NOVEMBER DIARY [11 ITEMS]: Hyperinflation Centenary; Elon's Biography; Derb On AI; and Goodnight, Henry Kissinger; ETC.!!, by John Derbyshire

This month, November 2023, marks [sic] a hundred years since the peak of the hyperinflation that afflicted Germany after World War One. In my English adolescence I knew an elderly couple of Silesian Jews, the ”Kellermans,” who had themselves been adolescents in Germany when hyperinflation hit. They had lurid tales about it: kitchen cabinets stuffed...