Reclusive Libertarian
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Essays
Long-form work on philosophy, political theory, and first principles.
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The Long Crisis Series · 6 parts
A seven-part series on the West inside a crisis era: the fractures pulling America and Europe apart, and the choice between renewal, decline, and the strongman.
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The Voluntary Settlement Series · 1 parts
A series on how the people who build an enterprise can do it without exploiting or expropriating one another: a voluntary settlement between capital and labor, chosen rather than …
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The Database of Ruin
Privacy was never mainly protected by law. It was protected by friction, by the sheer cost of watching everyone. We have driven that cost to zero, and what we are assembling in its …
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What Liberty Requires Beyond Slogans
Liberty as a slogan asks nothing of you. Liberty as a project asks for everything: institutional design, cultural maintenance, and the discipline to want it for people you disagree …
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The Unearned Series · 1 parts
The geolibertarian foundation: the earth and its natural opportunities are a common inheritance no one made, so the unearned rent of land and resources belongs to all. Capturing it …
Blog
Current events read through the lens of the essays.
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The Country That Was an Argument
Two hundred and fifty years ago a handful of men grounded a country not in a king or a bloodline but in an idea about the individual: that you own yourself, that your rights come …
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The Forgotten Amendment on Representation
The first amendment proposed by the First Congress addressed the size of the House of Representatives and how closely it should track population growth. It never became part of the …
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The Court Sided With the Soil
The Supreme Court just held that a child born to a tourist here for the weekend is an American at birth. To get there the majority revived a feudal rule that a free people threw …
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An Open Letter to Dario Amodei
You told Congress that open models are too dangerous to be free. It is the same thing the priesthood said about scripture and the state said about encryption, and it has always …
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Flock Is the Most Un-American Company in America
A private company has quietly built a national surveillance grid that records where every car in America goes and rents it to any police force that will pay. It is the general …