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03 September 2026
An analogy
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Imagine this: Ted A few years ago, Ted became a vocal “anti-feminist”. He is intense about it. He talks about it a lot. ...
19 August 2026
A “Jewish state”?
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Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so first: I keep an index of resources the moral question is simpl...
10 August 2026
Opting out
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Henry Fudge’s essay Degeneracy Is A Symptom is bleak and clarifying. Consider what it means to be a young adult in a developed econom...
04 August 2026
The information environment
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I shoulda assembled a linkpile of resources long ago. For now, just one key one: Nothing moves the needle A reflection on ho...
10 July 2026
Democratic socialism (n.)
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I keep needing a short explainer. What democratic socialism means As Hobbes teaches , government emerges from the need...
15 June 2026
Constitutional daydreams
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As one among many seeing a need (and opportunity) for big ideas to enable American reconstruction after this long, terrible moment, I h...
07 April 2026
Today we must draw a line
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This morning, President Trump threatened to commit massive genocide in Iran. A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brou...
20 March 2026
Murc’s Law
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the widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics You’ve Probably Never Heard o...
19 March 2026
Facts have a YIMBY bias
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For now this is just a disorganized stub index. I keep needing resources about housing policy, so I’m going to start racking them up here...
05 March 2026
Two encounters with the grift
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I have an unwholesome interest in scams. Not because I romanticize them; because I cannot imagine devoting that level of effort when one ...
23 February 2026
Republic Dogs
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Rescuing a classic from linkrot: Republic Dogs By Nathaniel Daw Copyright 1994 and all that. [ Thrasymachus is ti...
28 January 2026
One cheer for “‘AI’ art”?
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I am generally skeptical of breathless “AI” boosterism. LLMs have given us some astonishing surprises in the last few years, and we can e...
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