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"I work in medicaid"

Perfect listening for the long weekend, pour yourself a drink and kick back for two hours to listen to one of the great raconteurs of our time, Sam Tanenhaus

Ben Gross I'd read, like, a New Yorker essay on Hackett publishing, providing generations of students affordable, quality translations of key texts from the history of philosophy and political thought

Totally agree with this, Curley's Leviathan is the only edition I ever assigned, and still is what I use

I haven't read the new-ish biography of Kendall, which might get into this, but if not I've always wanted to write something about the shift in Kendall's work from being influenced more by Eric Voegelin (e.g. Basic Symbols) to influenced more by Strauss

It's also some of my favorite of Kendall's writing—I'd have to check but I swear there's a point where Rousseau proposes something a little crazy and Kendall remarks, "Oh, Jean-Jacques!"

Fact check: true.

Fun fact, some of the communities benefitting most from reduced gridlock and faster commutes are in...New Jersey

If The Sopranos intro was filmed today, it would be between 15 and 25% shorter thanks to a faster trip for Tony through the Lincoln Tunnel. Congestion pricing works!

Ronald Reagan dying a week or so after I started my internship at the Heritage Foundation was definitely a more symbolically rich event than I realized at the time

Yet another case of “reading books” being the one weird trick for writers and podcasters these days

We're glad that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has spent time on our website, and we'd be thrilled to talk to him and his team about our work All of our models are transparent because we want policymakers to engage with our analysis, and if they disagree with us -- we'd be keen to hear it

Poolside reading