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- The Internet Atheists Are Giving the Other Side Too Much Credit
- Christianity Is Not the Bedrock of Science, and the Argument for It Falls Apart on the Word Law
- Silence Has Never Killed a Bad Idea
- Courtship Is a Signalling Game, and the Signals Have Reasons
- Commented-Out Code Should Still Have to Compile
- A Book Idea: Culture as Something to Shed
- We Have Been Lucky With Our Superpower, and We Should Say So
- Wars Have Several Causes, and the Betrayal of the People Is Only One
- The Singularity Breaks Ideologies
- Why There Are Different Societies, and Why Their Meetings Go Badly
- The Bible Was the Entertainment of Its Day, and Entertainment Is Not a Census
- A Population More Radical Than Its Regime Is a Dictator's Best Insurance
- The Authoritarian Wave Has Several Causes, and the Largest Is That Democracy Is Not Working
- When Historians Say "It Did Not Happen," the Encyclopedia Says "Tradition"
- Freedom May Have a Speed Limit, but No Country Is Anywhere Near It
- The Zeitgeist Has a Direction, and Communication Is What Drives It
- Our System Hands Extra Power to the People Most Certain They Are Right
- The Tragedy of the Commons Is Worse When a Minority Holds the Commons
- Consciousness Is Probably Not Binary
- Polarization Has Five Authors, and We Are One of Them
- The Central Bank Is a Standing Vote of No Confidence in Our Representatives
- How to upgrade Ubuntu without their upgrade tool
- Move from Google-Chrome to Firefox on Linux
- Problems with Netflix web and Netflix webos clients
- Both the Left and the Right Contradict Themselves, and Neither Notices
- Austrians and Keynesians Agree on One Thing, and It Is the Important One
- Trust in Government Is Not a Nicety, It Is the Thing That Makes a State Work
- World Politics Runs on Six Factors, Each Simple to Understand and Impossible to Predict
- Printing Money Is a Tax, and Should Be Judged Like One
- The Enemy Within Is Not a Dictator's Belief, It Is His Equipment
- Representative Government Is Harder to Topple Than a King, and That Is Not Only Good News
- Realpolitik Is Usually a Cover Story, and We Have No Way to Check
- There Are Only Two Levers on Human Behaviour, and We Can Pull One
- I Do Not Trust the Doomsday Clock Is Three Different Objections, and All of Them Fail
- Political Change Is the Last Step, Not the First
- If You Had to Give Up One Election, Give Up the City
- We Say All Cultures Are Equal Because We Do Not Trust Our Government
- A Pre-Commitment to Expropriate the Rich If the Climate Breaks
- Every Year a Regime Buys Its Population, the Eventual Reform Gets More Dangerous
- Why You Stay With Your Side Even When the Other Side Is Right
- The Lottery Salesman Who Agreed With Me and Kept Selling
- Work on the Whole Society, Not the Neighbourhood
- A Law That Forces the Legislature to Answer One Question Every Two Months
- Politics Is About Organizations, Not People
- If Groups Differ, a Predictor Will Discriminate, and Blinding It Makes It Worse
- The Men Who Lied About Iraq Also Killed People in the Pandemic
- Free-Floating Rationales: Why Nobody Wanted the Policy You Are Living Under
- Orwell Was Right About the State, and That Is No Longer the Whole Problem
- Coalition Politics Is an Iterated Game That Ends Every Election, So Everyone Defects
- Atatürk and the Uncomfortable Case for the Interim Autocrat
- The News Is Not Trying to Inform You
- A Society Can Be Too Free to Defend Itself From the People Inside It
- Plato's Cave Has No Exit, and Science Says So Openly
- Arguing About What an Ideology Really Means Is the Misdirection
- Precision Falls as You Climb the Ladder of the Sciences
- Rawls Designed Principles for Institutions and Forgot What Institutions Do to Principles
- Two Organizations Can Be Allies on Monday and Enemies on Tuesday, and Both Are Sincere
- Art Teaches the Wrong Way to Think
- When an Institution Fails in an Emergency, Inject Randomly Chosen Citizens Into It
- Legal Language Is the Wrong Language for Politics
- Justice Costs a Lawyer, and That Is Not an Accident
- You Fight Differently When Everything You Own Is on the Beach
- The Law Only Sees What Can Be Charged