Joel Brenner (@joelfbrenner)

Elias Canetti’s study of Crowds and Power is a great lens through which to see both the beginning and the end of our rational insanity/ linkedin.com/pulse/crowds-p…

www.linkedin.com Crowds, Power, and the Rise and Fall of Donald Trump November 4, 2026 American voters finally woke up yesterday and pushed Humpty-Dumpty off the wall. But how do we explain how a great country found itself in thrall to a corrupt and unbalanced narcis...

Joel Brenner @joelfbrenner Mar 11

My article, “artificial intelligence, and the problem of surprise” is now out in International Security @ doi.org/10.1162/ISEC.a…. It’s the first to explore the limitations of artificial intelligence in strategic decision-making and in preventing strategic surprise.

direct.mit.edu Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Surprise Abstract. This article is the first to explore the limitations of artificial intelligence in strategic decision-making and in preventing strategic surprise. Using well-known cases, it examines...

Joel Brenner @joelfbrenner Mar 2

Social science and intelligence: The good, the bad, and the ugly —
My review of Peter Grace’s new book, The Intelligence Intellectual: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA, here, lays it out: tandfonline.com/eprint/W4JFUMP….

www.tandfonline.com Tribute to a flawed paragon Published in International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Joel Brenner @joelfbrenner Nov 2, 2022

via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2022/11/01/opi…

www.nytimes.com Opinion | Putin Is Starting to Do What Won Him a War 7 Years Ago (Published 2022) We can’t let Russia’s president turn Ukraine into Aleppo.

Joel Brenner @joelfbrenner Jun 16, 2022

The appeasers are at it again, under a new name: politico.com/news/magazine/…. Kupchan’s premise that the U.S. is supporting Ukraine with no strings attached is false. We say we do, but so do the Germans and the French, who are desperate to make a deal. Meanwhile we trickle in arms…

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