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William F Buckley was the leading intellectual architect of the modern conservative movement — indeed, he personified it for more than 50 years.
But by what reasoning could Trump rightfully claim a connection with him?
Outwardly, Mr. Buckley, with his patrician manner, salon wit and gold-plated vocabulary, his passion for Bach and connoisseur’s taste for fine writing, could not have been less like Donald Trump.
And in policy terms, Trump’s love of tariffs, defense of ent…

Opinion | How William F. Buckley Jr. Wrote Trump’s Playbook
William F. Buckley Jr. was also a revolutionary.

Whenever somebody says "that's fascism" and somebody replies with "no that's just violent, racist and bigoted conservatism" I wonder if, when they see a red traffic light, they keep on going because that is, in fact, more of a crimson or possibly even carnelian.

Well, there you have it...
The same year, Vance told the National Conservatism Conference that “we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.” “We live in a world that has been made effectively by university knowledge” and to rebuild the nation along the lines of white Christian nationalism, the universities must be destroyed. Vance told the audience, “the professors are the enemy.”

May 24, 2025
On Thursday the Trump administration told Harvard University that because it had not handed over information on foreign students’ protest activities, violent activity, and coursework, the university had “lost [the] privilege” of enrolling foreign students.

'More Babies and Beef Tallow, Less Blue Hair and Birth Control' (E.J. Dickson/The Cut)
https://www.thecut.com/article/turning-point-usa-young-women-conservatism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p122#a250618p122

Counterexample-Guided Synthesis of Robust Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions
Erfan Shakhesi, Alexander Katriniok, W. P. M. H. Heemels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13011

Counterexample-Guided Synthesis of Robust Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions
Learning-based methods have gained popularity for training candidate Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) to satisfy the CBF conditions on a finite set of sampled states. However, since the CBF is unknown a priori, it is unclear which sampled states belong to its zero-superlevel set and must satisfy the CBF conditions, and which ones lie outside it. Existing approaches define a set in which all sampled states are required to satisfy the CBF conditions, thus introducing conservatism. In this paper, …

Captivity-Escape Games as a Means for Safety in Online Motion Generation
Christopher Bohn, Manuel Hess, S\"oren Hohmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01399

Captivity-Escape Games as a Means for Safety in Online Motion Generation
This paper presents a method that addresses the conservatism, computational effort, and limited numerical accuracy of existing frameworks and methods that ensure safety in online model-based motion generation, commonly referred to as fast and safe tracking. Computational limitations restrict online motion planning to low-fidelity models. However, planning with low-fidelity models compromises safety, as the dynamic feasibility of resulting reference trajectories is not ensured. This potentially …