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"Thesis: SCOTUS is functioning as intended (ironic given Hx of judicial review) so it is focus of partisan attacks.

I'd rephrase as SCOTUS functions best because it is an elitist institution run by competent mandarins who remain shielded from the modern incentives most pols face.

She also ordered the 3-3-3 theory which is defensible but only partially responds to partisan challenges to SCOTUS."
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"The emerging early scientific thesis is that fatherhood is an important sociobiological adaptation in a lineage not known for paternal contribution. This is related to broader theories of human secret sauce: the ability to scale cooperation." Apr 26, 2026 05:01PM

 
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The bigger picture too is hard to grasp, having transformed drastically since 1856, when odd fossils1 from a German quarry were tentatively seen as a vanished species of human. Scholars began digging for more of these strange beings, and by ...more
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Milton Friedman
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
Milton Friedman

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

George Eliot
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

Milton Friedman
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
Milton Friedman

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