Tag: Libertarianism
AI Doesn’t Pose an Existential Risk—but Silicon Valley Does
The Long Afterlife of Libertarianism
In 2001, the libertarian anti-tax activist Grover Norquist gave a memorable interview on NPR about his intentions. He said, “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I could drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” Everything about the line was designed to provoke: the selection of a bookish and easily horrified audience, the unapologetic violence of “drag” and “drown,” the porcelain specificity of “bathtub.”
As propaganda, it
The Myth of Libertarian Exit
The Pandemic Revealed America’s Deeper Sickness
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