A collection of 99 posts
Technology steers my life along tracks chosen for my digital double, not for me. But this proxy personalisation wouldn’t work at all if I didn’t play my part.
The Spanish tradition of limited government is older than the Magna Carta. Argentina will do well to revive it.
The payday-loan debate revisited.
If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?
The DINKs video isn’t shaping culture—it’s a cultural response to the rising opportunity cost of having children in free and prosperous societies.
His political ascent was meteoric, but classical liberalism has a storied history in Argentina.
The more people there are, the more solutions to problems will be found.
The standard textbook model of monopoly economics only applies to the real world in a narrow range of circumstances.
Andrew Koppelman’s analysis of libertarianism is rich in detail and full of thought-provoking ideas.
A recognition that genetic influences on social outcomes are important will potentially influence the kind of help that society offers poorer individuals. But it does not in any way compel an absence of help, or a casual indifference.
Foundations are having to fend off pressures to conform to the new philanthropic orthodoxies on race and identity issues.
Michael Lind's 'Hell to Pay' presents a dire cautionary message to the political establishment.
Lessons from past financial crises.
If the Davos crowd has demonstrated anything, it is the futility of their posturing.
The hubris and dilettantism of corporate titans is an old story. But the risk has been compounded by digital technology’s hugely scalable nature.