AI Isn’t Taking Your Job

It’s Your Escape Pod from Office Space

The AI doomers are saying that AI is going to take your job. I don’t necessarily disagree with them. I just think escaping these jobs and reclaiming our souls is the best thing to happen to America in 100 years, and we should be rejoicing...These doomers have it completely backwards. AI isn’t pushing safe people into a scary, risky world. It’s offering hard-working Americans who are in a fragile work situation their first shot at *real* security. They are sitting ducks and AI will give those ducks wings. Sadly, you sold your soul for something that turned out to not even give you the stability you thought you were getting in return. As Dostoevsky said, "Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” AI will help us atone for these sins.

Author

Cary Volpert

Date

June 29, 2026

Build, Baby, Build

Last week was the third annual Reindustrialize Summit hosted by the New American Industrial Alliance. This wasn't another conference about theoretical innovation or corporate release of an app destined to underwhelm. On contraire, it was a gathering of builders, entrepreneurs, hardware startups, engineers, investors, and policymakers who aren't just talking about America's industrial future, but actively constructing it.

Author

Nathan Leamer

Date

June 26, 2026

Josh Hawley's Clarion Call for AI

No amount of GDP growth is worth losing our republic. Conservatives should therefore follow Hawley’s lead and build out a vigorous, comprehensive program to ensure that AI works for Americans—not the other way around.

Author

John Hampden

Date

June 18, 2026

The Silicon Heartland Under Siege

Today, as Ohio and others states in the region weigh tax break repeals for data centers and even total moratoria, they would do well to take a more holistic view of their competitive advantages. The Buckeye State has earned a hard-won second chance at economic greatness. It may not get a third.

Author

Michael Foster

Date

June 15, 2026

Worried about AI? Rebellion isn’t the answer

Only if we put the soul first will we escape the death trap of rebellion – gaining the ability to have nice things (like robot servants) without discovering one day that, through them, we have destroyed ourselves.

Author

James Poulos

Date

June 8, 2026

How AI Killed the Technocratic Bargain

The Founders built a system on the consent of the governed. For a century, a competing tradition argued that consent was a fiction best left unexamined. A twenty-dollar AI subscription has now made the specialized class optional.

Author

Jennica Pounds

Date

June 4, 2026

Navigating the AI Revolution

Every economic revolution reorganizes labor, money, and the prevailing economic order. The AI revolution will be no different. Except that it is happening faster and to a society less equipped to absorb the shock. This essay examines the three reckonings the AI age will force: how we navigate a transition that is already displacing the workforce America spent the last fifty years building, what comes after a fiat monetary system that has concentrated rather than distributed wealth, and what economic framework can succeed capitalism when the scarcity that capitalism was designed to allocate begins to disappear.

Author

Scott Zipperle

Date

June 2, 2026

AI and the End of Careerism

Technology does not necessarily have to compete with family, faith, or human connection. In an unexpected twist, it may end up strengthening them, especially for the women who have borne the hidden costs of this new labor market of the last sixty years.

Author

Dylan Schroeder

Date

May 26, 2026

China’s Playbook to Kill American AI

For better or worse, artificial intelligence is the force likeliest to produce a unipolar world governed by one hegemonic civilization.

Author

Michael Foster

Date

May 19, 2026

The AI Labor Pipeline

While Americans are told to fear displacement by artificial intelligence in the future, many are already being displaced in the present by hiring practices of the very firms building it.

Author

Steven Edginton

Date

May 13, 2026

AI Is Powering a New Culture of Builders

AI is making it easier to build real things again. It is proliferating outside of Silicon Valley and has ignited a promise for exportation across the nation: any community can become a hotbed for innovation and opportunity.

Author

Nathan Leamer

Date

May 6, 2026

The Cheap Foreign Labor Regime Blocking Agricultural Intelligence

The Right often talks about building a worker-centered coalition. Agriculture is where that idea could actually take shape...[but]...America is preparing for the AI age everywhere—except the place that feeds the country.

Author

RJ Hauman

Date

May 1, 2026

American Workers for AI

For at least a decade now, commentators on the political right have called for the reindustrialization of America, for putting our people to work building things in the real world. Now the digital and physical economies are converging, and the time has come to forge a worker-centered coalition focused on development and opportunity.

Author

Michael Foster

Date

April 24, 2026

Cheering the Wrong Decline

The frustration over data centers is both real and earned, in large part because the initial expansion of data centers came with tax handouts, no energy supply, and a culture of secrecy, bound by non-disclosure agreements, that exacerbated distrust in communities across the country. But the people cheering these delays have badly misread what is actually happening, who it hurts, and what it means for America's position in the world.

Author

Aiden Buzzetti

Date

April 15, 2026

Masters of the Flood

Rivers of bits pound through the air into the smallest channels, twisting and turning upon themselves, throwing themselves against our minds through great bright screens that never flag or tire. This great psychic Borg is changing us and everyone knows it.

Author

Lucius

Date

April 6, 2026

An Aspirational Tech Right–Populist Right Alliance

One of the great opportunities for statesmanship in coming years is the forging of such an alliance.

Author

Nate Fischer

Date

March 27, 2026

Dario Amodei Needs Jesus. Literally.

The delegation of AI alignment responsibility to a small, ideologically homogeneous research community that is largely irreligious, disproportionately progressive, and nearly entirely unaccountable to democratic institutions is the most disastrous governance failure of our time.

Author

Solomon

Date

March 20, 2026

The Engineers' Veto

Anthropic’s Claude stands, by most credible accounts, as the most capable AI model currently operating in classified military systems. The Pentagon reportedly used it in the January 2026 capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Eight of the ten largest American corporations rely on it. And yet the company that builds this tool now presumes to tell the Department of War when and how the military may employ it in defense of the United States. This is an extraordinary claim. It deserves an extraordinary response.

Author

William Thibeau

Date

February 27, 2026

Mind the Gap

If you're reading this and feeling anxious about your own career, your own mortgage, your own kids' future (good). That means you're paying attention. The worst thing any of us can do right now is assume this doesn't apply to us. It applies to almost everyone. The best thing we can do is start talking about the gap honestly, without pretending we have answers we don't have. Because the gap is coming. And the only question is whether we build a bridge or fall in.

Author

Mat Vogels

Date

March 4, 2026

What Conservatives Should Learn From the Anthropic Dispute

Hegseth was essentially ordering Anthropic to build a new capability—one that contravenes its most deeply held ethical principles, and lies outside the scope of its current contracts—and make that available to the U.S. military. If any party is radically revising the nature of defense contracting, it is the U.S. government.

Author

John Hampden

Date

March 6, 2026

Algorithmic Governance

While our federal bureaucracy hums along, a man who helped bring this issue to a head last year, Elon Musk, believes that AI has the power to replace all jobs and “make work optional.” But are we ready to use that power to shrink the federal workforce?

Author

Noah Wall

Date

March 11, 2026

American Intelligence

For two hundred and fifty years, America has vaulted forward on waves of innovation. Steam engines, the internet. We controlled them all, constructing a superpower. But with AI, for the first time, we might be at the mercy of the machine. What happens when it truly learns to think, to create, to decide? It's time for a real plan. We must harness AI's inevitable power in the interest of life and liberty. Or else.

Author

The Architect

Date

February 27, 2026

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