Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ryan McMaken

“[L]ast Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in an article titled ‘We Must Pace the Frontier,’ called for extensive government regulation of AI firms. Amodei insisted that, unless governments step in to control the AI industry, then there will be insufficient ‘guardrails’ to prevent ‘losing control of AI systems, misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and serious economic disruption.’ … whenever we see a group of politically active billionaires agree that government should have more power, we should be alarmed, to say the least.” (09/15/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/ai-threat-replacing-covid-and-global-warming

Source: Reason
by Jason Russell

“Democrats backing a big-government bill that decides how college sports ought to be run is largely unsurprising. But Republicans backing the bill show that the GOP has little to no semblance of a party that’s interested in limiting the size and scope of government anymore. The backers of the bill believe politicians, not the NCAA, should decide how many transfers are allowed. They think politicians, not conferences, should set a compensation cap on how much schools can pay athletes. They think politicians, not athletes and businesses, should get to decide what is a legitimate private contract. They think politicians, not the colleges, should decide how many schools are in the Big Ten and SEC. … They even think politicians, not the NFL or broadcasters, should get to decide when professional football games are on TV.” (09/15/26)

https://reason.com/2026/09/15/the-protect-college-sports-act-shows-how-much-the-gop-doesnt-care-about-limited-government-anymore/

Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Chapin Lenthall-Cleary

“Acceptance of violence against speakers used to be a liberal thing. No longer.” (09/15/26)

https://expression.fire.org/p/violence-is-now-a-gendered-issue

Source: Persuasion
by Jeffery Tyler Syck

“The idea of an egalitarian human dignity at the heart of the political order was not just Jefferson’s quirky view of liberal government and society. For most of liberalism’s early history, liberal thinkers saw themselves as making more universal and secular the Christian idea of the Imago Dei—that everyone is born with God Himself reflected in their being. Yet, over time, liberals changed emphasis. Between Jefferson’s time and our own they started championing legal proceduralism, free market economics, and religious freedom. To be sure, these are valuable aspects of liberalism and should be defended. But none alone has the moral force and philosophic weight to anchor an entire approach to politics.” (09/15/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/liberalisms-most-important-idea

Source: Rutherford Institute
by John & Nisha Whitehead

“Across the political spectrum, Americans continue to tolerate abuses of power so long as those abuses are carried out by the ‘right’ people, against the ‘wrong’ people, or in the name of some emergency deemed too important to question. That is how constitutional government dies. Not all at once. Not with the Constitution formally abolished or the Bill of Rights ripped from the National Archives. It dies by degrees: through executive power that expands while congressional authority withers; emergency powers that never quite disappear; wars waged with little regard for constitutional restraints; surveillance systems capable of tracking whole populations; federal agents empowered to operate with ever less accountability; military forces normalized on American streets; and courts that too often allow questions of standing, immunity and procedure to determine whether unconstitutional conduct will ever be confronted on its merits. Every such precedent makes the next abuse easier.” (09/15/26)

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_constitution_cant_protect_you_if_you_dont_protect_it

Source: The Crucial Years
by Bill McKibben

“Obviously the story of the moment is the sudden, coordinated bout of cold feet in the AI industry, whose leaders expressed support over the weekend for some kind of effort to slow down the pace of their R&D. This is something that’s never happened in the 40 years of the climate fight, and so it shouldn’t be dismissed; in fact, it could conceivably provide an opening for common sense across the entire apocalypse front. So let’s try to game out how responsible political leaders—which means, I tremble to say, Democrats—might try to talk about it. First, credit where due. The fact there’s an opening at all is owed to the remarkable citizen resistance to data centers that has sprung up in the last year, and also to the courage of a few kids in the AI industry.” (09/16/26)

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-two-horsemen-riding-in-formation