Self-Reliance: The Lost Trail of Silicon Valley - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to Washington , D.C. , and begged Congress to make his life significantly harder.

Julian Zelizer : We've entered a new age where many Americans are more comfortable relying on a paternal federal government than relying on themselves.

Zelizer says Altman 's instinct toward regulation reflects a fundamental shift in American life — we substituted swaggering American self-reliance for regulation.

Davis Van Inwegen is a third-year law student at Wake Forest University School of Law , and an incoming litigation fellow at Pacific Legal Foundation .

The American Frontiers were founded and settled away from the prying eyes of government, not right under its nose.

If we want to continue leading global innovation, we must hold ourselves to higher standards of self-reliance.