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I went viral on X (the Everything App) last week by surfacing a remarkable fact: for the first time on record, more Americans consume1 marijuana every day than smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol every day.Those results show up in the new data tables for th

Courtesy Zoshua Colah/Unsplash.If you advocate, as I occasionally do, for the prohibition of certain harmful, habit-forming products, someone will inevitably raise the specter of black markets. Here, simply to offer one illustrative example, is a reply to

Long-time TCF readers know a special interest of mine-one which has often featured on this Substack-is the policy and economics of addictive products. As I've argued here and elsewhere, over the past decade we've seen an explosion in the availability and

Some notable recent writing: me in the City Journal print magazine on James Q. Wilson's theory of community; me in the Atlantic on why rescheduling marijuana was a bad idea; me in National Affairs on the prohibition of vice.In a column from late last year

I've had a few recent pieces maybe of interest to readers. If you'd like my takes on Zohran Mamdani, read me in Pirate Wires and at the City Journal Substack. And if you want me on the recent sports gambling indictments, I'm also at Pirate Wires on those.

Over on MI's substack! Me, colleagues, possible appearance by Pirate Wires's Mike Solana! Click the button below to access it!Mayoral Livestream

As I mentioned previously, I'm now writing every other week at City Journal's new substack. My latest is on civilian alternatives to cops, and what the evidence says:City Journal SubstackZohran Mamdani Wants Civilians to Replace Cops. Will It Work?Zohran

Part of the problem with homelessness policy is that it spends so much time focusing on the homeless. There is, of course, a certain logic to this approach-after all, it's in the name. But as my colleague Stephen Eide has argued, the term is something of

Two brief updates on writing in other places:I'm in the Atlantic this morning with a piece on why the perception of safety and order matters to the success of public projects, especially public transit. That piece started life as sort of "abundance" adjac

This post features some discussion of child pornography/child sex abuse material. If you'd prefer not to read about that, don't read this.I had a new piece over at The Dispatch on Monday about the law and ethics of AI-generated child pornography/child sex