Bojan Tunguz

“Hence arises the belief that traditional culture, which is always based on particular connections, identities, and meanings, is intrinsically oppressive; that “essentialism,” the belief that things have a particular nature and significance, is ignorance and bigotry; and that “discrimination”, treating one connection as more fitting than another for any non-technological reason, is irrational and wrong.”
― James Kalb, Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It

“Identifying niches and filling them is the bread and butter of the regular interplay between markets and entrepreneurs.”
― Paul Polak, Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail

“In the real world, social democracy produces chronically low rates of growth, and persistently high levels of unemployment. But it also commands profound ideological and political identification. And, once entrenched, it is politically nearly impossible to abandon.”
― Bret Stephens, America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder

“Absolutely nothing useful is realized when one person who holds that there is a 0 percent probability of something argues against another person who holds that the probability is 100 percent.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't