6 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American blogger and author whose The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck became one of the best-selling self-help books of the decade by applying a counter-intuitive Stoic-adjacent framework — stop pursuing positivity, instead choose your problems wisely.
American independent journalist — who covered the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus as an independent blogger-journalist — one of the pioneer independent online war correspondents — author of The Road to Fatima Gate and Where the West Ends.
American geneticist and blogger — Substack (Unsupervised Learning) and Gene Expression — who writes on population genetics, human prehistory, and the genetics of human variation with unusual depth and accessibility — one of the most widely read independent science writers.
American economist — George Mason University — co-author of Marginal Revolution (most widely read economics blog) — author of The Great Stagnation, Average Is Over, and Stubborn Attachments — among the most influential public intellectual economists.
Scott Alexander's comprehensive steelman of anti-libertarian arguments — a systematic response to the strongest objections to libertarian political philosophy.
British-American journalist and blogger — editor of The New Republic in the 1990s, pioneering political blogger (The Daily Dish), and early advocate for same-sex marriage from a conservative Catholic perspective.