Back on twitter! I'm here to talk about my intellectual/ academic interests and to interact with likeminded people who share those interests.

This but unironically. Death to policy!

Yeah man, Kubrick basically just dropped the camera in a hallway lmao. Cinematography BTFO'd... As long as we ignore symmetry, colour, depth, mood, negative space, contrast, lighting, tone, focus, leading lines, composition, framing, balance, background/foreground and all that

"Trickle-down economics" used to refer to the specific claim that reducing top income tax rates would bring in more revenue than otherwise. This claim is sometimes true, but often false. It's very different from the way it's now used in leftist circles though.

I see the CLC has published the Milei article I wrote. It seems to be missing hyperlinks for the Morning Consult and Giacobbe Consultores opinion polls (the Opina Argentina one is in there), so here are the missing sources: https://t.co/TUS7wYDeCd https://t.co/oyzkgyRU81

It’s gonna be great! @cafreiman

Aside from the mischaracterization of libertarianism as right wing, this post is correct that allowing people to use their private property as they see fit—including using it to build housing—is a libertarian position rather than a left-wing one. But it fails to recognize that

Countries don't get rich by stealing rocks. They get rich by making useful stuff.

This is a good discussion, even if I disagree with most of it. These criticisms apply only to a narrow view of Austrian insights IMO, but Folly is right to see that many Austrians have this overly-narrow view. (Number 4 is definitely spot on, though.)

Me after gaining free access to tons of papers from the Cato Journal

Far from the first time this has happened, but seeing stuff from the first Nick Fuentes broadcast where he calls himself a "small l-libertarian" and says Trump needs to drop out due to "borderline racist statements" is really bleak. I know way too many people with his trajectory.

Tonight’s reading material

Someone needs to send me the new issue of Reason cause this cover goes unfathomably hard.

@AnonymousLeftie more left wing politics is the opposite of what Germany needs right now to revive its ailing economy. we need to cut red tape and increase incentives for investment.

He‘s my favorite 80s action movie antagonist.

Reminds me of the Cato binge

center-right with "let's not give 120 billions to pensioners" characteristics

I‘m sad to say that the Edgar Wright Running Man Movie kinda sucks.

Actually, in case anyone is interested in Hayek’s foreword to "Individualism and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences" here it is:

Actually, in case anyone is interested in Hayek’s foreword to "Individualism and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences" here it is:

I feel like people sometimes tend to forget that the Hayek-Rothbard relationship was mostly cordial (save for some disagreements). Hayek even wrote the introduction to Rothbard’s essay "Individualism and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences".