Phil Magness ✓

@PhilWMagness · joined 04 Dec 2012

Economic historian @independentinst. Opinions = my own. Co-author of the most comprehensive study ever done on the question of "what is neoliberalism?"

52 326Followers

2 690Following

53 127Posts total

166.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views6 624this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %12.66%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.12%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 624	2 896	2.29×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	12.66%	9.51%	1.33×
Engagement rate	2.12%	1.56%	1.36×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

131.1K15 Aug

9.4K31 Aug

6.6K2 Sep

1.4K

9.1K

2.6K

6.5K3 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.23%15 Aug

0.38%31 Aug

2.57%2 Sep

2.12%

3.00%

1.33%

2.30%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes63.8%1 786 in total

Reposts12.8%357 in total

Replies3.6%102 in total

Quotes2.0%56 in total

Bookmarks17.8%498 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

The postliberals gave the label "postliberal" to themselves. Now they're mad that other people noticed their weird little movement and don't like that it's attained wider adoption beyond their echo chambers. 6.5K views · 120 likes · 27 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 I've seen quite a few Schmittians get outraged when it is pointed out that there were more stories about this in 1985 than obituaries for him. https://t.co/9bPeLYHzR2 2.6K views · 29 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Uma das minhas diversões na faculdade era falar para estudantes de Direito que Carl Schmitt foi o maior jurista do século XX. Quando o rage bait é bem-feito, alguns ficam revoltados. (Apesar de eu achar que ele foi um dos maiores não só juristas como filósofos políticos do 9.1K views · 246 likes · 7 reposts · 17 replies 02 Sep 2026 Can we recruit Herzog to do the biopic about Trump's misadventures in Venezuela? https://t.co/aHj3JUot8v 1.4K views · 26 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 Underacknowledged fact of conservative movement internal debates: As the Postliberal/NatCon world has turned its sights on free-market economics in an eccentric bid to resuscitate "Hamiltonian" protectionism, it's also ceased to meaningfully oppose the left on economic matters. 6.6K views · 131 likes · 27 reposts · 6 replies 02 Sep 2026 Postliberal as a descriptor is now increasingly as useless as “deviationist” and mostly used for the same purpose, even as the vast majority would find it inscrutable. 9.4K views · 22 likes · 2 reposts · 9 replies 31 Aug 2026 A quick explainer on why Vance wants a weaker dollar: It's not because he recognizes some underlying problem with fiat currency. It's not because he wants to bring back the gold standard, nor is it because he envisions a future bitcoin or cryptocurrency standard. Vance's 131.1K views · 1.2K likes · 289 reposts · 66 replies 15 Aug 2026