Steve Hsu argues the US will be increasingly powerless to affect geopolitics in the Western Pacific, pointing to the failure to reopen Red Sea shipping as a sign of the rapidly changing nature of war and global power. Link to the full episode below.

I have heard this number from a suspicious number of philosophy professors.

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Freedom of association should be de facto as important as freedom of speech. The fact that it isn't is a serious challenge to liberty.

In light of recent events, I would like to reiterate my view that locking up violent criminals and throwing away the key is not only moral, but that in fact not doing so is morally depraved. Prison is a wonderful thing and the only problem with it is that it's so expensive. The

This quote goes hard, doesn't it? You quite liked it, didn't you? Not Kipling. Never was. To start on the path of epistemic discipline, you must first understand that you are weak.

The inspiration which springs from a feeling is the grandchild of a judgment—often an erroneous judgment!—and certainly not one's own judgment! — Nietzsche, Daybreak

Hasty and awkward creatures of the moment, it is we who interrupt the action of the gods.

At a time of deep division, Pam Bondi unified Americans from across the political spectrum.

Not many know he was an applicant to the Thiel Fellowship way back in 2013 or 14. We passed on him because we didn't think a media company had the scalability of tech startup. Our mistake! But Charlie kept coming to our events for a long time.

Opening of the apology gets me every time: "How you have felt, O men of Athens, at hearing the speeches of my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that their persuasive words almost made me forget who I was - such was the effect of them; and yet they have hardly spoken a word of

Looking forward to leafing through this.

The common sense idea that you shouldn't give your kid a large inheritance because it will corrupt them does not seem reliable. People would believe it whether or not it were true out of envy.

This is an important argument. I have argued that ideological feminization (a la Norbert Elias) differs from Andrews' demographic feminization, and that the former is much more important. Convents were female-run but not woke.

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