Alex Morey

Think it's worth saying a bit more about the breadth of Tyler Cowen's accomplishments. Each one of these alone would be enough to make most people's careers: 1. Marginal Revolution is the most successful econ blog of all time 2. Emergent Ventures has given grants to ~1,000 ambitious young people 3. Fast Grants awarded $50 million for COVID research 4. The Great Stagnation and other Cowen books continue to be influential 5. Conversations with Tyler has been one the best long-form interview podcasts for years 6. Between the e-learning platform (Marginal Revolution University) and the textbook (Modern Principles of Economics), he's one of the leading economics educators of his generation 7. GMU econ and Mercatus are vibrant intellectual communities and they wouldn't be what they are without Tyler The list could go on and on (his work with Derek Parfit, his culinary contributions, etc). But most of all, Tyler is a mensch. One of the most important things he does is "raise the aspirations of others." He did that for me, and for countless others.

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Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed. No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism. An op-ed in a student newspaper.

“The files on Öztürk … indicate further that the government relied solely on the inferences made from an op-ed she wrote for the student newspaper to carry out the revocation of her visa, her arrest, and her detention.” They had nothing, and they knew they had nothing.

The Miami Beach mayor’s office is now flagging citizen’s Facebook posts and sending police to their doors to intimidate them for criticism of the mayor. This video is absolutely outrageous.