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11 Nov

TED India, Here I Come

Blogging and tweeting will be light for the next few days. I was selected as a TED Fellow a few weeks ago, and will be heading off to Mysore tomorrow for TED India. I could choose to either liveblog and tweet furiously from there, or I could sit back and immerse myself in the conference. Given th...

Bury The Indi...cut Blog November 02

Third-Party Dynamism

Ross Douthat, in an excellent piece in The New York Times, argues that America needs more third-party dynamism, particularly at the local level. During his argument, he writes: Imagine if California’s famously polarized legislature included several smaller parties — Libertarians, S...

Bury The Indi...cut Blog November 02

Why Ayn Rand was a ‘Genuine Capitalist’

I am not a fan of Ayn Rand’s work: Her prose is mediocre and her novels are cheesy. Even though I agree with many of her beliefs, that is neither here nor there, as they weren’t original to her, and the brand of classical liberalism (or minarchist libertarianism) I believe in took off...

Bury The Indi...cut Blog October 31

Why We Are Drawn To Celebrities

Johann Hari, writing in The Independent, weighs the different arguments for why we are so obsessed by celebrity: The second argument is more interesting. It suggests that we are hard-wired to seek out Big Men (or Women) and copy them. Think about the hunter-gatherer tribes that we lived in a f...

Bury The Indi...cut Blog October 30

Tweeting as an Austerity Measure—Tweet Bank 2

This is going to be one long Tweet Bank, because after promising to upload my tweets on IU every week, I’ve been inactive for a month. So here you have a month’s worth of what I’ve been up to on Twitter, September 21 to October 22, for the sake of archival. I’ve been havin...

Bury The Indi...cut Blog October 29

Capital Gains

Ashok Malik writes in The Hindustan Times that the BJP has hurt itself by chasing “straightforward capital gains” in a few states. He is right—but this is true of all parties in all states. People join the pursuit of power because they want the spoils of power. I would wager tha...

Bury The Indi...cut Blog October 29

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