Austin’s Substack

The lasting Impact of Ellis Island

The descendants of Ellis Island immigrants mostly settled in the NorthEast, the Midwest and parts of the West.

Aug 5, 2025 • Austin Padgett

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November 2024

Our Food System is Under Attack

In America, it is illegal for a farmer to sell anything less than half a cow to individual consumers unless your animal is processed at a USDA monitored…

Nov 13, 2024 • Austin Padgett

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August 2024

Meeting with President Trump

Javier Milei demonstrated that slashing regulatory bureaucracy is a solution to existential inflation.

Aug 11, 2024 • Austin Padgett

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April 2024

From Puritans to Progressives

Puritans settlers are casually mentally associated with fundamentalist Christianity, funny hats and witch burnings.

Apr 5, 2024 • Austin Padgett

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American's Attempts to Control the Pacific Lead to War

Elon Musk recently pointed out that the Japanese leadership in WW2 was stubbornly split on surrendering, even after the Atomic bombs, as evidence that…

Apr 4, 2024 • Austin Padgett

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March 2024

Were Nazi policies left or right wing?

In a recent posdcast with Destiny, Jordan Peterson dared to question the narrative that the Nazis were right wing, suggesting we should examine their…

Mar 25, 2024 • Austin Padgett

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February 2024

Individual freedom results in collective rationality

The only way to maximize rationality within a collective is to allow for seemingly irrational, idiosyncratic individual behavior.

Feb 23, 2024 • Austin Padgett

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January 2024

How to Persuade People Outside of Your Psychological Profile

The Cure for Libertarian Autism

Jan 31, 2024 • Austin Padgett

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November 2023

The Future That Was Stolen From Us

What happened to the future?

Nov 29, 2023 • Austin Padgett

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June 2023

The constitution should be evoked to limit federal overreach not to legitimize federal institutions as necessary protectors of individual…

Learn Liberty gets the situation backwards in its recent article bemoaning talk of national divorce as “the fuel that nourishes tyranny; feeding it will…

Jun 30, 2023 • Austin Padgett

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May 2023