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Robert Tracinski

Robert Tracinski

@Tracinski

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#145 0.000808 Moderate Conservatism
#554 0.000283 Progress Studies
#774 0.000160 The Long Now Foundation
#1069 0.000124 Bismark Analysis
#1188 0.000099 Persuasion Community
#1733 0.000057 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1872 0.000062 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#2085 0.000037 Harper's Open Letter
#2119 0.000030 Effective Altruism
#2153 0.000062 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#4414 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4460 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4556 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4595 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4635 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4639 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4651 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4705 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4937 0.000001 350.org
#5111 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5251 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#6247 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#6265 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#6291 0.000012 Ecomodernists
#6364 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#6477 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#6658 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#6818 0.000000 Works in Progress
#7313 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#7349 0.000002 Rationality
#7930 0.000000 EFF
#8988 0.000000 Anarachists

Journalism

#363 0.000379 The Dispatch
#802 0.000164 The Atlantic
#2157 0.000062 Bloomberg Opinion
#2602 0.000029 The New York Post
#2672 0.000017 Palladium Magazine
#2738 0.000013 Foreign Policy
#4737 0.000001 The Information
#4750 0.000000 OANN
#4768 0.000000 Newsmax
#5239 0.000001 Stat News
#5533 0.000001 The Verge
#6139 0.000001 The Economist
#6660 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#6725 0.000001 CNBC
#7098 0.000000 The Intercept
#7424 0.000001 Wired
#7788 0.000002 Techcrunch
#7958 0.000001 Financial Times
#8389 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#8724 0.000001 Reuters
#9018 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#9866 0.000001 VICE

Think Tanks

#386 0.000313 Cato Institute
#440 0.000325 American Enterprise Institute
#440 0.000325 National Bureau of Economic Research
#924 0.000175 Mercatus Center
#984 0.000058 Eurasia Group
#2534 0.000056 Brookings
#2738 0.000013 Niskanen Center
#2893 0.000042 Council on Foreign Relations
#3146 0.000043 Center for American Progress
#4815 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4874 0.000001 Belfer Center
#5059 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5275 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#6396 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6613 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7004 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#8059 0.000000 Earth Institute
#8185 0.000003 Hoover Institution
#8756 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

system

#1244 0.000128 Think Tanks
#6145 0.000026 Baseline

Venture Capital

#1220 0.000116 Village Global
#3337 0.000025 Initialized Capital
#4432 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4469 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4879 0.000001 Accel
#5245 0.000001 Sequioa
#5412 0.000000 Bessemer
#5663 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5705 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#5920 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5956 0.000000 Index Ventures
#6290 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#6446 0.000000 Homebrew
#8354 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Science

#4959 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5369 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5733 0.000011 Biotech
#6950 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7862 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Crypto

#4457 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4549 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4622 0.000001 Polkadot
#5015 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5922 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#5925 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#5967 0.000000 Cosmos
#6757 0.000004 Crypto Infrastructure
#6901 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7182 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9005 0.000000 Decentralized Web
#9051 0.000000 Ethereum
#9534 0.000000 Crypto Investing

Software Engineering

#4545 0.000001 Rust
#4911 0.000000 Zig

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