Crypto will replace fiat money. But it won't replace ads.  I'm as excited about the possibilities for crypto as anybody. Replacing fiat money is a massive change to not only how we have understood

The other day Jordan Peterson tweeted out a list of 12 principles for 21st century conservatism. They're all basically wrong, not useful, or dangerous. I don't think Jordan Peterson is a bad person by

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Somebody tweeted something today that I disagree with, (shocker, I know.) This happens every day, but this was no immaterial difference. It's a simple statement with sweeping implications. The tweet was

In my younger and more vulnerable years, I was far more interested in politics than I am today. Although I'll make jokes on Twitter or listen the occasional podcast about current political events, I have

After the introduction of nuclear weapons in the second world war, it has become exponentially harder to pretend like people care about loss of life. On the heels of grasping the power to annihilate millions

Mental Floss is a great publication. They're constantly creating cool content that in many ways is a kind of geeky twist on popculture. It's great for fun facts or looking at scholarly subjects in a fresh

Why do people pretend to like something that they don’t like, just because someone they like recommended it to them? Presumably they don’t want to upset this person that they like, and telling them

I'm not a Christian. I'm not religious at all actually. I grew up Catholic and some of my family is still religious, but I'm not an atheist. I'm not even agnostic, I'm just not religious. The reason for

The incessant infighting in the bitcoin community about the vision for the project culminated in a literal parting of ways with the Bitcoin cash hard fork. The simplified version of this schism is that

Just this month was the 9th anniversary of Satoshi mining the genesis block and kickstarting this entire experiment in cryptocurrency. I am as excited about the separation of money and state as much as

I'll preface this by saying that Black Mirror is a fantastic show. To someone who grew up watching The Twilight Zone, this is the only piece of television, (or media in general for that matter) that's

Peter Thiel in his cult famous book among startups, Zero to One, has a chapter titled "You Are Not a Lottery Ticket." The message of the chapter is to say that the world view of looking at all success

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death

I was listening today to one of my favorite podcasts, Unregistered hosted by historian Thaddeus Russell. His guest was an author named Doug Lain who described himself as a leftist and Marxist. It was a

The central promise of net neutrality is to treat all information on the internet equally. Because of progressivism's century long dominance of American culture, egalitarianism has become an unquestionable

This semester I took a class called Competition, Regulation, and Business Strategy. As you can probably guess, the professor talked about monopoly all the time. It was a constant stream of explaining how

If you've sat for any amount of time in an economics 101 class, (or even if you haven't,) you probably know about the traditional neoclassical assumption of rationality. You also probably know it wrong.

I was recently talking to a friend about the newly contentious topic of net neutrality. He was in favor of the regulations and I am against them. I listened to him explain all the typical arguments for

Grocery stores are weird. There are these buildings located throughout towns, maybe only a few, maybe several, but these buildings are basically where everybody in a certain geographic location will