Degrees of Freedom

Think Before You Ban

How to Level Up Your Cost-Benefit Analysis

Oct 17, 2024 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

Hurricane Helene and the Expanding Bull's Eye Effect

Peak hurricane season offers climate alarmists an annual opportunity to blame the tragic things we see on the news on our failure to adopt their…

Oct 10, 2024 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

September 2024

Insights from 2024 School Shooting Data

Due to their shocking nature, school shootings have a nearly unique ability to spark contentious, passionate debates about gun control in the United…

Sep 28, 2024 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

Benevolent Spacefaring Carnivores

A Moral Case for Eating Animals

Sep 26, 2024 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

The Anarchist Political Compass

A Proposal for Improving Anti-Statist Taxonomy

Sep 7, 2024 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

August 2024

Reviews of Four Books Anarchists Told Me to Read

Over the last few years, I’ve taken the feasibility of political and economic anarchy much more seriously.

Aug 16, 2024 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

March 2024

Poor People are Not Priced Out of Healthy Diets

The US government spends billions of dollars annually on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a means-tested welfare program ostensibly…

Mar 2, 2024 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

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December 2023

A Deep Dive on Livestock Emissions, and Why Lab-Grown Meat is a Scam

A few months ago, I posted an article briefly debunking several of the most common arguments against the environmental efficacy of livestock farming…

Dec 8, 2023 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

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August 2023

ChatGPT Won’t Take Your Job Unless You’re Also Just a Large Language Model

Here’s an unpopular opinion that might look silly in a few years: artificial intelligence is probably not going to “take over” any time soon.

Aug 25, 2023 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

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Following an Ancestral Diet is more Scientific than "Trusting the Science"

What Studying Economics taught me about Nutrition

Aug 18, 2023 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

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May 2023

The Open Conspiracy against Meat

Why you don't have to stop eating animals for the sake of the environment

May 27, 2023 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

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Immigrants Contribute More in Taxes than they Consume in Benefits

A brief summary of 'The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States'

May 2, 2023 • 

Mike Howard Jr.

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