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Can Prediction Markets Ever Be Proven Wrong? Hume vs Leibniz (Part 6)
Leibniz finally summons Karl Popper's own test to defend himself. Hume uses that same test to demand one honest failure.
Jul 17
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Can Machines Learn From the Past? Hume vs Leibniz (Part 5)
Leibniz turns the debate over to a machine that never sleeps. Hume asks what happens the moment the past stops repeating.
Jul 16
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Does Solomonoff Induction Save Prediction Markets? Hume vs Leibniz (Part 4)
Leibniz arrives with a Russian mathematician's proof in hand. Hume arrives with the same doubt, sharpened for a new machine.
Jul 13
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Do Prediction Markets Ever Lose? Hume vs Leibniz (Part 3)
The calculus meets its loudest critic yet, and neither man leaves this ring believing the other deserves the microphone.
Jul 10
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Are Prediction Markets Logic or Guesswork? Hume vs Leibniz (Part 2)
Leibniz builds his case like a championship bout. Hume steelmans it just long enough to find the knockout angle.
Jul 9
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Can Prediction Markets Really Predict an Election? Hume vs Leibniz (Part 1)
David Hume brings three centuries of doubt to the betting odds. Gottfried Leibniz brings a title belt and a calculus he insists cannot lose.
Jul 8
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Benjamin Franklin vs Jean Jacques Rousseau on American Exceptionalism: The Case for Reason vs the Case Against Civilization Itself
A behind-the-scenes look at the debate, the sources, and why they took the positions they did
Jul 3
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Liberty or a Better Cage? Benjamin Franklin vs Jean Jacques Rousseau Reach Their Verdict (Part 3)
Two centuries of grievance, two abandoned families, and one final argument neither man is willing to lose.
Jul 3
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Can Freedom Be Exported? Benjamin Franklin vs Jean Jacques Rousseau on America's Mission (Part 2)
Benjamin Franklin asks whether reason is universal or just American. Jean Jacques Rousseau says exporting it has always meant invasion wearing the…
Jul 2
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Is America Actually Different? Benjamin Franklin vs Jean Jacques Rousseau on American Exceptionalism (Part 1)
Benjamin Franklin says reason built a freer nation than the world had ever seen. Jean Jacques Rousseau says he just built a more comfortable cage.
Jul 1
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June 2026
Theodore Roosevelt vs Woodrow Wilson on Middle East Peace: Power Without Consent, or Consent Without Power?
Two presidents, two Nobel Peace Prizes, and a hundred years of failure to explain. Why these two men, why this topic, and why they despised each other…
Jun 30
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Human Nature, Shouting, and No Resolution: Roosevelt vs Wilson on the Middle East. (Part 3)
Both men have run out of patience and courtesy. What remains is the irreconcilable core of a hundred years of American foreign policy failure, delivered…
Jun 30
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