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1) This poll is shamelessly hack-ish, 2) populist rhetoric is definitely more resonant than technocratic critiques of zoning and NEPA, 3) the political case for abundance is that voters will punish you if shit gets expensive, not that “fight bottlenecks” is a popular message…

The experts agree that rent control doesn’t work

Many on the left dismiss the economic consensus on the harms of rent control but embrace it on the harms of tariffs, which suggests that they’re in the grip of politically motivated reasoning

Democratic socialists:

One reason why it’s difficult to find or create left-wing equivalents of right-wing influencers is that the message of many of those right-wing influencers (e.g., “Clean your room and start fixing up your own life”) is an uneasy fit with the left’s emphasis on systemic causes of

It’s common to preface critiques of policies like rent control with something like “This is well-intentioned, but it won’t work.” Fair enough, but at a certain point, after a policy has routinely produced awful results, it’s reasonable to question whether its defenders really

When it’s 2025 and you’re proposing rent control

There’s something revealing about this post—there’s zero attempt to actually engage with the many well-established objections to rent control; it’s just grandstanding and name-calling

“Libertarians will support open borders and other policies that not only make life worse, but guarantee an electorate that will never vote for libertarian policies.” According to this line of argument, libertarianism is defective because it allows anti-libertarian speech and

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: every time a socialist posts something like this it becomes just a little bit harder for them to claim that the atrocities committed by socialist regimes don’t represent “true socialism”

Groceries are not public goods (in the economic sense) and there’s no reason for grocery stores to not be profitable. Concerns about access should be addressed via redistribution rather than government ownership

King of the Hill premiered, ran for 13 seasons, ended, was off the air for 15 years then returned…. All before the Dallas Cowboys made it back to the NFC Championship

I mean…

“Most supporters of capitalism don’t understand economics.” —Proceeds to call something that is rivalrous and excludable a public good

It’s unlikely that commodification is the reason for the housing shortage—to take just one example, bread is “commodified” and we have an abundance of bread. After all, why wouldn’t profit-seeking developers build more housing in response to an increase in the price of housing if

Market forces will respond to a rise in housing prices by supplying more housing and ultimately driving prices down—the housing shortage is in fact caused by the suppression of market forces