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May 2023
Diseases of the Rich
The Culture War, The Counteroffensive, and the Pro-Growth Caucus
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Robert Tracinski
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The Centers of Gravity
I’ve been waiting for the Ukrainian counter-offensive to begin, and, well, we’re still waiting. Either they’re taking a while to set it up, or it may…
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Robert Tracinski
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America's Biggest Loser
I threatened I would take an observation from one of my recent newsletters and flesh it out into a whole article, and that piece just went up today at…
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Robert Tracinski
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The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements
One of the most interesting cultural and political developments I’ve been tracking is the rise of YIMBYism. It’s a term that came out of local battles…
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Robert Tracinski
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Stories I Won’t Be Covering
Or, Adventures in Apophasis
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Robert Tracinski
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Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
Editor’s Note: I have long been a fan of Louis Anslow and Pessimists Archive, which digs back into the past and finds frequent repetitions of…
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Louis Anslow
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The Moderator’s Dilemma
Digital Town Squares, Part 3
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Robert Tracinski
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April 2023
The Blue Check Culture War
Digital Town Squares, Part 2
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Robert Tracinski
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The First Philosophers
A little while ago, I did a podcast with a great Substack newsletter called Classical Wisdom, and the video has just been posted here. The story behind…
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Robert Tracinski
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One Cheer for Wokeness
I just had a piece published at Discourse making a (very) qualified defense of “wokeness.” It is obviously not wokeness per se that I am defending. But…
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Robert Tracinski
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