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“Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence–and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets” by Thomas Abt[1]I found this through a recommendation of Chris Blattman in a post about defunding the police. Chris has a book coming out soon called “Why We Fight” about war that I’m looking … Continue reading: A combination…More

      Is meritocracy working, or is it a fundamentally flawed idea, just a veiled way promulgate the existing elites? The answer isn’t so simple. To paraphrase Hamlet, meritocracy is neither good not bad, but thinking makes it so. Depending on your experience of the world, you might inherently value merit-based judgement one way or the…More

This is the first short post listing some of the things that I am currently actively reading; I may write longer posts on these once I’m finished, but they’re all excellent so far: “Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democracy” (2021) by Michael Miller: How do democracy’s emerge? Following…More