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“The fertile will inherit the earth.”

Read Julia Yost’s piece in COMPACT:

The Cheap Tradsploitation of ‘Yesteryear’ One of the year’s bestselling books contains a pivotal s*x scene in which a time-traveling tradwife finds her impotent husband transformed into a domineering patriarch.

“Speech like that is the kind of thing that can be replicated by machines. Successful metaphors—fusions of spirit and matter—are not. Given this situation, using AI is only logical.”

Read Ernest Jesuyemi's piece in COMPACT:

The AI Serpent in the Literary Grove Somehow, Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove” slithered past 7,805 other entries for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2026 and became a regional winner.

Thomas Massie loses his primary campaign, AI writing proliferates, and youth unemployment increases in the UK. Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger join Matthew Schmitz.

I Can't Believe It's Not [AI] Podcast Episode · Compact Podcast · May 20 · 55m