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

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 »

Tariff Wars! Sociocentrism, Balkanization, and the Fracturing of Society

I have observed that Donald Trump is taking a lot of mostly non-aggressive, aka defensive, measures around the world in relationship to America and her interests, and that is what is tweaking everyone’s anger at him. This happened to us personally in the micro while living in the Europe; it was our protective actions around our family that got us into trouble, actions that would have been unnecessary had the […] Read more »