Leaving Home to Save It

March 23rd, 2026 | 12 min read

Of late, I have been intensely feeling the pull of home. This is perhaps a consequence of my Quixotic effort to develop serious regulations of Generative AI, seeding laws in state capitols around the country to impose liabilities upon Big Tech companies, and being constantly wired into drop-everything-right-now calls to respond to the latest developments on Capitol Hill. Can one sleep if Big Tech never sleeps, if the bodies are mounting up, if lives are being mercilessly ground down, does one have the luxury of stopping?

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Michael Toscano

Michael Toscano is Senior Fellow, Director of the Family First Technology Initiative for the Institute for Family Studies. He previously served as Executive Director. The IFS was awarded a Heritage Innovation Prize in recognition of Michael's efforts to advance laws nationwide to make technology safer for kids. He is a leader of the "Future for the Family" movement; and his writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New York Post, National Affairs, First Things, Compact, The American Conservative, National Review, and elsewhere. He is co-author with Peter Wood of "What Does Bowdoin Teach? How a Liberal Arts College Shapes Students" (2013).

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Leaving Home to Save It

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