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Matt Welch

Matt Welch

@MattWelch

Editor at large, @Reason. Co-conspirator, @wethefifth. Books: amazon.com/Matt-Welch/e/B… Music: soundcloud.com/user-669989123…

80784 followers

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#182 0.000753 The Dispatch
#192 0.000536 The New York Post
#1419 0.000100 The Intercept
#1762 0.000090 Wall Street Journal
#1895 0.000070 Bloomberg Opinion
#2223 0.000001 The Information
#2444 0.000001 OANN
#2449 0.000001 Newsmax
#2742 0.000001 Stat News
#3020 0.000010 Foreign Policy
#3039 0.000042 The Atlantic
#3078 0.000001 The Verge
#3690 0.000001 The Economist
#3826 0.000016 The Los Angeles Times
#4291 0.000001 CNBC
#4349 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#4755 0.000020 Ars Technica
#5131 0.000019 New Yorker
#5180 0.000001 Wired
#5568 0.000001 Financial Times
#6165 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#6295 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7645 0.000001 VICE
#9524 0.000001 Recode
#9602 0.000001 Reuters

Culture and Political Economy

#268 0.000472 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#280 0.000600 Environmental Journalists
#309 0.000336 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#515 0.000299 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#690 0.000235 Social Epistemology
#806 0.000195 Moderate Conservatism
#1010 0.000160 Heterodox Academy
#1139 0.000072 Harper's Open Letter
#1147 0.000076 Populist Libertarians
#1756 0.000059 Persuasion Community
#1841 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#1888 0.000001 Fair Vote
#1999 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2029 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2068 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2105 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2115 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2148 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2236 0.000043 Rationality
#2372 0.000015 Anarachists
#2376 0.000001 350.org
#2560 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3591 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3677 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4153 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4763 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5004 0.000007 Progress Studies
#5194 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5224 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5873 0.000001 EFF
#8743 0.000001 Degrowth
#9366 0.000003 Ecomodernists

Think Tanks

#373 0.000373 American Enterprise Institute
#373 0.000373 National Bureau of Economic Research
#440 0.000240 Cato Institute
#1735 0.000091 Mercatus Center
#2288 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2342 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2530 0.000001 Urban Institute
#2758 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#2793 0.000015 Hudson Institute
#3020 0.000010 Niskanen Center
#3514 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3567 0.000033 Council on Foreign Relations
#4219 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#4921 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5571 0.000011 Hoover Institution
#5890 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6738 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6816 0.000015 Brookings
#8395 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8802 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

system

#2758 0.000050 Think Tanks
#5169 0.000038 Baseline

Crypto

#1887 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1997 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2062 0.000001 Polkadot
#2746 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3709 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3781 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3825 0.000001 Cosmos
#4704 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4801 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6326 0.000001 Ethereum
#6587 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6608 0.000004 IDEO Founder Collective
#7204 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9650 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Venture Capital

#1866 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#1920 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2352 0.000001 Accel
#2740 0.000001 Sequioa
#3156 0.000001 Bessemer
#3224 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3546 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3700 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3764 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4149 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4407 0.000001 Homebrew
#5290 0.000001 Village Global
#5490 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6539 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Science

#2416 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2816 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4551 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#5943 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8775 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#2006 0.000001 Rust
#2611 0.000001 Zig

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