Fashioning constitutional rules isn’t easy; Justice Barrett and the Court deserve kudos for their efforts to establish a rule to determine if public officials' activities constitute state action.
By Clay Calvert | April 9, 2024
TikTok is a perfect villain. The app seems to be connected with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It’s where Osama Bin Laden’s manifesto picked up traction and where antisemitic tropes run amok. TikTok’s impact…
By Will Rinehart | April 9, 2024
The concept of “net neutrality”— that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data on the internet equally — fails to acknowledge the realities of network management and the benefits…
By Shane Tews | April 9, 2024
When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill last month banning anyone “younger than 14 years of age” from holding accounts with certain social media platforms, it garnered coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Washington…
By Clay Calvert | April 8, 2024
When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill last month banning anyone “younger than 14 years of age” from holding accounts with certain social media platforms, it garnered coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Washington…
By Clay Calvert | April 8, 2024
Last month here at THB, I used the “Kaya Identity” to explain the concept of decarbonization, which refers to a reduction in the ratio of carbon dioxide emissions to GDP. I showed…
By Roger Pileke Jr. | April 8, 2024
Rumor has it the Open App Markets Act (OAMA) could make a comeback in Congress. Its supporters posit that large tech companies, such as Apple and Alphabet, are throttling competition and…
By Mark Jamison | April 4, 2024
Rumor has it the Open App Markets Act (OAMA) could make a comeback in Congress. Its supporters posit that large tech companies, such as Apple and Alphabet, are throttling competition and…
By Mark Jamison | April 4, 2024
Candor is important, so I urge you to watch out for bias and misrepresentation in this post, because it is about a lawsuit I am involved in. Represented by the New…
By Jim Harper | April 3, 2024
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the dialogue often veers between the extremes of stringent regulation, like the European Union’s AI Act, and laissez-faire approaches that risk…
By John Bailey | April 2, 2024
Despite draconian export controls and blacklisting by the United States, the Chinese telecoms giant, Huawei, is alive and well—at least for now. Huawei’s current relatively strong competitive state comes from a variety…
By Claude Barfield | April 2, 2024
My AEI colleague Mark Jamison recently asserted that “traditional news journalists are toast” because the “cost of authoring written content” has plunged in just two years from “around $100 per 1000 words” to only…
By Clay Calvert | April 1, 2024
On March 26, New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, well-known for The Coddling of the American Mind, released a new book, The Anxious Generation, where he attributes the transition from a play-based…
By Bronwyn Howell | March 28, 2024
A year ago today, the Future of Life Institute released a letter calling for a 6-month pause in the training of artificial intelligence (AI) systems more powerful than GPT-4. The signers included…
By Will Rinehart | March 22, 2024
Did federal officials go too far and violate the First Amendment when they vigorously–– sometimes successfully––lobbied social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter (now X) to remove users and content questioning the…
By Clay Calvert | March 21, 2024