Defending Freedom
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The End of Pax Americana
America’s retreat from free trade is weakening the economic foundation that sustained Pax Americana for generations.
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ICE’s ‘Warrant’ Shortcut Violates the Constitution
ICE claims agents can enter private homes using their own paperwork — without asking a judge first. The Fourth Amendment was written for moments like this.
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Prediction Markets and The Ethics of Betting on Bad News
Accurately predicting disaster is actually quite useful, and prediction markets reward people for operationalizing information others don’t yet have.
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Censorship and the Ratchet Effect: Threats to Free Speech Outlast Supposed Crises
Dissenters from the official narrative were blacklisted and booted. The tools censors used aren’t going away.
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How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
Crypto-related prosecutions illustrate how allegations of crime are used to target privacy-enhancing tools and the people who build them.
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‘The Last Generation of Freedom’? The Quiet Growth of Global Surveillance Culture
Democracies are adopting authoritarian tools and cracking down on dissent. Technologies that once empowered citizens are now consolidating control.
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Even Elon’s Techno-Utopia Won’t Make Money Meaningless
Predictions of post-work abundance recur every generation. The missing variables are always the same: capital turnover, diffusion, and institutional stability.
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Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort the American Diet
Federal subsidies drive food production, consumption, and — unintentionally — chronic disease. Now we’re being asked to subsidize weight loss drugs to fight what farm policy broke.
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The Nationalization of AI Threatens Innovation and the American Mind
Artificial intelligence will not destroy us. But fear-driven regulation might.
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Privacy for the Powerful, Surveillance for the Rest: EU’s Proposed Tech Regulation Goes Too Far
Protecting kids is a weak pretext for total digital surveillance. What’s worse, the EU’s monitoring exempted its own politicians from scrutiny. Their privacy matters, but not yours.
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The End of Pax Americana
America’s retreat from free trade is weakening the economic foundation that sustained Pax Americana for generations.
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•
ICE’s ‘Warrant’ Shortcut Violates the Constitution
ICE claims agents can enter private homes using their own paperwork — without asking a judge first. The Fourth Amendment was written for moments like this.
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•
Prediction Markets and The Ethics of Betting on Bad News
Accurately predicting disaster is actually quite useful, and prediction markets reward people for operationalizing information others don’t yet have.
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Censorship and the Ratchet Effect: Threats to Free Speech Outlast Supposed Crises
Dissenters from the official narrative were blacklisted and booted. The tools censors used aren’t going away.
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How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
Crypto-related prosecutions illustrate how allegations of crime are used to target privacy-enhancing tools and the people who build them.
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‘The Last Generation of Freedom’? The Quiet Growth of Global Surveillance Culture
Democracies are adopting authoritarian tools and cracking down on dissent. Technologies that once empowered citizens are now consolidating control.
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Even Elon’s Techno-Utopia Won’t Make Money Meaningless
Predictions of post-work abundance recur every generation. The missing variables are always the same: capital turnover, diffusion, and institutional stability.
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Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort the American Diet
Federal subsidies drive food production, consumption, and — unintentionally — chronic disease. Now we’re being asked to subsidize weight loss drugs to fight what farm policy broke.
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The Nationalization of AI Threatens Innovation and the American Mind
Artificial intelligence will not destroy us. But fear-driven regulation might.
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•
Privacy for the Powerful, Surveillance for the Rest: EU’s Proposed Tech Regulation Goes Too Far
Protecting kids is a weak pretext for total digital surveillance. What’s worse, the EU’s monitoring exempted its own politicians from scrutiny. Their privacy matters, but not yours.