Mike Lee The US government should immediately begin selling chunks of federal lands to state & local governments, as well as private entities.

“If prediction markets nail their predictions, by 2050 a country will achieve longevity ‘escape velocity,’ the point where medical advances increase life expectancy by at least one year per calendar year. (In other words, we’ll outpace aging through continuous medical progress.)

R. Shep Melnick's critique of DOGE in this Quillette article is very good: quillette.com/2025/03/11/the… But I still suspect the DOGE effort is a slight improvement on the status quo, for reasons Thomas Jefferson explained in a letter to Abigail Adams on February 22, 1787: “The

"Eventually the moon colonists will take air for granted, just as the people now living in Oxfordshire take for granted that water will flow if they turn on a tap." -David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity

People who have never run a business seem to think that most businesses have 20, 30, even 50% profit margins. Sadly, those margins only exist for software, which the US already dominates. For companies that sell physical goods, profit margins are ~5-10%. Tariffs mean they die.

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”

On a long enough timeline, the interests of all living beings are aligned—and best served by technological and scientific progress. humanprogress.org/technological-…

Most environmentalists—and many of their opponents—take for granted that human flourishing harms wildlife. In reality, the continued growth of human civilization is the surest way to protect and proliferate life of all kinds. humanprogress.org/technological-…

So far, humanity hasn't really run out of anything. humanprogress.org/hang-on-are-th…

In the MAGA movement's effort to reduce globalization, argues Saul Zimet, its leaders have adopted Marxist language about the "exploitation" of low-wage immigrant workers to justify their deportation: discoursemagazine.com/p/maga-adopts-…

"[O]ne of [MAGA's] defenses of Trump’s trade and immigration policies, contrary to the pre-MAGA Republican Party’s free market rhetoric, has frequently been the allegation that low wages for voluntary labor are exploitative." Saul Zimet discoursemagazine.com/p/maga-adopts-…

At the turn of the century, each US farmer fed around 7 people. Today, that number has risen to 125. While the US population grew by 346 percent, farmer productivity soared by 1,702 percent. humanprogress.org/more-people-mo…

"The deportation of immigrants back to poorer countries ... 'rescue[s]' workers from their preferred employment opportunities only by condemning them to return to ... generally far worse labor conditions." Saul Zimet on MAGA and Marxism: discoursemagazine.com/p/maga-adopts-…

Garantizar el futuro a largo plazo de la vida salvaje de la Tierra requiere más desarrollo económico y tecnológico, no menos. Saul Zimet ✍️ elcato.org/el-progreso-te…

Learn more about the evolving relationship between prosperity and fertility: thehill.com/opinion/535170…

You don’t reduce poverty by shrinking the pie. Saul Zimet makes the case for why capitalism feeds, heals, and builds.

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No other system has lifted billions out of poverty. Saul Zimet reminds us: capitalism works because it rewards what others consume.

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