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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This is where the NYT’s engagement farming was always going to bring us.

Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I haven't even seen One Battle After Another yet but I do love how happy @thehighsign.bsky.social sounds talking about it on The Slate Culture Gabfest.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Who's up for an intellectual feast?

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I, for one, am looking forward to subscribing to the independent publications The New New Yorker, Vanity Fairest, and HotWired.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

So was the icon for "Houthis PC Small Group" a Roman bust or an AI-generated image of a Mitteleuropan palace?

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I want to see the Hallmark movie about the Big City Woman who moves back to the Virtuous Northeastern Coastal Town but who can't actually get together with the Plaid-Wearing Blue Collar Man of her Unlikely Dreams because of tariffs/Medicaid cuts/a shortfall in aggregate demand.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Wonkbloggers: It's too hard for even millionaires to find good housing and decent child care in Noe Valley. We need liberals to deregulate. NatCons: After the deportations, every white family will be able to move into the houses vacated by immigrants and their kids can go to "nice schools".

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The thing to remember is that there is a subset of people who love the Trump Years because it gives them an excuse to frequently quote the only line from Thucydides that they've ever read.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Without taking a position on the merits of Senate term limits, not having them means that you too few opportunities for new senators to discover the joys of Senate procedure.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Isn't the national debt our sovereign wealth fund?

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The Unitary Executive Theory was a wolf that came as a wolf.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

When @scottshuchart.bsky.social asks a question like this, it's worth paying attention.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It will be very funny if the endpoint of the "unitary executive" detour in constitutional law is to land back at the pre-Federalist Society understanding of Article II.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Seriously, how much is AEI paying @theatlantic.com to launder billionaire ideology for its professional-managerial readership?

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The Douthat Rosetta Stone: “We do, however, hear—and at great length—about how Douthat failed to get into the ‘final club’ of his choice… and how a certain campus starlet… refused to acknowledge his existence.”

slate.com

Privilege, a Harvard memoir.

Ross Gregory Douthat's memoir of his four years in college, Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, is filled with familiar set...

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Hello, I'd like to report a founding murder.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Like God Emperor of Dune, as written by Brian Herbert.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Negative polarization > enthusiasm is to politics what r > g is to economics.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This is straight out of Neal Stephenson’s Fall, or Dodge in Hell.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

And the funny thing is, by backing Trump, the Winkelvoss twins finally got Facebook.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Does Cannon's order keep the Attorney General from releasing, say, a summary of the Special Counsel's Report?

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"The true unitary executive will unite the country."

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

This, by the way, is the whole point of Tyler Cowen's blog--to lob new data, however poorly sourced or irrelevant, into the discussion until you throw your hands up in defeat and say "Hayek was right, only the wisdom of supply and demand can give us an answer".

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Tyler Cowen, after the Financial Crisis, made a turn towards cultural criticism--just like most Marxist/Marxian academics in the humanities did after the end of the Cold War--because it's easier to practice the exegesis of vibes rather than interrogate your own intellectual sunk costs.

marginalrevolution.com

Some Jimmy Carter observations from the 1970s - Marginal REVOLUTION

Usually I am reluctant to criticize or even write about the recently departed, but perhaps for former Presidents there is greater latitude to do so. I never loved Jimmy Carter, and I saw plenty of him...

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The Article II argument makes sense if you think of the One True Executive as being unitary across all time and space.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

"The real divide is between the people who climb two (or three mountains) and those who pay to climb many hills."

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

These people are hermit crabs, inhabiting the hollowed out shells of (relative) giants.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I do think it would be fun to teach a class on "The Law of Trump," covering all of the ways in which the Constitution bent during his presidency and post-presidency.

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Ajay Kundaria @akundaria.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Like Peter Thiel's epic case of sour grapes after not getting a Supreme Court clerkship, which led him to nurture an entire ideology opposed to universities and professionals. See, e.g., Curtis Yarvin, J.D. Vance.

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