Author: Andrew
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Tariffs tariff-ing?
“Who’s paying for the tariffs? US importers mainly. September import price index data shows that US importers are continuing to pay most of the tariffs. The index shows prices before tariffs are applied. If foreign exporters were bearing a large portion of the tariff burden, we should expect to see a large decrease in the index. Instead, we’re…
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World War AI
https://www.epsilontheory.com/world-war-ai
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How to Understand Things
An essay from pandemic times. Which has some uncomfortable realities in it. Mainly, good thinking requires more focus, more curiosity, less concern about what others think, and so on. https://substack.com/home/post/p-111014900 People who have not experienced the thing are unlikely to be generating truth. More likely, they’re resurfacing cached thoughts and narratives. Reading popular science books…
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We’re Wrong
Read this little world-buster this morning from Philip Roth’s novel, American Pastoral. “You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try and come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot…
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Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest
Saw this recommending on Marginal Revolution and just bought it to read. I’ve recently been reading quite a bit about liberalism, and classical liberalism specifically. This provided quite a bit of awareness for me on the tensions between economic development and freedom. As I think about classical liberalism these days, it’s a sharp edge to…
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Confidently Wrong
Uh oh. This spells trouble for the staunchly, and always, anti-expert crowd. Most of them are on Twitter and host podcasts (of which I listen to). Most importantly on this issue: The authors suggest leaning on social norms and respected community figures instead.
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The Monks in the Casino
The Monks in the Casino by Derek Thompson A brief theory of young men, “the loneliness crisis,” and life in the 21st century Read on Substack
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Osteria in Ravello.
Peder Severin Krøyer, 1890
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Liar’s Poker
by Michael Lewis “You don’t get rich in this business,” said Alexander when I complained privately to him. “You only attain new levels of relative poverty.” Very enjoyable to read throughout. The main thing I’ve come away thinking after reading is just how much activity is going on downstream of the word “finance” that most…
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The Church Better Start Taking Nazification Seriously
“We have a choice. The Bible will not sit alongside Mein Kampf. The cross will not yield to the swastika. We must ask right now: Jesus or Hitler? We cannot have both.” What an unfortunate reality the American church, and evangelical movement specifically, will need to be confronting now. I remember reading a decent amount of…