I’ve met him and think he’s a toxic wannabe
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Fair enough, but still haven’t heard any substance besides your personal perceptions of him vs critiques of his work or positions.
He’s a wannabe in what sense exactly? Certainly not in striving for K street acceptance or to be in polite company amongst the permanent political class.
Which is ultimately why he has substantially more appeal to the internet generation than Cato or any other ‘libertarian’ think tank 🥴
100% agree miles
His work is derivative and stale. Not worth my or anybody’s time, imo.
Also, not too interested in explaining what’s wrong with anarcho-capitalism for the 1000th time. If you think it resonates widely, you may want to try poking around outside your comfort zone. The 1619 Project, e.g., resonates widely; MM not so much.
If stupid things resonate with people, why should we use "resonance" as a metric in deciding whether something is right or wrong?
Good question for Miles.
Seems to be your metric
Will and I can (and obviously do) disagree on whether he is right or wrong, interesting vs dull, which is completely fine. It’s independent of the fact that he is a repeat guest on some of the biggest podcasts in the world with a growing (‘resonating’?) audience.
Documenting life in the DPRK in 2013 was hardly stale: https://reason.com/2013/07/23/my-week-in-north-korea/
‘The New Right’ (2019) captured the history, and more importantly the present, of the online-right better than any of the futilely mainstream post-Trump analysis put out by legacy institutions - and it’s not even close.
To call these works derivative (dismissively, without even reading them) exemplifies exactly why ‘DC Libertarians’ and their ‘think tanks’ are so feckless, intellectually vapid, and irrelevant culturally.
Nobody asked for a critique of anarcho-capitalism; I asked if you could engage with anything but the strawman of Michael Malice that you’ve mentally erected.
And clearly unaware of his cultural influence that exists online outside of your comfort zone, it seems my ask for substance may be too much 🤷♂️
No accounting for taste. Cheers.