reason.com: The Coming Techlash Could Kill AI Innovation Before It Helps Anyone -- -- Power-hungry data centers, disappearing jobs, and billions of dollars in subsidies are fueling resentment. If developers and policymakers don’t change course, Americans may reject AI before it ever delivers on its most significant promises. #liberty #news
mises.org: The War They Promised Not to Start -- -- They promised peace. What we got was another step toward global war and economic ruin. Mark Thornton isn’t buying the excuses. #liberty #news
reason.com: New Orleans City Council Considers Ordinance To Adopt Real-Time Facial Recognition Technology -- -- America is slipping steadily down the slippery slope to a surveillance state. #liberty #news
reason.com: Trump Administration Targets Iranian Christians for Deportation -- -- They face severe persecution if deported to Iran. #liberty #news
mises.org: Review of Greatness and Ruin by Ricardo Duchesne -- -- Western Civilization has brought great advances in culture and economics, yet no one is more relentless in trying to destroy this civilization than western intellectuals. Ricardo Duchesne lays it out in his book, Greatness and Ruin. #liberty #news
mises.org: Political Moralizing about the History of Slavery -- -- Historically, slavery has always been held together by violence, including slavery in the US. However, the actual history of slavery here is much more complex than what modern academics want to admit. #liberty #news
reason.com: She Got a Permit for Her Chickens. Now the City Is Fining Her $80,000. -- -- The Douglas, Michigan, city government is hitting a homeowner with crushing fines after reversing its own approval. She’s fighting back in federal court. #liberty #news
mises.org: Meyer Frank about Your Views -- -- Although Meyer Frank was a National Review colleague of William F. Buckley, who loathed Murray Rothbard, Frank admired Rothbard and the two men often agreed on the current state of affairs. That is how Dr. David Gordon remembers him in today‘s Friday Philosophy. #liberty #news
mises.org: The “American Miracle” was the European Miracle on Steroids -- -- America inherited the core institutional framework of Europe (especially Britain) but refined and amplified it through greater decentralization, lower taxation, and more expansive freedoms. #liberty #news
mises.org: Fumes of a Failed System: Bolivia’s Gasoline Crisis -- -- Bolivians are finding out the hard way that socialist energy means price controls, and price controls mean fuel shortages and long gas station lines. Socialism excels in unkept promises and Bolivia is no exception to that rule. #liberty #news