Adrian Moore

There is not a single solution to every problem. There is a discovery process, and you don’t discover it in Congress.

The conventional wisdom in the 2010s was that energy independence would reduce US military involvement in the Middle East. In practice, high domestic production lowered the economic risks of disruption, making actions like a strike on Iran viable.

The Big Apple is spending more than ever on services for the unsheltered, but state auditors don’t know if it’s working. reason.com/2026/03/18/nyc…

Out of the 50 states, only three have fully funded public pension systems: Tennessee, Washington, and South Dakota. buff.ly/2MQeJUW

A record share of Americans spends more than 30% of their income on rent. Meanwhile, homeownership is increasingly out of reach. Officials have many options to help—from modernizing dated, costly building codes to expanding manufactured housing access. pewtrsts.org/3Fd7RrA

"A third of Americans live in veterinary deserts, and New Yorkers in particular lack access to veterinarians. Half of U.S. pet owners skip or decline veterinary care, often because of the price tag. Misdiagnosis is also common in veterinary medicine, and another set of eyes and ideas around a sick pet’s medical problems can be helpful." @SenatorShoshana

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

I'm relieved to see some sort of distinction being made by the Committee Chair here. “'I am concerned that a full repeal or sunset would lead platforms to engage in worse behavior, to engage in more censorship to protect themselves from litigation,' Cruz said in a Wednesday hearing on the controversial provision."

Any news article about pollution from plastic bags or other plastic products that does not point out that the US produces essentially zero per capita plastic pollution is ridiculously misleading. You can't even see the US here because it's basically on the x-axis. In a lot of countries, people literally just throw all their trash in the river. That's the plastic problem.

Glad to see this!

Bottom 5 states overall

29th Annual Highway Report: Virginia and Georgia have best-performing, most cost-effective highways, while Alaska and California have worst. reason.org/highway-report… @ReasonFdn 4/4

Our annual report ranking the 50 states on how well they manage their highways is out! The study examines every state's roads and bridges in 13 categories, including traffic fatalities, pavement condition, congestion, deficient bridges, and spending.1/4

This is shaping up as the most consistent finding in housing studies: Building lots of luxury housing can reduce rents at the top of the market—but the people it helps most are renters struggling to afford even the least desirable units

The U.S. just passed $39 Trillion in debt. Even more alarming, gross federal debt is nearing 125% of GDP & publicly held debt is 100% of GDP and worsening w/ mandatory spending + interest payments overwhelming. Look to @Fiscallab535 for more educational material on this crisis.

Some climate activists want a meat-free future. The science says otherwise. reason.com/2026/03/18/you…

A federal judge blocks RFK Jr.'s arbitrary decisions with respect to childhood vaccine recommendations on the grounds that they are illegal and unscientific. reason.com/2026/03/18/fed…

I have a new piece on AI and medicine, and a big overshare. Last year, a doctor misdiagnosed me and put me on medication which had effects worse than anything I've experienced in my entire life. ChatGPT is the only reason I've been able to come off the medicine safely.

Paul Ehrlich lost even within the environmental movement and few noticed. His original claim was stark: humans are mouths to feed, polluters, and ultimately trespassers in the ecosystem. If population grows too large, correction must come through die-off. Human ingenuity plays little role; at best, it is trivial. Humans are not creators, but burdens. From that premise, it follows naturally that some degree of population control ( including coercion) could be justified. The response from thinkers like Julian Simon was fundamentally different. Humans are not merely consumers; they are creators. Given the right institutions, they can solve environmental problems through innovation. The real question is not population, but the institutional framework within which people operate. From there, disagreement persists. One can argue, as I do, that markets are powerful forces for conservation and restoration. Others maintain that strong government intervention is necessary (regulations, management of commons, Pigouvian taxes) to correct misalignments between private and collective interests. A carbon tax, for instance, is justified on the grounds that pricing pollution induces behavioral change and innovation (aligning private interest with collective interest). But here is the key point: both sides reject Ehrlich’s premise. Whether one favors markets or regulation, both perspectives rest on the idea that humans are capable of creating solutions. Both assume that environmental outcomes depend on incentives and institutions, not on reducing the number of “mouths.” In that sense, both implicitly accept that humans are not parasites, but the ultimate resource. This was not always the case. The environmental movements of the 1940s through the 1970s were far more receptive to Ehrlich’s view. At the time, his premise was dominant. Today, it is not merely contested: it is largely abandoned, even by those who might never cite Simon. That is Julian Simon’s real victory: not that everyone agrees with his policy conclusions (Simon was a free market enthusiast like I am), but that his core insight -- that human beings are fundamentally creators -- has quietly become the shared starting point of the debate. Julian Simon not only won the bet that made him famous. He won the war of ideas and destroyed the most anti-Human idea ever (in both direct statements and indirect consequences through its application). Ehrlich died well after his ideas died.