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Guns at Annunciation

The Grifted Age

Blood Diamonds and the Lottery of Earth

Brain Food

The Despot's Guide to Job Statistics

Just War Theory and the Philosophers of Gaza

The Red Queen Fallacy

The Death of Democracy Promotion

Jerome Powell and the Authoritarian Sirens of Odysseus

The Catastrophic Risk of Space Junk

Brain Food

One Day in Kentucky and What Actually Makes America Great

Does taxing the rich cause millionaires to flee?

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition

The Evolution of Modern Dogs

How to Build a Cult of Personality

The Value of Proportionate Fines

Substack Economics

How many politicians are psychopaths?

Brain Food

A Modest Proposal for Life After Death

Trump's Deal with an Authoritarian Hitman

The Age of the Surefire Mediocre

The Status Cheats

The Perils of Human Longevity

Schemas and the Political Brain

Brain Food

We're Living Brave New World, Not 1984

The Crisis of Zombie Social Science

On Power and Stupidity

An Ode to Life at Richelieu Rock

"Knowingness" and the Politics of Ignorance

Is American democracy doomed?

Brain Food

DOGE and the Coming Tsunami

The False Gospel of Stuff and Status

The Superb Owl and Nature's Stealth Wisdom

From Patrons to Plutocrats: Why Superyachts are the New Cathedrals

The Democratization of Information Production is Killing Democracy

Why the world isn't as bad as you think

How to survive the second Trump era

Brain Food

The entire first chapter of FLUKE

Faustian Capitalism

Against Optimization

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