Society without an Organizing Thesis
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The urgent task for the Resistance is to define a political economy that addresses the failures of conservatism, liberalism, and progressivism while charting a ... Read more.
How We Can Rebuild American Science
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All of the data that we have right now is filtered through the pharmaceutical industry and it is fraudulent and unreliable. We need to rebuild the knowledge bas... Read more.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Our World
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We need a revolution to replace the Covidians with people who understand liberty. But even once we take power and restore the basic freedoms of the past 250 yea... Read more.
The New York Times: Latest Descent into Madness
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Healing from the current crisis does not require more civil servants, it requires a restored relationship with the natural world. I’m grateful for the people ... Read more.
The Fraught Relationship between Science and Power
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The biggest breakthroughs in the history of science usually come from the outsiders. So there’s a paradox in that proper science often dies when it makes an u... Read more.
Immunology Needs Physics Envy
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Kudos to the physicists for their humility and honesty in admitting what they don’t know. But this makes the arrogance of immunology all the more glaring by c... Read more.
The Teams Are Set for World War III
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The different sides in this war are not nation-states. Instead, Team Tyranny is a bunch of different business interests pushing what has become a giant multi-tr... Read more.
Perverse Incentives
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A perverse incentive is when the rules, structures, or practices of any system reward bad behavior or sociopathic outcomes. I had to come up with my own definit... Read more.
The Social Pole Switch
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I struggle to find words to describe how weird the last four years have been. I’m now starting to think that Covid represents a social pole switch worldwide. ... Read more.
Four Years Later: Lockdown “Deaths of Despair”
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The Economist article points out that deaths of despair now impact nearly every demographic group (not just the poor whites studied by Case and Deaton). But it ... Read more.
Did Liberalism Fail the Test of Covid?
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I am completely obsessed with the question of whether liberalism failed in response to Covid. As I’ve written before, I think it is perhaps the most important... Read more.
The Familiarity of Old Evils: The Zone of Interest Movie Review
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I think my hunch was correct — a movie about an entire society that ignored the genocide all around them hit a bit too close to home for Manohla Dargis and he... Read more.