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Ben Landau-Taylor

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56 from 6 Sep 2023 to 21 Oct 2026
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2026 13

  1. Executive Democracy
  2. Lose, and Lose, and Lose, and Win
  3. Where Are We Going? Decay vs Circumvention
  4. You Can Just Do Things (For Your Friends' Projects)
  5. Don't Expect Any Gratitude For Fixing Society
  6. Historical Perspective Is An Antidote To Cope
  7. There Is No Steady State
  8. Parasite Load
  9. If You Build It, They Will Come
  10. The Fourth American Republic
  11. Blood Without A Contract
  12. SNAP-to-Cash: How food assistance vouchers were traded for cash at the Heart of the City Farmers’ Market
  13. The Lifecycle of an Apocalypse

2025 11

  1. Carroll Quigley on Western Ideology
  2. The Archaeologist And The Oil Drop
  3. Preserving Text For The Year 5000
  4. Why the New Leisure Class Enjoys Activism and Philanthropy
  5. Military Revolts No Longer Work
  6. No, The Black Death Was Not Good For The Economy
  7. Why Do Victims of Massacres Go Quietly to Their Deaths?
  8. Will Future Civilizations Bother to Excavate Our Remains?
  9. Alignment Research and Intelligence Enhancement: Discussion on The Failed Strategy of Artificial Intelligence Doomers
  10. Industrial Greatness Requires Economic Depressions
  11. The Failed Strategy of Artificial Intelligence Doomers

2024 17

  1. The Christmas Truce
  2. Medieval Chinese Economic Progress: Acceleration and Stagnation
  3. Against Extroversion
  4. On Rational Economic Behavior
  5. The Limits to Growth Are Interplanetary
  6. The Academic Culture of Fraud
  7. America And The Future
  8. The Fourth Form Of Government
  9. Looking Beyond the Veil
  10. Computers Are Overrated
  11. The DDoS Attack Of Academic Bullshit
  12. How To Learn History
  13. Probability Is Not A Substitute For Reasoning
  14. There Are More Things In Heaven And Earth
  15. The Three Chinese Civilizations
  16. My Mom's Rules For Cults
  17. What's The Deal With The Industrial Revolution

2023 15

  1. Against AGI Timelines
  2. The Military Transformation Of Medieval Europe: Stirrups vs Social Cohesion
  3. Markets Are Thin
  4. Book Review: The Great Illusion
  5. On The Franklin Effect
  6. Power Is Not Conserved
  7. Movements Without Strategists, And The Dissolution Of The British Empire
  8. The Four-Year Locusts
  9. What To Do If Nuclear War Seems Imminent
  10. Good Citizenship Is Out Of Date
  11. The Vocabulary Of Power
  12. The Four Instruments Of Expansion
  13. Production Of Elites In The Roman Republic
  14. Mercantilism Was Not About Economics
  15. Why We Can't Have Nice Things