Defending open liberal societies from populist authoritarian attacks

how to build a more positive future, combat bad ideas and amplify better ones

Artisanal takes for the discerning take-consumer (and more!) from Will Wilkinson.

The evolutionary anthropology of deception, magic, and violence.

Exploring how AI works and how it's changing our world.

Economics and other interesting stuff

How housing costs got here and where they're going.

Why buildings are built the way they are.

Analysis and criticism of the antiliberal right, the “woke” left, and cultural topics

improving social epistemology, rewarding reasoned discourse

Data-driven Insights on Economics, Business, Finance, and Public Policy.

Foreign policy, American politics, and social science

Passion and Perspective from Matthew Yglesias

The ordinary thoughts of an ordinary writer

A bunch of unedited stuff about international relations, American politics, political economy, the marketplace of ideas, and popular culture written by this Drezner guy

See the world as it is, not as you wish it to be. Everything else is application.

Schizoid thoughts about effective accelerationism.

A deviant Substack. From the writer behind @AliceFromQueens.

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the quest to "live wisely and agreeably and well"

Snippets and ideas from Lars Erik Schönander.

Systems Politics and Regime Change

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein