Soren Dayton
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@niskanencenter governance. @uchicagoceg fellow. Husband, cook, runner. Back from India with @ijm. @uchicago Only speak for myself. And then only sometimes.
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Oct 29, 2024 |
yahoo.com | Soren Dayton
Perhaps no day in the congressional calendar is quite as wonky as the which took place this year on Sept. 19. On this day, House members testify before the Rules Committee, proposing changes they believe would improve the legislative process. Although it’s not a place for dramatic debates, it offers valuable insight into what’s on lawmakers’ minds. The proposals here are often significant, but rarely attention-grabbing. Reps.
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Oct 18, 2024 |
niskanencenter.org | Soren Dayton
The letter below, signed by a cross-ideological coalition, urges Congress to pass bipartisan reforms to the National Emergencies Act (NEA) that would restore Congress’s role in national emergencies and prevent presidential overreach by requiring timely approval and reporting for emergency declarations. These reforms would be the most important reclamation of Congressional power in the separation of powers since the 1970s and provide a template for future reform.
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Aug 1, 2024 |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Soren Dayton
President Joe Biden’s embrace of US Supreme Court justice term limits, among other reforms, caps a years-long decline in progressive support for the court as an institution. In evaluating this proposal, we should consider its intended outcome, what complications it could create in the nominations process, and the real-world impact. The proposed reforms follow recent ethics concerns about the high court and its recent opinion involving presidential immunity for official acts.
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Jun 25, 2024 |
niskanencenter.org | Soren Dayton
This essay is from the June 2024 edition of Hypertext, the Niskanen Center’s journal of liberalism, political economy, and policy. Every month we publish a series of essays – featuring thinkers with a wide variety of viewpoints – that defies the tired dichotomy of left and right while engaging with a vision of America where competitive markets, robust public goods, and an effective state reinforce one another.
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Jun 21, 2024 |
hypertextjournal.substack.com | Soren Dayton
Steve Teles and Rob Saldin have provided a very useful reformulation of ideas to give more ideological clarity to the moderate factions of one or both parties. In their essay, in which they identify as moderates, they claim that “moderation is a dead end,” and make a hard(ish?) pivot to an “Abundance Agenda” that should be driven by a national elite. But I was somewhat puzzled by the hardness of the pivot and the nationalization of the story.
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Oh no. I hadn't processed that we are going to get @politico-style coverage of the conclave. The sacred and the profane, all at once.
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, meaning a conclave will soon be convened to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. Here are some of the key names you are likely to hear in the weeks ahead. 👇 https://t.co/9gA4M6v3st
Wherever you land on any of this, where was the postwar libertarianism? The Clinton-era welfare reform? Surely not the wars and spending of the Bush administration?
I think @realchrisrufo making a distinction between post-war libertarianism posing as classical liberalism versus the classical liberalism of the Founders is the critical and *correct* distinction to make. To find post-war libertarianism unsatisfactory and hollowed out does not
I have wondered about this. There is so much data out there to unlock.
Rich Sutton just published his most important essay on AI since The Bitter Lesson: "Welcome to the Era of Experience" Sutton and his advisee Silver argue that the “era of human data,” dominated by supervised pre‑training and RL‑from‑human‑feedback, has hit diminishing returns; https://t.co/dmIfGL8E5l
