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Monday, November 17, 2025

Count Vronsky is the love interest of what titular Tolstoy heroine, whose life tragically ends—spoiler!—under a train?The Punic Wars were fought between Rome and what North Africa–based empire (including a few of its elephants)?Twitter was three years old when it introduced what button (and the word it coined for it) that would become foundational to how the site worked?

Answers:

Anna Karenina. Whereas John McWhorter whiled away his youth reading how every happy family is alike, his kids are more likely glued to their phones—as is he these days. And what of it? McWhorter is a bit heterodox in his belief that screens won’t “plunge us all into communal stupidity.” Read more.Carthage. The elephants involved might be a giveaway that the Rome-Carthage model is no longer how warfare works, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is still talking like it is, Phillips Payson O’Brien writes. Hegseth’s focus on individual valor over things like production capacity and technological mastery is setting the United States up for military failure. Read more.Retweet. It’s easy to think that the AI die is cast, but Damon Beres notes that ChatGPT is three now, too, and should likewise be expected to continue refining itself. What seems advanced now will grow only more sophisticated—and harder to resist. Read more.

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