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Razib Khan was nice enough to invite me on his podcast. We talk about my (idiosyncratic?) views on Russia & NATO expansion, the experiences in Central Europe that influenced that view, plus a trip down warblogging memory lane & some discussion about

. Thanks, Razib!

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Matt Welch: from blog pioneer to podcasting mainstay
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Sad to see what the promise of Q has become.

What Happened to the Q Conference?

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Easier to write this after the selloff today. But I'm a bit skeptical of what’s sometimes called the "Trump put,” the idea that the market throwing a tantrum caps the downside risk. That’s both for theoretical reasons — we shouldn’t be relying on the market to do Congress’s job — and for practical ones (the game theory gets pretty weird …

We shouldn't rely on markets to tame Trump

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What Free Speech v. Social Justice Debates Are Really About

There is -- or should be -- no line. Not in law. If one wants to object to someone else's expression in some non-physically-aggressive manner (in the libertarian sense) then they are welcome to do so on the principle of equal liberty. Congress shall make NO law abridging the freedom of expression. All the supposed exceptions to free-speech absolutism are equivocations that attempt to make legitimately outlawing physical force accompanied by some form of epiphenomenal expression equivalent to legitimately outlawing expression. Hurting someone's feelings or offending their sense of propriety is not harming them in any way they cannot avoid by merely discounting the offending expression. This is all so obvious that it is only the totalitarian mentality that can refuse to see it. Such a mentality does so for obvious reasons: Without thought control there can be no suppression of the individuality that demands personal sovereignty -- the death knell of all forms of collectivism.

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