My Favorite Movie of 2025

It's not the year's best movie, but Spinal Tap 2 brought me the most joy.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Dec 24, 2025

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ReImagining Liberty 096: The Irrationality of Rationalists (w/ Samantha Hancox-Li)

A podcast conversation.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Dec 23, 2025

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You Can't Escape the Algorithm

Chronological feeds won't fix social media

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Dec 17, 2025

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ReImagining Liberty Podcast

The emancipatory and cosmopolitan case for radical social, political, and economic liberalism. Hosted by Aaron Ross Powell.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Dec 15, 2025

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Spending Time with Spinal Tap (Again)

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Dec 15, 2025

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ReImagining Liberty 095: Adam Gurri on Opposition Meda versus Complicit Media

A podcast conversation.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Dec 12, 2025

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MAGA is an Auto-Humiliation Movement

Trump is shameless, yes. But he also has a fetish for humiliating himself.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Dec 5, 2025

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The End of the Showman Presidency

In Trump 1.0, he'd back down when he was unpopular. Now he doesn't.

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Dec 2, 2025

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The Answer to Student AI Writing Slop is Authorial Voice

LLMs are bad at sounding unique. So we should help young writers to develop their own unique prose style.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Nov 26, 2025

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ReImagining Liberty 094: A New American Reconstruction

A conversation with Andy Craig and Shikha Dalmia

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Nov 24, 2025

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David Boaz: Liberty's North Star

The legacy of my boss, mentor, and friend.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Nov 23, 2025

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Why Elites Believe in Racial IQ Differences and Evolutionary Psych

Both help deflect critiques of elite status being less earned than elites want to think.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Nov 11, 2025

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The “Likable”/“Unlikable” Political Realignment

American conservatism is a home for unlikeable people who’ve turned their unlinkability into a political project.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Nov 7, 2025

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Most Americans Aren’t Fascists, and That’s a Big Problem for the GOP

When you let rot into your coalition, your entire coalition eventually turns rotten.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Nov 6, 2025

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The Anti-Anti-Trans Election

Running against trans people failed and America proved itself a better place than the worst among us want it to be.

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Nov 5, 2025

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Leaflet, Blogging, and How to Fix Social Media

Decentralization, network overlap, and why we should all blog, too.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Oct 31, 2025

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No Kings and Letting Ourselves Hope

There are more of us than there are of them. And we have decency on our side.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Oct 19, 2025

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Trumpism and the Status Anxiety of Abusers

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Oct 19, 2025

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Why It Works to Call Them Weird Why It Works to Call Them Weird

Shifting political talk from policy to values

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Oct 15, 2025

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Roy Cooper, Prayer, and the Folly of Anti-Religious Collectivism

Roy Cooper's Senate campaign announcement, which included a mention of prayer, sparked backlash on social media from people who'd rather be bigots than understand another's faith.

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Aaron Ross Powell's Blog

Oct 13, 2025

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