Suffrage vs. Turnout: The Two Voting Filters
Table of Contents The first filter: who is allowed to vote The second filter: who actually votes What first-filter reforms actually produce What the second filter is actually producing Why reform energy goes to the wrong filter A note on…
Debate vs. Denounce: How Cancel Culture Replaced Civil Disagreement
It’s October 2020, and I’m at the Mises Institute Supporters’ Summit at Jekyll Island, Georgia – the site where the Federal Reserve was founded in 1910. Timing-wise, this was deep COVID. The lockdowns were in full swing. Sweden was running its…
Zero-Sum vs. Positive-Sum Thinking: Why the Game You Think You’re Playing Determines Everything
Economists stumbled upon something interesting a while back. Two different default assumptions about the world that shape how people see almost everything. Zero-sum thinking. There’s a fixed pool of any specific good. For you to have more,…
Rule of Law vs. Rule by Law: The Two-Letter Distinction That Encapsulates Felt Power
Americans like to believe that justice…
Critic vs. Revolutionary: How to Transmute What’s Wrong Into What’s Right
Table of Contents Criticism Is Cheap The Dopamine Hit of Being Right Shouting Into a System That Doesn’t Listen When Acting Locally Doesn’t Work Two Revolutions, One Lesson The Algorithm Loves a Takedown The Spectrum Between Critiquing and…
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