Brink Lindsey

VP at @NiskanenCenter, living in Thailand.
Working on big contemporary problems, blogging about the permanent problem.

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

"To realize the relative validity of one’s convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian." -- Joseph Schumpeter

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

New up at The Permanent Problem: the rise of right-wing authoritarian populism couldn’t have happened without major failures and blunders by people supposedly loyal to the American liberal tradition—on the right, obviously, but also on the left. https://t.co/IPUJE5qHKR

[Nicholas Bagley @nicholas_bagley]

After years of thinking and writing about why American governance is so clunky and slow, I wrote a book about how our well-intentioned laws have lots of unintended consequences.

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things comes out Dec. 1 from Norton. Pre-order now!

https://t.co/CtO7GFjaGb

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

@Scholars_Stage But if humans keep going and ASIs "awaken" the cosmos to silicon-based sentience, that seems a much grander destiny for our species than if we just played out the string on our own. 4/4

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

@Scholars_Stage If ASIs aren't sentient and ASI causes human extinction, then we agree that ASI is a moral catastrophe. 3/

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

The USS Abraham Lincoln pulling into port in Thailand--the ship looks about as hungover as its crew is going to feel this week.

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

@GeitnerSimmons Interesting! De Soto's expedition likely celebrated the first Christmas in the New World in my home county in Florida.

[Erik Bootsma🌸🇳🇱 @ErikBootsma]

Quick thread of buildings of university architecture departments. 🧵

Harvard
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[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

@DamonLinker One of the great pleasant surprises of getting older has been seeing some of the decidedly-uncool-at-the-time pop culture enthusiasms of my youth--Star Trek, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Rush--all still going strong after a half-century-plus.

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

New up at The Permanent Problem—a conversation with Jonathan Rauch about the internal divide within liberalism on how to respond to the current crisis. We start out on opposite sides but do our best to look for bridges. https://t.co/LY7zRr0P5U

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

@hamandcheese Excellent idea!

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

New up at The Permanent Problem: my conversation with Virginia Postrel on the democratization of ambition, the underappreciated genius underlying material abundance, and what’s still missing in the midst of plenty. https://t.co/D709wx6YDB

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

New up at The Permanent Problem: my podcast discussion with Phil Levin on housing innovation as a path back to social reconnection—specifically, by making it easier to live near friends and family. https://t.co/F8q3qnoY31

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

BREAKING: The bipartisan act to legalize supersonic flight just passed Senate Commerce Committee *unanimously*. It was previously passed by the House, also *unanimously*.

Supersonic flight isn't red or blue—it's red, white, and blue! 🇺🇸

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

New up at The Permanent Problem--my conversation with Adrian Wooldridge about his new book The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism. https://t.co/MPHLGpWmzD

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

New up at The Permanent Problem — although it does recognize a multiplicity of paths that lead to human flourishing, liberalism nonetheless rests on a substantive vision of the good life. Liberal neutrality has its limits. https://t.co/VC2h85N0Vi

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

The new issue of @NationalAffairs is running an excerpt from The Permanent Problem: how a better understanding of civilizational collapses can show us a way out of liberal capitalism's 21st century malaise. https://t.co/mn3fkfqACJ

[Brink Lindsey @lindsey_brink]

@Scholars_Stage @arpitrage The incident is related in Sebastian Mallaby's The Infinity Machine.