Posts (22)

Date Post Archived
2025-10-08
Why It Probably Gets Worse After Trump
Why It Probably Gets Worse After Trump
More populist and ethnonationalist, maybe less conspiratorial
2025-10-06
Bring Back the Internet Gatekeepers
Bring Back the Internet Gatekeepers
“He killed my ma, he killed my pa… I'll vote for him”
2025-10-03
Open Borders, the Lessons of UAE, DEI at GMU, and More with Bryan Caplan
Open Borders, the Lessons of UAE, DEI at GMU, and More with Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan joined me on the livestream today to discuss my recent article, “Economists Should Do More to Fight Misinformation.” We begin by splitting…
2025-10-01
Performing Gender, Left and Right
Performing Gender, Left and Right
Reflections on cultural differences between conservatives and liberals
2025-10-01
No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare
No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare
The completely fact-free debate over the continuing resolution
2025-09-29
Economists Should Do More to Fight Misinformation
Economists Should Do More to Fight Misinformation
Knowledge is a real thing
2025-09-26
Indians Are Hated Because They Are Dark and Can't Play Football
Indians Are Hated Because They Are Dark and Can't Play Football
How subconscious prejudices warp conservatives' views
2025-09-22
Pascal's Wager as Spiritual Extortion
Pascal's Wager as Spiritual Extortion
The history of religion as the triumph of the cruel
2025-09-20
Please Find Less Stupid Ways to Defend Trump
Please Find Less Stupid Ways to Defend Trump
Mike Solana's bizarre take on the Kimmel controversy
2025-09-19
Power is Power
Power is Power
Thoughts on the new right-wing cancel culture
2025-09-18
How Big Pharma Saved My Skin
How Big Pharma Saved My Skin
Bad capitalism is better than good socialism
2025-09-17
Beyond the Culture War: Getting Serious about Reducing Crime
Beyond the Culture War: Getting Serious about Reducing Crime
Red states are not doing any better
2025-09-11
Dumbest Form of Racism, Dumbest Form of Socialism
Dumbest Form of Racism, Dumbest Form of Socialism
Why I stand against anti-Indian hate
2025-09-10
"The Left" Did Not Kill Charlie Kirk
"The Left" Did Not Kill Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk was shot and killed today while speaking at Utah Valley University.
2025-09-08
Independent Thinkers Are Allowed to Appreciate Good Things
Independent Thinkers Are Allowed to Appreciate Good Things
Eleven Thoughts on Abundance DC
2025-09-06
Abundance Should Not Erase the Traditional Republican
Abundance Should Not Erase the Traditional Republican
Reaganism still has something to teach us
2025-08-26
Can a Bannon-Groyper Alliance Derail Vance?
Can a Bannon-Groyper Alliance Derail Vance?
We're already seeing glimmers of what a post-Trump GOP will look like
2025-08-17
The Prescience of The Origins of Woke
The Prescience of The Origins of Woke
A tribute to myself
2025-08-10
Coffee, Cherry Pie, and the Nostalgia Trap
Coffee, Cherry Pie, and the Nostalgia Trap
Review of Twin Peaks (1990-1991), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
2025-08-08
High-Skill Immigration as the Ultimate Progress Issue
High-Skill Immigration as the Ultimate Progress Issue
There is no version of technofuturism that doesn't appreciate Elite Human Capital
2025-08-02
No to Borders, Yes to Allowing Whites-Only Enclaves
No to Borders, Yes to Allowing Whites-Only Enclaves
Common intuitions are backwards
2025-07-28
The Colbert Cancellation and Why Comedy Must Now Be Political
The Colbert Cancellation and Why Comedy Must Now Be Political
Values determine what we find funny