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2026 5

  1. Servitude vs Respect – Why Role Modelling is Imperative For AI
  2. An Idiot’s Guide to Winning Elections
  3. Art Can And Should Be Measured
  4. A Perfect Meritocracy Will Have Limited Social Mobility
  5. A Mathematical Model for the Human Will

2025 4

  1. We Need Drastic Measures to Preserve Women’s Rights
  2. Election By Jury vs Citizen Assemblies
  3. Who Pays the Tariff – How Voter Ignorance Impacts Public Policy
  4. Election By Jury – by H.G. Wells

2024 9

  1. To Save Democracy, We Need to Rebuild Trust In Our Institutions
  2. 2024 American Presidential Election – A Comedy of Errors
  3. The Best Way to Break Up Mega-Corporations: Progressive Taxes
  4. 8 Show – The Best TV Series You Haven’t Seen
  5. Donald Trump – Both Victim and Perpetrator of Political Violence
  6. Social Security could have been paying us twice as much
  7. Starve the Beast – How to get shit done in your life
  8. Election by Jury – Ten Years On
  9. I Shouldn’t Have The Right to Disrupt Your Life

2023 7

  1. The Israel-Palestine Debate Shows The Dangers of Groupthink
  2. Proof that 4×4 is sometimes 10
  3. The End of Boredom
  4. Beyond Affirmative Action – How To Avoid Stunting Entire Generations of Kids
  5. Past Returns Do Not Predict Future Performance – Not Even for Indexes
  6. Nonqualified Dividends – You’re Probably Paying Too Much in Taxes
  7. How to Get Yourself Stuck in a Political Quagmire – Why Nothing Will Change after Tyre Nichols

2022 4

  1. Don’t Get Triggered by Analogies – They are a Powerful Tool for Logical Reasoning
  2. Aim to be Financially Independent
  3. Buy vs Rent – Ignore the Rent on the House You’re Looking To Buy and Live In
  4. Competition is Good, Cartels are Bad, and so too are Unions

2021 5

  1. Would you get Blood on your Hands to Save a Life?
  2. Should Parents get Paid more than Singles?
  3. The Fall of Afghanistan shows the Failure of Democracy
  4. Congress v. Popular Vote
  5. GaME On – Big Corporations are Harmful to the Free Market

2020 12

  1. Meritocracies Are Unfair – And That’s The point
  2. Reasons to Replace the Popular Vote
  3. Both Parties Support Wealth Redistribution – They Just Disagree On Who Should Get It
  4. A Radical Proposal for Legal Reform – Equal Representation
  5. Quantifying Racial Segregation by State and City
  6. How You Can Use Stories to Hack the Human Brain
  7. Prosperity comes from Investments, not Consumption
  8. To Be Right, Live A Principled Life
  9. Be Very Afraid of Being Too Afraid
  10. We Don’t Need Elections to Figure Out What People Want
  11. The New Rules for Retirement Financial Planning
  12. The First Stoics – Philosophical Themes In The Bhagavad Gita

2019 8

  1. People Used To Throw Their Money Away At The Grocery Store
  2. Humanity is not a Zero-Sum Game
  3. Conservatives for Political Correctness
  4. Is It Okay To Stereotype?
  5. Better that 10 Innocent Men be Murdered
  6. A Centrist Blueprint for Immigration Reform
  7. Dave’s Basilisk
  8. Prosperity Comes From Eliminating Jobs, Not Saving Them

2018 3

  1. We Need A Democracy That Cannot Be Hacked
  2. Correlation between Stock-Market-Returns, GDP Growth and PE Ratios
  3. What drives Stock Market Returns?

2017 3

  1. Solving the Raven-Paradox and Improving the Way we do Science
  2. Philosophical Proof for the Human Soul
  3. The Real Truth about NYC’s Elite High Schools

2016 11

  1. Forget Basic Income – we need Guaranteed Employment
  2. Too Big To Fail: A Call for States’ Rights
  3. Should We Persecute Those Who Endorse Dangerous Ideas?
  4. Columbus Was A Clown
  5. How to Fix Political Corruption – Give Each Person a $25 Voucher
  6. Why I’m Never Buying HTC Again
  7. We Need Cruel and Unusual Punishment
  8. The Two Faces of the GOP
  9. Buy Low, Sell High: The Worst Financial Advice of All Time
  10. China is Going to Rule the World – This is America’s Last Chance to Stop It
  11. Caucus: The Next-Generation Community-Discussion Forum

2015 5

  1. Conscience Driven Politics
  2. We Need to Break Up Banks to Prevent the Next Financial Meltdown
  3. Banks can Prevent Bank Runs by operating more like Bond Funds
  4. Life Lessons from Machine Learning
  5. The Silent Killers

2014 17

  1. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
  2. The ABCs of Personal Finance
  3. We Don’t Get To Pick Our Family – That Is Why We Love Them
  4. Life Changing Knowledge is All Around Us – We Simply Need to Reach for It
  5. Reinventing Democracy – The Google Way
  6. Why Philosophy gets no Respect in Society
  7. Anyone over 6-feet should be Banned from the NBA
  8. A Free Marketplace of Ideas Requires Economic Protections
  9. The Crimean “Crisis” and Western Bias
  10. Watching International News Worsens Cross-Cultural Misunderstandings
  11. We Need to Acknowledge Our Ignorance
  12. A Convenient Scapegoat
  13. You Don’t Need a Lot of Money to be Happy
  14. Reinventing Democracy – Election by Jury
  15. We Have Accepted Government Surveillance
  16. Why we “Need” Prohibition
  17. The Contented Life

2013 13

  1. The Battle
  2. Loneliness Is Our Most Toxic Relationship
  3. The Difference Between Direct and Representative Democracy
  4. A Great Society Takes Care Of Its Own
  5. It’s Time to Reinvent Democracy
  6. Philosophy in Programming
  7. The Deafening Silence Around Animal Cruelty
  8. Revenge of the Foxes
  9. We Can Only Prevent Loss By Acknowledging and Learning from Them
  10. Parents Need to Take More Responsibility For Their Kids
  11. We Do Not Have All The Answers
  12. Helping or Meddling
  13. Let’s Talk