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What the left can learn from evangelical churches
The lessons of Hahrie Han's Undivided
Oct 13
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Henry Farrell
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Trump's University Compact demonstrates weakness, not strength
The administration would act differently if it were confident
Oct 8
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Henry Farrell
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September 2025
The Village and the Sewer
Behind the "Blueskyism" debate
Sep 24
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Henry Farrell
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The Aaron Swartz production function
Incalculable diffusion as a philosophy of doing
Sep 22
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Henry Farrell
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Repost: Absolute power can be a terrible weakness
The respective vulnerabilities of tyrants and crowds
Sep 18
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Henry Farrell
143
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Understanding AI as a social technology
Speed, shoggoths, social science
Sep 12
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Henry Farrell
107
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Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions
An article from Bloomberg Weekend
Sep 11
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Henry Farrell
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Process knowledge is crucial to economic development
The message of Dan Wang's new book.
Sep 2
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Henry Farrell
146
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August 2025
Short posts on useful concepts I : Flattery Inflation
Grotesque self-abasement can be entirely rational.
Aug 27
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Henry Farrell
103
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The twilight of tech unilateralism
Suddenly, America is in a whole different world
Aug 19
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Henry Farrell
157
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Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?
Four different perspectives
Aug 18
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Henry Farrell
115
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The AI democracy debate is weirdly narrow
There are plausible reasons for how it ended up that way
Aug 5
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Henry Farrell
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