I did not read enough this month. I will blame it on COVID related chaos. Vladamir Nabokov, Lolita: What is there to say about this book? I mostly wondered whether Nabokov has anything to teach his reader. Obviously the book has some themes: acting and its associate corruptions, Americana, desire, doubles. But none of these […]
Over the last four years, I have attended many of the seminars and fellowships offered by conservative and libertarian think tanks. There are numerous opportunities, so I would like to outline them here for interested college students. Read in full here.
Garrett Jones, 10% Less Democracy: This book does not need a short review since I have already written a very long one. I will say here that it is very good and look forward to following Jones’ work closely Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: I had read The Unbearable Lightness of Being […]
Garrett Jones, Hive Mind: This had been on my list for a few years and did not underwhelm. Jones is a master of the pop-econ book, turning a complex and novel attempt to solve a puzzle about IQ into an exciting and accessible work. There are also many surprising pieces of wisdom in the book, […]
The last year has been a difficult time for the US’s top universities. In March, a number of top schools including Stanford, Yale, and Georgetown were implicated in the now-infamous college admissions scandal. Over the summer, the discrimination case against Harvard by a group of Asian American students exposed important parts of the university’s internal […]
There was a time when publicly questioning the supremacy of democracy among political systems was quite unpalatable. Not so, anymore.
There are times in politics where top-down, elite-driven mandates are necessary for the common good. Building communities is not one of them. Indeed, almost by definition, community grows from the ground up. It depends on hyper-local conditions. The only people who can create community and the built environment that community demands are its members. We need to allow them to do so.
Jonah Bennett is the Editor-in-Chief of Palladium Magazine, an online publication out of the SF Bay Area focusing on issues of government, society, and liberalism. This post is the third in an ongoing series of interviews with people invested in the idea of human progress. Nick Whitaker: Palladium’s thesis could be stated as a need for innovation […]
Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University. His most recent book is 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust the Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less. His last book was Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own. This post is the second in an ongoing […]
Jason Crawford is an entrepreneur and writer. He is a leader in the incipient field of Progress Studies. He blogs at The Roots of Progress, which is funded by a grant from Emergent Ventures. This post is the first in an ongoing series of interviews of people interested in human progress. Nick Whitaker: When did you really […]