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- Stirrups, a rant
- The moral case for free commerce
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- The Passing of an Illusion
- The utopian cruelty of the opposition to homosexuality
- There are no moral arguments against homosexuality (only arguments to evade morality)
- What is it to be human?
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Escape from Aleppo, by Eric Margolis - AMMAN JORDAN – I haven’t seen many miracles in my decades of travel around the globe, particularly not in the strife-torn Mideast. But last week I particip...21 minutes ago
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U. Chicago: Everyone ‘Free to Debate, Disagree, Argue’ Without Repercussions - No fear of being silenced.31 minutes ago
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Worstall on Robots and Jobs, by David Henderson - Tim Worstall, referring to my article that I posted on yesterday, makes an important point I should have made. Here are two highlights: The Keynes point ...44 minutes ago
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Honey may be gone - Except for a day or so a while back, my duck Honey has been at the pond every day for her 7 a.m. breakfast and 3 p.m. dinner, and comes swimming to me rapi...45 minutes ago
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7 Things You Didn’t Realize You Were Doing Because You Grew Up With Depression As A Teen - If you’re finding that you’re having trouble concentrating in class and remembering things that happened earlier in the day, you should discuss this with y...1 hour ago
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If we don’t secure Europe’s borders then we will continue to fall victim to terrorist atrocities - When that footage emerged it became a symbol not just of a mad loss of control in Spain, but the mad loss of control at all of Europe’s borders. It threw u...1 hour ago
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30 years ago, Dirty Dancing was expected to flop. But nobody puts Baby in a corner. - The smash hit was an instant classic and a coming-of-age story for America. *Every weekend, we pick a movie you can stream that dovetails with current e...1 hour ago
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Episode 25 – Walking With God: Noah and the Flood - Direct Feed Soundcloud Upload Lecture 7 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. Life at the individual and the societal level is...1 hour ago
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Lack Of Empathy For Opposing Political Views Threatens Social Cohesion - – The inability of the political and professional classes to comprehend or respect the political opinions of those from other backgrounds is nearly as grav...1 hour ago
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“Babbage was out to show that not only was the system closed, with a small group controlling access to the purse strings and the same individuals being selected over and again for the few scientific honours or paid positions that existed, but also that one of the chief beneficiaries . . . was undeserving.” - Fernando Martel Garcia writes: Here’s an early reference from the Victorian Age. Enjoy! It’s a news article by Rebekah Higgitt called “Fraud and the decl...1 hour ago
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Scott Adams: How You Know You're In A Mass Hysteria Bubble - I don't really know much about this guy beyond Dilbert, but we seem to be on pretty much the same page about the greatest crisis of all time of the moment,...1 hour ago
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Jordan Peterson and Stephen Hicks discuss Postmodernism - The two professors discuss Postmodernism in depth.2 hours ago
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Who is the modern-day Frantz Fanon? - Chris Blattman tweets: Is there a modern day Fanon or Memmi writing about dvpt & globalizn as they wrote about colonialization? Doesn’t only have to be l...2 hours ago
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Liz MacKean, the journalist behind groundbreaking gay Russian documentary dies at 52 - Leading journalist Liz MacKean, who was behind a groundbreaking documentary revealing anti-gay groups in Russia, has died.2 hours ago
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A Picture Frozen In Time: California Man Killed In Spanish Terror Attack - Every terrorist attack brings a myriad of tragic stories of lives cut short by extremists who believe that mowing down innocent people will please God and ...2 hours ago
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Faster wage growth is not in the cards - Tim Duy tries, unsuccessfully, to justify the Fed’s tightening bias: …The Fed can always fall back on the unemployment rate to claim that although inflat...2 hours ago
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Something Nordic Supremacists Will Not Like - Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Pierre Zalloua Two points: Greeks were close to Jews & Lebanese are far from being Arabs, from recent genetic discoveries. Somethin...2 hours ago
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Alt Left does violence & destruction; media silent - If you’re with the Alt Left Media, you’re outraged – outraged! – that anyone would compare the Alt Left to neo-Nazis. Because “One side is racist, bigoted,...2 hours ago
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If "the Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over" — as Bannon says — then who is this Trump-minus-Bannon we've got now? - The quote comes from The Weekly Standard: “The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” Bannon said.... “We still have a huge movement, and ...2 hours ago
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Robert Sapolsky defines culture - Crediting Frans de Waal, Sapolsky writes in Behave. “culture” is how we do and think about things, transmitted by non-genetic means. I guess that is close ...2 hours ago
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The economic socialism of Nazi Germany - These observations - they can really only be considered "arguments" by the ignorant - are not new, but date back to the 1940 publication of *Human Action*,...3 hours ago
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‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’ - The featured informal ‘happy snap’ of Magnus Malan, PW Botha and Jonas Savimbi on the Angolan border speaks volumes – it most certainly highlights the poli...3 hours ago
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Iraq and Iran - changing the balance of power in the Middle East? - Iran has been heavily involved in Iraq since the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime. In recent years, after the US withdrawal of combat forces, its s...3 hours ago
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More on Kennewick sword-wielding Somali refugee killed by police - The Spokeman-Review wants you to know that Hussein Hassan was just a nut. Which of course begs the question—do we screen incoming refugees for mental illn...3 hours ago
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A Site Stat Coincidence - Yesterday and the day before this site received the same number of page views, 1,559. That's never happened before. Deep Meaning or mere coincidence? I rec...3 hours ago
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Boston Free Speech Rally - This is something I will be following today. It has a much better name than last week’s rally. If you’re in favor of Free Speech, traditionally that means ...3 hours ago
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Europe made space at the political bargaining table for economic interests - In Rulers, Religion and Riches, Jared Rubin argues that differences in the way religion and government interact caused the economic fortunes of Europe and ...3 hours ago
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Mad Max Is Real / We All Knew This Was Coming - Watch this: Motorcyclists attacking a sugar truck because they’re starving. That’s some Mad Max shit right there! (Hat tip to Moonbattery.) I remember when...3 hours ago
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Excruciatingly Woke - In today’s competitive grievance culture, unearthing new sorrows, or reheating old sorrows, can require prodigious, indeed bewildering, feats of contortion...4 hours ago
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Artist of the Month: Annie Leibovitz - -By William O’Connor In our line of work as illustrators we all use photography to a lesser or greater extent. Some illustrators, like myself, have a very...5 hours ago
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Links 11 July - 18 August 2017 - Most of these are from last week, as we slowly gear up after holidays... - Is Chechnya Taking Over Russia? - The New York Times Interesting pie...5 hours ago
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You have to take it - The Kurds are going for it. Michael Totten: Next month, on September 25, the Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil will hold a binding referendum on wheth...6 hours ago
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Russ Roberts on the emergent order the underpins markets - Russ Roberts (of EconTalk fame, and co-creator of the Hayek vs. Keynes rap battles - see here and here) wrote an excellent article published on NewCo Shift...6 hours ago
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Stop Blaming Israel for Nazis in Charlottesville! - It amazes me that just as the dust settles from Nazi jackboots marching through Charlottesville Virginia articles about Israel keep popping up. From New Yo...7 hours ago
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A simple solution to the political violence afflicting America - Summary: Here is a summary of the political violence afflicting America, and a simple recommendation about what to do about it. This is a conclusion to a l...7 hours ago
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Ability is always in the genes - “Let’s not pretend ability is never in the genes,” writes Daniel Finkelstein in The Times. He then recalls being branded ‘Dr Mengele’ when suggesting at a ...8 hours ago
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Imagine there’s no countries - It’s easy if you try. And never mind the nightmare. What you see here is the core issue between Poland and the EU over accepting migrants into Poland. It’s...10 hours ago
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Reader’s links, Aug. 19, 2017 - In order to preserve the flow of conversation about various posted items, and also in order to make it easier for visitors to find the list of related link...10 hours ago
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Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb - by Taki Theodoracopulos As Jacob Rees-Mogg said in a different context, a happy birthday at my age is a terminological inexactitude. I needed the birthday I...10 hours ago
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Trick plays and baseball rules - This is a great story about a trick play in a high-school baseball game. Called the "skunk in the outfield," the play arises with runners on first-and-thir...12 hours ago
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Barcelona - We add yet another city to the list of public arenas for the Religion of Peace to demonstrate its core beliefs. As they did in Nice, in Barcelona the jihad...12 hours ago
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Cycling - The three-week Tour of Spain begins tomorrow in Nimes, France. This video is a preview of the opening stage, which is a team time trial.13 hours ago
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My Picks for Top Tweets: 19 August 2017 - Day 14 of top tweets. That’s two weeks! I’m quite proud of myself for keeping it going! All the nice comments are a great encouragement. Thank you all fo...13 hours ago
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R.I.P. - I had sad news today: my old friend and colleague Jason Corsaro died yesterday of cancer. I’m not sure of his age, but he must have been about my age, 61. ...13 hours ago
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The Invasion of Canada - Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle. 1,477 people live in this little corner of Quebec with its apple orchards, elderberry fields and small wineries. But now 400 migr...13 hours ago
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On Manufactured Outrage - Every day some facet of American culture will bear the brunt of media attention. There will be protests, and riots, and celebrities opining on the oppresiv...13 hours ago
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Five Proofs is out - My new book *Five Proofs of the Existence of God* is now available. You can order it from Amazonor direct from Ignatius Press. Brandon Vogt, friend of t...13 hours ago
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This is not rocket science in the ethical world - I guess Neil Gorsuch doesn’t have a very fine-tuned sense of ethics. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court appointee, is scheduled to ...15 hours ago
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The New York Times Admits #ANTIFA is Violent - Despite attempts by the establishment media and politicians both in the Democrat and Republican Party, The New York Times admitted on Friday that part of A...16 hours ago
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Siri is clearly not a Kantian - Every single time I try to dictate Immanuel's name, Siri types out "cunt" instead!16 hours ago
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Sagt om Massutmaning - Massutmaning: Ekonomisk politik mot utanförskap och antisocialt beteende släpptes i februari 2017. Boken har recenserats och kommenterats av samtliga led...16 hours ago
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Make neo-Nazis flop off Broadway: public choice and Tina Fey’s sheetcaking - A week ago a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville protesting the taking down of Confederate Memorial statues turned fatally violent. Other protests w...16 hours ago
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New Books and ARCs, 8/18/17 - A very fine collection of new books and ARCs arrived to the Scalzi Compound in the last week, and here’s what they are! See anything you’d like on your own...18 hours ago
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Game of Tropes: Subversion of Medieval Ideals in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire - Martin does not only incorporate these medieval “building blocks” into his own work, he also deviates from them.18 hours ago
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All Members of President’s Committee on Arts & Humanities Resign - All 17 of the non-governmental members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PCAH) today submitted a group resignation letter (posted ...18 hours ago
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And That’s the Problem… - “People are proud and confident of their religious identity as well as their national identity, but at times they’re not getting enough theological or doct...19 hours ago
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On Firing Nazis - The firing of several individuals for their participation in last weekend’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has raised some interesting, yet f...19 hours ago
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Why Ethnicity, Class, & Ideology? - Individual humans can be described via many individual features that are useful in predicting what they do. Such features include gender, age, personality,...19 hours ago
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How Our Profession Rewards Ignorance - What fills my mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more I reflect on it, is how the philosophy profession can continue to pretend that...19 hours ago
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Jonah Goldberg on fascists vs. communists - Jonah Goldberg writes: There’s a natural tendency to think that when people, or movements, hate each other, it must be because they’re opposites. This assu...19 hours ago
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Court Says Arkansas Can Block Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood - On Wednesday, Arkansas became one of only a handful of states to block Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood despite years of whistleblower videos portra...20 hours ago
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Reader Poll - Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.20 hours ago
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My Favorite Hawaiian Shirt Maker - I was going to post my Friday Hawaiian shirt, but I have come to the conclusion that I look like a serial killer in selfies. Perhaps I need to do the teen...20 hours ago
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Darkness Will Reveal the Sun's Mysterious Corona - When the moon slides in front of the sun Monday, millions of viewers will catch a glimpse of the sun's corona, which will appear as a hazy glow outlining t...20 hours ago
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Minneapolis teen goes missing; community search underway - MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Andres Guerrero, age 17, disappeared early Thursday morning in North Minneapolis. Guerrero was last seen on Broadway Avenue at 1 a.m....20 hours ago
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standardized tests are tools of inequality, not equality - Consider this fairly recent NYT piece, titled “A Simple Way to Help Low-Income Students: Make Everyone Take SAT or ACT.” The essay talks about research tha...21 hours ago
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Mindhive update: seven days to the great Minnesota moral panic - Weird things are coming out of Minnesota. Is Charlottesville one of them?21 hours ago
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Crystallex Goes for the Jugular - Say what you will about president Maduro, he didn’t start the expropriation scheme. His predecessor did, and you better believe it’s time to pay.22 hours ago
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No More White Knights - I’m starting to get really tired of White Knights. You’ve seen these gentlemen. They rush in, when they perceive someone as being in danger, and pavane ar...22 hours ago
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Investment, Productivity, Wages, and Economic Prosperity - Here’s a simple and fundamental question: What is economic growth? And here’s a simple answer: It’s when there’s more national income. That’s seems like a ...22 hours ago
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Don’t You Hear Her? - When “fire and fury” were brought to Korea, they were accompanied by the threat of nuclear weapons. At a press conference on November 30, 1950, President ...22 hours ago
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Modifying the Constitution’s Text - In the earliest days of our Republic, a debate ensued about how the amendments would be incorporated into the Constitution. James Madison called for "inter...22 hours ago
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Embryo Selection in China (Nature) - China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions (Nature) Fertility centres are making a massive push to increase preimplantation genetic diagno...22 hours ago
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The Solitary Executive - President Trump in the Red Room on May 3, 2017 (Photo: Shealah Craighead/The White House) Traditionally, when referring to the president, a certain short...22 hours ago
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IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. You might have heard that just giving the poor cash, no strings attached, is all the rage ...22 hours ago
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The Berlusconi Voter, Taken Seriously: a Little Exercise in Historical Comprehension - The Berlusconi phenomenon in Italy both anticipated and exhibits features that epitomize the plight of Western politics. This is the third installment ...22 hours ago
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Major Cauldrons Forming in Central Syria - TTG - “BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:15 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has officially halted their field operations in the southeastern countryside of the Al-Raqqa Gove...22 hours ago
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The Orwellian war on history - *The Australian, 19 August 2017* Everyone’s smashing statues. From Islamic State hotheads sledgehammering ancient artefacts in old Mesopotamian cities to...22 hours ago
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Security In Iraq Aug 1-7, 2017 - Since the end of the Mosul battle in July, violence in Iraq has remained at a very low level. Both security incidents and casualties have been at record ...23 hours ago
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Religion of peace enriches Catalonia, Finland - *With some compensation, Muslims should be banned from vans, knives in the public* *Technical:* I added two clever lines in a Disqus Javascript code which ...23 hours ago
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Women in Tech - I wrote a piece for Bloomberg View this week, here’s how it starts: We’re having the wrong conversation about women in tech. We need to decouple two very d...23 hours ago
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Weekly Roundup of Heterodoxy—August 18, 2017 Edition - The weekly roundup is moving to a leaner format this week. I’m featuring more articles with less commentary. As always, the roundup includes both perspec...1 day ago
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Uprising Review Interview - Uprising Review is a website dedicated to putting out short fiction, free speech (they actually take blind submissions for their fiction to make sure it’s ...1 day ago
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Slide velocity... - The 115gr Blazer Brass I was shooting was the typical low-powered budget fodder. In the Glock 34 MOS, spent brass would often pop six inches straight up o...1 day ago
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Weekend reading 19-20 August 2017 - Global Macro / Markets / Investing: How Blockchain Technology Is ’Disrupting’ The Art Economy As We Know It – Forbes The Volatility Paradox: Tranquil Mar...1 day ago
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The Truth-Seeking American - Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876), one of the most prominent public intellectuals in America in the 19th century, is hardly a household name today. T...1 day ago
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Blockchain: New Frontiers - Blockchain is a technology that offers reliable by decentralized record-keeping. The best-known applications of "blockchain" technology are still the alter...1 day ago
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The Kevyn Winkless Master Formula - A social media buddy of mine named Kevyn Winkless had come up with a handy formula (pictured above) for writing flash fiction, a formula I’ve taken to ca...1 day ago
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VIDEO: Preparing for Martyrdom in our Apocalyptic Times, by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos - *"The work of the Church is not exclusively to battle with heretics [and heresies - like Islam, and those who say Muslims worship the same True God as we d...1 day ago
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Fullbore Friday - There can be only one FbF today, nothing else comes close. The supplemental preliminary inquiry into the collision involving the USS FITZGERALD (DDG 62) a...1 day ago
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When Power wants something - So there’s been another Islamic terrorist attack, this time in Spain. A dozen dead. This time though, funnily, the terrorists didn’t kill themselves. They’...1 day ago
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Lessons from Charlottesville - By now, you have heard of the Unite the Right rally in Charlotteville. You’ve probably also heard it turned into a gong show. We can lay blame on the polic...1 day ago
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On Monuments - A few months ago an Islamist terrorist was found guilty by the International Criminal Court in The Hague of having destroyed Timbuktu’s cultural heritage i...1 day ago
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Handy guide for foreign nation to remove any Australian politican. Give them “entitlements” of dual Citizenship. - For foreign readers, the Australian Parliament is undergoing the most extraordinary spectacle at the moment. Politicians have resigned after discovering ...1 day ago
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Liability roundup - Ted Frank, crusader against class action abuse and formerly a contributor to this blog, profiled [Bloomberg] Judge: “Milberg attorneys engaged in an elab...1 day ago
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Putting Hardcore Activism to Work for You - Polite participation isn't enough for everybody, but the right is bad at putting those energies to use1 day ago
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Infosys saga further dents image of corporate governance in India’s top firms…. - Unbelievable scenes in the op echelons of India’s corporate sector. There is a simmering corporate governance crisis in firms that were once seen as Synony...1 day ago
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So far so good for the Kurgan hypothesis - This is basically what I'm seeing in the ancient DNA published to date. Thus, the Kurgan hypothesis or steppe theory, which, of course, posits that the Pro...1 day ago
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This year's (2017) textbook-free Introduction to Human Origins and Evolution - This is a tradition now. You can search the archives for previous years' and for my philosophy behind this course. It's always evolving. As usual there is...1 day ago
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Something changed - Jared Diamond notes (p 161) that the wild ancestors of domesticated animals are spread unevenly – only two are in South America, while none come from North...1 day ago
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The Great American Eclipse - As it might be seen in 3D... from space! (HT: TimeandDate): If you want to see how the Monday, 21 August 2017 eclipse might look from Earth, and more sp...1 day ago
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NEW BOOK ON HUME AND SMITH AS FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES IN 18TH-CENTURY SCOTLAND - *Jacob Heilbrunn* post a review of a new *Princeton University Press* book (17 August) in *The National Interest* HERE Dennis C. Rasmussen, *The Infidel and...1 day ago
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Housing: Part 251 - Elements of our current cycle - I have been critical of the Fed's current stance. I think they are destined to over-tighten because of Phillips Rule thinking and because rent inflation i...1 day ago
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Travels (again) - I hate to do this to you folks, but I’m off for a quick holiday in Greece. I’ll be back on Tuesday, watch out for falling Confederate statues and mysteriou...1 day ago
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“Oklahoma!”: As American as Apple Pie and Broken Treaties - While White Supremacists were staging a Nuremberg-style Nazi torchlight parade down in Dixie last Friday night I joined an almost exclusively white audienc...1 day ago
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Poverty Is Not What You Think It Is - Poverty fell off a cliff after the Second World War. It fell like a stone, including for American blacks. The economy was booming and everyone benefited. T...1 day ago
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Are Profit and Healthcare Incompatible? - *The only way to systemically lower costs is to make prevention and transparency the top priorities.* *As I have been noting for a decade, the broken U.S. h...1 day ago
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A bitter defeat for all Australians… - The High Court has knocked back my case against the Chief of Defence Force. I apologise for failing you after I have received so much support. This defea...1 day ago
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Vacancy: Researcher in Global Health Bioethics - The newly established Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities is currently advertising for the post of Researcher in Global Health Bioethics – Grade 7: £...1 day ago
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We’re Going to Need a Bigger Moat - As a companion piece to the prior post, I wanted to talk more about fascists. As you will recall a fascist is whoever a leftist attacks. I mean they don’t ...1 day ago
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Reconfiguring the American political landscape - Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has occupied the upper chamber for as long as I've been alive. Every six years, Kentucky Republicans dutifully retur...1 day ago
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Charlottesville - Some further thoughts on the moral catastrophe that is Trumpism. The post Charlottesville appeared first on The World is Not Enough.1 day ago
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Reader’s Report - “i sent a piece about hitler to Reader’s Digest (sales 3.5 million) for their series ‘my most unforgettable character’. it came back very promptly. feuchtw...1 day ago
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‘God has a good ear for music’: the Catholic response to Reformation music - Polyphony was never in real danger from the Council of Trent. Read more...1 day ago
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The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial - A few months ago, while dining at Veggie Grill (one of the new breed of Chipotle-class fast-casual restaurants), a phrase popped unbidden into my head: pre...1 day ago
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Yet More "Diversity" Follies - Even as Google atones for its "diversity" sins by firing its one employee willing to speak honestly about the subject, we have a very similar morality pl...1 day ago
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Black September War; What we might have done; Porkypine on Charlotte; False flags? BUFF landed with no tail; and Equality - Thursday, August 17, 2017 Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -Robert A. Heinlein The map is not t...1 day ago
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The Kurds Are About to Blow Up Iraq - Next month, on September 25, the Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil will hold a binding referendum on whether or not to secede from Iraq. It will alm...1 day ago
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The left plan - The plan appears to be to go right ahead with massive repression as if Hillary was president. If the mere president allows this to happen, he and his famil...1 day ago
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Data Points About The Mostly Iberian Y-DNA Clade R1b-DF27 - A new paper explores the predominantly Iberian branch of Y-DNA haplogroup R1b which is timely because the narrative that explains the population genetics ...1 day ago
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Against Savings: A Suggested Exposition of the Markets for Money and Credit - The demand for money and the demand for credit are two concepts with a long history of confusion. Their development over the past century, while making imp...1 day ago
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A guide to Sephardi surnames - *When Jews were expelled by the Spanish Inquisition, they often took their Spanish patronymics with them. Miriam Raphael has been compiling a fascinati...1 day ago
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"The Lord of the Rings" Films Refute Tolkien's Anti-Modernity - "He disliked the modern world." So said Christopher Tolkien about his father. Tolkien's disgust with the modern world began in his childhood. From the ...1 day ago
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Heah Come Cognitive Dissonance! :Run Like Hell - We ashen-souled columnists, the galley slaves of journalism, are accustomed to abuse from web louts, though it makes us see humanity as having the charm on...1 day ago
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Heah Come Cognitive Dissonance! :Run Like Hell - We ashen-souled columnists, the galley slaves of journalism, are accustomed to abuse from web louts, though it makes us see humanity as having the charm on...1 day ago
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How To Know You’re In a Mass Hysteria Bubble - History is full of examples of Mass Hysterias. They happen fairly often. The cool thing about mass hysterias is that you don’t know when you are in one. ...1 day ago
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Slippery slope arguments - 1. “If we set up no smoking sections on airlines, then eventually you won’t be able to smoke at all on airlines. Then they’ll ban smoking in restaurants,...1 day ago
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HRC Celebrates Walmart for Having Same Bathroom Policy as North Carolina - No one missed that the Human Rights Campaign, the largest and most powerful gay lobby in the world, called down unrelenting hell-fire upon the state of Nor...1 day ago
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Tramps and Thieves is Available now for Pre-Order on Dreamspinner Press! - Tramps and Thieves, the sequel to Murder and Mayhem, is now available for pre-order from Dreamspinner Press! It will be released on September 18th! Pre-ord...1 day ago
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Charlottesville—One Poison, Two Bottles - Alt-Right, Alt-Left, “both sides,” white supremacists, Antifa, CEO resignations: America is having a moment. Tempers are flaring, and statues are falling....1 day ago
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A Brief History of Romantic Love and Why It Kind of Sucks - A few facts for you. First Fact: At some point during evolution between plankton and Bon Jovi, apes evolved the ability to become emotionally attached t...1 day ago
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Why is thinking a lost art in large organizations? - From the *Sloan Management Review*: The Lost Art of Thinking in Large Organizations Many executives in big companies attained their positions by excelli...1 day ago
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A striking paragraph in today's NYT report about the fiasco of Trump's apologetics for Nazis and racists - This paragraph lept out at me: The president’s top advisers described themselves as stunned, despondent and numb. Several said they were unable to see how ...2 days ago
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The 2017 Stress Tests: Are US Banks Really in Good Shape? - “… equally efficacious, and equally a hoax.” – Benjamin Disraeli, 1848[1] One of the highlights of the U.S. summer for Fed watchers is the annual ritual ...2 days ago
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The 2017 Stress Tests: Are US Banks Really in Good Shape? - “… equally efficacious, and equally a hoax.” – Benjamin Disraeli, 1848[1] One of the highlights of the U.S. summer for Fed watchers is the annual ritual ...2 days ago
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Tayler, - Tayler, Pass me some maps and details and I’m happy to crunch some numbers for ya.2 days ago
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The media highlights ‘terrorism’ but not bee stings: an interview with Mo Dawah - The last few decades have seen a rise in Islamism, a political movement that favors reordering government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by...2 days ago
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And Pray, Sir, What Does Italy have to Offer? - What has not been said about President Obama’s failure to deal with Pyonjang and its ballistic missiles? That he did not have what it takes. That he was ...2 days ago
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The Case Against Factory Farming - Imagine a world in which every time you tied your shoes, you contributed to a process that resulted in the unintended death of thousands of people around...2 days ago
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India: In the past, Supreme Court had stood up for inter-faith and inter-caste marriages - Hindustan Times Before Kerala ‘love jihad’ case, SC upheld inter-faith, inter-caste marriages in ‘free and democratic’ India In the past, Supreme Court ha...2 days ago
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No! God Did Not Create all Slave-Holders Equal - In these troubled times, I find it hard to think and write about economics, so this post will be drawn largely from Abraham Lincoln’s great Cooper Union Sp...2 days ago
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"Theory vs. Data" in statistics too - Via Brad DeLong -- still my favorite blogger after all these years -- I stumbled on this very interesting essay from 2001, by statistician Leo Breiman. B...2 days ago
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Blogging on an island as opposed to an archipelago - On a Twitter conversation it came up yesterday that a lot of people know each other from blogging in the 2000s. It was a different world back then, and the...2 days ago
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Patricia Edgar on Children’s TV: Part One - Many readers will have heard of Patricia Edgar who was a giant force in Australian cultural life from the 1970s. She more than anyone else was responsible ...2 days ago
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A Turkish-EU Opera Buffa - Turkey says it wants to join the EU, but has no intention of complying with membership rules. The EU says it wants Turkey to join, but is fully aware that ...2 days ago
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LABOUR: Sarah Champion Is Forced Out After Comment About Pakistani Men Preying On White Girls - Sarah Champion, the now former Labour MP of Rotherham, spoke on BBC Radio 4 regarding gang-related child sexual exploitation. This came after 17 men were...2 days ago
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Jazz Birthday Calendar, August 16: Bill Evans - Jazz is famously an art form “in conversation”- members of a combo are responding to one another, a given improvised solo is often a set of licks and patte...2 days ago
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First They Came For Lee . . . - The battle over the monuments is not really about the monuments. It’s not even really about the legacy of the Civil War. It is about the left’s vision of w...2 days ago
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Fear And Loathing At Effective Altruism Global 2017 - San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run – but no explan...2 days ago
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Samizdata quote of the day - Turning to communism for fear of fascism is like suicide for fear of death – Perry de Havilland. Sadly, it is time to recycle this one yet again it seems.2 days ago
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Alfred Crosby Deserves a Nobel Prize in Economics... - for his absolutely brilliant insights into Economic History and Development. Arguably, he should share it with Jared Diamond, who really succeeded in popul...2 days ago
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Great Moments in Teaching: Or, Browbeating Psychoanalysis - One of my strengths as a test prep instructor was spotting weird mental glitches that was interfering with a student’s success. I miss this part of the job...2 days ago
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Addressing White Supremacy, Hate and Inequities in our Global Village - Creating a truly functional, equitable, stable and sustainable nation certainly won’t be easy but a “blueprint,” can be found in our evolutionary past. Wha...2 days ago
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What do we know about Arctic sea ice trends? - by Dr. Ronan Connolly & Dr. Michael Connolly Satellite observations indicate that the average Arctic sea ice extent has generally decreased since the start...2 days ago
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Some data about the blog after it reached a milestone - I’ve been mostly offline and busy with other things lately, which is why things have been slow here. However, I just noticed that Nec Pluribus went past ...2 days ago
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The Smiley Index: Ranking Countries, Companies & Jobs by 'Smileyness' - Who smiles at work? Ranking countries, companies, and job titles by propensity to smile.2 days ago
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Anti-racism is worse than racism - Yes, I said it – anti-racism is worse than racism. If we take a look at Charlottesville, we’ll see clear examples that support my theory. Firstly, if the...2 days ago
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What Would (or Should) You Do With Administrator Access to Your Mind (guest post by Henry Shevlin) - guest post byHenry Shevlin *'Dial 888,' Rick said as the set warmed. 'The desire to watch TV, no matter what's on it. 'I don't feel like dialling anything ...3 days ago
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Book review: Western Fringes - When I read the blurb of Western Fringes – a Muslim man trying to find a Sikh woman who has run away from home to escape an arranged marriage – I admit tha...3 days ago
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LIVING ETHICALLY - Here is a recording of a discussion between myself, Rebecca Huntley and Emrys Westacott at the Byron Writers Festival on ‘Living Ethically’. It was broadca...3 days ago
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Picking up on symmetries observed - [ by Charles Cameron — after Scaramucci on symmetry ] . It’s encouraging — heart-heartening — to see Doreen St. Félix at the New Yorker picking up on An Im...3 days ago
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All That Fighting, All That Snow - I just got back from seeing Atomic Blonde, which was a lot of fun (especially for those of us who came of age in the 80s). But it really made me sad once a...3 days ago
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Is it irrational? - Over at Behavioral Scientist magazine my second article, Rationalizing the ‘Irrational’, is up. In the article I suggest that an evolutionary biology lens ...3 days ago
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Retail Sales, Dudley, Wages - Some quick thoughts for the day. First, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley gave an extended interview to the Associate Press. Definitely wor...3 days ago
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That Google Diversity Memo - W.J. Astore What does “diversity” mean in the workplace as well as American society? Are women at a disadvantage in technical fields and, if so, is this d...4 days ago
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Behavioral biases don’t affect stock prices - Most people are probably somewhat overconfident. Most people – myself surely included – probably typically overestimate their own talents, and they (we) ...4 days ago
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Yeah, but … - One of my dear friends called me last summer to tell me his son was visiting Tennessee. He was wondering if I might be able to connect with him. I was out ...4 days ago
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The Legacy of Reconstruction and Occupation After the US Civil War - Guest Post by Megan Stewart, American University, School of International Service Late last month, HBO announced the next project for the creators of Game ...4 days ago
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What I believe II (ft. Sarah Constantin and Stacey Jeffery) - In my post “The Kolmogorov Option,” I tried to step back from current controversies, and use history to reflect on the broader question of how nerds should...4 days ago
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From the archive: Martin Rees’ From Here to Eternity - Martin Rees is Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He was the President of the Royal S...4 days ago
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Comrade Detective: Channing Tatum's weird new show - Comrade Detective: Channing Tatum's hidden gem of Romanian TV | Television & radio | The Guardian I link above to the Guardian review of Comrade Detective ...4 days ago
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When In Truth Did We Win Anything? - Progress is dead. In the same sense that Nietzsche spoke of the death of God, only to be habitually misunderstood by the same kinds of people that misunder...4 days ago
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Department of Justice Uses Search Warrant To Get Data On Visitors to Anti-Trump Site - I used to have DreamHost as a webhost. We parted ways, but I always admired and appreciated that they reliably stood up for their customers — including me ...4 days ago
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Theryn Meyer is a man. Here is the proof. - A beautiful woman affects a man’s brain in a manner similar to cocaine. When Harvard researchers showed men the faces of gorgeous women, the men’s brains l...4 days ago
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Fascinating new Pew poll on US Muslims: From religiosity to acceptance of homosexuality - *by Salman Hameed* A new Pew poll on US Muslims came out earlier this month and I think it is absolutely fascinating. There is much focus on the way Muslim...5 days ago
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Getting Over in the Heart of Dixie - When people think about progressive battles in the U.S., they probably don’t think about Alabama. Instead, the state is known as the home of U.S. Attorney ...5 days ago
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Scott Alexander on what passes for socialism these days - Scott Alexander Most of the policies being mooted by the supposedly socialist left today – Medicare-for-all, better social safety nets, et cetera – are wel...5 days ago
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Talking Back to the Fat Little Horror - Many have tried for a week or so to convince me that Pres. Trump should tone it down with North Korea, that he must stop threatening back. I have heard it ...5 days ago
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Will centralizing power solve China’s economic problems, or worsen them? - The relationship between the central government and local authorities is perhaps one of the least understood and most important questions about how China w...5 days ago
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Charlottesville and Malicious Social Disruption - Charlottesville wasn't a standard protest. It was a social blasting cap. An open invitation to a public fist fight between the left and right. A fight orch...5 days ago
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Des Moines: Theocrats Busted - The Des Moines Register (my emphasis added): The FBI raided a Catholic Worker House in Des Moines early Friday in search of evidence linked to efforts to s...5 days ago
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Thinking about Costs and Benefits of Immigration - I find this a useful way to organise my thoughts about the costs and benefits of immigration. It may work for you too. I start out with a neutral benchmark...6 days ago
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The uselessness of “bubble” talk - This is based on a comment I made here. If turning points in asset prices could be reliably predicted, they wouldn’t happen (since no none would buy at the...6 days ago
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Amazing! A Solid Journalism Academic - TONY THOMAS The adage that ‘those who can’t do teach’ might have been uttered with our universities’ media faculties in mind. There is at least one excepti...6 days ago
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Campbell Award & Invisible Disability - Last night I was overjoyed and overwhelmed to receive the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the Hugo Awards ceremony at Worldcon 75 here in Hel...6 days ago
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A parable for Google - There was once a village nestled in a small valley where the people lived long and prosperous lives. The local deity, unlike so many of the other gods in t...6 days ago
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Checking In On Meal Kit Economics - With Amazon’s plan to buy Whole Foods, this makes them an ideal provider of meal kits that combines both a platform and an incumbent grocery store.6 days ago
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Capsule Review: ‘Putin’s War against Ukraine,’ by Taras Kuzio - ‘Putin’s War against Ukraine,’ by Taras Kuzio. Published in Association with the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, 2017, ISBN-13: 978-1543...1 week ago
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Dunkirk: A Deliverance Worth Cheering - My review of the film Dunkirk and case for celebrating the evacuation: https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/dunkirk-a-deliverance-worth-cheering/1 week ago
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The Psychology of the New McCarthyism - On the rising threat to science and basic human rights in America.1 week ago
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MTurk tips - 2 easy hacks to make MTurk/Web/Qualtrics data collection/management easier: 1. isn't actually a hack, just a recommendation to send users to an experiment ...1 week ago
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Institutions, Turnout, and Local Politics - A few months ago, I wrote a summary of the political-science literature on institutional design and turnout in local elections (municipal elections and oth...1 week ago
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The Counterfactual and the Factual - Historians often appear skeptical of counterfactual arguments. E.H. Carr argued that “a historian should never deal in speculation about what did not hap...1 week ago
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Chicken Shtick - Question: Why did the chicken cross the road? Answer: To ask the *posek *if he needs a *mesorah*. Many news outlets this week were reporting on the story of...1 week ago
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Virtue Signalling is Good; It’s Piety Contests that are Dangerous - “Virtue signalling” has become a common term of abuse against people who repeat progressive pieties. The implication is something like, “you don’t actually...1 week ago
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What Peter the Great Discovered in Amsterdam: Inclusivity Creates Wealth - By Nick Cassella After coming to power in the late 17th century, Peter the Great of Russia decided to escape the confines of the Kremlin and travel incog...1 week ago
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Contra Sadedin & Varinsky: the Google memo is still right, again - Two recent articles, published here and here claim to debunk the Google memo. They are wrong. Here is why. [This is my third post about the Googlegate (Pos...1 week ago
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Chuck ’em out! The politicians who proposed the RAISE Act are INELIGIBLE to live in the United States! - I wonder if the politicians who proposed the RAISE (Really Asinine Idea to Stimulate Emigration) Act would be allowed into the United States? Let’s see…....1 week ago
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Italie. Migrations : Rome arrête un bateau d'ONG et déploie l'armée - L'organisation allemande Jugend Rettet (“La jeunesse sauve”), qui opère des sauvetages en Méditerranée, est accusée de favoriser l'immigration clandestin...1 week ago
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Fixing The Label Printer - There’s an odd quirk of humans, and it can take us surprisingly long to clue in. Two people can do exactly the same things side by side, for a very long ti...1 week ago
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Why is a one pound coin worth more than four pennies? - The new 12-sided pound coin released earlier this year The UK's recently-introduced one pound coin is made of 8.75 grams of metal, 76% of that copper and ...1 week ago
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Allow Me To Explain The Darkness Of The Human Soul - Church, State, Civilization Part 1: Allow Me to Explain The Darkness Of The Human Soul The title of this post … Continue reading →1 week ago
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The Most Embarrassingly Wrong Book Ever on the Middle East? - "The Middle East is the graveyard of predictions" notes the left-wing writer and editor Adam Shatz. That's partly because it's so volatile (no one in 2014 ...1 week ago
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Will the Real James Buchanan Please Stand Up - |Peter Boettke| Hands down the best book you will read on James McGill Buchanan this year, or any year to this date, is Richard Wagner's James M. Buchanan ...1 week ago
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Please give generously to James Damore’s fundraiser - I just gave $100 to James Damore’s official fundraiser. Damore, for any of you who have been hiding under a rock, is the guy who wrote a completely sane an...1 week ago
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Review: Lando - [image: Lando] Lando by Louis L'Amour My rating: 5 of 5 stars Like the other Sacketts, this book combines beautiful, lovingly described landscapes with th...1 week ago
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Some students could lose FEE-HELP by accident or no fault of their own - In supporting the government’s Education Legislation Amendment (Provider Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2017 in the House of Representatives yesterday,...1 week ago
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The pageview is still king - Publishers keep announcing they’re moving beyond the pageview and are instead focusing on more meaningful metrics like time-on-site and repeat visitors. Bu...1 week ago
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Is Washington ceding Syria to Russian influence? - Jerusalem Post, 28/8 Goodbye ‘Timber Sycamore’: What will the end of the CIA program providing support to Syria’s rebels mean for the future direction of t...1 week ago
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This is what you get when you dump rubbish in an old mine - Four Corners has struck again with another non-story that has panicked the political establishment. Queensland doesn’t have a waste levy. This means it is ...1 week ago
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Four-Steps Needed to Restore Confidence in Bureau’s Handling of Temperature Data - THE Minister for Environment and Energy, Josh Frydenberg, needs to immediately instigate the following four-step process to restore confidence in the rec...1 week ago
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Minoans and Mycenaeans - It is great to finally see the first data from the most ancient Greeks (Mycenaeans) and also the Cretan Minoans: - Ancestrally. both Mycenaeans and Mi...1 week ago
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Free Banking and the Friedman Rule - Imagine that there are two types of people in the world — recognizable and unrecognizable. Recognizable people can develop reputations, which can have eith...1 week ago
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Activities Report - I post ever less here, and in consequence people occasionally ask me, in person or in writing, what is up, whether I am slowing down in my output, or hangi...1 week ago
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Honoring the Truth Begins at Home - A number of days ago, I asked the readers of this to sign a “Pro-Truth Pledge”, one that I had also signed. I gave you my reasons for signing the pledge, w...1 week ago
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A monetary-fiscal theory of inflation - On December 17, 2015, the FOMC has raised its policy rate (IOER) from 25bp to 50bp. It has since raised the IOER rate three more times to 1.25%. Many on th...1 week ago
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Fear, Loathing, and Hysterical Panic at San Antonio College - On Tuesday, August 1st, the Texas “campus carry” law went into effect at community colleges, allowing students with Texas License to Carry (LTC) permits to...1 week ago
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English language and American solipsism - Several months ago Simon Kuper published what seemed to me a bizarre piece in the weekend edition of the *Financial Times* arguing that native English s...2 weeks ago
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Alidjun - Muslims from Zenica region celebrating Aliđun 1936 Second of August lies midway between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox. It also lies bang in t...2 weeks ago
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House district partisanship map-link will be updated as news arrive - https://fusiontables.googleusercontent.com/embedviz?q=select+col5%3E%3E1+from+1HgBz3g-ZCGjxu8_GVKEH_vXfd04zwKs5H7m22VDQ&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=37.05628800013914...2 weeks ago
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‘My Father Died for Pakistan’: An Examination of Religious Extremism - Shehrbano Taseer, daughter of the ex-Punjab governor Salman Taseer, gives a speech at the Middle East Institute as to the consequence of speaking out for r...2 weeks ago
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Do We Need a RAISE? - I am away on a family vacation. But a couple of days ago, sitting on a beach at an undisclosed location, my iPhone started beeping and shaking. It turned o...2 weeks ago
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Living Well Is The Best Revenge: From The Hood To The Burbs - I grew up in the Frog Hollow district of Hartford, CT. Imagine what life must have been like for a white kid growing up in Connecticut, years before the er...2 weeks ago
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What does Thriving mean to an ex-Muslim? - What do we mean by “Thriving”? Thriving is the state of feeling fully alive and connected to a meaning in life that is bigger than yourself. A state of s...2 weeks ago
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Mystery solved? Age, political knowledge, and political polarization - *What's going on here? Older partisans are more extreme than younger ones1. Age and polarization. *“Yesterday,”tm I reported an intriguing finding on the...2 weeks ago
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Arguing about species: Is it evidence, or ego? - For some people who follow human evolution news, recognizing “species” is really just about whether you’re a lumper or a splitter. Many people assume tha...2 weeks ago
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Covering Jerusalem: A response to Jacques Delacroix - I’d been thinking of writing some free-standing posts on the aftermath of the shooting two weeks ago at Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem (July 14), but haven’t ...2 weeks ago
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Aug. 2, 2017 Farisa update - To my mortal embarrassment, I declared in April that Farisa’s Courage was “revision complete”. Hahaha. I suppose that one can take liberties regarding what...2 weeks ago
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Two New Papers on Militarized Police - The so-called militarization of police has become a major issue both in libertarian policy circles and in the civil rights community. Radley Balko has done...2 weeks ago
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Campus Due Process, Back at the 6th Circuit - In recent years, campus due process claims have fared poorly before courts in the 6th Circuit. Judge Susan Dlott dismissed a complaint against Miami despit...2 weeks ago
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The President Is The Nation: The Central Metaphor Trump Lives By - Metaphors in the Brain We know from neuroscience that most thought is unconscious, carried out by neural circuitry. In Metaphors We Live By, Mark Johns...2 weeks ago
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Anatomy of a Course: Syllabus construction, pt. 3 (topics and readings) - As I discussed in my first two posts on syllabus construction, I try to figure out the readings and weekly topics as my last step, after I’ve made decision...2 weeks ago
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On Climate Change - David Henderson and I wade in to perilous waters in the July 31 Wall Street Journal. We try to stake out a different and more productive conversation than ...2 weeks ago
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Here’s the Most Important Career (and Life) Asset You Can Develop - In 1931, Winston Churchill found himself more or less exiled from political life. In the previous years he had found himself vehemently fighting members of...2 weeks ago
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For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...2 weeks ago
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Transgender, Transtrender, Identity and Validity - One thing trans people enjoy more than fighting feminists is fighting each other. What could possibly go wrong?2 weeks ago
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Reminder - "Apologies: Your Best Guide on the Internet" - I'm quite proud of this recent piece published by *The Conversation*. So, check it out if you haven't already.2 weeks ago
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The Fall of Islamic State’s Caliphate Won’t End the Foreign Attacks - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 July 2017 The Islamic State (IS) has escalated a campaign of global terrorism over the past few years, exactly as it was ...3 weeks ago
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Professor Jordan Peterson: Charlatan Conservative Christian Perpetually Paranoid about Pronouns & Postmodernism - *Trigger Warning: If you don't like feminists or leftists, avert your eyes. This could be upsetting.* ***** I ran a little contest for the title on Twit...3 weeks ago
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The Decline of the Job of Professor - I’ve blogged a bit in recent days, but after this post I’m going back to taking a break. Someone (and I can’t remember who it was) said that being a profes...3 weeks ago
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Health care prices do not play the role most believe - As I mentioned in two (long) posts on how comprehensive measures of household consumption or disposable income explain high US NHE rather well, I believe U...3 weeks ago
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Are some places "More Malthusian" than other? - I’ve got a new working paper out (pdf or repec), co-authored with Ryan Johnson, on Malthusian constraints. There is some material that we’re cutting from...3 weeks ago
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Upcoming Special Class - I have/had a private Clandestine Carry Pistol course in western NC coming up. The host’s local folks have come up short for some of their slots, and asked ...3 weeks ago
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Episode 175: Abbas, Palestine, and a Looming Zuma Dynasty - On this week's episode host Richard Aldous speaks with Amir Tibon about Mahmoud Abbas's role in Palestinian politics before discussing the potential for a ...3 weeks ago
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Is Democracy in Chains Good for Buchanan's Legacy? - My impression of Nancy MacLean's *Democracy in Chains* is that it is primarily an attack on Charles Koch. The Koch brothers are hardly an unusual ta...3 weeks ago
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Wtf I Love Auguste Comte Now: Another Red-Pill Moment for Me - The following are excerpted from the overview of the thought of Auguste Comte (who coined the term, “sociology”) in Irving Zeitlin, Ideology and the Develo...3 weeks ago
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2017 Bioethics journals h5 / h5-median index - I suspect I could have had this easier, but be that as it may, I searched for bioethics/health care ethics/ medical ethics journals on google scholar to s...3 weeks ago
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Ping Pong Fury - The match was scheduled for 19:40 on Jun 23. Thousands of viewers were eagerly anticipating Chinese Ping Pong superstar Ma Long to face off against his Jap...3 weeks ago
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Plato’s hijacking of Socratic aporia and media-friendly radicalism - In Plato’s early dialogues Socrates leads his interlocutors to *aporia*, a state in which they are unconvinced by their own beliefs and arguments, and do...3 weeks ago
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Learning From Old China - Last week's posting ("Everything is Worse in China") caught the attention of Rod Dreher, who reblogged it with comments over at the American Conservative. ...3 weeks ago
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Analytic Philosophy: An Informal Defense (and a Modest Criticism) - This is a post dealing with a few basic issues in contemporary philosophy, issues easily lost sight of even by some trained professionals depending on thei...3 weeks ago
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Assorted Musings - Some Assorted Musings: 1. I have a new policy brief at the Mercatus Center that makes the case for a Nominal GDP level target from the knowledge problem p...4 weeks ago
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Monetary policy and inflation - Recent inflation in advanced capitalist countries remains subdued, despite the expansionary monetary policy that has dominated major economies.. As Guy Deb...4 weeks ago
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What is an Institution? - Find out in my new post at the NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice Blog.4 weeks ago
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"That’s quite a day’s work.” - Yesterday this video came out of Baltimore officer putting gel caps of heroin in a can, placing the can in trash in an alley, leaving the alley, and then "...4 weeks ago
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Synthetic Control: Ur (probably) doin' it rong! - People, I've been refereeing a lot of synthetic control papers lately, and I have to say that I don't like what I'm seeing. I'm seeing 3 big mistakes that ...4 weeks ago
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Slaughtered Christians “A Viable Target”? Muslim Persecution of Christians, March 2017 - The Gatestone Institute The uptick in often lethal persecution of Christians in Muslim regions has caused many Christian leaders to appeal for aid. Canon...4 weeks ago
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Unintended Monetary Policy Effects – Tale II: ECB Crisis Policies - by Andreas Hoffmann and Nicolás Cachanosky The Federal Reserve’s (Fed) and European Central Bank’s (ECB) policy responses to the recent financial disasters...4 weeks ago
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His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political style - It’s all they know. They aren’t prepared for anything else. The post His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political styl...4 weeks ago
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Fraction - "I am persuaded that if truth is a number [...] it never comes out even ends in a fraction cannot be rounded off." John Stone,* Even Though*4 weeks ago
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The Reformation of Star Wars - About Three Paragraphs into this article… This guy nails it. Right to the front door of Disney and Lucas. The Reformation of Star War has begun. http://dar...5 weeks ago
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Kindle Daily Deal – How Many Books Does it Sell? - “Your book has been selected to be a Kindle Daily Deal,” the email read, and asked whether I wanted to participate in the deal. I said yes to the dress. Un...5 weeks ago
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The Small Kindness (Qur’an 107): A Magnanimous Solution to the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Positive-sum westerners see “two states” as the obvious solution to the conflict on the land between the river and the sea. But analyzed in terms of honor-...5 weeks ago
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Retro Review of Men Like Gods, by H. G. Wells (1923) - *Introduction* Having gotten into science fiction in the *first* place by reading some of the classics, including of course several of the novels of H. G. ...1 month ago
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NORTH KOREA ICBMs: A COLD WAR SOLUTION - North Korea continues its march towards a nuclear-tipped ICBM capable of hitting anywhere in the U.S. Military experts agree they will eventually have th...1 month ago
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Arriving at Singularity - The Middle East has changed; it faces a period of abiding unpredictability “The one thing the Americans had to get right was not to conflate the defeat of ...1 month ago
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I guess I need to say this again - Anyone who’s been reading this site for any length of time knows this, but apparently there are some drooling shit stirrers who haven’t gotten the message,...1 month ago
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Science, publishing, and James E. Heath - I started this blog ten years ago with a quote from my father-in-law, James E. Heath: "If it's not published, it's not science." That seemed a good entry i...1 month ago
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Sasanian finds in early medieval Britain and beyond: another global distribution from Late Antiquity? - A previous post mapped and discussed the spread of early Byzantine finds across both Eurasia and Africa, ranging from Britain to Japan and Sweden to Tanzan...1 month ago
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Open Message to the West on Canada Day - Prospective immigrants must fully adopt the foundational values of their host nations and never the other way around. Immigration is a privilege. Protect f...1 month ago
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The Canada Child Benefit is an important innovation in cash benefits to families with children - The Canada Child Benefit offers a policy option that the United States should consider in pursuing a goal to reduce child poverty by half. The commitment t...1 month ago
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The web as school of manners: a beatific vision - What is the school of manners of the rising generation? There can be no doubt about that. It’s the web. Physically, we are still encased in the formalit...1 month ago
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A New Economic Vision, in 27 Words - By James Kwak A couple of weeks ago I posted a 6,000-word essay laying out a new economic vision for the Democratic Party. It kind of vanished into the eth...1 month ago
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The Next Twenty Years - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 28 June 2017.) When most citizens are public housing tenants, they will resist the arrival of sk...1 month ago
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What do equality campaigners want? - Most “equality campaigners” are confused as to what sort of equality they want. They’re unclear as to whether they’re looking for equal consideration of in...1 month ago
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Documentary on Halal Certification in Australia - In 2015 the Australian Parliament conducted an Inquiry into food certification practices in Australia. Public pressure which led to this inquiry was the r...1 month ago
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Unhealthy - I have not read the Senate “health care” bill, but from the various summaries around the web, I am confident that Barack Obama is exactly correct in his pr...1 month ago
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On the referendum #23, a year after victory: ‘a change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points’ & ‘how to capture the heavens’ - ‘Just like all British governments, they will act more or less in a hand to mouth way on the spur of the moment, but they will not think out and adopt a st...1 month 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 issue...1 month ago
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Shanghai and Batumi - Two cities I have enjoyed visiting and hope to visit again. They are quite a long distance apart and in many ways very different, but they have one thing i...1 month ago
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Four Corners/Fairfax Levels Up to US-Class National Security Steno Work on China - There's a big to-do about an investigative thing by Australia's Four Corners/Fairfax Media concerning Chinese influence in Australia. ASIO investigation...2 months ago
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Iraq: How I got the Ammo to shoot at the al Qaeda Guy - [image: image001] 15 June 2017 Yesterday, a busy Facebook page published some of my work. This sparked lively conversation. Some Soldiers cued me in. T...2 months ago
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Iraq: How I got the Ammo to shoot at the al Qaeda Guy - [image: image001] 15 June 2017 Yesterday, a busy Facebook page published some of my work. This sparked lively conversation. Some Soldiers cued me in. T...2 months 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 ...2 months ago
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Real Alcazar (Sevilla) in the late 19th/early 20th c. - The Alcazar (from the Arabic al-Qasr meaning palace) is the royal residence of the kings of Spain. The Alcazar is considered a World Heritage Site, like ma...2 months ago
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman - If I ever have grandchildren, which seems a long shot at time of writing, I shall gather them on my knee and tell them of the General Election of 2017. "...2 months ago
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What’s Wrong With Our System Of Global Trade And Finance? - That is what John Judis wanted to talk to me about, and we did. This over at TPM is what came out. By the way, Judis' book on populism is great. It makes a...2 months ago
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On Labour's success in the General Election and implications for Brexit - Labour hasn't won the General Election, but it feels like it has, and has good reason to feel that way. Theresa May called the election believing that she ...2 months ago
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The State of Sooner Football - About nine months ago I began writing this post in rough form following a pair of painful and disappointing losses to begin the 2016 Sooner football season...2 months 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...2 months ago
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Books cost too much! (so I wrote a blog post) - Academic textbooks are really expensive. The current version of Mankiw’s principles text is $186 in hardcover. I’ll go out on a limb and conservatively gu...2 months ago
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Trumpocalypse: Kathy Griffin and the Trump Head debacle - The Kathy Griffin “Trump Head” debacle would seem to be a textbook example of everything that’s gone wrong—in the brains and hearts of American progressive...2 months ago
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#123 – Tang 34: In the Rearview - ACast Link We take a sweeping look back at all 289 years of the Tang one more time before pressing into the 5 Dynasties and beyond, and also take a look at...2 months ago
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Jacobite Magazine - Newly launched. No comment thread there, so feel free to use this place.2 months ago
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Net Neutrality: America's "Other" Health Crisis - It seems like everyone who is talking about net neutrality today worries that we're not talking enough about net neutrality. They're right. So, allow me ...2 months ago
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What’s going on? - The post-crisis politico-regulatory consensus is breaking down. There have been tensions over the past couple of years, but overall the illusion of harmony...2 months ago
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This Gay Life - Its always tough. Imagine, meeting someone that you synch with. For the moment or forever. You going back home, in a place that is safe for you, and for hi...3 months ago
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Being Human - I've just discovered that the pilot episode of UK series *Being Human *is online again, after having been taken down for a while. I first wrote about it ba...3 months ago
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The Science Behind Heineken’s “Worlds Apart” Ad - Clearly some members of Heineken’s ad agency have been reading the social science literature as evidenced by this recent ad (video below), which has been a...3 months 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 ...3 months ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.3 months ago
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Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...3 months ago
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How many jobs really require college? - It is the conventional wisdom in some circles that we need to send even more people to college. As Bill Gates wrote, “America is facing a shortage of col...4 months ago
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Quick thoughts about airline economics - If you’ve not already read this piece by Matt Stoller challenging the conventional wisdom that airline deregulation in the 1970s has been a great success, ...4 months 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...4 months ago
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where do i go from here? - I am stuck. Feral Creatures has already grown in length and scope. Do I keep expanding and growing the story and if so when do i st...4 months ago
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Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.4 months ago
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Diversification, Adaptation, and Stock Market Valuation - Looking back at asset class performance over the course of market history, we notice a hierarchy of excess returns. Small caps generated excess returns ov...4 months ago
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A Tale of YouTuber Stupidity - Now if you haven't been living under a rock then you are likely aware that there are a great deal of people on YouTube. A select few garner enough of a f...4 months 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 embodyin...4 months 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 embodyin...4 months ago
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Cities through the ages: One thing or many? - VancouverI am in rainy Vancouver, BC. Tomorrow I will give a lecture at Green College, University of British Columbia, with this title ("Cities through th...4 months ago
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My Review of Sebastian Mallaby’s Bio of Alan Greenspan - The latest issue of CIS Policy includes my review of Sebastian Mallaby’s biography of Alan Greenspan. Here is a sample: *Far from being a tragedy, Greens...4 months ago
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Economic History Papers, Articles & Blogs - As a companion to my Economic History books page, which stresses economic history by region or country, I have created a new Economic History Papers page. ...4 months ago
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Japan and Philippines Challenge China on New Fronts - Japan is deploying a warship to the South China Sea while the Philippines pushes back against Chinese encroachments in the east.5 months 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...5 months ago
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A catalog of density (Québec/Canada version) - So, I've recently discovered an interesting tool to visualize census data for Canada, www.censusmapper.ca. Among its various data, it allows to do visualiz...5 months ago
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The Teaching of Economics - In 2013, with funding from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University College London, Friends Provident Foundation, Azim Premji University (Bangal...5 months ago
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28 February 1155: In Celebration of Henry the Young King's Birthday - On the pages of his *Chronicon *Geoffrey, prior of Vigeois, described in meticulous detail how young Henry packed as much repentance into his deathbed as h...5 months ago
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The left and the right ignored their extremists and we ended up with Brexit and Trump - The Observer 11 February 2017 Three types dominate extremist movements: crazies, cynics and creeps. The true crazies are always at the bottom of the heap. ...5 months ago
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Overkill - So, I recently had cause to order some adhesive strips from Amazon, due to an unplanned vehicle replacement. This isn't a complaint thread - they did great...5 months ago
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Propaganda as Literature: A Distant Reading of the Korean Central News Agency's Headlines - A rather long post on reading the Korean Central News Agency's headlines I am not putting directly on this blog because it contains interactive graphs that...6 months ago
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Responses to Privilege - Angelique Harris The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two cases which highlight the influence that race, class, disability, and privilege ...6 months ago
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Two More Minutes of Hate - The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This maxim holds not only in geometry, but in business as well. In that situation, the two p...6 months ago
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In defense of science - We are deeply concerned by the Trump administration’s move to gag scientists working at various governmental agencies. The US government employs scientists...6 months ago
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the blog’s not dead… - …it’s just restin’. (~_^) sorry for the lack of posting over the last few months. unfortunately, there’s been a lot of major illness in the immediate famil...7 months ago
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Improving Your Writing – Prioritizing Increased-Get Worries www.proofreadingessay.com - There are a good deal of diverse methods you can go about doing that 1 thing – you can offer ebooks that deliver solutions to folks’s difficulties, or you ...7 months ago
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Year in Career: 2016 - Pictures and numbers. Not things we usually have to worry too much about as stenographers. In fact most of us got into the game precisely because we are ...7 months ago
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Ten Myths about the Phoney War - new Quadrant Article - A new one of my articles has just been published in the Australian *Quadrant* magazine (Vol. 61 No.1-2, January-February 2017 edition), that attempts to k...7 months ago
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This was never just a recession - Maybe to start with, but not for long. What does a recession look like? Take, for example, the 1981/82 recession, which was deep. Real output falls strongl...7 months ago
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Can pagerank-like algorithms be used to help improve democracy? - In an excellent post Ben Rattray, founder of change.org, suggest that technology can help improve democracy by addressing what he calls three core needs:...7 months ago
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Mein weltanschauung - My friends Ben and Sam have both written posts about which articles and books have influenced their thinking. There’s not a whole world of difference betwe...8 months ago
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Goodbye - [image: Snapshot corrected moving to unz] It’s goodbye to drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk After 4 years of blogging, and 1,062,720 page views, here i...8 months ago
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The Things You Learn from the Internet - The Spiritual Science Research Foundation (“Bridging the known and unknown worlds”) has discovered the cause of homosexuality for 85% of all gay people: 4....8 months 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...8 months 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...8 months ago
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Learning Arabic, Persian, and Urdu - I’m writing this to share my impressions on learning Arabic, Persian, and Urdu; I’ve studied all three languages in some capacity. Comparing the learni...8 months 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 months 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...10 months ago
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prince, apply to India’s top companies in just 3 steps. - A new way to get placed at India's best companies prince tiwari Introducing LinkedIn Placements * The New Way to Get Placed at India...10 months 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 ...11 months ago
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What Motivates a Jihadist? - (McLeans) A new study based on interviews conducted over social media with foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria raises doubts about the commonly held notio...11 months 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…11 months ago
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Paper writing in the age of preprints and twitter - One side effect of the move to preprints is a change in the psychology of trying to get manuscripts published. Instead of targeting a journal, it becomes e...1 year ago
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The Brexit Referendum Through a Behavioural Lens - Behavioural effects may have had a real effect on the Brexit referendum outcome. Look at the question wording, and at the effects triggered by the Leave an...1 year 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...1 year ago
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My Blog Has Moved Again! - My new blog location is www.richardcarrier.info. I will maintain this old blog as a historical archive as I did before. But every other post I've blogged s...1 year ago
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Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - [image: UNPlenary]At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a...1 year 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?1 year ago
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‘Gen Why?’ – Perception Deception - “Most days are full of meaningless uninvited interactions with the same kind of simple minded individuals, that indeed would have definitely complained abo...1 year ago
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My blog moving to my website - I just wanted to give a heads up to readers that I have moved my blog to my website, which now houses all my work, videos, press coverage, photos and more....1 year 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...1 year ago
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結婚したい！それなら電話占いピュアリの占い師に聞いてみよう！ - 結婚したい皆さん、なかなかいい出会いがないと思っている方も多いかと思います。 そんな時は占い師さんに色々聞いた […]1 year ago
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The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...1 year ago
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Along came Phil - Gramm, former Senator from the state of Texas to set a few facts straight in the Wall Street Journal about the cause of the financial crisis. I.e., it wasn...1 year ago
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Farewell to Henry - Henry Harpending (1944-2016) died this past Sunday. He had a stroke a year ago, and then a second one three weeks ago, but apparently he died of a lung i...1 year 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, ...1 year ago
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Comments on the Democratic Debate in Miami - This was truly the most bizarre debate I've ever seen. The level of questioning from the three interviewers, two from Univision, a Spanish-language network...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year ago
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The Mayhem of GOP Class Politics in 2016 - Majority Report Radio conversation with Michael Brooks on the piece I wrote for the National on the political insurgency in the Republican mainstream. In A...1 year 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...1 year ago
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I have written six book reviews this year - What a rare thing – a blog post. At the end of another writingful year I thought it worth noting a few of the achievements now likely to vanish into poster...1 year ago
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Changing Stations - At the beginning of October, I packed up my family and we made the move ‘home’. The house is fairly new, but the place is old. It has a lot of history...1 year 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....1 year 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 ...1 year 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...1 year ago
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We've Moved - Effective September 9, 2015, the Mischiefs of Faction is now located at Vox.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, ...1 year ago
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A few more thoughts on monopsony and the minimum wage (and what I think is a much stronger post from Don) - In the last post I noted that monopsony is definitely not the only and not even really the best theoretical argument for why we see no disemployment effect...2 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...2 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 ...2 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...2 years ago
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It Is Accomplished - As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had...2 years ago
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Libertarianism and the Politics of Everything - It is a precept of Athenian philosophy in the Socratic tradition that the impetus to philosophy begins with wonder at the heavens, but the attempt to act...2 years ago
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Inflation and Deflation – Economics A2 Level Unit 4 - A short video on the joys of inflation (and deflation) covering their causes and [...]2 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...2 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...2 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,...2 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...2 years ago
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Families and time preferences: Should a libertarian society be childfree and polyamorous? - Usually when libertarians talk about marriage, it’s about how the government shouldn’t be involved. When we talk about children, we debate whether or not w...3 years ago
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Quote of the Week - This paragraph is huge, so for the sake of making it easier to read I’m breaking it down (and the paragraph continues beyond the point the excerpt below en...3 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...3 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 ...3 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner3 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...3 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...3 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...3 years ago
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Have You Heard Your Inner Voice Today? - New Study Shows There's A Reason Why We "Hear" Our Inner Voice4 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 Ne...4 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...4 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 gues...4 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...4 years ago
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The monetary nature of the problem vividly described - For a long time market monetarists have argued that the Fed´s evasive monetary policy is the major force keeping the economy down and out. Keynesians, nota...5 years ago
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Modigliani-Miller and Yanis’ response No. 2 - Yanis answers once more, directly to the first part of my response, before I had the chance to write my second part. He suggests that we should clearly mar...5 years ago
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Modeled Behavior’s RSS Feed - Hopefully within the next day or two we will be able to get Modeled Behavior.com to redirect to our Forbes Blog. Yet, it looks as if there is no way to ge...5 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...5 years ago
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“Bernanke invites Scott Sumner for lunch” - “Oct. 31 (Boomberg) US stock market closed sharply up after the Federal Reserve Bank announced that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has invited Bentl...5 years ago
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One Law for All campaign in Turkish media - Here's an article quoting an interview with me on Sharia law and One Law for All published in Turkish media.5 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...6 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 ...7 years ago
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