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protected versus the unprotected. Enhancing the common good versus maximizing and protecting the elite winners’ winnings.
Steven Brill • Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
The secular argument for human freedom, launched almost three centuries ago under the rubric of “natural rights,” has often been reduced to a calculation of probabilities: democracy and the personal freedoms it protects are good not because they have an inherent moral superiority over other forms of organizing society, but because they are the leas
... See moreGeorge Weigel • Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
The institutional shift will weaken the credibility of the technocracy heading into the 2028 election.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond
By highlighting its contributions to Israel’s defense, the administration could justify pressuring Israeli leaders on peace.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Conclusion
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Investing in science and technology education and research and supporting domestic tech businesses create a positive feedback loop where governments have a direct stake in state-of-the-art technology, poised to capitalize on benefits and stamp down harms. Put simply, as an equal partner in the creation of the coming wave, governments stand a better
... See moreMustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Technology Means Complementarity
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
But just as we see with the most successful entrepreneurs, the state could regain its effectiveness by sealing an alliance with the most potent party of the day, the multitude. Building this alliance starts by providing the multitude with what they want: fairness and quality at scale. And the problem is that instead of improving, the quality of pub
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Other things being equal, the more widely dispersed key technologies are, the more widely dispersed power will tend to be, and the smaller the optimum scale of government.