Mark Helprin

Biography

Mark Helprin is the author of numerous novels, short stories, and national security essays. His most recent novel is The Oceans and the Stars.

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It Begins With Courage

Constitutionalism
October 7, 2025
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Civitas Outlook
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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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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