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Ways the Country Could Go to Hell
May you live in interesting times.
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Inventions I Would Like to See
Occasionally I think one up.
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What the European Right Believes
I recently had a conversation in Spain which reminded me of the more extreme ranges of American right-wing opinion.
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Rearing Children Who Will Like You
and why they sometimes don't
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Drones
capitalism in Russia
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Optimizing On A Single Variable
why not to
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May 2025

Harvard
Trump’s support is largely from flyover country, people who believe that the coastal elites look down at them, literally when flying between the east…
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Market Failure
an argument both for and against laissez-faire
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Utilitarianism and Politics
Reading comments on my recent post on implications of different versions of utilitarianism I was struck by the number of commenters who identified…
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Better Arguments
for libertarians, among others
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Utilitarianism, Effective Altruism, Population and Pigs
One ambiguity in utilitarianism, the philosophical claim that one should act in ways that maximize utility, is the question of whether what should be…
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A Traveler’s Notes
composed on a recent trip
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