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Atlas Shrugged in Silicon: Anthropic’s Battle Over their Property Rights

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Like Rearden saying “I will not,” AI creators defend property rights against the machinery of force. Note: Originally published on Substack on Feb 27, 2026. The current standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon is a defining philosophical battle of the twenty-first century, perfectly mirroring the plot of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”. When Dario Amodei and his team refuse to surrender their artificial intelligence, Claude, for autonomous killing and mass domestic […] Read more »

The Sovereign Opt-Out

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Atlas Shrugged meets Peter Pan meets a Logocentric Christianity The great departure was not an ending, but a thinning. It was a quiet exodus, unnoticed by those who measured the world in headlines and polls. There was no rupture in the sky, no grand announcement, only a gradual and persistent vanishing of certain individuals. They were the chess players in a world that had embraced Calvinball, the architects in an […] Read more »