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Question for you all: what was your experience with the Shingles vaccine? - My doctors have been urging me to get it, despite the fact that I had shingles about twenty-five years ago. Back then, the word on shingles was that you ...5 months ago
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U.S.-Style Academic CVs for Political Science and International Relations - For related content, please see my post about cover letters for U.S.-style academic job applications. I’ve served on hiring committees for academic positio...5 months ago
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Logistics for Humanitarian Crises - Introduction Logistics for humanitarian crises is quite unlike logistics for traditional military operations: in the case of natural disasters, there is f...5 months ago
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The crisis of UK democracy - Conventional UK politics is in crisis. By this I don't mean merely that things are bad. I mean that destabilizing forces have strengthened and stabilizing ...5 months ago
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Footprints in the Firmament is on sale now! - Fresh boxes of both softcovers and hardcovers arrived today. If you’d like a signed, personalized copy of my new short fiction treasury, Footprints in the ...5 months ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!5 months ago
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Grok, Karoline Leavitt and Me - Yesterday on Twitter, I commented on a Tweet referencing a comment by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the meeting yesterday between Pres...5 months ago
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The EU’s Fake History Project: Islam, Europe, and €10 Million in Revisionism - The Stream The European Union has decided that what the continent really needs right now — amid economic stagnation, mass illegal immigration, rising crime...6 months ago
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Has the University Funding Freeze Caused Commencing Enrolments to Fall? - The release of 2018 enrolment data reveals a rare decline—commencing domestic bachelor-degree students fell by approximately 0.8% compared to 2017. On the ...6 months ago
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Obiter dictum - There is a peculiar form of human idiocy, unusually common on the political Left but not, alas, unheard of in any segment of society: the assumption that i...6 months ago
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NGDP consulting approaches to improve project management efficiency - What are NGDP consulting approaches to improve project management efficiency? NGDP consulting approaches to improve project management efficiency include p...6 months ago
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A Letter From A Friend - Anne, Thank you for having the love, strength, and courage to write this blog post about Ken. It is powerful, devoted, and could be of great help to othe...6 months ago
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I’ll say it: I told you so - (Transplanting a post from DeviantArt) So British and EU censorship laws have dropped, and especially on X, people are hitting the roof as every adult flag...6 months ago
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The Man Who Tried To Save The World – A Review - Fred Cuny was an American in the best traditions of us. He was ornery, feisty, irreverent, not one to suffer authority. Somebody who made his own way in th...6 months ago
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Incredible Lessons I’ve Learned About - Auto Diagnostics: The Key to Understanding Your Vehicle’s Health In today’s fast-paced automotive world, understanding the health of your vehicle is more c...6 months ago
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Planned Parenthood Warns Funding Cut Will Result In Birth Of Thousands Of Babies - Via The Babylon Bee U.S. — Following the passing of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” to set the government’s spending budget, Planned...7 months ago
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The Country I Miss | Naseeruddin Shah (Indian Express, 4 July 2025) - Every. Single. Word.𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗻𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰...7 months ago
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The ideas of Liberal liberals - Nearly 30 years ago now I dropped out of a PhD exploring the communitarian critique of liberalism. My interest in liberalism continued through articles, ch...7 months ago
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At long last, my re-education ‘coach’ has been chosen - But I will not submit until if the proceedings are to be behind closed doors Jordan Peterson: “We look at Carney and we don’t pay any attention to politics...7 months ago
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#295 – Qing 30: Building Better Worlds - The Yongzheng Emperor seeks to capitalize on his father’s greatness abroad – but cautiously. He wants to exterminate the barbarians… but delicately. He wan...7 months ago
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Help With A Subtitle - The book shown here is about to go to press, but is on hold for a few days because the publishers have decided they don’t like the subtitle (An Invitation ...8 months ago
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Trump-proofing Canada means ending our dependence on SWIFT - It's time to stop staring into the headlights and respond to the fact that Canada is being eyed as a choice morsel by a much larger predator: our former...9 months ago
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My Blog Has Moved to Substack - As I wrote at the beginning of 2025, the previous year turned out to be quite a challenge. It took me a while to recover and, then, to deal with the “stuff...9 months ago
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Recent Call of Cthulhu work for the Miskatonic Repository - The last time I posted on this poor, neglected blog was in August 2023, and a lot has happened since then - I've been meaning to blog about it for ages, bu...10 months ago
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Forthcoming: “A MODERN QUR’ANIC KAMPF AGAINST THE JEWS” First full translation of, “The Children of Israel in the Qur’an & Traditions,” written by late (d. 2010) Al-Azhar University Grand Imam, & Sunni Islam’s Pre-eminent Modern Qur’anic Commentator, Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi - Forthcoming: A MODERN QUR’ANIC KAMPF AGAINST THE JEWS First full translation of, “The Children of Israel in the Qur’an & Traditions” Written by late (d. 2...10 months ago
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Never let facts stand in the way of a good story - “South Africa’s most decorated combat soldier, Colonel Jan Breytenbach, has died in his homeland at 91” So, proclaimed Mr. John Elsegood in an article on O...10 months ago
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The End - I started this blog back in 2008. What a ride it's been! Thanks to all who took the time to interact with me -- I profited greatly from the experience. And...10 months ago
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New location and new horizons - *The Travelling Companions*, 1862, Augustus Egg (1816-1863) I'm now blogging at *Peter Frost's Newsletter.* Please drop by and offer your comments: ...10 months ago
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General Preparedness Discussion–9MAR2025 - It’s been said that most American households only have enough food on hand for 2-3 days worth of meals. We tend to see this as factual, because of the run ...10 months ago
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Sign up for the fight – join my fighting team today! - Join my fighting team and help win the battle against porn in our public libraries! The post Sign up for the fight – join my fighting team today! appeare...11 months ago
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Algeria - The Algerians were mostly pirates at first. They preyed on European commerce and enslaved tens of thousands of Europeans. They ransomed what they could and...11 months ago
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Deepseek gets F+ in Econ - LLMs have trouble with this pretty-basic economics question: Prompt: “*Is this factually accurate?* *Positively correlated price-quantity pairs reveal th...1 year ago
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The Revitalization of the Cherokee Language - The Cherokee language is a key part of the rich and diverse history of the Cherokee people. This unique language, with its syllabary alphabet created by ...1 year ago
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Curing Economics’ Addiction to Unreal Theories - A Review of Ricardo’s Dream, by Nat Dyer The post Curing Economics’ Addiction to Unreal Theories appeared first on Evonomics.1 year ago
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The Humanoids by Jack Willamson - I had my hopes up for this one. After all, “With Folded Hands” is a bona fide super-classic short story. Yeah, sure. Isaac Asimov was onto something when h...1 year ago
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To be young, perchance to dream - *He got to the river quay, or more exactly to the sidewalk on the other side of the paved road running along the river, in the late morning. Too many ...1 year ago
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Merry Christmas - And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them...1 year ago
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Institutional Economics on Bluesky - I have a Bluesky account you may wish to follow. Also a reminder to subscribe to my Substack newsletter if you have not already done so. The back-end of th...1 year ago
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The “Public Secret” Dossier: Revelations about the MSM from the Al Durah Affair - This text was first posted July 10, 2008, but much of it is missing there. I will clean this text (with formatting) but in the meantime, I publish it here ...1 year ago
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Japan’s PM ‘runs’ to Trump, Ishiba aims for a meeting in November - Adnkronos International, Rome(TNS) During the phone call that lasted about five minutes, Ishiba and Trump – Kyodo reports again – did not talk about the ...1 year ago
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About Simone and Malcolm Collins’ Smear Campaign Against Me - If you’re interested at all in pronatalism, you’re familiar with Simone and Malcolm Collins, the pronatal Silicon Valley investors-turned-Pennsylvania-pr...1 year ago
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Ribbonfarm is Retiring - After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm....1 year ago
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Podcast Review of “Avoidant” - I’ve been trying out AI assistance in marketing. This is an excellent example of what you can do, and it’s amazingly good at bringing out the value of th...1 year ago
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(WATCH) NATO - The US is one of 32 nations belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. The alliance is 75 years old this year. Because of the Russia-Uk...1 year ago
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China has much to teach us. John Roberts does not. - So, I don’t really write here any more. I write at drafts.interfluidity.com instead. Please follow that feed or subscribe by e-mail. I do still offer perio...1 year ago
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A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...1 year ago
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Dear Friends - Dear Friends: Ten years after I started this blog, circumstances are making it impossible for me to continue with it. So I am going to suspend it, at lea...1 year ago
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Sanity Fair - *"Antifascist" demonstration Portland, Oregon. August 17, 2019. * The two sides squared off across a field, defined by police cordons at each end, like dis...1 year ago
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The Deep-State Strikes Back - Biden is out. Kamala is in. Democracy and laws be damned. Biden through Saturday night was insisting he would stay in the presidential race to the end su...1 year ago
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A Better Stablecoin on a Perp DEX - Creating a stablecoin position on a perp exchange is hard, but it should be easy. It not only caters to demand, but it also adds liquidity to perp marke...1 year ago
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Sitzkrieg? - Several People have inquired why I have not written a column for TR in some time. Let me assure them I am in good health and face no lack of material as o...1 year ago
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Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...1 year ago
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Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...1 year ago
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Speaking trip this April - I'm speaking at Libertycon in Tbilisi on April 20th, will probably either go or come via London. Anyone interested in a talk? I'll probably be in Europe ...2 years ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!2 years ago
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British Jews are living under the shadow of fear: Whatever happens in Israel and Palestine, nothing excuses bigoted and criminal behaviour in the UK - By Khadija Khan The increase in anti-Semitic incidents following Hamas’s barbaric attack on Israeli civilians on October 7 is abhorrent – but regrettably...2 years ago
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Who Can File An Ethics Complaint Against A Realtor – Your Shield Against Unethical Realtors - Real estate transactions are pivotal moments in our lives, often involving significant financial and emotional investments. When ethics are compromised ...2 years ago
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ฝาก10 รับ 100 ใหม่ล่าสุด โปรคุณภาพ ที่คนงบน้อย ห้ามพลาด! - เปลี่ยนเงินทุน 10 บาท ให้เป็นโอกาสลุ้นเงินรางวัลจากเกมพ … ฝาก10 รับ 100 ใหม่ล่าสุด โปรคุณภาพ ที่คนงบน้อย ห้ามพลาด! Read More »2 years ago
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Recent work - The New Labor Antitrust, SSRN The Trump Indictment and America’s Political Order, Project Syndicate, June 14, 2023 The Revised Merger Guidelines Will Resto...2 years ago
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ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION - Snacks, aka “Bread” or “The Louisiana Succubus”, is infamous within the sector.… The post ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION appeared first on TheRa...2 years ago
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New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve - They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat, get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every Democrat-...2 years ago
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"Realist Jurisprudence: Selected Essays" - A Spanish translation by Dr. Francisco M. Mora-Sifuentes of eight of my essays on realist jurisprudence and related topics (with a new preface by me and an...2 years ago
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A pyramid scheme of misery - Róisín Michaux at The Critic on the mothers who affirm their children's trans identities: I’ve spent the last couple of years lurking on their online fora....2 years ago
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Biden’s Labor Initiatives and Organizers’ Challenges - Is Joe Biden, as he claims, the best friend workers have had in the White House either ever or since Franklin Delano Roosevelt? We could debate that all d...2 years ago
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Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives - Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the...2 years ago
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A Crusader’s Mom - Something a bit different. Early crusaders were volunteers, who took vows to go on a crusade, rather than members of a professional army. As a result, they...2 years ago
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U.S. Openly Militarizes Space - The media have noticed that the new USSF Doctrine is more focused on aligning space activity with the twelve principles of warfare as a whole The post U....2 years ago
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好きな人と付き合って結婚、幸せな家庭を気づくためのノウハウ - 彼と付き合って一年が過ぎ、より実りのある二年目を過ごすには 彼と付き合って、一年も経つとだいたいどんな人となり […]2 years ago
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Weird, Queer Mood; Uganda, Ugandans on the World Bank - The World Bank released a statement. To dear Uganda; sorry, but our values and the values enshrined in the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 are at war. W...2 years ago
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Rochester gets burned over - Fenster writes: The burned over district: The term “burned-over district” refers to the western and central regions of New York State in the early 19th cen...2 years ago
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A Fond Farewell to Political Violence @ A Glance - Dear Readers, After eleven incredible years, we have made the difficult decision to close the doors of Political…2 years ago
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Russia: Defend Boris Kagarlitsky! - News of Kagarlitsky's arrest has sparked anger and empathy among a wide range of activists. People may perish, but ideas do not, and Kagarlitsky has done...2 years ago
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Draco Layer Four: The Anagogic or Mystical Sense - Here be dragons. And doves. Human beings long for transcendence. Such longing is, for the world, always out of fashion because, of course, it is not a long...2 years ago
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UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...2 years ago
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Your own relaxing retreat: tips for designing a dream backyard escape - There’s nothing quite like having a peaceful and relaxing outdoor space to unwind and escape the stresses of everyday life. And what better way to achieve ...2 years ago
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Conversations With Cabbies - Many a foreign correspondent, sent to an obscure country of which he knows nothing but which has suddenly drawn the world’s attention to itself by a terrib...2 years ago
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Moving to Substack - Hi all, this is a pointer to direct you over to Substack. I’m moving the Econ Growth Blog over there, with the hopes of creating a little more interactio...2 years ago
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France’s fertility fall began long ago, before the Revolution. Was dechristianization to blame? - Why do fertility rates fall? All over the world, in rich countries, in middle-income countries, and in poor countries, fertility rates are falling below ...2 years ago
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Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order - The post Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order appeared first on Heterodox Academy.2 years ago
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A Few Quick Announcements - By James As I wrote a couple of years ago, I don’t post here anymore. I just have a couple of updates for people who subscribe and may be interested in my ...2 years ago
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Democracy Bottom-Up: Building a Dialogue between Civil Society and Politicians - Warsaw Summit 1-2 June Forum Ruchu Europejskiego, European Movement International, Evolution Institute, and Collegium Civitas Place: Collegium Civitas, Pal...2 years ago
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What Whitaker wants us to know about Mad in America - Read the post here on my Substack newsletter: https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/what-whitaker-wants-us-to-know-about2 years ago
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Breaking my Flag - For those who missed the previous announcements, please read the previous posts for the details, but after 18 2/3 years here, I will no longer be posti...2 years ago
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March Update: Mediation Ongoing, Temperature Tipping Point Already Exceeded - Thanks to everyone who has enquired about the outcome of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal hearing with John Abbot versus the Bureau of Meteorology fir...2 years ago
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The Erdmann Housing Tracker - For my latest work, please see my new substack newsletter: The Erdmann Housing Tracker2 years ago
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Episode 2045 Scott Adams: Silicon Valley Bank Prediction, Trump Dominance, & Race Relations Reframed - Content: Bill Maher reframes DeSantis out of 2024 SVB, Silicon Valley Bank situation Mark Cuban on FDIC 250,000 protection limit USA Today compares Maine...2 years ago
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The Debt Ceiling: An Economist's Analysis - Economics Professor Cameron Harwick explains government debt, the debt ceiling, and what it means when we hit it.2 years ago
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Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities - The social dynamics of girls’ and women’s friendship groups, including a desire to fit in and avoid conflict, may make them more susceptible to social cont...3 years ago
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AI Will Kill Literature, and AI Will Resurrect It - The literary novel, as far as genres go, is not old: novels have existed in our culture for about three hundred years. If you had a time machine, you could...3 years ago
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Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated - My piece in Wired The post Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more co...3 years ago
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Subscribe to my Substack - For most intents and purposes, this blog is dead. Comments are still permitted and errors will be corrected if pointed out. Nevertheless, all new writing w...3 years ago
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Blog Migration! - Birds migrate, butterflies migrate, whales migrate, and this blog is migrating! It's being moved over from Blogger to Substack. The URL is currently http...3 years ago
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Have the Baby Boomers Ruined Society? - Introduction.The author is a young energetic historian who has entertaining and insightful ideas. His exuberance on occasion leads him astray, he can be to...3 years ago
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Electric Agora shutting down, new media venture launching soon - Today we are shutting down all activities for The Electric Agora and will soon be archiving the site. The social media accounts for The Electric Agora were...3 years ago
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As Good As A Rest, They Said - Or, The Cause Of All The Banging And Salty Epithets. After close to sixteen years, this blog has a new home. Come see. Bring cake.3 years ago
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Another one bites the dust. - I don’t usually cover the events of the day, because one loses track of the big picture. The events of the day only reveal their meaning when viewed months...3 years ago
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Character Design, Pt 8: Designing Alternatives (Layer Comps) - Phew, it has been a busy couple of months, but I’ve got a quick chance to dive back into this guy. He’s getting close to finished, the colors and general ...3 years ago
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Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...3 years ago
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สล็อต777คาสิโนออนไลน์ alphabet เข้ามาลองก่อนค่อยว่าไม่ดี - ทำรายการฝากเงินไม่มีขั้นต่ำ เว็บเดิมพันในปัจจุบันนั้นมีมากมายเต็มไปหมด ทุกท่านที่ต้องการร่วมสนุกสามารถเลือกเล่นเลือกลงทุนได้อย่างอิสระเต็มที่ได้เลย แต่...3 years ago
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10 Predictions for the next 5 to 10 years - A friend asked what the big trends in American society over the next five to ten years would be. This is a fun time frame to think about, because you don’t...3 years ago
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Getting Down To Basics with - Bar Mitzvah Food Catering – Tips For Budget-Conscious Caterers For lots of, bar mitzvah food catering is a high-ticket item. […] The post Getting Down To...3 years ago
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The Problem with Research on Microaggressions - Commentary: Some of the key claims made in microaggression research are backed by weak evidence.3 years ago
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Who Cares About Diversity? - All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires. Everyone has to submit a statement explaining how they a...3 years ago
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Moving to Substack . . . - The times, they are a changin'. Going forward, I will primarily be blogging on Substack: https://stevewinkler.substack.com. Bryan Caplan, who else, convin...3 years ago
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My Final Post - For various reasons, I have decided to quit blogging. For one thing, my numbers are down to a level that it doesn’t seem worth it to continue, though let m...3 years ago
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AdSense became unusable - For several months, I have been getting direct censorship requests from Google AdSense. In recent days, the frequency increased to "several articles to be ...3 years ago
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The 1/N portfolio versus the optimal strategy: Does a simple heuristic outperform? - Gerd Gigerenzer is fond of telling a story about Harry Markowitz, modern portfolio design pioneer and winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...4 years ago
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RIP, Amy's Blog: 1997 to 2021 - I have two intense books I'm completing, and I've been increasingly unable to put the effort into blogging that I have done for years...4 years ago
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Filtering For Truth In The Age Of Google - Over the years, I’ve met several individuals of immense capacity for logical deduction, genuinely impressive education, and sky-high IQ (we’re talking well...4 years ago
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The shameful silence on the Waukesha massacre - Is silence still violence? If it is, then a whole lot of people, from the Hollywood set to the virtue-signalling left, are guilty of some serious violenc...4 years ago
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Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...4 years ago
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The blog has moved - It is now on substack (In My Tribe). There is still no charge to read it. I am trying to maintain the feel of this blog, including the daily scheduled post...4 years ago
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Good Chart Checklist - Note: this was prepared for my ECON 3403 students, and is a list of all of the mistakes I commonly see in student charts. Please add your suggestions for t...4 years ago
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Hotel Bar Sessions, Ep 31: Whose History? - The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. to talk about whose history is (and isn't) being taught. Following on the heels of a recent and ...4 years ago
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Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...4 years ago
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Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...4 years ago
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The Medieval Origins of Halloween Traditions - We’ve been knee-deep in pumpkin spice for weeks, now, which means (1) Starbucks may be part of a secret cabal intent on world domination through tasty me...4 years ago
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Angelo Codevilla on changes in the educational landscape - Angelo Codevilla (circa 2010) whereas within living memory school nurses could not administer an aspirin to a child without the parents’ consent, the peopl...4 years ago
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What does Lisa Birnbach say about preppy cars? - I happen to have a copy of The Official Preppy Handbook, and it seems that preppy cars barely changed at all since the book was written in 1980. That’s 41 ...4 years ago
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18 Theses on Poetry - The principal purpose of poetry is to lay bare the hidden powers of the language in which it is written. These powers are found both at the level of the ph...4 years ago
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Pourquoi le COVID-19 est là pour de bon, et pourquoi vous ne devriez pas vous en inquiéter - [Cet article est une traduction d’un billet de blog que j’ai publié en anglais sur le site de CSPI le 17 août. La traduction a été réalisée conjointement...4 years ago
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Dr. John McAdams - *October 26th, 1945 - April 15th, 2021* Dr. John Charles McAdams passed away on Thursday, April 15th, 2021, at the age of 75. He was a devoted husband, ...4 years ago
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health care - These two graphs really say it all: A few years ago I got a freak knee infection that landed me in the hospital. The experience was so smooth, non-st...4 years ago
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A new legend - Unauthorized is very, very pleased to announce that MADE BY JIMBOB has joined the intellectual outlaws of the Internet. Look for his videos on the Made b...4 years ago
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Point of.No Return has moved! - The new address is www.jewishrefugees.org.uk. See you there!4 years ago
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People Left Cities for Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk? - Zoom towns with high wildfire risk are also seeing the fastest growth in home prices, and therefore the fastest increase in wildfire exposure4 years ago
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A handy guide to getting pinged - The NHS App could be expanded to help us make ‘informed decisions’ in all kinds of everyday scenarios. AI algorithms would replace the flawed notion of ‘wo...4 years ago
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The Sad, Discordant Ballad of Husham al-Hashimi - The man who pulled the trigger on Husham al-Hashimi—by first misfiring an assault rifle and then pulling out his pistol to shoot the victim at point-blank ...4 years ago
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IEA World Congress 2021 - A few words on the International Economics’ Association online World Congress, July 2-6, on the theme “Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in a Fractured...4 years ago
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Men Out of Focus: Cold War Scientists or Sixties Scientists? (Marko responds to Josh) - Josh’s post got me thinking about my disinclination to more directly acknowledge the connection between the Cold War and Soviet masculinity – esp. given th...4 years ago
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Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...4 years ago
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The advantages of working with a qualified exhibition stand builder - When looking for constructing services providers construction in all exhibitions in Europe, the primary is to get a competent exhibition stand builder pr...4 years ago
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Humiliation: The Greatest Gift Our Adversaries Have For America - The country of slut and body shaming is about to learn the positive influence of shame. The only question will be, will we learn shame’s lessons? America ...4 years ago
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the future - Hey gang, I’m excited to say that Substack approached me recently and made an attractive financial offer for me to blog over there. Given that I’ve been ou...4 years ago
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Finito Sic Semper Tyrannis - We are done here. turcopolier.com is working now. I have cancelled all guest author ships here. RSS is enabled on the new blog. Comments will no longer be ...4 years ago
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‘Feel Our Pain,’ Politicians Demand - Congress is increasingly not a place where the average member partakes in what’s generally understood as legislative activity, but rather engages in a va...5 years ago
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The Tragic Effect of the Left’s One-Dimensional World View on the Multi-Dimensional World - I recommend the documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” by historian Shelby Steele. Two things about it struck me. 1) Steele’s term “Poetic Truth” sounds ...5 years ago
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Introducing Astral Codex Ten - Thanks for bearing with me the past few months. My new blog is at https://astralcodexten.substack.com/. I’ll try to have a less unwieldy domain name workin...5 years ago
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We lost. Now what? - I was preparing this post, anticipating that nothing would happen on January 6, that the certification of Biden would go forward with minor bluster and maj...5 years ago
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‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage - Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than the govern...5 years ago
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Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies” - Two years ago, when reviewing “The Benedict Option”, I wrote, “Almost all Dreher’s critics accuse him of crying wolf or being a Chicken Little at best … Me...5 years ago
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A Letter to TAI’s Subscribers and Readers - Dear TAI readers,Due primarily to financing difficulties, The American Interest is taking a hiatus from publishing new material.We are glad that there is...5 years ago
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Biotin for hair: what can this vitamin do to hair? - What is this vitamin? How does it act on the wires? Does it make hair grow faster? For more insights jump to: best biotin shampoo We know that our hair l...5 years ago
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Humanity’s second “cradle” in Southeast Asia - Pleistocene Sundaland This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib and Spencer talk about a topic which they hav...5 years ago
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The spin on the spin - There's been something of a triumph of spin on the EU's MFF share-out. Oh I don't mean the headlines, which we summarised last week, but the rationale. Spa...5 years ago
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The social justice steamroller: a pervasive and profound attack on citizenship - Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue, discussed how centre-right parties have not found a language to deal with ...5 years ago
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Migrating the blog - It should be back soon. If you really want it find something right now, it’s all still there, just hiding at a slightly different (temporary) address: http...5 years ago
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The End - Back in 2011, a group of academic philosophers started a blog called “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” The idea behind that blog was simple, but also somewh...5 years ago
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A good run: Overlawyered, 1999-2020 - I published the first Overlawyered post on July 1, 1999, and I expect this post on May 31, 2020 will be the last. As someone in the entertainment world o...5 years ago
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Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials - The archaeological site of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is one of the most significant early Neolithic villages to have been excavated. It was occu...5 years ago
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Not a Whiff of Scandal . . . Yeah, Right, Joe. Sure thing . . . - OK. I was going to write a long warm up/intro to the main topic of this piece, but my anger level kept rising. In light of that, therefore, let me drop the...5 years ago
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Cold War 2 Propaganda - So it seems that hostility to China is now official American policy. Redgov, i.e. the Military Industrial Complex has been pushing it for quite a while, ...5 years ago
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Recent writing - I haven’t written recently on this blog. I wrote for a year at The American Conservative. All the pieces are available here. I also wrote a piece Covid-19 ...5 years ago
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One flu over the cuckold’s nest - There have been a few articles like this doing the rounds: What It’s Like to Isolate With Your Girlfriend and Her Other Boyfriend Humiliating and degrading...5 years ago
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The real problem is also nominal - The real problem is also nominal March 15, 2020 *Confidence level (?): thinking out loud* If I closed my eyes and completely wiped from my mind the fac...5 years ago
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Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague - [ by Charles Cameron — scientific [precision meets human error in cases of outbreak — with links to a terrific science thread by Palli Thordarson @PalliTho...5 years ago
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Coronavirus, the Great Reality Check - I’ve been watching the situation in China for nearly a month now, and I don’t think there are really words for how bad things are over there. I really am...5 years ago
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Maritime Policy and the Merchant Marine with Josh Hendrickson - Today, Josh Hendrickson joins the show to discuss his paper, “U.S. Maritime Policy and Economic Efficiency.” The paper discusses the controversial Jones ...5 years ago
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Podcast on Maritime Policy - I recently recorded an episode of The Economics Detective podcast with Garrett Petersen. The subject of the podcast is my paper, “U.S. Maritime Policy and ...5 years ago
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How to Respond to the Next Recession: Central Bank Fiscal Support - Now that it looks like like the next recession may be coming sooner rather than later, it's time to lay out what I think is clearly the best path forward f...5 years ago
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Book Review: Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier - There are two core arguments put forward in *Not Born Yesterday*, the latest book by cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier. The first argument, one which I be...5 years ago
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On race and racism in everyday life – or how the race ideologues are winning - Public, political and institutional discourse can often appear strangely detached from ordinary, everyday life. On identity politics, now a specialist are...5 years ago
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Steno Majesty - This beautiful lady, known as the White Rose, was Queen Consort Geraldine of Albania in the 1930s. Don’t look closely into her politics – she and her husba...5 years ago
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Mike Bloomberg and is “Stop and Frisk” Racist? - With the entry of former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg into the race to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee, we have the inevitable. The other r...5 years ago
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An Alternative Proposal for the BBC - by Douglas Carter I want to pay more money for product from the BBC. That’s not an intentionally incendiary sentiment. In terms, it’s exactly the correct ...5 years ago
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Free College: Not So Extreme - I’ve complained that for the most part, self-identified centrists and moderates prefer not to engage in direct arguments about their policy preferences in ...5 years ago
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Laugh About It, Shout About It When You’ve Got to Choose - I’m going to be one of the moderators for the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidates’ debate on Friday, February 28th, in conjunction with the Alabama...5 years ago
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Trashed Hotel rooms and horny groupies - Hey y'all, starting on April first, I am hitting the virtual road on my first blog tour to support Feral Creatures. Over 14 days, we will be making twenty...6 years ago
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Wuhan: a tale of immune system failure and social strength - For most Chinese people watching the unfolding of Wuhan’s coronavirus emergency, the situation escalated dramatically on Jan 20, almost 20 days after it wa...6 years ago
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Coronavirus - radical thoughts. - On January 25th, Neil Ferguson said that it was sensible to plan for the eventuality that containment efforts will not succeed: I think the evidence now s...6 years ago
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Forgiveness is only appropriate after repentance - The people who tried to thwart the implementation of a vote they lost must not be forgiven until they repent. People like Jolyon Maugham QC could have push...6 years ago
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Warming and the Snows of Yesteryear - I was recently reminded of one of the most common misconceptions about our changing climate that is often accepted as fact by climate skeptics and true b...6 years ago
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New Book: ESCAPING PATERNALISM - by Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman Book description The burgeoning field of behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for paternalism. ...6 years ago
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Message heard. - I’ve been deeply moved and humbled by the overwhelming response to my post announcing that I planned on shutting down the blog. I’ve reconsidered and deci...6 years ago
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Is evolutionary psychology impossible? - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } Subrena Smith recently argued that “evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible” (Smith 2019). I ...6 years ago
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I now blog on the Volokh Conspiracy - For the past few months, I have blogged at the Volokh Conspiracy, hosted by Reason. I had hoped to give to give this blog, which I founded in September 200...6 years ago
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Cautious Optimism for Accused Student in Critical Eighth Circuit Appeal - Today featured the second of what likely will be five oral arguments in accused student appeals during the 2019-2020 session of Eighth Circuit, which cover...6 years ago
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Dad Runes - The 29th of this month would have been Terje Spurkland's 72nd birthday. I first encountered him in the academic year of 1980-81, when I was on a scholars...6 years ago
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The midrise obesity crisis in North America - Well, it's been a long while since my last post. A combination of a busy life, a feeling that I had said most of what I felt comfortable saying and a des...6 years ago
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Australian bushfires on Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera - Last night I was interviewed by TRT – Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera – on a panel moderated by Adnan Azwaz on the Australian fires. My fellow panellists wer...6 years ago
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‘Two hands are a lot’ — we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos… - ‘This is possibly the single largest design flaw contributing to the bad Nash equilibrium in which … many governments are stuck. Every individual high-func...6 years ago
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Gender is not just a Social Construct - As the decade ends, I’m still pondering gender. Everything was so different in 2010. No intersectionality. No rape culture. No toxic masculinity. No incels...6 years ago
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A man of possible African ancestry buried in Anglo-Scandinavian York - The aim of the following brief note is to direct attention to a burial from a late ninth- to early eleventh-century cemetery in York. The burials here were...6 years ago
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Using Python to Gather Data from FRED for the Solow Model - This script gathers and generates data for Solow. The second two functions plot the data using matplotlib and save the visualizations in a PDF. import pan...6 years ago
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On the nature of forgiveness - Forgiveness is not an emotion or a single action. It is rather a change in your ontological* orientation towards the forgiven person, removing them fro...6 years ago
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Refuge Seeking in Relative Safety - There is a common misconception among Christians in particular that I’ve been mulling over these past weeks. As usual, my thoughts have been straying to Aa...6 years ago
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2019: The year revolt went global - Revolt as Consumer Backlash Beyond Washington DC, Donald Trump, and impeachment, there lies a great big world – and that world, at the moment, is being con...6 years ago
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“Goodnight, and Good Luck” - My February 2016 valedictory editorial note on the home page of Al Jazeera America the day we closed down. Still proud of the work we did, and the way we c...6 years ago
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Dictators - In my corner of Twitter, I recently became obliquely aware of a kerfuffle about Michael Bloomberg saying that “Xi Jinping is not a dictator”. (Twitter is f...6 years ago
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Noah means Noah: the high income-elasticity of health expenditure does not mean we are all going to starve! - No, @Noahpinion, we can spend proportionally more on health care and still consume much more of everything else. This is easily explained by productivity.6 years ago
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Links 1-30 November 2019 - Tab dump. - Moral Leadership and the Lebanese Military | Carnegie - Reforming Tunisia’s military courts | Brookings - Ira...6 years ago
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On the referendum #34: BATSIGNAL!! DON’T LET CORBYN-STURGEON CHEAT A SECOND REFERENDUM WITH MILLIONS OF FOREIGN VOTES - Dear Vote Leave supporters LET’S HONOUR THE REFERENDUM RESULT AND GET BREXIT DONE SO THE COUNTRY CAN MOVE ON Summary: Tell your family and friends face-to-...6 years ago
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Announcing New Books from Jerry Pournelle - Jerry’s son Alex has asked that we let you know of exciting book news for fans of Dr. Jerry Pournelle’s fiction. The “Best of Jerry Pournelle” is available...6 years ago
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Some Nice Praise in the Midst of Curses - I am well used to getting trashed on the internet. It comes with the job. And truth be told, I […] The post Some Nice Praise in the Midst of Curses appea...6 years ago
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A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare - Properly understood, US healthcare is NOT an outlier. The slope is very consistent with the pattern of diminishing returns observed in other high-income ...6 years ago
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Nature Author's Oddball Piece on Bioethics - The journal Nature has published a lengthy Commentary piece by a UK based sociologist on Bioethics (the field, not the journal). It's part of a series of...6 years ago
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From lesbian and gay liberation to equality - Ruth Hunt, for her hundred thousand a year pieces of silver, has sold out lesbians and gay men out to girl dick and corporate cock. The post From lesbia...6 years ago
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Allan Meltzer's Life Work - The Hoover Press and the Mercatus Center have just released a new book on Allan Meltzer's contributions to economics. The book is comprised of papers th...6 years ago
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Conservative Sense and Sensibility with George F. Will - Can a revolution be conservative? Can populism? And what distinguishes British from American conservatism? *Washington Post* columnist George F. Will joins...6 years ago
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MESA 2019–Medieval and Early Modern Panels - The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is holding its annual conference, one of the largest gatherings of scholars working on the history of the greate...6 years ago
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THE DEFENSE OF FORT DAVIS, Chapter 4 - Chapter 4 Six miles west of Fort Davis, Fall 1881 Chief Victorio blew into his clenched hands, rubbed them together and held them toward the flames. Even w...6 years ago
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Why Trump Is a Potential Tyrant: A Comparative Look - The question is not about whether Trump will be a tyrant, but that he wants to. Trump wants to be a tyrant, his behavior shows he's behaving like other tyr...6 years ago
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Abortion views by religion, 1970's-1990's - Variables: ABANY, RELIG16, Years (1972-1999), Race(1) Sample Size: 18,5736 years ago
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The CTRL ALT Revolt Controversy - The Original Blog Post and some Thoughts on the Crisis of Where We Find Ourselves As the current culture war escalates into a series of asymmetrical engage...6 years ago
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CNN Debate Math - The Democratic debates on July 30 and 31 were a little less than 3 hours long each. A conservative estimate would be 150 minutes. 150 minutes /10 candidat...6 years ago
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Why Kevin Williamson is wrong about poverty and bad behavior - I recently wrote a post at Bloomberg Opinion arguing that "bad behavior" - drug use, violence, single parenthood, and idleness - is not the main cause o...6 years ago
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Important: Nintil.com is moving! - IMPORTANT NOTICE: I’ve been making changes to the way the blog looks like, making it load faster, and adding it a much needed feature, browsing by category...6 years ago
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A Glimpse of Hell - Via Religion News: HOT SPRINGS, N.C. (RNS) — For years, liberals — even liberal people of faith — have been wary of fusions of faith and politics, careful ...6 years ago
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Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash - I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live cha...6 years ago
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The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means for Investors - I just published a new long-form piece through OSAM Research Partners entitled “The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means...6 years ago
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Find me on Facebook and at my other blog, Frauds, Crooks and Criminals - If you have missed news about refugees, I’m still writing about them at Frauds and Crooks and as of last night I am back up and running at Refugee Resettle...6 years ago
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What might an alternative to the ODNI Rating Scale be like? - In the previous post I raised various issues with the ODNI Rating Scale for intelligence products. At least some of these are serious problems. Some time i...6 years ago
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Crypto-Current (064) - §5.8612 — Decentralization of the ledger requires massive multiplication, and thus an effective method of compression. Only in this way does it become trac...6 years ago
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Blog moving to Spandrell.com - ***This blog is moving to Spandrell.com ***Please update your bookmarks/RSS readers. Spandrell.com, two ls. First they banned Youtubers, but I didn’t say a...6 years ago
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The Rebel Sell at 15 - A funny thing about the book that Andrew and I wrote, *The Rebel Sell*, is that it was a bestseller in Spain. We recently did an interview with Manuel Ma...6 years ago
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The Economic Contribution of Recent Immigrants - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 24 April 2019.) Expanding the youthful population through immigration is incredibly important fo...6 years ago
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Which Powers could afford to ’do it all’ in World War Two - There’s an old saying that David and Leigh Eddings paraphrased in one of their fantasy books: “any fool can raise an army, but you start running into tr...6 years ago
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Socialist Monetary Policy - Consider a command economy that doesn't fully dispense with money but rather pays wages to the workers in all of the nationalized industries and charges th...6 years ago
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Version 1.3.2 now uploaded - Version 1.3.2 now uploaded A new version of the NIQ dataset was completed yesterday and uploaded today. It now includes 669 samples with a total of 617,581...6 years ago
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Boston Marathon Training Update, new podcasts - The last time I updated my marathon training, things were going great. I had steadily increased my mileage, and by the end of January did my first half-mar...6 years ago
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The Institutional Foundations of Antisemitism - Antisemitism has returned to mainstream politics in Europe and America. One fundamental misconception about antisemitism is that it is simply another for...6 years ago
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Physicists, sex differences, and a new inquisition - When a book entitled 100 authors against Einstein came out in Germany in 1931, Einstein allegedly exclaimed: “If I were wrong, then one [author] would have...6 years ago
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Offended by the term coloured? Let me show you what real racism looks like. - All the screeching about comments like Amber Rudd referring to a ‘coloured’ woman rather than a ‘person of colour’ or Angela Smith saying ‘funny tinge’ sug...6 years ago
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Momentum needs to talk to its members about Israel - On Thursday afternoon, the left-wing activist group Momentum released a video designed to educate its members about anti-Semitism. It's the kind of init...6 years ago
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Seumas Milne and the Stasi - Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of ...7 years ago
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Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...7 years ago
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Social Infrastructure in Cities Today: Eric Klinenberg's “Palaces for the People” - I just finished reading Eric Klinenberg’s excellent new book, *Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization...7 years ago
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Reaction and Populism: Towards the Unpozzed Republic - Having been made by elites to dive headlong down the outhouse hole into the muck beneath, the common people have began to notice that it stinks and is very...7 years ago
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Debunking the China Debt Trap Myth, Sri Lanka/Hambantota Edition - *[I've come to the opinion that a not insignificant chunk of China coverage that currently pops up in the Western media is an info op curated by China ha...7 years ago
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Please read this short story - "My Mother is a Lunar Crater" - *by Salman Hameed* There are very few writers who can provide a nuanced critique of politics in different cultures, bring science into their stories, an...7 years ago
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Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube - Apparently the original posting of this (staggeringly brief) talk suffered from imperfect audio (I never listened to it, so I can't say first-hand whethe...7 years ago
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George Cowgill's database and my introduction to scientific archaeology - Here is a very short video that describes how I first got into the science of archaeology: George had a database!7 years ago
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European Court’s Anti-Muslim Ruling - In a decision made this October, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has neglected the basic principle of freedom of speech to uphold the “right of o...7 years ago
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New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/7 years ago
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The Authoritarian Power Base - As I’ve written, political power is, in essence, the capacity for violence and the will to use it. The power of a leader comes from his authority over, his...7 years ago
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For Thomas Hobbes, Politics Was Simply About Doubt and Faith - Four hundred years ago, an English intellectual developed political ideas different to what we may recognize as familiar. 1. Schmitt and Hobbes In his cele...7 years ago
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Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...7 years ago
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UPDATE - UPDATE I AM NOT ALTOGETHER WELL I SHALL RETURN TO HOSPITAL TOMORROW FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. I'II KEEP READERS INFORMED. BEST WISHES. GAVON7 years ago
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Waking Up to Issues in the Atheist Scene - Not long ago, similar emails to the one I'll share below were only sent to me by Muslims questioning their faith, scripture and double standards, etc. I s...7 years ago
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Dragon Ball series teaches valuable life lessons - Watching the Dragon Ball series life lesson nostalgia. Every episode hints at hidden esoteric gems. Allow me to provide a high-level overview of what’s r...7 years ago
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The era of ‘soft’ central planning - More than a decade ago, The Economist (at the time still a classical liberal publication – how times change…) published an excellent article on ‘soft pater...7 years ago
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New Release: Cato Journal on The Future of Monetary Policy - This issue of the Cato Journal is dedicated to Allan H. Meltzer who passed away on May 8, 2017. Allan spoke at the 1st Annual Monetary Conference in 1983...7 years ago
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Please Put Down Your Sledgehammers: On the Parkland Students, Left Reductionism, and Aversion to Strategic Alliance - By William J. Weikart When I Facebook reposted a .gif rendering of Emma González that said “I Stand With Her”, I was feeling her emotional courage, and ins...7 years ago
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Calling for Violent Jihad in Australia - This Blog Post has been moved – click HERE to read it. * Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is ...7 years ago
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What is the meaning of an accusation of racism? - Guy comes up to you on the street and says: “I know who you are. You may look like a human, but I know that’s a disguise. You have taken over the body of a...7 years ago
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Are NY Republicans a friend to men, boys, fathers, or families? - While Republicans in NYS certainly talk a good game of supporting men, fathers, and families the talk is just that, cheap talk. Now that we have 20 years ...8 years ago
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The Power of Positive Persistence - Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House will ...8 years ago
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Review of "Weep For Day" by Indrapramit Das (2012) - *Introduction: *Being well aware that this story was probably put at the head of the *Best New SF 26* anthology to highlight some sort of committment to "...8 years ago
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A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM - Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter account) ...8 years ago
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The Stormtrooper Marksmanship Myth - [Jonathan Jeckell is a regenerated U.S. Army officer striving find unique ways to remain useful to his country.] Stormtroopers have been the butt of jokes ...8 years ago
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Why AARP has an entire team dedicated to answering Facebook comments - AARP, the 60-year-old special interest group that advocates for older Americans, has never been shy about flexing its policy muscles or leveraging its enor...8 years ago
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Ideas Generation and Behavioural Insights - Here is the ideas grid I use when working with local authorities to co-produce ways of using behavioural insights. Each effect has a ‘how can we use it?’ c...8 years ago
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CHAPTER 34. Glasgow and the Exhibition - I tried to get permission for the ladies to accompany me, but that was not given and when I got into the yards I saw how utterly impossible it would be for...8 years ago
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What caused the dramatic rise of crime and blight in American cities from 1950 to 2000? - On Reddit’s most lauded history subreddit (/r/AskHistorians) someone asked “What caused the dramatic rise of violent crimes and urban decay in the mid-to...8 years ago
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New Immigration Blog - Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe a post...8 years ago
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Labour relations & textiles: addenda - This post contains related topics and disjointed observations as addenda to “Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence” in cotton textiles. (Lack of...8 years ago
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Innovation in Economics Pedagogy and Publishing - Well, it's Labor Day weekend, which means that Barnard and Columbia students are back on campus and classes are about to begin. This semester I'm teaching...8 years ago
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Hurricane Harvey: Thanksgiving in The Wake of Tragedy - “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the ...8 years ago
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The Morality of Faith Schools - On Wednesday July 19 I appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze to discuss the Al-Hijrah school controversy. A long-running legal battle between Ofsted and the...8 years ago
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Moderate rebels and augmented reality - A common characteristic of the multiple regime change interventions in the Middle East is the financial, military, and moral support given by Western gov...8 years ago
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This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issu...8 years ago
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The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...8 years ago
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Chinese political operations in Australia: a popular pro-CCP reading - Hua Daodao, a deputy editor in the Huanqiu Shibao‘s commentary department, has written a piece offering useful insights into how the Australian media’s lat...8 years ago
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On the Importance of Voting - On this Thursday, 8th of June 2017, millions of people will be going to polling stations throughout the United Kingdom in order to cast their vote in t...8 years ago
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Don’t abuse history in order to score cheap political points - "What I object to—and what my interlocutors maddeningly refuse to engage with—is the effort to use history and Jewish memory, in particular, the crimes of ...8 years ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel. 01:35: Bay Eats Candy Bay tries famous candies for the first time. You can read the results on her blog. 11:...8 years ago
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Hayek, Knowledge, and Carbon Taxes: Markets Without Prices or Prices Without Markets? - As far as I know, Friedrich Hayek never wrote a word about climate change, but two of his most famous works contain arguments that bear directly on this ke...8 years ago
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Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyi...8 years ago
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Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyi...8 years ago
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How the Democrats can Rebuild - Appearing in: Orange County Register Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded the parlous state of the Democratic Part...8 years ago
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Trump’s Immigration Fatwa - I recently read an article by a conservative writer who I normally respect. But this piece brought me up short. … More8 years ago
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Military Power in an Age of Raiding - I was lucky enough to be invited to speak as part of the Ministry of Defence’s new ‘Force Exploration’ Cadre. Here it is. I’m so grateful and honoured to b...9 years ago
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Africa and the cold beauty of Maths - [image: Africa TIMMS equipercentile] Things move fast. A published paper comes to the attention of Steve Sailer and suddenly a section of a puzzle get...9 years ago
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Moving house - People connected to me have justifiably asked that I move my blog to a more anonymous platform. Although I’ve made an effort to remove my name from this bl...9 years ago
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“The Intel On This Wasn’t 100 Percent” - Gee. Ya think? Mr. Welch, the father of two daughters, said he woke up Sunday morning and told his family he had some things to do. He left “Smallsbury,” a...9 years ago
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Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...9 years ago
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Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...9 years ago
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Anarchism - Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable, inclu...9 years ago
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Florida Election Officials Caught Filling Out Absentee Ballots, Affidavit Alleges #FloridaFraud - Florida voters have complained that they have not been receiving their requested absentee ballots. We may now know the reason why. According to a former Se...9 years ago
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Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done? - This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, near...9 years ago
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501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...9 years ago
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Heroic Age Papers! - Merovingians and Their Neighbors Sponsor: *The Heroic Age* Session Organizer: Deanna Forsman Contact: Deanna Forsman North Hennepin Community College 7411 ...9 years ago
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Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons - MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the seasons and ...9 years ago
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THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…9 years ago
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The Redistribution of Humiliation - The recent EU referendum in the UK has drawn a great deal of attention to voters who had previously been ignored. Communities left behind by the 21st Centu...9 years ago
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Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a joint statement a...9 years ago
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EU vote: Scotland will ruin UK’s chance of a Brexit - If you could pick one person from British society and be certain they would vote Remain, who would you choose?9 years ago
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Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...9 years ago
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The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...9 years ago
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Fiscal Policy and the ZLB - I have been doing some reading for my undergraduate thesis, which looks at the role of credit-supply shocks in the Spain during its housing boom and bust, ...9 years ago
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Every day should be International Women’s Day - Every day should be International Women’s Day Bread and Roses TV with Maryam Namazie and Fariborz Pooya 8 March 2016 Interview with Bangladeshi Author and ...9 years ago
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By: the unBalanced ecoLOGist | The Unbalanced Ecologist - […] weeks ago, I was invited to write a commentary about an online essay written by Erle Ellis for the Social Evolution Forum (a project of the Evolution I...9 years ago
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Convicted Pedophile Admits to Sexually Abusing Young Girl with Asperger’s Syndrome - Convicted pedophile Paul John Bickford, aged 70, has received a 16 month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting (sexually molest...10 years ago
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Samurai Gifts - The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late sixteenth and ...10 years ago
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Where are the “devaluationists”? - A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section on policy op...10 years ago
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Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia. - Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia....10 years ago
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Salvaging the Tatters of the Obama Doctrine - When president Obama told George Stephanopoulos only hours before the Paris attack that his administration had “contained ISIS” he may have been wrong but ...10 years ago
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The Sumner Also Rises (to the task) - We again interrupt our blogging hiatus, to acknowledge some fine work by Bentley University economist Scott Sumner (who is also the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair ...10 years ago
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Podcast #363: The Future of America, Vulnerability, Cheating, and More - On Sunday’s episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, Greg Perkins and I answered questions on the future of the United States, the value of vulnerability, ch...10 years ago
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We've Moved - The Mischiefs of Faction is now located at mischiefsoffaction.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, here. You can...10 years ago
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What Russian Intelligence Knows About Hillary Clinton - It is my privilege to reveal to you this highly classified National Security Agency intercept which reveals just what Russian intelligence knew about Hilla...10 years ago
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A Koku of Rice - Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the concept of a koku (石) of rice: I find it pretty neat. A koku was a Japanese unit of volume (of rice) in use especially ...10 years ago
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Book Review: Intelligence (2015) by Stuart Ritchie - An Uphill Battle It’s no easy task to explain why intelligence is so important. The reason for this is oddly enough that many highly intelligent people i...10 years ago
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A CryptoFiction - Here’s a micro-story I started with the Access Crypto Summit flash fiction prompt in mind, left half done, and then belatedly finished off anyway, because ...10 years ago
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Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie. - Further to my Canada Day column Finding the Right Words for Canada’s History I thought I’d put this up. It’s from Rain Language, a long poem in translation...10 years ago
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Don Boudreaux seems to pick and choose his view on average product and wages depending on what the liberal du jour is arguing - Recently, Don Boudreaux called Robert Reich sophomoric for suggesting that productivity (as the BLS measures it) and real wages should move in tandem. Even...10 years ago
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Why Mothers Are So Special - Mothers hold a privileged status within the human experience. I address some of the foundational evolutionary principles that explain the mother-child bond...10 years ago
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Half Of Ferguson's Young African-American Men Are Missing - This is a guest post by Stephen Bronars, a Senior Economist at Welch Consulting, Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago. His opinions are his own. M...10 years ago
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The Years Of Writing Dangerously - Thirteen years ago, as I was starting to experiment with this blogging thing, I wrote the following: [T]he speed with which an idea in your head reaches th...11 years ago
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Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef - In the last few days I’ve carefully read comments emanating from the Coalition government that suggested an undue intervention in Australian politics by Pr...11 years ago
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Our first virtual Screenwriting Workshop! - T woke up on Monday with the idea, bubbling with notions, and I think it's a fabulous way to explore the new media potentials for a virtual classroom. We c...11 years ago
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What does my research contribute to our understanding of the Hong Kong protests? - Did Xi Jinping miscalculate by not allowing free elections in Hong Kong? We cannot know whether the Chinese leadership expected protests of this magnitude,...11 years ago
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Taxation vs. Expropriation - What’s the difference between a 50% marginal tax rate on income vs. 50% expropriation by a kleptocratic ruler or corrupt officials? Some models might sug...11 years ago
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The Ultimate Guide to Cultural Marxist Genocide, part 1 - My goal in this post is to show why ethnic groups are real and not socially constructed, and then to explain how the reality of ethnic groups affects our u...11 years ago
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18c – a win for Sally Sensitive - Sadly, it looks like 18c is not going to be done away with in a hurry. It’s a shame, because making a crime out of causing offence to someone is an utte...11 years ago
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Why Indians are Too Stupid to Build Toilets – were it not for the Media! - There has been a ghastly rape in some Indian village. Two girls got raped and later hanged by the perpetrators after “they left their toilet-less home duri...11 years ago
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By: Anonymous - Great article, however, I don't see yet a study explaining the effects of Cannabis being freed completely overnight, lifting all restrictions and allowing ...11 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner11 years ago
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Why Monetary Policy Should Ignore Financial Stability - Financial stability is apparently the new hot reason to tighten monetary policy, and in this article for Quartz I go in on some reasons for why this is a h...12 years ago
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Governance, aesthetics and architecture - I have been meaning to write up a few thoughts that came out of a beer-fueled conversation with a friend some weeks ago. We both lived in Austin, TX for so...12 years ago
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Norman Geras: 1943-2013 - I am very sad to announce that Norm died in Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge in the early hours of this morning. Writing this blog, and communicating wi...12 years ago
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OxcOOd1199 Error - Windows Media Player is a great way to view your favorite movie content. However, with the program comes the risk of the occasional OxcOOd1199 error occuri...12 years ago
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Jide Who Played Jesus to be Ordained - *MEDIA *INFORMATION *NEWS FROM THE EAST HAM TEAM* For Immediate Use 11 June 2013 *Jide who played Jesus to be ordained* The man who played Jesus in the N...12 years ago
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In which I amuse myself at a government ministers expense. - Now funnily enough I happen to live in the town where this has just happened. This may be the furthest south any group has landed, to put it in perspecti...12 years ago
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Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe - But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure gue...13 years ago
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An Independent Wild Hunt - We at the Patheos Pagan channel bid The Wild Hunt much luck in its new phase as an independent website. To catch the latest from TWH, please check out wild...13 years ago
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“Three panics and a nonevent” - While exploring Blogs yesterday I came across this one from John Cochran at The Circle Bastiat: In a comment at Coordination Problem, “Is This How the Myth...13 years ago
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Actually, maybe it is the NGDP after all - I’ve gotten a lot of really smart pushback on my claims about the UK economy, and I think I have significantly underestimated what I already believed to be...13 years ago
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Moving to FTB! - Today I am freezing my Blogger account and moving my blog to Freethought Blogs, a prominent all-atheist venture. This move will help me earn an income doin...14 years ago
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Sharia law, universal rights and secularism - See my speech and the ensuing discussion at a meeting organised by the Danish Atheist Association in Copenhagen, Denmark on 27 September 2011. There was a ...14 years ago
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The tax forum as a platform for a grand bargain? - In his Challenges of Federation speech we referred to in a previous article, Prime Minister’s Department Secretary Terry Moran said: *There are business l...14 years ago
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The satisfaction of learning a new skill - Today I learned how to do short row shaping in knitting. It's a technique that is easy to do, and hard to explain. I've tried several times in the past. so...14 years ago
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The Rand Paul reality for gays - Some Republicans are trying to brush it off as the kind of debate you have in you freshman dorm at 2 a.m. Not so for us gays. The objection raised by Rand ...15 years ago
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