Publication day today in the US for Elites and Democracy!🎉 For once the Princeton University Press marketing team had a good idea😜 press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

The epistemic power of good intellectual history in a snapshot: From István Hont, Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective

We're gonna find out if libertarians are real

What the Trump Admin is telling you. -Don't record ICE -Don't carry a gun around ICE -Don't ask ICE for a warrant. So that takes out the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments.

On Publius On Democratic Despotism open.substack.com/pub/digression…

Carrying a firearm is not a death sentence, it’s a Constitutionally protected God-given right, and if you don’t understand this you have no business in law enforcement or government.

I'm pro Bill of Rights regardless of which party is in power.

I've been working on this essay for a while, and it is mainly about AI and about the future. But given the horror we're seeing in Minnesota, its emphasis on the importance of preserving democratic values and rights at home is particularly relevant.

Study history. Every act of state brutality you tolerate when it’s used against “the others” will eventually be used against you. Once violence is normalized, the circle of “others” keeps widening. No matter what—you’ll find yourself inside it, in time.

The wife of Stephen Miller doesn’t know what classical liberalism is.

She has no clue of what she's even talking about.

We need to think about politics less in terms of team sports — or blood sport, lately — and in terms of winning coalitions. I defend the Constitution. It has warts, it needs work, and it may be difficult to fix. But that’s our challenge. I will oppose anyone who tries to

Local police routinely, put officers involved in deadly shootings on administrative leave until an independent investigation is concluded. That should happen immediately. I can’t recall ever hearing a police chief immediately describing the victim as a “domestic terrorist” or a

No way

Belongs in the pantheon of Bush foreign policy blunders. His action made Ukraine, Georgia, and all of NATO less secure, and helped to bring about several wars. “There are no tradeoffs”? As obtuse as it gets.

At this point if you’re *not* completely disgusted with American elites, you’re either an elite yourself or not paying attention.

What the fuck... Epstein talked about creating people with supernatural abilities by traumatizing them and also human clones/designer babies. This keeps getting sicker and sicker.

“I mean, what does oligarchy even mean, amiright?”

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. how many random people around the world built their identity around american signifiers. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we're only beginning to see

This is indistinguishable from the Biden administration -- or from most neoconservatives.