The Liberty Pear: Best of All Time (So Far)
30 Aug 2025 Reading time: 3 minutes
Welcome to the mega “Best of” — a single page that pulls together the most impactful pieces across The Liberty Pear.
Start with the earlier highlight collections, then dive into the curated sections: Movies & TV, a light “Fun” break, and the full Election Reflection series.
Finally, explore the Must‑Reads for cornerstone policy and analysis posts, including Homes For All, Tariffs Part 1, and Nationalize AI.
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Start Here: The Earlier Highlight Collections
• The Liberty Pear Highlights (Nov ‘24 - Jan ‘25)
Foundational selections from the first two months—AI nationalization, tariffs explained, and early history/econ pieces. The best on‑ramp to the site.
• The Liberty Pear Highlights (Feb 2025)
Builds on the themes with a misinformation toolkit, China’s AI surge, and the foreign‑relations lens on tariffs (Part 3).
Movies & TV
All the lists in one place, plus a TV sampler.
- Movies That Make You Think
- Movies That Make You Think - Part 2
- Movies That Make You Think - Part 3
- Movies That Make You Think - Part 4
- Movies That Make You Think - Part 5
- Movies That Make You Think - Part 6
- Movies That Make You Think - Part 7
- Movies That Make You Think - Part 8
- Great TV Shows
Fun
A little palate cleanser — food and travel.
Election Reflection
- Zohran Street Interviews From Nov 15, 2024
- Jon Stewart - Why Men Are Leaving the Left
- Jon Stewart & Bernie Sanders on Rebuilding Trust & Efficacy in the Government
Must-Reads
• Death, Lies, and Money - The Andrew Cuomo Dossier
An at‑a‑glance dossier of Cuomo’s scandals, donor networks, and abuses of power—with primary‑source receipts you can share.
• Zohran Wins Primary - What Is The Playbook?
What actually powered the upset—authenticity, affordability, and organizing—and the simple playbook others can copy.
• Homes For All - How Socialists Have Solved Housing
Zohran Mamdani’s concise primer on social housing models that tackle root‑cause affordability—watch, then share.
• Tariffs Part 1: An Introduction
A plain‑English primer on who pays (importers/consumers), when tariffs are defensible, and how broad tariffs boomerang into inflation and retaliation.
• Nationalize AI - Part 1 - Defining The Problem
Frames the stakes of frontier AI and outlines a transparent public model to socialize gains, protect labor, and rein in dangerous incentives.
• Combating Misinformation In The Post-Truth Reality
A friction‑minimal action plan—what to post, how to engage, and when to disengage—to puncture propaganda at scale.
• Building 7
The day’s third collapse, mapped in time and place—context, images, and a quiet history many never saw on TV.
• Paradox of Thrift, Fallacy of Composition, Austerity, and Second-Order Thinking
A crisp tour of counterintuitive macro ideas (thrift paradox, composition fallacy, austerity) that trains true second‑order thinking.
• The Future: Made In China
China’s fusion record and broader energy projects — and why a unified U.S. moonshot approach matters.
• 2025 Economic Thoughts & Predictions
Clear-eyed forecast on tariffs, labor, and the risk of stagflation — with links to the deeper tariff series.
• Lump Of Labor Fallacy
Why more workers don’t mean fewer jobs — a foundational concept for reading modern labor debates.
• What Are Externalities?
A practical guide to the unseen costs markets don’t price — with timely examples and why policy must correct them.
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Essential quotes for the present — moral clarity on justice, poverty, and courage.
• Then, Jesus Said…
A sharp, secular reflection on modern “Christian” hypocrisy through the lens of Christ’s teachings.
• The Extinction of the Nightingale
A forgotten story brought to life — underappreciated history with modern relevance.