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There is No Curve

It Doesn’t Matter What They Believe

Already Legendary

The Party That Hates Children

The Target Just Keeps Showing Up, Much to Their Chagrin

Graham Platner is Not a Nazi

Is Bitcoin the Future, a Niche, or a Fad?

The Industry’s Court in a Stolen Republic

Hume’s Side of the Argument

The First Domino

No, Government Should Not Be Pro-Business

Talking Past Each Other

The Bell

I Don’t Believe Him

The Ritual

The Most Articulate Apologist

Catastrophe Has Come

A Republican Judge Just Voided 2.3 Million Virginia Ballots

We Were Paying Attention

How Elon Musk Thinks, and Why It Is Killing Us

Apology Not Accepted, Mr. Carlson

The Man Who Cannot Stop Talking About Killing

The Wish That Distorts

On Antisemitism in Our Politics

The Real Honest Conversation

The Positive Case For Liberalsm

For Frodo

The Capital is Misaligned and the Crash is Coming

The Access Node

The Practice

I Hate the Internet

When Leaders Should Resign

The Neo-Confederate Party

Cheap Energy, More Housing, Higher Taxes

The Ridiculous Object

The Boiling Point

Garbage In, Garbage Out: DoorDash Edition

Nobody Manages the Economy

He Has Never Been Playing Chess

The Autistic Obsession

The First Domino

21 Hours

The Fire Next Time

The Table

The Supply Crisis

The Record

The Victory Tax

The Walls Are Closing In

Tech’s Liberal Economist Really Isn’t That Liberal at All

Show Your Face

Dear Journalists: You Are Dismantling Democracy and You Should Be Ashamed

Trump Derangement Syndrome

The Vance Accretion

The Window

The Impostor’s Gospel

Garbage In, Garbage Out

We Shall Live with Dignity

A Note to My Readers: What Happened After

The Virtuecratic Machine on Bluesky

You’re Being Lied To—and You Know It

An Open Letter to the Political Left

Towards Rebirth

On Moral Imagination

Captain Ahab Has Caught His Whale

Children of the World, Your Parents are Stupid

The Plaque

Into the Abyss We Go

“Calm Down” Is Not an Argument

On Calming Down, Antisemitism, and Appropriate Panic

The Ballad of the Black Pill

Are We Really Going to Do This?

We Will Find Each Other Again

An Open Letter to the Governors of America

We Have Opened Pandora's Box

A Discussion About the Unserious

On the Morality of the Sober Observer

The Exception Is the Rule and the World is Aflame

A Letter to the American People

An Open Letter to Members of the United States Congress

The World Blinks

What Should Come After

The Philosopher Kings, Part II: A Correction

The Philosopher Kings

On What We Are Permitted to Notice

No, I Will Not Pay Tribute

Heaven’s Armies: Inside the Castle

The Anxious Tradition

The Many Worlds Interpretation Has Exhausted Its Chips

On the State of Cosmology

On the Measure of a Man

The Greatest Story of the West Ever Told

Conservative Legal Theories and Their Authoritarian Roots

A Note to the Professional Political Organizing Class

The Final Estate

The Demand for Impeachment

The Knights of the Enlightenment

I Am Not Envious of Billionaires. I Pity Them.

On the Death of a Tyrant

The Tent in the Storm

This is a Coup

On Israel

On this Illegal War

On Narcissism, Consciousness, and the View From Nowhere

Words Are Not Small Things

On the Inchoate and Yet Unnamed Department of Truth

On Gavin Newsom and the Thing That Should Actually Scare You

The Sword Behind the Ballot

The Tribe and the Horizon

The Golden Age is Behind You

The Itinerant Posture

On the Meaning of Life

The Cathedral and the Compass

Itinerant in This Place

The Kingdom Within

Bill Maher is the Fray

The Vindication They Don’t Deserve

The Plot Against America, One Year Later

Day One

The Crisis, No. 17

The Crisis, No. 16

The Crisis, No. 15

The Crisis, No. 14

David Bowie is God

The Crisis, No. 13

The Crisis, No. 12

The Architecture Beneath the Crisis

The Crisis, No. 11

The Crisis, No. 10

The Crisis, No. 9

The Crisis, No. 8

The Crisis, No. 7

The Crisis, No. 6

The Crisis, No. 5

The Crisis, No. 4

The Crisis, No. 3

The Crisis, No. 2

The Crisis, No. 1

Ten Shots

The Lie They Call Freedom

The Liberalism They Wore

Pax Pretio Empta

What Georgetown Thinks and What America is Watching

The Evil Man and the Empty Congress

The Dictators’ Miscalculation: How Undermining American Democracy Created Their Worst Nightmare

It Was About Your Money

On the Passing of Scott Adams

We Are Sliding Into Historic Territory

Heaven’s Armies Advance

I Support the Protests

There Are More of Us Than There Are of Them

The Answer to Why We Are Here

Why I Document: This Isn't About Revenge

Never Apologize for Swearing When They Kill Someone

Live with Mike Brock

The Anti-Anti-Trump Right Looks to Marco Rubio for Salvation

Congress, I Seek Redress of a Grievance

Trump: The Anti-Lincoln