Two charts
One from this week’s WSJ, the other from this week’s Economist.…
society
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2024
Something I've been saying recently is: "I don't know what's going to happen this year, but whatever happens, it's going to be unprecedented!" To put things charitably: We’…
Uber-Rationalism
Bruno Maçães talks about a recent convergence of ideologies ... Here some serious pathologies quickly coalesce. First, many of these people only recently developed a taste for politics and political…
Precarious times
An excerpt from Peter Turchin's new book, "End Times"…
On lacking good authority
Recently started reading “The Mysterious Benedict Society” with my daughter (after the show on Disney), and … it has some interesting parts. (This was written just before “the Great Recession”, fifte…