Thomas Chatterton Williams

Hey everyone, SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT is out today from @aaknopf! I appreciate the love, expect the criticism, and hope this book will reach all the open-minded readers who genuinely care about achieving a healthy and robust multiethnic society once and for all. 🙏🏽

@SteveAusti18496 @AEI @ChrisStirewalt @hasanthehun @NewsNationTV That’s astute, there really is something that feels artificial like a video game about all of this

@thomaschattwill @AEI @ChrisStirewalt @hasanthehun @NewsNationTV Thoughtfully said, but — l believe there’s more to it. A kind of righteous life-is-a-video-game blood lust. Big guillotine vibes. I happened to look at replies to a writer posting a few days ago — someone said, “The gutters should run with the blood of the landlord class.”

It’s a damn good Sunday morning in my book when my erudite and generous @AEI colleague @ChrisStirewalt lets me respond to @hasanthehun’s invocation of Friedrich Engels’s notion of social murder with Albert Camus’s idea of rebellion within limits 🤓. 🙏🏽 @NewsNationTV

This photo deserves a Pulitzer.

@stevewilkerson @AEI @ChrisStirewalt @hasanthehun @NewsNationTV I could try

@thomaschattwill @AEI @ChrisStirewalt @hasanthehun @NewsNationTV Could you make that sentence longer?

Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious.

@mtlshop @AAKnopf Thank you!

@thomaschattwill @AAKnopf Sounds like a good read. Just heard your interview on The Hill. Good to know there are writers like you that make sense and give listeners a better understanding so they may think more clearly.

Hey everyone, SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT is out today from @aaknopf! I appreciate the love, expect the criticism, and hope this book will reach all the open-minded readers who genuinely care about achieving a healthy and robust multiethnic society once and for all. 🙏🏽

WATCH: Taiwanese grandmothers aged 89 and 91 train at the gym. An increasing number of elderly people in Taiwan’s super-aged society are hitting the gym to stay healthy, both physically and mentally.

This makes no sense. Bill Clinton won twice running as a centrist in 1992 and 1996 Barack Obama won twice as a centrist in 2008 and 2012 Joe Biden won—again, running if not governing—as a centrist in 2020. How is centrism the problem?

SUNDAY: Former National Security Advisor @AmbJohnBolton, former National Economic Council Director @genebsperling, RealClearPolitics Senior Elections Analyst @SeanTrende, Atlantic Staff Writer @thomaschattwill and our Best in the Business panel of journalists join @ChrisStirewalt on The Hill Sunday. 📺 Tune in at 10a/9C on @NewsNation and @TheCW.

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So it turns out that writing is thinking. It's the same process. "Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner." Outsourcing writing to LLMs is THE SAME THING as outsourcing thinking.

Fewer than half of US adults read a book last year. Even fewer read an actual novel, and the trend is looking worse still for teenagers. Why is nobody talking about this??

Most people I know in AI think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it. I spent the last 3 months talking to dozens of researchers, economists, and policy experts about AI's impact on work; including reps from every frontier lab and several Congressional offices. Unfortunately, I was not reassured. The AI industry is raising the alarm, but can't change course. These companies' core business model relies on the disruption they are warning about: their faith in full automation only makes them go faster. Policymakers are waking up, but still paralyzed by data and debates. Econ wonks disagree on plenty, but even the limited scenario looks like a "painful transition" that will disempower millions of workers. But an "underclass" is not inevitable, but rather a societal choice — and one we can and should stop. Instead of waiting for impact, we should start planning now to support workers through AI disruption. Whether policymakers can assuage concerns about economic security may determine if we get to reap AI's gains at all. New from me for @NYTOpinion. I put a ton into researching what I think may be the biggest topic of the year, so hope you read it (gift link here!) nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opi…

Twenty-three years ago the US said it was going to Americanize Iraq. Instead we got something closer to the Saddam-ification of the US.

FBT's Erec Smith will speak to Thomas Chatterton Williams about his latest book, "The Summer of Our Discontent," and the crisis facing American liberalism since George Floyd's murder. Register to attend online or in-person here: cato.org/events/summer-…

New: at @JoinPersuasion, I address claims that "anti-woke" "free speech warriors" have 1) hypocritically abetted Trump's attacks on free speech/civil liberties (mostly no) 2) enabled Trump's ascent by stoking "moral panic" about "cancel culture" (nope!) persuasion.community/p/dont-blame-t…

@CathyYoung63 @JoinPersuasion Really good piece, Cathy!

President Trump says that he did not fall down while being evacuated from the WHCD. He says he was asked to get closer to the ground by agents.

O'Donnell: "The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read…He writes this quote…'I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands in his crimes.'" Trump: "I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're horrible people…I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. I'm not a pedophile…I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones who were involved with, let's say, Epstein or other things…You should be ashamed of yourself reading that, because I'm not any of those things and I was never…You shouldn't be reading that on 60 Minutes. You're a disgrace. Go ahead, let's finish the interview. You're disgraceful."

This is as good a distillation of one of the principal fascist rationales for total power as you could imagine. "They"? Who, the Democrats? I'm old enough to remember when Joe Biden was president, and I don't recall his masked security forces or attempts to overturn elections.