Chad Aaron Hall

The bulk of the work is researching—collecting stories, anecdotes, and data to marshal your argument. The writing is stringing those pieces together. I’ve found stuff I’ve used in in-flight magazines, discovered snippets on social media, even heard things mentioned on TV. As Shelby Foote put it in an interview with The Paris Review : “I can’t begin... See more

Better, perhaps we can trade a large reduction in the taxation of savings and investment so that more people don’t need social security as a transfer program. The big social security reform should focus on making it financially possible for late middle age Americans to continue to work. Fix the incentives and you fix the money.

This narrative has a certain amount of truth to it, but it is also somewhat misleading. It suggests that everything could have remained the same if only institutions had resisted the illiberal activists and carried on serving their old purpose. The truth is that the internet placed extraordinary economic pressures on publishing and higher education... See more