The question we'll all be asking over the next year or more. | Continue reading
One thing no ruler can control. | Continue reading
Electrical technology isn't just a climate thing. It's about national power and prosperity. | Continue reading
Abandoning X; Drone world; Asian voters' rightward shift; China and the Global South; Polycrisis; Illegal immigration's fiscal impact; Iranian power | Continue reading
A few theories about the seeming collapse in public morality. | Continue reading
Keep an eye on the export controls. They are the key. | Continue reading
He's a great economist, but he also changed how we talk about the subject. | Continue reading
It's mostly the providers overcharging you, not the middlemen. | Continue reading
Ignoring it just isn't enough. | Continue reading
The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity growth; Demand-side inflation; Health care monopsony and innovation | Continue reading
And the democracies are losing. | Continue reading
Being educated and reading a lot on the internet is no proof against myth-conceptions. | Continue reading
Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups. | Continue reading
An optimistic Thanksgiving post. | Continue reading
Human consensus versus the laws of the Universe. | Continue reading
Conservative poll shift; Democratic machine politics; science and politics; some good news; better teachers; the AI slowdown; consumer confidence | Continue reading
What happened to the world in 2024, and what I wrote about it | Continue reading
The big looming problem that almost no one is talking about. | Continue reading
A guest post by Dhaaruni Sreenivas. | Continue reading
Why class politics is unlikely to succeed where identity politics failed. | Continue reading
Something the Trump administration should probably think about. | Continue reading
Belief in individual freedom and dignity is being driven underground. | Continue reading
A guest post by Wally Nowinski. | Continue reading
Bad election narratives; principles for the Democrats; slowing AI progress; rising life expectancy; phones are bad; solar vs. nuclear | Continue reading
If you want to govern the nation, you should first be able to govern San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. | Continue reading
Lesson #3 from Trump's victory. | Continue reading
Lesson #2 from Trump's victory. | Continue reading
Lesson #1 from Trump's victory. | Continue reading
Summing up my thoughts on the 2024 election. | Continue reading
A second Trump presidency would truly be a gift to Xi Jinping. | Continue reading
A cult of personality prizes loyalty above competence, resulting in "rule by the worst". | Continue reading
It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results. | Continue reading
America needs austerity. But is Musk's plan the right kind of austerity? | Continue reading
Let's not bring back the wacky 2010s. | Continue reading
Nations - even democratic ones - are exclusive clubs. And that's OK. | Continue reading
Iron Man, or Dr. Doom? | Continue reading
The biggest risks are all about debt and inflation. | Continue reading
Thinking about the very long term. | Continue reading
It's time to learn a Japanese word: "zakkyo". | Continue reading
Because they're a superior technology, and superior technologies win. | Continue reading
If Trump is elected, there will be no liberal great powers left in the world. | Continue reading
Feeling adrift in the 2020s. | Continue reading
Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson win a prize for their grand unified theory of development. | Continue reading
Falling obesity; the red-state boom; U.S. housing supply; men avoiding college; China's economic goals; implicit taxes on the poor; Garcia interviews Krugman and Cowen interviews Scanlon | Continue reading
It's usually not a good idea to try to make arguments look stronger than they really are. | Continue reading
Some good ideas in here. | Continue reading
Bloggers love to argue. | Continue reading
It's Boss Tweed vs. Boss Tweet. | Continue reading