Russia is crushing Evangelical Christianity in the territories it conquers.

www2.cbn.com/news/world/rus…

Tax the rich.

Hey Danya Chudacoff! It was nice meeting you this past weekend at John's!

Hey David Daoud! Nice meeting online yesterday! One thing I wanted to ask, you said the term proxy isn't really the right term for how Iran interacts with Hezbollah and others. Did you mean that these interactions are very clearly an extension of the state or something else?

Many such cases.

See e.g. “Neoliberalism”

Another example of the majority illusion, which I wrote about here: thedispatch.com/newsletter/tec…

👀 'Net neutrality is still a misguided notion. After all, agencies shouldn’t be able to stretch beyond their statutory authority. Net neutrality has always been a battle about the limits of agency action.' Will Rinehart #ampFW thedispatch.com/newsletter/tec…

I saw this live last weekend and wasn't sure if I heard correctly...

I just interviewed Will Rinehart for Free the Economy podcast (episode forthcoming) and when we talked about the many natural advantages of the U.S., he brought up our abundance of sunlight vs. Europe and now I can't stop thinking about it.

The battlefields of late 18th and early 19th century were likely plundered on an industrial scale. Bone char became an ingredient in beet sugar processing, leading to demand for bones.

Below was one beet processing plant near Waterloo.

science.org/content/articl…

Not at all a good thing to hear, but why spreadsheets?

What Boston has that DC doesn’t:

- A unified policing and prosecution strategy (most important)
- An attempt to reduce truancy rates
- USAO that didn’t sit on their hands for two years

Happy birthday Hitch.

The unforeseen (or should be expected) outcomes of regulatory capture... this is holy hell level shit.

Congrats to Tony Mills, Will Rinehart, The Honest Broker, Shane Tews and the rest of the Center for Science, Technology, and Energy American Enterprise Institute on the launch of their excellent new website: ctse.aei.org

Holy hell: 'An astounding one out of every four kidneys that's recovered from a generous American organ donor is thrown in the trash.' statecraft.pub/p/how-to-stop-…

Theater owners lobbying against cable TV in the 50s:

Apparently in the 1950s, there was a very serious effort to stop 'tollvision,' pay TV and cable offerings. There was even a bill, all organized by the Theatre Owners of America through the anti-pay-tv committee.

after yesterdays eclipse, mercury is officially in gatorade

stay indoors and avoid making any big decisions for the time being