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July 15, 2026
Why I didn't sign the "We Must Act Now" statement (yet)
I'd like to know exactly what the actions are.
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July 13, 2026
The American suburbs are better than you think
They're not my personal cup of tea, but there are good reasons people like them.
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July 12, 2026
I have never been working class
Unlike some American elites, I actually understand this fact.
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July 10, 2026
MAGA's attack on science is even worse than it looks
The engine that powered history's greatest nation is in danger.
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July 8, 2026
JD Vance's crusade against GDP is wrong and bad
Making Americans poorer won't make our society better.
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July 6, 2026
No, China did not manage to avoid a crash
But there are still things we can learn from how they manage their macroeconomy.
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July 4, 2026
The American age was the human age
Reflections on 250 years.
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July 2, 2026
Stop screeching about immigration, and get smart about it
The culture war is making it impossible for us to deal with declining population.
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July 1, 2026
Roundup #84: Bears on bikes
Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers; Deindustrialization; Russian oil revenue; GLP-1s; AI and jobs
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June 29, 2026
Will AI make companies outsource more, or less?
Maybe both.
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June 28, 2026
Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane
A timely repost, with some updates.
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June 26, 2026
The Democrats have their own MAGA now
The shape of America's new Left is becoming clearer.
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June 24, 2026
China is winning the other tech race
They understand the importance of the electric revolution. America, so far, does not.
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June 21, 2026
Pizza wheels are bad, Japanese toilets are great
So why do Americans use the former and not the latter?
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June 19, 2026
Does anything I write matter anymore?
Punditry in the age of populism, AI, and monetization.
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June 16, 2026
Iran is Trump's Katrina
Thoughts on the fallout from the Iran debacle.
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June 15, 2026
Will China, Inc. be zombified?
A question surprisingly few people are asking.
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June 13, 2026
Degrowth would make Europeans into "Europoors"
Why Europe must grow.
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June 11, 2026
Are you finally ready to admit it's the phones?
We didn't evolve to live our lives as terminals of a digital hive-mind.
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June 10, 2026
Insurers aren't the main villain of the U.S. health care system
A repost from the Noahpinion archive.
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June 8, 2026
Roundup #83: I told you so!
Piketty gets wacky; Tokenmaxxing fails; Trump, drones, and Ukraine; Tariffs on China, again; India's growth; Borjas again
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June 6, 2026
Why Europe should put up trade barriers against Chinese goods
There are benefits far beyond protectionism.
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June 4, 2026
I'm kind of over the whole "Anti-monopoly" movement
The struggle against excessive corporate power needs better standard-bearers.
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June 2, 2026
How much more software do we really need?
Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
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May 31, 2026
The way we treat pigs is a sin
The practice of "crating" is torture, plain and simple. Voters want to end it, but Congress might not let them.
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May 29, 2026
America needs liberal nationalism back
The most successful ideology of the 20th century is still right for the 21st.
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May 27, 2026
Your future job will be to keep AI on task
The one thing humans will always be comparatively good at is knowing what we want.
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May 25, 2026
Are you tired of the Trump era yet?
Every few weeks there's a new disaster that would have sunk any other president.
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May 23, 2026
America is heading for a debtpocalypse
But if we act now, we can avert disaster.
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May 21, 2026
Roundup #82: Staring in wonder at the world
Crime; ICE raids; AI hate; Oligarchy; AI math; Small businesses; Neoliberal Claude; Slacker AGI; The Technium
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