Political Theory

Taleb contends that you shouldn’t put someone else’s skin in the game without putting your own in it as well.

And yet I feel obliged to withhold my approval ... [for] the appropriation of public funds...

It is a common fallacy that if a person is successful in business, they will be a good politician. This is dangerously naive.

There's no reason to believe choosing representatives through a lottery system or "by chance" is worse than what we have now. 

I hope to correct a persistent misunderstanding about Mencken's economic and political ideas.

If capitalism has been so bad for the poor, how can it be that the standard of living for the poor has vastly increased?

What should be done to end the Progressives influence over government and the economy and to promote the public good?

So long as he uses a "national security" ploy, a president can raise taxes without so much as a debate in Congress. 

Truman, without consent or knowledge of Congress, declared war on Korea. Congress condoned his usurpation of its exclusive constitutional power.

The capitalist system is a system in which promotion is precisely according to merit. Marx didn't like that.