The U.S. is the world’s biggest oil producer. That didn’t stop Hormuz from moving its gas prices ten percent in an afternoon. That’s the starting point for The Critical Post, my new Substack: a weekly essay bringing critical thinking to critical issues: geopolitics, economics, technology, governance. Every post will engage with a thesis and its strongest counter-argument, because critical thinking is only critical if it applies to the writer too.

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