Charles G. Koch 🏴

America’s collapse isn’t an accident. It’s the price of worshiping Milton Friedman. From broken schools to crumbling roads, the free market became a suicide pact. ft.com/content/8a1575…

Here’s what’s going on with fertility rates: for all of human history, the pull out method has been suboptimal in terms of birth control/fun/sin and so if you had sex you had to accept that you would have babies pretty often. Those babies died more frequently than they do now, so…

I don't think most Americans realize how hard tariffs are about to hit them. The combination of 1) escalating tariffs, 2) companies slowly passing this to consumers, and 3) repeal of the de minimis exemption in the Big Beautiful Bill, a lot stuff will be more expensive in 2027.

I liked economics and then they added numbers

"I liked philosophy and then they added numbers"

That's a $7 trillion tax hike on Americans, for those following.

Still don't believe that Greek statues had feathers, can't imagine it

I think the memes of this scene kinda make you forget how well executed this moment is because with any other show or director this could’ve been a huge jump the shark moment the rest of the show could never come back from

Fwiw, I have absolutely seen (often smart) STEM majors struggling in philosophy classes

Andry entered legally. He waited in Mexico, then went to a port of entry. While there, some Keystone Cop fool of a CBP officer thought his “mom” and “dad” tattoos were gang tattoos, and sent him to ICE detention. That was bad enough. Then Trump sent him to a torture prison.

Here’s a pretty good heuristic: political regimes that people flee *to* tend to be better than political regimes that people flee *from*. Cuba is actually existing socialism and it’s a disaster

the “radical” response to pacifism is annoying in that it doesn’t respond to actual pacifists, just to “moderates” who claim to be advocating pacifism

America! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

What's the deep historical-cultural explanation for why the UK is *both* the main place where classical liberal ideas emerged (Locke, Smith, Hume, Mill, Spencer, Cobden, Bright, Paine, Hodgskin, etc) *and* so over-the-top and petty with managerial paternalist stuff like this now?

youtube.com/watch?v=oz_xoX… I thoroughly enjoyed this. Among other things @PeterBoettke and @Kaleidicworld discussed Foucault vis à vis Nozick's utopia and Kukathas' archipelago, Friedman's scientism and how to interpret markets.

Repulsive. Andry Hernandez entered the U.S. *legally.* Then—without due process—the government shipped him to a torture prison where he says people were beaten, shot with rubber rounds & sexually abused. That anyone’s okay with that just because he wasn’t born here is disturbing.

respect for the moral law

"South Park is woke; the Wall Street Journal are resist lib journalists" is a moment worth beholding

How it feels to still believe January 6th and the attempts to overturn the 2020 election were some of the most disqualifying things a president has ever done in history

Guy who thinks nobody moves to NYC