There’s a new, definitive book on the economic history of US #immigration over the past century.

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan have given us a myth-cracking and enduring work based on their own top research. My review is out today in #TheUnpopulist —> https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-landmark-study-debunks-populist #laboreconomics

It's high time we got rid of Qualified Immunity that literally allows bad cops to get away w/ murder. Excellent piece at #TheUnPopulist by CatoInstitute's James Craven on the perverse incentives established by QI. @Jim_Jordan is wrong in opposing reform: https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-tyre-nichols-tragedy-yes-a-law

As per Hindu myth, we're in Kalyug, the age of moral decay. There's no better testimony to this, notes former chair of PEN International Writers in Prison and writer Salil Tripathi than the release on India's Republic Day, which celebrates the day the country embraced its constitution and committed to pluralism and peaceful coexistence, of Godse-Gandhi, a film seeking to present Gandhi and his assassin as equals! At #TheUnPopulist: https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/the-insidious-hindutva-campaign-to?r=6jqoy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Wanna know what the US would look like if the neo-right integralists and others have their way and "re-sacralize politics" -- aka use government to promote Christianity? What Iran and Turkey look like right now writes Mustafa Akyol at #TheUnPopulist: https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/new-right-christians-would-repeat

What is philosophical anarchism? 💡

@arossp of #TheUnPopulist explains for #NSMIRL

Full Interview: https://youtu.be/BWfpZG2wn4M

#NonServiamMedia #politicalphilosophy #anarchism

Today @arossp's ReImagining Liberty moved over to its new home at #TheUnPopulist. Listen to his terrific kickoff about what's ailing US politics. Spoiler: Its the unskilled use of politics—or what Aristotle would call lack of prudence. Subscribe! This free deal just got better: https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/its-not-policy-disagreements-but?r=6jqoy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Testimony that #TheUnPopulist is succeeding in its missing:

Another awesome episode of @ARossP's Reactionary Minds podcast, a project of #TheUnPopulist, discussing one of the potential social drivers of populism: community and neighborhood breakdown. It's really interesting. Do listen. https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/is-neighborhood-fragmentation-polarizing?r=6jqoy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Reason magazine recently held this forum. My question: Is it wise to platform such a reactionary outfit? Are there any limits to who deserves a respectful hearing? At the very least, shouldn't it have former LP member Andy Craig on to offer some unvarnished perspective on the MC as per this piece for #TheUnPopulist? https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/how-the-libertarian-party-became

Among the bravest people right now are journos writing about populist autocrats ruling their country. #TheUnPopulist ran a piece by one from MagyarHang (Hungary's Voice), a publication facing constant persecution by Orban. It objectively examines the breadth and depth of popular support for Orban, along with the tactics that the prime minister has deployed to get it. In a nominally free polity, the press would be lauded for it. In Hungary, it's dangerous. Do read.
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/whom-can-orban-count-on-as-he-screws?r=6jqoy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I'm beyond excited that @arossp's ReImagining Liberty is moving over the #TheUnPopulist. Both are dedicated to rethinking stale pieties and obsolete priorities and making classical liberalism/libertarianism more relevant to our current times. ReImgining Liberty will no longer paywalled. This means it a doubly good free deal in an unfree world. Subscribe now.
https://www.reimaginingliberty.com/p/reimagining-libertys-new-home

It's my pleasure to announce that my #podcast, ReImagining Liberty—about the cosmopolitan and emancipatory case for radical social, political, and economic freedom—is now a part of #TheUnPopulist, the best online journal exposing and critiquing the illiberalism of the reactionary right. https://www.reimaginingliberty.com/p/reimagining-libertys-new-home

In the GOP's bizzaro world, instead of being told to stand quietly in the corner, the extremist, loser caucus is calling the shots as the #McCarthy speaker saga demonstrated notes Robert Tracisnki
at #TheUnPopulist. The country sorely needs a political realignment pulling the sane people from both sides into a new coalition. https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/congressional-monkeys-of-the-great?r=6jqoy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Former CIA analyst, Pat Eddington of the Cato Institute explains at #TheUnPopulist why, despite the reform of the Electoral Count Act and other laws, America won't be coup proof so long as POTUS can populate DOJ civil servants with loyalists. #Jan.6: https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/yes-jan-6-could-happen-all-over-again?r=6jqoy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

At #TheUnPopulist my Mercatus colleague Weifeng Zhong
wrote a fantastic piece on how China's Covid authoritarianism is backfiring on its communist rulers. No, authoritarianism isn't more efficient or enlightened than liberalism, no matter what Thomas Friedman told you! https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/chinas-covid-authoritarianism-has?r=6jqoy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The spirit of Christmas is fundamentally #antifascist, I argue, by way of recommending #Andor, in #TheUnPopulist's holiday roundup. (It's the third mini essay in this post, so scroll down.) https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/lets-contemplate-the-alternatives

Over at #TheUnPopulist, I have a mini-essay up, as part of our holiday recommendations post, on #antifascism, the holiday spirt, and #Andor (the best #StarWars thing released since Return of the Jedi). (Mine's third, so scroll down to find it.) https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/lets-contemplate-the-alternatives

Thomas Shull @arossp and yours truly, in short #TheUnPopulist team, offer you our gloom-and-doom holiday reading and viewing package :) No, actually its brilliant even if I say so myself. Check it out! And then subscribe and help us reach our end-of-year subscription goal. https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/lets-contemplate-the-alternatives?r=6jqoy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I wrote a short essay that'll go up at #TheUnpopulist tomorrow about the anti-fascism of the holiday season and why that means you should watch #Andor. I'm pretty happy with it—and, if I'm honest, it contains some rather nice turns of phrase. You can subscribe (for free!) here to get it in your inbox. https://www.theunpopulist.net/subscribe

I wrote a short essay that'll go up at #TheUnpopulist tomorrow about the anti-fascism of the holiday season and why that means you should watch #Andor. I'm pretty happy with it—and, if I'm honest, it contains some rather nice turns of phrase. You can subscribe (for free!) here to get it in your inbox. https://www.theunpopulist.net/subscribe