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So You Want to Be a Machine Politician
Everything you didn’t realize you wanted to know about mid-century machine politics
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Max Nussenbaum

July 2024

A Reboot Stamping on a Human Face—Forever
Every movie is a remake. And so is every election, apparently.
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Max Nussenbaum

June 2024

Political Memoirs, Reviewed
Assorted thoughts on a few political memoirs, which I keep reading despite being inevitably disappointed.
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Max Nussenbaum

April 2024

Some Quick Tips on Finding Love
Practical and impractical advice from my hard-earned experience.
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Max Nussenbaum

January 2024

The Humanities Are "Useless"—And That’s Okay
Searching for a practical reason to study the humanities will inevitably fail
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Max Nussenbaum

December 2023

My 2023 Year-End Giving Summary
How, where, and why I donated this year.
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Max Nussenbaum
Some Potentially Sacrilegious Thoughts on the Bible
A “book review,” of sorts, of the Old and New Testaments
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Max Nussenbaum

November 2023

I Read the Mitt Romney Book and I Think I Like Mitt Romney Now
Fathers and sons, and the compromises people make for power.
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Max Nussenbaum

October 2023

Public Interest Law and the Paradox of Justice by Lawsuit
In which Ralph Nader kickstarts a new kind of political activism and accidentally paralyzes the government
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Max Nussenbaum
To Infinity and Back
Assorted thoughts on Sam Bankman-Fried and “Going Infinite”
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Max Nussenbaum

September 2023

Alternate Trumans: Who Would Have Dropped the Bomb?
A tour of American history in some parallel universes.
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Max Nussenbaum
Solve Your Problems by Doing Nothing
One weird trick that's either a genius idea or a terrible one.
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Max Nussenbaum
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