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The Best Laid Plans

The Best Laid Plans is about humility: How little we know, how prone we are to make errors and how to improve our thinkiing about politics and policy. Leaning libertarian.

Newsletter · By Marc Gunther · English · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Sep 18, 2026
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Jul 15, 2026

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    Mike Bloomberg's gift to Big Tobacco (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="874" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!H2kd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f13642d-48af-47f4-a2a2-702cbf185f0e_2000x1200.pn

  2. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    The life you can save (opens the original)

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    <img alt="Cozy bedroom with a mosquito net" class="sizing-normal" height="4000" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1747056032562-1c73b853a79d?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyfHxiZWQlMjBuZ

  3. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    Please, not a moral panic over sports betting (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone

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    <img alt="yellow and red race sports & book neon light" class="sizing-normal" height="5185" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1552749412-c5cdd33adbb0?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNl

  4. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    In defense of nicotine (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="610" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A13I!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4dc42865-249a-4962-8967-2e828b49a80e_1920x805.avi

  5. Issue · Aug 19, 2026

    And now a word from GiveDirectly (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

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