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December 2025

Beyond any Turing test
On the organic evolution of language, in-depth podcasts, and the thing humans will overcome nearly any challenge to do
 • Brian Gongol
Mind the stimulus-response gap
On hucksters and their hustles, the "Gutenberg Parenthesis", and one of the best habits to impress on young minds so that they don't become…
 • Brian Gongol
Ukraine holds on
On missile strikes, historic humiliation, and why no wartime leader under barbaric assault should have to beg for help
 • Brian Gongol
Feeding an army (or a navy)
On Napoleon, bread-making machines, and why America needs a big navy and a big transfer of knowledge from the military back to the civilian world
 • Brian Gongol
Built on a creed
On belief in America, where a baby sleeps, and what Ronald Reagan got dead right about immigration
 • Brian Gongol
Hope for a miracle, work on the choices
On gridlock in Washington, Wayne Gretzky, and thoughts on a terrible diagnosis for one of America's deeply thoughtful leaders
 • Brian Gongol
Washington waited 49 years
On the Lincoln Memorial, landslide elections, and the case for waiting until politicians are long dead before naming anything in their honor
 • Brian Gongol
Cutting ties
On seafaring Greeks, extortion rackets, and why the world's shadowy submarines should have our attention
 • Brian Gongol
Good lords and ladies
On Constitutional prohibitions, the assignment of property rights, and the one (and probably only) good thing to be said for a hereditary aristocracy
 • Brian Gongol
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