Agent of Chaos could be ripped from contemporary headlines as it explores the very real potential consequences of AI integrated into weapons technology. Due to my own philosophical assumptions, most of the concerns in our current moment over AGI/Skynet seem goofy and unrealistic to me, and so certain plot elements in this book didn’t connect…
Over 40 years, George Gilder has published deep and insightful writing on many topics: technological futurism, supply side economics, the nation and culture of Israel, the philosophy of money. What’s more, these works have staying power: one of his earliest books, “Men and Marriage,” which explores the cultural impact of the sexual dynamics between the…
This episode is my appearance on the “Reformed Financial Advisor” podcast to discuss the “Saylor Series” and the backstory of how I came to be the editor. I’ve been waiting for months to announce this! I have had the immense privilege of working with well-known podcaster Robert Breedlove (who’s “What Is Money?” show…
If you’re looking to read something that generates powerful feelings of nostalgia and wanderlust, this is the book for you. The story of June and Farrar Burn is incredible. Our culture has changed so much since the 1920s and 30s; no longer could you traipse all over the country with no money, jobs, plans or…
In this episode we’re going to talk about some things that will get you kicked out of polite society. It’s progressive and fashionable these days to talk about the Patriarchy and the oppression of women, their hard-won equality from the shackles of home life, and the immense sexual power than men wield over women in…
Summary: This book does a great job of fulfilling the promise of its subtitle. Until recently, most American’s investment activity involved saving cash and paying into their permanent life insurance policies that promised a guaranteed death benefit passed to their heirs. The concept of retirement is rooted in a social engineering experiment from Europe that…
Cryptocurrency is a complicated subject to grasp well. Currency alone is something everyone understands, but add all the other terms into the mix—cryptography, decentralization, nodes, distributed ledgers, public and private keys, etc—and the average citizen either panics or gets glossy-eyed. Robert Beadles has written a very basic, entry-level overview of what cryptocurrency is, how it…
My guest for episode 12 is Dr. Gordon Wilson, professor of biology at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. In his new book, A Different Shade of Green, he argues that Christians have gotten environmentalism wrong. We’ve tended to fall into a couple extremes–one of supreme indifference as an overreaction to the earth-worshipping activist…
Becket Cook had fully embraced his homosexuality, including the lifestyle and all its trappings. As a successful set designer and supporting actor, he hung around with the Hollywood elite and lived the high life. Until a chance encounter at a coffee shop with a local pastor ended up with him in church, fully convicted of…
