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Guest Post: Response to Max Harris - A guest post by Lucy Rogers: On 8 November 2024 Max Harris wrote an op ed for The Dominion Post on the Israel – Lebanon conflict. Harris’ article was profo...28 minutes ago
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12-Day Wind Drought Has German Utility Executives on Edge - In the race to achieve Energiewende ("energy transition"), Germans forgot about dunkelflaute (wind drought/dark calm). The post 12-Day Wind Drought Has Ge...1 hour ago
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A man who - Here is Janet Inglis explaining what’s wrong with Tim “Sarah” McBride intruding on women: Oh for goodness sake! He's a man. A man who has taken photos o...1 hour ago
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Lighted Airways and the Radio Range (updated) - When airplanes first started to be used for serious transportation purposes, sometime after World War I, the problems involved with flight at night and in ...1 hour ago
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Notes From Swannanoa – Part III - [image: Notes From Swannanoa – Part III] Once the immediate danger had passed, though, it was not long before the facades began to crack and slide away lik...2 hours ago
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New Medieval Books: The Exile’s Cookbook - This translation of a 13th-century cookbook delves into the rich culinary traditions of Andalusian and North African cuisine. Featuring 480 recipes, it gui...2 hours ago
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Australia’s housing market “is going from Bad to Worse” - I noted on Saturday how final auction clearance rates across Australia’s two largest markets, Sydney and Melbourne, had fallen to their lowest level of t...3 hours ago
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Independent Agency or Codependent Agency? - As I watch for various aspects of "realignment" that render dated a great deal of commentary that relies on "left vs. right" or "conservative vs. liberal" ...3 hours ago
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Locally optimal psychology - Published on November 23, 2024 10:13 PM GMT *Thanks to Kaj Sotala, Brian Toomey, Stag Lynn, Ethan Kuntz, and Anna Salamon.* There’s no way that chronic de...3 hours ago
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The Wall Street Journal’s Misleading Subhead About Oil Companies - “Trump’s Oil and Gas Donor Don’t Really Want to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’“. That’s the headline in a *Wall Street Journal* news story on November 22 about ...4 hours ago
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On holiday fruitcake - Somehow I got on the list of a whole bunch of fancy food catalogues, which are coming to me in the mail almost every day. I’m pretty sure I earned my pla...5 hours ago
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On holiday fruitcake - Somehow I got on the list of a whole bunch of fancy food catalogues, which are coming to me in the mail almost every day. I’m pretty sure I earned my pla...5 hours ago
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Stephen Wolfram On AI And Irreducible Complexity - Following on my previous — and alarmist — post about AI, I think I should add some further remarks about what may or may not be possible. Back in 2014 I wr...5 hours ago
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TTRPG Industry GOES INSANE Over Elon Musk DEFENDING Gary Gygax Against 2024 Dungeons & Dragons - ------------------------------ Support Jon Support Me On Subscribe Star Get FREE Books! Independent journalism isn’t easy and I can use all of the help I...6 hours ago
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Why more South Asian than East Asian CEOs? - Analyses revealed that East Asians faced less prejudice than South Asians and were equally motivated by work and leadership as South Asians. However, Eas...6 hours ago
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Out of Bounds: Sexual Misconduct Allegations Rock UF Basketball - The University of Florida (UF) is in the midst of a scandal as men’s basketball coach Todd Golden stands accused of sexual harassment, stalking, and sexu...6 hours ago
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This Day In Iraqi History - Nov 23 Military govt formed under PM Mahmoud to put down 1952 Intifada protests against monarchy and UK - 1914 Sir Percy Cox issued statement in Arabic that British had occupied Basra and UK was at war with Ottomans and had no ill will towards locals ...7 hours ago
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Cognitive reflection linked to better decisions in aviation emergencies - A recent study published in Ergonomics explores the factors that shape decision-making performance among commercial pilots during in-flight simulations.7 hours ago
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Vile Hatred - Oh dear. The boss of Jaguar has defended the legendary British car marque’s dramatic rebrand this week after critics called a new advert ‘woke’ and pointed...7 hours ago
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DEADLY IMMUNITY - If a child develops whiplash shortly after a car accident, it’s presumed that the car accident caused the whiplash. If a child develops hives shortly after...7 hours ago
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Bill Maher on politics, divisiveness, and the holidays - Here’s Bill Maher’s 8½-minute comedy/news video from yesterday’s “Real Time”; the plaint is that people are going to let politics screw up the holidays. No...8 hours ago
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The Memes will come out tomorrow - By Holly the Assistant As you can probably infer, there will be no meme post today: Sarah has gone with family and friends to celebrate having triumphed ov...8 hours ago
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Government Intervention and (Convincing People about) the Unintended Consequences of Good Intentions - I have opined many times about the folly of minimum wage laws. Today, starting with this great video from Reason, let’s look at the narrower topic of wages...8 hours ago
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Sen. Joni Ernst Highlights Nine Examples Of Washington Waste In ‘Caturday’ Campaign - [image: Angry Cat]Ernst highlighted nine examples in her social media campaign that illustrate how the federal government blows through taxpayer money.9 hours ago
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Playing Russian Roulette–With Russia - W.J. Astore Reckless and Stupid What is the point of playing Russian roulette—with Russia? As the Biden administration fades into oblivion, among its last ...9 hours ago
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Wanted! - The ICC has finally charged Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant with war crimes in Gaza and issued warrants for their arrests. The ICC charges against Netanyahu a...10 hours ago
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Human Challenge Trials aren’t riskier than Randomized Controlled Trials - Keller Scholl, who spent time at GMU working with Robin Hanson and hanging out with the gang, just came out of quarantine from a Human Challenge Trial: Sch...11 hours ago
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“Why do medical tests always have error rates?” - John Cook writes: Someone recently asked me why medical tests always have an error rate. It’s a good question. A test is necessarily a proxy, a substitute ...11 hours ago
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“Why do medical tests always have error rates?” - John Cook writes: Someone recently asked me why medical tests always have an error rate. It’s a good question. A test is necessarily a proxy, a substitute ...11 hours ago
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Servage. It’s the French for serfdom - In mediaeval Europe, serfs got their subsistence by cultivating a plot of land owned by their lord and master. In Russia serfdom survived until 1861, but E...12 hours ago
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The 7 Best Movie Villains Featured In Otherwise Bad Movies - While these movies may have been duds, they brought us some memorable, amazing villains.12 hours ago
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Monstrous Research - I was amused recently in listening to the editors at Raconteur Press comparing notes on trends in story submissions. Werewolves, it seems, are the ‘in’ thi...12 hours ago
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RADICAL DOUBT: RENÉ DESCARTES. Lecture 2 of Modern Philosophy [Peterson Academy course] - “I think. Therefore, I am.” Lecture Two: Radical Doubt. René Descartes Themes: What can I doubt? Rationalism. Unintended Skepticism? God? External world? D...12 hours ago
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The case for earning lots of money — and giving lots of it away - There aren’t too many people openly calling themselves effective altruists these days. You can mostly give thanks to convicted felon Sam Bankman-Fried for ...12 hours ago
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Automotif DLXX... - These straight-out-of-camera monochrome JPEGs of a droptop BMW M4 make it look pretty butch, I think. Shot with the Nikon D800.13 hours ago
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Justice Merchan’s Dilemma - In the normal course of affairs, sentencing follows upon a verdict of guilty like day after night. But then, the Supreme Court doesn’t stick its nose in be...13 hours ago
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French Government Declares that Abortion Cannot Be Called a “Cause of Death” in Free Speech Crackdown - We have long discussed the collapse of free speech values in France as the left criminalizes an ever-widening scope of…14 hours ago
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In the News (#1492) - This is clearly a bill unburdened by thoughts of constitutionality. – Elizabeth N. Brown I Saw My Brain (#1316) Another reminder that Grady Judd is an ut...16 hours ago
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Between Luther and Pelagius - When it comes to our role in salvation, St. Augustine sits squarely between the heretical extremes of Luther and Pelagius.16 hours ago
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Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael @ the Royal Academy - This is a tidy little exhibition bringing together works by the three giants of the High Renaissance, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael. First I’ll explai...17 hours ago
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Jared Cooney Horvath on how generative AI could harm learning - In a post last month about generative AI, I expressed some scepticism towards those among my colleagues who are trying to integrate generative AI into as...18 hours ago
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Singer Khalid comes out as gay after being outed: ‘I am not ashamed’ - Singer Khalid has come out publicly as gay after being outed on social media, declaring that he was “never hiding” and is “not ashamed” of his sexuality....19 hours ago
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Are Eastern Pacific Cyclones Become More Frequent or Stronger? - During the past three days, I have received several calls from media folks asking the same question: *Are storms like this week's "bomb" cyclone becomi...20 hours ago
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Capitalism’s New Skin: Navigating Identity in a Post-Racial, Hyper-Global World - Razib’s observation on the 2020 “BIPOC” era echoed my reflections on how capitalism now defines our hyper-globalized, multi-ethnic world. Growing up in the...20 hours ago
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The news - My taxi driver blamed the Ukrainian war on Nato expansion (a majority of cab drivers do), blamed America for its intervention in Syria and Afghanistan an...20 hours ago
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Christianity Can’t Save the Jews. Can Historical Criticism Cure Them?, by Laurent Guyénot - In “God, the Jews, and us: a deceitful civilizational contract”, I retold how the Romans, having failed to incorporate Israel within Hellenistic civilizati...20 hours ago
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Reader’s Links for Nov. 23, 2024 - Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on ...21 hours ago
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Commerce and coalitions - 1879 -1887 The theory of comparative advantage is one of the really great theories in the behavioral sciences. It implies that even if country E has an abs...23 hours ago
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Raymond Ibrahim re-launches YouTube Channel (VIDEO) - *In a witty and dynamic 5-minute intro, Islam scholar and critic, and respected political analyst, philosopher and raconteur, Raymond Ibrahim today annou...1 day ago
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Radio Derb November 22 2024 - This Week’s Show Contents 02m01s Musk, Friedman, and Milei 06m44s The Uniparty strikes back 13m56s Masculinity past, present, east, and west 20m24s Report ...1 day ago
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The Intricate Artistry of the Cherokee Nation - The Cherokee Nation, one of the largest indigenous tribes in America, is highly revered for its rich cultural heritage, enduring traditions, and most imp...1 day ago
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Raymond Ibrahim’s ‘New’ YouTube Channel - My introductory video for what I hope to continue:1 day ago
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Prayers up - And best wishes for a speedy recovery for our dear friend Gretchen, cherished spouse of our brother-from-another-mother Big Country, which good woman is cu...1 day ago
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State Medicaid Reform May Become Both Possible and Necessary Under Trump - The Biden administration gave states few opportunities to improve the cost-effectiveness of their Medicaid programs, but this is likely to change under the...1 day ago
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A Glimpse Into Our Daily News Digest - Here is an example of what our Daily News Digest looks like and an accompanying video to explain how we source our info and use this digest. If you want ...1 day ago
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How AI Systems Fail the Human Test - Some social scientists want to replace humans with AI systems in experiments that test human preferences. That may not be a good idea.1 day ago
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Anti-Progress, Breakdown, Reset - *The indicators of breakdown and collapse are all around us, but we don't dare name them because then they'd become a problem we can't bury. * *A reality ...1 day ago
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Something else for President Trump to hammer into the ground - It looks as if environmental groups are actively seeking to convert the court system in the United States into a rubber-stamp machine for their aims a...1 day ago
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Philosophical Fame, 1890-1960 - There's a fun new tool at Edhiphy. The designers pulled the full text from twelve leading philosophy journals from 1890 to 1980 and counted the occurrences...1 day ago
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Court rules that patients have a right to disbelieve doctors - Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford; Bryanna Moore, University of Rochester, and Johnna Wellesley, The University of Texas Medical Branch There is a ...1 day ago
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The Nowhere String - Space and time seem as fundamental as anything can get. Philosophers like Immanuel Kant thought that they were inescapable, that we could not conceive of t...1 day ago
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Weekend Knowledge Dump- November 22, 2024 - Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. State of Play: Political and Legal Trends to ...1 day ago
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Mini-Heap - New links… Discussion welcome. “What scares me [is] the rhetoric of AI today that is about gaslighting humans into surrendering their own power and their...1 day ago
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The Ruling Against American Airlines-JetBlue Provides a Chance To Reform Antitrust’s Rule of Reason - [image: The Ruling Against American Airlines-JetBlue Provides a Chance To Reform Antitrust’s Rule of Reason] Herbert Hovenkamp writes that the First Court’...1 day ago
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The Middle Path Forsworn - In his great work of dramatized history, Solzhenitsyn ponders the lessons of the Russian Revolution.1 day ago
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Mars GDP as New Plans in Work to Create Its Export Economy - [image: NASA: Mars - https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/84th-annual-seminar-day] "Mars... I can't believe I'm back on Mars." If you're a fan of science ...1 day ago
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Seasonality in Key Economic Indicators of India - Shivangee Misra, Anirban Sanyal and Sanjay Singh have this very useful paper summarising seasonality in Indian data: This article provides estimates of sea...1 day ago
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A Look At President-Elect Trump's Picks For The Key Energy Policy Positions - * Over the past two weeks, President-elect Trump has engaged in rapid-fire announcements of his picks for the cabinet and other top positions. * Among the ...1 day ago
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Public opinion on immigration: the Trump and Biden years - Andrew Gelman recently reposted something I wrote on immigration in 2016. That reminded me that I should update another old post on immigration, which ...2 days ago
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The Local Dispatch #9: Margariteños at the Verge - The PDVSA explosion in Monagas has plunged Margarita into 20-hour blackouts, while families of post-electoral detainees demand answers and mass releases2 days ago
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Proton And Neutron Structure - "Nucleons" are protons and neutrons. A new paper determines that their mass is distributed over a radius of consistent with one femtometer (a 10-15 mete...2 days ago
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Damn It, Who Keeps Sending Me Guitars - Specifically in this case a Tenor Baritone guitar? I mean, I already have a tenor guitar (more than one), and I have a baritone guitar too. Why would I nee...2 days ago
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The Antidote to Civilization - Whatever you think or say, don’t tell me that Israel or the United States represent a “civilization” I’m obliged to respect. If the video below shows us th...2 days ago
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The Political Nature of Granting Ukraine the Right to Strike Russian Territory - *PSCRP-BESA Reports No 98 (Nov 21, 2024)* *Alexander Kovalenko * On the night of November 19, a strike targeted the 1046th Logistics Support Center of t...2 days ago
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Censor the Internet to Save the Planet - “Governments Should Act Now to Curb Climate Disinformation” demands a letter backed by Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Center for Count...2 days ago
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My submission re the Online Safety Amendment Bill - TO: Committee Secretary Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 FROM: Dr Russell ...2 days ago
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Review: The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands - [image: The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands]The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Is...3 days ago
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Pricing the anonymity of banknotes - Banknotes are useful. Not only do they provide their owner with a standard set of payments services, they also offer financial anonymity. This post intr...3 days ago
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BIG ED… - I knew it was a scam when they suspended my suspension. Finishing out my freshman year of college, with three different suspensions, was disheartening and...3 days ago
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There’s Not Enough Coal In The World For Red One - There are four things I takes seriously in this life, and two of them are Christmas movies, and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. The post There’s Not En...3 days ago
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Blanchard on Trumponomics - How will Trumponomics work out? This is a question that many people are asking, including Olivier Blanchard (see here). Blanchard focusses on three broad...3 days ago
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Was Bharat Jodo Yatra Subversive? - Was ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ Subversive? Ram Puniyani As assembly elections in Maharashtra are progressing; the mindset of BJP was expressed in a clear way by t...3 days ago
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Menemukan Pembelajaran dalam Alam: Perkemahan sebagai Media Pendidikan yang Efektif - Dalam era digital di mana anak-anak semakin terikat dengan gadget, penting bagi kita untuk mencari cara-cara alternatif untuk pendidikan yang dapat membe...3 days ago
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Dictatorship in the U.S.A.? - The risks of dictatorship in America are real, but shouldn't be overstated.3 days ago
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Russia’s Economy and Deathonomics - Back in 1939, Winston Churchill famously said in a radio broadcast: “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery i...4 days ago
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No Meta Status Orgs - In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and...4 days ago
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Bellingcat Discord Members Geolocate New 1xBet Stream Sites - A recent Bellingcat investigation revealed that a controversial Russian-founded gambling platform takes bets on thousands of amateur sports events that a...4 days ago
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Pleasant Autumn: Grouse - I usually hunting all fall season. This year I haven’t been into it. Hard to say why. I guess the freezer is full and I’m feeling lazy. It doesn’t mean I h...4 days ago
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The “Public Secret” Dossier: Revelations about the MSM from the Al Durah Affair - This text was first posted July 10, 2008, but much of it is missing there. I will clean this text (with formatting) but in the meantime, I publish it here ...4 days ago
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Advice to Christian Philosophers - My essay “From Justin Martyr to Alvin Plantinga and Back Again: Advice from the First Christian Philosopher” appears in the anthology *Advice to Christia...5 days ago
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Chapultepec Castle, Mexico - A few weeks ago I went on a business trip to Mexico. Between meetings, I did a little tourism. I went to the Anthropological Museum to see the ancient Azte...6 days ago
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Would Lenin have approved of the IMF? - A simple-minded answer to the question is, No. The IMF is entirely dedicated to preserving the world capitalist system and any socialist must disapprov...6 days ago
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Patrols and the Reverse Orc Baby - It is a property of the DMG that it always seems to contain some offbeat rules element which alters your conception of the game when you finally take a mom...6 days ago
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Xodus Explained: Machine Learning, Social Dynamics, and the Rise of Bluesky - Social Networks in Flux – The Shift from X to Bluesky In recent days, we have witnessed a remarkable migration of users from X (formerly known as Twitter) ...6 days ago
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Inventing Apartheid – a Chronology - The Chronology of Apartheid: 1652 – 1952 In 2017 Hélène Opperman Lewis released a “psychology” book titled “Apartheid: Britain’s Bastard Child”, the name a...6 days ago
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Winged Hussars - The charge of the Polish Winged Hussars at the 1683 Battle of Vienna. 3000 of them took part of the biggest cavalry charge in history, which finally stop...1 week ago
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Still Alive - I am going to make a determined effort to remove myself from Twitter as a main posting platform and use BlueSky instead. As well? I am in flux like so many...1 week ago
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A Culture Warrior to MMGA - Trump’s cabinet nominees are provocative, to say the least. There has to be some stratagem behind Gaetz in particular, because it is facially hard to under...1 week ago
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As Good As It Gets? - By themselves, strong growth and low unemployment cannot wash away social divisions, any more than they can empower labor enough to substantively increase...1 week ago
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Public Medical CV Update, November, 2024 - Link to November 2024 Medical CV: AB__CV_11.241 week ago
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Your Kids and Their ABC - TONY THOMAS NOV 15 2024 11 minsSave Download PDF ABC Impartiality Standard: Do not unduly favour one perspective over another.The Albanese government gave ...1 week ago
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Copilot stopped talking to me - I was reading some polemic from Bettina Arndt recently about women dominating the legal profession, especially in the Family Law sphere, so I thought I wou...1 week ago
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The higher education participation rate at age 19 almost certainly fell in 2023 – but an exact rate cannot be calculated - Despite significant policy interest in higher education attainment rates, the preceding participation rates are rarely reported. The most readily available...1 week ago
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Light Over Heat Book Chats on Guns - Among the videos on my Light Over Heat YouTube channel are some conversations I had with authors of recent books on guns. I’m going to embed the video link...1 week ago
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The climate case of the century - by Lucas Bergkamp On the 12th of November, the Hague Court of Appeal ruled in the “climate case of the century” that Milieudefensie (“FoE”) filed against S...1 week ago
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This Is The Most Important Thing For These Crazy Times - It’s the hardest thing. Especially right now. Not making money in this economy. Not climbing a mountain. Not running a marathon or writing a book or build...1 week ago
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The Liberalism of the MAGA Voters Explains Trump's Election. But Trump's Illiberal Presidency Could Become Fascist. - Leading up to the presidential election, commentators like Robert Kagan and Steven Hahn argued that if Donald Trump were elected, this would show the triu...1 week ago
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Twenty Years Blogging, and I’m Thinking About Work - Twenty years blogging. My thoughts today are about the relationship between blogs, and work. So often, I have missed opportunities to do the first of those...1 week ago
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Death Valley Temperatures, Part 3: Twelve Years of July Daily Tmax Estimates and the 134 deg. F Record - In Part 1 I claimed that using stations surrounding Death Valley is a good way to “fact check” warm season high temperatures (Tmax) at the Death Valley sta...1 week ago
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Three Questions About the Election, Including “How Did Harris Do So Well?” - It’s early days for any scholarly analysis of the election results, but time enough for punditry and recriminations. I have no novel or great insights, but...1 week ago
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12 Years of Henry the Young King Blog! - 12 years ago today I published the first post on Henry the Young King blog. Using the occasion, I would like to say big thank you to all those, who suppo...2 weeks ago
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Japan’s PM ‘runs’ to Trump, Ishiba aims for a meeting in November - Adnkronos International, Rome(TNS) During the phone call that lasted about five minutes, Ishiba and Trump – Kyodo reports again – did not talk about the ...2 weeks ago
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Gratitude and Perspectives - Sometimes people suck. They annoy you. Do something irritating, or worse antagonistic. We're all quick vent about it, often for days. Sometimes - more ofte...2 weeks ago
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Letter to a Jewish voter in Pennsylvania - Important Announcement: I don’t in any way endorse voting for Jill Stein, or any other third-party candidate. But if you are a Green Party supporter who li...2 weeks ago
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Letter to a Jewish voter in Pennsylvania - Important Announcement: I don’t in any way endorse voting for Jill Stein, or any other third-party candidate. But if you are a Green Party supporter who li...2 weeks ago
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Neither Sense nor Sensibility: A Weekend Safety Brief from Jane Austen - Note: This post originally appeared in the Duffel Blog. It has been somewhat modified from its original version. It is presented here with all due apologie...3 weeks ago
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"An End to Fantasies": The Conservative Dilemma - “It’s snowing still. *And* freezing. However, we haven’t had an earthquake lately”. *The House at Pooh Corner* (1928) On 4 July 2024, t...3 weeks ago
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Quick note - Just a quick reminder to all you MilSF authors out there: Reticle: A Crosshair or aiming device. Reticule: A small purse. I swear, Microsoft Word must have...3 weeks ago
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STATISTICS ARE OUTCOMES, NOT CAUSES: YANKEES LOST BY EMOTIONAL DOMINATION - Statisticians tend to think of their numbers as causes of what happens. A famous scientist, Stephen Jay Gould has argued that baseball players don't ...3 weeks ago
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Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass - *MANY HAVE TRIED* to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused to endorse Project 2025—they have refused to endorse a...3 weeks ago
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Richard Pipes Bibliography - About: "Islam's Battle with a Hostile World." By John Lloyd, Financial Times, January 11, 2003. A comparison of the careers of Richard and Daniel Pipes. "A...3 weeks ago
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Biden-Harris policies and their consequences were no surprise to those paying attention - Milton Friedman used to advise researchers to focus on large policy changes rather than attempting to separate a small change’s signal from the noise. In...3 weeks ago
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12 Years of Darwinian Reactionary - 2025 marks twelve years of Darwinian Reactionary. I never meant to start this bog. In the years leading up to its beginning I wandered the internet looking...3 weeks ago
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Interview – Dr David M. Perry on the “Dark Ages” - My guest today is Dr David M. Perry . David is a medieval historian and author of several books, including The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Eur...3 weeks ago
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Advocacy Journalism Has Been a Problem for Ages: Looking Back at Bosnia - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on October 26, 2024 Read the article over at Substack.4 weeks ago
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Podcasts, Podcasts… - While my own In Moscow’s Shadows podcast is still going strong, of late I seem to have been featuring on a lot of other people’s, so here is a quick rundow...4 weeks ago
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A Singularly Christian View of the Transgender Problem - There was a two-decades-long push to redefine and de-gender marriage that ended when the United States Supreme Court declared, in […] The post A Singular...4 weeks ago
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The West is sleepwalking into Trudeau’s woke nightmare - Justin Trudeau is creating a new arm of the state with sweeping powers aimed at criminalising opinions deemed ‘unacceptable’ by progressives For seven days...4 weeks ago
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About Simone and Malcolm Collins’ Smear Campaign Against Me - If you’re interested at all in pronatalism, you’re familiar with Simone and Malcolm Collins, the pronatal Silicon Valley investors-turned-Pennsylvania-pr...4 weeks ago
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Innovation, Competition, and Pitfalls of the Sector method - Not long ago I found myself in a lecture theatre listening to a US academic arguing that lowering drug prices was a stupid policy objective. When it comes ...4 weeks ago
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New Book - Regular weekly articles will be posted tomorrow, Monday 21OCT2024, or the following day. In the meantime though, since people have been asking so avidly as...4 weeks ago
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Comfort - I had a post-doc. fellowship at Stanford. (“Post-doctoral fellowship” is code for welfare for people with doctorates.) It carried few obligations. I had to...4 weeks ago
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McCarthyism: A man in the shadows - The Tydings committee was official Washington's first attempt to derail Sen. Joseph McCarthy's crusade against the communist infiltration of government. I...5 weeks ago
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Against Scooby Doo ideology - There's an unspoken and apparently unquestioned presumption at the centre of this government's economic policy. We saw three examples of it this week. The ...5 weeks ago
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In the Heart of Darkness - Jerusalem Post, 18/10 A Yezidi former slave rescued from Gaza Reveals Her Horrifying experiences in Jihadi Captivity It is now two weeks since the rescue o...5 weeks ago
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Utilizing Religion as a Foreign Policy Tool - Introduction Prior to entering the great power competition (GPC) with China and Russia, the United States was embroiled in the Global War on Terror (GWOT)...5 weeks ago
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Ribbonfarm is Retiring - After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm....1 month ago
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Is This Too Cryptic? - Now the physicists know what it was like to be an economist in 1978. Click here to comment or read others’ comments.1 month ago
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Podcast Review of “Avoidant” - I’ve been trying out AI assistance in marketing. This is an excellent example of what you can do, and it’s amazingly good at bringing out the value of th...1 month ago
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#276 – Qing 18: Kangxi Gets Personal - The Kangxi Emperor of Great Qing squares off again Galdan Khan of the Dzungar Khanate in the sociopolitical-religio-military showdown of the late 17th cent...1 month ago
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(WATCH) NATO - The US is one of 32 nations belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. The alliance is 75 years old this year. Because of the Russia-Uk...1 month ago
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This Year's (2024) Textbook-free Human Origins and Evolution - I’m still teaching APG 201 Human Origins and Evolution to an auditorium of 120 students every Fall semester. Unlike what students do at other universitie...1 month ago
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Romusha Adalah: Mengungkap Sejarah dan Peran Penting Para Pekerja Paksa di Indonesia - Romusha adalah istilah yang digunakan untuk menggambarkan para pekerja paksa yang dipekerjakan oleh pemerintah kolonial Jepang selama Perang Dunia II di ...2 months ago
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Tips For Booking Your Khasab Dhow Cruise Experience - Booking a dhow cruise in Khasab promises an unforgettable adventure, but ensuring you get the most out of your experience requires careful planning. From c...2 months ago
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A Farewelll - I have been writing this column, off and on, mostly on, for–dear God, can it be nearly thirty years? Yet nothing lasts forever, neither columns nor columni...2 months ago
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A Farewelll - I have been writing this column, off and on, mostly on, for–dear God, can it be nearly thirty years? Yet nothing lasts forever, neither columns nor columni...2 months ago
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China has much to teach us. John Roberts does not. - So, I don’t really write here any more. I write at drafts.interfluidity.com instead. Please follow that feed or subscribe by e-mail. I do still offer perio...2 months ago
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The Platform of the King - As Nate Winchester observes, George R. R. Martin ‘famously said something about wanting to know Aragorn’s tax policy’. Evidently Martin thinks this was one...2 months ago
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A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...2 months ago
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Polio in Gaza: A Jewish Fable - You probably have to be Jewish to appreciate the full and bitter irony of this sentence: Nearly 11 months into a devastating war, a serious new challenge h...2 months ago
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The Obscenity of Banning Books - Granting governments the ability to violate intellectual freedom by banning books from schools doesn’t help or protect anyone. It is an obscene way of st...2 months ago
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Interactive PCA of Vector Embeddings - Principal component analysis is a way to summarize as much of the variation in many-dimensional data as you can, using fewer dimensions. For example, a gen...3 months ago
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Get Started With Web Hosting Quickly And Easily - It may seem daunting or downright impossible to find a suitable web host, but more often than not, a little research can help you find an answer quickly! A...3 months ago
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Dear Friends - Dear Friends: Ten years after I started this blog, circumstances are making it impossible for me to continue with it. So I am going to suspend it, at lea...3 months ago
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Sanity Fair - *"Antifascist" demonstration Portland, Oregon. August 17, 2019. * The two sides squared off across a field, defined by police cordons at each end, like dis...3 months ago
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Government Class Gonna Be LIT! (plus a coincidence) - The last time I taught US History was in spring 2017, and it was the shit. Trump had just won and as my readers know, I live and teach in deepest of blue b...4 months ago
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The Deep-State Strikes Back - Biden is out. Kamala is in. Democracy and laws be damned. Biden through Saturday night was insisting he would stay in the presidential race to the end su...4 months ago
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Thoughts and Details on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level - The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level has been percolating among monetary theorists for over three decades: Eric Leeper being the first to offer a formaliza...4 months ago
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Men today are not real men (and the same goes for women) - There’s a man in my parish who, from the outside, looks like a typical Catholic dad: slightly balding, genial, pleasant-mannered, with plenty of kids. But ...4 months ago
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Why Economists Should Embrace Forecasting Tournaments - Forecasting failures: Lessons from the 19th century to modern economics The post Why Economists Should Embrace Forecasting Tournaments appeared first on ...4 months ago
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The ANES at 75: What have we learned from the American National Election Studies? - One of the early discoveries of the founders of the American National Election Studies (ANES) was that psychological attachments to parties themselves ar...4 months ago
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A Better Stablecoin on a Perp DEX - Creating a stablecoin position on a perp exchange is hard, but it should be easy. It not only caters to demand, but it also adds liquidity to perp marke...5 months ago
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ABC’s Sarah L’Estrange defends paedophile fantasy comic - ABC journalist Sarah L'Estrange came out in defence of Maia Kobabe's "Gender Queer", even though she admitted that it may contain images of paedophilia. ...6 months ago
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Sitzkrieg? - Several People have inquired why I have not written a column for TR in some time. Let me assure them I am in good health and face no lack of material as o...6 months ago
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GPT-4o - There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of ...6 months ago
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Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...6 months ago
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Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...6 months ago
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A Few Things We Don’t Quite Get About the Levant - (First Draft of the Foreword to Pierre Zalloua’s forthcoming book. For comments.) Europa was the daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre Some people believe tha...6 months ago
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How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear - What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all? In this article, I'm going to help you do exactly that b...6 months ago
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It's complicated - Three important manuscripts appeared recently at bioRxiv, mostly dealing with the origins and expansions of proto-Germanic and proto-Indo-European populati...7 months ago
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Land on the Edge: The Landscape Evolution of the Lincolnshire Coastline (2023) - The *Land on the Edge *project was commissioned by Historic England and Lincolnshire County Council as part of the wider *Inns on the Edge* project (Hist...7 months ago
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Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...9 months ago
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Speaking trip this April - I'm speaking at Libertycon in Tbilisi on April 20th, will probably either go or come via London. Anyone interested in a talk? I'll probably be in Europe ...9 months ago
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What I’ve been listening to lately - A lot of stuff went onto my playlist late in 2023 that I didn’t have time to digest until recently; many of these could have made my best of the year list.9 months ago
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My wish list for 2024: Hormonal inputs into perception of human skin color by men and women - Subjects identify the face on the left as female and the face on the right as male. The only difference is the lightness of the skin. Richard Russell, ...10 months ago
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Tools for Thinking About Censorship - “Was it a government action, or did they do it themselves because of pressure?” This is inevitably among our first questions when news breaks that any expr...10 months ago
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Amazonian "Garden Urbanism": A skeptical account - This new paper in Science is getting alot of publicity, and people are asking for my views (Rostain, et al. 2024) The paper presents fascinating new evide...10 months ago
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Milton Friedman: The last conservative or the first welfare state classical liberal? - When Milton Friedman died in 2006 I wrote a blog post crediting him as an ‘enormous influence on my life’. I said back then that although few people call t...10 months ago
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Books 2023 - You might also be interested in my booklists from from 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. The Balance of Tomorrow Stirling’s Desert Rai...11 months ago
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25 THINKERS FOR A WORLD ON THE BRINK - It was most unexpected, but most welcome. I’ve been nominated by Prospect magazine as one of “25 thinkers for a world on the brink”. “Kenan Malik… earns a ...11 months ago
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War in Ukraine VI: Adding Economic Power to the Attrition Model - In the previous post of the series, I promised to show how both the Economic Power and Casualties Rates hypotheses can be combined within the same computat...11 months ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!1 year ago
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British Jews are living under the shadow of fear: Whatever happens in Israel and Palestine, nothing excuses bigoted and criminal behaviour in the UK - By Khadija Khan The increase in anti-Semitic incidents following Hamas’s barbaric attack on Israeli civilians on October 7 is abhorrent – but regrettably...1 year ago
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Who Can File An Ethics Complaint Against A Realtor – Your Shield Against Unethical Realtors - Real estate transactions are pivotal moments in our lives, often involving significant financial and emotional investments. When ethics are compromised ...1 year ago
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Morris dancers drop ‘men’ from name to be trans inclusive … but still exclude women - Brighton’s male Morris dancers have dropped the word ‘‘men’’ from their decades-old name to avoid offending trans and non-binary people. The troupe is chan...1 year ago
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ฝาก10 รับ 100 ใหม่ล่าสุด โปรคุณภาพ ที่คนงบน้อย ห้ามพลาด! - เปลี่ยนเงินทุน 10 บาท ให้เป็นโอกาสลุ้นเงินรางวัลจากเกมพ … ฝาก10 รับ 100 ใหม่ล่าสุด โปรคุณภาพ ที่คนงบน้อย ห้ามพลาด! Read More »1 year ago
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Who Got What, and Why? A Nobel for Claudia Goldin - How have women been paid for their work? More broadly, how are different skills in general rewarded in the labor market? The prices of different things are...1 year ago
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Recent work - The New Labor Antitrust, SSRN The Trump Indictment and America’s Political Order, Project Syndicate, June 14, 2023 The Revised Merger Guidelines Will Resto...1 year ago
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ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION - Snacks, aka “Bread” or “The Louisiana Succubus”, is infamous within the sector.… The post ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION appeared first on TheRa...1 year ago
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On the Dangers of Futile Appeals - In 2016, Gary Pavela, a longtime educational consultant and fellow for the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), referenced the...1 year ago
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New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve - They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat, get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every Democrat-...1 year ago
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"Realist Jurisprudence: Selected Essays" - A Spanish translation by Dr. Francisco M. Mora-Sifuentes of eight of my essays on realist jurisprudence and related topics (with a new preface by me and an...1 year ago
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A pyramid scheme of misery - Róisín Michaux at The Critic on the mothers who affirm their children's trans identities: I’ve spent the last couple of years lurking on their online fora....1 year ago
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Biden’s Labor Initiatives and Organizers’ Challenges - Is Joe Biden, as he claims, the best friend workers have had in the White House either ever or since Franklin Delano Roosevelt? We could debate that all d...1 year ago
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Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives - Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the...1 year ago
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A Crusader’s Mom - Something a bit different. Early crusaders were volunteers, who took vows to go on a crusade, rather than members of a professional army. As a result, they...1 year ago
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U.S. Openly Militarizes Space - The media have noticed that the new USSF Doctrine is more focused on aligning space activity with the twelve principles of warfare as a whole The post U....1 year ago
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One Day Towards the End of Summer - The following is an extract from something I am working on at the moment - an analysis of the killing of Earl Rǫgnvaldr of Orkney, as reported in chapter...1 year ago
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好きな人と付き合って結婚、幸せな家庭を気づくためのノウハウ - 彼と付き合って一年が過ぎ、より実りのある二年目を過ごすには 彼と付き合って、一年も経つとだいたいどんな人となり […]1 year ago
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Weird, Queer Mood; Uganda, Ugandans on the World Bank - The World Bank released a statement. To dear Uganda; sorry, but our values and the values enshrined in the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 are at war. W...1 year ago
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Rochester gets burned over - Fenster writes: The burned over district: The term “burned-over district” refers to the western and central regions of New York State in the early 19th cen...1 year ago
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Lionising the lionesses - Football has kept me sane during a difficult part of my life. There have been weeks in the past two years when the only place I’ve left my home to visit ha...1 year ago
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Author’s notes: Britannia and Beyond - Hibernia - If you’re reading this, that probably means you’ve purchased a copy of the latest *Cthulhu Invictus* sourcebook from Golden Goblin Press: *Britannia and ...1 year ago
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A Fond Farewell to Political Violence @ A Glance - Dear Readers, After eleven incredible years, we have made the difficult decision to close the doors of Political…1 year ago
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Russia: Defend Boris Kagarlitsky! - News of Kagarlitsky's arrest has sparked anger and empathy among a wide range of activists. People may perish, but ideas do not, and Kagarlitsky has done...1 year ago
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"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness - I am currently reading *The Master and His Emissary*, which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature...1 year ago
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Geoffrey Brennan (9/15/44-7/28/22) - Long-time Duke faculty member and friend Geoffrey Brennan died in Canberra, Australia of complications from acute leukemia. “Geoff” joined the Duke ...1 year ago
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The persistence of belief and certainty - Long thought. Don’t say you had no warning. The explicitly secular perspective is that there is no proof of a spiritual layer to human experience, Continue...1 year ago
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Draco Layer Four: The Anagogic or Mystical Sense - Here be dragons. And doves. Human beings long for transcendence. Such longing is, for the world, always out of fashion because, of course, it is not a long...1 year ago
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UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...1 year ago
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Your own relaxing retreat: tips for designing a dream backyard escape - There’s nothing quite like having a peaceful and relaxing outdoor space to unwind and escape the stresses of everyday life. And what better way to achieve ...1 year ago
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Conversations With Cabbies - Many a foreign correspondent, sent to an obscure country of which he knows nothing but which has suddenly drawn the world’s attention to itself by a terrib...1 year ago
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Moving to Substack - Hi all, this is a pointer to direct you over to Substack. I’m moving the Econ Growth Blog over there, with the hopes of creating a little more interactio...1 year ago
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France’s fertility fall began long ago, before the Revolution. Was dechristianization to blame? - Why do fertility rates fall? All over the world, in rich countries, in middle-income countries, and in poor countries, fertility rates are falling below ...1 year ago
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Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order - The post Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order appeared first on Heterodox Academy.1 year ago
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A Few Quick Announcements - By James As I wrote a couple of years ago, I don’t post here anymore. I just have a couple of updates for people who subscribe and may be interested in my ...1 year ago
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Tucker Carlson’s War on Official Narratives. Fired from Fox News. What’s Next? - Theories abound for why Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News. The bottom line: he's a truth-teller on the issues that count, and was operating in a media...1 year ago
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Genspect 2023: Transgender as Political Backlash - This was my contribution to the Genspect ‘The Bigger Picture’ 2023 conference on Saturday 29... The post Genspect 2023: Transgender as Political Backlash...1 year ago
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Democracy Bottom-Up: Building a Dialogue between Civil Society and Politicians - Warsaw Summit 1-2 June Forum Ruchu Europejskiego, European Movement International, Evolution Institute, and Collegium Civitas Place: Collegium Civitas, Pal...1 year ago
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Using Large Language Models to generate democracy scores: An experiment - In case anyone is still reading this, I have a big data-rich post on my Github site on using ChatGPT aka GPT-3.5-Turbo and Claude (the Anthropic AI bot)...1 year ago
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What Whitaker wants us to know about Mad in America - Read the post here on my Substack newsletter: https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/what-whitaker-wants-us-to-know-about1 year ago
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Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada - The following is my newly-published article, which will be appearing in the April 2023 volume of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. The full article ...1 year ago
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Breaking my Flag - For those who missed the previous announcements, please read the previous posts for the details, but after 18 2/3 years here, I will no longer be posti...1 year ago
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March Update: Mediation Ongoing, Temperature Tipping Point Already Exceeded - Thanks to everyone who has enquired about the outcome of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal hearing with John Abbot versus the Bureau of Meteorology fir...1 year ago
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The Erdmann Housing Tracker - For my latest work, please see my new substack newsletter: The Erdmann Housing Tracker1 year ago
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Episode 2045 Scott Adams: Silicon Valley Bank Prediction, Trump Dominance, & Race Relations Reframed - Content: Bill Maher reframes DeSantis out of 2024 SVB, Silicon Valley Bank situation Mark Cuban on FDIC 250,000 protection limit USA Today compares Maine...1 year ago
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Hanging Up The Keyboard - I wrote this incomplete draft way back in 2019 but never finished or published it in the mêlée of law school. Posting the fragments now for completeness....1 year ago
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Hope Springs Eternal... - In preparation for a return to active blogging I have torn down this server to the root and reinstalled everything clean. I am hoping the errors and probl...1 year ago
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The Debt Ceiling: An Economist's Analysis - Economics Professor Cameron Harwick explains government debt, the debt ceiling, and what it means when we hit it.1 year ago
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Wrapping things up here - I thought I should mention to any long-time readers that I am going to be letting this domain name lapse at the end of the month. I notice that certain p...1 year ago
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Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities - The social dynamics of girls’ and women’s friendship groups, including a desire to fit in and avoid conflict, may make them more susceptible to social cont...1 year ago
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Heather’s Funeral Service - A Service for Heather Hastie will be held at 2:30pm NZ Time on Thursday 9th February. If you would like to view the service please click on the link belo...1 year ago
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AI Will Kill Literature, and AI Will Resurrect It - The literary novel, as far as genres go, is not that old: novels have existed in our culture for about three hundred years. If you had a time machine, you ...1 year ago
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The British Land Corporation : A Housing Manifesto - In recent decades, successive governments have presided over a crash in the level of home ownership in the UK, coinciding with skyrocketing inequality. 30 ...1 year ago
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Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated - My piece in Wired The post Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more co...1 year ago
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Subscribe to my Substack - For most intents and purposes, this blog is dead. Comments are still permitted and errors will be corrected if pointed out. Nevertheless, all new writing w...1 year ago
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Blog Migration! - Birds migrate, butterflies migrate, whales migrate, and this blog is migrating! It's being moved over from Blogger to Substack. The URL is currently http...1 year ago
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How Eric Hobsbawm anticipated Synthetic Marx - I have to admit that I expected some pushback against the thesis of my paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) “The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the ...1 year ago
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Have the Baby Boomers Ruined Society? - Introduction.The author is a young energetic historian who has entertaining and insightful ideas. His exuberance on occasion leads him astray, he can be to...1 year ago
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Electric Agora shutting down, new media venture launching soon - Today we are shutting down all activities for The Electric Agora and will soon be archiving the site. The social media accounts for The Electric Agora were...2 years ago
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Public Policy for Equality and Opportunity: Evidence-based and Ethically Grounded - Inequality erodes opportunity, and limited opportunity exacerbates inequality. This vicious intergenerational cycle has brought inclusive growth into quest...2 years ago
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As Good As A Rest, They Said - Or, The Cause Of All The Banging And Salty Epithets. After close to sixteen years, this blog has a new home. Come see. Bring cake.2 years ago
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Another one bites the dust. - I don’t usually cover the events of the day, because one loses track of the big picture. The events of the day only reveal their meaning when viewed months...2 years ago
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Who blew up the Nordscream Popelines? - Well, one does have his or her sources … But, honestly, anyone with a brain can solve this no-brainer. For once – Russia has absolutely no interest do to s...2 years ago
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The Canadian-Australian Productivity Gap: Comparative Institutions and Policy Settings - I have a new report out with the Fraser Institute, The Canadian-Australian Productivity Gap: Comparative Institutions and Policy Settings.2 years ago
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Character Design, Pt 8: Designing Alternatives (Layer Comps) - Phew, it has been a busy couple of months, but I’ve got a quick chance to dive back into this guy. He’s getting close to finished, the colors and general ...2 years ago
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Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...2 years ago
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สล็อต777คาสิโนออนไลน์ alphabet เข้ามาลองก่อนค่อยว่าไม่ดี - ทำรายการฝากเงินไม่มีขั้นต่ำ เว็บเดิมพันในปัจจุบันนั้นมีมากมายเต็มไปหมด ทุกท่านที่ต้องการร่วมสนุกสามารถเลือกเล่นเลือกลงทุนได้อย่างอิสระเต็มที่ได้เลย แต่...2 years ago
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10 Predictions for the next 5 to 10 years - A friend asked what the big trends in American society over the next five to ten years would be. This is a fun time frame to think about, because you don’t...2 years ago
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Getting Down To Basics with - Bar Mitzvah Food Catering – Tips For Budget-Conscious Caterers For lots of, bar mitzvah food catering is a high-ticket item. […] The post Getting Down To...2 years ago
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Ethical Progress on the Abortion Care Frontiers on the African Continent - The Supreme Court of the United States of America has overridden 50 years of legal precedent and reversed constitutional protections[i] for abortion in t...2 years ago
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Good and bad ways to learn - [image: anonymous kid in helmet riding run bike on pavement in countryside] Learning a new skill is hard. Part of what’s so hard about it is, by definition...2 years ago
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CSPI is Moving To Substack - A couple of months ago, I wrote about why, if you’re a writer, you should be on Substack. At the same time, CSPI was publishing all of its material on ou...2 years ago
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The Problem with Research on Microaggressions - Commentary: Some of the key claims made in microaggression research are backed by weak evidence.2 years ago
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He used to edit political stories at the Chicago Tribune. Now he says the press is failing our democracy. - "You don’t get a lot of complaints if you just write down what everyone says and leave it at that." The post He used to edit political stories at the Chi...2 years ago
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Who Cares About Diversity? - All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires. Everyone has to submit a statement explaining how they a...2 years ago
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Moving to Substack . . . - The times, they are a changin'. Going forward, I will primarily be blogging on Substack: https://stevewinkler.substack.com. Bryan Caplan, who else, convin...2 years ago
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Col. Beckwith’s Rolex 1675 - The IG account @watchesofespionage doesn't suck. This bit about Charlie Beckwith and his Rolex 1675 is an example why.2 years ago
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Appeasing the Dead - *I’m more…than just…a little curious…how you’re planning…to go about…Making your amends…to the dead. To the dead* — A Perfect Circle, *The Noose*. Dea...2 years ago
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My Final Post - For various reasons, I have decided to quit blogging. For one thing, my numbers are down to a level that it doesn’t seem worth it to continue, though let m...2 years ago
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AdSense became unusable - For several months, I have been getting direct censorship requests from Google AdSense. In recent days, the frequency increased to "several articles to be ...2 years ago
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The 1/N portfolio versus the optimal strategy: Does a simple heuristic outperform? - Gerd Gigerenzer is fond of telling a story about Harry Markowitz, modern portfolio design pioneer and winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...2 years ago
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RIP, Amy's Blog: 1997 to 2021 - I have two intense books I'm completing, and I've been increasingly unable to put the effort into blogging that I have done for years...2 years ago
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Filtering For Truth In The Age Of Google - Over the years, I’ve met several individuals of immense capacity for logical deduction, genuinely impressive education, and sky-high IQ (we’re talking well...2 years ago
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The shameful silence on the Waukesha massacre - Is silence still violence? If it is, then a whole lot of people, from the Hollywood set to the virtue-signalling left, are guilty of some serious violenc...2 years ago
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Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...3 years ago
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The blog has moved - It is now on substack (In My Tribe). There is still no charge to read it. I am trying to maintain the feel of this blog, including the daily scheduled post...3 years ago
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Good Chart Checklist - Note: this was prepared for my ECON 3403 students, and is a list of all of the mistakes I commonly see in student charts. Please add your suggestions for t...3 years ago
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Hotel Bar Sessions, Ep 31: Whose History? - The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. to talk about whose history is (and isn't) being taught. Following on the heels of a recent and ...3 years ago
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Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...3 years ago
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Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...3 years ago
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Moved to Substack - This post is long overdue. About a year ago, I copied over all posts from here to Substack, and have been publishing occasional posts there ever since. ...3 years ago
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The Medieval Origins of Halloween Traditions - We’ve been knee-deep in pumpkin spice for weeks, now, which means (1) Starbucks may be part of a secret cabal intent on world domination through tasty me...3 years ago
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The mirror of Narcissus and the labyrinth of the Minotaur - The fugitive thoughts captured below came to me while I was reading about, then visiting, the city of Vienna, Austria, a place much more famous for its com...3 years ago
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Angelo Codevilla on changes in the educational landscape - Angelo Codevilla (circa 2010) whereas within living memory school nurses could not administer an aspirin to a child without the parents’ consent, the peopl...3 years ago
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A Few Thoughts - It occurs to me that not enough people are really looking at the glaring hypocrisy currently unfolding in our post-pandemic world. The most obvious one b...3 years ago
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AmoLatina Revisión - AmoLatina anuncia los medios de acceso impresionante latinas contactos mujeres y comunicación usándolos. La cosa es que estas damas son conocidas como atra...3 years ago
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What does Lisa Birnbach say about preppy cars? - I happen to have a copy of The Official Preppy Handbook, and it seems that preppy cars barely changed at all since the book was written in 1980. That’s 41 ...3 years ago
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18 Theses on Poetry - The principal purpose of poetry is to lay bare the hidden powers of the language in which it is written. These powers are found both at the level of the ph...3 years ago
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Today - [cross-posted at facebook] Today’s a fine day an especially beautiful day the kind of day when you know just how you want to spend it but the place you wan...3 years ago
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Pourquoi le COVID-19 est là pour de bon, et pourquoi vous ne devriez pas vous en inquiéter - [Cet article est une traduction d’un billet de blog que j’ai publié en anglais sur le site de CSPI le 17 août. La traduction a été réalisée conjointement...3 years ago
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Dr. John McAdams - *October 26th, 1945 - April 15th, 2021* Dr. John Charles McAdams passed away on Thursday, April 15th, 2021, at the age of 75. He was a devoted husband, ...3 years ago
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health care - These two graphs really say it all: A few years ago I got a freak knee infection that landed me in the hospital. The experience was so smooth, non-st...3 years ago
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A new legend - Unauthorized is very, very pleased to announce that MADE BY JIMBOB has joined the intellectual outlaws of the Internet. Look for his videos on the Made b...3 years ago
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Point of.No Return has moved! - The new address is www.jewishrefugees.org.uk. See you there!3 years ago
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People Left Cities for Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk? - Zoom towns with high wildfire risk are also seeing the fastest growth in home prices, and therefore the fastest increase in wildfire exposure3 years ago
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A handy guide to getting pinged - The NHS App could be expanded to help us make ‘informed decisions’ in all kinds of everyday scenarios. AI algorithms would replace the flawed notion of ‘wo...3 years ago
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The Sad, Discordant Ballad of Husham al-Hashimi - The man who pulled the trigger on Husham al-Hashimi—by first misfiring an assault rifle and then pulling out his pistol to shoot the victim at point-blank ...3 years ago
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I’ve moved my blog to Substack… - Hello I now blog HERE. If interested in why I did the referendum, read THIS. In 2019, just before going to No10, I wrote about the likely failure of UK cri...3 years ago
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I’ve moved my blog to Substack… - Hello I now blog HERE. If interested in why I did the referendum, read THIS. In 2019, just before going to No10, I wrote about the likely failure of UK cri...3 years ago
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IEA World Congress 2021 - A few words on the International Economics’ Association online World Congress, July 2-6, on the theme “Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in a Fractured...3 years ago
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A Response to a Response to my piece on The Lark Ascending - An Open Letter to Tom W Green, a composer and musician based in Glasgow. Dear Tom, Thank you for alerting me to your blogpost entitled ‘The Farts As...3 years ago
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“Old Chicago” and the Freiburg School - Stefan Kolev and Ekkehard Köhler have published a paper in the Working Paper Series of the Stigler Center at Chicago University on the history of the polit...3 years ago
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Still Distracted, But Not Here - My online writing goes back to Usenet, early bulletin-boards and the pay service GEnie, but my public identity as an online writer really began a few years...3 years ago
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What if Japan's attempt at a decisive June 1942 'Midway' battle, had been at Ceylon instead? - Another amusing 'what if' that came out of the current series of 'what if' articles. Enjoy. *What if Japan had made a serious effort to finish off the US...3 years ago
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Men Out of Focus: Cold War Scientists or Sixties Scientists? (Marko responds to Josh) - Josh’s post got me thinking about my disinclination to more directly acknowledge the connection between the Cold War and Soviet masculinity – esp. given th...3 years ago
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Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...3 years ago
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Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...3 years ago
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Inconvenient Facts is driving Norwegian warming hysterics nuts - Other than by misspelling "fjord," how would an American geologist draw the ire of a pair of Norwegian politicians? Answer: Write a book that counters t...3 years ago
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The advantages of working with a qualified exhibition stand builder - When looking for constructing services providers construction in all exhibitions in Europe, the primary is to get a competent exhibition stand builder pr...3 years ago
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Movie Night – Dry Wind (2020) - Marketing a movie in the midst of a pandemic is a tough job. Doubly so when it’s a piece of esoteric queer cinema. At least one clever person has figured o...3 years ago
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Humiliation: The Greatest Gift Our Adversaries Have For America - The country of slut and body shaming is about to learn the positive influence of shame. The only question will be, will we learn shame’s lessons? America ...3 years ago
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the future - Hey gang, I’m excited to say that Substack approached me recently and made an attractive financial offer for me to blog over there. Given that I’ve been ou...3 years ago
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Finito Sic Semper Tyrannis - We are done here. turcopolier.com is working now. I have cancelled all guest author ships here. RSS is enabled on the new blog. Comments will no longer be ...3 years ago
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‘Feel Our Pain,’ Politicians Demand - Congress is increasingly not a place where the average member partakes in what’s generally understood as legislative activity, but rather engages in a va...3 years ago
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The Tragic Effect of the Left’s One-Dimensional World View on the Multi-Dimensional World - I recommend the documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” by historian Shelby Steele. Two things about it struck me. 1) Steele’s term “Poetic Truth” sounds ...3 years ago
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Introducing Astral Codex Ten - Thanks for bearing with me the past few months. My new blog is at https://astralcodexten.substack.com/. I’ll try to have a less unwieldy domain name workin...3 years ago
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We lost. Now what? - I was preparing this post, anticipating that nothing would happen on January 6, that the certification of Biden would go forward with minor bluster and maj...3 years ago
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Indoors and introspective - 2020’s cultural highlights - The books, stories, records and shows that got me through a strange year These are personal choices from the culture that I consumed in 2020. If you choos...3 years ago
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An amazingly short history of philosophy - 1. In the beginning everyone searching for knowledge was doing philosophy. There was nothing else. 2. Then, gradually, one scientific discipl...3 years ago
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Noahpinion has moved to a new website! - Well folks, it's been a fun 10-year run at this little website. I'm moving on to a new platform: Substack! Here's the new Noahpinion: https://noahpin...3 years ago
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Storytelling: Friday Chart Edition - I have not posted here in awhile, so I thought it would be good to share a few recent charts that tell interesting stories. *Central Bank Balance Sheets* F...4 years ago
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‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage - Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than the govern...4 years ago
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Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies” - Two years ago, when reviewing “The Benedict Option”, I wrote, “Almost all Dreher’s critics accuse him of crying wolf or being a Chicken Little at best … Me...4 years ago
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A Letter to TAI’s Subscribers and Readers - Dear TAI readers,Due primarily to financing difficulties, The American Interest is taking a hiatus from publishing new material.We are glad that there is...4 years ago
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Biotin for hair: what can this vitamin do to hair? - What is this vitamin? How does it act on the wires? Does it make hair grow faster? For more insights jump to: best biotin shampoo We know that our hair l...4 years ago
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Upside-Down Markets: Profits, Inflation and Equity Valuation in Fiscal Policy Regimes - I just published a new long-form piece through OSAM entitled “Upside-Down Markets: Profits, Inflation and Equity Valuation in Fiscal Policy Regimes.” In th...4 years ago
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2020 Update - Civil Politics remains a free resource and we continue to support some partners who we previously worked with but due to time and funding constraints, we a...4 years ago
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Socialism: The Greatest Enemy Of Freedom - Every nincompoop who’s been educated into stupidity will define socialism as state or social ownership of the means of production. Socialism is basically...4 years ago
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Left Critics and the Biden-Harris Ticket - .. . By Darren Barany Unsurprisingly (and sadly), many Americans relate to campaigns for major elections in ways that reflect the society’s pervasive indiv...4 years ago
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Humanity’s second “cradle” in Southeast Asia - Pleistocene Sundaland This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib and Spencer talk about a topic which they hav...4 years ago
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The spin on the spin - There's been something of a triumph of spin on the EU's MFF share-out. Oh I don't mean the headlines, which we summarised last week, but the rationale. Spa...4 years ago
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In Memory of Bob Rossana - Robert “Bob” Rossana died back in February of this year. I was inadvertently left off of the university announcement email and did not hear about it until ...4 years ago
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The social justice steamroller: a pervasive and profound attack on citizenship - Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue, discussed how centre-right parties have not found a language to deal with ...4 years ago
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Migrating the blog - It should be back soon. If you really want it find something right now, it’s all still there, just hiding at a slightly different (temporary) address: http...4 years ago
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Turkey: 28.5% of Generation Z have abandoned Islam - A recent study conducted by Gezici Research Center recorded a massive shift in social and religious attitudes in Turkey among cohorts of Generation Z. In t...4 years ago
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John Cochrane on Stephanie Kelton's New Book: ‘The Deficit Myth’ Review: Years of Magical Thinking - John Cochrane has a review of Stephanie Kelton's new book, "The Deficit Myth". Here it is, for those who don't have access, with a few comments from me, ...4 years ago
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The End - Back in 2011, a group of academic philosophers started a blog called “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” The idea behind that blog was simple, but also somewh...4 years ago
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A good run: Overlawyered, 1999-2020 - I published the first Overlawyered post on July 1, 1999, and I expect this post on May 31, 2020 will be the last. As someone in the entertainment world o...4 years ago
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Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials - The archaeological site of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is one of the most significant early Neolithic villages to have been excavated. It was occu...4 years ago
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Not a Whiff of Scandal . . . Yeah, Right, Joe. Sure thing . . . - OK. I was going to write a long warm up/intro to the main topic of this piece, but my anger level kept rising. In light of that, therefore, let me drop the...4 years ago
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Cold War 2 Propaganda - So it seems that hostility to China is now official American policy. Redgov, i.e. the Military Industrial Complex has been pushing it for quite a while, ...4 years ago
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Recent writing - I haven’t written recently on this blog. I wrote for a year at The American Conservative. All the pieces are available here. I also wrote a piece Covid-19 ...4 years ago
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One flu over the cuckold’s nest - There have been a few articles like this doing the rounds: What It’s Like to Isolate With Your Girlfriend and Her Other Boyfriend Humiliating and degrading...4 years ago
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The real problem is also nominal - The real problem is also nominal March 15, 2020 *Confidence level (?): thinking out loud* If I closed my eyes and completely wiped from my mind the fac...4 years ago
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We need our fear and anger to tackle COVID-19 - The most important thing that the response to COVID-19 has lacked in the West, compared to East Asia, is fear. President Xi and his subordinates are afrai...4 years ago
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Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague - [ by Charles Cameron — scientific [precision meets human error in cases of outbreak — with links to a terrific science thread by Palli Thordarson @PalliTho...4 years ago
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A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.4 years ago
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A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.4 years ago
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Steno Majesty - This beautiful lady, known as the White Rose, was Queen Consort Geraldine of Albania in the 1930s. Don’t look closely into her politics – she and her husba...4 years ago
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Network Behavior and Christian Ethics - In designing software for computer networks, the Robustness Principle states "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept" The firs...4 years ago
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In spite of Brexit… - Now that the British exit from the European Union is a legal reality, the economic situation in the UK has been surprisingly sedate. This will be a surpris...4 years ago
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Wuhan: a tale of immune system failure and social strength - For most Chinese people watching the unfolding of Wuhan’s coronavirus emergency, the situation escalated dramatically on Jan 20, almost 20 days after it wa...4 years ago
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Message heard. - I’ve been deeply moved and humbled by the overwhelming response to my post announcing that I planned on shutting down the blog. I’ve reconsidered and deci...4 years ago
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Is evolutionary psychology impossible? - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } Subrena Smith recently argued that “evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible” (Smith 2019). I ...4 years ago
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I now blog on the Volokh Conspiracy - For the past few months, I have blogged at the Volokh Conspiracy, hosted by Reason. I had hoped to give to give this blog, which I founded in September 200...4 years ago
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The utility of directly regulating Floor Area Ratio - In my last post on the obesity of midrise apartments, I mentioned that one possible solution to what I perceive as a problem is to restrict FAR (Floor-Area...4 years ago
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The Estate of Jerry Pournelle Announces New Website and Facebook Group - To save Chaos Manor and provide ongoing care for Jerry Pournelle’s widow, the Estate of Dr. Jerry Pournelle has launched a new website at http://www.jerryp...4 years ago
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Refuge Seeking in Relative Safety - There is a common misconception among Christians in particular that I’ve been mulling over these past weeks. As usual, my thoughts have been straying to Aa...4 years ago
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The Braais that Bind - A brief meditation on the meanings of South African cuisine for Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. Excerpt: South Africa’s identity is complicated, contest...4 years ago
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The Twelve Days of Christmas: An Analysis - There was a funny piece on the radio about the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," imagining the woman's response to all those gifts. She starts out thril...4 years ago
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My Pronoun is U: My Life as a Non-Binary Iranian - An article about how my Iranian and non-binary identities have interacted in predictable and surprising ways.5 years ago
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Conservative Sense and Sensibility with George F. Will - Can a revolution be conservative? Can populism? And what distinguishes British from American conservatism? *Washington Post* columnist George F. Will joins...5 years ago
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The Cold War Roots of the African Swine Flu Plague - *[This is the script of a segment on African Swine Flu that I did for Newsbud China Watch in July 2018. Things have gotten worse since then, with the vi...5 years ago
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White views on spanking, 1980's-2010's - 1980's (above) 1990's: 2000's: 2010's: Variables: SPANKING, Years (1986-2018), Race(1)5 years ago
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Den ofördelaktiga utvecklingen av dödligt våld i Sverige - Förra veckan frågade SVT statsministern om ökningen av dödligt våld: ”Du har varit statsminister sedan 2014. Sedan dess har det accelererat. Vilket ansva...5 years ago
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Sex, Schisms and Pseudo-Scholarship - We are seeing open warfare between various feminist and other progressive factions on social media and in the universities. A key divide is between so-call...5 years ago
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Giving Credit Where It’s Due - The US economy is probably going into recession. Manufacturing production is down from the late-2018 highs, retail spending growth, wages and payroll gai...5 years ago
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The CTRL ALT Revolt Controversy - The Original Blog Post and some Thoughts on the Crisis of Where We Find Ourselves As the current culture war escalates into a series of asymmetrical engage...5 years ago
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Moved to http://nymensactionnetwork.org - This site is no longer moderated. Newer posts are at nymensactionnetwork.org and these posts have been moved there also. http://nymensactionnetwork.org Ad...5 years ago
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Important: Nintil.com is moving! - IMPORTANT NOTICE: I’ve been making changes to the way the blog looks like, making it load faster, and adding it a much needed feature, browsing by category...5 years ago
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Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash - I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live cha...5 years ago
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A Corrigendum to V1.3.2 and a Comment to V1.3.3 - Preface The publication of the book written by Richard Lynn and me (Lynn & Becker, 2019) and of V1.3.2 of the NIQ-dataset got a lot of attention and feedba...5 years ago
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Last Posting - To everyone that reads this blog, I want to thank you for following Gavin Kennedy 's expert insights into Adam Smith from this site. Unfortunately, Gavin ...5 years ago
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Find me on Facebook and at my other blog, Frauds, Crooks and Criminals - If you have missed news about refugees, I’m still writing about them at Frauds and Crooks and as of last night I am back up and running at Refugee Resettle...5 years ago
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The Cold War and the Ascendance of America’s Research University - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 29 May 2019.) ……… These three young universities, all founded in the second half of 19th century...5 years ago
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Crypto-Current (064) - §5.8612 — Decentralization of the ledger requires massive multiplication, and thus an effective method of compression. Only in this way does it become trac...5 years ago
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Blog moving to Spandrell.com - ***This blog is moving to Spandrell.com ***Please update your bookmarks/RSS readers. Spandrell.com, two ls. First they banned Youtubers, but I didn’t say a...5 years ago
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Running for Science: Science for Running – The Complete Series - The 12-episode series is now a wrap! Thank you to everyone who helped in the process, both as a contributor and as a listener. This post is intended to bri...5 years ago
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Catholic Emancipation as a Constitutional Revolution - Antonia Frazer’s new book *The King and the Catholics* brings to light a neglected topic in British history, the removal of legal restrictions on Catholi...5 years ago
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Some news + MMT and endogenous money - I know I haven’t posted in a long while, but I thought I’d give some news. And no it’s not an April fools’! Work and personal matters have taken much of my...5 years ago
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Offended by the term coloured? Let me show you what real racism looks like. - All the screeching about comments like Amber Rudd referring to a ‘coloured’ woman rather than a ‘person of colour’ or Angela Smith saying ‘funny tinge’ sug...5 years ago
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Why Are Children So Expensive? - I wrote this a few months back, but never got around to posting it. Scott’s post on wage stagnation reminded me to post it, because I discuss some of the s...5 years ago
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Seumas Milne and the Stasi - Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of ...5 years ago
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Linguistics and Theology Scholar Challenges Qur'an Origin Story - This blog post has been moved. Click HERE to read it. * Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is ...5 years ago
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Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...5 years ago
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Reaction and Populism: Towards the Unpozzed Republic - Having been made by elites to dive headlong down the outhouse hole into the muck beneath, the common people have began to notice that it stinks and is very...5 years ago
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Moghul Emperor Jahangir's Interest in Science - *by Salman Hameed* Growing up in Pakistan, I did hear a lot about the Moghul Emperors, but rarely about science. In fact, if science was brought up, it wa...5 years ago
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When big data are bad data - As archaeologists turn increasingly to the analysis of large, systematic databases, we need to confront an epistemological problem: How do we identify bad...5 years ago
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Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube - Apparently the original posting of this (staggeringly brief) talk suffered from imperfect audio (I never listened to it, so I can't say first-hand whethe...5 years ago
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Review - "Some Zombie Contingency Plans," by Kelly Link (2005) - *Introduction: *There is a sort of story which pretends to be about one thing but is actually about something else entirely. This can be done well -- in ...6 years ago
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IDW Halloween Cards - Happy Halloween Folks! (I'll add the rest below the blogpost) I thought I’d have some fun with IDW/Classical Liberal Halloween cards. There's so many more...6 years ago
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New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/6 years ago
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Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle - Gloria Steinem once famously said that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Point taken, but let’s play with it a bit. Let’s ask whether a woma...6 years ago
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For Thomas Hobbes, Politics Was Simply About Doubt and Faith - Four hundred years ago, an English intellectual developed political ideas different to what we may recognize as familiar. 1. Schmitt and Hobbes In his cele...6 years ago
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Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...6 years ago
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New Release: Cato Journal on The Future of Monetary Policy - This issue of the Cato Journal is dedicated to Allan H. Meltzer who passed away on May 8, 2017. Allan spoke at the 1st Annual Monetary Conference in 1983...6 years ago
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A guide to using behavioural insights in local government - I wrote this for Sunderland City Council, following some work using behavioural insights in a range of projects. Although written for an internal audience,...6 years ago
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Caixin’s investigation of CEFC and Chairman Ye Jianming - On March 1, Caixin broke the news that Chairman Ye Jianming of the China CEFC Energy Co. has been detained by PRC authorities, and is under investigation f...6 years ago
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The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...6 years ago
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The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...6 years ago
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Top 100 in Global Economic Weight - According to the IMF China is the largest economy in the world and has been since 2014. This is on a PPP basis (see here for discussion) and all data is re...6 years ago
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The Power of Positive Persistence - Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House will ...6 years ago
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Assorted Thoughts #1: Applying Averages - This series contains some of the key books, studies, papers and events that I’ve read over the last year. I’ve decided to try to write one of these posts f...6 years ago
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The Last Jedi AAR - The Star Wars movies have never been particularly concerned with accuracy when it comes to military tactics and strategy. From the start, the movies are de...6 years ago
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A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM - Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter account) ...6 years ago
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Introducing Left-Versus-Right Book and Article Pairings - While I have spent my life living in a more liberal milieu, through personal experience and independent study I have found many truths on the right side ...6 years ago
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Why AARP has an entire team dedicated to answering Facebook comments - AARP, the 60-year-old special interest group that advocates for older Americans, has never been shy about flexing its policy muscles or leveraging its enor...6 years ago
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New Immigration Blog - Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe a post...7 years ago
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Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence - There used to be more research and debate on the negative effects of labour resistance on economic development, but that topic has been crowded out by the ...7 years ago
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Hurricane Harvey: Thanksgiving in The Wake of Tragedy - “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the ...7 years 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...7 years 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/7 years 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...7 years 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...7 years ago
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This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issu...7 years ago
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The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...7 years ago
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Don’t abuse history in order to score cheap political points - "What I object to—and what my interlocutors maddeningly refuse to engage with—is the effort to use history and Jewish memory, in particular, the crimes of ...7 years ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel. 01:35: Bay Eats Candy Bay tries famous candies for the first time. You can read the results on her blog. 11:...7 years 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...7 years ago
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Hayek, Knowledge, and Carbon Taxes: Markets Without Prices or Prices Without Markets? - As far as I know, Friedrich Hayek never wrote a word about climate change, but two of his most famous works contain arguments that bear directly on this ke...7 years ago
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How the Democrats can Rebuild - Appearing in: Orange County Register Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded the parlous state of the Democratic Part...7 years 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...7 years 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....7 years ago
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Moving house - People connected to me have justifiably asked that I move my blog to a more anonymous platform. Although I’ve made an effort to remove my name from this bl...7 years ago
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Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...7 years ago
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Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...7 years ago
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Anarchism - Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable, inclu...8 years ago
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Florida Election Officials Caught Filling Out Absentee Ballots, Affidavit Alleges #FloridaFraud - Florida voters have complained that they have not been receiving their requested absentee ballots. We may now know the reason why. According to a former Se...8 years ago
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Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done? - This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, near...8 years ago
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501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...8 years ago
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Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons - MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the seasons and ...8 years ago
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THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…8 years ago
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The Redistribution of Humiliation - The recent EU referendum in the UK has drawn a great deal of attention to voters who had previously been ignored. Communities left behind by the 21st Centu...8 years 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...8 years ago
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Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a joint statement a...8 years ago
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EU vote: Scotland will ruin UK’s chance of a Brexit - If you could pick one person from British society and be certain they would vote Remain, who would you choose?8 years ago
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Walter Bagehot - The distinguished-looking gentleman in the portrait is Walter Bagehot (pronounced “badget”). Dubbed “The Greatest Victorian”, Bagehot was a founder of the...8 years 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...8 years 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....8 years ago
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Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...8 years ago
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The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...8 years 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 was...8 years ago
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Fiscal Policy and the ZLB - I have been doing some reading for my undergraduate thesis, which looks at the role of credit-supply shocks in the Spain during its housing boom and bust, ...8 years ago
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By: the unBalanced ecoLOGist | The Unbalanced Ecologist - […] weeks ago, I was invited to write a commentary about an online essay written by Erle Ellis for the Social Evolution Forum (a project of the Evolution I...8 years ago
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Samurai Gifts - The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late sixteenth and ...8 years ago
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Where are the “devaluationists”? - A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section on policy op...8 years 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...8 years ago
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do france and belgium have a berber problem? - i don’t know the answer to that question — i only ask because it turns out that several of the paris terrrorists (from the recent attacks) are of berber ex...8 years ago
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Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia. - Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia....9 years ago
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Salvaging the Tatters of the Obama Doctrine - When president Obama told George Stephanopoulos only hours before the Paris attack that his administration had “contained ISIS” he may have been wrong but ...9 years ago
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Podcast #363: The Future of America, Vulnerability, Cheating, and More - On Sunday’s episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, Greg Perkins and I answered questions on the future of the United States, the value of vulnerability, ch...9 years ago
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We've Moved - The Mischiefs of Faction is now located at mischiefsoffaction.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, here. You can...9 years ago
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What Russian Intelligence Knows About Hillary Clinton - It is my privilege to reveal to you this highly classified National Security Agency intercept which reveals just what Russian intelligence knew about Hilla...9 years ago
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A Koku of Rice - Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the concept of a koku (石) of rice: I find it pretty neat. A koku was a Japanese unit of volume (of rice) in use especially ...9 years 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...9 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...9 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 ...9 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...9 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...9 years ago
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Why Mothers Are So Special - Mothers hold a privileged status within the human experience. I address some of the foundational evolutionary principles that explain the mother-child bond...9 years ago
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Half Of Ferguson's Young African-American Men Are Missing - This is a guest post by Stephen Bronars, a Senior Economist at Welch Consulting, Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago. His opinions are his own. M...9 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...9 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...10 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,...10 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...10 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 ...10 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner10 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...10 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...10 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...11 years ago
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OxcOOd1199 Error - Windows Media Player is a great way to view your favorite movie content. However, with the program comes the risk of the occasional OxcOOd1199 error occuri...11 years ago
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Jide Who Played Jesus to be Ordained - *MEDIA *INFORMATION *NEWS FROM THE EAST HAM TEAM* For Immediate Use 11 June 2013 *Jide who played Jesus to be ordained* The man who played Jesus in the N...11 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...11 years ago
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Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe - But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure gue...12 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...12 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...12 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...12 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.13 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...13 years ago
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The satisfaction of learning a new skill - Today I learned how to do short row shaping in knitting. It's a technique that is easy to do, and hard to explain. I've tried several times in the past. so...13 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 ...14 years ago
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