The Banality of Emergency
Fear mobilizes. Emergency becomes architecture. The adult position is harder: we do not know — so no one gets unlimited power. Humility, sunset clauses, and awe before the order we do not own.
First a Movement of Mind
The electoral right opened a vacuum. Liberty has to fill it — or something worse will. First a movement of mind: intellectual, libertarian, and adult enough for capital and defence.
The State Addicted to the Instrument
COVID was the Keynesian moment. The post-COVID state is the Hayekian warning: emergency instruments rarely remain emergency instruments.
Hayek for the Age of Agents
Hayek matters more in the AI age, not less. The danger is central planning with better dashboards. The better path is sovereign coordination: humans, markets and agents as distributed intelligence in contact with reality.
