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Most people graduate college without ever leading anything real.
Four years of classes. Clubs. "Involvement."
But 1,925 students decided differently in 2025.
They didn't just talk about ideas. They changed laws, built businesses, organized in war zones.
Here's what happened: 🧵
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A packed room at our first panel of the day at Ukrainian Renaissance Chernivtsi this morning.
We are speaking about Eastern Europe's Struggle with Authoritarian Populism.
Socialism promises women liberation. A lot of feminists also call themselves socialist. But here is the record so far🧵
USSR: the planned economy could not produce enough condoms or pills, so abortion became the default birth control. By 1988 the health ministry itself acknowledged the problem, and the average Soviet woman had four abortions in her lifetime (UPI, 1988).
The same state had legalized abortion in 1920, then banned it under Stalin in 1936 when the planners wanted more workers. Women’s bodies followed the five-year plan.
Cambodia: the Khmer Rouge forced people into party-arranged marriages and forced them to have sex to grow the population.
In 2018 the UN-backed tribunal convicted its leaders of rape in the context of forced marriage as a crime against humanity.
North Korea, today: the UN Commission of Inquiry finds that pregnant women sent back from China “are regularly subjected to forced abortions,” and their babies are often killed.
Venezuela, today: after two decades of “21st century socialism,” the health ministry’s 2016 bulletin reported maternal mortality up 65.79% in one year.
Contraceptives disappeared from pharmacies. The minister who published the numbers was fired.
Meanwhile, the data on economic freedom shows the opposite pattern. Women in the most economically free countries earn more than seven times as much, live 14 years longer, and are one-thirtieth as likely to die in childbirth.
They are almost twice as likely to be in the workforce, three times as likely to earn a wage, and more than twice as likely to have their own bank account.
Women in the most state-controlled economies are almost three times as likely to be stuck in vulnerable, informal work.
Freer economies also show a smaller gap between how many children women want and how many they have, which is the actual definition of reproductive choice.
Women do best where they can own property, run a business, and buy what they need without asking permission!
Texas just elected its first Democratic senator since 1988, and voters under 30 backed Democrats by more than two to one.
The obvious explanation leaves out the part that matters most for your generation.
This is what the Republican wipeout actually says about America. 🧵
Where Does a Generation Go From Here?
Democrats are softening their rhetoric. Texas Republicans swapped a sitting senator for a Trump-endorsed challenger and lost the seat. As George Mason law professor Ilya Somin wrote after the results, America still has "two badly flawed major parties."
Data centers are suddenly one of the most heated debates in America. A proposed federal moratorium would freeze construction of large AI data centers until Congress sets up a new approval system for AI products. Is the panic justified?
In this video, we trace the story from the original Luddites of 1812 to today’s fears about water, electricity bills, jobs, and AI itself.
We look at what the numbers actually say, compare the AI buildout to the railroads, and ask what happens if America steps back while China keeps building.
We also take seriously what small-town residents are saying about secret deals, non-disclosure agreements, and subsidies, and why those concerns deserve real answers. The question isn’t whether AI gets built. It’s who builds it: free people and private capital, or central planners.
0:00 The data center panic and the moratorium act 1:44 Meet the original Luddites
3:29 Jobs, creative destruction, and the railroad buildout
6:50 Water and electricity: what the numbers say
9:37 What happens if America sits it out (China)
10:49 What the critics get right: Ashburn and local communities
13:29 Don’t ban the future
In 1950, the average Cuban was almost twice as rich as the average Taiwanese person.
Today, the average Taiwanese person is about 7 times richer than the average Cuban.
North and South Korea started from the same place when the country was split in 1945.
Today, South Koreans are about 26 times richer than North Koreans.
One side went communist, and the other went with free markets...
Source: Maddison Project Database 2023. Photos: Wikimedia Commons.