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Russ Greene Profile picture
Russ Greene
@GreenPlusAnE
Executive Director, Prime Mover Institute. Helped build @crossfit.
Jan 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The United States has higher social spending than Iceland, the UK, Australia, or Canada.

Despite this fact, many remain convinced the US is a capitalist hellscape. Why do you suppose this is? Image en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c…
Oct 20, 2025 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
JP Morgan just released its 2024 "Sustainability Report." It is a useful indication of how companies are approaching ESG and DEI today.

JPM reports using climate scenarios from the "Network for Greening the Financial System."

Perhaps JPM is unaware that NGFS's modeling has come under fire from other academics, for using unrealistic climate scenarios, and faulty data from Uzbekistan.

More info on NGFS and the overall report in the🧵.
jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jp…Image
Image You can see the NGFS model, published in Nature here, as well as the author correction and multiple "Matters Arising."

Nature reports that, "Readers are alerted that the reliability of data and methodology presented in this manuscript is currently in question. Appropriate editorial action will be taken once this matter is resolved." nature.com/articles/s4158…
Jul 7, 2025 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The decline of the American man. Image I would have thought the home ownership piece would have been a stark decline, but in fact it’s about flat. Still it’s a bleak picture overall for American men. Image
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Jan 11, 2025 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Even if fire and police departments got rid of DEI, it’s illegal for them to enforce basic fitness and competence standards. Image
Image One way DOGE and MAHA should work is a national recovery of rigorous fitness, writing, reading and math tests across local, state and federal government employeees.

They’ll need to end disparate impact to do so.
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Nov 18, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Europe is closing factories due to high energy costs and ESG regulations. This doesn’t help the environment because companies just move production elsewhere. And causes massive economic and national security losses.

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Image The best way to understand the global rise of populism is that it’s an emergent awareness that establishment parties have a death wish.
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Jun 16, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The reluctance of solar boosters to attribute anything to the Inflation Reduction Act continues to amaze. Solar just works and we need 300 billion, sorry I mean 2 trillion in subsidies over the next few decades to keep it working.

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Feb 9, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
EPA’s draft “scientific integrity policy”:
- “issue of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility are integral to the scientific process”
- it is EPA policy to include “indigenous knowledge” in the scientific process and decision making

Non-compliance will be investigated.
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Jun 5, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
the problem with these definitions is they refer to stuff generations old, at least

But opposition to wokeness began relatively recently. Why?

Cons’ deeper concern is the hegemonic influence of progressive values on mainstream institutions, at expense of everything else This has led both to enforced conformity with those values, where deviations are disincentivized and punished by various means.

And more important, the replaced of traditional institutional objectives by newer, social and environmental justice oriented ones.
Jun 4, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Christianity without the hope. Image The complaint isn’t about a particular system of law and economics. It’s about sin. Regardless of whether we have capitalism bad people own stuff and do bad things.

It’s a lamentation about man falling short of an ideal, without any real chance at redemption.
Jun 3, 2023 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Sneaking off from a conference to lift.

#fitnessisnotoptional #gotuplate So far we have learned that Tahoe is beautiful and that the administrative state is ugly. ImageImage
Jun 3, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
internal monologue? Dialogue’s more like it.

at times even polylogue Without internal dialogue, how would one become aware of the pluralistic soul, conflicts between conscience and desire, nature and convention, higher and lower pleasures?

How would one become human?
Jun 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
world tours with CEO’s and EU officials?

yeah they’re going to be having summits about the impending AI apocalypse in 2078 Every university, corporation, and government agency will have AI Justice administrators.
May 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Reno hasn’t carefully read Hayek, so he misses Tocqueville’s influence.

Falling for the reductionist dichotomy of the atomic individual vs. national collective, Reno misses the role of intermediate institutions and inherited conventions in Hayekian thought. Image Hayek teaches that it’s impossible, or at least extremely unwise, to rationally construct new moral and political systems.

We should honor what we’ve inherited, even if we don’t fully understand it.

That’s nearly the opposite of what Reno accuses him of. Image
May 13, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Ethnic disunity has no place in Stoic or early Christian thought.

Pan-ethnic unity and moderation are favored over ethnic conflict and racial identity.

Western civilization, understood well, is an antidote to identitarianism. Not a catalyst for it. Image That’s not to say ethnic pride was unknown to the Greeks, Romans and Christian. Naturally, they had the same problems with ethnic strife that other civilizations have. But their religious and philosophical thought pulled in the other direction.
May 12, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
“the technological tyranny of the universal and homogenous state” Problematic Fukuyama. Image
May 11, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Man naturally seeks profits and security. Political leaders can respond in two ways:

1. Brainwashing
2. Competition

Montesquieu and the American founders chose the latter.

But it depends on markets and the separation of powers to work. Image The concentration of economic and political power, then, makes us regress from Montesquieu to Machiavelli.

Then the only option for rulers is to try to brainwash us into pursuing something other than profits and personal security. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.101…
Mar 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The steel man version of reactionary nostalgia is that consumption is not sufficient for flourishing:

A basic formula for adult success:
1. Employed
2. Home owner
3. Healthy and fit
4. Married with kids
5. Community

% achieving all five keeps falling = decline I emphasize steel man version because this more sophisticated version of reactionary nostalgia is entirely my invention. The very online trad meme accounts do not articulate these points.
Mar 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
surely China will comply with global agreements on AI / environment / taxes / ESG, out of a sense of solidarity with the international community

- smart people Hi, geopolitical adversaries. This technology is so powerful it will change life on earth as we know it and give its owners unimaginable capabilities. So please promise us not to develop it. We will believe you.
Mar 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I wouldn’t worry about Deutsche Bank’s risk management: they’re a world leader in ESG debt. Image db.com/files/document…
Oct 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
lol NIMBY’s still trying to sell their opposition to housing on environmental and “diversity” grounds Lol:

“pursue affordability and diversity though tools other than density, mass, and congestion”

Kind of like pursuing renewable energy through tools other than nuclear and permitting reform - oh wait I bet they want that too!
Oct 11, 2022 • 28 tweets • 8 min read
The European model has died, for reasons predicted by the right for decades.

“You - the United States - take care of our security. You - China and Russia - provided the basis of our prosperity. This is a world that is no longer there.” The economic implications are obvious, but the political implications will take years to work themselves out. Lazy American political theorists have turned to Europe and China for inspiration, and these wells are dry. Time to think new thoughts.