Gage Klipper

5 days ago | lawliberty.org | Tom Cotton |Gage Klipper |Tal Fortgang |James Diddams

In March, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the 2025 Annual Threat Assessment (ATA). For the first time, the ATA identified the People’s Republic of China as the most capable threat actor that now confronts the United States. The reasons for ranking China as the top threat—militarily, economically, diplomatically, and informationally—are made clear in Seven Things You Can’t Say About China, a crisply written new book by US Senator Tom Cotton.

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Rachel Lomasky |Charles T. Rubin |Gage Klipper |Tal Fortgang

In his forum lead, Charles T. Rubin worries that turning human governance over to artificial general intelligence (AGI) will cause immense problems. The world, in particular the United States, has many incompetent government officials. We don’t need to worry, though, that soon some of them will be robot overlords—that technology is nowhere in sight.

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Mark Carlson |James Hartley |Gage Klipper

There has been much discussion of late about the role of independent regulatory agencies set up by the Federal government. The legislature makes laws, but someone has to figure out how to implement broad laws in particular cases. When it comes to areas requiring technical expertise, can and should the legislature set up agencies outside of the control of the executive branch? The Federal Reserve, created in 1913, is one of the oldest of these independent regulatory agencies.

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Quentin Skinner |Max Skjönsberg |Gage Klipper |James Diddams

Quentin Skinner is surely the most prominent living historian of political thought. In a career spanning over sixty years, Skinner has written about the history of political thought from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century. His oeuvre includes landmark studies on Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and ideas of the state and liberty, as well as pathbreaking works on historical methodology and hermeneutics.

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Quentin Skinner |Aaron Coleman |Gage Klipper |James Diddams

In Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Idea, renowned historian Quentin Skinner traces how a republican vision of liberty, one all but forgotten today, was eclipsed by its modern, liberal counterpart. This is not his first foray into the idea of liberty. In 1998, he published Liberty before Liberalism; in 2008, he followed with Hobbes and Republican Liberty. Both books confined their examination of liberty’s meaning to mid-seventeenth-century England.