Helena Vinter

"Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking."

"Hard agree. Tagging @mei_muller_24 since they argued the opposite last month and would push back."

"I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?"

"Good post. Saving it. Coming back when I have a real reply."

"Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name."

"The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly."

"Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it."

Francoist reading list — what would you cut, what would you add in 2026?