Tag: government

  • Which Countries Won’t Exist in the 22nd Century?

    From Tyler Cowen in the FP: The biggest mistake we could make is to assume that political evolution is over, and that history represents ongoing directional progress toward ever more well-run nation-states. Port-au-Prince still has something to teach us in this regard. I’ve been thinking about why it would be that the United States wouldn’t…

  • What I don’t know

    Most things, it feels like. I get fixated on things that have non-obvious answers and endless developments. This whole tariff episode over the last week has made absolutely no sense to me. And it’s all I can pay attention to. It all feels very Covid-y where you wake up, see which part of the sky…