Chad Aaron Hall

Earlier this year, Ryan Williamson, a resident fellow at the R Street Institute, a free market and limited government think tank, published a report evaluating how Alaska's electoral system performed in 2022. Despite Palin's and Mathias's scaremongering, Williamson's report found that "races in the state became more civil and competitive overall,"... See more

Maybe we’ve realized that the internet simply works better as a fragmented thing.

No Tax on Overtime Pay

I have a hard time keeping my equanimity on this one, because the incentives are so awful.

The natural response is, instead of working 8 hours a day 40 days a week, ask your boss to work 15 hours a day two days a week and 10 the other day. Or just go on two 20 hour shifts.

The perspective that people in rural communities don’t get their fair share of attention from decision makers in cities, public dollars or respect, set the stage for Donald Trump. These people were saying that government is basically an urban entity, driven by decisions made in cities. Their “dying” towns were evidence that whatever government was... See more

Perhaps the institution should always be a painful subject to think about, or at least an unromanticized one. As Reason 's Billy Binion wrote, "Presidents aren't saints. They aren't monarchs. They aren't celebrities. And they aren't your friends! The executive leader is an employee of the country—someone whose job was, and still should be, limited... See more

Today, there’s often a hilarious mismatch between how normie audiences receive a film versus how it’s reviewed by critics, one most clearly visible on the site Rotten Tomatoes . “Problematic” comedians like Dave Chappelle are denounced by the culturati while ordinary people laugh their asses off. Chappelle’s 2021 Netflix special The Closer , for... See more