conservatives sort of gave up on making their own institutions/intellectuals that could actually compete on the merits is a large part of what happened I think. it's a self reinforcing cycle too. your ideas and policies get dumber, you select away from smart people wanting to be part of your project

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to all who celebrate...

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I invented a game. It’s called 4 x 3. It’s like connections except that there are three words in each category, there are four categories, and one word is in all four categories. Easy mode is when you know the special word. Hard is when you don’t.

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If you take seriously the idea that we need to have zero trade deficit with every country, we better get to helping massively develop every poor country until they’re rich enough to afford our high value manufactured goods. Sounds like a job for USAID.

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it’s cool how Tyler Austin Harper is like a magnet for all of the dumbest takes, like defending protectionism days after Trump’s tariffs crashed the economy

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