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Is Silicon Valley Shifting Right, Or Just Toward Power?
Whose side is Silicon Valley on anyway? That’s what Secretary Hegseth may be wonderin…
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Is Silicon Valley Shifting Right, Or Just Toward Power?
Whose side is Silicon Valley on anyway? That’s what Secretary Hegseth may be wondering, given Anthropic’s refusal to grant the US military autonomy…
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Burnt Toast, Stoics, and Finding Growth in Small Frustrations
It was a brutal winter in New England. Many mornings, I got out of bed to fire up our snowblower and tackle the latest round of snow. When the wind w…
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Mega-Events, Minimal Returns: The High Cost of Hosting Global Spectacles
Every few years, political leaders promote sporting mega-events such as the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup as engines of economic growth, prom…
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You Can’t Plan the Next Play-Doh: Unexpected Discovery Drives Tomorrow’s Jobs
The drive to bring jobs back to American soil is a compelling political instinct. But soundbites aside, Washington’s campaign to engineer domestic em…
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Permission to Earn a Living: History, Economics, and the Ethics of Occupational Licensing
Where occupational licensing exceeds genuine public safety needs, it substitutes centralized judgment and political privilege for the preferences of …
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Why Market Success Breeds Market Skepticism
Recently, as I sat in my small undergraduate economics class, another student raised his hand to share a thought about the current state of markets. …
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April Fools for America First? Higher Prices and New War
If April Fools has a patron saint in politics, it may be the candidate who promises lower costs and less war, then delivers the reverse on both. Just…
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