Sitemap - 2020 - We Are Not Saved

State of the Blog, Predictions, and Other Sundry Items

Review of Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier

Books I Finished in November

When Is Moderation Not Appropriate?

Voting as a Proxy For Power

Books I Finished in October

What Will and Won't Change After the Election

The Obligatory Pre-Election Post (Spoiler: I'm Writing in Mattis)

What's to Be Done About China?

Books I Finished in September (with one I didn't)

Have We Run Out of History and Legitimacy?

The Problem With Solutions

Some Brief Thoughts on Buying Pieces of the Future (Or What Some People Call Investing)

Books I Finished in August (of 2020)

Justice, Mercy, Data, Evidence, BLM and QAnon

Digging Into the Data on Right Wing Extremism

Books I Finished in July

Picking an End Point for the Revolution

Liberalism vs. Critical Race Theory (A Distressing Lack of Pragmatism)

Traffic Lights and Modern Epistemology

Books I Finished in June

Things Are More Complicated Than You Think (BLM)

Elon Musk and the Value of Localism or What We Should Do Instead of Going to Mars

Don't Make the Second Mistake

Books I Finished in May

My Final Case Against Superforecasting (with criticisms considered, objections noted, and assumptions buttressed)

COVID: What Does Victory Look Like?

Books I Finished in April

Review: Sex and Culture, or Greatness Through Sexual Frustration

Pandemic Uncovers the Limitations of Superforecasting

Worries for a Post COVID-19 World

Books I Finished in March

The Fragility of Efficiency and the Coronavirus

Meditations on Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

All Eschatologies Are Both Secular and Religious

Books I Finished in February (Plus a Conference I Attended)

"The Good Place", Brain-uploading, and Eschatology

Churchills, Hitlers, and Hedonists

Books I Finished in January

Don't Don't Fear the Filter

We're All Montezuma, and the Europeans Are Always Just Around the Corner

Predictions: Looking Back to 2019 and Forward to 2020

Books I Finished in December