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Tom Hitchner

Stoic Poker

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When I come across something like this, or about unions making film production in LA unaffordable, I despair a little bit at how these counter-productive policies could be reversed. Because one of the characteristics of left-of-center thought is, when we institute a policy, we are never just trying something to see if it h... See more

Denver’s restaurants are dying

Where they diverge from liberals most sharply is on two measures: the Care foundation, where they score very low (even lower than conservatives), and on some new questions we added about economic liberty, where they score extremely high (a little higher than conservatives, a lot higher than liberals).

Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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Ari Lewis • How Dave Portnoy Single Handedly Changed the Media Business Forever — Ari Lewis

By late 2017, Berkeley had replaced Oxford as the financial capital of effective altruism. One reason for this was that Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna, signaled their intent to give away most of their multibillion-dollar fortune to effective altruist causes—but there were others. Oxford was still the movement’s intellec

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

In the Information Age, only cities that repay their upkeep with a high quality of life will stay viable. People at a distance won’t be obligated to subsidize them.

James Dale Davidson • The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State

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Edward Zitron • CrowdStruck

According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more

Uber and Instacart don’t represent Silicon Valley. Why we’re voting “No” on Prop 22

Li Jin li.substack.com

The technological revolution might soon push billions of humans out of the job market and create a massive new “useless class,” leading to social and political upheavals that no existing ideology knows how to handle. All the talk about technology and ideology might sound very abstract and remote, but the very real prospect of mass unemployment—or p