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September 10, 2024

Staying Human in the A.I. Mega-Machine

Recently I went to see my doctor for a follow-up to spine surgery that alleviated much of the severe pain that had been limiting my life in serious ways. The surgery was a success, and with less pain came more mobility, better sleep, and increased vitality. Continue Reading...
September 05, 2024

New Norms and the Death of Culture

There are no writers left in America: no impressive novelist, no essayist who commands prestige and popularity. This is true of Britain, too. Now as never before, the great modern empires of liberalism and democracy seem to have nothing to say for themselves. Continue Reading...
September 04, 2024

The Road to Serfdom at 80

F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom (1944) is often portrayed as a mid-20th-century economist’s restatement of a 19th-century case for unreconstructed laissez-faire economics. Anyone who has read the text, however, knows that this is a serious misrepresentation of Hayek’s most famous book. Continue Reading...
August 29, 2024

Randy E. Barnett: A Principled Commitment to the Truth

The term “Greenhouse effect” is primarily used by the environmentalist movement as an explanation for global warming, but in 1992 Judge Laurence Silberman appropriated the term and in a clever play on words linked it to Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered the Supreme Court at the New York Times for more than 40 years. Continue Reading...