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I was recently on The Spectator podcast. Talked a good bit about Sydney Sweeney’s boobs, as well as less important geopolitical stuff like Francis Fukuyama Thought and the future of America.

This might be the most interesting chart I saw in March. Here are agriculture subsidies in the US, EU, and China.

Ag subsidies

Agricultural subsidies are always bad, so this can be taken as another piece of evidence that China has been growing dysfunctional and adopting first world pathologies even before becoming rich. They are up to nearly 2% of GDP! Way worse than the US and EU numbers.

While I’ve got you here, please preorder Bryan’s new book on housing regulation. I enjoyed the graphic novel format for Open Borders, and look forward to reading this one too, especially since it is on an important topic I haven’t read much about before.

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a year ago · 35 likes · 16 comments · Bryan Caplan

That reminds me that I should tell you all to buy The Origins of Woke if you haven’t already. I saw Rob say that people are telling him that they’re annoyed by him talking too much about his book, which is better than people not knowing about it. I’ve found that many people who like me apparently don’t know that I published one a few months ago! So buy Bryan’s, and buy mine, we deserve your support.

I’m doing something new with the X links, where I’m putting the actual link in a reply to the original post. That won’t change anything for those of you getting the posts through Substack, but I’m telling you in case you’re wondering why it looks different. The new X does not like links in posts, which is why they need to go in the replies so people can see the originals in their feeds. As always, click on the screenshot of any tweet to go to the relevant link.

Below, you’ll find tweets on nurture effects, where political science has gone wrong, my response to the Huberman profile, Poland abolishing homework, the contradiction at the heart of MAGA populism, the refutation of UFO nonsense, and much else. Remember, to get all the tweets in real time, including many not included here, become a paid subscriber on X.

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