History offers many examples where governments, feeling their power or authority threatened or in decline, begin their tyranny with suppressing free speech. The pattern is consistent: when the state perceives an existential threat, whether from war, internal dissent, or political rivalry, the space for open criticism tends to shrink. Under the Roman Principate, free speech became a delicate and dangerous matter. The Emperor Augustus systematically reorganized the calendar and public life, placing “ever tighter curbs on free speech.” Augustus restricted free speech in Rome primarily by expanding the “Law of Treason” (maiestas) to cover spoken and written words, suppressing writings that…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Resilience is a skill you build before a crisis, by practicing clear, focused decision-making on everyday setbacks. Accept hard realities quickly, expect problems to come in waves and take time to recover and reflect once the crisis has passed. Ask any entrepreneur about the worst leadership crisis they’ve ever faced, and they’ll have an answer immediately. It probably wasn’t their proudest moment, but it likely made them a stronger leader.Those defining moments don’t always happen at work. Mine came on Mount Kilimanjaro, when my wife suddenly lost her eyesight from…
Kamala Harris has now accused Republicans of “cheating by purging voter rolls.” Stop and think about how insane American politics has become when maintaining an accurate voter-registration database can be casually described as cheating. The controversy concerns efforts to remove people who are no longer eligible or properly registered, including noncitizens, deceased voters, duplicates, and people who have moved. Federal elections are already restricted to American citizens. That is not some new Trump invention. What I cannot comprehend is why this has become partisan at all. Only citizens may vote in federal elections. Why should anyone care whether that citizen…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Expansion creates real growth only when each new business strengthens the ones you already own, so random diversification often adds complexity without adding leverage. Before launching a new venture, ask whether it serves the same customer, builds on an existing capability, creates opportunities for your other businesses and can run without draining your attention. Entrepreneurs love the idea of diversification. After building one successful company, the temptation is to chase the next opportunity that comes along. A friend pitches a restaurant concept. Someone mentions a real estate deal. A franchise…
Something is going seriously wrong with American politics when people who constantly speak about defending democracy can contemplate throwing democracy aside when they despise the person who won an election. A new Center for Strategic Politics poll conducted with Liberal Currents surveyed 683 Democratic voters and found that 59% would feel either “very positive” or “somewhat positive” if Donald Trump were removed from office through a military coup supposedly intended to safeguard the Constitution. Another 13% were neutral. Even more disturbing, 29% expressed a positive reaction to the hypothetical assassination of Trump. Read those numbers again. We are talking about…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Treat your standards as a filter that keeps misaligned hires, partners and habits out before they create costly friction. Set clear expectations for behavior and communication before investing in growth, then raise them as your company scales. Many leaders see high standards purely as a tool for achievement, whether that means gaining a competitive edge or outperforming the market. For years, I saw them that way too, judging my organizations mostly by execution and output. But working in multiple executive roles has taught me something deeper: High standards are fundamentally…
Argentina’s Javier Milei walked into the United Nations and told the bureaucrats sitting before him exactly what he thought of them. He said the organization had become “useless” and existed to support what he called a caste of “fatally arrogant parasites” masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats. Whether one agrees with Milei’s rhetoric or not, this was not the normal diplomatic garbage where politicians congratulate one another, read speeches written by committees, and then fly home while accomplishing absolutely nothing. He attacked the fundamental question nobody inside these institutions ever wants to discuss: who gave unelected international bureaucracies the authority to dictate…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Sophistication is assumed to protect people from being fooled. Our data found the opposite. Higher income and more education both correlated with worse accuracy at distinguishing an AI-edited video from a human-edited video. People weren’t guessing randomly. They used a consistent, wrong heuristic: Simple editing must mean a human made it; polished editing must mean AI made it. In this study, that was backwards. This goes beyond video. Any business assuming a certain customer segment will catch a shortcut or a quality drop is relying on an intuition that has…
Key Takeaways Jay Jones, who calls himself “The Profiler,” investigates suspicious listings and recruiter profiles, then reports them to platforms and companies. Jones says he has helped identify and remove nearly 60,000 fake job postings. The vast majority were on LinkedIn, alongside more than 7,000 allegedly fraudulent profiles. He calls himself “The Profiler.” Recruitment scammers call him a problem. This isn’t the premise of a superhero movie — it’s everyday life for Jay Jones, a 39-year-old Chicago-based resident who spends hours daily tracking down fake job ads and fraudulent recruiters on job boards. Jones is an out-of-work copywriter who now spends…
COMMENT: Well, Socrates does it again. It was a landslide in Russia for the pro-war camp, as you said; Zelensky was trying to achieve this result in hopes of bringing on World War III. You also said that if the dollar closes above 3.09 against Israel’s currency, that war can lead to a full-blown Middle East War. I don’t know how Socrates does it. What you discovered is like penicillin for geopolitics. PH ANSWER: Sometimes I wish I was one of those people with a mask on driving by myself with the windows up thinking the government really cares. Netanyahu…