French protests run on real energy and real demands this time, but there is no government left that answers them – so the prisoners only rattle the bars for better conditions, and every benefit won pays for the next crackdown.
A windfall tax aimed straight at the treasury punishes nobody and fixes nothing, because the failure was in the market – the money would do more sent back into the market, or just stored in a fund.
Millions tuned in to charge their water bottles and get healed through the TV, and that same reflex – trust the state, then trust whoever replaces it – now sits in a European living room.
Argues that runaway drones and machines will become as routine as petty crime, so cities need robot-response teams built like firefighters rather than police to combat a new nuisance.
Argues that Russian hybrid attacks pose less danger to Europeans than their own governments, which use the fear to justify permanent emergency powers and surveillance, as happened in the post-9/11 United States.
Argues that politicians are the most dangerous people in ordinary life because power corrupts and elections are too slow to constrain them, so systems should be designed around distrust, limits, liability, and constant oversight rather than trusting better leaders.
The article argues that if the state treats citizens as too incompetent to vote without tests, the legitimacy of elected governments collapses into either paternalism or a broken democracy.
The article argues that the best place to live is not the one with the strongest economy but the one where a slow, limited government keeps rights frozen and predictable over decades.
Western governments increasingly adopt Chinese-style surveillance and control, which the author argues validates the CCP’s model and erodes universal human rights, making the free world authoritarian in practice rather than in name.
Defines a government’s proper purpose as expanding citizens’ personal possibilities, arguing that restrictions framed as being for your own good or the collective benefit are a scam and that rights should never be traded for access.