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Take the Clearpill

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

People are Different

Happy Thanksgiving

How Communities Die

Build Nuclear. Frak. Drill.

A Schism in The Current Thing

Group Narcissism

Fukayama and Capital H History

Reintroducing Stigma

Modern Morality Prioritizes Avoiding Evil

The Matching Problem in Dating

What Does The Gray Tribe Believe?

America the Oligarchy

What are the Limits to Growth?

The case for and against Liberalism

Communism with American Characteristics

The World Moves Left

Turpentine's newest VC podcast

New Rousseauism, Post-Modernism, and Moral Primitives

The Ancient City

What is left? What is right?

The Economic Case for Trade

The Case for Immigration

Brief Reflections on Affirmative Action

More People is Better

Optimize

Introducing Turpentine

Faith over Logic

The "Coming Apart" Case for Less Entitlements

The Right Mindset at the Right Time

The Techlash That Never Happened

The Evolution of Liberalism

The Problems of Equality and Universalism

Why Liberalism Leads to a Big State

The Limitations of Freedom

Different Scopes for Different Folks

Examining Balaji's Bet

Dataism (and a new podcast, first episode w/ Marc Andreessen)

The Necessary Nihilism

Nietzsche on Slave Morality

How Slave Morality Won

Does Evolution have a Direction?

Wacky Beliefs are the Point

Why Religion is Metaphorically True

Our Deglobalized Future

Money Crypto vs Tech Crypto

When Delusions Serve Us

There is no Self

On Celebrity

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