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- The utopian cruelty of the opposition to homosexuality
- There are no moral arguments against homosexuality (only arguments to evade morality)
- What is it to be human?
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America at War Since 9/11 - The headlines arrive in my inbox day after day: “U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria killed hundreds of civilians, U.N. panel says.” “Pentagon wants to declare mo...36 minutes ago
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Macron’s Mission: Save the European Union From Itself - The French capitalist elite that sponsored Macron’s meteoric rise is acutely aware that the European Union is in serious trouble. They chose Emmanuel Macro...1 hour ago
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Gavin Grimm has the perfect advice on how to deal with bullies - Trans student and advocate Gavin Grimm has some pretty sound advice on dealing with bullies.1 hour ago
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With the M203, the U.S. Finally Got a Decent Grenade-Launcher - In May 1963, the U.S. military asked industry to supply an underslung grenade launcher to complement the new AR-15 assault rifle that was then in early tes...1 hour ago
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Maduro says helicopter dropped grenades on Venezuela’s Supreme Court - President Nicolas Maduro said a police helicopter fired on Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Tuesday in a confusing incident that he called a thwarted “terroris...1 hour ago
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Threatening violence - This comment was left on this blog yesterday: Black Oathkeeper June 27, 2017 6:40 PM First off, I'm an Oathkeeper and a black conservative and if any of y'a...1 hour ago
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NYC Light - A Manhattan sunset from Queens, across the East River: [Photo © Lars Sivars / National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest] More of Lars Siv...1 hour ago
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Is a Small Finance Bank, Small bank or small finance giving bank? - Words are so important. I was reading this panel discussion in Mint South India Banking Conclave: Even though you are a small finance bank, you are subject...1 hour ago
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Food Stamps and Incentives to Work - Earlier in 2017, the state of Georgia ran a social welfare experiment, which resulted in the state decreasing the number of welfare recipients enrolled i...1 hour ago
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The Other Civil Service - In the UK, US, and many other countries, the Civil Service is the sector of government staffed by career bureaucrats rather than political appointees. But ...2 hours ago
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“a greater number of ignorant dumbos than any other republic” - Eric Hobsbawn, writing about leadership in the LRB, in 1991: A rapid glance at the history of the USA also suggests scepticism about the impact of indivi...2 hours ago
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Things we won’t say about race - Until yesterday I had never heard of Trevor Phillips. He is a former chairman of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which means he was i...2 hours ago
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Macro Afternoon - by Chris Becker Are we moving out of the ZIRP or NIRP zone and actual positive interest rates? That’s what has the market spooked after the central banke...2 hours ago
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Ramadan Is Over, Result: 174 Jihad Attacks in Just 30 Days! - Muslims are commanded to obey their religion with especial strictness during the time of Ramadan. Too often, this results in a higher number of terrorist a...3 hours ago
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A Tunisian wartime story with a happy ending - *Abridged from an article in two parts on Harissa (French) Sheikh Roubine was a leader of the Judenrat(Jewish leadership council) during the Nazi occ...3 hours ago
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मुगलसराय को दीनदयाल नगर जंक्शन कर क्या हासिल करना चाहती है योगी सरकार? [Why does the UP govt want to rename the famous Mughal Sarai junction into Deendayal Nagar junction?] - SabrangIndia यूपी में हिंदुत्व के एजेंडे को धार देने के तहत अब एक और फैसले को लागू करने की तैयारी कर ली गई है। रेलवे के बड़े ट्रांजिट प्वाइंट के तौर पर मशह...3 hours ago
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The definitive analysis of RussiaGate, with a conclusion you can trust - Summary: Here is the definitive analysis of RussiaGate, with a clear conclusion you can trust. “To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to kn...3 hours ago
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Can you make twenty-year-old rum in six days? - Via Samir Varma, this Wayne Curtis piece is one of my favorite essays this year, furthermore shades of Knut Wicksell’s wine aging model. What are the pr...3 hours ago
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Is Trumprussia boomeranging? - As Rush has been pointing out lately, eight months of baseless Trump-Russia collusion allegations seem finally to be blowing up in the faces of the Democra...3 hours ago
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INTERESTING BUT PARTLY FLAWED HYPOTHESIS - *RAHUK MATTHAN* posts (28 June) on *LIVE MINT *HERE http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/oqXSrwt7z9jXRM7D5g1DoI/The-future-of-ownership.html *“The future of owne...4 hours ago
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GENERATION GAPS … - She’s my last remaining connection to the “Greatest Generation” and she lays dying in a hospital bed. She can barely hear me and doesn’t really respond whe...4 hours ago
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Do you see an effect here? Some data on correlation of cognitive reflection with political outlooks - It couldn't last. The "asymmetry thesis" is again sucking me into the vortex.... John Jost included one of my papers in his meta-analysis of research on ...4 hours ago
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The importance of understanding causal pathways: the case of affirmative action. - Let us put aside the question of whether affirmative action is a desirable goal. Instead I wish to ponder how to implement affirmative action, given that i...5 hours ago
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Back from DC & Maybe Just a Little Too Happy . . . - Got back last night from the wedding in DC. My number three son and a wonderfully funny, smart and very pretty lady got married at the Holy Trinity Church ...5 hours ago
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Some Thoughts On Not Being Able To Control Anything - We really have no control over anything. And for a certifiable control freak like myself, that's not just unnerving. It's paralyzing.5 hours ago
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A Sad Decision That Might Haunt Us All - Government decisions that snub the non-Orthodox denominations of the Jewish faith are not only a matter of identity and morality. They have a direct bearin...6 hours ago
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June 28 roundup - Unlike some other states, Massachusetts has not passed a law making it unlawful to encourage suicide; confidante nonetheless convicted of involuntary man...6 hours ago
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The Immigration Order and the Regaining Objectivity In the Media and the Courts - Below is my column in the Hill Newspaper on the Supreme Court order lifting the stay over the Trump immigration order. With the exception of those with bo...6 hours ago
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Alma Mater Blotter - by Steve Sailer What’s the worst college in America in terms of taking in kids from rich families and turning out young adults who, despite all their privil...6 hours ago
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Learning Live - -By Donato Next weekend will find me and a host of other artists at the Society of Illustrators in Manhattan for Art Out Loud 10, a live painting demons...6 hours ago
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Report: Dem Firm Behind BS Trump/Russia Dossier Has History Of Smearing Pro-Life Activists - The company behind the largely discredited Trump/Russia Dossier reportedly has a history of involvement with shady smear campaigns. According to Breitbart,...6 hours ago
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Episode 172: Stone and Putin - On this week's episode, host Richard Aldous speaks with Sean Keeley about Oliver Stone's recent controversial HBO interview of Russian President Vladimir P...7 hours ago
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So far, so good - Miss D. and I are spending the night in Maumelle, Arkansas, just outside Little Rock, after a pleasant drive across Oklahoma. Since our vehicles are both...7 hours ago
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The African century - Another couple years, another 80 million people added onto the latest UN estimates of Africa's population at the turn of the century and another 80 million...7 hours ago
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Hyperintelligent Machines: Myth Or Menace? - Here’s a provocative item from Wired: a skeptic’s take on the idea of superhuman AI, by one Kevin Kelly. I haven’t time to comment on it now, other than to...8 hours ago
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At Yale, ’Politics Is Imposed on Everything We Read’ - Because my English professors at Yale are largely liberal, the political message in my classes is always the same: Trump is a demagogue, American society i...8 hours ago
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Lies, damned lies, and… - This horseshit. The establishment media became upset this weekend after President Donald Trump canceled the “White House Muslim Iftar Dinner tradition star...8 hours ago
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Proximity Is Destiny - *Privilege is unearned proximity to power in all its manifestations.* *My friend G.F.B. recently coined an insightful maxim: Proximity Is Destiny.* The powe...8 hours ago
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Been There, Done That - In a previous post, Thingness and Thereness, I introduced my goat-crow-rat triangle and the in-progress thinking associated with it. Here is my my next ite...8 hours ago
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Surely Your’re Crying, Mr Feynman - June 28th 2017 print Back in 1974, the US physicist and polymath warned graduating students of ‘cargo cult science’ and the careerist urge to confirm the...9 hours ago
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The Witch Hunters - One of the themes here is that the American Left is a different thing from the European Left in that it was not born out of the French Revolution. It was b...9 hours ago
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"Mrs. Palin brings this action to hold The Times accountable for defaming her by publishing a statement about her that it knew to be false..." - "... that Mrs. Palin was responsible for inciting a mass shooting at a political event in January 2011." “Specifically, on June 14, 2017, The Times Editori...9 hours ago
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Bernie Sanders: Capitalist Pig - When Bernie Sanders first came to Vermont, he bought a shack with a dirt floor with unemployment money. Last year, Bernie joined the company of Vermont’s 1...9 hours ago
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As the "Ship" is "Spaceship" Should Make Clear; Space Has a Navy - As the USAF was picking its collective navel over a, "Space Corps" last week, a fair bit of grumbling could be heard from the Navy/SciFi fandom world. Th...9 hours ago
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One year ago today Bill Clinton Secretly Met Loretta Lynch – and everything changed - Set in motion events that may have cost Hillary the election and Comey his job, now Lynch is under investigation9 hours ago
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Community standards - Trish Bendix at Slate also writes about Facebook’s tendency to recoil at the word “dyke,” though as an aside in a longer piece on dyke marches under thre...9 hours ago
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Supreme Court Canny; FBI internal disorientation; Can Republicans Rule? Healthcare Obligations and Entitlements - Tuesday, June 27, 2017 If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. Barrack Obamas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpa-5JdCnmo h...10 hours ago
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“…an authentic immigrant invasion” is underway, as record breaking number of migrants make it to Italy in two days - It looks like the Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi (Hillary gets the credit for killing him and destabilizing Libya) may be right in the end. And, he wasn’...10 hours ago
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Samizdata quote of the day - Socialism is tribal economics. – Guy Herbert (These four words suddenly clarified something I’ve been trying to explain for years with mixed success.)10 hours ago
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Vox Sentences: Who’s afraid of Margrethe Vestager? - *Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what's happening in the world, curated by Ella Nilsen. Sign up for the **Vox Sentences newsletter**, delivered s...10 hours ago
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Apologies: Your Best Guide on the Internet - Self-help book and works of popular psychology often instruct us in the art of apologising. Their advice is reflected, in turn, in much online discussion. ...10 hours ago
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My Denver Comic Con Schedule - Hey! I’m going to Denver Comic Con this weekend! I’ll be on panels and signing books! Here is my schedule! Panels: Laughter in the Face of Disaster (Friday...11 hours ago
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Blue State Governance: Illinois Needs A Half Year of Taxes Just to Pay Late Bills - Per the WSJ: This is what happens when a major American state lets its bills stack up for two years. Hospitals, doctors and dentists don’t get paid for hun...12 hours ago
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Watch: Animation of satellite images shows smoke from the Brian Head fire drifting across much of Utah and beyond - With hot, dry and windy conditions continuing, the dangerous Brian Head fire is expected to grow significantly Super dry conditions and winds gusting to mo...12 hours ago
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Estimating Public Market Exposure of Private Capital Funds Using Bayesian Inference - I don’t know anything about this work by Luis O’Shea and Vishv Jeet—that is, I know nothing of public market exposure or private capital firms, and I don...13 hours ago
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Post-modern recessions - Classical recessions were often caused by shocks that reduced the natural rate of interest. As market interest rates fell (there was no Fed), the demand f...13 hours ago
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The Scope of the Supreme Court’s Decision in IRAP v. Trump - On Saturday, I sketched out six possible outcomes of the Supreme Court’s review of the travel ban cases. The Justices chose door number seven. In an unsig...14 hours ago
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The Scope of the Supreme Court’s Decision in IRAP v. Trump - On Saturday, I sketched out six possible outcomes of the Supreme Court’s review of the travel ban cases. The Justices chose door number seven. In an unsi...14 hours ago
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For the Fed, misses on the downside are always “temporary” or “transient” - A good example from today´s speech by Philly Fed president Patrick Harker: Growth for 2017 so far is more or less what we expected. The first quarter was...14 hours ago
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Eagle gets a filet o’ fish - The CBC shows a cool video and a backstory: A family out fishing last week caught more than salmon. Ashton Phillips was on a fishing trip last Friday with ...14 hours ago
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Disrupt the Citizen - The proliferating but ever meaningless distinctions between the “bad” Uber and the “good” Lyft have obscured how destructive the rise of ride-sharing has ...15 hours ago
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The Only Way to Fix Healthcare Insurance in the U.S. - Our system of government has been amazingly robust for hundreds of years, but it fails when you have these two conditions: 1. An issue is too complicated...15 hours ago
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It’s the next open thread - Here is your latest opportunity to converse about topics that have not arisen in the course of other combox discussions at this here blog. From neo-Kanti...15 hours ago
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Nutrition for mental health: The importance of protein - AVFM welcomes new contributor Aaron Mello, a nutrition expert and men's advocate. Sounds like steak to us! Welcome, Aaron!15 hours ago
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Yudkowsky on My Simplistic Theory of Left and Right, by Bryan Caplan - Noted rationalist Eliezer Yudkowsky has written a response to my Simplistic Theory of Left and Right. With his kind permission, Eliezer speaks: -----------...16 hours ago
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CNN chaos - Something big happened at CNN, but it’s not really clear what it was. Here’s what’s been revealed so far: Three CNN journalists, including the executive ed...16 hours ago
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It's Not Possible To Have A Rational Debate About Healthcare In The Political Arena - The genius of the private property/free exchange system (aka "capitalism") is that nobody other than the people who make things or provide services needs...16 hours ago
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What lies ahead: preparing Pagans for long-term care - TWH –Pagan and polytheist religions, or at least the modern versions of them, have only been publicly practicing for a few decades at best. Therefore, a re...16 hours ago
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Europe: I accuse - This is my letter to you who I should consider a friend, an ally, but who refuses to make a stand with me. You: the progressive, the anti-racist, the sup...16 hours ago
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Same-sex marriage after Obergefell (SCOTUS symposium) - Yesterday the Supreme Court took action in two different cases about same-sex marriage. In one, Pavan v. Smith, the court summarily reversed an Arkansas Su...17 hours ago
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HARPER: GOP BILL CUTS GROWTH OF MEDICAID, NOT MEDICAID - In all of the recent partisan bickering over the Senate and House health care bills, the Democrats have charged that the Republicans are cutting Medicaid s...17 hours ago
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Job = Life Experience - When I was 16, I got my very first part-time job. I was going to school, involved in choir and theater (yes, I’m a nerd – don’t judge), and I was working a...17 hours ago
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BUSTED: CNN Producer Caught on Tape Saying Trump Russia Narrative is Fabricated - Project Veritas strikes again. This time with an undercover video of CNN admitting that the whole Russia narrative is “mostly bullsh*t right now”. From...18 hours ago
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Higher Local Minimum Wages: Updating Results from Seattle - The city of Seattle raised its minimum wage to $11/hour for many employers April 1, 2015, and then to $13/hour minimum wage in January 2016, with ongoing r...18 hours ago
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An homage to the cheque (or check) - The check used to buy Alaska (source) I recently read an FP article about the odd persistence of the cheque as a way to make payments. According to the aut...18 hours ago
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Embracing ‘Compassionate Conservatism’ Will Not Make The Rootless Tories More Popular - – Compassionate conservatism barely won David Cameron a majority government in 2015, even against the hapless Ed Miliband. Rebooting the flawed concept, es...18 hours ago
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“ISIS aren’t in England” - By Amina Lone My heart goes out to the families of the people killed by evil madmen. I am angry, despairing and hopeful. My English resolve keep calm and...18 hours ago
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Minimum Wage Increases Are Bad News for Low-Skilled Workers in General, not Just for those Who Lose their Jobs - When I debate my leftist friends on the minimum wage, it’s often a strange experience. When other people are listening or watching, they’ll adopt a very ex...18 hours ago
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Mosul Campaign Day 253 Jun 26 2017 - Comparison of June 24 vs June 26 shows latest advances by Iraqi forces in Old City (Ninewa Media Center) Mosul was still recovering from the surprise att...18 hours ago
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Teleological political theory - Timothy Taylor writes, It can be hard for group with weak hierarchies to make decisions. Group members need to find a balance between making their own cont...18 hours ago
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Stuff and Things - I keep thinking about blog posts and what to write in this space. It’s hard sometimes because there’s the “author” face and well, there’s real life. Real l...18 hours ago
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“The Crisis of Postmodernism” — Lecture in Buenos Aires - For more information, please see the poster: Thanks to Maria Marty for her poster design.19 hours ago
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How a Journalist Saved me from the GNB - On this Día del Periodista, I salute all the journalists who keep us safe, just by showing up. It's easy to lose sight of your power, but know that you cha...19 hours ago
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genetic behaviorism supports the influence of chance on life outcomes - I’ve been trying, in this space, to rehabilitate the modern science of genetic influence on individual variation in academic outcomes to progressives. Ma...19 hours ago
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Making Ladders - Six years ago now I told my husband I was quitting writing. It wasn’t the first time I told him that, but that time he took me seriously. He knew it had b...19 hours ago
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Jafferis' and other talks at Strings 2017 - Strings 2017 is talking place in Tel Aviv, Israel this week. The talks may be watched at The Strings 2017 YouTube channel I hope that the TRF readers wil...19 hours ago
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Mind Chunks (Daily Nous Philosophy Comics) - Mind Chunks by Pete Mandik Other Daily Nous Comics / More Info About DN Comics / Pete Mandik on Twitter The post Mind Chunks (Daily Nous Philosophy Com...19 hours ago
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Trump, Mattis, and the Future of Afghanistan - By Evan Perkoski for Denver Dialogues, featuring Deborah Avant, Nader Hashemi, and Kirstin Brathwaite. Last week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis met wit...20 hours ago
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Nancy MacLean Is Either Grossly Incompetent or a Liar - Here, Russ Roberts finds MacLean purposefully removed lines from Cowen in order to stick him with saying the opposite of what he in fact said. Here, Chri...20 hours ago
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Dodgy Traffic Police - Today’s re-posted blog entry is from November 2011 and concerns corrupt traffic police in Nigeria and Russia. Today I got pulled over by a dodgy traffic po...20 hours ago
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Gratuitous Gun Pr0n #164... - Got to play with the carbine at the range yesterday. I don't do that nearly often enough. Fortunately, it's a far less perishable skill than pistol shooti...21 hours ago
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Muslim Prayers at Hagia Sophia - A Sign Calling Us to Repent - *Islamic prayers were recently held at the Hagia Sophia in former Constantinople in a televised event attended by Turkish officials and strongly condemned ...21 hours ago
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Sometimes Prostrating Yourself And Confessing Your Thoughtcrime Just Isn't Enough: David Edelstein / Wonder Woman Edition - Big Sister is watching you...and she is not amused with your antics.21 hours ago
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A Thousand Posts (8) - 2016 I have often argued for the evolution of a Darwinian liberalism that was first expressed by John Locke and Adam Smith, although there are precursors i...22 hours ago
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150 Years of Federal Consumption Taxation - In the run up to Canada Day and the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, here is another in a line of recent snapshots of the federal government – ...22 hours ago
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The Pashtun culture may be the world’s most dysfunctional - Steve Sailer takes the release of Brad Pitt’s new movie, War Machine, on Netflix as a jumping-off point for discussing Afghanistan, then and now: Just as S...22 hours ago
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Six Degrees of Jim Buchanan - It is a dicey business for scholars housed at academic institutions to embark on projects to influence public opinion and practical politics. That is on...22 hours ago
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The unrecognised simplicities of effective action #3: lessons on ‘capturing the heavens’ from the ARPA/PARC project that created the internet & PC - Below is a short summary of some basic principles of the ARPA/PARC project that created the internet and the personal computer. I wrote it originally as pa...23 hours ago
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Whitewashed – and ‘pinkwashing’ hogwash - Last night JW3 hosted a screening of Whitewashed, a film about antisemitism in the Labour Party; this was followed by a fascinating discussion between Davi...23 hours ago
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This took longer than I thought it would... - But version 2.0 of Trump's travel ban passed Supreme Court muster 9-0. As I said, version 1.0 was *designed* to take all the heat and get struck down, whil...23 hours ago
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Manny takes history lessons - Manny Macron tried to prepare properly for his meeting with Ukrainian president Poroshenko. I suppose he must have taken seriously Brigitte’s threat to sen...23 hours ago
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Double Star - I was not surprised by the recent Congressional baseball shooting. The threat is ongoing. This means that we may need enhanced security for political figur...1 day ago
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Forked Tongue - I’m actually, personally, very speech permissive. I would say I’m very pro-speech, almost absolutist on speech… um, but… In the clip linked above, assistan...1 day ago
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‘Don’t forget I’m up here TODAY for your tomorrow’ - Sometimes someone sends you something priceless. This is a letter written in the Area of Operations in 1982, during the SWA/Angola Border War. It is writte...1 day ago
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A Fortress Built of Salt - The mountains and hills of Spain are covered in many little towns. They are more than picturesque; so charming that they’re almost saccharine. In some of t...1 day ago
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In SA recycling business goes broke due to electricity cost — thank renewables for making recycling impossible - A business processing 15% of Australia’s low grade plastics survived for 37 years with coal fired power in SA, and for one year without: South Australia’...1 day ago
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Housing: Part 236 - JW Mason throws a truth bomb. - J.W. Mason at John Jay College, City University of New York, who blogs at the Slack Wire posted an outstanding paper in progress (paper is 2nd link in the ...1 day ago
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Conversation Deliberately Skirts The Border Of Incomprehensibility - From lierdumoa.tumblr.com: To my friends on the [autism] spectrum, let me explain to you an unspoken social rule that possibly nobody has ever explained to...1 day ago
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Going to See My Aunt in Topeka - Back in those days when America’s immigration policy was first being written by robed Polynesians, I remarked in these pages on the prospects of Trump taki...1 day ago
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Matters of geography - The steppe north of the Black Sea in Ukraine has basically always been considered part of Europe, and just over 100 years ago some guy with a map decided t...1 day ago
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More non-voting shares - Tim Kroencke at the University of Basel wrote a nice follow up on non-voting shares (previous posts here and here) , which I share with permission. Some of...1 day ago
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Home again - After a simple but decent breakfast at my Holiday Inn Express in Dijon, I set off in relatively cool air. I decided to try to do the whole journey with the...1 day ago
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On the effects of inequality on economic growth - Two month ago there was an interesting debate on the effects of inequality on economic growth in the otherwise boring Spanish blogosphere. Here is my contr...1 day ago
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Forget The Maine - I often write about situations where we say something is about X, but it is actually more than we admit about Y. In some cases, this is mostly unconscious,...1 day ago
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Face Recognition applied at scale in China - The Chinese government is not the only entity that has access to millions of faces + identifying information. So do Google, Facebook, Instagram, and anyone...1 day ago
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The Ideas Industry, Daniel Drezner [Review] - My teaching reviews often compare my lecture style to TED Talks. Students, I think, mean this as a compliment, but academics will understand why my ambival...1 day ago
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Supreme Court and travel ban - This has confused a lot of the MSM. My take on this is that it’s a loss for Trump. 6 of 9 justices agreed that the lower courts were correct to issue an in...1 day ago
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Random thoughts on hotels - First of all, forgive me if I’m blathering on, I’ve been hanging out with an 8-year-old for a week so I’m kind of starved for adult conversation. And even ...1 day ago
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“There’s a Set of People Who Do Understand What’s Going on in Washington, But That Story Isn’t Told Broadly” - How much does investigative journalism cost? What are its benefits? Why is it so hard to monetize? Can markets keep on providing this service? In an interv...1 day ago
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LibertyCon Schedule – June 30th, Chattanooga TN! - I’ll be going to libertycon this weekend, and I’ll be in Nashville a couple of days before that to go see the Charlie Daniels Band and watch the Nashville ...1 day ago
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What’s So Special About Special Ops? - W.J. Astore What’s so special about Special Ops? It used to be that special operations troops were few in number. You had Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs, ...1 day ago
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HxA’s Guide to Colleges in The Wall Street Journal - We are beginning to see a few universities taking concrete steps to show that they value viewpoint diversity and the free and open exchange of ideas. An ar...1 day ago
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Icelandic Thoughts - Here's where I'm sitting this minute: next to a creek on a steep flowery hill, overlooking the town of Neskaupstathur, Iceland, and its fjord, with snowy p...1 day ago
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Evolution Is As Real As Gravity - Evolution by natural selection is much more than just a hypothesis, and is as much a valid and well-accepted scientific theory as the theory of gravitation.1 day ago
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The Ongoing Torture of Leopoldo Lopez - “They are torturing me! Denuncia!!” the cry carries; piercing from the menacing prison perched nefariously on the hilltop above to float across the expanse...2 days ago
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As the Liberals fund Islamic AFL & talk gay marriage, Bernardi swoops again - Christopher Pyne is celebrating the rise of the wets even as the Liberal Party implodes around him... The post As the Liberals fund Islamic AFL & talk ga...2 days ago
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Diversity makes us interpret smiles differently - At least, according to a 2015 paper (open access) by Magdalena Rychlowska (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and others. But it isn't *current* diversity th...2 days ago
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A counterpoint in buildings, statues, ideas - [ by Charles Cameron — Dylann Roof’s trial, the New Yorker, and the scorable music of opposing voices ] . On the way to taking us Inside the Trial of Dylan...2 days ago
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The 2017 History of Economics Society Conference in Toronto - I arrived in Toronto last Thursday for the History of Economics Society Meeting at the University of Toronto (Trinity College to be exact) to give talks on...2 days ago
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The Invisible Trump Voters - According to Google, only Steve Sailer and Alexander Navaryan have pointed out that Bret Stephens’ call for mass deportation of Americans was actually a...2 days ago
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Documentary on Halal Certification in Australia - In 2015 the Australian Parliament conducted an Inquiry into food certification practices in Australia. Public pressure which led to this inquiry was the r...2 days ago
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Review: The Dark Wind - [image: The Dark Wind] The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Everything that fans of Hillerman would want: Beautiful descriptions of the ...2 days ago
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Upcoming Open Enrollment Pistol Course - We are still looking for folks interested in hosting some classes in the Midwest and East this autumn and winter. We’ve had a couple of folks interested th...2 days ago
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Chimera - This is an electrum stater from the ancient city of Kyzikos, Mysia, circa 550-500 BC. It has a chimera above a tuna fish which was the civic badge of Kyzik...2 days ago
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How Bad Intellectual Property Laws Hurt Classic Video Game Consumers - In terms of balancing costs and benefits the current copyright system is, to be frank, absurd. A look at how excessive copyright is harming back video game...2 days ago
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Traveling With The Curmudgeon: The Owls Are Not What They Seem - I’ve been (mostly) off grid for a while. The blog is continuing on autopilot (didja’ miss me?) and occasional shitty wifi connections. The shitty wifi is a...2 days ago
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PLUCKED FROM THE WEB #20 - A bumper-edition of my regular collection of recent essays and stories from around the web worth plucking out to be re-read. . Getting in and out Zadie Smi...3 days ago
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Why Are Progressives Fawning Over Proto-Classical Liberal Ibn Khaldun? - This article about the 14th century Arab/Muslim scholar and proto-economist Ibn Khaldun has attracted great deal of attention from the leftist progressive ...3 days ago
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Will the investigation of Trump backfire politically? - While I have argued that the investigation might succeed in a legal sense, it could backfire in a larger political sense. Imagine the following scenario. M...3 days ago
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Iranians Use Twitter to Voice Support for Rouhani after Tensions - As the elected and unelected sectors of the Iranian regime are locked in an unprecedented open tension, Iranians use social media to voice their support fo...3 days ago
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Humanity and Pliny the Younger - One of the many disappointing features of contemporary classical scholarship is its guarded detachment from the modes of engagement that lead people to lov...3 days ago
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Consensus enforcers versus the Trump administration - by Judith Curry Tough days on The Hill for the enforcers of the climate consensus. While EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has been taking most of the ‘heat’ ...3 days ago
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NCGA Does the Right Thing. Sort of. - A Senate bill (SB656), already passed by the NC Senate, is now out of committee in the NC House, and scheduled for a vote on Tuesday, June 26. The "commit...3 days ago
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Skepticism About White Privilege - Privilege, and race-based privilege in particular, occupies a key niche in the rich ecosystem of error that is campus leftism. White privilege is a centr...3 days ago
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Alt-psychopathic status maximizers - Coming soon…. pic.twitter.com/2Kp3d7dUGQ — Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) June 21, 2017 A while ago I called myself alt-right because hey, the God-Emperor got...4 days ago
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US Strategy and Israel’s Stake in Eastern Syria - Jerusalem Post, 24/6 The downing on June 18th of a Syrian Air Force SU-22 by a UA Navy F-18 Super Hornet over the skies of northern Syria sharply raises t...4 days ago
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Unhealthy - I have not read the Senate “health care” bill, but from the various summaries around the web, I am confident that Barack Obama is exactly correct in his pr...4 days ago
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Banking Unbound: A Day in Charlotte - As policymakers begin to rethink the current financial regulatory regime, it is important to reconsider the relation between banking regulation, financia...4 days ago
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Banking Unbound: A Day in Charlotte - As policymakers begin to rethink the current financial regulatory regime, it is important to reconsider the relation between banking regulation, financia...4 days ago
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Poor children are twice as likely to grow up to be poor adults in some Canadian communities than in others - Intergenerational cycles of poverty vary across Canada, with low income children in some places facing a less than one-in-five chance of growing up to be p...4 days ago
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Gross Nets and Illegal Immigrants - Some More Thoughts I am unable to let an issue rest. Noah has a response to my critique of his claim that “illegal immigration has been zero/negative”. I ...4 days ago
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IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Three relatively recent additions to development Twitter worth noticing if you haven’t alr...4 days ago
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Behavioral Scientist is live - The folks at ideas42, the Center for Decision Research, and the Behavioral Science and Policy Association have kicked off a new online magazine, The Behavi...4 days ago
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Roger Scruton chats with James Delingpole of Breitbart - When the venerable Sir Roger Scruton speaks, I listen. One of my favorite spokesman for conservatism and always a gentleman, he shares his insight on the r...4 days ago
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Why China Hasn’t Stopped North Korea and Probably Won’t - Senators John McCain and Al Franken are right. North Korea murdered Otto Warmbier, the 22-year old University of Virginia student sentenced to 15 years o...5 days ago
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Election preview: Albania - Albania continues to move towards political stability, with its prime minister seeking a mandate to negotiate entry to the European Union. The post Elect...5 days ago
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“The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy,” M. Dell & B. Olken (2017) - A good rule of thumb is that you will want to read any working paper Melissa Dell puts out. Her main interest is the long-run path-dependent effect of hist...5 days ago
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Fed's Labor Market Forecasts Don't Make Sense - The Federal Reserve’s unemployment forecast doesn’t add up. It is neither consistent with the median of policy makers’ growth forecasts nor consistent with...5 days ago
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No, US school funding is actually somewhat progressive. - Note: I have already touched on these issues in a much longer, much broader post on education and on twitter at some length, however I thought it’d be usef...5 days ago
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Everything is genetic, isn't it? - There is hardly a trait, physical or behavioral, for which there is not at least some familial resemblance, especially among close relatives. And I'm talk...5 days ago
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GIGO and the Intelligence of Countries: Disordered Thoughts - Apologies to the reader. Perhaps I wax tedious. But the question of intelligence is both interesting to me and great fun as talking about it puts commenter...5 days ago
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GIGO and the Intelligence of Countries: Disordered Thoughts - Apologies to the reader. Perhaps I wax tedious. But the question of intelligence is both interesting to me and great fun as talking about it puts commenter...5 days ago
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What’s the Problem with Feminism? - In 1919, thousands of women stood outside the White House and demanded that they be allowed to vote. In the next presidential election, they would. And ...5 days ago
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Red mist - the legacy of the October revolution - Three new books reveal how we remain conflicted over the Bolshevik revolution, 100 years on Anniversaries give rise to wistful reminiscences that tap into...5 days ago
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The war for democracy and peace: a review of Adam Tooze’s “The deluge: The Great War, America and the remaking of the world order” - There are at least three ways to look at the period around the *end* and just after the World War I, from 1916 to the early 1920s, which provides both ch...5 days ago
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Nemesis - The name Enoch Powell is unlikely to strike a chord with most of those who are under sixty years old. Yet at the time I took my PhD in London (1969-71) h...6 days ago
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Bulford Kiwi Given Protection Status - If you’re a New Zealander, or someone who knows about kiwi, you’re probably wondering what a “Bulford Kiwi” is. Well, it’s not a new species of kiwi. In ...6 days ago
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Noah Smackdown, illegal immigration edition - In February, I wrote a Bloomberg View post called "The Myth of the Immigration Crisis" that got a fair bit of attention. In it, I wrote: Illegal immigrat...6 days ago
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Alex Halderman testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee - This morning, my childhood best friend Alex Halderman testified before the US Senate about the proven ease of hacking electronic voting machines without le...6 days ago
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Free Speech Triumphant Or Free Speech In Retreat? - The First Amendment had a pretty good week. In Matal v. Tam the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that a federal law prohibiting "disparaging" t...6 days ago
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Explaining Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry - I've long been an advocate of an approach to explaining the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe in which antimatter predominantly in a partner univ...6 days ago
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This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issue...6 days ago
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It’s Basically Stormtroopers in Afghanistan - It’s Basically Stormtroopers in Afghanistan. We just dropped a new Military SciFi novel and this what one reviewer posted: Top Customer Reviews 5.0 out of ...6 days ago
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Why a public radio veteran launched a show on Audible Channels - There are two basic premises to The Genius Dialogues, a new podcast hosted by Bob Garfield. The first premise: What if we treated recipients of the MacArth...6 days ago
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How long was China Communist? - In the grand scheme of things, not that long at all. I’ve been reading a lot about the Soviet Union lately, and there are indeed these two large, multiethn...6 days ago
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How to Understand Twenty Years of Economic Performance - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 21 June 2017.) How has Hong Kong’s economy performed in the twenty years since the establishment...1 week ago
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On China Miéville’s October: An Arendtian History of the Russian Revolution - I just finished October, China Miéville’s turbo-charged account of the Russian Revolution. Think Ten Days That Shook the World, but in months: from Februar...1 week ago
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On Pronouns, and Blowing Your Nose - Back in the Middle Ages--according to J.S. Mill--it was possible to be an individual. Not. Any. More. As Mill argued in his *On Liberty *(1859): In sober ...1 week ago
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The Best Parts of Life are Social Constructs - One of the more tiresome arguments endlessly rehashed on the Internet is over the status of race and sex/gender as social constructs. Clearly, both have so...1 week ago
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Liberals and Immigration - Peter Beinart has an excellent essay in The Atlantic entitled How the Democrats Lost Their Way On Immigration. The article perfectly encapsulates the conun...1 week ago
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Targeted Killing and Black Boxes - Written By Mitt Regan and Michael Robillard Various aspects of the US targeted killing program have attracted considerable attention and some c...1 week ago
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Shanghai and Batumi - Two cities I have enjoyed visiting and hope to visit again. They are quite a long distance apart and in many ways very different, but they have one thing i...1 week ago
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Fear of Hygge and Working-Class Social Capital - One of the contenders for the Oxford Dictionaries’ “word of the year” in 2016 is the Danish word hygge (pronounced hoo-guh). As defined by Oxford, it deno...1 week ago
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Burned Out and Taking a Break from Blogging - I’m burned out and will take a break from blogging. Don’t expect to hear much from me before September. Basically, I’m up against total irrationality, and ...1 week ago
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The betrayal of Brexit - *The Australian*, *17 June 2017* Britain is in the grip of a counter-revolution. We may look to outsiders like a largely peaceful, politically normal nat...1 week ago
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A History of Autogynephilia - Autogynephilia as an idea suffers from far more talk than understanding. A fair barometer of whether an individual understands even the first thing about a...1 week ago
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Don’t trust anyone over 47 - Theresa May, according to disgruntled former Chancellor and now editor of the Evening Standard George Osborne – is a ‘dead woman walking’. It is possible, ...1 week ago
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Four Corners/Fairfax Levels Up to US-Class National Security Steno Work on China - There's a big to-do about an investigative thing by Australia's Four Corners/Fairfax Media concerning Chinese influence in Australia. ASIO investigation...1 week ago
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A reason to use the NRSV/ESV/NABRE over the ASV/NASB/others - The NRSV/ESV/NABRE incorporate a lot more DSS/Septuagint readings into their main OT text than the other versions. Take, for example, … Continue reading →1 week ago
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Crossing the Equator 7: What Is Bad Writing? - Bad writing. I bring the topic up not to mock bad writing, because it’s rarely worth the time, and also because most of the sins of bad writing have also b...1 week ago
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Nifong Ethics Trial - This week was the tenth anniversary of the ethics hearing that culminated in Mike Nifong’s disbarment for ethical misconduct in the Duke lacrosse case. On ...1 week ago
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Monetary Disequilibrium - This week on the podcast I had a great time talking the monetary disequilibrium view of business cycles with Steve Horwitz. This perspective sees the de...1 week ago
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Fascism and Full Employment: How to Create Both Prosperity and Peace - Fascism and Full Employment: How to Create Both Prosperity and Peace Michal Kalecki explains it all for you Jobs, Politics, Prosperity: Michal Kalecki Ex...1 week ago
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Iraq: How I got the Ammo to shoot at the al Qaeda Guy - [image: image001] 15 June 2017 Yesterday, a busy Facebook page published some of my work. This sparked lively conversation. Some Soldiers cued me in. T...1 week ago
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Iraq: How I got the Ammo to shoot at the al Qaeda Guy - [image: image001] 15 June 2017 Yesterday, a busy Facebook page published some of my work. This sparked lively conversation. Some Soldiers cued me in. T...1 week ago
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How Much Are People Making from the Sharing Economy? - We analyzed how much money people make from their side-gigs on Uber, Airbnb, Lyft and more.1 week ago
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Democrats, Paranoia, And Political Violence - The contemporary trend of making authoritative extrapolations based on the Facebook “likes” of an alleged assailant often leads amateur sleuths on pointl...1 week ago
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The Importance of Fairness: A New Economic Vision for the Democratic Party - By James Kwak A lot has been written recently about the direction of the Democratic Party. This is what I think. I have been a Democrat my entire life. Tod...1 week 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 ...1 week ago
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Genomes of straight-tusked elephants - Earlier this month in *eLife*, Matthias Meyer and colleagues published a cool paper: “Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the c...1 week ago
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Idea: The Automation of Terrorism - I figured out what I'm going to talk about at the Prime Minister's conference in Singapore next month: the automation of terrorism. Here's the outline of w...1 week ago
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The Bank of Japan Creates a State-Led Monopolistic Banking System - by Taiki Murai and Gunther Schnabl[*] In the second half of the 1980s, 13 Japanese city banks climbed into the group of the world’s largest banks, boosted ...2 weeks ago
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Facing Death for Blasphemy - Technology may progress, but there is no right side of history, no rule than man is going to progress: New York Times: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An antiterror...2 weeks ago
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HELP is not a profit-sharing scheme - In today’s Oz, John Bryon argues against lowering the HELP repayment threshold by arguing that HELP is a profit-sharing scheme: HECS (by whatever name) is ...2 weeks ago
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‘Committing Sociology’ After Trump’s Election? An Open Letter to the Canadian Sociological Association - Sirs, Madams: “‘Committing Sociology’ After Trump’s Election” was the provocative title of a session of the Canadian Sociological Association 52nd Annual C...2 weeks ago
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Roman Catholic Church cuckolded. - I had thought the Philippines was the last place on earth where the Roman Catholic Church was not thoroughly cucked. Now it is cucked there also. Muslims i...2 weeks ago
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More on the Search for Intelligent Life - It is hard to read about SETI and more recent related projects looking for intelligent life in the stars without discerning in them certain silent presuppo...2 weeks ago
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Changes - If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you may have noticed a lack of updates recently. That’s for two reasons: I’ve been overall busier lately and I haven...2 weeks ago
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Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority - Direct Feed Soundcloud Upload Lecture 3 from my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories Lecture Series. Although I thought I might get to Gene...2 weeks ago
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Real Alcazar (Sevilla) in the late 19th/early 20th c. - The Alcazar (from the Arabic al-Qasr meaning palace) is the royal residence of the kings of Spain. The Alcazar is considered a World Heritage Site, like ma...2 weeks ago
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Castalia House Post: Deus Ex Magical Girl - Today on the Castalia House blog, I spotlight Deus Ex Magical Girl, an anime blog focused on the magical girl genre. That blog is worth looking at juse f...2 weeks ago
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman - If I ever have grandchildren, which seems a long shot at time of writing, I shall gather them on my knee and tell them of the General Election of 2017. "...2 weeks ago
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“Fuck your vote!” - That’s what I have been hearing ever since the morning after the presidential election. That what I keep hearing on most cable television and on National P...2 weeks ago
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What’s Wrong With Our System Of Global Trade And Finance? - That is what John Judis wanted to talk to me about, and we did. This over at TPM is what came out. By the way, Judis' book on populism is great. It makes a...2 weeks ago
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On Labour's success in the General Election and implications for Brexit - Labour hasn't won the General Election, but it feels like it has, and has good reason to feel that way. Theresa May called the election believing that she ...2 weeks ago
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From "Not a Crook" to "Not a Liar": A Potted History of Political Denials - It's a handy rule-of-thumb that when a politician – usually in a press conference, where he's annoyed repeatedly with the same question about his judgment ...2 weeks ago
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Out of North Africa - I had previously called Irhoud 1 "The Father of Mankind" and proposed a "two deserts" theory of human evolution whereby our species originated in North Afr...2 weeks ago
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Is Islamic terrorism really Islamic? - I always prefer Arab ex-Muslims when scouring for deeper study regarding the Islamic Question. An Arabian, ex-Muslim convert Christian is a serendipitous f...2 weeks ago
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The “Shulaya Enterprise” organised crime bust in New York - A big case opened yesterday in New York, with 33 people being charged with membership of a Eurasian organised crime group (the “Shulaya Enterprise”) and a ...2 weeks ago
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Karen Handel’s “I Am Not a Crook Moment”: “I Do Not Support a Livable Wage!” - During Watergate, Richard Nixon famously said, “I am not a crook.” And, immediately, Americans coast-to-coast thought of him as a crook. This incident insp...2 weeks ago
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The State of Sooner Football - About nine months ago I began writing this post in rough form following a pair of painful and disappointing losses to begin the 2016 Sooner football season...2 weeks ago
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More on whether state disinvestment is causing rising tuition - The Times Higher Education (UK) ran a short piece based off this recent post. From the Times Higher Education piece: over the past 26 years, average real s...2 weeks ago
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Chinese political operations in Australia: a popular pro-CCP reading - Hua Daodao, a deputy editor in the Huanqiu Shibao‘s commentary department, has written a piece offering useful insights into how the Australian media’s lat...2 weeks ago
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A Primer on Vehicle Ramming Attacks - This was published last Sunday on Breach Bang Clear. Motoring Jihad: Vehicle Ramming Attacks Chris Hernandez Berlin, Germany. Nice, France. Ohio State Un...2 weeks ago
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Knock Out: a thuggish MMA fighter demystifies Chinese Kung Fu - Tai Chi is the art of circles. From the body’s smooth spins come strength, energy and an entire cosmology of balance and harmony. But for Lei Lei, a self-p...2 weeks ago
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A Leadership Lesson From Eisenhower’s Stoic Reversal at D-Day - On June 6th 1944, Dwight D. Eisenhower pulled off the most stunning and impressive invasion in military history. A total of 156,000 Allied troops invaded t...3 weeks ago
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Pallywood 2017: The meaning of the Becky Anderson-UNRWA gaffes - Those paying attention to matters of Pallywood, or the faking of news in order to target a given population with lethal narratives, had a double feast yest...3 weeks ago
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Journalists and Twitter redux - *Ain’t no fun when the bunny gets a gun* Farhad Manjoo of the NY Times is having second thoughts about Twitter. How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misin...3 weeks ago
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On the Importance of Voting - On this Thursday, 8th of June 2017, millions of people will be going to polling stations throughout the United Kingdom in order to cast their vote in th...3 weeks ago
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Open Adventure ships - Colossal Cave Adventure, that venerable classic, is back and better than ever! The page for downloads is here. The game is fully playable. It would be asto...3 weeks ago
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Two long-distance migrants in the eighth- to tenth-century Islamic necropolis at Tauste, Spain - The current brief post is primarily concerned with two women buried in the eighth- to tenth-century Islamic necropolis at Tauste, Spain, both of whom appea...3 weeks ago
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Books cost too much! (so I wrote a blog post) - Academic textbooks are really expensive. The current version of Mankiw’s principles text is $186 in hardcover. I’ll go out on a limb and conservatively gu...3 weeks ago
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Climate Change: The Facts 2017 - Today’s Weekend Australian includes an article that begins: “Iconic, ailing Australian satirist Clive James has penned a savage essay on climate change a...3 weeks ago
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Trumpocalypse: Kathy Griffin and the Trump Head debacle - The Kathy Griffin “Trump Head” debacle would seem to be a textbook example of everything that’s gone wrong—in the brains and hearts of American progressive...3 weeks ago
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There is a chapter on whistleblowers… Thanks. - There is a chapter on whistleblowers… Thanks.3 weeks ago
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An Attack of Unimaginable Cruelty: Hillary Clinton at Wellesley College - The commencement speech is a remnant from a time when oratory was a crucial skill, and central to university education. From the mid-1600s until the early ...3 weeks ago
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Village - "A good relationship is a village in which people share parts of themselves with various people and that doesn't mean sexual parts, it just means that ther...3 weeks ago
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Who will pay for the benefits of global warming? - More and more studies are emerging showing the benefits of increased CO2 in the atmosphere. While there appears to be a correlation with temperature, there...3 weeks ago
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Thoughts on Manchester Attack....& Responses that Just aren't Helping - The Manchester terror attack broke my heart, as each and every terror attack does. It chilled me to my core…again. Image from CNN.com With the frequency o...3 weeks ago
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The revolt of the public and the “age of post-truth” - With Elites and With the Truth, It’s Complicated Three years ago I remarked that the public was engaged in a messy divorce from the elites who run the grea...3 weeks ago
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Walking the streets of Manchester, I find tolerance rather than hatred - Originally published in The Sunday Times At about 7am on Tuesday, I awake to several messages on my phone from friends asking me to text them as soon as I ...4 weeks ago
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“Drip-Drip” Genocide: Muslim Persecution of Christians, February, 2017 - Gatestone Institute The Islamic State is at it again. More stories of atrocities against Christians continued to surface. In one, a Christian man, Meghr...4 weeks ago
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Getting granular with the claim that Trump is some media wizard - That our President is a master of media manipulation is a view commonly expressed by American journalists. I doubt it. The post Getting granular with the...4 weeks ago
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#123 – Tang 34: In the Rearview - ACast Link We take a sweeping look back at all 289 years of the Tang one more time before pressing into the 5 Dynasties and beyond, and also take a look at...4 weeks ago
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Tweet this - I've got over 2,500 posts on this blog. But I can't help but notice I've only posted six times in the past three months. That is a record low. So what have...4 weeks ago
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Jacobite Magazine - Newly launched. No comment thread there, so feel free to use this place.4 weeks ago
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Foreigners, revisited - It’s not really a surprise that the Russia of Nicholas II was as interested in keeping lists of foreigners as the Russia of Alexander I had been back at th...4 weeks ago
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Trump As Desecration - I still regret to some extent that at the beginning of Swarthmore College’s Aydelotte Foundation (before it received its current name) we decided that a go...4 weeks ago
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It’s about time we listened to those speaking honestly about Islam - Obaid is a free speech advocate and Ex-Muslim. He was born in India and grew up in Canada. His love for science eventually lead to his abandoning Islam. ...4 weeks ago
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Net Neutrality: America's "Other" Health Crisis - It seems like everyone who is talking about net neutrality today worries that we're not talking enough about net neutrality. They're right. So, allow me ...5 weeks ago
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What’s going on? - The post-crisis politico-regulatory consensus is breaking down. There have been tensions over the past couple of years, but overall the illusion of harmony...5 weeks ago
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Sokal v.2017 - I am crying simultaneously from laughter and sadness. New article blaming global warming on the conceptual penis, among other things. And the exposé. I c...5 weeks ago
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What Would a Post-Scarcity Society Really Look Like? - In 1930 John Maynard Keynes published Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. With this pamphlet, the hope of a post-scarcity society, where people n...5 weeks ago
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This Gay Life - Its always tough. Imagine, meeting someone that you synch with. For the moment or forever. You going back home, in a place that is safe for you, and for hi...5 weeks ago
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FACES AROUND A DICTATOR: NORTH KOREA - What does a dictator look like in action? There is a distinctive pattern, but it is visible not so much on the dictator’s own face as in the...5 weeks ago
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Understanding the Cost Disease of Services - As my internal clock is not on internet time, I’m only now getting up a post in reaction to the death of William Baumol, who has been a consistent refere...1 month ago
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Being Human - I've just discovered that the pilot episode of UK series *Being Human *is online again, after having been taken down for a while. I first wrote about it ba...1 month ago
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Reflections on 2017 MPS Regional Meeting in Seoul, Korea - |Peter Boettke| I just returned from a fascinating experience in Seoul -- including a Presidential election in Korea that saw a landslide victory for a soc...1 month ago
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Two new books of possible interest - *by Salman Hameed* There are some really good new books out. I want to highlight a couple of interviews with the authors as part of the fantastic New Books...1 month ago
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Lavar Ball: Great businessman or all talk? - So you don’t like Lavar Ball because he’s obnoxiously outspoken? Well, he reminds me of every confident black American male I’ve ever come across from th...1 month ago
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The Science Behind Heineken’s “Worlds Apart” Ad - Clearly some members of Heineken’s ad agency have been reading the social science literature as evidenced by this recent ad (video below), which has been a...1 month 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 ...2 months ago
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From Protectionism to Economic Liberalism: The Managed Decline of the Australian Automotive Industry - From Protectionism to Economic Liberalism: The Managed Decline of the Australian Automotive Industry *Tom Conley * *For a version in PDF see * *https://w...2 months ago
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Some Myths About Interest on Reserves - There are two myths that I see repeated about interest on reserves that I would like to address: 1. “Of course the banking system is holding more reserves....2 months ago
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Britain, America and NATO: Commons Select Committee - On 18 April, I was lucky enough to appear before the House of Commons Defence Select Committee, along with my colleague Dr David Blagden. We were assisting...2 months ago
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Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence - Crossposted on Notes on Liberty Why did Japan successfully modernize in the 19th century while China failed to do so? Both China and Japan came under inc...2 months ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.2 months ago
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Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...2 months ago
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Qualitative-quantitative bus joke - A quantitative evaluator, a qualitative evaluator, and a normal person are waiting for a bus. The normal person suddenly shouts, “Watch out, the bus is out...2 months ago
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The St. Louis Fed's Macroeconomic Outlook - St. Louis Fed president James Bullard recently gave this speech on the U.S. macroeconomic outlook. The key themes of his talk were: 1. The U.S. economy ...2 months ago
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How many jobs really require college? - It is the conventional wisdom in some circles that we need to send even more people to college. As Bill Gates wrote, “America is facing a shortage of col...2 months ago
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Quick thoughts about airline economics - If you’ve not already read this piece by Matt Stoller challenging the conventional wisdom that airline deregulation in the 1970s has been a great success, ...2 months ago
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Hayek, Knowledge, and Carbon Taxes: Markets Without Prices or Prices Without Markets? - As far as I know, Friedrich Hayek never wrote a word about climate change, but two of his most famous works contain arguments that bear directly on this ke...2 months ago
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where do i go from here? - I am stuck. Feral Creatures has already grown in length and scope. Do I keep expanding and growing the story and if so when do i st...2 months ago
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Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.2 months ago
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NGDP targeting and the Friedman Rule - This post continues the discussion from Scott Sumner’s thoughtful reply to my critique of NGDP targeting from 2015. (Note to frequent readers: I previous...2 months ago
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Must Capitalist Economies Grow? - I ran across a claim that a "capitalist" economy must grow. I believe that one of the key benefits of a market economy is creative destruction. Entrepre...2 months ago
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A Tale of YouTuber Stupidity - Now if you haven't been living under a rock then you are likely aware that there are a great deal of people on YouTube. A select few garner enough of a f...2 months ago
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Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyin...2 months ago
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Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyin...2 months ago
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Cities through the ages: One thing or many? - VancouverI am in rainy Vancouver, BC. Tomorrow I will give a lecture at Green College, University of British Columbia, with this title ("Cities through th...2 months ago
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My Review of Sebastian Mallaby’s Bio of Alan Greenspan - The latest issue of CIS Policy includes my review of Sebastian Mallaby’s biography of Alan Greenspan. Here is a sample: *Far from being a tragedy, Greens...2 months ago
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Cernovich Gives 60 Minutes its First Ratings Win Since 2008 - Breaking his usual rule of never appearing on edited television, author and filmmaker Mike Cernovich went on 60 Minutes to show a record 15 million people ...2 months ago
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Will it be Trump’s policy for the Middle East, or Hillary’s? - U.S. policy towards the Middle East yet again faces a crisis of presidential engagement, or rather the lack of it. Put differently, what Obama began may ...2 months ago
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Agent of Shields - In a recent defense of mandatory national service, establishment media apparatchik Mark Shields writes: Contrary to Ayn Rand, we all do owe much to each ot...3 months ago
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Economic History Papers, Articles & Blogs - As a companion to my Economic History books page, which stresses economic history by region or country, I have created a new Economic History Papers page. ...3 months ago
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Japan and Philippines Challenge China on New Fronts - Japan is deploying a warship to the South China Sea while the Philippines pushes back against Chinese encroachments in the east.3 months ago
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Conscientious objection, ethical problems in clinical research in public health emergencies, problems with ethics guidelines and other stuff - I know I know, I have not posted much since September last year. It's been an unusually busy time, professionally, so I must beg for your understanding th...3 months ago
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An Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge - I have developed a framework for complexity economics: Economics is a key component of the broader domain of social theory. The object of any social theory...3 months ago
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How the Democrats can Rebuild - Appearing in: Orange County Register Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded the parlous state of the Democratic Part...3 months ago
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A catalog of density (Québec/Canada version) - So, I've recently discovered an interesting tool to visualize census data for Canada, www.censusmapper.ca. Among its various data, it allows to do visualiz...3 months ago
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The Teaching of Economics - In 2013, with funding from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University College London, Friends Provident Foundation, Azim Premji University (Bangal...3 months ago
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Seven Surrenders is Out: New Links Post - Ada’s second novel, book two of the Terra Ignota quartet, Seven Surrenders, is published today, so at last people who have been waiting since reading Too L...3 months ago
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A Parable Concerning Tolerance - There once lived in a far country a people of gentle nature and perceptive understanding. They were led by a man of great vision. At great cost to his pers...3 months ago
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28 February 1155: In Celebration of Henry the Young King's Birthday - On the pages of his *Chronicon *Geoffrey, prior of Vigeois, described in meticulous detail how young Henry packed as much repentance into his deathbed as h...3 months ago
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The left and the right ignored their extremists and we ended up with Brexit and Trump - The Observer 11 February 2017 Three types dominate extremist movements: crazies, cynics and creeps. The true crazies are always at the bottom of the heap. ...4 months ago
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Overkill - So, I recently had cause to order some adhesive strips from Amazon, due to an unplanned vehicle replacement. This isn't a complaint thread - they did great...4 months ago
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Norska invandringskommissionen - År 2011 ledde sociologiprofessor Grete Brochmann en offentlig utredning om invandringens effekter på det norska samhället. Detta inkluderade uppmärksamma...4 months ago
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Propaganda as Literature: A Distant Reading of the Korean Central News Agency's Headlines - A rather long post on reading the Korean Central News Agency's headlines I am not putting directly on this blog because it contains interactive graphs that...4 months ago
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Responses to Privilege - Angelique Harris The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two cases which highlight the influence that race, class, disability, and privilege ...4 months ago
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Two More Minutes of Hate - The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This maxim holds not only in geometry, but in business as well. In that situation, the two p...4 months ago
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What Constitutes a Rational Immigration Policy? - The debate regarding the optimal immigration policy has been hijacked by rhetoric at the two extremes of the relevant continuum. Let's find the rational an...4 months ago
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In defense of science - We are deeply concerned by the Trump administration’s move to gag scientists working at various governmental agencies. The US government employs scientists...5 months ago
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the blog’s not dead… - …it’s just restin’. (~_^) sorry for the lack of posting over the last few months. unfortunately, there’s been a lot of major illness in the immediate famil...5 months ago
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Improving Your Writing – Prioritizing Increased-Get Worries www.proofreadingessay.com - There are a good deal of diverse methods you can go about doing that 1 thing – you can offer ebooks that deliver solutions to folks’s difficulties, or you ...5 months ago
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Year in Career: 2016 - Pictures and numbers. Not things we usually have to worry too much about as stenographers. In fact most of us got into the game precisely because we are ...5 months ago
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Ten Myths about the Phoney War - new Quadrant Article - A new one of my articles has just been published in the Australian *Quadrant* magazine (Vol. 61 No.1-2, January-February 2017 edition), that attempts to k...5 months ago
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The architecture of intolerance: From Wahhabism to Le Corbusier and back again - Wahhabism is an extreme, fundamentalist strain of Sunni Islam that was created in the 18th century in central Arabia. It was originally founded by preach...6 months ago
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This was never just a recession - Maybe to start with, but not for long. What does a recession look like? Take, for example, the 1981/82 recession, which was deep. Real output falls strongl...6 months ago
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Can pagerank-like algorithms be used to help improve democracy? - In an excellent post Ben Rattray, founder of change.org, suggest that technology can help improve democracy by addressing what he calls three core needs:...6 months ago
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Mein weltanschauung - My friends Ben and Sam have both written posts about which articles and books have influenced their thinking. There’s not a whole world of difference betwe...6 months ago
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Goodbye - [image: Snapshot corrected moving to unz] It’s goodbye to drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk After 4 years of blogging, and 1,062,720 page views, here i...6 months ago
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The Things You Learn from the Internet - The Spiritual Science Research Foundation (“Bridging the known and unknown worlds”) has discovered the cause of homosexuality for 85% of all gay people: 4....6 months ago
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Moving house - People connected to me have justifiably asked that I move my blog to a more anonymous platform. Although I’ve made an effort to remove my name from this bl...6 months ago
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Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...6 months ago
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Learning Arabic, Persian, and Urdu - I’m writing this to share my impressions on learning Arabic, Persian, and Urdu; I’ve studied all three languages in some capacity. Comparing the learni...7 months ago
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Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done? - This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, near...8 months ago
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501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...8 months ago
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prince, apply to India’s top companies in just 3 steps. - A new way to get placed at India's best companies prince tiwari Introducing LinkedIn Placements * The New Way to Get Placed at India...8 months ago
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Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons - MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the seasons and ...9 months ago
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What Motivates a Jihadist? - (McLeans) A new study based on interviews conducted over social media with foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria raises doubts about the commonly held notio...9 months ago
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THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…9 months ago
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Paper writing in the age of preprints and twitter - One side effect of the move to preprints is a change in the psychology of trying to get manuscripts published. Instead of targeting a journal, it becomes e...10 months ago
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The Brexit Referendum Through a Behavioural Lens - Behavioural effects may have had a real effect on the Brexit referendum outcome. Look at the question wording, and at the effects triggered by the Leave an...11 months 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...11 months 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...11 months ago
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Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - [image: UNPlenary]At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a...1 year ago
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EU vote: Scotland will ruin UK’s chance of a Brexit - If you could pick one person from British society and be certain they would vote Remain, who would you choose?1 year ago
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‘Gen Why?’ – Perception Deception - “Most days are full of meaningless uninvited interactions with the same kind of simple minded individuals, that indeed would have definitely complained abo...1 year ago
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My blog moving to my website - I just wanted to give a heads up to readers that I have moved my blog to my website, which now houses all my work, videos, press coverage, photos and more....1 year ago
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Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...1 year ago
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"Warning From the Stars" (1959) by Ron Cocking - "Warning From the Stars" *© 1959* Ron Cocking It was a beautifully machined container, shaped like a two pound chocolate candy box, the color and texture ...1 year ago
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結婚したい！それなら電話占いピュアリの占い師に聞いてみよう！ - 結婚したい皆さん、なかなかいい出会いがないと思っている方も多いかと思います。 そんな時は占い師さんに色々聞いた […]1 year ago
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The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...1 year ago
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Along came Phil - Gramm, former Senator from the state of Texas to set a few facts straight in the Wall Street Journal about the cause of the financial crisis. I.e., it wasn...1 year ago
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Farewell to Henry - Henry Harpending (1944-2016) died this past Sunday. He had a stroke a year ago, and then a second one three weeks ago, but apparently he died of a lung i...1 year ago
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Fiscal Policy and the ZLB - I have been doing some reading for my undergraduate thesis, which looks at the role of credit-supply shocks in the Spain during its housing boom and bust, ...1 year ago
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Comments on the Democratic Debate in Miami - This was truly the most bizarre debate I've ever seen. The level of questioning from the three interviewers, two from Univision, a Spanish-language network...1 year ago
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By: the unBalanced ecoLOGist | The Unbalanced Ecologist - […] weeks ago, I was invited to write a commentary about an online essay written by Erle Ellis for the Social Evolution Forum (a project of the Evolution I...1 year ago
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Samurai Gifts - The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late sixteenth and ...1 year ago
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The Mayhem of GOP Class Politics in 2016 - Majority Report Radio conversation with Michael Brooks on the piece I wrote for the National on the political insurgency in the Republican mainstream. In A...1 year ago
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Where are the “devaluationists”? - A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section on policy op...1 year ago
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I have written six book reviews this year - What a rare thing – a blog post. At the end of another writingful year I thought it worth noting a few of the achievements now likely to vanish into poster...1 year ago
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Changing Stations - At the beginning of October, I packed up my family and we made the move ‘home’. The house is fairly new, but the place is old. It has a lot of history...1 year ago
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Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia. - Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia....1 year ago
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Salvaging the Tatters of the Obama Doctrine - When president Obama told George Stephanopoulos only hours before the Paris attack that his administration had “contained ISIS” he may have been wrong but ...1 year ago
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Podcast #363: The Future of America, Vulnerability, Cheating, and More - On Sunday’s episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, Greg Perkins and I answered questions on the future of the United States, the value of vulnerability, ch...1 year ago
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We've Moved - Effective September 9, 2015, the Mischiefs of Faction is now located at Vox.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, ...1 year ago
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A few more thoughts on monopsony and the minimum wage (and what I think is a much stronger post from Don) - In the last post I noted that monopsony is definitely not the only and not even really the best theoretical argument for why we see no disemployment effect...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...1 year ago
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It Is Accomplished - As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had...2 years ago
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Calls for U.S. Government to Recover ‘Mentally Unbalanced’ YPG Foreign Fighter - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on June 9, 2015 Jordan Matson, an American fighting in the ranks of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian wing of the...2 years ago
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Libertarianism and the Politics of Everything - It is a precept of Athenian philosophy in the Socratic tradition that the impetus to philosophy begins with wonder at the heavens, but the attempt to act...2 years ago
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Inflation and Deflation – Economics A2 Level Unit 4 - A short video on the joys of inflation (and deflation) covering their causes and [...]2 years ago
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Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef - In the last few days I’ve carefully read comments emanating from the Coalition government that suggested an undue intervention in Australian politics by Pr...2 years ago
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Our first virtual Screenwriting Workshop! - T woke up on Monday with the idea, bubbling with notions, and I think it's a fabulous way to explore the new media potentials for a virtual classroom. We c...2 years ago
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What does my research contribute to our understanding of the Hong Kong protests? - Did Xi Jinping miscalculate by not allowing free elections in Hong Kong? We cannot know whether the Chinese leadership expected protests of this magnitude,...2 years ago
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Taxation vs. Expropriation - What’s the difference between a 50% marginal tax rate on income vs. 50% expropriation by a kleptocratic ruler or corrupt officials? Some models might sug...2 years ago
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Families and time preferences: Should a libertarian society be childfree and polyamorous? - Usually when libertarians talk about marriage, it’s about how the government shouldn’t be involved. When we talk about children, we debate whether or not w...2 years ago
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Quote of the Week - This paragraph is huge, so for the sake of making it easier to read I’m breaking it down (and the paragraph continues beyond the point the excerpt below en...2 years ago
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Biofunctional Psychology and HBD - There is an issue currently being discussed on the Internet about the relationship between human psychology and human biodiversity. For example, take this ...2 years ago
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Why Indians are Too Stupid to Build Toilets – were it not for the Media! - There has been a ghastly rape in some Indian village. Two girls got raped and later hanged by the perpetrators after “they left their toilet-less home duri...3 years ago
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By: Anonymous - Great article, however, I don't see yet a study explaining the effects of Cannabis being freed completely overnight, lifting all restrictions and allowing ...3 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner3 years ago
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Why Monetary Policy Should Ignore Financial Stability - Financial stability is apparently the new hot reason to tighten monetary policy, and in this article for Quartz I go in on some reasons for why this is a h...3 years ago
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Governance, aesthetics and architecture - I have been meaning to write up a few thoughts that came out of a beer-fueled conversation with a friend some weeks ago. We both lived in Austin, TX for so...3 years ago
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Norman Geras: 1943-2013 - I am very sad to announce that Norm died in Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge in the early hours of this morning. Writing this blog, and communicating wi...3 years ago
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Have You Heard Your Inner Voice Today? - New Study Shows There's A Reason Why We "Hear" Our Inner Voice3 years ago
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Jide Who Played Jesus to be Ordained - *MEDIA *INFORMATION *NEWS FROM THE EAST HAM TEAM* For Immediate Use 11 June 2013 *Jide who played Jesus to be ordained* The man who played Jesus in the Ne...4 years ago
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In which I amuse myself at a government ministers expense. - Now funnily enough I happen to live in the town where this has just happened. This may be the furthest south any group has landed, to put it in perspecti...4 years ago
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Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe - But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure gues...4 years ago
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An Independent Wild Hunt - We at the Patheos Pagan channel bid The Wild Hunt much luck in its new phase as an independent website. To catch the latest from TWH, please check out wild...4 years ago
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A tale of two obsessions - The 1960s was characterized by the unemployment obsession. The 1962 Economic Report of the President (ERP) is clear on that point: Unemployment of 4 percen...4 years ago
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Modigliani-Miller and Yanis’ response No. 2 - Yanis answers once more, directly to the first part of my response, before I had the chance to write my second part. He suggests that we should clearly mar...5 years ago
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Modeled Behavior’s RSS Feed - Hopefully within the next day or two we will be able to get Modeled Behavior.com to redirect to our Forbes Blog. Yet, it looks as if there is no way to ge...5 years ago
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Actually, maybe it is the NGDP after all - I’ve gotten a lot of really smart pushback on my claims about the UK economy, and I think I have significantly underestimated what I already believed to be...5 years ago
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“Bernanke invites Scott Sumner for lunch” - “Oct. 31 (Boomberg) US stock market closed sharply up after the Federal Reserve Bank announced that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has invited Bentl...5 years ago
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One Law for All campaign in Turkish media - Here's an article quoting an interview with me on Sharia law and One Law for All published in Turkish media.5 years ago
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The tax forum as a platform for a grand bargain? - In his Challenges of Federation speech we referred to in a previous article, Prime Minister’s Department Secretary Terry Moran said: *There are business l...6 years ago
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The Rand Paul reality for gays - Some Republicans are trying to brush it off as the kind of debate you have in you freshman dorm at 2 a.m. Not so for us gays. The objection raised by Rand ...7 years ago
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