Economics and politics
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The Rational Optimist: Matt Ridley’s ode to freedom
Reading and thinking about Birds, Sex & Beauty by Matt Ridely reminded me of his other books I’ve read over the years. He’s a wonderful…
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1933 and 2025: Weimar Germany doesn’t help us understand the current situation
To the degree it is possible for any one born in the 1980s, I have a sense for what occurred in Germany in the run-up…
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Democracy, the Fortunate: The right choice in multiple ways
It’s fortunate that liberal democracy, the only acceptable sort of governance (because it’s the only one that respects the dignity and rights of the individual)…
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Relax About the Population Collapse: Declining birth rates may be a net positive
There’s widespread agreement that a declining population is equivalent to declining fortunes, be it for cities, for countries or for the whole world. That fertility…
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The Things We Don’t Have to Do: How much importance to give them?
It’s the things we don’t have to do that make live worth living: Art, humor, play. Fleeting grace. Beauty. When that fight to save humanity…
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The US Democracy Threat Index: Monitoring if the country is doing well
Metaculus has introduced a US Democracy Threat Index. Here is their description: [It] combines 39 concrete forecast questions into a single metric tracking institutional resilience.…
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