Technology Policy

Attacks on General Purpose Computing... and How We Can Defend Ourselves

Publius / 2026-04-23
General purpose computing is a historical anomaly. For a few decades — roughly from the late 1970s to the early 2020s — ordinary people had access to machines they could program, inspect, …
Technology Policy

Attacks on General Purpose Computing... and How We Can Defend Ourselves

Publius / 2026-04-23
General purpose computing is a historical anomaly. For a few decades — roughly from the late 1970s to the early 2020s — ordinary people had access to machines they could program, inspect, …
Social Structure

Old Money in Germany and Northern Europe: Hidden Wealth, Power, and Control

Publius / 2026-04-14
Germany is, by most conventional measures, one of the world’s most egalitarian societies. Its income Gini coefficient hovers around 0.31, well below the United States at 0.39. Its welfare state …
Political Philosophy

Libertarianism and the Iran Conflict

Publius / 2026-04-13
The libertarian and paleoconservative response to the 2026 Iran war has been swift, confident, and largely unresponsive to the specific facts of the conflict. Tom Woods, John Mearsheimer, and Tucker …
Religion and Society

The State and the Catholic Church in Germany

Publius / 2026-04-13
A Catholic friend recently suggested that what Germany needs is faith. I am sympathetic to that view. Germany is one of the most secularized societies in Europe, and the consequences are visible in …
Cybersecurity

The Technical Architecture of German Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Control

Publius / 2026-04-12
The German state and its European partners have built, and are continuing to build, a comprehensive system for monitoring, attributing, and controlling online activity. This paper describes the likely …
Comparative Constitutional Law

The Irreconcilability of US Constitutional Principles and the German FDGO

Publius / 2026-03-13
Ongoing political and regulatory conflicts between the United States and Europe — over digital regulation, platform governance, speech restrictions, AI policy, and data protection — are frequently …