It seems that political messaging has become less and less tethered to policy. There are a few facets of this that are interesting. 1. Voter preferences, while often veiled in some sort of policy disagreement, are mostly cultural today. Many of the most animating issues of the past 10 years are mostly unaffected by policy: cancel cultu...

I often watch great thinkers speak in envy. My instinct is to try and imitate them to capture some of their magic. However, imitation doesn’t ever really work. Their patterns of cognition are not my own. I can adopt their strategies and try their ideas or methods, but I cannot imitate their style or brilliance. The better strategy is t...

We have become far too permissive of corruption in our system due to hyper partisanship. Allowing politicians you support to practice corruption does not benefit you. The engine of American success is competitive capitalism. The bedrock principle of capitalism is that firms that provide the best goods and services at the lowest prices ...