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Nov 6, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Miles Taylor
In 2018, as a member of the first Trump administration, I anonymously published an opinion essay in The Times warning that President Donald Trump was unstable and a danger to "the health of our Republic."At the time, I was a senior official in the Department of Homeland Security grappling with Mr. Trump's worst excesses.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
aol.com | Miles Taylor
October 3, 2024 at 12:15 PMCredit - Getty ImagesJust imagine: It’s the morning after Election Day 2024, and America wakes up to viral videos of ballots being tossed into dumpsters and security-camera footage of poll workers stuffing boxes in battleground states. Within hours, politicians, pundits, and social media influencers are crying foul. But here’s the twist—none of these events actually happened.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Dan Prieto |Miles Taylor
It’s Election Day 2024, and a woman — let’s call her Dorothy — answers the phone and hears Joe Biden’s voice. The prerecorded call from the president informs her that militant groups have threatened to disrupt the polls — which is why the White House has extended the window for mail-in ballots. She’s directed to a website for more details. Dorothy stays away from the polls, not realizing that the voice, advice, and website are all fake.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Miles Taylor
Book Review The BBC: demystify, but not defund First published: 18 December 2023 No abstract is available for this article.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
historytoday.com | Miles Taylor
Nobody writes small books about the British Empire any more. Whether defending or deriding Britain’s long history of colonialism, the vogue is for holistic accounts, from beginning to end, usually in pursuit of a moral reckoning of what it was all about. In different ways, these two volumes continue this trend.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
audible.com | Vicky Ward |Miles Taylor |Mark Levin |Cenk Uygur
Pipeline to Power: The 40-Year Plan to Capture the Supreme Court explores the origins of what has become arguably the most powerful purveyor of political and judicial influence in the United States today. Forty years ago, following the appointment of their professors to the federal bench, a tiny group of conservative law students at Yale Law School worried that their ideas might disappear from intellectual discourse in this bastion of liberal thought. They set out to fill that void.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
garymarcus.substack.com | Gary Marcus |Miles Taylor
As I wrote the other day, p(doom) is somewhat-tongue-in-cheek shorthand for the probability that we are all going to die from some AI-induced extinction event. I rather doubt that will happen, but I am not sure that it won’t. What I am sure of, though, is that our chances to avoid serious consequences aren’t great if we control neither AI nor the companies that make AI. The goal of the companies is return to shareholders, not to return to humanity.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
audible.com | Joshua Bowen |Bart D. Ehrman |Miles Taylor |Rachel Maddow
The God of the Old Testament commanded and endorsed many practices that we find morally reprehensible today. High on the list was the institution of slavery, which features prominently in several sections of the Hebrew Bible. Fathers could sell their daughters into slavery, masters could beat their slaves, creditors could carry off children for failure to repay a debt, and foreigners could be kept for life, passed down as inherited property.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
audible.com | Matt Lewis |Miles Taylor |Helen Joyce |Harvey Mackay
From one of America's sharpest conservative journalists is this searing, thought-provoking and hilarious takedown of the ruling class running amok in Washington. These are your elected officials. Some are slyly taking advantage of the system. They are hoping no one is savvy enough to notice. But Matt Lewis has. And this is what he’s learned. Today’s politicians are an unsavory lot—a hybrid of plutocrats and hypocrites. And it’s worse (and more laughable) than you can imagine.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
bostonglobe.com | Miles Taylor
The next GOP president, whether it is Trump or someone else, will seek to finish what the MAGA movement started in its first term. Nowhere is this more clear — and more disturbing — than on immigration. Trump’s acolytes have adopted his stark anti-immigrant views. In some cases, they’ve championed some of the inhumane policies that even Trump himself abandoned. To understand why, it’s important to know that the border symbolizes the wider aims of the MAGA movement.
