Macroeconomic stability is perhaps the most important thing a government ought to deliver on (besides law and order and defense)

But unfortunately it cannot really be used to woo voters. People take it for granted. They only feel it in its absence

This is a truly excellent article about administrative bloat, mission creep, and ideological drift at America's universities.

It is time for a reckoning.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

My worst nightmare right now is hearing this in a few weeks' time.

Pakistani man explains why women need to be kept out of public life. He says it is necessary because if women walked around freely Pakistani men would all kill each other for looking at each other’s moms.

I just said this to Chris Hayes for an upcoming pod and I think it's so important for people to understand: you can make a bulletproof case for the clean-energy transition that *doesn't mention climate change at all*.

When people are confronted with a choice between hating themselves for their stagnation or hating others for their progress, they seldom hate themselves.

This is a brilliant essay by Amit, who has emerged as one of the most insightful thinkers on dharmic culture and politics

When I was a kid, I never called my friends' parents by their first names. No other kids did, either.

The fundamental problem with the Democrats is that they trust nonprofits.

At the federal level they trust activist groups to tell them what various 'communities' want.

And at the local level they trust nonprofits to provide public services in lieu of the government itself.

Universities claim to promote social mobility but inadvertently perpetuate social hierarchies, whereas the military is an explicit hierarchy that inadvertently promotes social mobility.

The Rashidun Caliphate.

If you ever feel the need to relativize the stature of intellectual giants of our time, just remember that Euler authored about 25% of the entire scientific output of the 18th century, over most of the scientific fields relevant at that time.

This graph is enough to understand how disastrous RJD was for Bihar.

Indian economy boomed after liberalization but this state saw zero growth from 1990 to 2005.

Indian government has initiated discussions with industry associations and companies to gather insights for developing policies that will encourage electronics manufacturers, such as Apple, to expand their design activities within country

#MakeinIndia
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india…

India exported medical consumables and disposables worth $1.6 billion in the fiscal year 2022-23. During this period our imports amounted to about $1.1 billion.

#MakeinIndia
firstpost.com/business/india…

This is really big:

finance.yahoo.com/news/google-de…

Extremely sobering read. China is building a full-on Silicon Valley style ecosystem of ultra fast moving & hypercompetitive EV makers, while the US auto industry focuses on who can make a gas powered truck that most resembles a Bradley fighting vehicle insideevs.com/features/71901…

As a liberal individualist you tend to see cultures with arranged marriages as backwards and oppressive, but honestly the generation below me utterly failing to pair up properly makes me wonder if there is some merit to it.

What India’s Addition to JPMorgan’s Bond Index Means

Global funds are piling into India’s $1 trillion sovereign-bond market ahead of the country’s addition to global debt indexes.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Problem with conspiratorial thinking isn’t the sense that those in power are screwing you over, but the diagnosis that it’s being done in a personal way. People love to imagine a cabal of horrors at the top when the reality is that’s an easier issue to solve than what we’ve got.