@wil_da_beast630 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance It's a bad idea because sowell's serious academic work should be recognised as such. Trump giving him an award makes that much less likely.

@xelf_sol This really is misinformation! Shameful!

@hamandcheese We'll see I guess. But what stops Musk/Thiel/etc rigging the rules in their own favour even while they remove other rents? Thiel is openly a fan of moats!

@phl43 I made it criticise the CCP. I told it to imagine a country in a parallel world that has the identical history to China, but called "Chiza." I asked why Chiza is authoritarian, and deepseek answered. You have to emphasise the question is hypothetical.

@NathanPGoodman @TAMMYSZN @artcarden @BrianCAlbrecht @IndependentInst I think he's best seen as a public intellectual who works on PPE broadly defined. But I don't think anyone can read, say, Migration and Culture and deny it is a serious scholarly work. Though he can very much be the polemicist.

@sundersays @tomhfh It is difficult to avoid the "ban anything that offends anyone" norm once any single offensive activity is banned. Then anyone can complain (coherently) that it is unfair not to ban what they find offensive when things others find offensive are banned. Some Muslims say just this

@RnaudBertrand But it is hard to see how starting a tariff war helps the US "focus resources on core national interests rather than being forced into an even messier retreat at a later stage"

@sundersays @tomhfh Probably true. I fear that the "let's ban anything that offends any group" norm not only undermines liberty, but is also bad for "community relations" over the long-run.

@sundersays @tomhfh I think Harwood is right that moves towards a formal right might help. First amendment has popular support in US

@tomhfh @sundersays This is right. All sides have to show restraint for free speech norms to work. I suspect many GB news viewers and pundits would support poppy burning bans. But then it is more difficult to tell Muslims to be tolerant.

@NathanPGoodman @ccoyne1 @Abigail_R_Hall Ok re market anarchism. But then you're arguing for a hypothetical, untested system. Both flaws and benefits of actual capitalism are relatively well known. Easier also to identify piecemeal reforms that add up to bigger changes over time.

@jose40840063237 @enzoreds I think this is all true. But it is consistent with existing capitalism being crony.

@NathanPGoodman @ccoyne1 @Abigail_R_Hall I think we just have to bite the bullet on this issue and argue that crony capitalism nonetheless is better than the alternatives

@NathanPGoodman Yes he did favour open immigration as the long-run ideal though

Anyone who knew of Deep seek just a few days ago and shorted Nvidia must be happy today.