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Seth Cotlar

Seth Cotlar

@SethCotlar

medium.com/@sethcotlar

Teaches American History at Willamette University. Wrote a book on Tom Paine and the Americans who hated/loved him. Writing a book on nostalgia in 19th C Am.

36793 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#536 0.000139 Urban Institute
#645 0.000132 Berggruen Institute
#998 0.000033 Cato Institute
#2453 0.000018 Niskanen Center
#2741 0.000045 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2893 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2947 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3347 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3359 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4787 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5765 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6170 0.000014 Center for American Progress
#6621 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8084 0.000012 Council on Foreign Relations
#8189 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8345 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9034 0.000009 American Enterprise Institute
#9034 0.000009 National Bureau of Economic Research
#9145 0.000005 Mercatus Center

Culture and Political Economy

#1435 0.000097 Moderate Conservatism
#1669 0.000038 Bismark Analysis
#1869 0.000071 EFF
#1915 0.000053 Heterodox Academy
#2458 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2498 0.000013 Anarachists
#2505 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2612 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2643 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2682 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2699 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2714 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2717 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2761 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2943 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2991 0.000001 350.org
#3170 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3814 0.000019 Persuasion Community
#3996 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4165 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4327 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4639 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5076 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5107 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5402 0.000010 Harper's Open Letter
#6898 0.000003 Rationality
#7016 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8372 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8609 0.000001 Degrowth
#9276 0.000010 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#9301 0.000002 The Long Now Foundation
#9579 0.000003 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Journalism

#1462 0.000091 The Atlantic
#2310 0.000001 OANN
#2313 0.000001 Newsmax
#2453 0.000018 Foreign Policy
#2822 0.000001 The Information
#3335 0.000001 Stat News
#3659 0.000001 The Verge
#4269 0.000001 The Economist
#4298 0.000025 New Yorker
#4788 0.000003 Palladium Magazine
#4871 0.000001 CNBC
#4879 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4885 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5099 0.000001 The Intercept
#5517 0.000009 The Dispatch
#5710 0.000001 Wired
#6140 0.000001 Financial Times
#6558 0.000002 Reuters
#6706 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7307 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8161 0.000001 VICE
#8164 0.000013 Bloomberg Opinion
#9125 0.000004 The New York Post
#9437 0.000001 Recode

system

#2871 0.000047 Think Tanks
#8581 0.000015 Baseline

Informal Community

#3196 0.000040 Founders

Venture Capital

#2482 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2526 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2834 0.000037 Initialized Capital
#2962 0.000001 Accel
#3032 0.000001 Bessemer
#3339 0.000001 Sequioa
#3422 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3570 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3644 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3808 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4030 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4302 0.000001 Homebrew
#5186 0.000001 Village Global
#6439 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Science

#3026 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3437 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5112 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#5294 0.000013 Biotech
#5840 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Crypto

#2504 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2606 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2612 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2676 0.000001 Polkadot
#3584 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3663 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3708 0.000001 Cosmos
#4566 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4651 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6156 0.000001 Ethereum
#6427 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7039 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8855 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9476 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#2476 0.000001 Zig
#2615 0.000001 Rust

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