Author Archives: Conor Gallagher
Links 8/25/2025
Strategies of Hope and Death: the US Foreign Policy Establishment Banks on Things Breaking Washington’s Way Once Leaders of China, Iran, and Russia Eventually Die
In Washington think tank land, begrudgingly accepting coercive limitations does not mean giving up.
Read more...Dissecting My Recent Argument (Are Error Theories Offensive?)
How do people consume arguments or make sense of them in a discursive environment devoid of generally-accepted notions of what makes an argument good or successful?
Read more...Tit-For-Tat Gerrymandering Wars Won’t End Soon – What Happens in Texas and California Doesn’t Stay There
Welcome to another race to the bottom, where numerous states redraw their maps to benefit one party in response to other states doing the same.
Read more...Links 8/22/2025
Links 8/21/2025
The US Should Look to Putin for Help to Rebuild Trust in American Institutions
American elites looked at post-USSR Russia and said “let’s do that here.” A president serious about MAGA should ask Putin how he dug the county out of that hole.
Read more...Links 8/18/2025
Is Price Fixing Protected by the First Amendment?
RealPage continues ugly post-Citizens United trend, and provides more evidence that the Democrat Abundance enthusiasts are full of hot air.
Read more...The Impact of a Ghostwritten Paper on the Fate of Glyphosate
A downsized EPA faces a deadline to review the herbicide’s safety without much of its in-house expertise.
Read more...The Straw Man City and the Architecture of Selective Small Government
Trump’s urban takeovers reveal a governing pattern that blends the language of small government with a readiness to deploy maximum state force when it serves political ends.
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