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September 2022

Suspension of belief
The curious values of the long twentieth century: a last comment on Brad DeLong's book
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Ryan Avent
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Sleepwalkers
Are we about to make some very costly, potentially avoidable errors? Or have I simply failed to learn from recent experience? You be the judge.
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Ryan Avent
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The two twentieth centuries
The case against seeing the period from 1870 to 2010 as an economically coherent whole
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Ryan Avent
2

August 2022

What is Trumpism, exactly?
And why do we remain so complacent about it?
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Ryan Avent
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Creeds of plenty
Grasping for meaning in an age of abundance
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Ryan Avent
4
Time to outgrow social media
Its little rewards aren't worth the social pain it causes; we need to adjust our behavior accordingly
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Ryan Avent
1

July 2022

Mistakes, I've made a few
On getting inflation wrong, and on trying to get the future right
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Ryan Avent
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The end of the conservative age
After fifty years of stasis, we are called to be radical again
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Ryan Avent
21
Consumed
We have entered an era in which delayed gratification is a moral imperative
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Ryan Avent
4

June 2022

A planet on a hill
Mars, and the possibility of societal reinvention
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Ryan Avent
1
The hard things
We have to avoid the temptation to give into partisan hate if we want to save democracy and protect fundamental rights
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Ryan Avent
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