The Advocates for Self-Government

If we ever hope to build a world of genuine consent, we must first overcome a common presupposition: that in order to coordinate and pe...

Remove all the noise around AI regulation, misinformation, safety, and disruption, and one question remains:

Who gets to decide what an AI system is permitted to output?

AI has arrived, with many projecting it to be the most transformative innovation of our lifetime. Through its use, everyday people now possess digital power once reserved for governments, universi...

Conservatives often criticize Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani for believing that government should direct private economic decisions. Yet when President Donald Trump recently warned gasoline retailers to lower their prices, or face “big problems,” he embraced a remarkably similar premise: that politicians should pressure private businesses to char...

Somewhere in the last several years, a peculiar new authority entered public life. It did not run for office. Nobody voted for it. It has no constituents, no term limits, and no process by which it can be removed. And yet it now decides, on a rolling and largely invisible basis, which claims are true enough ...

You’ve seen the open letters. “Tax me more,” they say. Billionaires at Davos standing with hands over their hearts, pleading with governments to take more of their money. How noble.

Here’s what you won’t find: extra canceled checks at the US Treasury.

The federal government accepts voluntary donations and has done so for over a century. That means...