New reason Roundtable is up, with special guest Andrew Sullivan. We talk Trump, deportations, Oakeshott vs. Hayek, and mix it up over immigration. Good stuff! reason.com/podcast/2025/0…

Overnight, the good people of Georgia continued to resist Russia's capture of their government, now into the 131st consecutive day of protests. Tbilisi.

"Klaabu". Excerpt from 1978 Estonian animated film.

I wrote this about how to read and why. Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the world. There is no alternative. Every book you read helps you build a richer picture of the entire world. substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/open-…

writing from Zurich during WWI, Stefan Zweig also characterizes what it's like scrolling X this week

It is my controversial take that no one—non-citizens included—should be jailed for their opinions, no matter how offensive I may personally find them.

a world of make believe and pinky rings

There is nothing more patriotic than adding massive amounts of debt to the US balance sheet right before July 4th🇺🇸

Ben Franklin appreciation post He was simply S-tier at every endeavor: - Invented bifocals, swim fins, and the lightning rod - Diplomat, statesman, charted the Gulf Stream - International playboy; more like founding daddy amirite - Created the first public library, the first

time to just abolish TSA entirely. charade has gone on long enough

nostalgia is the enemy of progress

right after he told ‘em TM was BS all along

this guy spent 21 years building a miniature version of nyc consisting of almost a million buildings, the full model is 50 feet long and 30 feet wide, and he first announced it on tiktok like this:

Felix Baumgardner has sadly passed away in a tragic paragliding accident at the age of just 56. He achieved immortality with this jump from the edge of space. I'll never forget watching this live and being transfixed. Incredible. Life is fragile. RIP legend 🇦🇹

The zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

I’ll never miss an opportunity to post this video of a Cuban man getting emotional the first time he goes to a Costco, because it’s so hard for him to wrap his head around the sheer abundance. Arguing this is somehow a negative for society is crazy.

Britain is healing.

Dave Scott performed one of the most legendary experiments: the Galilean 'hammer & feather' held on the Moon, 54 years ago Today