archive

2024-05

• Industrial policy and ecosystems
• The long fistbump

2024-04

• Out of the spotlight
• The quality of what is coordinated
• Of dentistry and democracy
• Seeing like a CEO
• Indirection and the character of capitalism (Part II)
• Indirection and the character of capitalism (Part I)

2024-03

• How to understand approval voting
• Why does wage compression underwhelm?
• A simple theory of the stock market

2024-02

• What you are doing right now
• Situated versus unsituated virtues
• Demographic transition is just specialization and trade
• Nimble nationality will define state capacity

2023-12

• How to regulate AI
• Norms mean you can't pull rank
• There's no such thing as international law

2023-11

• Obama was the most destructive political figure of my lifetime
• How rights make wrongs
• Pluralism or magnanimity?
• The bad war, like all the wars

2023-10

• Price rationing
• The rhetoric of condemnation
• National self-determination is a vicious idea

2023-08

• Fascism as triage

2023-07

• If I were the plutocracy
• Degrowth for Whigs
• Cornering the future

2023-06

• Quietly expensive desperation

2023-05

• Smeagols
• Decommodification and health care utilization
• We haunt

2023-04

• Urgency
• Two kinds of representation
• Two parties make us stupid
• Taiwan
• Systemic means it's not your fault
• Alignment is the problem of God's love

2023-03

• State as coordination
• Banks should fail much more often
• Financial regulation is just debt covenants
• Banks are not private
• Unlimited deposit insurance
• Libertarians and hierarchy
• Dilution of faction requires voting system reform
• Economists are such scoundrels
• What is fascism?
• Higher education is shockingly right-wing

2023-02

• New College
• Instead
• Thick antitrust
• Four quadrants of Section 230ishness
• Hello!