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Today, America’s antitrust future looks brighter than it has in generations. After long decades of underenforcement, both major political parties have found the will to take up these longstanding laws. But conservatives, as leaders and voters committed to values beyond simple partisan advantage, cannot rest content with making antitrust policy into a political weapon, useful for rewarding friends and punishing enemies…
Read MoreThe massive rents to be wrung out of the attention economy have acted as a black hole, pulling nearly every tech startup or utopian innovator into the orbit of surveillance capitalism, addictive algorithms, and a culture of increasingly unproductive device dependence. Wherever AI goes over the longer term, in the near term it has already begun running into the same ruts.
Read MoreWith the return of the Trump administration, the worst of America’s self-induced border crisis ended abruptly. Trump’s new National Defense Areas and personnel increases have made the U.S.-Mexico border more secure than ever. The Biden-era programs that encouraged asylum fraud and immigration parole have been eliminated. But challenges remain.
Read MoreSmith despaired of ever returning to a premercantile system precisely because of the problem of corporate capture. Thanks in no small part to his own efforts, he was wrong. But in reducing The Wealth of Nations to a polemic against tariffs, we have managed to end up exactly where he did not think we should be: allowing corporate interests to wield too much influence over government and undermining the public interest as a result. Nearly a quarter of a millennium after Smith first identified the problem, we are, in a sense, back to where he started. But just as we overcame the infamous abuse of the monopolists who prevailed in earlier times, so can we overcome them again today, as long as we recognize the true nature of the problem. It’s not tariffs: it’s power…
Read MoreIn the end, Trump listened to Altman not out of loyalty but utility. Altman didn’t need to donate, because he designed the game. He didn’t work for the state; he just rerouted it. And in doing so, he turned America’s postliberal twilight into a launchpad for an AI empire.
Read MoreToo often, discussions of housing policy and land use ignore families—which are increasingly disappearing from cities—and focus on studio apartments for young urban professionals. At the same time, conservatives focused on cultural issues can sometimes overlook practical policy interventions such as zoning reform that might attract broad popular support and support families. Can these factions find common ground on…
Read MoreCan consumer data be treated as a “strategic resource,” as the most recent National Counterintelligence Strategy asserts, from both the commercial and security perspectives simultaneously? Or will one necessarily come at the expense of the other? As the age of “Big Data” and advances in computing have birthed the Artificial Intelligence era, these questions require urgent attention from policymakers. From OPM to Equifax to Salt Typhoon, the issue is now less that a single sensitive puzzle piece might be collected by U.S. adversaries but that a holistic mosaic has already been aggregated: that a vivid and detailed picture of U.S. military, intelligence, and national security rank-and-file personnel is coming into view for any sophisticated adversaries who care to look…
Read MoreZeal for reinvigorating manufacturing, coupled with fears that AI can leave workers behind, are generating a rare moment of political and policy unity where such a new workforce development strategy and an American apprenticeship renaissance could finally gain traction. Silicon Valley’s history offers important lessons for the industrial future U.S. policymakers are looking to realize. The innovators working on advanced technologies and the workers with good secure jobs in manufacturing were once neighbors. It may not be an obvious or well-known fact nowadays, but Silicon Valley has always had firm industrial roots. From Palo Alto to Mountain View, a thriving middle class emerged as young returning GIs formed the manufacturing workforce at leading local firms…
Read MoreSince the 1960s, the Democratic Party has transformed. From a party rooted since the New Deal era in both “developmental liberalism” and a version of social democratic class politics, it has grown into a broad but precarious canopy beneath which shelters a fractious mix of political interests and formations, from finance-friendly fiscal policy to redistributionism, and a fragile barbell-shaped electoral coalition. The 2024 U.S. elections underscored the difficulty that American liberalism faces in fashioning a durable political majority from these constituent parts…
Read MoreAgainst the backdrop of Sino-American tensions, the Philippines is also confronting a brewing civil war between the country’s two most powerful political dynasties. Since the return of the Marcoses to the Malacañang Palace in May 2022, they have wasted no time in rehabilitating their political image both at home and abroad. But Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s attempt at projecting a more “reformist” image—and his decision to reverse some of the most authoritarian policies of his immediate predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte—have set him on a collision course with the Dutertes…
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