Every time I see Andressen's name, I point out that I had no idea who he was and had never interacted with him until I discovered he had blocked me on Twitter. Still don't know why.

I'm not entirely sure how that changes the calculation but I am not sure a shutdown has ever seen a situation like this. It is the nature of authoritarianism: insulated from public opinion because people lie to him and/or he doesn't think it matters.

The point on increasing the salience of the issue is interesting.

I mean these guys were throwing intentional balls so that gamblers were being paid on individual pitches. There are millions of interactions every day in pro and college sports. Each one a potential source of corruption.

As each institution does this, rather than taking a stand, our academic and democratic freedom dies. I hope that the leaders who so shamelessly sell out their institutions and their country are one day embarrassed.

Hey! bring back the graphics comparing the average to previous terms/presidents.

If populism seizes the reins of the Democratic Party, then the question will be what will become of this populism. Will it be used for forces of good in the way that populism can be used: delivering reform to a country suffering from gross income inequality and structural power differentials?