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No, Eugenics Doesn't Discredit Progressive Liberalism

December 1, 2025

The right is eager to remind anyone who will listen that early 20th-century liberals supported eugenics. This argument is a frustrating attempt to bypass...

Something To Be Thankful For

November 27, 2025

Democracy against inequality; agency against structure

The Big Steel Ball of Socialism

November 21, 2025

In a direct follow-up to last month’s posts on economic “metagames” and capitalist coercion, I want to think a bit more about alternative ways to run an...

The "Confidence Fairy" and the "Prince of Darkness"

October 31, 2025

Spooky Halloween economic history

Escaping the Metagame

October 29, 2025

Evil Monopoly hotel strategies and what they meant for you

"The Value of a Human Life is About $10 Million"

October 22, 2025

Immigrant workers and the coercive foundations of our economy

Toughness Is Not Strength

September 30, 2025

Nakae Chōmin and Horatio Nelson vs. the Secretary of Defense

America’s First Free Speech Crisis

September 29, 2025

Wriggling toward democracy

Why Are Stocks Up? What Does It Mean?

September 15, 2025

Mr. Powell I don't feel so good

Mad about Trump? Blame Half of John Locke

August 25, 2025

Like pineapple on pizza, liberalism's worst ideas are getting in the way of itself

Teaching History in 2025

August 22, 2025

I don't (just) teach "skills"

Please Stop Putting Very Old Things in "Today's Dollars"

August 12, 2025

Instead, do this

The Heritage Foundation Must Be Destroyed

“Ladies and gentlemen, thank you. When we come to The Heritage Foundation,” Angolan warlord Jonas Savimbi greeted his audience in Washington on October 5,...

What LLMs mean for "Agency"

Secret agent(ic) man

It's Our America Too

The radical legacy of the revolution

The Right's View from Nowhere

False humility launders nihilism

Nuclear Rationality

Iran and American "rationality"

"Neo"liberalism?

Today’s post is actually me sharing something I just published elsewhere. Is Trumpism the death of “neoliberalism” or a change in form? Here’s a book review...

RFK Junior Is Going To Die Someday

Folk Lamarckism and the pro-disease movement

Stamps and Cybertrucks

Lessons from two object-focused protest movements