Edward Meunier
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Edward Meunier
@EdwardMeunier1
Lucky husband, Music lover.






Mel Gibson: "The world has gone nuts, I think" Its time to get back to the message of Christ.







The data are in: Populism makes countries worse off. "... a country being ruled by a populist is associated with a 10% lower GDP after 15 years ... Populists .. were four times more likely than other leaders to preside over democratic backsliding. In fact, of the breakdowns of democracy ... since the end of the Cold War ... two-thirds occurred under populist leaders. Such leaders were also bad for freedom of the press and civil liberties. Perhaps most remarkable of all: 40% of populist leaders ended up charged with corruption." From the forthcoming Kakistocracy. unherd.com/2026/07/why-po… via @UnHerd



Seth Rogen said rich people used to spend their fortunes building things everyone could use. Seth Rogen: Maybe this is like naive of me, but it seems like these rich people who are like, had outsized wealth, it seems like they used to like to have their names on things Keanu Reeves: Libraries, that were like public... Seth Rogen: able to be used by the public. Keanu Reeves: National parks. You know what I mean? Yeah, parks... Seth Rogen: ...parks, observatories, libraries, museums, you know, things like that. And now it's like, people don't do that stuff anymore.



















