Another year comes to an end. If you're reading this you might know that I'm currently writing a book. After a few years writing 100+ essays on this blog, some of them achieving some modest success, I received a grant from the Mercatus Institute at George Mason University in the middle of 2022. They were … Continue reading After 2024: On the Cusp
Happy new 2024 everyone 🙂 It feels weird to write a summary of 2023 since my archive contains exactly 0 posts from 2023. It looks like this place is a ghost town by now, never to come alive again. Maybe that's true, in that I'll probably move to Substack to keep writing when my book … Continue reading 2023 Review: Book
Four classes of forces shape our selves, which do we think of as the most important? It varies, and if we miss this we have a hard time properly understanding what others are saying. Read more (11 min, 2800 words).
People experience the nature of their wants, needs and desires very differently, and when they generalize the specifics of their own psychology onto everyone else it has a profound effect on their political beliefs. Read more (13 min, 3200 words).
In which I announce that I'm going to write a book. Read more (3 min, 700 words).
We often say things we don't really mean, which is fine as long as what we say doesn't make its way to where it looks like we do mean it. Avoiding that is getting more and more difficult and the consequences are quite serious.
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A long review, with further musings, of "Cynical Theories". Read more (30 min, 7600 words).
I discuss how you can dismiss, acknowledge, or generalize from the particular to the general, and how this matters for the way political capital is created and accumulated. Read more (11 min, 2800 words).
I folliow up on "Cat Couplings" from 2019 with a bunch of new examples and further thinking on how and why cat couplings work. Read more (13 min, 3300 words).
A dialog on how everything is. Read more (6 min, 1600 words).
Everything Studies 