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  • Are We Already Fucking It Up?

    Are We Already Fucking It Up?Life is expensive, and seemingly getting more expensive.Very few people seem to be debating that. What there does seem to be a growing debate over what government should do about it.Three of life’s biggest expenses are housing, education, and healthcare. These are three expenses Americans seem incapable of discussing without…

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  • A Tale Of Two Solutions.

    How many of our political disagreements persist because we’re arguing past each other? We criticize the other side’s conclusions because they don’t solve the problem as we understand it, without first asking whether they’re trying to solve a different problem altogether. When the left argues for a living wage, many on the right respond that…

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  • Security First, Freedom Later — The Ancient Shell Game

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    Everyone claims to value freedom. Ask a hundred people whether they would rather live free or not, and all hundred will say yes. But history and human behavior tell a more complicated story. When faced with uncertainty, instability, or danger, people consistently choose security over liberty.This choice is not foolish — it is practical. Human…

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  • On Wishing Power To the Persians

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    I’m not a foreign policy expert, and I don’t pretend to have answers here. I’m very aware that situations like this are complex, and that well-intentioned ideas can have unintended consequences. What follows isn’t a proposal so much as a set of thoughts I’m still turning over.Watching what’s happening in Iran has been unsettling. From…

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  • Democracy Isn’t Dying—It Was Designed to Decay

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    In 2016, something broke in me—not emotionally, but philosophically. It wasn’t just the candidates. It was what they represented. On one side, a career politician who embodied every manipulative, transactional instinct of the political class. On the other, a billionaire game show host playing populist messiah. Presented with this absurd binary, I assumed this had…

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  • Freedom isn’t comfort.

    Just One Man’s Opinion About Rights These days, it’s common to hear people declare that healthcare is a human right, or that access to food, housing, and even internet should be guaranteed to everyone. The language of “rights” has expanded dramatically, often invoked to describe what people ought to have, rather than what they are…

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