As I've said before on here, this is a mistake. In part driven by the electoral college's winnter-take-all system in most states. Almost every state in the country falls within a 60-40 divide. Meanin… (View Post)

Patent applications is an extremely poor measurement for whether a country is developing technology. Even worse is to use international corporations, whose employees do not belong to any single natio… (View Post)

IMO, this is a really unhelpful caricature of US university systems. It's not reflective of the education most students get, and it's also at odds with what the average student will actually experien… (View Post)

This is extremely well said. People have confused having a strong opinion on something with virtue. It also grossly downplays two actual virtues -- skepticism and self reflection. (View Post)

I'd argue fascist is important because it distinguishes people who are willing to work within legitimate democratic means and those who will take extraordinary means when they don't get their way. (View Post)