The Caffeine Stream

Episode 39: Polling Problems (with Sierra)


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Today Sierra and I dive into polling, particularly political "opinion polls."

Much of our discussion revolves around Christopher Hitchens' 1992 essay "Voting in the Passive Voice," which can be found on Harper's archive here:

https://tinyurl.com/2p9xrkum

We also discuss Gaetano Mosca's notion of "political formulas," a concept I learned about from Curtis Yarvin, but which can be read about in The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham, which is available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Machiavellians-Defenders-Freedom-James-Burnham/dp/1839013958

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