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• Is Inflation Higher Than We Think? — Ever notice your steak shrinking while the price stays the same? I recount a tiny ribeye and a one-slice AYCE ribeye to
• Does the U.S. Actually Have a Housing Shortage? — Is America really short on homes, or are we building them in the wrong places? In this post I argue the housing shortage
• Should we put a high price on work visas? — Can a $100,000 H-1B fee fix immigration? I weigh the US plan to add $100k to H-1B visas against the UK exploring cheaper
• The silver bullet fallacy
• Are bubbles good, actually? — What if bubbles are secretly useful? I weigh the "bubbles are great" claim, from Jeff Bezos's industrial versus financia
• Priced Off The Roads — Curious what road pricing would mean for UK drivers and motoring tax revenue? I show how electric vehicles are eating fu
• Rivals: Experiential education on nuclear weapon proliferation — Want a hands-on way to teach nuclear weapon proliferation? This post introduces Rivals, my interactive roleplaying simul
• Choosing for others when you don't know their attitudes to risk — What should a public health official do when the public's attitudes to risk are unknown? I lay out a simple decision mod
• Peak vs decline — Surprising stat that made me sit up: the number of undocumented immigrants in the US peaked in 2007 and has been slowly
• The E.U. Goes Too Far — Traveling in Europe exposed how EU privacy pop-ups and museum ticketing asking for passport info break simple tasks. It
• Platform Power Is Underrated — Power corrupts, and my early App Store takes now look naive. Here I revisit why platform power matters, trace Apple's Ap
• The natural party of government — I’m revisiting the old idea that one party becomes the “natural party of government” and asking whether that still holds
• The social media ban that wasn’t — There’s been a lot of noise about banning social media, but far less substance. I walk through what was proposed, what a
• A sad Day for Australia — Some political moments feel like turning points for the worse. I’m reflecting on a recent decision that says a lot about
• A New Hope — After a run of bleak news, there are still signs that politics can shift in better directions. I’m looking at emerging m
• Unions are a must — I don’t think strong unions are optional if you care about fair pay and decent working conditions. Some reflections on l
• Ukraine, China, and the Shadow of the ’90s — I keep coming back to how the 1990s shaped Russia, China, and the war in Ukraine. This is about post-Cold War illusions,
• Five Fundamentals of Chinese Grand Strategy — I’m laying out the core habits behind Beijing’s long game: time horizons, peripheral control, economic leverage, and pol
• Bootlicking in Beijing — A look at how flattery, access, and self-censorship shape foreign commentary on China. I’m poking at the incentives that
• China: The Unknowable Kingdom — How opaque is the Chinese system, really? I’m wrestling with elite politics, information control, and the limits of outs
• Give No Heed to the Walking Dead — Some policy ideas never die; they just keep shambling back. I’m arguing against recycled grand strategy takes that ignor
• So Begins a New Age of Instagram Diplomacy — Statecraft now plays out on feeds and stories. I’m looking at image-driven diplomacy, leader branding, and how social me
• Of Sanctions and Strategic Bombers — Sanctions alone rarely coerce; bombers alone rarely deter. I’m weighing economic warfare, long-range strike signaling, a
• Loose Ends: Mexico City: Deportees — I revisit stories of deportees I encountered in Mexico City and the conversations that stayed with me. This is a persona
• The Swindle — Dissects what passes for a “conservative approach” to foreign policy, arguing it’s neither cautious nor restrained but o