quoting@cremieuxrecueilFrederick, MD came to an interesting agreement with a data center developer: The developer will renovate an elementary school, build a comm…
  • "people in Washington (and, I would wager, across global capitals) are still not taking AI seriously. In the past two weeks, I’ve had conversations with folks… 3 Sept Quoting@RyanFedasiukI want to go on the record and establish a few things: First, Dean has just unquestionably been a force for good in humanity’s broader proj…
  • A few I might list below. I am intentionally excluding books that would be obvious candidates for something like East Asian Great books (e.g. Dream of the Red… 31 Aug Quoting@millermanWhat are some books that you consider great that are not canonical Great Books?
  • Listen, here is what Trump needs to do. He needs to visit some of the largest proposed data sites. Most of these are in red areas anyway--like the Stratos mega… 31 Aug Quoting@realDailyWireTRUMP: "The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and p…
  • "Science did not respond by banning every word associated with intention. It learned to separate functional explanations from psychological ones." 31 Aug Quoting@eranshir“LLMs are just matrices. Stop anthropomorphizing.” Bacteria are just biochemistry. Yet they cooperate, communicate, build structures and sa…

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  • The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West 10 Dec 2025 Disliked
  • Stoner 20 Jun 2025 Loved
  • The Early Chinese Empires: Han and Qin 1 Jul 2022 Recommends
  • Early China: A Social and Cultural History 1 Jul 2022 Mixed on
  • Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 1 Jul 2022 Recommends