The “Science Charade” After 'Chevron'
Like most complex systems, the administrative state resists easy answers.
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The End of the AI Binary
Being pro-AI does not require being pro-recklessness. It means building the conditions for AI to be deployed widely and quickly while permitting core institutions to keep pace.
Founders Versus Managers: America’s Endless Civil War
It is the constant struggle between founders and those who prefer managing problems rather than solving them through bold action that has shaped the nation from 1776 until now.
'Pluribus' Is About More Than 'the Warmth of Collectivism'
In 'Pluribus,' Apple’s most-viewed drama, the integrity of the individual is the central theme.
The Firestorm Over Congressional Redistricting
In the end, the Court will enter the political thicket through a side door that never should have been left open in the first place.
What SpaceX’s IPO Tells Us About American Capital Markets
The ultimate trajectory of SpaceX remains uncertain, a reflection of the inherent nature of progress at the frontier rather than a flaw in the system that produced it.
Chicago’s “Disappearing Middle Class” Can Be Found in Its Proliferating Upper Middle-Class Neighborhoods
The middle class has not been hollowed out; rather, the overall decline stems from the net movement of families upward into the upper-middle class.
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Is Economics a Failure?
Rather than ending with “economics is broken,” Alexander Rosenberg’s deliberately provocative book 'Blunt Instrument' argues that “economics is useful for a different reason than economists often say.” That is a serious and worthwhile thesis.
Locke, Meet Claude
The concern is not regulation per se. It is a regulation that outruns its justification by arriving before the evidence, foreclosing the technology before its benefits are understood, and insulating the powerful from competition that would otherwise discipline them. That is the pattern worth resisting.
Is There Anything New Under the AI Sun?
OpenAI needs to build on the successes of open markets and turn away from regulation, taxation, and cartelization.
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Founders Versus Managers: America’s Endless Civil War
It is the constant struggle between founders and those who prefer managing problems rather than solving them through bold action that has shaped the nation from 1776 until now.
Teddy Roosevelt’s Expansive Spirit
Roosevelt left a mark not only on the American presidency but also on the American imagination, continuing to affirm the necessity of the American myth.
Why Amtrak Needs Airport-Level Security
Cole Allen transporting weapons across the country on Amtrak highlights the issue.
Remembering and Rebuking the Covid Regime
Preventing a future repetition of this exercise in pandemic central planning will require removing “emergency” powers from political authorities who are all too keen to use them as instruments to impose an unattainable societal order.
The Firestorm Over Congressional Redistricting
In the end, the Court will enter the political thicket through a side door that never should have been left open in the first place.
Revisiting 'Zadvydas v. Davis' 25 Years Later
Deportable aliens have no constitutional right to avoid detention.
Colorado’s Secularist Hostility Strikes Again
The Supreme Court needs to give lower federal courts a more workable test for determining when facially neutral conditions constitute religious exclusion.
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On the Liberating and Living Truths of the Declaration of Independence
Clarence Thomas has done more to repudiate D.E.I. and restore America’s founding principles than any other American in the 21st century.
The Courage of Justice Thomas
Courage was the theme of Justice Clarence Thomas’s recent, profound speech at the University of Texas.
“Project Hail Mary’s” Success: A Story You Can Believe In
The film features a weak, defeated man who turns from a coward to a hero, from selfishness to sacrifice, and from loneliness to friendship.
Is America Good Enough for Wendell Berry?
Genuine traditions and stories can prevent their inheritors from recklessly chasing the future simply because it’s the next thing.
Rediscovering History as the Story of Liberty
History can be a way to center ourselves today and renew the institutions and beliefs that are central to that history and its legacy.
James Q. Wilson and the Crisis of Our Time
"When we profess to believe in deterrence and to value justice, but refuse to spend the energy and money required to produce either, we are sending a clear signal that we think that safe streets, unlike all other great public goods, can be had on the cheap."
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