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-trillion... 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 definition... 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. Perhaps... 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 never... 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 her... Read more.
Scientific Meta-Analysis is Broken
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Systematic review and meta-analysis should not just be a reflection of power — who can fund the most RCTs, who can perform the most statistical wizardry. They... Read more.
Did Liberalism Fail?
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Liberalism unleashes human flourishing and creativity better than any other path in history. But any theory built around the sovereignty of the individual inevitably... Read more.
The Rise of Pharma Fascism and the Ruination of the Commons
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No Pharaoh, no king, no feudal lord, and certainly no political party has ever before claimed that they own the air and that the mere act of breathing by the citizenry... Read more.
Naomi Klein’s Extremely Strange Attack on Naomi Wolf
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Ms. Klein, the revolution that you have sought your whole life is right here — in the medical freedom movement — left, right, and, center; rich and poor; all... Read more.
Is McKinsey & Company Part of the Deep State?
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The administrative state is horrible and it deserves to be called out. The next President can and should cut the administrative state in half (one could do so with... Read more.
Snipe Hunts All the Way Down
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The revolution we seek then is about a turn away from the artificial and ridiculous toward the real. That would seem to be the most natural and rewarding turn of... Read more.