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Leiter won this one handily.

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I found this debate remarkable as I’ve been looking for debates like this to use in my classes: Leiter started strong and cast a very appealing, rhetorically effective vision before he fell into evasions and insults. Maybe I shouldn’t be too surprised: a quick search turned up a couple of enthusiastic posts about Hugo Chavez in 2004, 2006, and 2007. I couldn’t find anywhere that Leiter distanced himself from Chavez or Maduro.

Lmao at the assertion that Biden is "anti-market". You are truly one of the most deluded people in the political sphere.

I still agree more with Curtis Yarvin's description on Left and Right. The Left is antinomian/disorder, the Right is pronomian/order. The Left is interested in the potential power/status that is unlocked by breaking the current order. The Left will continue as long as there is power left to grab. Once total power is achieved then the society trends towards the right. USSR is a good example, the initial core revolutionaries were interested in destroying the current order but also reforming man into a new socialist man. Questioning family, sexuality, religion, etc. Once total power was achieved, in the form of Stalin, the USSR trended towards Conservativism (within the constraints of the communist doctrine), purging anybody who is "too revolutionary". This is the idea of "Chuthlu always swims left, because that is where the power is."

Bryan Caplan quoting Morrissey!?!? :-)

0:58-1:04 No, that were the spaniard liberals of the Cadiz courts in the 19th century, Neither Smith, Locke, Ashley Cooper or Hume self-described with that label

Reminds me of the lecture "What would an honest presidential candidate sound like" by Robert Reich. Deleted from the internet but I still have a copy. He says stuff like, "You're not going to live as long as your parents" to which his Berkley audience erupts in applause.

Whtiepilled theory, I came to the same conclusions earlier

Classical liberalism and nationalism were originally labelled as left but it changed to the opposite, Jefferson was considered left while Hamilton right-wing

Good content, but Caplan's delivery in this video is entirely too fast and choppy; frankly it comes across as low-status.

The best debates I remember as an undergraduate were between professors, two friends at nearby universities, who would alternate years going to each others' campuses for the debate. There was never any talking at cross-purposes, there were never any misinterpreting what the other said. Each was always on point and challenging the other. I would love to see the result of Bryan finding a situation like that.

The wire services would provide an interesting test case, my recollection is that the wire services are notably better than front pages, both in simple spare prose and in breadth of coverage. The customer set for wire services is institutions, who demand spare writing covering as many world events as possible. Front pages are mixing news coverage and entertainment, it's a different product and probably sloppier by design.

For sure news IS entertainment. It's necessarally polarized and on the Internet with many choices, not much crossover. Most people I think use sources with the editorial bent they prefer. Odd me, I blew $10 for a year of the NYT and pay $100 for the WSJ, in my opinion, correctly valued in both cases. Which do I read more? Well, follow the perceived value proposition.

Is Caplan the best defender of capitalism?!

I think Bryan is underestimating how unfair his point of comparison is. Basically Bryan is saying that the mainstream newsmedia is worse than not following current events at all, in any way. Richard is saying that the mainstream newsmedia is a better way to follow current events than alternative media or looking through your social media feed, the typical alternative sources. But I'd ask this of Bryan: let's say that somehow the mainstream media's sources of revenue became completely obsolete, like some technological development made them completely impossible to sustain, and there was no comparable substitute, so that people who follow current events did so entirely through social media feeds or alternative sources such as Brietbart. This is not such a strange hypothetical; to a substantial extent this is the world we live in. But if this happened in totality, would people become more or less well-informed about the state of the world? Would the world get better? I think this is at the very least non-obvious. To put it differently: if you take for granted that people are going to try to follow the news somehow, and that the media that deliver this have a strong incentive to be incendiary and entertaining, the mainstream newsmedia is about as good as you could possibly hope for.

honestly you are spinning some of these as spins harder than the journalists are spinning the stories. like "inching" could be positive or negative spin - could be slow as in "sad" or slow as in "incompetent" or other

Why do people who want to strawman "wokeness" never bring a proponent to speak for itself?

Who controls the law? The uber wealthy, but we can pretend somehow it's the woke who are powerful, lol😂, show me the woke lobby in DC, corporations and their predominantly white owners run this place.

Wikipedia is superior to the media, but I have noticed strong left-wing bias there in recent years.

libertarianism is abstract nonsense, doesnt work irl. we do need a state with a monopoly on violence we do need taxes and we do need to morally judge others and restrict their rights to do whatever they feel like doing.

“In terms of the merits of social democracy vs market capitalism I think the only thing we have to go on are the so-called natural experiments…” Uh, no. You can learn economic theory. You don’t need any experiments.

How do these socialist fools get brought in to talk about economics when they know nothing about it?

How can smart people be so clueless in thinking group differences are monocausal. Because it is a moral question not a factual question and morality is about side-taking. "So you are BLAMING the woman for being r-ped? So you are a R-CIST?" The "correct human" response is to be on the correct side of a conflict.

16:00 Caplan : "Why doesn't anyone say ' why take the chance?' ?" Auron Macintyre said something like "corporate employees don't care about their company's performance or their company getting sued, they care about where they're going to get their next job and it's more damaging to your career to be held as a racist or a trump supporter or misogynist than cause your company to get sued for unfair racial discrimination by carrying out woke hiring/promoting policies."

Added The Shrine and Samurai Rebellion to my watch list.thanks! If you haven't seen Blue Eye Samurai yet, Bryan, I recommend it. Very stylish revenge animation series set in 1600s Japan!

I love Bryan Caplan! He always has a slightly amused look on his face - like he knows life is absurd, but he's not letting on!

Also glad to hear you banging the drum for Cpt Fantastic again. It's a great film and I enjoyed your blogs on it!

I adore this men!

21.44: Mr Jones is the film I think Bryan means, about the Ukraine Holodomor (a poorply covered topic then and now).

There’s a Nicolas Cage film called Family Man which is all about Epicureanism. Bryan might like it because it’s about the choice between building a family and pursuing a demanding career.

For myself, Bryan’s favorite horror movies starts at: 41:49 . He mentions The Shine earlier as well.

Dang! Missed it.

Best Russian anti-communism movie is Heart of a Dog 1988

Just watched your conversation with Chris Williamson, it was a good one.

If I look up Effective Altruism the definition is: “Using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible, and taking action on that basis”. If you asked most people if they agree with using reasoning to do the most good they would say yes even if they’re not EA. Does that mean that’s not a good definition of EA?

In Sweden I’ve filled in iq tests for every tech job I’ve applied for

Drink everytime he says "you know"

Could corporation's woke behavior be an attempt to get a resentful (perhaps rightfully) Black population to buy into their brands and work better in their organizations?

9:16-9:45 It's the exact same thing with environmentalism. Most people in the West today believe that "humans are destroying the Earth" in some way and that we have to "make some sacrifices for the planet." Then Greta and her minions just take these widely held ideas to their logical conclusion. That's why, when an environmentalist activist commits violence or is simply being unbearably silly, the most common criticism is "you're undermining your cause." Because, for the most part, their critiques agree with their basic premises.

The NYC education department rolled over about the substitute teachers who couldn't pass the teachers certification exams. So now they are paying them back pay and retirement benefits.

Fun interview style and interesting content.

Bryan Caplan should have more subscribers, devotees and proponents than Richard Hanania.

My theory is right and left wings are just catch all terms for ontological Essentialism (Right) vs Relativism (Left.)

How did I miss this? How did I miss that you have a UA-cam channel? How do you have fewer than 1k subscribers? So many questions! In any case, happy (very belated!) birthday. This was a great listen. I'll be on the lookout for the next one!

This is perfect. Socialism will only work when we have abolished scarcity. Debate over, socialism loses until the world is filled with rainbows and unicorns. Does this professor realize he committed intellectual hari-kari in the middle of this debate.

Bryan's opponent is rude. Jut stand there and listen. Stop pulling faces at the audience.

THIS MAN IS HILLARIOUS

I think a good test to determine if someone is a left winger or a right winger is this one: would you rather live in Singapore or in Norway? Or, would you rather live in Poland or in Portugal?

I think that the defense of private property is the characteristic that unites all variants of right wing political views. Some left wing political views may defend it, but not all variants of left wing political views do, and it's not it's essential feature, either. I do think that equality is the most important characteristic for left wing political views. Equality is only a secondary feature, among some right wing political views, on the other hand.