Trade Beef
April 20, 2025
Trump has announced 50% tariffs on all U.S. beef imports, affecting countries like Australia, Canada, and Brazil. The move, influenced by newly appointed Meat Czar Dillon Thomas, aims to boost American beef production but is expected to raise domestic prices by 25–30% and disrupt both ranchers and fast food chains. Critics argue the plan will force premium beef into ground beef, hurting ranchers' profits and straining resources. Markets and economists are unsettled, with some calling it a recipe for "the world's most expensive Big Mac ingredients."
What's in a good theory?
April 13, 2025
Nozick only imagines what a perfect philosophical argument would entail because none has ever existed. Theories are collections of arguments developed from a few basic premises. They provide frameworks for understanding complex phenomena.
America 47, Inc.
March 22, 2025
Robert Nozick gained fame for Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Unlike most American philosophy books, it achieved both academic and popular success, even appearing in a scene of The Sopranos.
Introducing Eidorexia
February 13, 2025
Aristotle declared "All men by nature desire to know." This was the first sentence to his work on "first philosophy", the Being of beings, of what became known as his Metaphysics. Over two thousand years later, we are still unpacking the complexities of this statement.