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First-Principles
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The Third Answer
Most of adult life is spent at work, which makes the firm one of the main places human beings actually live together. The two answers our age offers for how owners and workers should relate are both forms of war. There is a third, and it …
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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 place is a single machine that holds something ruinous …
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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 with.
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The Boycott and the Blacklist
Cancellation gets defended as just a boycott, free-market consequences for free speech. It is not. A boycott is the use of your own liberty. A cancellation is an attack on someone else’s, and the difference is structural, not a matter …