Multiple overlapping hierarchies of status as a civilizing force – this is an idea worth digging deeper into. Jaron Lanier and Steven Pinker make this interesting point! What other examples […]
Culture / Musings
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What Are Milei’s Chances Of Success
Tyler Cowen gives Milei 30-40% chance. Don Boudreaux gives a much conservative 10%. Don thinks among other reasons, it is because politics is downstream of culture. I on the other […]
Culture / Rhetoric
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Phil Magness On The Claudine Gay Affair And The Status of Higher Education
Phil Magness writing for The American Conservative: Sadly, labeling critics as “bad faith” actors has become a default weapon of its own for burying factually accurate revelations of academic misconduct […]
Culture / Kavita
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कविवर // सुरजीत पातर
मैं पहली पंक्ति लिखता हूँऔर डर जाता हूँ राजा के सिपाहियों सेपंक्ति को काट देता हूँ मैं दूसरी पंक्ति लिखता हूँऔर डर जाता हूँ गुरिल्ला बाग़ियों सेपंक्ति को काट देता […]
Culture / Interesting Reads
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Dan Klein on George Will’s Two Famous Works
Dan Klein has a nice assessment of George Will’s Statecraft as Soulcraft (1983) and The Conservative Sensibility (2019). Reading this review reminded me that I should read more of George Will, and Dan […]
Culture / Rhetoric / Video
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Vivek Ramaswamy On Historical Racism In The US
In this nine-minute video, Vivek Ramaswamy answers brilliantly to a question from the audience on the issue of historical racism in the US. I think the rhetoric employed here can […]
Culture / Think
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‘Why Do They Continue To Support Socialism’
Javier Milei: The point is why do they continue to support socialism? Why do they continue defending it, if everything it touches gets ruined? And causes misery, hunger, wars, disaster. […]
Culture / Think
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H. L. Mencken On Why Democracy Is Doomed
One of my favourite Twitter/X handle on books is The Old Books Guy. In this Tweet, he talks about the 10 reasons why H. L. Mencken thinks that the democracy […]
Culture / Interesting Reads
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Defining And Redefining Liberals
These set of links come from Cafe Hayek.
Culture / Think
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Adultism As True Liberalism
This short piece by Deirdre McCloskey is quite interesting. Great question to think about – What happens when values conflict in politics or in personal relationships – how do you […]