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Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
The economy enters a period in which economic dysfunction becomes unbearable to one social faction, even while another continues to benefit.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Above all, it’s about truly shaping the future. Whatever the outcome of the current administration, many people expect the Democratic Party to strike a determined counter-attack, polarizing the debate on the safety net even more. Instead of looking back at the past with nostalgia, the opportunity that we must all seize together is to imagine a Grea
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
The Principle of Growth: We should maximize the rate of sustainable economic growth, defined in terms of a concept such as Wealth Plus.
Tyler Cowen • Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
“Men are not free,” he wrote, “if dependent industrially on the arbitrary will of another.” Economic security was a foundation on which one could really be free in a meaningful sense—hence the importance of steady but not oppressive work, of education, time and space for leisure, parks, libraries, and other institutions.
Tim Wu • The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Unapologetically Moderate: My Search for the Rational Center in American Politics
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Both presaged the New Right in its entirety.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Libertarianism, like Marxism, is a complete explanatory system. It appeals to super-smart engineers and others who never really grow up.