Imagine how your air travel would be if you had to buy tickets through your employer, with your employer’s permission, from a list of airlines and flights that your employer chose for its own reasons. That would be a crazy system, and it’s also a lot like American healthcare.

Occupational licensing laws are some of the most cronyist and regressive economic regulation in existence.

"Kentucky’s SANE shortage means many survivors do not get the care they need after the worst experience of their lives." @akivamalamet.bsky.social in the @kentuckylantern.com @bluegrassinstitute.bsky.social www.bluegrassinstitute.org/sanes-malame...

This is a phenomenal essay from @jkuznicki.bsky.social and one of the very best pieces I've ever read on nationalism, meaning, and the stories we tell ourselves. My only criticism is that I wish it were longer. I highly recommend people check it out.

If you want great in-depth analysis of why Hazony’s ideas boil down to blood and soil nationalism, I highly recommend the work of @paulmatzko.bsky.social and @akivamalamet.bsky.social in this thread. If you’re guarding your heart, I can give you the Cliff’s Notes at @theunpopulist.net:

Highly recommended, and not because Aaron is a friend (or my multiple appearances). RL is an unusually deep, reflective, charitable, and wide ranging space for important conversations on the past, present, and future of a free and open society from the philosophical to the highly applied.

Listening to @ezraklein.bsky.social’s interview of Yoram Hazony and struck by the fact that Hazony isn’t just bad at nationalism; he’s also bad at understanding his faith. His scriptures are filled with outsiders being grafted into tribes by acts of faith and creedal commitment (e.g., Ruth, Rahab).

Hey Bluesky! Just started on here, hopeful for some good conversations. Sharing these replies on nationalism as a thread.

“The FDA’s new voucher program may appear to be progress, but in reality, it speeds up a few applications while everyone else waits in the slow lane.” My friend @akivamalamet.bsky.social (with Jeffrey Singer & Terence Kealey) on the Trump administration’s new CNPV program for @cato.org.