Brandon Valeriano is the Donald Bren Chair at the Marine Corps University and a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center. You can follow him @drbvaler. The recent book release of Understanding Cyber ...

In Bruen, the Supreme Court held that "when the Second Amendment's plain text covers an individual's conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct." To justify a regulation, "the ...

Large language models are a class of AI algorithm that relies on a high number computational nodes and an equally large number of connections among them. They can be trained to perform a variety of ...

As we mentioned earlier in this series, one of the goals of these articles is to help forum members separate productive debates from flame wars. If this our goal, we have an obvious challenge: what do ...

Analogies are a mainstay of human communication and reasoning. We know instantly what it means to say that “Bing Cosby has a velvet voice” or that someone is “as annoying as fingernails on a ...

Strategy is about choice. The heart of a company’s strategy is what it chooses to do and not do. The quality of the thinking that goes into such choices is a key driver of the quality and success of a ...

Very useful for attracting attention and making ideas, abstractions, and technical explanations concrete, analogy is a very effective tool for persuasion and clarification. But beware, some authors ...