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Foreign policy, American politics, and social science
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I Dream of Heroic Africans Fighting for the Donbas
I Dream of Heroic Africans Fighting for the Donbas
Western money plus third world manpower can defeat Putin
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November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I Dream of Heroic Africans Fighting for the Donbas
The Neoliberal Era Was Not Pro-Market Enough
The Neoliberal Era Was Not Pro-Market Enough
Free market economists made government plateau, not shrink
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November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Neoliberal Era Was Not Pro-Market Enough
The Real Target of Pedophile Hysteria Is Age Gap Relationships
The Real Target of Pedophile Hysteria Is Age Gap Relationships
There are costs to lying about basic biology
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November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Real Target of Pedophile Hysteria Is Age Gap Relationships
Should Republicans Be More Explicitly Racist?
Should Republicans Be More Explicitly Racist?
How opposition to immigration leads to economic collectivism
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November 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Should Republicans Be More Explicitly Racist?
Patrick Deneen's Work Is Unempirical Drivel
Patrick Deneen's Work Is Unempirical Drivel
The intellectual fraud of postliberalism
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November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Patrick Deneen's Work Is Unempirical Drivel
Start Demagoguing Against the Old
Start Demagoguing Against the Old
It's better to adopt political narratives that get closer to the truth
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November 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Start Demagoguing Against the Old
Groypers Are Just More Honest MAGAs
Groypers Are Just More Honest MAGAs
Why Fuentes has already won
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November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Groypers Are Just More Honest MAGAs
Believe in Markets, Not Men (or Women)
Believe in Markets, Not Men (or Women)
Truth-seeking is found in prices and incentives
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November 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Believe in Markets, Not Men (or Women)
Groyperization Accelerating
Groyperization Accelerating
The arc of conservatism bends towards Fuentes
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November 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Groyperization Accelerating
Fatima and the Sample Size Compensation (SSC) Fallacy
Fatima and the Sample Size Compensation (SSC) Fallacy
Don't trust groups of peasants, even ones that are very large
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October 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Fatima and the Sample Size Compensation (SSC) Fallacy
Liberalism, ISIS, and Toaster Nationalism
Liberalism, ISIS, and Toaster Nationalism
Being poor doesn't give you more meaning
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October 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Liberalism, ISIS, and Toaster Nationalism
On the Success of Neoliberalism
On the Success of Neoliberalism
Freer markets turned out to be the solution to economic stagnation
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October 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
On the Success of Neoliberalism
Why the Media Is Pro-Trump (yes, you read that right)
Why the Media Is Pro-Trump (yes, you read that right)
A lesson in how civilizations declines
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October 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Why the Media Is Pro-Trump (yes, you read that right)
The China Shock and Why the Midwest Needs to Decline
The China Shock and Why the Midwest Needs to Decline
Good policies will always have losers
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October 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The China Shock and Why the Midwest Needs to Decline
The "Feminization" Discourse as Partisan Hackery
The "Feminization" Discourse as Partisan Hackery
There is no evidence more masculine movements care more about truth
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October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The "Feminization" Discourse as Partisan Hackery
How AI Made Me 33% More Productive
How AI Made Me 33% More Productive
Taking the grunt work out of writing
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October 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
How AI Made Me 33% More Productive
Humor, the Causes of War, and Everything in Between with Steven Pinker
Humor, the Causes of War, and Everything in Between with Steven Pinker
There are few (if any!) people alive whose work I think more highly of than Steven Pinker, or whose books have done more to shape my worldview.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Humor, the Causes of War, and Everything in Between with Steven Pinker
Why It Probably Gets Worse After Trump
Why It Probably Gets Worse After Trump
More populist and ethnonationalist, maybe less conspiratorial
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October 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Why It Probably Gets Worse After Trump
Bring Back the Internet Gatekeepers
Bring Back the Internet Gatekeepers
“He killed my ma, he killed my pa… I'll vote for him”
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October 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Bring Back the Internet Gatekeepers
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 some hairs about whether the misinformation label misleads us about the ultimate origins of false beliefs, and also the difference between something being emotionally unappealing and intuitively incorrect.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Open Borders, the Lessons of UAE, DEI at GMU, and More with Bryan Caplan
No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare
No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare
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October 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare
Performing Gender, Left and Right
Performing Gender, Left and Right
Reflections on cultural differences between conservatives and liberals
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October 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Performing Gender, Left and Right
Economists Should Do More to Fight Misinformation
Economists Should Do More to Fight Misinformation
Knowledge is a real thing
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September 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Economists Should Do More to Fight Misinformation
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
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September 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Indians Are Hated Because They Are Dark and Can't Play Football
Pascal's Wager as Spiritual Extortion
Pascal's Wager as Spiritual Extortion
The history of religion as the triumph of the cruel
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September 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Pascal's Wager as Spiritual Extortion