# X is not about Y

Read Robin Hanson's ["Politics isn't about Policy"](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/politics-isnt-a.html) as an introduction.

## Robin Hanson

- ["Bank Politics Is Not About Bank Policy"](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/bank-politics-i.html)
- ["Talk Is Not About Info"](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/04/talk-is-not-about-info.html)
- ["Fat Policy Is Not About Health"](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/07/is-obesity-policy-about-health.html)
- ["Parenting Is Not About Kids"](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/11/parenting-is-not-about-kids.html)
- ["Homo Hypocritus Signals"](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/04/homo-hypocritus-signals.html)
- ["'About' Isn't About You"](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/04/about-isnt-about-you.html)
- ["There's Always Subtext"](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/08/theres-always-subtext.html)

## Gwern Branwen

- ["Terrorism is not about Terror"](https://www.gwern.net/Terrorism-is-not-about-Terror)
- ["Culture is not about Esthetics"](https://www.gwern.net/Culture-is-not-about-Esthetics)
- ["Charity is not about helping"](https://www.gwern.net/Charity-is-not-about-helping)


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Published 2020-12-12, updated 2021-07-23.

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