They Called It Democratization. We Called It Something Else.
A few weeks ago, Polymarket approached a nonprofit newsroom called More Perfect Union. They wanted to collaborate – specifically, to have their odds integrated into the newsroom’s reporting. The idea was that prediction market probabilities would give readers better insight into the issues being covered. More Perfect Union did what any honest journalist does before […]
The Business of Human Weakness
Hungary votes on 12 April. I am Hungarian, which is one reason this subject does not feel abstract to me. If you have watched Orbán’s system long enough from the inside, one thing becomes very clear. It was not built mainly on policy detail, administrative brilliance or some magical understanding of the national soul. It […]