Steve Lagerfeld

There is "an assortment of underappreciated changes, small and large, that this strange year has brought," Steve Lagerfeld writes. "Some of them are well worth keeping around." theamericanscholar.org/what-i-will-mi…

Democrats now officially own American Exceptionalism.

If Biden were president, the response would have been quicker, but Fox and its allies might still be dismissing the CV threat, torpedoing social distancing and making everything even worse.

Strange that Chinese stocks I track are up 2% and indexes are basically flat while U.S. markets are in a steep coronavirus slide.

@NewsfromScience @drewcostley "A healthy skepticism about the rhetoric surrounding today’s automation debates should not prevent anyone from taking the questions posed by the rise of artificial intelligence and other technologies with great seriousness." @stevelagerfeld the-american-interest.com/2020/02/15/les…

Lessons of the First Automation Crisis #RiseoftheRobots the-american-interest.com/2020/02/15/les… via @aminterest

It's not an exaggeration to say that the Web is shrinking history. Mounds of books and knowledge and insight lost because they won't be digitized.

To understand how tomorrow’s technology will change our lives, we need to look at what yesterday’s futurists got wrong and right @stevelagerfeld #AutomationCrisis bit.ly/37ycshb

A sharp essay by @stevelagerfeld on the challenges posed by automation—and why they may be less dire than you think. CC: @oren_cass, @wellscking the-american-interest.com/2020/02/15/les…

How should we think about the challenge of AI and robots? Not like we did the last time anxiety spiked, I write in my new piece. the-american-interest.com/2020/02/15/les…

This picture could surely form the basis for a crime drama series about an unlikely pair of Brit detectives, both personally defective, who persevere despite failing to crack any of the cases to which they were assigned.

I went to third and fourth grade at an elementary school (MacArthur) half a mile from the site of the El Paso shooting. That doesn’t give me special insight into the tragedy, but it deepens my frustration with some ways of talking about this that strike me as counterproductive…

"The end of driving is a tragic necessity," writes Public Policy Fellow @stevelagerfeld. But what wonders will be lost? More in @TheAmScho: buff.ly/2YpM2uh

A majority of individuals are fooled into expressing opinions on subjects that are completely fictitious - particularly men and the better educated. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

This piece by @aaronsibarium was so surprising and smart it made me laugh. quillette.com/2019/06/14/the…

When people say, "I'd like to let my kid have some old-fashioned, bike around town fun this summer, but it's not like the old days," hand them this Washington Post piece: "There's Never Been a Safer Time to be a Kid in America" washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2… #LetThem @LetGrowOrg

Self-driving cars are great, but before they own the roads I wanted to celebrate the unexpected joys and benefits of driving your own car. theamericanscholar.org/the-end-of-dri…

Thinking of changing my job description to Visiting Scholar at Home Depot.

This is just one story, but what a story! theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

@danwwang amazon.com/Making-Steel-S…