State Corporatism on the Rise

Steve Hayes is joined by Kevin Williamson, Megan McArdle, and Scott Lincicome to discuss AI and state corporatism and what the national debt is costing us today.

The Agenda:

—Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund proposal (nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/artificial-inte…)

—Government ownership of tech (washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/12/preside…)

—Anthropic's Mythos model (anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access)

—The national debt (thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/federal-…)

—America's most boring nightmare (washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/07/america…)

—NWYT: Optimism

Show notes:

—CATO Institute on a Social Security inflation calculator (cato.org/commentary/social-security-needs-new-…)

—Scott Lincicome on state corporatism (cato.org/free-society/winter-2026/conspicuous-…)

—Europe 2031 (europe2031.ai)

—Klon Kitchen on Mythos (thedispatch.com/article/artificial-intelligenc…)

—SCOTUSblog live event (executivepoweranditslimits.splashthat.com)

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