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Tom Pepinsky
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Tom Pepinsky's personal blog at tompepinsky.com covers politics and economics. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Everyday Authoritarianism Is Boring and Tolerable”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Tom Pepinsky's posts on everyday authoritarianism, including one first written about Malaysia, and a 2022 post on John Mearsheimer's views. The comments cite the posts without judging the writing.
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I am the Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. I study the interaction of political and economic systems around the world, with a special focus on Southeast Asia. R
Most-linked posts?
- Everyday Authoritarianism Is Boring and Tolerable3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-08
What Hacker News says?
As an Iranian, I have to say it's mostly boring. This article, originally written about Malaysia, hits close to home: https://tompepinsky.com/2017/01/06/everyday-authoritarianism... What you hear in the news about Iran is not its everyday life. Imagine if you lived in a country where the only news you saw in the media about the US was violence and police brutality and just all the bad stuff. How would you have imagi…
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on “First they came for the Iranians”Submitted Why Mearsheimer’s Realist Take Is So Exasperating as a story · 24 points
HN discussionAlso see this - https://tompepinsky.com/2022/03/03/heres-why-mearsheimers-re...
Comment linking /2022/03/03/heres-why-mearsheimers-realist-take-is-so-exasperating/
on “Are We Sleepwalking into Wwiii?”Submitted Everyday Authoritarianism Is Boring and Tolerable as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weak and Incompetent Leaders Act Like Strong Leaders as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everyday Authoritarianism Is Boring and Tolerable as a story · 2 points
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