The Volokh Conspiracy

Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent | Est. 2002

The Jaxson

Urbanism and Culture on Florida's First Coast.

Palladium

Governance Futurism

  • A Movement Is Not Enough

    Brazil’s dysfunctional governance is locked into place by the party politics of a corrupt establishment. The Mission ...

  • Do Not Tread Lightly

    Our society avoids confronting the reality of death, and reflection on life, by mandating forgetting of those that pa...

  • The Limits of AI as an Economic Weapon

    A market divided between premium U.S. models and cheap, open-weight Chinese AI could deny the U.S. one of its best to...

The Scholar's Stage

A forum to discuss the intersections of history, behavioral science, and strategic thought, with an emphasis on East and Southeast Asian affairs.

  • The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Pure Math Benchmark

    PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated.  I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have und...

  • China and the Future of Science

    THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here i...

  • On Bombing Iran

    THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to cha...