Twenty-five years since the September 11 attacks, it is trite to say that if Americans as a whole learned anything, they learned none of the right things. I was in eighth grade at the time, attending a rural school over 2,000 miles from New York City, but nevertheless everyone was still greatly impacted by the human tragedy. However, while the experience of attending a government school had already made me sure the "adults in the room" running society were largely a bunch of morons, this realization went into overdrive upon seeing the reaction to this event. It was one of the times in my...

On April 18, the evil spy company Palantir made a Twitter post—apparently based on a 2025 book by founder Alex Karp—about their philosophy that the government needs to transform into a "technological Republic." To channel Marge Simpson, I don't think our government can afford to hire any company that has a philosophy. The whole thing is grim; they essentially propose a tech dystopia and justify making any scary weapon the government asks for. In a recent article for the Libertarian Institute, Alan Mosley wrote, "This 'manifesto' is a cautionary tale of ideology cloaked in technobabble," and...