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Wall Street Journal
16 hours ago
- Science
- Wall Street Journal
The War With Tech Isn't New
Reading Allysia Finley's article 'AI's Biggest Threat: Young People Who Can't Think' (Life Science, June 23), I couldn't help but recall 1976. That was the year I entered junior high—the same year Texas Instruments introduced its TI-30 scientific calculator. Our teachers and parents repeatedly warned us not to become too dependent on this newfangled technology, as it might hinder our ability to think for ourselves. The more things change . . . Greg Ross
Wall Street Journal
2 days ago
- Science
- Wall Street Journal
AI Helps Me Defeat Dyslexia
As someone born with dyslexia, I respectfully disagree with Allysia Finley's column 'AI's Biggest Threat: Young People Who Can't Think' (Life Science, June 23). For most of my life, reading dense texts and writing clearly was exhausting. Research papers took me three times as long as my peers, and my vocabulary was limited because words were hard to absorb and harder still to retrieve on demand. Then came AI, which now helps me to read, research and learn faster. I can ask complex questions and get tailored responses that help me deepen my understanding without drowning in pages of text. I can draft words that say what I'm thinking, and then refine them to express it even better. I'm not dumber because of AI. I'm more articulate, informed and engaged. The technology isn't a crutch; it's a liberator. It doesn't do the thinking for me—it gives me the tools to finally show my thinking.
Wall Street Journal
4 days ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Colonial Privileges for Thee?
Regarding Allysia Finley's 'How Progressive Government Set the Stage for the L.A. Riots' (Life Science, June 16): One of the recent progressive talking points has been that pro-immigration uprisings are acceptable because California and other southwestern states were 'originally Mexican land.' Never mind that the Mexicans were only on that land because they also colonized, displacing and dispossessing Native Americans themselves. Apparently leftwing radicals think such an inconvenient truth can be overlooked and forgiven. This Brit wants to know: Come the next Democratic administration, will the party maintain that principle by arranging for the cession of the 13 colonies back to the U.K.? Or do some colonial empires get privileges over others?
Wall Street Journal
01-06-2025
- General
- Wall Street Journal
I'm 88 and Prospering Thanks to Routine PSAs
Regarding Allysia Finley's column 'Biden's Prostate Cancer and the Tyranny of the Experts' (Life Science, May 27): When I was 83, I was worked up thoroughly for a sudden rise in my routine PSA. Regular digital exam and special biopsy led to diagnosis of invasive but confined prostate cancer. Even though I had no symptoms of cancer, and knowing the arguments, I elected to have anti-gonadal and radiotherapy treatments. Whatever complications ensued were managed, and I have enjoyed more than five normal years with no PSA elevation. Without this intervention—and my defying the Preventive Services Task Force guidance—I might have been in the former president's present medical situation. I am still working as a physician, feeling useful and enjoying all there is to enjoy with the functional imperfections of being 88. One swallow doesn't make a summer but one contrary example can defy a rule.
Wall Street Journal
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Why Young Men Should Shirk Manufacturing
The decommissioned aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy in Philadelphia. As much as I admire Allysia Finley 's work, I'm afraid she misses a key point in her column 'A Good Man for U.S. Manufacturing Is Hard to Find' (Life Science, April 7). It's true: We need to revitalize manufacturing in the U.S. and rebuild the Navy and our shipyards. Work in the trades in most cases is well-compensated compared with the wage-earning power of a bachelor's degree in many disciplines. As a longtime conservative, mechanical engineer and former Navy engineering duty officer, I find working with my hands and head most enjoyable and productive. But I can't recommend it to young men today, because working in a factory or shipyard often requires joining a union, which are mostly controlled by left-leaning liberals. My own experience in naval shipyards showed me that a job that could have been completed by a trained electro-mechanic in a few hours took days or sometimes weeks thanks to union trade rules. Ship construction and repairs are chronically late and overbudget as a result. We need to reinvigorate our industrial base, but taxpayer-provided funds should flow only to right-to-work states. Let the bell of freedom ring without the requirement that the hand on the clapper be from the 'Bell Ringing Workers of America.'
