James Patterson
Biography
James M. Patterson is associate professor of Public Affairs in the Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee’s Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs. He is also a contributing editor at Law & Liberty, president of the Ciceronian Society, and an affiliated scholar for the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy. He has written two books, Religion in the Public Square (2019) and Why Postliberalism Failed (Acton, forthcoming), co-authored with Thomas Howes.
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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.
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