Past, Present, and Future
April 10, 2025 • #A useful way of thinking about the domains of our three branches of government
Topic / politics
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How the Constitution Can Bring Us Together
June 12, 2024 • #Yuval Levin joins EconTalk.
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Comfort with Contradiction
April 2, 2024 • #Fostering a comfort with complex trade-offs.
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Will Milei Succeed in Argentina?
January 24, 2024 • #Tyler Cowen's prospects for Milei.
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January 24, 2024 • #
Tyler Cowen is hopeful (as am I), but skeptical:
For a country to swing so wildly from state-run strangulation to an quasi-populist libertarian economist makes me worried his effect on Argentine bureaucracy will fade in the next 12 months.
But his Davos talk was phenomenal. Should be shown in high school classrooms.
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The Case for Muddling Through
April 18, 2023 • #Brink Lindsey on our current crises, with a ray of optimism we'll get through it.
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Brittle Authoritarianism
May 3, 2022 • #Jonah Goldberg on the fragility of authoritarianism and the resilience of liberalism.
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What if Government Paid Better?
October 14, 2020 • #Government vs. free markets and attracting the ambitious class.
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The Prophet of the Revolt
September 30, 2020 • #An interview with Martin Gurri.
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Weekend Reading: Notes Meta Layer, PG, and the Trump Era
September 5, 2020 • #A notes meta-layer, an interview with Paul Graham, and the Donald Trump era.
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On Legibility
July 31, 2020 • #Riffs on James Scott's 'Seeing Like a State' and Venkatesh Rao's commentary on the book.
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Weekend Reading: Looking Glass Politics, Enrichment, and OSM Datasets
July 18, 2020 • #Gurri on private vs. public emotions, McCloskey on the boom of modern progress, and Facebook's work on OpenStreetMap data.
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Weekend Reading: The Hour of the State, Location AI, and Mapillary Acquired
June 20, 2020 • #The public vs. the state, DataRobot's Location AI, and the Mapillary team joins Facebook.
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Weekend Reading: Dracones, Calendars, and Science 2.0
June 6, 2020 • #Adam Elkus on the current state of culture, Devon Zuegel on using calendars, and Robin Hanson on skepticism.
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Weekend Reading: Post-Truth, Knowledge, and Game Graphics
May 30, 2020 • #Gurri on post-truth, Hayek's Pretence of Knowledge, and GTA V graphics.
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Martin Gurri on EconTalk
May 27, 2020 • #Martin Gurri talks with Russ Roberts about his book.
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Weekend Reading: Two Elites, DOS in VR, and Personal Brainstorming
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The Revolt of the Public in 10 Minutes
May 20, 2020 • #Martin Gurri gives a brief overview of his book.
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President Goop's Ultralight Beam Vaccine
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The Great Reset
April 30, 2020 • #Martin Gurri responds to Marc Andreessen's recent essay.
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The Ideological Turing Test
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Weekend Reading: The State and the Virus, Future of Work, and Stephen Wolfram's Setup
April 18, 2020 • #How should the state respond to the coronacrisis?, mapping the future of work, and Stephen Wolfram's deep dive on his productivity systems.
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A Failure, But Not of Prediction
April 17, 2020 • #Slate Star Codex breaks down the COVID response problems and the fallibility of human reasoning.
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Three Languages
April 7, 2020 • #Arnold Kling and the Three Languages framework.
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David Deutsch on Brexit and Error Correction
April 3, 2020 • #On resilience, error correction, Brexit, Karl Popper, and more.
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Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures
March 20, 2020 • #The difference between 'tight' and 'loose' cultures — conformists vs. non-conformists.
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How Elite Institutions Lost Their Legitimacy
February 16, 2020 • #A discussion between economist Arnold Kling and author Martin Gurri.
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Weekend Reading: Soleimani, Prosperous Universe, and Roam
January 11, 2020 • #Iran's 'shadow commander', economic simulations in space, and Roam for interlinked note taking.
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What Andrew Yang Means
November 17, 2019 • #On the staying power of the Andrew Yang phenomenon.
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Weekend Reading: Darwinian Gastronomy, Humboldt, and Taxes
November 16, 2019 • #Spicy foods and evolution, Humboldt's maps, and picking apart income taxes.
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Weekend Reading: Iceland, the Use of Knowledge, and CLI Search
September 14, 2019 • #Hayek on society's use of knowledge, a fuzzy finder for the command line, and beautiful footage of Iceland's geography.
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Weekend Reading: Intellectual Humility, Scoping, and Gboard
August 31, 2019 • #Scoping in product development, intellectual humility in discourse, and Google's team on Gboard predictive typing.
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Jonathan Haidt on the Righteous Mind
July 9, 2019 • #Interview with Jonathan Haidt from EconTalk.
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Weekend Reading: Private DNS, Opportunity, and Millennial Socialism
February 23, 2019 • #Cloudflare's private DNS system, the Mars rover Opportunity is no more, and the rise of millennial socialism.
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Progress Report: The Federalist Papers
December 4, 2018 • #“Thoughts on the Federalist through essay
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Francis Fukuyama on The Origins of Political Order
November 29, 2018 • #Fukuyama presentation on the Origins of Political Order.
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Elections, 2018
November 6, 2018 • #“A quick note on the 2018 midterm elections.”
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