The Tom File

The Cult of Growth

Cash Flow, Rationality, and Bubble Dynamics

Oct 10 • 

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September 2025

Hobbes, Locke, and Charlie Kirk

Leviathan: Not Whether But Which?

Sep 23 • 

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Wondering About Rod Dreher

Living in Wonder: A Review

Sep 10 • 

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August 2025

Artificial Intelligence Is Finally Useful

Implications of OpenAI's o3 Breakthrough

Aug 5 • 

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July 2025

Addictions, Teens, and Technology

Half-Baked Parenting Advice, Part Two

Jul 22 • 

Tom Owens

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June 2025

The Sovereign Individual: A Review

The OG Libertarian Fever Dream

Jun 27 • 

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Bombastic Boomers and the Succession Crisis

Aging, Cognitive Decline, and Institutional Sclerosis

Jun 16 • 

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Half-Baked Parenting Advice, Part One

Nature, Nurture, and the Window of Development

Jun 3 • 

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April 2025

Thoughts on the Tariffs

Why Atoms Still Matter

Apr 8 • 

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March 2025

Vaccines: An Attempted Rational Synthesis

From Advocate to Soft Skeptic

Mar 21 • 

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February 2025

Patriarchy and Its Pretenders

When Authority Is a LARP

Feb 27 • 

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The RAGE of the DOGE

Rise of the Real Technocracy

Feb 12 • 

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