Quote of the Day (Peggy Noonan, on the Fallout From the Growth of AI)

“My very human prediction: The spectacular costs associated with AI [i.e., unemployment, shifts in insurance and retirement income] will force a debate on the sharing of its profits. The wealthy and powerful who own the AI companies won’t like that. But those who wished and failed to see the social media companies declared a public utility 10 years ago, and who drew support from the populist left and populist right—they would like that a lot. This will become one of the great political battles of the late 2020s and beyond.”—Former Presidential speechwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Peggy Noonan, “AI Is Here, and a Quiet Havoc Has Begun,” The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 9-10, 2025

Quote of the Day (Matthew Arnold, on the Tone of His Time—and Ours)

“But we, brought forth and rear’d in hours 

Of change, alarm, surprise—

What shelter to grow ripe is ours?

 What leisure to grow wise?”— English poet-critic Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), “Stanzas in Memory of the Author of Obermann” (1852)