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It's not because they were "traditional" or "classical" — in fact it's just the opposite
Historians are finally having their AI debate
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
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Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
A four-month long war between Great Powers of which you have never heard
As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in the United States. Civil-military relations (typically shortened to ‘civ-mil’ or sometimes CMR) is, simply put, the relationship between the broader civil … Continue reading Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship →
Early Christian scholars debated the inclusion of the Book of Revelation for centuries before it became part of the Biblical canon. Some Christian scholars feared that its vivid imagery might lead to dubious interpretations, and many churches avoided studying it. Other scholars studied it in depth, believing it to speak of the past, their […]
