Holman Jenkins

2 days ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

Worry less about a robot takeover, more about improving lousy decision-making. Artificial-intelligence agents will need robots before they can do away with humans. This strikes me as the weak reed of many doom scenarios. Still Donald Trump might want to rest up. He could face big decisions before his term is ended. That’s the advice coming from a large cross-section of Silicon Valley, lately expressed in a tick-tock of AI doom by Daniel Kokotajlo and colleagues at the AI Futures Project.

1 week ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

But his big, beautiful bill plus the incompetence of his Democratic and media opposition might. The worm is turning. The courts are starting to take away his self-awarded power to tax Americans (in defiance of the Constitution) with random tariff announcements. His immigration theatrics are being overturned. Donald Trump may have court-sanctified civil and criminal immunity for official acts. His business associates and family members don’t.

1 week ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

By now, even Russia must wish the White House had a strategy it could work with. If you’re Vladimir Putin, how can you sign a cease-fire deal when there seems a chance, if you refrain from signing, that Donald Trump will cut off Ukraine’s military supplies and instantly transform Russia’s negotiating position for the better? You can’t. Even Trump officials probably understand why this consideration has made a successful negotiation structurally impossible. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

These estimates were then cited (not endorsed) by the White House’s once-respected budget office in an unsigned, undated handout. Voilà, Mr. Biden or his string pullers got what they wanted: an official-looking document upholding the false intuition that subsidizing green energy helps climate change. Dig even deeper. President Obama not only mandated electric vehicles, he mandated that they come from companies that now make combustion vehicles.

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Holman Jenkins

If the press reported truthfully, everything since 2016 would have been different. Joe Biden’s best defense, I’ve said before, is that he really was senile. Was he even consulted when his staff leaked to the New York Times in April 2022 that the president wanted his attorney general to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump for Jan. 6? Was he consulted in 2020 when a Central Intelligence Agency cabal decided to frame Russia for his son’s laptop?