Hegseth’s war on Anthropic is the wrong answer to the right question

The government is too reliant on private software vendors for core mission work and AI will make this much worse. Forcing companies to work at gunpoint…

Mar 6 • Gabe Menchaca

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February 2026

We will never grow out of our tech adolescence if we let it become autocratic

If AI is not deliberately designed to advance democracy, it can empower authoritarians. We should not assume they will only be in China.

Feb 27 • Nicole Schneidman

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January 2026

Taming Big Tech

Remember the “techlash”?

Jan 29 • David Dagan

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The need for a media temperance movement

Americans used to drink like fish.

Jan 29 • Brink Lindsey

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Blinded by the glare

We cannot take on Big Tech because we cannot even see the problem.

Jan 29 • Adam Garfinkle

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The fragmentation flywheel

Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution resists political response

Jan 29 • Christopher Allbritton

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The missing politics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Call it the information age, the fourth industrial revolution, the cognitive era.

Jan 29 • Jennifer Burns

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Abundance of what? Abundance for what?

This essay builds on themes from Brink Lindsey’s new book, “The Permanent Problem.” In D.C.?

Jan 15 • Brink Lindsey

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December 2025

Let’s bake the liberal sourdough

Yes, Jonathan V. Last, liberalism needs to revisit its recipe. No, Ross Douthat, we should not give up on the starter.

Dec 17, 2025 • David Dagan

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November 2025

The ghosts of government reform

The Clinton administration spent 8 years "Reinventing Government," but we still have the same problems. Can we learn how to solve them for good?

Nov 19, 2025 • David Dagan

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Reform won’t stick without real goals

The mirror image of the "procedure fetish" is reform with no substantive end.

Nov 19, 2025 • Henry M. J. Tonks

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To defeat the bureaucracy, embrace bureaucracy

Reinventing Government succeeded where it forced a change in practice; neither inspiration nor job cuts proved transformational.

Nov 19, 2025 • Kevin Hawickhorst

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