In my latest @ProvMagazine article, I critique another example of poor political theology from a theologian. I feel like I keep getting pulled into those discussions. I think it's b/c there's something deeply angering to me of sloppy thinking from Bible scholars.

The UN’s annual General Assembly meeting is a great point to ask, “How’s the Trump foreign policy doing?” timtalkspolitics.substack.co…

For all the Secretary Hegseth’s talk of ethos, there’s been very little on telos—a significant concern for the purposes for building the world’s “strongest, most powerful, most lethal and most prepared military on the planet” in his own words @TimMilosch

The 2020s will be known as the AI decade and this week was a week, within a month, within a year, within that decade that may prove pivotal. timtalkspolitics.substack.co…

😂😂😂….. but, seriously…

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement. I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible. But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier. Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want. Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well. So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it. If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.

A little later in getting this out today, but I hope it's still a worthy remembrance of a day that still draws deep feelings out of many of us. Never forget. timtalkspolitics.substack.co…

Annnnnnd.... we're back! Checking in and charging forward: timtalkspolitics.substack.co…

Missed Debate Doctor's live workshops? You haven't missed them! Recordings of all 4 preseason workshops are up: 🌱 TP Resolution: debatedoctor.gumroad.com/l/T… 🌱 TP Cases: debatedoctor.gumroad.com/l/T… 📚 LD Resolution: debatedoctor.gumroad.com/l/L… 📚 LD Cases: debatedoctor.gumroad.com/l/L…

I’ve watched the movie countless times. I finally read the book. Indeed, the first Clancy book I’ve ever read. Guess I’m a real foreign policy expert now. 😂

48 hours to go. Live, interactive workshops focused on case development and strategic thinking—not canned arguments. 🌱 TP Cases & Strategies — Aug. 19https://debatedoctor.gumroad.com/l/eefle 📚 LD Cases & Strategies — Aug. 20https://debatedoctor.gumroad.com/l/wwojs

A truth we need to know now: #Socialism is so disproven and such a failure in #history, the only reason to advocate for it is to hide the actual goal of destroying a society.

1 week until Debate Doctor's Cases & Strategies workshops. From understanding the resolutions → discussing cases and strategies. 🌱 TP — Aug. 19https://debatedoctor.gumroad.com/l/eefle 📚 LD — Aug. 20https://debatedoctor.gumroad.com/l/wwojs

Big milestone for this very part time podcaster: 100 episodes! Friend and fellow podcast enthusiast Dustin Steeve comes on to discuss how this podcast has influenced my own thinking and growth and where things might be headed in the near future: open.substack.com/pub/timtal…

💯 The need to reevaluate Huntington’s model is growing increasingly apparent.

This week started painting a picture that looks more like a world war scenario, just not the Axis vs. Allies type of world war. open.substack.com/pub/timtal…

Front Porch Republic was kind enough to publish my reflection on America on its 250th birthday: frontporchrepublic.com/2026/…

In which, a recent NATO summit exposes divides in the alliance indicative of the region’s broader restructuring. open.substack.com/pub/timtal…