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Gregory Salmieri

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I teach philosophy and related subjects at The University of Texas, Austin. I'm also co-editor of *Foundations of a Free Society* & *A Companion to Ayn Rand*.

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These two memes make the same mistake. They assume that there’s some single left-right spectrum along which people (or the country) are moving. There isn’t. What’s happening is that the loonier elements in each of two opposing tribes are becoming more prominent and alienating…

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A less important thought on this election: the best arguments for each candidate involve acknowledging that some of the candidate’s promised policies world have catastrophic effects and then arguing (plausibly) that the candidate couldn’t or wouldn’t keep the relevant promises.


A panel on Free Speech from a two weeks ago with me Onkar Ghate, Tara Smith, and @elanjourno: youtu.be/2rRd7Rz0s9M


This blanks out the most important question about government: the question of what it should be doing in the first place! Should the government should censor speech or ban abortions or eliminate carbon emissions or the movement of goods and people on which our prosperity…

Making government more efficient & effective should be the goal for both parties. I'm glad Elon is talking about it. The impact of a policy/program is determined by how well it's implemented not by how nice it sounds in principle. And for effective implementation, we need…



A thought experiment to demonstrate why no demographic shift would lead to anything like single-party rule in the US. Pick which ever party you like less and imagine that 30% of its voters (selected at random) simply disappeared, with the result that the party no longer had any…


Arguments from Locke that the idea of God is not innate: app.reasonspace.com/arguments/d26f…

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