The Permanent Problem

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America's Internal Brain Drain
In 1963, the Royal Society in the United Kingdom issued a report complaining about the emigration of British scientists to the United States, lured by…
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Jonathan Rauch on Christianity and Democracy
While the formal separation of church and state is a vital element of America's constitutional order, the success of our long-running experiment in…
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Abundance and the Permanent Problem
On April 2, President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day” and announced the imposition of dramatically higher tariffs on imports into the country.
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My book has a cover
It’s always exciting when a book that began as a jumble of confusion inside your own head takes its first steps toward becoming a physical object in the…
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The Open Society and the Friends It Needs (Part 2)
(Warning: this is a long one.
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The Open Society and the Friends It Needs (Part 1)
This is the first essay I’ve posted on this site since May 2024 — I’ve been away, turning the previous essays published here into a book.
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Musa al-Gharbi on Symbolic Capitalists and "Awokenings"
The rightward shift in public opinion that carried Donald Trump back into the White House is being widely interpreted as a backlash against the "Great…
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The Permanent Problem
The Permanent Problem
the quest to "live wisely and agreeably and well"
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