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law professor @NorthwesternLaw: technology, constitutional and international law theorist, blogger at Law and Liberty, Federalist Society Paul Bator awardee
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Data Centers and the Liberal State

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By John O. McGinnis
| Law & Liberty Verified
A liberal state does not distribute privileges or impose burdens according to popularity. Yet in recent years, data centers have been alternately privileged and burdened. When they were popular because of their promise of jobs and growth, states showered them with tax breaks. Now that they have become unpopular because of growing recognition of their demand for electricity and water, states and localities have rushed to impose peculiar regulations or even moratoriums on their construction.
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Mill’s Liberalism Revisited – Max Skjönsberg

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By Max Skjönsberg, John O. McGinnis, Tal Fortgang
| Law & Liberty Verified
Gregory Conti, in his introduction to a new edition of John Stuart Mill’s Writings on Representative Government and Parliamentary Reform, writes, “Mill is best known as the embodiment of liberalism.”We may think that we know what this means, but do we?
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The Economist Who Forgot Economics

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By John O. McGinnis
| Econlib
Daron Acemoglu won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024 and is the third most cited economist of all time. Thus, the paradox of his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?, is that its most serious analytic failures are economic. He provides a sincere and serious consideration of modern liberalism’s estrangement from the working class. But when he moves from description to solutions, the basic building blocks of economic analysis disappear.
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