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Self-Evident | Connor Boyack | Substack · Sep 14, 2026

AI ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE

Big AI Wants World Government. Say No.

An AI crisis was announced, amplified, and pitched within the span of just a few days. But could the controversy be manufactured for other reasons?

JACOB COXONSAM ALTMAN

Self-Evident | Connor Boyack | Substack · Sep 07, 2026

EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE

Labor Day? Why not Market Day?

America takes today off to honor “labor.” The story we tell about that holiday gets the economics, and much of the history, backward.

OREGON

Self-Evident | Connor Boyack | Substack · Aug 31, 2026

ELECTIONS AND VOTING

Houston, Republicans have a tariff problem

A new Texas poll finds Trump’s tariffs underwater with independents and Hispanics. The midterms will notice.

MEXICOTEXAS

Self-Evident | Connor Boyack | Substack · Aug 24, 2026

ACADEMIC RESEARCH

The Reckoning No Registrar Can Hide

The University of Michigan will hide its freshmen’s first-semester grades to protect their mental health. The better question is why so many arrive unable to earn them.

SAN DIEGOMICHIGANCOLLEGE

Self-Evident | Connor Boyack | Substack · Aug 17, 2026

DIGITAL FORENSICS AND INCIDENT RESPONSE

A Warehouse of Servers, a Fight About Everything Else

The fight over data centers looks like a war on the future. Underneath sits an old argument about who pays for what a neighbor builds, and who gets to say no.

VIRGINIAUTAH