Brad Littlejohn

2 months ago | ptbwrites.substack.com | Patrick Brown |Clare Morell |Brad Littlejohn |Santi Ruiz

It’s Valentine’s Day — not too late to buy flowers! — and that means it’s an extra-special (and extra-long) version of Family Matters: The Main Event: Marriage, that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream It’s Me, Hi: The Dispatch, and The Dispatch again“Tax Reform in 2025: Putting Families First”: Video (and audio) available!Parting ShotsLove is in the air, but not as much as it should be.

2 months ago | eppc.org | Brad Littlejohn |Carter Snead |Carrie Gress |Patrick Brown

Published February 13, 2025 FUSION In his perceptive review of Christine Rosen’s important new book, The Extinction of Experience, Robert Bellafiore puts his finger on the fundamental challenge of tech criticism in an age of techno-euphoria: is it doomed only ever to preach to the already converted?

2 months ago | eppc.org | Brad Littlejohn |Clare Morell |Nathanael Blake |Aaron Rothstein

Published February 6, 2025 Comment Few ideals are so quick to our lips today as that of “freedom.” Except during brief periods of national insecurity or soul-searching, when the language of “safety,” “health,” or “justice” comes temporarily to the forefront, it has remained resilient as the common currency of our politics, on both the right and the left. To be sure, the word is put to use in service of radically different and often opposed ideals, but this should hardly surprise us. As Oliver...

2 months ago | aei.org | Katherine Boyle |Brad Littlejohn |Clare Morell |Santi Ruiz

The era of Big Tech, artificial intelligence, Donald Trump, and the United States’ great-power competition with China has thrust technology policy to the center of our national politics. Are new technologies helping or harming the American family? How should our society balance economic dynamism with the preservation of communities and institutions? And what is the appropriate role of the state in addressing these issues?

2 months ago | ifstudies.org | Michael Toscano |Brad Littlejohn |Clare Morell |Jon Askonas

A new era of technological change is upon us. It threatens to supplant the human person and make the family functionally and biologically unnecessary. But this anti-human outcome is not inevitable. Conservatives must welcome dynamic innovation, but they should oppose the deployment of technologies that undermine human goods. We must enact policies that elevate the family to a primary constituency of technological advancement.