‘I’m a recovering perfectionist’: Exclusive interview with Garrett Adelstein
Garrett Adelstein has only played poker a mere handful of times since the infamous J-4 hand played on the Hustler Casino Live stream in September 2022. And, surprisingly, he seems to have few, if any, regrets. Walking away would once have been unthinkable for a player who thrived on the big pots and even bigger
Former Air Force Secretary: Trump Walked Straight Into Iran’s Trap
Eric and Eliot discuss the week’s jackassery, including the administration’s stripping former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall (author of Lethal Autonomy: The Future of Warfare Whether We Like It or Not) of his security clearance for innocuous comments about Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One. They then discuss the irresponsibility of Trump’s using that aircraft to
Lethal Autonomy: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
Every generation of military leaders confronts technologies that promise to transform warfare. Some do. Others prove less revolutionary than their advocates predict. The more important question, however, is rarely whether a technology works. It is whether we are asking the right strategic questions before reorganizing military power around it. Frank Kendall’s Lethal Autonomy: The Future
Guest Essay: The S@#t I’ve Heard in the Hamptons
We met author Michael J. Norton at East Hampton Library’s Authors Night on Aug. 8, where he was signing his popular book, The S@#t I’ve Heard at Yoga. A woman at the book fair bought 16 copies for her friends! We thought it would be fun for Michael to write about “The S@#t I’ve Heard
Book Reporter Review: Icefall
Icefall, the first collaboration between veteran thriller author Jon Land and newcomer Michael Newman, is a winner on every level. When a novel is billed as a cross between Alien and The Avengers, my attention is officially grabbed. I was not disappointed. The prologue is set 1,500 years ago in the Veyrion. This is where
5 fresh books with South Carolina roots
A Patriot For Ivanov by C.L. McGinnis was selected by Post and Courier for their South Carolina books summer reading list. Click here to see the list. Click here to learn more about the book.
A WWII Spy Novel That Reinvigorates the Genre for a New Audience
When its comes to modern stories involving spies and espionage during World War II, there are a few annoyances that audiences have no choice but to expect and accept: a diverse, ahistorical cast of characters; amoral, superficial protagonists who are superlatively competent and devoid of any human attachments; paper-thin antagonists who are irredeemably evil; and
Kruger’s Korps Is An Old-Fashioned, Swashbuckling Adventure Tale
Surely one of the most amazing aspects of American fascination with the Second World War is the sheer amount of popular content we have created about it. There are at least 700, if not over 1,000 Hollywood films about the war, depending on what you count (and probably more than 1,300 globally). There are somewhere
The Future of Warfare Is Autonomous
In an article for The Dispatch, Joseph O. Chapa writes: The emergence of artificial intelligence creates new possibilities for fighting wars—faster decision speed and decreased risk to human operators—but also creates challenges. The whole field of AI ethics was spawned from the unintended consequences that statistical AI systems can produce. The same kinds of errors
The Pentagon Must Undertake Its Own Transformation
The National Review has covered an excerpt adapted from Bing West’s book Cat 5: The 2033 War. Click here to read the full article. Click here to learn more about the book.