Eschatologist #4 Turning the Knob of Safety to 11
In my last newsletter I described the temple of technology and progress with a countless knobs...
Dragging History Into the Present Moment vs. Dragging the Present Moment Into History
Lately there have been a lot of attempts to relitigate history. It is felt that taking history...
Vanquished Vaccines and Vetocracies
There were various approaches to fighting COVID, and in retrospect we ended up with the worst of...
The 9 Books I Finished in March
Secular Cycles by: Peter Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov\r\n Where Is My Flying Car? A Memoir of...
Eschatologist #3 Turning the Knobs of Society
I present a metaphor for technology and progress as an ancient temple with thousands of knobs....
Epistemology as Revealed by "Murder Among the Mormons"
The recent Netflix series \"Murder Among the Mormons\" bills itself as a true crime drama, but...
Radical Reform and the Three Kinds of Complexity
Scott Alexander recently posted a study showing European municipalities which had the Napoleonic...
The 8 Books I Finished in February
The WEIRDest People In the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly...
The Eschatologist #2- Are we Polish Jews in 1937 or East Germans in 1988?
Prediction is tough. You never know if things are about to get a lot worse, as was the situation...
The Missing Piece of the Present Moment Is Religion (But Not in the Way You Think)
The problem of political unity weighs heavily on people's minds. But as with most problems...
Technocracies Are Cool, but Are They Effective?
Technocracies have been much in the zeitgeist recently, at least in the corners of the internet I...
The 7 Books I Finished in January
Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Courts by: Ilya...
As you can see this is a much shorter episode. I'm trying out the newsletter format. The idea is...
Parenting, Wildfires, and Politics
Two episodes ago I covered the disasters which can occur when we try to exercise too much control...
Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, but No Simpler
In a recent newsletter, Matthew Yglesias suggested three steps for creating effective policies:...
December Reviews Part 1-Intro & Eschatological
This one was long enough, and book reviews sit poorly with podcasts in any event, that I decided...
December Reviews Part 2-Capsule & Religious
This is the second half of my book reviews for books I finished in December. It contains reviews...
State of the Podcast, Predictions, and Other Sundry Items
Back at the beginning of 2017 I made some long term predictions, at the beginning of 2020 I made...
Review of Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier
The number of teenage girls identifying as transgender has skyrocketed, by as much as 4,400% in...
Books I Finished in November (2020)
Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years by: Vaclav Smil The Autobiography of...
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