The Brink of Morosity

Get your bingo cards ready once again, because today’s Remnant offers a greatest hits of Goldbergian geekdom. Jonah’s joined today by libertarian writer Brink Lindsey, a senior vice president at the Niskanen Center and the author of The Permanent Problem on Substack. Together, they dig into urgent matters of social policy—institutional decay and the challenges of modern capitalism among them—libertarian philosophy, and Thailand’s problematic geography. Did the libertarian project fail? Do intellectuals really shape the world? And how can we make the mass affluence provided by capitalism sustainable?

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Show Notes:

-Brink’s Substack, The Permanent Problem

-The Captured Economy

-The Age of Abundance

-Liberaltarians

-Brink: “Life Under ‘an Immense and Tutelary Power’”

-Brink: “The Advance of the Monoculture”

-Brink: “Libertarian Roots Revisited”

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