Seems like the proof that geopolitics is not the biggest factor in developed-world fertility rates is people had a lot more kids back when overpopulation was something Serious People talked about a lot
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Author of NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com
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As someone who writes about this with antigrowth politics, I think antivaxx is a great example of how a movement that otherwise would linger on the fringes so long as it has an unclear partisan valence can suddenly become much more influential when it aligns with a broader ideology
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Strong Murc’s Law with this one
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Vogue pulling a Kim Il Sung
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I feel like RFK is that classic thing where future historians will be like “well obviously trust in public health declined because of Covid” but in reality the causes were much more stupid and random.
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I have this and like it but if your yard is small it's probably more mower than you need egopowerplus.com/21-inch-self...
POWER+ Mower 21" Select Cut™ XP System with Touch Drive™ Self-Propelled Kit (10.0Ah Battery)
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The original Fleming books are generally pretty bad and most of the great stuff the series has done has been in spite of the source material not because of it
What is your most controversial James Bond opinion?
(These may be discussed in a future podcast)
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It’s really useless to speculate on the president’s condition; just watch Fox News and when they cut from Hannity to Tchaikovsky you’ll know
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You read the Times from 50 years ago and there is a degree of celebrity afforded to prominent members of Congress that is simply not replicated today.
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Hard not to see Trump’s govern-by-fiat style as the inevitable result of increasingly sclerotic government in other realms. Congress way less active than it used to be, major social issues (e.g. housing) seem completely intractable regardless of which party in power.
