Small Precautions
Nils GilmanSeeing the future through the past, and vice versa
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The Algorithmic Voting Purge
The American democratic experiment is currently undergoing a stress test conducted through the dry whir of data processing rather than the sturm und drang of protest. As of mid-February 2026, the Republican strategy for the 2028 election ha...
Thinking Responsibly about AI
I had a great conversation with the delightful Alex Alben on the Resposible AI podcast, which dropped yesterday. In a wide-ranging conversation, I tried to advance a pragmatic, historically grounded approach to AI governance, technological...
An Intertextual Dating App
Back in college, when I still imagined I might try my hand at fiction, I had this idea to develop a new genre in which characters from different classic novels would go out on terrible dates — a sort of polymorphically perverse postmodern f...
Reading Notes for a Visit to Japan
A friend of mine who is about to visit Japan recently asked me what sorts of things I would recommend to understand Japan’s process of modernization. (He was reacting to a line from my modernization theory book about Japan, and noting that...
The Executive Fetish
In the hallowed, if increasingly cramped, quarters of Ivy League intellectual life, few pastimes are as cherished as the hunt for the “American Caesar.” The latest entry in this genre, a provocative essay in the New York Times by Yale Law S...
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