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Uri Strauss

You have way more ancestors than you think

This article is prompted by an effort by Zionist propagandists to morally defend the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by appealing to the fact…

4 min readMar 8, 2024

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You have way more ancestors than you think

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Uri Strauss

Why pro- and anti-Palestinians disagree

The liberal, rules-based order is a pro-Palestine framing, not an anti-Palestinian one

4 min readFeb 10, 2024

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Why pro- and anti-Palestinians disagree

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Uri Strauss

The Butterfly Fallacy: When all else is not equal

Edward Lorenz famously illustrated complex systems using the example of a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil causing a tornado in…

3 min readSep 3, 2023

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Young woman with long, curly blonde hair, wearing black and white butterfly wings in the style of a monarch butterfly, a silver tiara, and a white dress with orange monarchs, standing against a tree trunk and looking upwards with a serious expression.

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Uri Strauss

Rothbard’s Axiom of Life

Another failed libertarian attempt to derive an ought from an is

5 min readAug 12, 2023

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A goat in a classroom with its front hoof on the teacher’s desk, the blackboard showing “2+2 = 5”

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Uri Strauss

How the federal government inflated rent during the pandemic

Photo by Kostiantyn Li on Unsplash

3 min readJul 30, 2023

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Several 100-dollar bills folded in the shape of a house

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Uri Strauss

Praxeology’s insistence on verbal deduction is just a cover for bad logic

Praxeological reasoning includes a substantial amount of invalid argument, of two kinds: arguments about mental categories whose…

5 min readJul 11, 2023

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A colorful mess of paint splatters, with paint bottles, a dish and a laptop

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Uri Strauss

Praxeological bad logic; Beginnings.

Praxeology is, according to its supporters, the science of human action that uses deductive logic to reach its conclusions. According the…

5 min readJul 5, 2023

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Praxeological bad logic; Beginnings.

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Uri Strauss

Libertarianism is consistent with immigration restrictions

At Fake Nous, Michael Huemer argues that restrictions on immigration violate individual rights, and responds to some arguments against this…

3 min readJul 2, 2023

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Libertarianism is consistent with immigration restrictions

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Uri Strauss

I, Eyeball

Eyeball lotteries are a bad argument for the self-ownership principle

6 min readMar 14, 2023

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Giant sculpture of a veiny eyeball with a blue iris, on a laws outside a windowy office building

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Uri Strauss

Two justifications for government authority

I’ve assumed that some amount of coercion is legitimate, as a way of reining in exploitation. In particular, that private property…

4 min readFeb 22, 2023

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Light grey building that looks like a domed state capitol building, with pillars, trees, a grand statue on a pedestal in front, and a golden statue atop the dome.

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Uri Strauss

Uri Strauss

Eviction defense attorney, Free Palestine advocate, nocoder (Bubble). Into political philosophy. Boncontent and malvivant.

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