Links for April 2025
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- Lecture video: Keynes: IS-LM, Socialism, and Modern Macroeconomics by Edward Fuller (2025-03-24). This lecture was given at the 2025 Austrian Economics Research Conference hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. I actually watched it when it was being livestreamed last month, but I forgot to add it to the link compilation.
- 7 simple habits of the best engineers I know by Engineer’s Codex (2023-09-11).
- Three articles by Sprachspiele, which convinced me to subscribe to his Substack:
- Response to Bronski on economics (2025-04-20). This is a masterful takedown of Joseph Bronski’s post where he dismisses neoclassical economics as fake and unscientific (2025-04-15), which was so bad that now I’m more skeptical of the rest of his writing. I prefer Austrian economics (in my non-expert opinion), so I think there are solid grounds for critiquing neoclassical economics, but Bronski goes about it in an absurd, hyper-reductionist way that effectively dismisses economic science entirely. In any case, Bronski dismisses Austrian economics as well because he considers it unscientific wordcel slop.
- Leftist morality within the dissident right (2023-10-16). Here he points out that many people on the “dissident right” retain a fundamentally leftist morality and thus they make fundamentally leftist arguments, and he argues that this is inconsistent and self-defeating. I strongly agree.
- Limitations of libertarian theory (2022-11-19). This is a critique of Rothbardian libertarian theory, specifically. I don’t agree in general but I do think he makes good points.
- Three articles by The American Tribune that deal with the history of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), particularly about how the Western international establishment smeared it and actively aided its communist takeover:
- Egalitarianism Destroyed Rhodesia. It Will Destroy America Too, If We Let it (2024-10-18).
- Why Rhodesia Matters (2024-07-31).
- How the United States Supported Genocide in Southern Africa (2023-08-09). This one is actually about South Africa, but it has a full section talking about the case of Rhodesia.
- That article in turn links to this fantastic political-military analysis of the Rhodesian Bush War by William B. Turner (2022-02-25).
- Three articles by Martin Štěpán, senior fellow of the Natural Law Institute (NLI), which perhaps can best be described as a post-libertarian right-wing think tank:
- Propertarianism (2024-11-02). This is an overview of the post-libertarian political/ethical theory advocated by the NLI, explained in comparison with libertarian theory. I’m not quite convinced, though they bring up some interesting points.
- Origins and history of Abrahamism (2024-09-26). Very controversial history that would be considered offensive by many groups of people, especially one group in particular. It seems questionable in terms of historicity, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
- What Mainstream Right Gets Wrong (2024-07-08).
- Nick Land’s Esoteric Platonism by Sφinx (2024-10-19).
- Propagandism vs. Realism by Michael Huemer (2025-04-12).
- The fundamental differences between civilized and Tribal warfare by Dark Age Sage (2025-02-02).
- State Capitalism (Probably) Failed: Singapore versus Hong Kong by Meng Hu (2024-06-24). A review of the econometric literature on the topic.
- Hutus and Tutsis and genetics by Emil Kirkegaard (2025-03-25).
- New educational online game: EthnoGuessr. The game shows you male and female facial averages from a given ethnic group on each round, and you have to guess where they come from (historically) by placing a mark on a map.