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Serious thoughts on technology and national security, from someone who doesn't take himself too seriously.
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"How The World Works" features author, political commentator, and CEI writer in residence, Kevin D. Williamson having a series of conversations with notable guests about work, specifically, the jobs he and his guests have had, why work matters, the role of work in our economy, and policy ideas for helping workers and employers get the most out of the work they do. Youtube: URL: cei.org/podcasts
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Kevin D. Williamson is joined by David Bahnsen, Author, Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer at the Bahnsen Group. Kevin and David discuss his book, Full Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, unemployment, work as therapy, and philosophical viewpoints of the world in correlation to work.…
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Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Kent Lassman, President of Competitive Enterprise Institute. Kevin and Kent discuss the Kent's life journey to becoming the President of a national libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C and the professional strides he had to take to achieve it.By Kevin D. Williamson / Kent Lassman
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Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Sally Satel, American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow of mental health policy, domestic drug policy, political trends in medicine, transplant policy, and a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine. Kevin and Sally discuss the ambition behind working as a career medical profes…
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Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Jonah Goldberg, current Editor-in-Chief at The Dispatch, Columnist at the Los Angeles Times, American Enterprise Institute Fellow, and host of Remnant Podcast. The two discuss Jonah's professional life path that got him to where he is today.By Kevin D. Williamson / Jonah Goldberg
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Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Committee and National Right to Work Foundation. Mark shares his work experience from the days when he was a young staff member at a local paper to the organization that he serves with now.By Kevin D. Williamson / Mark Mix
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Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Klon Kitchen, Nonresident Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute. Klon's research areas include national security and defense technology, defense innovation, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, quantum sciences, and robotics.By Kevin D. Williamson / Klon Kitchen
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Kevin D. Williamson is joined by author, political analyst, and social activist, George Weigel to discuss his job as an author of more than 30 books, and his career in public policy.By Kevin D. Williamson / George Weigel
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Kevin D. Williamson is joined by author, economist and professor of economics at George Mason University, Bryan Caplan to discuss what it's like working as a university professor, college admission standards, and ideas for improving the labor market. Youtube: cei.org/podcastsBy Kevin D. Williamson / Bryan Caplan
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Kevin D. Williamson sits down with Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow Veronique De Rugy to discuss the work she does, jobs she's had, and policy ideas for helping workers and employers get the most out of the work they do.By Kevin D. Williamson / Veronique De Rugy
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Tech Terms Sideload — The standard way to install an app on an iOS or Android device is to download it from Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store. Sideloading an app bypasses the app store, installing the app directly from a local device. ***Heads Up*** Yesterday, I responded to this essay in the New York Times. You can read it by clicking the “…
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Tech Terms Transformer — A transformer is a deep learning model that adopts the mechanism of self-attention, differentially weighting the significance of each part of the input data. It is used primarily in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and in computer vision (CV). FBI Director is Trying to Make a Point What’s New: FBI Director Chr…
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Hello friends, What’s New: In yesterday’s Briefing I discussed security concerns with China’s My2022 Olympics app. In this story, I cited research done by Citizen Lab and Jonathan Scott — both of whom claim My2022 has serious flaws. Mr. Scott’s claims were particularly alarming, stating, “All Olympian audio is being collected, analyzed and saved on…
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Tech Terms Boot Sequence — The initial series of processes a computer runs when starting up. China’s Olympics App is Pure Spyware What’s New: Cybersecurity researchers say the My2022 mobile app — the official app of the Beijing Winter Olympics — has serious security vulnerabilities and that “all Olympian audio is being collected, analyzed and saved…
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Tech Terms Elastic Computing — The capability of cloud services to decrease or expand computer storage, memory, and processing to handle fluctuating demand. Don’t be Fooled by Russia’s Ransomware Roundup What’s New: The Russian government has arrested several members of the REvil ransomware syndicate, the group responsible for last year’s attacks a…
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Heads Up Bill Drexel and I have a new article arguing that the United States and Taiwan need unprecedented cooperation in order to secure the island from Chinese invasion and cyber attacks. “In the domain of Sino-American tech rivalry, Taiwan is unique in two aspects: First, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC) remains the worl…
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David E. Sanger is a White House and national security correspondent, and a senior writer. In a 38-year reporting career for The New York Times, he has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2017 for international reporting. His newest book, “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age,’’ and an HBO docu…
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Heads Up I sat down with AEI’s big boss, Robert Doar, to chat about tech, culture, & national security. He asks me about "big tech", fake media, and Chinese aggression. You can listen to our conversation here. Tech Terms Air Gap — The physical separation or isolation of a system from other systems or networks. Anticipating Russia’s Use of Cyber in …
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This is the last Friday Brief for 2021 We’ll be back in 2022 and it’s gonna be great! In the meantime, I’ll be pushing out one or two more podcasts and — don’t forget — you can always gift a subscription to this newsletter for that certain someone special! Give a gift subscription Enjoy the holidays and happy New Year. Klon Tech Terms Firewall — Fi…
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Yuval Levin is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He also holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy. The founding and current editor of National Affairs, he is also a senior editor of The New Atlantis and a contributing editor to National Review. Source: AEI Dr. Lev…
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Tech Terms Cryptomining — the process of validating a cryptocurrency transaction. What I saw in California What’s New: I spent the last four days in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA meeting with engineers, founders/executives, and venture capitalists to get their perspectives on all things tech and foreign policy. Why This Matters: I’m encouraged …
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Tech Terms Web 3.0 — It’s complicated; but, you’re going to be hearing more about this and so here’s the best concise introduction I could find (5min 18sec). Heads Up This week I published an essay with The Hoover Institution/Lawfare Blog — The Business of Knowing: Private Market Data and Contemporary Intelligence (see the attached PDF below). Bott…
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Among my many blessings, is you! Thank you for your support and for making The Kitchen Sync such a success. I hope you’re having a very happy Thanksgiving holiday. Tech Terms Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) — A set of security standards that are designed to ensure that all organizations that accept, process, store, or transmi…
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Michael R. Strain is the director of Economic Policy Studies, and the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he oversees the Institute’s work in economic policy, financial markets, international trade and finance, tax and budget policy, welfare economics, health care policy, and related areas.…
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