A very useful thread for subscribers:
A woman had Netflix for 6 years.
— Alvin (@Alvin1492840) July 14, 2026
She opened the app. She scrolled. She picked something after 25 minutes. She fell asleep during episode 2. She repeated this every night.
Her friend, a former Netflix UI engineer, sat on her couch one evening and opened Settings on her account.…
How much longer can it hold out?
The Conservative Woman is going to Substack.
Farewell thoughts from Kathy Gyngell.
Having fits of regulatory sanity in this administration.
Kurt Schlichter has a few words for them, which is almost all of them.
Thoughts on launch economics from Lux Ascent (that’s a pseudonym — I know who it is, but don’t know if that person wants to remain pseudonymous).
..at the Mercatus Center. With people like Tyler Cowen, it should be interesting.
I often wonder if there would have been a Marx if there hadn’t been a Rousseau.
The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) July 11, 2026
The French Enlightenment and the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment happened simultaneously, in the same century, reading the same books, arguing about the same questions. They reached completely opposite… https://t.co/RUPK08vPlD pic.twitter.com/kmUCgSQ7rz
[Update a few minutes later]
This was actually the previous part:
Voltaire – the fake antidote to Rousseau
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) July 10, 2026
He is the most entertaining man of the eighteenth century and the most seductive trap in Western intellectual history. He seems like the cure for Rousseau. He is the other half of the disease.
1. Where Rousseau is emotional, Voltaire is… https://t.co/qvIS8dQkey pic.twitter.com/ObD72Gw96y
I hope that Trump has finally figured out that the Islamic Republic of Iran is not an entity with which he can do a deal. If he can keep the strait open, and oil prices down, he won’t have to wait until after the election to get back to the business of ending it.
[Update a few minutes later]
Iran is already begging for a deal; don’t give them one.
Rousseau was at the root of much of the collectivist evil.
— WG MORROW (@WGMorrow) July 9, 2026