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www.counterpunch.org

Character and Decency Matter - Four years ago, I wrote a letter to family and friends asking them to vote for a return to decency, to vote for Joe Biden. Our leaders should represent w...
42 minutes ago
macrobusiness.com.au

Macro Afternoon: 22 November 2024 - Vineyard in winter AUD/USD EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold WTI Brent Australia 200 US S&P 500 UK 100 Japan 225 The post Macro Afternoon: 22 November 202...
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Marginal Revolution

Best non-fiction of 2024 - In the order I read them, more or less, noting that some very late 2023 titles start off the list. Usually there is my review behind the link, though oc...
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PinkNews

Troye Sivan appointed Smirnoff’s ‘Chief Vibes Officer’ as singer becomes new face of brand - Troye Sivan has added another string to his bow as he has been appointed Smirnoff’s “Chief Vibes Officer”. Is there anything Sivan can’t do? The singer-...
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Vlad Tepes

Reader’s Links for Nov. 22,2024 - Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on ...
2 hours ago
Manhattan Contrarian

A Look At President-Elect Trump's Picks For The Key Energy Policy Positions - * Over the past two weeks, President-elect Trump has engaged in rapid-fire announcements of his picks for the cabinet and other top positions. * Among the ...
2 hours ago
A Voice for Men

Daily Life -
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LessWrong

Which things were you surprised to learn are metaphors? - Published on November 22, 2024 3:46 AM GMT I love this question, but I've enjoyed noticing answers to its opposite more. What are some things you thought w...
3 hours ago
Cold Fury

Yes, it’s always been this way - Conflict and strife with Pisslam is a forever kind of thing. Remembering Why the U.S. Navy Was Formed: To Combat Islamic TerrorDuring a recent mosque sermo...
3 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Do the KCs believe in democracy - Liam Hehir points out: Forty-two senior lawyers, known as King’s Counsel, have written to the government with a scathing critique of the Treaty Principles ...
4 hours ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Systemwide Program Limited to “Males of Color” at California State University Challenged By Equal Protection Project - Race and Sex Discrimination alleged in Civil Rights Complaint over "Young Males of Color Consortium" program operating at numerous Cal State campuses. The...
5 hours ago
Butterflies and Wheels

Every bit as - Every bit? Really? A civil rights movement based on such an utterly unhinged assault on reality was always doomed to fail. What's remarkable is that so m...
5 hours ago
neo-neocon

Gaetz out; Bondi in - House member Matt Gaetz was a controversial AG nominee from the start, and there was plenty of speculation that he wasn’t nominated with the intent of hi...
5 hours ago
The New Neo

Gaetz out; Bondi in - House member Matt Gaetz was a controversial AG nominee from the start, and there was plenty of speculation that he wasn’t nominated with the intent of hi...
5 hours ago
The Federalist

Bob Casey Cries Uncle, Ending U.S. Senate Race Recount In Pennsylvania - [image: Bob Casey]Casey finally admitted defeat Thursday evening in a sober video posted on social media.
6 hours ago
The Burning Platform

Trump Nominates Pam Bondi For Attorney General After Gaetz Withdraws From Consideration - Via ZeroHedge Donald Trump said he is nominating former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and his personal trial lawyer, to run the US Department of Justi...
6 hours ago
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog

Tomorrow's Windstorm in Four Acts - Each atmospheric "play" is different and according to high-resolution forecast models, I can describe the four "acts" that will unfold tomorrow. The mai...
7 hours ago
Althouse

Sunrise — 6:54, 6:55. - [image: IMG_9974] [image: IMG_9978]
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Vox - All

International arrest warrants are out for Netanyahu and Gallant. What happens next? - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has formally issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Y...
8 hours ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

Public opinion on immigration: the Trump and Biden years - Andrew Gelman recently reposted something I wrote on immigration in 2016. That reminded me that I should update another old post on immigration, which ...
8 hours ago
waka waka waka

Brake Failure - Here is a link to a detailed survey of the current status of AI research, including a clear-eyed assessment of what we should expect in the near future. I ...
8 hours ago
Caracas Chronicles

The Local Dispatch #9: Margariteños at the Verge - The PDVSA explosion in Monagas has plunged Margarita into 20-hour blackouts, while families of post-electoral detainees demand answers and mass releases
8 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Pagan Community Notes: Week of November 21, 2024 - [image: Pagan Community Notes: Week of November 21, 2024] In this Week's Pagan Community Notes, Rev. Selena Fox's image used in anti-trans attack, the Adve...
9 hours ago
Alt-M

Government Reform: DOGE + E - President-elect Trump should add “and Elimination” to his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The federal government has grown far too large to be ...
9 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

THIS Is Definitive Sci-Fi? Star Wars DISCRIMINATION! And My Channel Is Under Attack! - ------------------------------ Support Jon Support Me On Subscribe Star Get FREE Books! Independent journalism isn’t easy and I can use all of the help I...
10 hours ago
Medievalists.net

How Medieval English Queens Used Gifts to Influence Power and Loyalty - A new study reveals how medieval English queens used gift-giving as a powerful tool to secure alliances and demonstrate authority. From Margaret of Anjou’s...
10 hours ago
Discover Blogs

Rare Mummified Saber-Tooth Cat Cub Found in Siberia Still Has Fur - Learn why this one-of-a-kind discovery helps researchers understand more about the saber-tooth cat.
11 hours ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

Proton And Neutron Structure - "Nucleons" are protons and neutrons. A new paper determines that their mass is distributed over a radius of consistent with one femtometer (a 10-15 mete...
11 hours ago
Minding The Campus

We Need McMahon to Tombstone Piledrive the ED - Author’s Note: This excerpt is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full...
11 hours ago
Whatever

Damn It, Who Keeps Sending Me Guitars - Specifically in this case a Tenor Baritone guitar? I mean, I already have a tenor guitar (more than one), and I have a baritone guitar too. Why would I nee...
11 hours ago
PsyPost

Can daytime sleepiness predict weight gain? New research highlights sex differences - Daytime sleepiness is linked to higher body weight. Men with chronic sleepiness have consistently higher BMI, while women, especially younger ones, gain we...
12 hours ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

Well, we don’t have Matt Gaetz to deal with any longer - I was working on a post in a desultory manner but decided to wait until tomorrow. Plus it’s snowing fairly heavily in Chicago so everything is a big mess o...
12 hours ago
Policy of Truth

The Antidote to Civilization - Whatever you think or say, don’t tell me that Israel or the United States represent a “civilization” I’m obliged to respect. If the video below shows us th...
12 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

Doofus Of The Day #1,122 - Today's award goes to a dubiously artistic "cryptocurrency entrepreneur". The BBC reports: Maurizio Cattelan's provocative artwork of a banana duct-...
13 hours ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

Is An Israeli Attack Upon Iraq Imminent? - Israel appears to be making its final diplomatic moves before striking at Iraq for 12 months of attacks by Iraq’s Islamic Resistance. November 18 Is...
13 hours ago
Alexander Boot

Down with ideologies! - This is the only slogan I find palatable. For, contrary to a common misapprehension, it’s not the economy but ideology that drives modern European governme...
13 hours ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Does religion make you more warlike? Unamuno on war and the soul - From philosopher Miguel de Unamuno’s The Tragic Sense of Life, which I re-read for the first time since my undergraduate days. Note these arresting lines: ...
13 hours ago
Peter Zeihan

Can China Save Itself From the Mounting Debt Crisis? - Beijing has announced a hefty plan to help local Chinese governments refinance their debt. But is this enough to ward off the mounting debt crisis? Local...
13 hours ago
International Liberty

Uruguay’s Economic Outlook - I’m speaking today in Uruguay and, since this is my first visit, I want to take this opportunity to analyze that country’s economic policy. The good news i...
13 hours ago
Thought Catalog

7 Similarities And Differences Between The ‘Wicked’ Musical and Book - How is the 'Wicked' musical different from the book? And what will end up in the movie?
14 hours ago
According To Hoyt

Mr. Musk, Tear Down This Wall - I want to point out my title is unfair for two reasons: unlike the communists who separated East and West Germany so they wouldn’t lose their (literally) c...
14 hours ago
Longrider

Do You Know Where it is Yet? - So Rolf Harris played a clever game. Sex criminal Rolf Harris moved his fortune out of his own name to prevent it going to his victims in [...]
14 hours ago
EconLog

My Chat on Stakeholders With an AI Bot - I bumped into Claude, Anthropic’s AI bot, on a cybersidewalk and decided to submit him or her to a little Turing test. As co-blogger Scott Sumner noted o...
14 hours ago
Isegoria

His real name was Espera Oscar de Coti - Jim Varney’s Ernest Goes to Camp has been locked away in the Disney vault alongside Song of the South: If an out-of-touch portrayal of Native Americans was...
16 hours ago
JoNova

Friday - 10 out of 10 based on 1 rating
16 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Andrew Gelman is not the science police because there is no such thing as the science police - Adam Mastroianni writes: I [Mastroianni] have talked to a lot of folks about how to fix science. . . . Strangely often, I’ll be talking to someone about al...
16 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Andrew Gelman is not the science police because there is no such thing as the science police - Adam Mastroianni writes: I [Mastroianni] have talked to a lot of folks about how to fix science. . . . Strangely often, I’ll be talking to someone about al...
16 hours ago
Philosoraptor

The Kids are Alright...Except for the Girls... - I'd kinda like to know how representative this is.It's about a (seemingly rather well-to-do) girl walking around her school the day after the election. The...
16 hours ago
Mostly Economics

Life among the Econ -50 years later - Axel Leijonhufvud had written this superb essay in 1973: Life among the Econ. The essay is a satirical take on how Econ Tribe has occupied much of the spa...
16 hours ago
The Z Blog

Whopperville - In his podcast on the Persian empire, Dan Carlin told a story from Herodotus about a Spartan Greek who found his way in the court of Cyrus the Great. In th...
17 hours ago
View From The Porch

Meme Dump... -
17 hours ago
Daily Nous

If People Could Get Just One Thing From Philosophy… - Happy World Philosophy Day! I don’t want to detract from all of the festivities or dampen the fun, but it is worth noting on World Philosophy Day 2024 th...
17 hours ago
Mad Genius Club

Blowing up your plot - Oh damn! I’ve hit a roadblock (you say to yourself) — this is never gonna work. I’ve got too much on the shoulders of my hero, and he’s not able to fend of...
18 hours ago
Active Response Training

Should You Change Your Defensive Ammunition During Colder Weather? - Written by: Greg Ellifritz I occasionally get questions from readers about changing their defensive ammo to better defeat heavier winter clothing in the ...
19 hours ago
Simple Justice

Harris’ Failed Transition - Trump went to town on Harris’ 2019 response to a question posed by the ACLU about whether inmates should be given taxpayer-funded gender-transition surger...
19 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

Report: The Officer Who Killed Ashli Babbitt Had a Long History of Disciplinary and Training Problems - I have previously written about the dubious investigations of the shooting of Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6th and the alleged…
19 hours ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

The Political Theories Underlying the Disinformation Debate - Contemporary debates about “disinformation” point back to a fundamental tension in Enlightenment philosophy.
20 hours ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

In a Flawed Antitrust Paradigm Shift, Tacit Collusion May Be One Area Worth Exploring - [image: In a Flawed Antitrust Paradigm Shift, Tacit Collusion May Be One Area Worth Exploring] Tim Brennan finds the new shift in antitrust thought and enf...
20 hours ago
Political Calculations

The Quiet S&P 500 - [image: A stock price candlestick chart with positive and negative changes image generated by Microsoft Copilot Designer.] When it comes to volatility, th...
20 hours ago
Crisis Magazine

Prepare for Deportation - The law of God commands us to perform corporal works of mercy but also to obey the just laws of our land. And there is nothing unjust in having laws that g...
20 hours ago
The Honest Courtesan

Throwback Thursday’s Creature - “Greed”…is what people call the desire to earn a decent income when the person with that drive is a woman; in a man, the same thing is called “ambition”. ...
21 hours ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

Will New Zealand finally deal with excess demand for access to tourist destinations? - New Zealand has long had a problem with excess demand for access to tourist destinations. I've written about this before, using the Great Walks as an exa...
23 hours ago
Sultan Knish

Censor the Internet to Save the Planet - “Governments Should Act Now to Curb Climate Disinformation” demands a letter backed by Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Center for Count...
1 day ago
The Unz Review:

The ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu Is Also an Indictment of US Policy and Complicity, by Jeffrey D. Sachs - Ultimately, this is the story of how the Israel lobby undermined America, wrecked the Middle East, and set a series of international crimes against humanit...
1 day ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

My submission re the Online Safety Amendment Bill - TO: Committee Secretary Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 FROM: Dr Russell ...
1 day ago
Logarithmic History

“The moral grammar of marriage rules” - Following up on the previous post about the “Austenites”, here is the abstract from a recent article of mine, which covers marriage rules among Austenites ...
1 day ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands - [image: The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands]The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Is...
1 day ago
Cherokee Gothic

The Importance of the Cherokee language in the Preservation of Cherokee Culture - The significance and value of language are immeasurable. With the ability to communicate, forge new relationships, maintain traditions, and express ideas...
1 day ago
Moneyness

Pricing the anonymity of banknotes - Banknotes are useful. Not only do they provide their owner with a standard set of payments services, they also offer financial anonymity. This post intr...
1 day ago
Facing Islam Blog

Akathist to Hieromartyr Daniel Sysoev - *Akathist to Hieromartyr Daniel Sysoev - * *Since his martyrdom the night of November 19, 2009*, "the story of his life, teachings, and martyrdom has s...
1 day ago
Regie's Blog

BIG ED… - I knew it was a scam when they suspended my suspension. Finishing out my freshman year of college, with three different suspensions, was disheartening and...
1 day ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

Quotations - Democrat supporting US journalist Cenk Uygur: 'Sarah Palin was very nervous before her VP debate with Biden in 2008 and then she realized she just had to m...
1 day ago
Leah Schnelbach – Tor.com

There’s Not Enough Coal In The World For Red One - There are four things I takes seriously in this life, and two of them are Christmas movies, and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. The post There’s Not En...
1 day ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

How Do We Fix the Collapse of Quality? - *Every product now has an "extended warranty" admission of the collapse of quality and durability. * *There's a great uplifting hope swirling around the p...
1 day ago
MacroMania

Blanchard on Trumponomics - How will Trumponomics work out? This is a question that many people are asking, including Olivier Blanchard (see here). Blanchard focusses on three broad...
1 day ago
Communalism Watch

Was Bharat Jodo Yatra Subversive? - Was ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ Subversive? Ram Puniyani As assembly elections in Maharashtra are progressing; the mindset of BJP was expressed in a clear way by t...
1 day ago
Raymond Ibrahim

‘You Work, Give Us the Money, Allahu Akbar!’ The Fake History of Jizya - The Stream In an editorial titled “Jihad in Congo,” this summer ISIS boasted of its “recent operations, in which the blood of dozens of Christians was shed...
1 day ago
Paula Wright

Menemukan Pembelajaran dalam Alam: Perkemahan sebagai Media Pendidikan yang Efektif - Dalam era digital di mana anak-anak semakin terikat dengan gadget, penting bagi kita untuk mencari cara-cara alternatif untuk pendidikan yang dapat membe...
1 day ago
Books & Boots

Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner (1898) - Classic children’s adventure tropes John Trenchard is 15 years old, the classic age for a hero of an adventure story – no longer a helpless child (‘a stout...
1 day ago
The World is Not Enough

Dictatorship in the U.S.A.? - The risks of dictatorship in America are real, but shouldn't be overstated.
2 days ago
Chicago Boyz

What’s Wrong with this Meme? - The above meme has been widely circulated, to the approval of people who think it’s an unanswerable response to those who question the unthinking accepta...
2 days ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Russia’s Economy and Deathonomics - Back in 1939, Winston Churchill famously said in a radio broadcast: “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery i...
2 days ago
The Splintered Mind

New in Draft: When Counting Conscious Subjects, the Result Needn't Always Be a Determinate Whole Number - (with Sophie R. Nelson) One philosophical inclination I shared with the late Dan Dennett is a love of weird perspectives on consciousness, which sharply vi...
2 days ago
Overcoming Bias

No Meta Status Orgs - In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and...
2 days ago
Bracing Views

Yet Another Smear Piece on Tulsi Gabbard - W.J. Astore Where else but the New York Times In my morning news feed from the New York Times came this article on Tulsi Gabbard: How Tulsi Gabbard Became ...
2 days ago
PrawfsBlawg

Steve Vladeck's Admirable Response to Judge Edith Jones - Steve Vladeck has given me permission to reprint in full his response -- originally posted at One First -- to Judge Edith Jones's unseemly attack on him at...
2 days ago
bellingcat

Bellingcat Discord Members Geolocate New 1xBet Stream Sites - A recent Bellingcat investigation revealed that a controversial Russian-founded gambling platform takes bets on thousands of amateur sports events that a...
2 days ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

Pleasant Autumn: Grouse - I usually hunting all fall season. This year I haven’t been into it. Hard to say why. I guess the freezer is full and I’m feeling lazy. It doesn’t mean I h...
2 days ago
Augean Stables

The “Public Secret” Dossier: Revelations about the MSM from the Al Durah Affair - This text was first posted July 10, 2008, but much of it is missing there. I will clean this text (with formatting) but in the meantime, I publish it here ...
3 days ago
Edward Feser

Advice to Christian Philosophers - My essay “From Justin Martyr to Alvin Plantinga and Back Again: Advice from the First Christian Philosopher” appears in the anthology *Advice to Christia...
3 days ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

Chapultepec Castle, Mexico - A few weeks ago I went on a business trip to Mexico. Between meetings, I did a little tourism. I went to the Anthropological Museum to see the ancient Azte...
4 days ago
globalinequality

Would Lenin have approved of the IMF? - A simple-minded answer to the question is, No. The IMF is entirely dedicated to preserving the world capitalist system and any socialist must disapprov...
4 days ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

Patrols and the Reverse Orc Baby - It is a property of the DMG that it always seems to contain some offbeat rules element which alters your conception of the game when you finally take a mom...
4 days ago
The Market Monetarist

Xodus Explained: Machine Learning, Social Dynamics, and the Rise of Bluesky - Social Networks in Flux – The Shift from X to Bluesky In recent days, we have witnessed a remarkable migration of users from X (formerly known as Twitter) ...
4 days ago
The Observation Post

Inventing Apartheid – a Chronology - The Chronology of Apartheid: 1652 – 1952 In 2017 Hélène Opperman Lewis released a “psychology” book titled “Apartheid: Britain’s Bastard Child”, the name a...
4 days ago
Brown Pundits

Browncast: US Election results - Another Browncast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, Spotify (and a variety of other platforms). Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since...
5 days ago
Old European culture

Winged Hussars - The charge of the Polish Winged Hussars at the 1683 Battle of Vienna. 3000 of them took part of the biggest cavalry charge in history, which finally stop...
5 days ago
Rhys Ford

Still Alive - I am going to make a determined effort to remove myself from Twitter as a main posting platform and use BlueSky instead. As well? I am in flux like so many...
6 days ago
Streetwise Professor

A Culture Warrior to MMGA - Trump’s cabinet nominees are provocative, to say the least. There has to be some stratagem behind Gaetz in particular, because it is facially hard to under...
6 days ago
n+1 » Articles

As Good As It Gets? - By themselves, strong growth and low unemployment cannot wash away social divisions, any more than they can empower labor enough to substantively increase...
6 days ago
Dr. Andrew Bostom

Public Medical CV Update, November, 2024 - Link to November 2024 Medical CV: AB__CV_11.24
6 days ago
4 gravitons

The “That’s Neat” Level - Everything we do, we do for someone. The simplest things we do for ourselves. We grab that chocolate bar on the table and eat it, and it makes us happier. ...
6 days ago
Practical Ethics

Is it ever OK for scientists to experiment on themselves? - Jonathan Pugh, University of Oxford; Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford, and Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford This article is republished from...
6 days ago
No B-S here (I hope)

Your Kids and Their ABC - TONY THOMAS NOV 15 2024 11 minsSave Download PDF ABC Impartiality Standard: Do not unduly favour one perspective over another.The Albanese government gave ...
6 days ago
Club Troppo

Copilot stopped talking to me - I was reading some polemic from Bettina Arndt recently about women dominating the legal profession, especially in the Family Law sphere, so I thought I wou...
1 week ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Islamism, Crime and their Social and Political Influence in Russia. Part 2. The Radical Islamist Influence and Power Struggle inside Russian Prisons - *PSCRP-BESA Reports No 97 (Nov 05, 2024)* *The Power Struggle Among Criminal Groups in Russian Prisons and the Growing Role of Islamist Groups* Russian ...
1 week ago
Andrew Norton

The higher education participation rate at age 19 almost certainly fell in 2023 – but an exact rate cannot be calculated - Despite significant policy interest in higher education attainment rates, the preceding participation rates are rarely reported. The most readily available...
1 week ago
Gun Culture 2.0

Light Over Heat Book Chats on Guns - Among the videos on my Light Over Heat YouTube channel are some conversations I had with authors of recent books on guns. I’m going to embed the video link...
1 week ago
Climate Etc.

The climate case of the century - by Lucas Bergkamp On the 12th of November, the Hague Court of Appeal ruled in the “climate case of the century” that Milieudefensie (“FoE”) filed against S...
1 week ago
RyanHoliday.net

This Is The Most Important Thing For These Crazy Times - It’s the hardest thing. Especially right now. Not making money in this economy. Not climbing a mountain. Not running a marathon or writing a book or build...
1 week ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

The Liberalism of the MAGA Voters Explains Trump's Election. But Trump's Illiberal Presidency Could Become Fascist. - Leading up to the presidential election, commentators like Robert Kagan and Steven Hahn argued that if Donald Trump were elected, this would show the triu...
1 week ago
House of Eratosthenes

Twenty Years Blogging, and I’m Thinking About Work - Twenty years blogging. My thoughts today are about the relationship between blogs, and work. So often, I have missed opportunities to do the first of those...
1 week ago
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Death Valley Temperatures, Part 3: Twelve Years of July Daily Tmax Estimates and the 134 deg. F Record - In Part 1 I claimed that using stations surrounding Death Valley is a good way to “fact check” warm season high temperatures (Tmax) at the Death Valley sta...
1 week ago
How Material Are We? – MADE IN AMERICA

Three Questions About the Election, Including “How Did Harris Do So Well?” - It’s early days for any scholarly analysis of the election results, but time enough for punditry and recriminations. I have no novel or great insights, but...
1 week ago
Henry the Young King Blog

12 Years of Henry the Young King Blog! - 12 years ago today I published the first post on Henry the Young King blog. Using the occasion, I would like to say big thank you to all those, who suppo...
1 week ago
War Is Boring - Medium

Japan’s PM ‘runs’ to Trump, Ishiba aims for a meeting in November - Adnkronos International, Rome(TNS) During the phone call that lasted about five minutes, Ishiba and Trump – Kyodo reports again – did not talk about the ...
2 weeks ago
I aim to misbehave.

Gratitude and Perspectives - Sometimes people suck. They annoy you. Do something irritating, or worse antagonistic. We're all quick vent about it, often for days. Sometimes - more ofte...
2 weeks ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Letter to a Jewish voter in Pennsylvania - Important Announcement: I don’t in any way endorse voting for Jill Stein, or any other third-party candidate. But if you are a Green Party supporter who li...
2 weeks ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Letter to a Jewish voter in Pennsylvania - Important Announcement: I don’t in any way endorse voting for Jill Stein, or any other third-party candidate. But if you are a Green Party supporter who li...
2 weeks ago
The Angry Staff Officer

Neither Sense nor Sensibility: A Weekend Safety Brief from Jane Austen - Note: This post originally appeared in the Duffel Blog. It has been somewhat modified from its original version. It is presented here with all due apologie...
2 weeks ago
The Gladstone Diaries

"An End to Fantasies": The Conservative Dilemma - “It’s snowing still. *And* freezing. However, we haven’t had an earthquake lately”. *The House at Pooh Corner* (1928) On 4 July 2024, t...
2 weeks ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

Quick note - Just a quick reminder to all you MilSF authors out there: Reticle: A Crosshair or aiming device. Reticule: A small purse. I swear, Microsoft Word must have...
2 weeks ago
The Sociological Eye

STATISTICS ARE OUTCOMES, NOT CAUSES: YANKEES LOST BY EMOTIONAL DOMINATION - Statisticians tend to think of their numbers as causes of what happens. A famous scientist, Stephen Jay Gould has argued that baseball players don't ...
2 weeks ago
The Scholar's Stage

Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass - *MANY HAVE TRIED* to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused to endorse Project 2025—they have refused to endorse a...
3 weeks ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

Richard Pipes Bibliography - About: "Islam's Battle with a Hostile World." By John Lloyd, Financial Times, January 11, 2003. A comparison of the careers of Richard and Daniel Pipes. "A...
3 weeks ago
Supply and Demand (in that order)

Biden-Harris policies and their consequences were no surprise to those paying attention - Milton Friedman used to advise researchers to focus on large policy changes rather than attempting to separate a small change’s signal from the noise. In...
3 weeks ago
Darwinian Reactionary

12 Years of Darwinian Reactionary - 2025 marks twelve years of Darwinian Reactionary. I never meant to start this bog. In the years leading up to its beginning I wandered the internet looking...
3 weeks ago
History for Atheists

Interview – Dr David M. Perry on the “Dark Ages” - My guest today is Dr David M. Perry . David is a medieval historian and author of several books, including The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Eur...
3 weeks ago
The Syrian Intifada

Advocacy Journalism Has Been a Problem for Ages: Looking Back at Bosnia - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on October 26, 2024 Read the article over at Substack.
3 weeks ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

Podcasts, Podcasts… - While my own In Moscow’s Shadows podcast is still going strong, of late I seem to have been featuring on a lot of other people’s, so here is a quick rundow...
3 weeks ago
glenntstanton.com

A Singularly Christian View of the Transgender Problem - There was a two-decades-long push to redefine and de-gender marriage that ended when the United States Supreme Court declared, in […] The post A Singular...
3 weeks ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

The West is sleepwalking into Trudeau’s woke nightmare - Justin Trudeau is creating a new arm of the state with sweeping powers aimed at criminalising opinions deemed ‘unacceptable’ by progressives For seven days...
3 weeks ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

About Simone and Malcolm Collins’ Smear Campaign Against Me - If you’re interested at all in pronatalism, you’re familiar with Simone and Malcolm Collins, the pronatal Silicon Valley investors-turned-Pennsylvania-pr...
4 weeks ago
Freethinking Economist

Innovation, Competition, and Pitfalls of the Sector method - Not long ago I found myself in a lecture theatre listening to a US academic arguing that lowering drug prices was a stupid policy objective. When it comes ...
4 weeks ago
MountainGuerrilla

New Book - Regular weekly articles will be posted tomorrow, Monday 21OCT2024, or the following day. In the meantime though, since people have been asking so avidly as...
4 weeks ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

Comfort - I had a post-doc. fellowship at Stanford. (“Post-doctoral fellowship” is code for welfare for people with doctorates.) It carried few obligations. I had to...
4 weeks ago
Lead and Gold

McCarthyism: A man in the shadows - The Tydings committee was official Washington's first attempt to derail Sen. Joseph McCarthy's crusade against the communist infiltration of government. I...
4 weeks ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Against Scooby Doo ideology - There's an unspoken and apparently unquestioned presumption at the centre of this government's economic policy. We saw three examples of it this week. The ...
4 weeks ago
Jonathan Spyer

In the Heart of Darkness - Jerusalem Post, 18/10 A Yezidi former slave rescued from Gaza Reveals Her Horrifying experiences in Jihadi Captivity It is now two weeks since the rescue o...
4 weeks ago
The Other Side of History

Utilizing Religion as a Foreign Policy Tool - Introduction Prior to entering the great power competition (GPC) with China and Russia, the United States was embroiled in the Global War on Terror (GWOT)...
5 weeks ago
ribbonfarm

Ribbonfarm is Retiring - After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm....
1 month ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

Is This Too Cryptic? - Now the physicists know what it was like to be an economist in 1978. Click here to comment or read others’ comments.
1 month ago
Jeb Kinnison

Podcast Review of “Avoidant” - I’ve been trying out AI assistance in marketing. This is an excellent example of what you can do, and it’s amazingly good at bringing out the value of th...
1 month ago
The History of China

#276 – Qing 18: Kangxi Gets Personal - The Kangxi Emperor of Great Qing squares off again Galdan Khan of the Dzungar Khanate in the sociopolitical-religio-military showdown of the late 17th cent...
1 month ago
Sharyl Attkisson

(WATCH) NATO - The US is one of 32 nations belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. The alliance is 75 years old this year. Because of the Russia-Uk...
1 month ago
Rightly Considered

Hello world! - WordPress へようこそ。こちらは最初の投稿です。編集または削除し、コンテンツ作成を始めてください。
1 month ago
The Mermaid's Tale

This Year's (2024) Textbook-free Human Origins and Evolution - I’m still teaching APG 201 Human Origins and Evolution to an auditorium of 120 students every Fall semester. Unlike what students do at other universitie...
1 month ago
The Mitrailleuse

Romusha Adalah: Mengungkap Sejarah dan Peran Penting Para Pekerja Paksa di Indonesia - Romusha adalah istilah yang digunakan untuk menggambarkan para pekerja paksa yang dipekerjakan oleh pemerintah kolonial Jepang selama Perang Dunia II di ...
2 months ago
Thermidor

Tips For Booking Your Khasab Dhow Cruise Experience - Booking a dhow cruise in Khasab promises an unforgettable adventure, but ensuring you get the most out of your experience requires careful planning. From c...
2 months ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

A Farewelll - I have been writing this column, off and on, mostly on, for–dear God, can it be nearly thirty years? Yet nothing lasts forever, neither columns nor columni...
2 months ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

A Farewelll - I have been writing this column, off and on, mostly on, for–dear God, can it be nearly thirty years? Yet nothing lasts forever, neither columns nor columni...
2 months ago
interfluidity

China has much to teach us. John Roberts does not. - So, I don’t really write here any more. I write at drafts.interfluidity.com instead. Please follow that feed or subscribe by e-mail. I do still offer perio...
2 months ago
Bondwine Books

The Platform of the King - As Nate Winchester observes, George R. R. Martin ‘famously said something about wanting to know Aragorn’s tax policy’. Evidently Martin thinks this was one...
2 months ago
TheMoneyIllusion

A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...
2 months ago
Corey Robin

Polio in Gaza: A Jewish Fable - You probably have to be Jewish to appreciate the full and bitter irony of this sentence: Nearly 11 months into a devastating war, a serious new challenge h...
2 months ago
The Objective Standard

The Obscenity of Banning Books - Granting governments the ability to violate intellectual freedom by banning books from schools doesn’t help or protect anyone. It is an obscene way of st...
2 months ago
Cameron Harwick

Interactive PCA of Vector Embeddings - Principal component analysis is a way to summarize as much of the variation in many-dimensional data as you can, using fewer dimensions. For example, a gen...
3 months ago
Being Classically Liberal

Get Started With Web Hosting Quickly And Easily - It may seem daunting or downright impossible to find a suitable web host, but more often than not, a little research can help you find an answer quickly! A...
3 months ago
Martin van Creveld

Dear Friends - Dear Friends: Ten years after I started this blog, circumstances are making it impossible for me to continue with it. So I am going to suspend it, at lea...
3 months ago
mathbabe

Clock - Guest post by Sander O’Neil https://sanderoneilclock.tiiny.site/ This is a follow up to this post https://mathbabe.org/2015/03/12/earths-aphelion-and-perih...
3 months ago
untethered

Sanity Fair - *"Antifascist" demonstration Portland, Oregon. August 17, 2019. * The two sides squared off across a field, defined by police cordons at each end, like dis...
3 months ago
Notes On Liberty

New issue of Isonomia Quarterly is out - You can read the whole thing here.
3 months ago
Paul Musgrave

test - testing something
3 months ago
educationrealist

Government Class Gonna Be LIT! (plus a coincidence) - The last time I taught US History was in spring 2017, and it was the shit. Trump had just won and as my readers know, I live and teach in deepest of blue b...
3 months ago
Fabius Maximus website

The Deep-State Strikes Back - Biden is out. Kamala is in. Democracy and laws be damned. Biden through Saturday night was insisting he would stay in the presidential race to the end su...
3 months ago
Uneasy Money

Thoughts and Details on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level - The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level has been percolating among monetary theorists for over three decades: Eric Leeper being the first to offer a formaliza...
4 months ago
Agony and Hope

Men today are not real men (and the same goes for women) - There’s a man in my parish who, from the outside, looks like a typical Catholic dad: slightly balding, genial, pleasant-mannered, with plenty of kids. But ...
4 months ago
Evonomics

Why Economists Should Embrace Forecasting Tournaments - Forecasting failures: Lessons from the 19th century to modern economics The post Why Economists Should Embrace Forecasting Tournaments appeared first on ...
4 months ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

The ANES at 75: What have we learned from the American National Election Studies? - One of the early discoveries of the founders of the American National Election Studies (ANES) was that psychological attachments to parties themselves ar...
4 months ago
Falkenblog

A Better Stablecoin on a Perp DEX - Creating a stablecoin position on a perp exchange is hard, but it should be easy. It not only caters to demand, but it also adds liquidity to perp marke...
5 months ago
Bernard Gaynor

ABC’s Sarah L’Estrange defends paedophile fantasy comic - ABC journalist Sarah L'Estrange came out in defence of Maia Kobabe's "Gender Queer", even though she admitted that it may contain images of paedophilia. ...
6 months ago
traditionalRIGHT

Sitzkrieg? - Several People have inquired why I have not written a column for TR in some time. Let me assure them I am in good health and face no lack of material as o...
6 months ago
Sam Altman

GPT-4o - There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of ...
6 months ago
Information Processing

Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...
6 months ago
Information Processing

Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...
6 months ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

A Few Things We Don’t Quite Get About the Levant - (First Draft of the Foreword to Pierre Zalloua’s forthcoming book. For comments.) Europa was the daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre Some people believe tha...
6 months ago
Mark Manson

How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear - What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all? In this article, I'm going to help you do exactly that b...
6 months ago
Eurogenes Blog

It's complicated - Three important manuscripts appeared recently at bioRxiv, mostly dealing with the origins and expansions of proto-Germanic and proto-Indo-European populati...
7 months ago
Caitlin Green

Land on the Edge: The Landscape Evolution of the Lincolnshire Coastline (2023) - The *Land on the Edge *project was commissioned by Historic England and Lincolnshire County Council as part of the wider *Inns on the Edge* project (Hist...
7 months ago
Money, Markets, and Misperceptions

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8 months ago
Samizdata

Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...
9 months ago
Ideas

Speaking trip this April - I'm speaking at Libertycon in Tbilisi on April 20th, will probably either go or come via London. Anyone interested in a talk? I'll probably be in Europe ...
9 months ago
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
9 months ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

What I’ve been listening to lately - A lot of stuff went onto my playlist late in 2023 that I didn’t have time to digest until recently; many of these could have made my best of the year list.
9 months ago
Evo and Proud

My wish list for 2024: Hormonal inputs into perception of human skin color by men and women - Subjects identify the face on the left as female and the face on the right as male. The only difference is the lightness of the skin. Richard Russell, ...
9 months ago
Ex Urbe

Tools for Thinking About Censorship - “Was it a government action, or did they do it themselves because of pressure?” This is inevitably among our first questions when news breaks that any expr...
10 months ago
Wide Urban World

Amazonian "Garden Urbanism": A skeptical account - This new paper in Science is getting alot of publicity, and people are asking for my views (Rostain, et al. 2024) The paper presents fascinating new evide...
10 months ago
Andrew Norton

Milton Friedman: The last conservative or the first welfare state classical liberal? - When Milton Friedman died in 2006 I wrote a blog post crediting him as an ‘enormous influence on my life’. I said back then that although few people call t...
10 months ago
West Hunter

Books 2023 - You might also be interested in my booklists from from 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. The Balance of Tomorrow Stirling’s Desert Rai...
11 months ago
Pandaemonium

25 THINKERS FOR A WORLD ON THE BRINK - It was most unexpected, but most welcome. I’ve been nominated by Prospect magazine as one of “25 thinkers for a world on the brink”. “Kenan Malik… earns a ...
11 months ago
Peter Turchin

War in Ukraine VI: Adding Economic Power to the Attrition Model - In the previous post of the series, I promised to show how both the Economic Power and Casualties Rates hypotheses can be combined within the same computat...
11 months ago
deflationite.com

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
1 year ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

British Jews are living under the shadow of fear: Whatever happens in Israel and Palestine, nothing excuses bigoted and criminal behaviour in the UK - By Khadija Khan The increase in anti-Semitic incidents following Hamas’s barbaric attack on Israeli civilians on October 7 is abhorrent – but regrettably...
1 year ago
Belmont Club

Belmont Club: A Bellyful of War -
1 year ago
Jacobite

Who Can File An Ethics Complaint Against A Realtor – Your Shield Against Unethical Realtors - Real estate transactions are pivotal moments in our lives, often involving significant financial and emotional investments. When ethics are compromised ...
1 year ago
Blazing Cat Fur

Morris dancers drop ‘men’ from name to be trans inclusive … but still exclude women - Brighton’s male Morris dancers have dropped the word ‘‘men’’ from their decades-old name to avoid offending trans and non-binary people. The troupe is chan...
1 year ago
LaborEcon

ฝาก10 รับ 100 ใหม่ล่าสุด โปรคุณภาพ ที่คนงบน้อย ห้ามพลาด! - เปลี่ยนเงินทุน 10 บาท ให้เป็นโอกาสลุ้นเงินรางวัลจากเกมพ … ฝาก10 รับ 100 ใหม่ล่าสุด โปรคุณภาพ ที่คนงบน้อย ห้ามพลาด! Read More »
1 year ago
A Fine Theorem

Who Got What, and Why? A Nobel for Claudia Goldin - How have women been paid for their work? More broadly, how are different skills in general rewarded in the labor market? The prices of different things are...
1 year ago
ERIC POSNER

Recent work - The New Labor Antitrust, SSRN The Trump Indictment and America’s Political Order, Project Syndicate, June 14, 2023 The Revised Merger Guidelines Will Resto...
1 year ago
TheRalphRetort.com

ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION - Snacks, aka “Bread” or “The Louisiana Succubus”, is infamous within the sector.… The post ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION appeared first on TheRa...
1 year ago
Academic Wonderland

On the Dangers of Futile Appeals - In 2016, Gary Pavela, a longtime educational consultant and fellow for the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), referenced the...
1 year ago
Maverick Philosopher

New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve - They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat, get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every Democrat-...
1 year ago
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

"Realist Jurisprudence: Selected Essays" - A Spanish translation by Dr. Francisco M. Mora-Sifuentes of eight of my essays on realist jurisprudence and related topics (with a new preface by me and an...
1 year ago
Mick Hartley

A pyramid scheme of misery - Róisín Michaux at The Critic on the mothers who affirm their children's trans identities: I’ve spent the last couple of years lurking on their online fora....
1 year ago
Working-Class Perspectives

Biden’s Labor Initiatives and Organizers’ Challenges - Is Joe Biden, as he claims, the best friend workers have had in the White House either ever or since Franklin Delano Roosevelt? We could debate that all d...
1 year ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives - Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the...
1 year ago
Andrew Holt, Ph.D.

A Crusader’s Mom - Something a bit different. Early crusaders were volunteers, who took vows to go on a crusade, rather than members of a professional army. As a result, they...
1 year ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

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1 year ago
OrientalReview.org

U.S. Openly Militarizes Space - The media have noticed that the new USSF Doctrine is more focused on aligning space activity with the twelve principles of warfare as a whole The post U....
1 year ago
Norse and Viking Ramblings

One Day Towards the End of Summer - The following is an extract from something I am working on at the moment - an analysis of the killing of Earl Rǫgnvaldr of Orkney, as reported in chapter...
1 year ago
Critical Thinking Applied

好きな人と付き合って結婚、幸せな家庭を気づくためのノウハウ - 彼と付き合って一年が過ぎ、より実りのある二年目を過ごすには彼と付き合って、一年も経つとだいたいどんな人となり […]
1 year ago
GayUganda

Weird, Queer Mood; Uganda, Ugandans on the World Bank - The World Bank released a statement. To dear Uganda; sorry, but our values and the values enshrined in the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 are at war. W...
1 year ago
Uncouth Reflections

Rochester gets burned over - Fenster writes: The burned over district: The term “burned-over district” refers to the western and central regions of New York State in the early 19th cen...
1 year ago
THE LAST DITCH

Lionising the lionesses - Football has kept me sane during a difficult part of my life. There have been weeks in the past two years when the only place I’ve left my home to visit ha...
1 year ago
MAN ABOUT TOWN

Author’s notes: Britannia and Beyond - Hibernia - If you’re reading this, that probably means you’ve purchased a copy of the latest *Cthulhu Invictus* sourcebook from Golden Goblin Press: *Britannia and ...
1 year ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

A Fond Farewell to Political Violence @ A Glance - Dear Readers, After eleven incredible years, we have made the difficult decision to close the doors of Political…
1 year ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

Russia: Defend Boris Kagarlitsky! - News of Kagarlitsky's arrest has sparked anger and empathy among a wide range of activists. People may perish, but ideas do not, and Kagarlitsky has done...
1 year ago
La Bocca della Verità

"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness - I am currently reading *The Master and His Emissary*, which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature...
1 year ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

Geoffrey Brennan (9/15/44-7/28/22) - Long-time Duke faculty member and friend Geoffrey Brennan died in Canberra, Australia of complications from acute leukemia. “Geoff” joined the Duke ...
1 year ago
Brad R. Torgersen

The persistence of belief and certainty - Long thought. Don’t say you had no warning. The explicitly secular perspective is that there is no proof of a spiritual layer to human experience, Continue...
1 year ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

Protected: Story Post (Private) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
1 year ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

Draco Layer Four: The Anagogic or Mystical Sense - Here be dragons. And doves. Human beings long for transcendence. Such longing is, for the world, always out of fashion because, of course, it is not a long...
1 year ago
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
1 year ago
JudgyBitch

Your own relaxing retreat: tips for designing a dream backyard escape - There’s nothing quite like having a peaceful and relaxing outdoor space to unwind and escape the stresses of everyday life. And what better way to achieve ...
1 year ago
Taki's Magazine

Conversations With Cabbies - Many a foreign correspondent, sent to an obscure country of which he knows nothing but which has suddenly drawn the world’s attention to itself by a terrib...
1 year ago
Growth Economics Blog

Moving to Substack - Hi all, this is a pointer to direct you over to Substack. I’m moving the Econ Growth Blog over there, with the hopes of creating a little more interactio...
1 year ago
Mercatornet

France’s fertility fall began long ago, before the Revolution. Was dechristianization to blame? - Why do fertility rates fall? All over the world, in rich countries, in middle-income countries, and in poor countries, fertility rates are falling below ...
1 year ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order - The post Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order appeared first on Heterodox Academy.
1 year ago
The Baseline Scenario

A Few Quick Announcements - By James As I wrote a couple of years ago, I don’t post here anymore. I just have a couple of updates for people who subscribe and may be interested in my ...
1 year ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

Tucker Carlson’s War on Official Narratives. Fired from Fox News. What’s Next? - Theories abound for why Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News. The bottom line: he's a truth-teller on the issues that count, and was operating in a media...
1 year ago
Miranda Yardley

Genspect 2023: Transgender as Political Backlash - This was my contribution to the Genspect ‘The Bigger Picture’ 2023 conference on Saturday 29... The post Genspect 2023: Transgender as Political Backlash...
1 year ago
The Evolution Institute

Democracy Bottom-Up: Building a Dialogue between Civil Society and Politicians - Warsaw Summit 1-2 June Forum Ruchu Europejskiego, European Movement International, Evolution Institute, and Collegium Civitas Place: Collegium Civitas, Pal...
1 year ago
Abandoned Footnotes

Using Large Language Models to generate democracy scores: An experiment - In case anyone is still reading this, I have a big data-rich post on my Github site on using ChatGPT aka GPT-3.5-Turbo and Claude (the Anthropic AI bot)...
1 year ago
A Myth in Creation

What Whitaker wants us to know about Mad in America - Read the post here on my Substack newsletter: https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/what-whitaker-wants-us-to-know-about
1 year ago
Ballandalus

Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada - The following is my newly-published article, which will be appearing in the April 2023 volume of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. The full article ...
1 year ago
CDR Salamander

Breaking my Flag - For those who missed the previous announcements, please read the previous posts for the details, but after 18 2/3 years here, I will no longer be posti...
1 year ago
Jennifer Marohasy

March Update: Mediation Ongoing, Temperature Tipping Point Already Exceeded - Thanks to everyone who has enquired about the outcome of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal hearing with John Abbot versus the Bureau of Meteorology fir...
1 year ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

The Erdmann Housing Tracker - For my latest work, please see my new substack newsletter: The Erdmann Housing Tracker
1 year ago
Scott Adams Blog

Episode 2045 Scott Adams: Silicon Valley Bank Prediction, Trump Dominance, & Race Relations Reframed - Content: Bill Maher reframes DeSantis out of 2024 SVB, Silicon Valley Bank situation Mark Cuban on FDIC 250,000 protection limit USA Today compares Maine...
1 year ago
Semi-Partisan Politics

Hanging Up The Keyboard - I wrote this incomplete draft way back in 2019 but never finished or published it in the mêlée of law school. Posting the fragments now for completeness....
1 year ago
Coyote Blog

Hope Springs Eternal... - In preparation for a return to active blogging I have torn down this server to the root and reinstalled everything clean. I am hoping the errors and probl...
1 year ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

The Debt Ceiling: An Economist's Analysis - Economics Professor Cameron Harwick explains government debt, the debt ceiling, and what it means when we hit it.
1 year ago
In Due Course | Building the Republic of Letters, one keystroke at a time

Wrapping things up here - I thought I should mention to any long-time readers that I am going to be letting this domain name lapse at the end of the month. I notice that certain p...
1 year ago
Quillette

Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities - The social dynamics of girls’ and women’s friendship groups, including a desire to fit in and avoid conflict, may make them more susceptible to social cont...
1 year ago
Heather's Homilies

Heather’s Funeral Service - A Service for Heather Hastie will be held at 2:30pm NZ Time on Thursday 9th February. If you would like to view the service please click on the link belo...
1 year ago
Michael O. Church

AI Will Kill Literature, and AI Will Resurrect It - The literary novel, as far as genres go, is not that old: novels have existed in our culture for about three hundred years. If you had a time machine, you ...
1 year ago
Order of the Coif

The British Land Corporation : A Housing Manifesto - In recent decades, successive governments have presided over a crash in the level of home ownership in the UK, coinciding with skyrocketing inequality. 30 ...
1 year ago
Chris Blattman

Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated - My piece in Wired The post Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more co...
1 year ago
Monetary Freedom

- Year To Date Inflation -- Not the Right Metric During the Great Moderation, the Fed kept the inflation rate close to its target of 2%. However, ther...
1 year ago
Against Jebel al-Lawz

Subscribe to my Substack - For most intents and purposes, this blog is dead. Comments are still permitted and errors will be corrected if pointed out. Nevertheless, all new writing w...
1 year ago
Rationalist Judaism

Blog Migration! - Birds migrate, butterflies migrate, whales migrate, and this blog is migrating! It's being moved over from Blogger to Substack. The URL is currently http...
1 year ago
Phillip W. Magness

How Eric Hobsbawm anticipated Synthetic Marx - I have to admit that I expected some pushback against the thesis of my paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) “The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the ...
1 year ago
Healthy Curiousity

Have the Baby Boomers Ruined Society? - Introduction.The author is a young energetic historian who has entertaining and insightful ideas. His exuberance on occasion leads him astray, he can be to...
1 year ago
The Electric Agora

Electric Agora shutting down, new media venture launching soon - Today we are shutting down all activities for The Electric Agora and will soon be archiving the site. The social media accounts for The Electric Agora were...
2 years ago
milescorak

Public Policy for Equality and Opportunity: Evidence-based and Ethically Grounded - Inequality erodes opportunity, and limited opportunity exacerbates inequality. This vicious intergenerational cycle has brought inclusive growth into quest...
2 years ago
davidthompson

As Good As A Rest, They Said - Or, The Cause Of All The Banging And Salty Epithets. After close to sixteen years, this blog has a new home. Come see. Bring cake.
2 years ago
Jim’s Blog

Another one bites the dust. - I don’t usually cover the events of the day, because one loses track of the big picture. The events of the day only reveal their meaning when viewed months...
2 years ago
CrisisMaven's Blog

Who blew up the Nordscream Popelines? - Well, one does have his or her sources … But, honestly, anyone with a brain can solve this no-brainer. For once – Russia has absolutely no interest do to s...
2 years ago
Institutional Economics

The Canadian-Australian Productivity Gap: Comparative Institutions and Policy Settings - I have a new report out with the Fraser Institute, The Canadian-Australian Productivity Gap: Comparative Institutions and Policy Settings.
2 years ago
Muddy Colors

Character Design, Pt 8: Designing Alternatives (Layer Comps) - Phew, it has been a busy couple of months, but I’ve got a quick chance to dive back into this guy. He’s getting close to finished, the colors and general ...
2 years ago
Coordination Problem

Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
2 years ago
Council on Global Security

สล็อต777คาสิโนออนไลน์ alphabet เข้ามาลองก่อนค่อยว่าไม่ดี - ทำรายการฝากเงินไม่มีขั้นต่ำ เว็บเดิมพันในปัจจุบันนั้นมีมากมายเต็มไปหมด ทุกท่านที่ต้องการร่วมสนุกสามารถเลือกเล่นเลือกลงทุนได้อย่างอิสระเต็มที่ได้เลย แต่...
2 years ago
When You Say Tomato and Your Sister Says Tomahto – spottedtoad

10 Predictions for the next 5 to 10 years - A friend asked what the big trends in American society over the next five to ten years would be. This is a fun time frame to think about, because you don’t...
2 years ago
PARALLAX OPTICS

Interview with Anon: On Subversion - Don't contribute to a system that hates you.
2 years ago
The Liberty Zone

Getting Down To Basics with - Bar Mitzvah Food Catering – Tips For Budget-Conscious Caterers For lots of, bar mitzvah food catering is a high-ticket item. […] The post Getting Down To...
2 years ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

Ethical Progress on the Abortion Care Frontiers on the African Continent - The Supreme Court of the United States of America has overridden 50 years of legal precedent and reversed constitutional protections[i] for abortion in t...
2 years ago
The Economics Detective

Good and bad ways to learn - [image: anonymous kid in helmet riding run bike on pavement in countryside] Learning a new skill is hard. Part of what’s so hard about it is, by definition...
2 years ago
CSPI Center

CSPI is Moving To Substack - A couple of months ago, I wrote about why, if you’re a writer, you should be on Substack. At the same time, CSPI was publishing all of its material on ou...
2 years ago
Rabble Rouser

The Problem with Research on Microaggressions - Commentary: Some of the key claims made in microaggression research are backed by weak evidence.
2 years ago
PressThink

He used to edit political stories at the Chicago Tribune. Now he says the press is failing our democracy. - "You don’t get a lot of complaints if you just write down what everyone says and leave it at that." The post He used to edit political stories at the Chi...
2 years ago
Fake Nous

Who Cares About Diversity? - All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires. Everyone has to submit a statement explaining how they a...
2 years ago
Magnitude Matters

Moving to Substack . . . - The times, they are a changin'. Going forward, I will primarily be blogging on Substack: https://stevewinkler.substack.com. Bryan Caplan, who else, convin...
2 years ago
chrishernandezauthor

Col. Beckwith’s Rolex 1675 - The IG account @watchesofespionage doesn't suck. This bit about Charlie Beckwith and his Rolex 1675 is an example why.
2 years ago
Blog - Traditions of Conflict

Appeasing the Dead - *I’m more…than just…a little curious…how you’re planning…to go about…Making your amends…to the dead. To the dead* — A Perfect Circle, *The Noose*. Dea...
2 years ago
I Want a New Left

My Final Post - For various reasons, I have decided to quit blogging. For one thing, my numbers are down to a level that it doesn’t seem worth it to continue, though let m...
2 years ago
The Reference Frame

AdSense became unusable - For several months, I have been getting direct censorship requests from Google AdSense. In recent days, the frequency increased to "several articles to be ...
2 years ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

The 1/N portfolio versus the optimal strategy: Does a simple heuristic outperform? - Gerd Gigerenzer is fond of telling a story about Harry Markowitz, modern portfolio design pioneer and winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...
2 years ago
Advice Goddess Blog

RIP, Amy's Blog: 1997 to 2021 - I have two intense books I'm completing, and I've been increasingly unable to put the effort into blogging that I have done for years...
2 years ago
Declination

Filtering For Truth In The Age Of Google - Over the years, I’ve met several individuals of immense capacity for logical deduction, genuinely impressive education, and sky-high IQ (we’re talking well...
2 years ago
The Arabist

The cost of living - “a rhetoric feast of meaningless blah”.
2 years ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

The shameful silence on the Waukesha massacre - Is silence still violence? If it is, then a whole lot of people, from the Hollywood set to the virtue-signalling left, are guilty of some serious violenc...
2 years ago
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
3 years ago
askblog

The blog has moved - It is now on substack (In My Tribe). There is still no charge to read it. I am trying to maintain the feel of this blog, including the daily scheduled post...
3 years ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Good Chart Checklist - Note: this was prepared for my ECON 3403 students, and is a list of all of the mistakes I commonly see in student charts. Please add your suggestions for t...
3 years ago
readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore

Hotel Bar Sessions, Ep 31: Whose History? - The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. to talk about whose history is (and isn't) being taught. Following on the heels of a recent and ...
3 years ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...
3 years ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...
3 years ago
Rajiv Sethi

Moved to Substack - This post is long overdue. About a year ago, I copied over all posts from here to Substack, and have been publishing occasional posts there ever since. ...
3 years ago
Medieval Matters – Tor.com

The Medieval Origins of Halloween Traditions - We’ve been knee-deep in pumpkin spice for weeks, now, which means (1) Starbucks may be part of a secret cabal intent on world domination through tasty me...
3 years ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

The mirror of Narcissus and the labyrinth of the Minotaur - The fugitive thoughts captured below came to me while I was reading about, then visiting, the city of Vienna, Austria, a place much more famous for its com...
3 years ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

Angelo Codevilla on changes in the educational landscape - Angelo Codevilla (circa 2010) whereas within living memory school nurses could not administer an aspirin to a child without the parents’ consent, the peopl...
3 years ago
Rachel Edwards — Medium

A Few Thoughts - It occurs to me that not enough people are really looking at the glaring hypocrisy currently unfolding in our post-pandemic world. The most obvious one b...
3 years ago
Armed and Dangerous

Sample post. - Checking to see if RSS works.
3 years ago
Michael Totten

The Kruiser Kabana Episode 154: Trump Needs to Make Up His Mind About 2024 ASAP -
3 years ago
Ambit Gambit

AmoLatina Revisión - AmoLatina anuncia los medios de acceso impresionante latinas contactos mujeres y comunicación usándolos. La cosa es que estas damas son conocidas como atra...
3 years ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

What does Lisa Birnbach say about preppy cars? - I happen to have a copy of The Official Preppy Handbook, and it seems that preppy cars barely changed at all since the book was written in 1980. That’s 41 ...
3 years ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

18 Theses on Poetry - The principal purpose of poetry is to lay bare the hidden powers of the language in which it is written. These powers are found both at the level of the ph...
3 years ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Today - [cross-posted at facebook] Today’s a fine day an especially beautiful day the kind of day when you know just how you want to spend it but the place you wan...
3 years ago
Nec Pluribus Impar

Pourquoi le COVID-19 est là pour de bon, et pourquoi vous ne devriez pas vous en inquiéter - [Cet article est une traduction d’un billet de blog que j’ai publié en anglais sur le site de CSPI le 17 août. La traduction a été réalisée conjointement...
3 years ago
Marquette Warrior

Dr. John McAdams - *October 26th, 1945 - April 15th, 2021* Dr. John Charles McAdams passed away on Thursday, April 15th, 2021, at the age of 75. He was a devoted husband, ...
3 years ago
Veracities

health care - These two graphs really say it all: A few years ago I got a freak knee infection that landed me in the hospital. The experience was so smooth, non-st...
3 years ago
Vox Popoli

A new legend - Unauthorized is very, very pleased to announce that MADE BY JIMBOB has joined the intellectual outlaws of the Internet. Look for his videos on the Made b...
3 years ago
Point of no return

Point of.No Return has moved! - The new address is www.jewishrefugees.org.uk. See you there!
3 years ago
Priceonomics Blog

People Left Cities for Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk? - Zoom towns with high wildfire risk are also seeing the fastest growth in home prices, and therefore the fastest increase in wildfire exposure
3 years ago
Satire .. not quite dead yet.

A handy guide to getting pinged - The NHS App could be expanded to help us make ‘informed decisions’ in all kinds of everyday scenarios. AI algorithms would replace the flawed notion of ‘wo...
3 years ago
Talisman Gate, Again

The Sad, Discordant Ballad of Husham al-Hashimi - The man who pulled the trigger on Husham al-Hashimi—by first misfiring an assault rifle and then pulling out his pistol to shoot the victim at point-blank ...
3 years ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

I’ve moved my blog to Substack… - Hello I now blog HERE. If interested in why I did the referendum, read THIS. In 2019, just before going to No10, I wrote about the likely failure of UK cri...
3 years ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

I’ve moved my blog to Substack… - Hello I now blog HERE. If interested in why I did the referendum, read THIS. In 2019, just before going to No10, I wrote about the likely failure of UK cri...
3 years ago
Dani Rodrik's weblog

IEA World Congress 2021 - A few words on the International Economics’ Association online World Congress, July 2-6, on the theme “Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in a Fractured...
3 years ago
A Free Left Blog

A Response to a Response to my piece on The Lark Ascending - An Open Letter to Tom W Green, a composer and musician based in Glasgow. Dear Tom, Thank you for alerting me to your blogpost entitled ‘The Farts As...
3 years ago
ThinkMarkets

“Old Chicago” and the Freiburg School - Stefan Kolev and Ekkehard Köhler have published a paper in the Working Paper Series of the Stigler Center at Chicago University on the history of the polit...
3 years ago
Easily Distracted

Still Distracted, But Not Here - My online writing goes back to Usenet, early bulletin-boards and the pay service GEnie, but my public identity as an online writer really began a few years...
3 years ago
rethinking history

What if Japan's attempt at a decisive June 1942 'Midway' battle, had been at Ceylon instead? - Another amusing 'what if' that came out of the current series of 'what if' articles. Enjoy. *What if Japan had made a serious effort to finish off the US...
3 years ago
Russian History Blog

Men Out of Focus: Cold War Scientists or Sixties Scientists? (Marko responds to Josh) - Josh’s post got me thinking about my disinclination to more directly acknowledge the connection between the Cold War and Soviet masculinity – esp. given th...
3 years ago
Historinhas

Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...
3 years ago
Historinhas

Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...
3 years ago
Inconvenient Facts

Inconvenient Facts is driving Norwegian warming hysterics nuts - Other than by misspelling "fjord," how would an American geologist draw the ire of a pair of Norwegian politicians? Answer: Write a book that counters t...
3 years ago
Kantoos Economics – Kantoos Economics

The advantages of working with a qualified exhibition stand builder - When looking for constructing services providers construction in all exhibitions in Europe, the primary is to get a competent exhibition stand builder pr...
3 years ago
Status 451

Movie Night – Dry Wind (2020) - Marketing a movie in the midst of a pandemic is a tough job. Doubly so when it’s a piece of esoteric queer cinema. At least one clever person has figured o...
3 years ago
GayPatriot

Humiliation: The Greatest Gift Our Adversaries Have For America - The country of slut and body shaming is about to learn the positive influence of shame. The only question will be, will we learn shame’s lessons? America ...
3 years ago
Fredrik deBoer

the future - Hey gang, I’m excited to say that Substack approached me recently and made an attractive financial offer for me to blog over there. Given that I’ve been ou...
3 years ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Finito Sic Semper Tyrannis - We are done here. turcopolier.com is working now. I have cancelled all guest author ships here. RSS is enabled on the new blog. Comments will no longer be ...
3 years ago
Stories by Michael Tracey on Medium

‘Feel Our Pain,’ Politicians Demand - Congress is increasingly not a place where the average member partakes in what’s generally understood as legislative activity, but rather engages in a va...
3 years ago
The Independent Whig

The Tragic Effect of the Left’s One-Dimensional World View on the Multi-Dimensional World - I recommend the documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” by historian Shelby Steele. Two things about it struck me. 1) Steele’s term “Poetic Truth” sounds ...
3 years ago
Slate Star Codex

Introducing Astral Codex Ten - Thanks for bearing with me the past few months. My new blog is at https://astralcodexten.substack.com/. I’ll try to have a less unwieldy domain name workin...
3 years ago
Setting the Record Straight

We lost. Now what? - I was preparing this post, anticipating that nothing would happen on January 6, that the certification of Biden would go forward with minor bluster and maj...
3 years ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Happy New Year 2021 - Health and Happiness to all.
3 years ago
Little Atoms

Indoors and introspective - 2020’s cultural highlights - The books, stories, records and shows that got me through a strange year These are personal choices from the culture that I consumed in 2020. If you choos...
3 years ago
Neven Sesardić

An amazingly short history of philosophy - 1. In the beginning everyone searching for knowledge was doing philosophy. There was nothing else. 2. Then, gradually, one scientific discipl...
3 years ago
Noahpinion

Noahpinion has moved to a new website! - Well folks, it's been a fun 10-year run at this little website. I'm moving on to a new platform: Substack! Here's the new Noahpinion: https://noahpin...
3 years ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

Storytelling: Friday Chart Edition - I have not posted here in awhile, so I thought it would be good to share a few recent charts that tell interesting stories. *Central Bank Balance Sheets* F...
4 years ago
Harry's Place

‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage - Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than the govern...
4 years ago
Handle's Haus

Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies” - Two years ago, when reviewing “The Benedict Option”, I wrote, “Almost all Dreher’s critics accuse him of crying wolf or being a Chicken Little at best … Me...
4 years ago
Via Meadia

A Letter to TAI’s Subscribers and Readers - Dear TAI readers,Due primarily to financing difficulties, The American Interest is taking a hiatus from publishing new material.We are glad that there is...
4 years ago
Stories by Tom X Hart on Medium

Biotin for hair: what can this vitamin do to hair? - What is this vitamin? How does it act on the wires? Does it make hair grow faster? For more insights jump to: best biotin shampoo We know that our hair l...
4 years ago
PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS

Upside-Down Markets: Profits, Inflation and Equity Valuation in Fiscal Policy Regimes - I just published a new long-form piece through OSAM entitled “Upside-Down Markets: Profits, Inflation and Equity Valuation in Fiscal Policy Regimes.” In th...
4 years ago
Civil Politics Blog

2020 Update - Civil Politics remains a free resource and we continue to support some partners who we previously worked with but due to time and funding constraints, we a...
4 years ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Socialism: The Greatest Enemy Of Freedom - Every nincompoop who’s been educated into stupidity will define socialism as state or social ownership of the means of production. Socialism is basically...
4 years ago
vitam fracta

Left Critics and the Biden-Harris Ticket - .. . By Darren Barany Unsurprisingly (and sadly), many Americans relate to campaigns for major elections in ways that reflect the society’s pervasive indiv...
4 years ago
Tommy Ousslander

where the cupcake lovers at? -
4 years ago
Insitome - Medium

Humanity’s second “cradle” in Southeast Asia - Pleistocene Sundaland This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib and Spencer talk about a topic which they hav...
4 years ago
Raedwald

The spin on the spin - There's been something of a triumph of spin on the EU's MFF share-out. Oh I don't mean the headlines, which we summarised last week, but the rationale. Spa...
4 years ago
The Everyday Economist

In Memory of Bob Rossana - Robert “Bob” Rossana died back in February of this year. I was inadvertently left off of the university announcement email and did not hear about it until ...
4 years ago
skepticlawyer

The social justice steamroller: a pervasive and profound attack on citizenship - Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue, discussed how centre-right parties have not found a language to deal with ...
4 years ago
Cop in the Hood

Migrating the blog - It should be back soon. If you really want it find something right now, it’s all still there, just hiding at a slightly different (temporary) address: http...
4 years ago
The Ex-Muslim

Turkey: 28.5% of Generation Z have abandoned Islam - A recent study conducted by Gezici Research Center recorded a massive shift in social and religious attitudes in Turkey among cohorts of Generation Z. In t...
4 years ago
Douglas L. Campbell

John Cochrane on Stephanie Kelton's New Book: ‘The Deficit Myth’ Review: Years of Magical Thinking - John Cochrane has a review of Stephanie Kelton's new book, "The Deficit Myth". Here it is, for those who don't have access, with a few comments from me, ...
4 years ago
Bleeding Heart Libertarians

The End - Back in 2011, a group of academic philosophers started a blog called “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” The idea behind that blog was simple, but also somewh...
4 years ago
Overlawyered

A good run: Overlawyered, 1999-2020 - I published the first Overlawyered post on July 1, 1999, and I expect this post on May 31, 2020 will be the last. As someone in the entertainment world o...
4 years ago
john hawks weblog

Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials - The archaeological site of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is one of the most significant early Neolithic villages to have been excavated. It was occu...
4 years ago
The DiploMad 2.0

Not a Whiff of Scandal . . . Yeah, Right, Joe. Sure thing . . . - OK. I was going to write a long warm up/intro to the main topic of this piece, but my anger level kept rising. In light of that, therefore, let me drop the...
4 years ago
Opinion - The Philosophers' Magazine

Philosophy, In a Sense - Constantine Sandis on Doing Nothing in the Time of Covid-19
4 years ago
Bloody Shovel 2

Cold War 2 Propaganda - So it seems that hostility to China is now official American policy. Redgov, i.e. the Military Industrial Complex has been pushing it for quite a while, ...
4 years ago
Jonathan Tepper

Recent writing - I haven’t written recently on this blog. I wrote for a year at The American Conservative. All the pieces are available here. I also wrote a piece Covid-19 ...
4 years ago
White Sun of the Desert

One flu over the cuckold’s nest - There have been a few articles like this doing the rounds: What It’s Like to Isolate With Your Girlfriend and Her Other Boyfriend Humiliating and degrading...
4 years ago
Basil Halperin

The real problem is also nominal - The real problem is also nominal March 15, 2020 *Confidence level (?): thinking out loud* If I closed my eyes and completely wiped from my mind the fac...
4 years ago
Ancestry matters

We need our fear and anger to tackle COVID-19 - The most important thing that the response to COVID-19 has lacked in the West, compared to East Asia, is fear. President Xi and his subordinates are afrai...
4 years ago
zenpundit.com

Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague - [ by Charles Cameron — scientific [precision meets human error in cases of outbreak — with links to a terrific science thread by Palli Thordarson @PalliTho...
4 years ago
Random Critical Analysis

A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.
4 years ago
Random Critical Analysis

A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.
4 years ago
Jadeluxe

Steno Majesty - This beautiful lady, known as the White Rose, was Queen Consort Geraldine of Albania in the 1930s. Don’t look closely into her politics – she and her husba...
4 years ago
Jacob ex Machina

Network Behavior and Christian Ethics - In designing software for computer networks, the Robustness Principle states "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept" The firs...
4 years ago
The Great Realignment

In spite of Brexit… - Now that the British exit from the European Union is a legal reality, the economic situation in the UK has been surprisingly sedate. This will be a surpris...
4 years ago
Chublic Opinion

Wuhan: a tale of immune system failure and social strength - For most Chinese people watching the unfolding of Wuhan’s coronavirus emergency, the situation escalated dramatically on Jan 20, almost 20 days after it wa...
4 years ago
Dalrock

Message heard. - I’ve been deeply moved and humbled by the overwhelming response to my post announcing that I planned on shutting down the blog. I’ve reconsidered and deci...
4 years ago
Ed Hagen

Is evolutionary psychology impossible? - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } Subrena Smith recently argued that “evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible” (Smith 2019). I ...
4 years ago
Josh Blackman's Blog

I now blog on the Volokh Conspiracy - For the past few months, I have blogged at the Volokh Conspiracy, hosted by Reason. I had hoped to give to give this blog, which I founded in September 200...
4 years ago
Urban kchoze

The utility of directly regulating Floor Area Ratio - In my last post on the obesity of midrise apartments, I mentioned that one possible solution to what I perceive as a problem is to restrict FAR (Floor-Area...
4 years ago
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle

The Estate of Jerry Pournelle Announces New Website and Facebook Group - To save Chaos Manor and provide ongoing care for Jerry Pournelle’s widow, the Estate of Dr. Jerry Pournelle has launched a new website at http://www.jerryp...
4 years ago
InfidelsAreUs | 'Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you' 1 Peter 4:12-14

Refuge Seeking in Relative Safety - There is a common misconception among Christians in particular that I’ve been mulling over these past weeks. As usual, my thoughts have been straying to Aa...
4 years ago
Rootless Cosmopolitan – By Tony Karon

The Braais that Bind - A brief meditation on the meanings of South African cuisine for Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. Excerpt: South Africa’s identity is complicated, contest...
4 years ago
Claritas

The Twelve Days of Christmas: An Analysis - There was a funny piece on the radio about the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," imagining the woman's response to all those gifts. She starts out thril...
4 years ago
On the Margin of Error

My Pronoun is U: My Life as a Non-Binary Iranian - An article about how my Iranian and non-binary identities have interacted in predictable and surprising ways.
5 years ago
The American Interest

Conservative Sense and Sensibility with George F. Will - Can a revolution be conservative? Can populism? And what distinguishes British from American conservatism? *Washington Post* columnist George F. Will joins...
5 years ago
China Matters

The Cold War Roots of the African Swine Flu Plague - *[This is the script of a segment on African Swine Flu that I did for Newsbud China Watch in July 2018. Things have gotten worse since then, with the vi...
5 years ago
Den of Inquiry

White views on spanking, 1980's-2010's - 1980's (above) 1990's: 2000's: 2010's: Variables: SPANKING, Years (1986-2018), Race(1)
5 years ago
Tino Sanandaji

Den ofördelaktiga utvecklingen av dödligt våld i Sverige - Förra veckan frågade SVT statsministern om ökningen av dödligt våld: ”Du har varit statsminister sedan 2014. Sedan dess har det accelererat. Vilket ansva...
5 years ago
Secular Right

Sex, Schisms and Pseudo-Scholarship - We are seeing open warfare between various feminist and other progressive factions on social media and in the universities. A key divide is between so-call...
5 years ago
NGDP Advisers

Giving Credit Where It’s Due - The US economy is probably going into recession. Manufacturing production is down from the late-2018 highs, retail spending growth, wages and payroll gai...
5 years ago
Nick Cole's Books

The CTRL ALT Revolt Controversy - The Original Blog Post and some Thoughts on the Crisis of Where We Find Ourselves As the current culture war escalates into a series of asymmetrical engage...
5 years ago
ny mens action network

Moved to http://nymensactionnetwork.org - This site is no longer moderated. Newer posts are at nymensactionnetwork.org and these posts have been moved there also. http://nymensactionnetwork.org Ad...
5 years ago
Nintil

Important: Nintil.com is moving! - IMPORTANT NOTICE: I’ve been making changes to the way the blog looks like, making it load faster, and adding it a much needed feature, browsing by category...
5 years ago
Will Wilkinson

Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash - I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live cha...
5 years ago
View on IQ

A Corrigendum to V1.3.2 and a Comment to V1.3.3 - Preface The publication of the book written by Richard Lynn and me (Lynn & Becker, 2019) and of V1.3.2 of the NIQ-dataset got a lot of attention and feedba...
5 years ago
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

Last Posting - To everyone that reads this blog, I want to thank you for following Gavin Kennedy 's expert insights into Adam Smith from this site. Unfortunately, Gavin ...
5 years ago
Refugee Resettlement Watch

Find me on Facebook and at my other blog, Frauds, Crooks and Criminals - If you have missed news about refugees, I’m still writing about them at Frauds and Crooks and as of last night I am back up and running at Refugee Resettle...
5 years ago
Yue Chim Richard Wong 王于漸

The Cold War and the Ascendance of America’s Research University - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 29 May 2019.) ……… These three young universities, all founded in the second half of 19th century...
5 years ago
Urban Future (2.1)

Crypto-Current (064) - §5.8612 — Decentralization of the ledger requires massive multiplication, and thus an effective method of compression. Only in this way does it become trac...
5 years ago
Bloody shovel

Blog moving to Spandrell.com - ***This blog is moving to Spandrell.com ***Please update your bookmarks/RSS readers. Spandrell.com, two ls. First they banned Youtubers, but I didn’t say a...
5 years ago
The Pleistocene Scene – A.P. Van Arsdale Blog

Running for Science: Science for Running – The Complete Series - The 12-episode series is now a wrap! Thank you to everyone who helped in the process, both as a contributor and as a listener. This post is intended to bri...
5 years ago
Stories by Mark Koyama on Medium

Catholic Emancipation as a Constitutional Revolution - Antonia Frazer’s new book *The King and the Catholics* brings to light a neglected topic in British history, the removal of legal restrictions on Catholi...
5 years ago
Spontaneous Finance

Some news + MMT and endogenous money - I know I haven’t posted in a long while, but I thought I’d give some news. And no it’s not an April fools’! Work and personal matters have taken much of my...
5 years ago
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MULTICULTURALISM

Offended by the term coloured? Let me show you what real racism looks like. - All the screeching about comments like Amber Rudd referring to a ‘coloured’ woman rather than a ‘person of colour’ or Angela Smith saying ‘funny tinge’ sug...
5 years ago
Free Northerner

Why Are Children So Expensive? - I wrote this a few months back, but never got around to posting it. Scott’s post on wage stagnation reminded me to post it, because I discuss some of the s...
5 years ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
5 years ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
5 years ago
Nick Cohen: Writing from London

Seumas Milne and the Stasi - Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of ...
5 years ago
markdurie.com blog

Linguistics and Theology Scholar Challenges Qur'an Origin Story - This blog post has been moved. Click HERE to read it. * Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is ...
5 years ago
The Kakistocracy

Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...
5 years ago
The Dissenting Sociologist

Reaction and Populism: Towards the Unpozzed Republic - Having been made by elites to dive headlong down the outhouse hole into the muck beneath, the common people have began to notice that it stinks and is very...
5 years ago
Global Guerrillas

The Long Night is Coming - Written by an anonymous friend who also ...
5 years ago
Irtiqa

Moghul Emperor Jahangir's Interest in Science - *by Salman Hameed* Growing up in Pakistan, I did hear a lot about the Moghul Emperors, but rarely about science. In fact, if science was brought up, it wa...
5 years ago
Publishing Archaeology

When big data are bad data - As archaeologists turn increasingly to the analysis of large, systematic databases, we need to confront an epistemological problem: How do we identify bad...
5 years ago
Cultural Cognition Blog

Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube - Apparently the original posting of this (staggeringly brief) talk suffered from imperfect audio (I never listened to it, so I can't say first-hand whethe...
5 years ago
The Audacious Epigone

Archived - This blog is now in archival status.
5 years ago
Fantastic Worlds

Review - "Some Zombie Contingency Plans," by Kelly Link (2005) - *Introduction: *There is a sort of story which pretends to be about one thing but is actually about something else entirely. This can be done well -- in ...
6 years ago
Nice Mangos

IDW Halloween Cards - Happy Halloween Folks! (I'll add the rest below the blogpost) I thought I’d have some fun with IDW/Classical Liberal Halloween cards. There's so many more...
6 years ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/
6 years ago
The March of the Virgin

Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle - Gloria Steinem once famously said that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Point taken, but let’s play with it a bit. Let’s ask whether a woma...
6 years ago
Colm Gillis Author

For Thomas Hobbes, Politics Was Simply About Doubt and Faith - Four hundred years ago, an English intellectual developed political ideas different to what we may recognize as familiar. 1. Schmitt and Hobbes In his cele...
6 years ago
The World is Not Enough

We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free!
6 years ago
Michael J. Totten's blog

Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...
6 years ago
A Taste for Desert Landscapes

Blog moving to new address - A taste for desert landscapes has moved here.
6 years ago
Free Banking

New Release: Cato Journal on The Future of Monetary Policy - This issue of the Cato Journal is dedicated to Allan H. Meltzer who passed away on May 8, 2017. Allan spoke at the 1st Annual Monetary Conference in 1983...
6 years ago
The Ripple Effect

A guide to using behavioural insights in local government - I wrote this for Sunderland City Council, following some work using behavioural insights in a range of projects. Although written for an internal audience,...
6 years ago
southseaconversations 讨论南海

Caixin’s investigation of CEFC and Chairman Ye Jianming - On March 1, Caixin broke the news that Chairman Ye Jianming of the China CEFC Energy Co. has been detained by PRC authorities, and is under investigation f...
6 years ago
Unenumerated

The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...
6 years ago
Unenumerated

The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...
6 years ago
Big P Political Economy

Top 100 in Global Economic Weight - According to the IMF China is the largest economy in the world and has been since 2014. This is on a PPP basis (see here for discussion) and all data is re...
6 years ago
George Lakoff

The Power of Positive Persistence - Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House will ...
6 years ago
Anonymous Mugwump

Assorted Thoughts #1: Applying Averages - This series contains some of the key books, studies, papers and events that I’ve read over the last year. I’ve decided to try to write one of these posts f...
6 years ago
The Travel Diaries of Mr Wallace

CHAPTER 60. Pacific Islands - The last chapter of Mr Wallace's travel diary.
6 years ago
Grand Blog Tarkin

The Last Jedi AAR - The Star Wars movies have never been particularly concerned with accuracy when it comes to military tactics and strategy. From the start, the movies are de...
6 years ago
Gene Expression

A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM - Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter account) ...
6 years ago
Devin Helton - Essays and Articles

Introducing Left-Versus-Right Book and Article Pairings - While I have spent my life living in a more liberal milieu, through personal experience and independent study I have found many truths on the right side ...
6 years ago
Simon Owens

Why AARP has an entire team dedicated to answering Facebook comments - AARP, the 60-year-old special interest group that advocates for older Americans, has never been shy about flexing its policy muscles or leveraging its enor...
6 years ago
Keith Burgess-Jackson

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) - Autie was born on this date 178 years ago.
6 years ago
Economic Thought

New Immigration Blog - Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe a post...
7 years ago
Pseudoerasmus

Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence - There used to be more research and debate on the negative effects of labour resistance on economic development, but that topic has been crowded out by the ...
7 years ago
While We Slept | New Conservative Thought

Hurricane Harvey: Thanksgiving in The Wake of Tragedy - “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the ...
7 years ago
iramramzan | Just another WordPress.com site…but better

Book review: Western Fringes - When I read the blurb of Western Fringes – a Muslim man trying to find a Sikh woman who has run away from home to escape an arranged marriage – I admit tha...
7 years ago
The Offshore Balancer

Dunkirk: A Deliverance Worth Cheering - My review of the film Dunkirk and case for celebrating the evacuation: https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/dunkirk-a-deliverance-worth-cheering/
7 years ago
The Rambling Infidel

For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...
7 years ago
Stories by Orestis Tsinalis on Medium

Plato’s hijacking of Socratic aporia and media-friendly radicalism - In Plato’s early dialogues Socrates leads his interlocutors to *aporia*, a state in which they are unconvinced by their own beliefs and arguments, and do...
7 years ago
The Archdruid Report

This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issu...
7 years ago
Political Theory – Niskanen Center

The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...
7 years ago
"Two Terms" Trump

Don’t abuse history in order to score cheap political points - "What I object to—and what my interlocutors maddeningly refuse to engage with—is the effort to use history and Jewish memory, in particular, the crimes of ...
7 years ago
The Diecast

Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel. 01:35: Bay Eats Candy Bay tries famous candies for the first time. You can read the results on her blog. 11:...
7 years ago
Modern Medieval

Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...
7 years ago
Ed Dolan's Econ Blog

Hayek, Knowledge, and Carbon Taxes: Markets Without Prices or Prices Without Markets? - As far as I know, Friedrich Hayek never wrote a word about climate change, but two of his most famous works contain arguments that bear directly on this ke...
7 years ago
Joel Kotkin

How the Democrats can Rebuild - Appearing in: Orange County Register Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded the parlous state of the Democratic Part...
7 years ago
Psychological comments

Goodbye - [image: Snapshot corrected moving to unz] It’s goodbye to drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk After 4 years of blogging, and 1,062,720 page views, here i...
7 years ago
Box Turtle Bulletin

The Things You Learn from the Internet - The Spiritual Science Research Foundation (“Bridging the known and unknown worlds”) has discovered the cause of homosexuality for 85% of all gay people: 4....
7 years ago
Economic Sophisms

Moving house - People connected to me have justifiably asked that I move my blog to a more anonymous platform. Although I’ve made an effort to remove my name from this bl...
7 years ago
The Gorka Briefing

Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...
7 years ago
The Belgravia Dispatch

Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...
7 years ago
Three Sides to Every Story

Anarchism - Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable, inclu...
8 years ago
Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play

Florida Election Officials Caught Filling Out Absentee Ballots, Affidavit Alleges #FloridaFraud - Florida voters have complained that they have not been receiving their requested absentee ballots. We may now know the reason why. According to a former Se...
8 years ago
Cliodynamica

Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done? - This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, near...
8 years ago
The History of the Byzantine Empire

501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...
8 years ago
GEEKLY

Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons - MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the seasons and ...
8 years ago
Tim Blair

THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…
8 years ago
Roundworm Eyed Doll

The Redistribution of Humiliation - The recent EU referendum in the UK has drawn a great deal of attention to voters who had previously been ignored. Communities left behind by the 21st Centu...
8 years ago
Richard Carrier Blogs

My Blog Has Moved Again! - My new blog location is www.richardcarrier.info. I will maintain this old blog as a historical archive as I did before. But every other post I've blogged s...
8 years ago
Arab Humanists العرب الإنسانويون

Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a joint statement a...
8 years ago
Cantercap

Walter Bagehot - The distinguished-looking gentleman in the portrait is Walter Bagehot (pronounced “badget”). Dubbed “The Greatest Victorian”, Bagehot was a founder of the...
8 years ago
Seventh Voice

‘Gen Why?’ – Perception Deception - “Most days are full of meaningless uninvited interactions with the same kind of simple minded individuals, that indeed would have definitely complained abo...
8 years ago
Maryam Namazie

My blog moving to my website - I just wanted to give a heads up to readers that I have moved my blog to my website, which now houses all my work, videos, press coverage, photos and more....
8 years ago
andrewmcintyre.org

Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...
8 years ago
Capitalism's Cradle

The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...
8 years ago
His Story is Bunk

Along came Phil - Gramm, former Senator from the state of Texas to set a few facts straight in the Wall Street Journal about the cause of the financial crisis. I.e., it was...
8 years ago
Evan Soltas

Fiscal Policy and the ZLB - I have been doing some reading for my undergraduate thesis, which looks at the role of credit-supply shocks in the Spain during its housing boom and bust, ...
8 years ago
Social Evolution Forum

By: the unBalanced ecoLOGist | The Unbalanced Ecologist - […] weeks ago, I was invited to write a commentary about an online essay written by Erle Ellis for the Social Evolution Forum (a project of the Evolution I...
8 years ago
Blog: 1616 - Spectacular Accumulation

Samurai Gifts - The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late sixteenth and ...
8 years ago
uneconomical

Where are the “devaluationists”? - A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section on policy op...
8 years ago
The Black Steam Train

Changing Stations - At the beginning of October, I packed up my family and we made the move ‘home’. The house is fairly new, but the place is old. It has a lot of history...
8 years ago
hbd chick

do france and belgium have a berber problem? - i don’t know the answer to that question — i only ask because it turns out that several of the paris terrrorists (from the recent attacks) are of berber ex...
8 years ago
The History of the Byzantine Empire – Over a thousand years of glory !

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....
8 years ago
Belmont Club

Salvaging the Tatters of the Obama Doctrine - When president Obama told George Stephanopoulos only hours before the Paris attack that his administration had “contained ISIS” he may have been wrong but ...
9 years ago
Philosophy in Action: NoodleFood

Podcast #363: The Future of America, Vulnerability, Cheating, and More - On Sunday’s episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, Greg Perkins and I answered questions on the future of the United States, the value of vulnerability, ch...
9 years ago
The Mischiefs of Faction

We've Moved - The Mischiefs of Faction is now located at mischiefsoffaction.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, here. You can...
9 years ago
The XX Committee

What Russian Intelligence Knows About Hillary Clinton - It is my privilege to reveal to you this highly classified National Security Agency intercept which reveals just what Russian intelligence knew about Hilla...
9 years ago
Akhilesh Pillalamarri: Analyst, Editor, Writer

A Koku of Rice - Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the concept of a koku (石) of rice: I find it pretty neat. A koku was a Japanese unit of volume (of rice) in use especially ...
9 years ago
Facts & other stubborn things

A few more thoughts on monopsony and the minimum wage (and what I think is a much stronger post from Don) - In the last post I noted that monopsony is definitely not the only and not even really the best theoretical argument for why we see no disemployment effect...
9 years ago
Staffan's Personality Blog

Book Review: Intelligence (2015) by Stuart Ritchie - An Uphill Battle It’s no easy task to explain why intelligence is so important. The reason for this is oddly enough that many highly intelligent people i...
9 years ago
Julian Sanchez

A CryptoFiction - Here’s a micro-story I started with the Access Crypto Summit flash fiction prompt in mind, left half done, and then belatedly finished off anyway, because ...
9 years ago
Terry Glavin

Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie. - Further to my Canada Day column Finding the Right Words for Canada’s History I thought I’d put this up. It’s from Rain Language, a long poem in translation...
9 years ago
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

It Is Accomplished - As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had...
9 years ago
Homo Consumericus

Why Mothers Are So Special - Mothers hold a privileged status within the human experience. I address some of the foundational evolutionary principles that explain the mother-child bond...
9 years ago
Modeled Behavior

Half Of Ferguson's Young African-American Men Are Missing - This is a guest post by Stephen Bronars, a Senior Economist at Welch Consulting, Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago. His opinions are his own. M...
9 years ago
Thoughtlines with Bob Carr

Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef - In the last few days I’ve carefully read comments emanating from the Coalition government that suggested an undue intervention in Australian politics by Pr...
9 years ago
Dar Kush

Our first virtual Screenwriting Workshop! - T woke up on Monday with the idea, bubbling with notions, and I think it's a fabulous way to explore the new media potentials for a virtual classroom. We c...
10 years ago
Politakos

What does my research contribute to our understanding of the Hong Kong protests? - Did Xi Jinping miscalculate by not allowing free elections in Hong Kong? We cannot know whether the Chinese leadership expected protests of this magnitude,...
10 years ago
Home

Taxation vs. Expropriation - What’s the difference between a 50% marginal tax rate on income vs. 50% expropriation by a kleptocratic ruler or corrupt officials? Some models might sug...
10 years ago
Comments on: The Price of Pot Prohibition

By: Anonymous - Great article, however, I don't see yet a study explaining the effects of Cannabis being freed completely overnight, lifting all restrictions and allowing ...
10 years ago
The Becker-Posner Blog

Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner
10 years ago
Synthenomics

Why Monetary Policy Should Ignore Financial Stability - Financial stability is apparently the new hot reason to tighten monetary policy, and in this article for Quartz I go in on some reasons for why this is a h...
10 years ago
theunlikelyeconomist

Governance, aesthetics and architecture - I have been meaning to write up a few thoughts that came out of a beer-fueled conversation with a friend some weeks ago. We both lived in Austin, TX for so...
10 years ago
normblog

Norman Geras: 1943-2013 - I am very sad to announce that Norm died in Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge in the early hours of this morning. Writing this blog, and communicating wi...
11 years ago
MILO NEWS

OxcOOd1199 Error - Windows Media Player is a great way to view your favorite movie content. However, with the program comes the risk of the occasional OxcOOd1199 error occuri...
11 years ago
Rowland Jide Macaulay

Jide Who Played Jesus to be Ordained - *MEDIA *INFORMATION *NEWS FROM THE EAST HAM TEAM* For Immediate Use 11 June 2013 *Jide who played Jesus to be ordained* The man who played Jesus in the N...
11 years ago
The Tizona Group

In which I amuse myself at a government ministers expense. - Now funnily enough I happen to live in the town where this has just happened. This may be the furthest south any group has landed, to put it in perspecti...
11 years ago
Expectations Matter

Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe - But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure gue...
12 years ago
The Wild Hunt

An Independent Wild Hunt - We at the Patheos Pagan channel bid The Wild Hunt much luck in its new phase as an independent website. To catch the latest from TWH, please check out wild...
12 years ago
Modeled Behavior

Modeled Behavior’s RSS Feed - Hopefully within the next day or two we will be able to get Modeled Behavior.com to redirect to our Forbes Blog. Yet, it looks as if there is no way to ge...
12 years ago
Shewing the fly

Actually, maybe it is the NGDP after all - I’ve gotten a lot of really smart pushback on my claims about the UK economy, and I think I have significantly underestimated what I already believed to be...
12 years ago
Maryam Namazie

One Law for All campaign in Turkish media - Here's an article quoting an interview with me on Sharia law and One Law for All published in Turkish media.
13 years ago
The State of Play in Australian Politics

The tax forum as a platform for a grand bargain? - In his Challenges of Federation speech we referred to in a previous article, Prime Minister’s Department Secretary Terry Moran said: *There are business l...
13 years ago
An Opinionated Childless Woman

The satisfaction of learning a new skill - Today I learned how to do short row shaping in knitting. It's a technique that is easy to do, and hard to explain. I've tried several times in the past. so...
13 years ago
Citizen Crain

The Rand Paul reality for gays - Some Republicans are trying to brush it off as the kind of debate you have in you freshman dorm at 2 a.m. Not so for us gays. The objection raised by Rand ...
14 years ago
OxBlog

- EVEN THE LIBERAL NEW REPUBLIC... (PART II): The cover of the current issue of the New Republic blares, The Battle for Tora Bora: The Untold Story. It's a g...
14 years ago
Tim van Gelder

What is hypothesis mapping? - A quick, 15-point overview of hypothesis mapping.
15 years ago
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