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Entrepreneurship, Demographics, and Taxation - I’ve written over and over again that changing demographics are a very under-appreciated economic development. I’ve also written about why entrepreneurship...18 minutes ago
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"The rep made it sound like there was just free money sitting on the sidewalk each night, just waiting for me to scoop up." - "Bird [the electric scooter sharing service] sent me three chargers, and a peppy rep gave me a quick briefing: Each night I was to switch on the newly enab...24 minutes ago
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Last night's dinner... - ...was delicious. Ground beef and sweet Italian sausage and peppers and crushed tomatoes and olives and fennel and heaven knows what other delicious stuff....30 minutes ago
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A Harvard economics researcher has been accused of making “sexually inappropriate” comments - Roland Fryer is accused of creating a hostile work environment at his Harvard lab. An influential Harvard economics professor is under investigation by ...36 minutes ago
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Oprah, Meryl Streep Lecture World Leaders About Gender Equality - Two of Harvey Weinstein’s biggest pals, Oprah Winfrey and Meryl Streep, have joined other Hollywood celebrities in penning an open letter to world leaders ...36 minutes ago
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GE and the S&P 500 Finally Converge - We've been tracking the random, yet curiously synchronized movements of the S&P 500 (Index: SPX) and General Electric (NYSE: GE) since the S&P 500 peaked...41 minutes ago
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Dominic Cummings on Fighting, Physics, and Learning from tight feedback loops - Another great post from Dom. Once something has become widely understood, it is difficult to recreate or fully grasp the mindset that prevailed before. But...45 minutes ago
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President Trump Endorses “Trumpian” John Cox for California Governor - Will Californians be willing to give another businessman a shot at the top state spot?1 hour ago
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Interesting take on wealth distribution - From Matthew Stewart. Let’s suppose that you start off right in the middle of the American wealth distribution. How high would you have to jump to make it ...1 hour ago
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Soylo: Countdown D-2 - *"Our continued and debilitating obsessions with our childhood passions was caveman masculine until the Dames ruined it."* *--Pablo Hidalgo, Asshole wh...1 hour ago
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Soylo: Countdown D-2 - *"Our continued and debilitating obsessions with our childhood passions was caveman masculine until the Dames ruined it."* *--Pablo Hidalgo, Asshole wh...1 hour ago
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Scalzi at Phoenix Comic Fest This Weekend - As a reminder, starting today(!) I will be in the lovely and very hot town of Phoenix for Phoenix Comic Fest (previously known as Phoenix Comic Con), to si...1 hour ago
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Against Foreign Language Education - Bryan Caplan is on fire in this excellent podcast with Robert Wiblin of 80,000 hours: Bryan Caplan: In the U.S. I’ve heard so many times – I learned Lati...1 hour ago
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You have good policy, good ideas, good growth all mutually supporting each other - Bryan Caplan describes his notion of The Idea Trap: The motivation of the idea trap is twofold. First of all, I had these empirical results out of public o...1 hour ago
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Guns Don’t Kill People, But Gun Bans Do - It is astronomically more common for Americans to use guns to defend themselves or others against violence than to use guns to commit violence.1 hour ago
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Income, jobs, automation, and our future - I've written several times in the past about jobs, the impact of automation, the economy, and our future. It's not a very comfortable subject, but it's b...1 hour ago
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Gay man denied a marriage licence by Kim Davis loses opportunity to unseat her - "Our work to reaffirm Rowan County as a diverse and welcoming community has only just begun."2 hours ago
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Vietnam’s Plan to Counter China Is With a ‘People’s War’ at Sea - Vietnam has reason to worry about China — particularly China’s increasing presence in the South China Sea complete with air bases on artificial islands and...2 hours ago
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True or false: sex makes your muscles weaker. - According to this study, the answer is False (despite that fact that "Sex has been deemed taboo for athletic performance going back to ancient Rome and Gre...2 hours ago
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The Epic Failure Of Arbitration - It was going to save us, alternative dispute resolution. Couched in glowing terms, replete with warm and fuzzy adjectives, reasonable people would resolve ...2 hours ago
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Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles (Deutschland films that is) - Beginning tomorrow. Festival Website | Films | Schedule Top Picks The Silent Revolution (Opening Night) It’s 1956 and during a visit to West Berlin, high s...2 hours ago
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Larry Correia Gets A Right Good Social Justicing - Part of the problem is that this sort of insanity is just part of the culture now. Sci-fi is absolutely (as we'd say back home) et up with it. You don't...2 hours ago
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Peter Lawler, A Year Gone By - Peter Lawler laid out how the middle class was the class that best represented our middling status as human beings, neither gods nor beasts.2 hours ago
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'On hate speech and feminist silencing' - Another interesting piece on our recent theme; an excerpt: Feminism, as a political movement aimed at the liberation of women, has long theorized gender no...2 hours ago
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10 Things…The Little Book of Talent - I recently rediscovered the beautiful practicality of Daniel Coyle’s The Little Book of Talent, 52 Tips For Improving Your Skills. It’s small, engrossing,...3 hours ago
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May 23 roundup - Judge denies motion to dismiss Title IX suit against Laura Kipnis [Maddie Burakoff, Daily Northwestern, KC Johnson thread on Twitter] First Circuit appea...3 hours ago
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The Deep Magic and My Little Boy - I’m teaching my son about the deep magic. The powerful forces that exist outside time and place, those things that we inherit product of our special status...3 hours ago
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A police state to rival North Korea - In Xinjiang, in China's far west, a province the size of Western Europe sitting directly up from Tibet, the Han Chinese have for decades now been carrying ...3 hours ago
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Dementia and the Social Scaffold of Memory - By Jonathan Pugh The number of individuals suffering with dementia is steadily increasing; as such, the moral issues raised by the neurodegenerative dise...3 hours ago
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Maduro’s Win: A Bright Spot in Dark Times - The U.S. backing of Israel’s massacre of Palestinians and Donald Trump’s death threats to Kim Jong-Un prove that the United States’ imperialism is alive an...4 hours ago
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Finland is ending its universal basic income experiment - I've been meaning to write about universal basic incomes for a while, particularly since it is something that we discuss in my ECONS102 class each year (an...4 hours ago
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Italy turns against EU - The Euroskeptic parties Movimento 5 Stelle and La Lega are taking control of the Italian government: Italians threaten to defy EU rules by kicking out 500,...4 hours ago
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France : « Il faut sauver la jeune Soudanaise condamnée à mort Noura Hussein Hamad » - Dans une tribune au « Monde », plus de cent personnalités demandent un procès équitable pour la jeune Soudanaise condamnée à mort, le 10 mai, dans son pa...4 hours ago
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Why did you fire Charles? - “Sir, why did you fire Charles?” The question was flat, neither aggressive nor amiable. The only other expatriate in the team had left the room, leaving ju...4 hours ago
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The lies about immigration keeping the borders open - Advocates for open borders rely on a series of fallacies. They are unquestioned in the major news media, but easily debunked.5 hours ago
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Global25 workshop 2: intra-European variation - Even though the Global25 focuses on world-wide human genetic diversity, it can also reveal a lot of information about genetic substructures within continen...5 hours ago
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Mob Justice at Providence College - I wrote the following several weeks ago, and decided to wait on it. Meanwhile, something has happened to the young man in question, something worse by far ...5 hours ago
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Macro Afternoon - Its looking more and more like risk-off as Asian markets retreat in line with US markets overnight, the possible breakdown of talks on the Korean peninsu...5 hours ago
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Ashley I And Jared From Bachelor Nation Are Finally Dating And Rejected Girls Everywhere Finally Have Hope - The truth is, most of us rejected girls don't get this moment. But I guess we have hope.5 hours ago
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Can Things Be Both Popular And Silenced? - The New York Times recently reported on various anti-PC thinkers as “the intellectual dark web”, sparking various annoying discussion. The first talking po...6 hours ago
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Getting Undergrads to See the Value of Philosophy: A Survey - Andrew Mills, associate professor of philosophy at Otterbein College, is interested in learning about how philosophers get the non-philosophy-majors who ...6 hours ago
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Ireland votes on the right to life on Friday - A poll on whether to remove constitutional safeguards for the unborn is a momentous step Read more...6 hours ago
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The Chinese-Iran Rail Corridor Must Include Uzbekistan To Be Successful - The full potential of the Chinese-Iranian rail route isn’t being exploited because it depends on older infrastructure that avoids some of Central Asia’s ...7 hours ago
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Lefty Anti-Semitism is a Serious Problem With a Long History - When D.C. Councilmember Trayon White came under fire for blaming Jews for controlling the weather, dumping a Holocaust Museum tour and donating to an anti-...7 hours ago
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Review: The Fractal Man - The Fractal Man (written by J.Neil Schulman, soon to be available on Amazon) is a very, very funny book – if you share enough subcultural history with the ...7 hours ago
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The Implications of Mike Pompeo’s 12-Point Speech - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech on May 21, 2018 was an important step in the realization of the Trump Doctrine. The 12-point speech outlined the...8 hours ago
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Is There a Universal Morality? Introduction and Overview of Responses - TVOL is pleased to explore the question “Is there a universal morality?” with the help of philosophers and scientists at the forefront of studying morality...8 hours ago
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Britain demands Lords reform - poll - It seems our disgust with the behaviour of the upper house is far more widely shared than I imagined; the Mail prints the latest ComRes poll, part graphic ...8 hours ago
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Indian innovation: The pressure cooker fix that saved TKK Prestige from imminent bankruptcy - This is an excerpt from a book on history of TTK Prestige group: While travelling the length and breadth of Uttar Pradesh, I discovered to my shock that ou...8 hours ago
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Cohen Partner Flips and Agrees To Cooperate With Prosecutors - Multiple defendant cases often resemble a lethal form of musical chairs as targets grab deals — leaving the loser still standing to face a full array of ch...8 hours ago
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The Simulation of Democracy, by C.J. Hopkins - One of the most complicated and frustrating aspects of operating a global capitalist empire is maintaining the fiction that it doesn't exist. Virtually eve...8 hours ago
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The Tiger Mother’s Son - by Steve Sailer A year ago, after a decade of worsening pain from swinging hard since infancy, Tiger Woods, perhaps the highest-paid athlete in history, app...9 hours ago
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Nightcap - Siege of Acre a monstrous blot on the Crusades Sean McGlynn, Spectator The origins of globalization Nick Nielsen, The View from Oregon Racism and the pure,...9 hours ago
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No bias or partisan motives to see here, folks - None at all. No, really. Trust us. A veteran of the intelligence community tells TAS that Brennan’s CIA was full of Hillary supporters, some of whom decora...9 hours ago
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The Poor Get Excluded from Elite Schools - See here. At elite schools, fewer poorer people are getting in than was the case a few decades ago. The link has a link to an article in the Atlantic which...10 hours ago
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A Common Abortion Mistake - It is often said that a human fetus is a potential human life. Not so! A human fetus is an actual human life. Consider a third-trimester human fetus, alive...10 hours ago
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Medieval Geopolitics: The Medieval “Judicial Revolution” - During the early medieval era, judicial power and authority – the right and ability to adjudicate legal disputes and enforce the law – had hemorrhaged from...11 hours ago
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Anomalous Resonances As Hadron Molecules - A new pre-print quickly summarizes the hypothesis that most scalar mesons and axial vector mesons and a variety of other anomalous resonances not easily ex...11 hours ago
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The Next Recession Will Be Devastatingly Non-Linear - *The acceleration of non-linear consequences will surprise the brainwashed, loving-their-servitude mainstream media.* *Linear correlations are intuitive:* i...12 hours ago
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Trump Administration Divided on Trade Policy - I have an op-ed in the AFR noting the contradictions in US international economic policy. Full text below the fold (may differ slightly from edited AFR v...12 hours ago
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A maniac at the helm - John Cassidy at the New Yorker says it’s getting worse. Since Donald Trump entered the White House, American democracy has sometimes been described as da...12 hours ago
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Why Not Thought Crime? - I was alarmed to find a quotation supporting child rapists falsely attributed to me & going viral on Twitter. … messages shaming me for supporting child ra...12 hours ago
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Jeff Hummel on David Andolfatto, by David Henderson - David Andolfatto, an economist and Vice-President of the St. Louis Fed (and apparently, going by his CV, a fellow Canadian) wrote last year: The fact tha...12 hours ago
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The View From Olympus: A Disastrous Decision–Or Is It? - On the surface, President Trump’s decision to abandon the nuclear accord with Iran is a disaster. If Iran considers the accord null and void without U.S. ...13 hours ago
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Chinese population controls before the one-child policy - Here is an interesting paper on a lesser-studied period in China’s family planning policy. The starting point is the simple observation that fertility in C...13 hours ago
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America’s long-term challenge #3: destruction of the currency - Guest Post by Simon Black On April 2, 1792, George Washington signed into law what’s commonly referred to as the Mint and Coinage Act. It was one of the fi...13 hours ago
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Ten Years Ago at Grasping Reality: May 22, 2008 - * [A Question I Asked About "Separation of Powers" at the 2008 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, Omni Hotel, New Haven, CT](http://www.bradford-d...13 hours ago
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The Populist Revolt Reaches Iraq - The worldwide populist revolt toppling conventional politicians in the United States, Europe and even the Philippines has now reached Iraq. Most Westerne...14 hours ago
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People make offerings to Tutu Pelé as the lava flows - HAWAII — While a Hawaiian volcano continues to spew forth destruction on one Hawaiian island, many forget that it was this same activity that created all t...14 hours ago
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Elites or Masses? - One popular view of the 2016 election is that liberal elites drove voters away by lack of respect--here is a recent story . This is not a new idea--back i...14 hours ago
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“Avoidant” is number 1 bestseller! (On Amazon, in one narrow category…) - This jumped out at me a few days ago. Avoidant got recategorized, and suddenly it’s number one in sales in the quiet “Counseling” category. This is the kin...14 hours ago
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Another Tuesday Afternoon - Good — *checks watch, remembers he doesn’t own a watch, checks clock* — afternoon, technically, though I’m writing this early in the morning (edit: and aft...14 hours ago
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Jonathan Turley on the “spy” - Jonathan Turley is another writer—a lawyer—whose viewpoints especially interest me because he doesn’t parrot any party line. He’s mostly a libertarian, and...15 hours ago
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Trump Tightens Financial Sanctions on Maduro Regime: What Does it Mean? - With an Executive Order signed yesterday by Donald Trump, the U.S. government limits Maduro’s abilities to save himself and the rest of chavismo from the...16 hours ago
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Chairman of House Oversight Committee Mentions CUNY Protest during Hearing on Campus Free Speech - Today, the House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing, titled "Challenges to the Freedom of Speech on College Campuses: Part II." At 19:30, Rep. J...16 hours ago
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Bernard Lewis: Will the future see an Islamised Europe or a European Islam? - *Bernard Lewis died at the weekend and I thought it appropriate to republish this from a year ago.* In 2010 the greatest historian of the Middle East, Be...17 hours ago
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Did the media do more to mention Jewish refugees? - The 70th anniversary of the state of Israel has given Jews, Israelis and their supporters cause for celebration. But the media are always scrupulously car...17 hours ago
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MS-13 Gang Member With Nickname ‘Animal’ Gets 40 Years in Prison - Joel Martinez, 23, who goes by the nickname “Animal” confessed to murdering a 15-year-old boy as part of his initiation into the MS-13 gang. The U.S. at...17 hours ago
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AOP50 at Canary Wharf - The Association of Photographers was formed in 1968 as the Association of Fashion and Advertising Photographers and has grown to be one of the most prestig...17 hours ago
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How should we respond if someone says “mean mad asian man”? - Please see starting 1 hour, 4 minutes in: A serious and important question for the entire Brown Pundit community: Should we do anything if someone such as ...17 hours ago
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excerpt from Godman to Tycoon: The Untold Story of Baba Ramdev by Priyanka Pathak-Narain - Is Patanjali’s Desi Cow Ghee Even Cow Ghee? By Priyanka Pathak-Narain | 2 August 2017 http://www.caravanmagazine.in/vantage/patanjalis-desi-cow-ghee-even...17 hours ago
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How Politicians Intensify Financial Cycles: 300 Years of Pro-Cyclical Regulation - Three hundred years of financial regulation offer a cautionary tale to today’s push against yesterday’s regulations. This column revisits the political eco...17 hours ago
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Recruiting Intelligence Sources: President Trump Makes a Hard Job Harder - The White House/Flickr Recruiting intelligence sources is hard at the best of times. And President Trump just made it harder. Observers have rightly cri...18 hours ago
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From USSR to EU and back - Anyone still thinking the EU is anything but an awful, unworkable contrivance should visit Riga. Whose deranged mind decided it’s possible to a create a si...18 hours ago
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What Can Argentina Teach Us about the Phillips Curve? - In the United States, there has been existential angst over Phillips curves for the past few years. Fed officials and other observers have been engaged in ...19 hours ago
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Livestream Tomorrow: I Interview A Furry! - Alt-Furry faces the same discrimination as conservatives in every facet of culture. I talk to one of their leading voices, Len Gilbert, who is also the aut...19 hours ago
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The statistical significance filter leads to overoptimistic expectations of replicability - Shravan Vasishth, Daniela Mertzen, Lena Jäger, et al. write: Treating a result as publishable just because the p-value is less than 0.05 leads to overopt...19 hours ago
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The problem of “sensitivity readers” in publishing - I managed to put a post together that I started before I found the sick duck, and writing this helped take my mind off its death. It may not be as fluent o...20 hours ago
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Episode 75: “Obstructing Justice” is thinking past the sale, plus Iran and North Korea - Topics: “Obstructing justice” sounds bad “Obstructing injustice” sounds good Framing makes a critical difference in perception President Trump’s honest u...20 hours ago
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30-year-old who won’t move out of parents’ house - http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/05/judge_praises_adult_sons_legal_research_boots_him_from_parents_house_anyway.html Looks like the judge, today...20 hours ago
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Against International Law’s Economic Agnosticism - International law does not generally protect economic liberties. By economic liberties I mean private property rights and freedom of contract, including ...20 hours ago
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Cotton Candy Man - So help me dog, I was never able to figure the appeal of B. Obama, either when he first hove onto the political scene, or when he was elected, and reelecte...20 hours ago
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Redefining Strickland Prejudice after Weaver v. Massachusetts - At the Harvard Law Review Blog, Eve Brensike Primus and I posted a short piece about the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel under Str...20 hours ago
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When You Get Insurance Quotes, How Different Are the Prices? - Do home insurance companies charge different amounts for the exact same thing? Yep.20 hours ago
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Books in the mail - I just received a copy of *No Exit*, Yoav Di-Capua's new book on Sartre and Arab intellectuals (it is essentially an intellectual history of the post-co...21 hours ago
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Let My People Be - So I was bumping around the internet, minding my own business, (mostly because yesterday I woke with a mega back-pain apparently having pulled something in...21 hours ago
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Death Wins One - Back in California. Just made it in time for my father's death. He was 94, and, as the all-knowing "they" say, he had a pretty good run. As readers of this...21 hours ago
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Sadr-Communist Alliance And Iraq’s 2018 Elections Interview With Benedict Robin - The results of the 2018 parliamentary elections in Iraq were a shock to many. Seemingly out of nowhere the Sairoon list made of the Sadrists and the Iraqi...22 hours ago
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The Kaus-Reynolds Paradox - Instapundit had a good question after the Parkland school shooting: Looking for 'solutions' to mass killings? Start with punishing failure. Law enforce...22 hours ago
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Ludwig Wittgenstein in Explaining Postmodernism - Ludwig Wittgenstein said: “All propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.” For more on the implications of23 hours ago
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White South African farmers apply for refugee protection in Australia; no special treatment for them - First I saw this news from RT at Drudge: White South African farmers claiming persecution at home seek refuge in Australia So I checked it out and see that...23 hours ago
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Energy budgets, climate system domains and internal variability - by Dan Hughes It is not a boundary value problem. Abstract The total energy equation is applied to Earth’s entire atmosphere and sub-systems to investigate...23 hours ago
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Dead Air - [Forgive the overwrought title, I was once a DJ and “dead air” was a “very bad thing”.] All hell has broken loose on the homefront and predictably my serve...23 hours ago
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“A Father of the Fatherless”: The Implications of Clerical Celibacy (Part III) - *The following is the third part of a series dealing with clerical celibacy and its dangers; for those following the argument, it ought to be clear that ...23 hours ago
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The Neoliberal-Socialist Synthesis - I’ve mentioned the neoliberal-socialist synthesis a few times on Twitter and have received flack for them being incompatible, but it is the best way to des...1 day ago
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‘Splitting hairs’ on inflation - When inflation remains low and stable for as long as it has, people get “worried” and start looking for signs that show that cannot be true. The chart be...1 day ago
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Velvet Revolution in Armenia: Russia Stays on the Sidelines - By Loosineh Markarian for Denver Dialogues. Armenia’s “velvet revolution”, dubbed as the “revolution of love and tolerance”, occurred against the backdrop ...1 day ago
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Effective action #4a: ‘Expertise’ from fighting and physics to economics, politics and government - ‘We learn most when we have the most to lose.’ Michael Nielsen, author of the brilliant book Reinventing Discovery. ‘There isn’t one novel thought in all o...1 day ago
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Effective action #4a: ‘Expertise’ from fighting and physics to economics, politics and government - ‘We learn most when we have the most to lose.’ Michael Nielsen, author of the brilliant book Reinventing Discovery. ‘There isn’t one novel thought in all o...1 day ago
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The Syrian Civil War: the Difference a Year Makes - Last week, the Assad government finally took control of their capital with the removal of the ISIS pocket around the Palestinian camp. Amazing what can hap...1 day ago
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Elsewhere (273) - Natalie Solent on magical thinking, then and now: Nongqawuse was a fifteen year old Xhosa girl who in 1856 had a vision in which three ancestral spirits to...1 day ago
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Sociology of Guns Seminar Student Final Reflection Paper, 2018 (5 of 5) - This is the fifth and final student end-of-class reflection paper from my Sociology of Guns seminar at Wake Forest University. This is one of my brightest ...1 day ago
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Serendipity - In early December of 1241, the great Mongol army was camped on the Hungarian plain, poised to invade Europe “all the way to the Great Sea.” In the spring, ...1 day ago
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Yale Students Get Their Own Animal House - Several sites that deal with college life have been reporting that Yale University–which forbids pets on campus–has been allowing students who need anima...1 day ago
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ANNOUNCEMENT - The 'best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft aglay' ... and etc (Burns). I was a bit too optimistic about my health recovery in my previous announcements...1 day ago
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Fathom 20 | Israel’s grand strategy and the return of Russia as a Great Power - Former head of Mossad Efraim Halevy presents a sweeping overview of Israel’s strategic situation. He argues that the desire in both US political parties to...1 day ago
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Review: The People vs Democracy - – “The People vs Democracy” goes further than many other books which claim to “explain” Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, showing that it takes both...1 day ago
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Dumb tirades about a "liar paradox" in quantum mechanics - A reader has linked to another weird text about the foundations of quantum mechanics that was published in Scientific American, Quantum Physics May Be Even...1 day ago
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I have discovered a new form of anxiety I can suffer from - I'm one of those people who, when I leave the apartment, am sure I left the burner / AC / lights on, and I have to run back and check. Or, at a show, I'm s...1 day ago
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Better prude than rude - The Derb on how the kids don't rut like they used to: The general decline of interest in sexual intercourse must also be playing in to these numbers someho...1 day ago
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EconTalk with Glen Weyl - |Peter Boettke| Eric Posner and Glen Weyl have published a book that is deservedly attracting a lot of attention. It will pay the readers of Coordination P...1 day ago
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DOJ “Independence” Is Not a Thing: It Is an Extra-Constitutional Arrogation of Power - On Sunday Trump announced (via Twitter, naturally) that he intended to order the Justice Department to investigate allegations of spying on his campaign: t...1 day ago
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‘Indigenous Ways of Knowing’: Magical Thinking and Spirituality by Any One Name - At a conference in British Columbia this month, a self-described “Indigeneer”—the word being a portmanteau of “Indigenous” and “engineer”—described the w...1 day ago
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How To Become A Third World Country - It's not easy to take your country from relative prosperity to chaos and starvation. Even most of the countries that we call the "third world" are current...1 day ago
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Samizdata quote of the day - It occurs to me that there’s perhaps a bit of guilt on show here. You see those pregnant 11 year olds in Telford got in that state because the local auth...1 day ago
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What the Hunt for a Top Nazi War Criminal Tells Us About Trump’s Russia Problem - Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda guru, is infamous for his assertion that the bigger the lie, the more effective it is—particularly if you stick to it....1 day ago
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Because We are Not… - Culpable. But in general, most men have yet to stand up en masse with a mea culpa, and become active allies rather than passive participants. [...]1 day ago
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The Aeneid for Incels - Someone like Elliot Rodger is not an alien from outer space. He is produced by the society around him.1 day ago
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More on The Poor State of Automobile Cockpit Interfaces - A while back I wrote that automobile dashboard design in modern cars sucks. I drive many different cars as I am frequently renting cars on the road and I ...1 day ago
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The Most Successful People Are The Ones You’ve Never Heard Of (And Why They Want It That Way) - The vast majority of successful people who ever lived are people you’ve never heard of. If we are to drill down further and consider happy successful peopl...1 day ago
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The end of Jewish achievement? - Neurons show more axonal growth when exposed to higher levels of sphingolipids (last figure) (Cochran et al. 2006) Jewish achievement is a difficult to...1 day ago
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Mexican Wall Blues: And Some Other Stuff - Being as I am a self-appointed explicator of things Latin to Americans curious about what lies to the south, and has come north, I occasionally and in a sc...1 day ago
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Mexican Wall Blues: And Some Other Stuff - Being as I am a self-appointed explicator of things Latin to Americans curious about what lies to the south, and has come north, I occasionally and in a sc...1 day ago
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China Now Has a Trade Deficit - A large share of the concern over China's effect on the world economy starts with large Chinese trade surpluses. But in the first few months of 2018, China...1 day ago
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ORCAA featured in Fast Company! - Fast Company’s Katharine Schwab wrote up ORCAA and it’s seal of approval: This logo is like an “organic” sticker for algorithms The food we eat has quality...2 days ago
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Monday's Child is Full of Links! - 1. Lincicome talks to Goldberg. 2. State tax reform has had variable success, and failure. 3. A good video. Not a great video, won't change your life. B...2 days ago
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The Future of Working-Class Studies - In 2005, John Russo and Sherry Linkon published their edited collection New Working-Class Studies, drawing together a rich array of writers across a range ...2 days ago
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19th Century History - Someone should develop a course based entirely on the Flashman novels. Advertisements2 days ago
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OSMAN KAVALA AND THE IMPRISONMENT OF HOPE - This essay, on the imprisonment of Osman Kavala and what it signals about repression in Turkey, was the main part of my Observer column this week. (The col...2 days ago
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted - The scenario anticipated more than a year ago in King vs. King has advanced to the semi-finals. The Russian collusion affair, which began with the incoming...2 days ago
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Thoughts on Book Covers - As I mentioned recently, I'm looking for a cover for my third novel. A number of artists are interested, which gets me thinking about what a cover should b...2 days ago
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Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? - There was an exchange on "Reliable Sources" today that stands as a reveal. The post Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? appeared first on...2 days ago
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Incel: the Strange Identity That Became a Weapon Against Feminism - The incels are coming. Hide the socks. The word incel means different things to different people, which means for dangerous discussions. On the surface, al...2 days ago
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All the Lonely People, Where Do They All Come From - Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychology professor and YouTube celebrity, received a hostile profile by the New York Times on Friday, from which the big ta...2 days ago
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Commodities are fungible - Here’s the Financial Times, discussing recent trade negotiations with China: They said that after two days of “constructive talks” China had agreed to “sig...2 days ago
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The Church permits criticism of popes under certain circumstances - Fathers have the authority to teach and discipline their children, but this authority is not absolute. They may not teach their children to do evil, and...2 days ago
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Housing: Part 298 - FICO Scores - There isn't much new here. I was just putting together a chart from the New York Fed Household Debt and Credit Report, which tracks mortgage originations ...2 days ago
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Highly Linkable: Counter-Conventional Wisdom Edition - Trying to get back into the swing of blogging and just beating the 90-day hiatus limit . . . Looking through my saved articles for future linking, I notice...2 days ago
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An Experiment in the (Re)Distribution of Grades - WARNING: If you still believe that academia is a meritocracy, that higher ed assessment instruments are useful (or unbiased), that grades motivate studen...2 days ago
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There Would Be No More Deserters from St. Elmo - Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “No war is more cruel and bloody than siege warfare. . . .” The truth of this statement was to be proved over and over again du...2 days ago
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The Best Don’t Have to Boast: The Dangerous Myth of American Military Omnipotence - W.J. Astore [Note: I originally wrote this article for Truthout, where it appeared in August 2011. Little has changed since then; indeed, the current pres...3 days ago
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Mill Still Matters Today, on His 212th Birthday - In Millian terms, then, the case for free speech lies as much in our capacity to listen as in our willingness to speak. It also requires us not only to acc...3 days ago
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On the New York Times and “Enforced Monogamy” - My motivated critics couldn't contain their joyful glee this week at discovering my hypothetical support for a Handmaid's Tale-type patriarchal social stru...3 days ago
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We are all white supremacists now - Obama promised a post racial America. We elected Obama so that we could once and for all cleanse ourselves from the guilt for our racial sins. Obama runnin...3 days ago
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Impendix I: The shape of the worlds - After long reflection and consultation, I have decided to go ahead with the project of writing ‘Impendices’. My editorial consultant, the wise and formidab...3 days ago
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Penelope faithful, but Ulysses was afraid to return home poor - Today the notion of a woman displaying faithful devotion to her man is considered anathema. But as Douglas Galbi reveals it was not always the case in the ...3 days ago
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Dave Holmes and his gun revenge fantasy won’t save American kids - And then there was this. So now I’m angry. Now I’m finished trying to reason with you. So now I, a guy who was ambivalent about guns just a few years ago, ...3 days ago
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Review: Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic - [image: Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic] Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic by Ace Atkins My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm torn. The 20 year old art heist i...3 days ago
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Conservatism and the free market - National Review just ran a review of my book, which Karl Rove tweeted out to his followers. The review has some surprisingly nice things to say. It describ...3 days ago
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Why Not Move to Where the Jobs Are? - “Americans aren’t getting up and going where the jobs are, anymore.”–Charles Murray, Conversations with Bill Kristol “If you want to live, get out of Gar...3 days ago
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Buchanan, Segregation, and Democracy in Chains with Phil Magness - [image: Photo credit: NYT] Phil Magness returns to the podcast to discuss the life and work of James Buchanan and to defend him against some of the more bi...3 days ago
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PDQP/qpoly = ALL - I’ve put up a new paper. Unusually for me these days, it’s a very short and simple one (8 pages)—I should do more like this! Here’s the abstract: We show...4 days ago
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PDQP/qpoly = ALL - I’ve put up a new paper. Unusually for me these days, it’s a very short and simple one (8 pages)—I should do more like this! Here’s the abstract: We show...4 days ago
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A war memorial in Cape Town which saves children’s lives - Today we look at a small miracle in South Africa which even has the attention of the Princes William and Harry, and it’s a miracle that really captures the...4 days ago
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Book reviews: 12 Rules for Life / Man's Search for Meaning - 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson This is a global best-seller because (thank all gods there may be) the Leftist intellige...4 days ago
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Waking Up to Issues in the Atheist Scene - Not long ago, similar emails to the one I'll share below were only sent to me by Muslims questioning their faith, scripture and double standards, etc. I s...4 days ago
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The Niceness Effect - Popularity and the desire to be liked are at the center of our contemporary political disasters. One of the general rules of rhetoric I’ve observed is a te...4 days ago
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Sin and Tonic on Audio and Tristan James - So Tristan James, my delightful narrator for the Sinners (and others) series, has given me a short clip of what he’s got going on right now. Oh… and he’s n...4 days ago
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Long Night Update - Here are some notes tracking the arrival of what I’m calling the Long Night -- a world run by oppressive social networks that ruthlessly narrow public spee...4 days ago
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University Professor Sacked for Telling-the-Truth - BACK in 2016, when I asked Peter Ridd if he would write a chapter for the book I was editing I could not possibly have envisaged it could contribute to t...4 days ago
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IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Chris found this above, (from a 2016 post) anthropologist Jennifer Esperanza got annoyed a...4 days ago
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Dragon Ball series teaches valuable life lessons - Watching the Dragon Ball series always has me reflecting on life lessons I’ve learned over the years. Every episode I pick up on hidden gems and lessons....4 days ago
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What to do about my book cover - I am really stressing out over the cover design for Feral Creatures. While it would be nice to hire to hire a professional cover de...4 days ago
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Alexander Hamilton's solar panels - I think I finally have figured out why California is mandating solar panels on top of houses. (WSJ story here.) As energy, environmental, or housing policy...4 days ago
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Grasses and gases for a cooling world - The standard sort of photosynthesis uses a so-called C-3 chemical pathway. But maybe from 8-7 million years ago there’s an increasing proliferation of so-...4 days ago
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Nuts - Things I Didn’t See Coming When PDT Was Elected: The Democrats defending a gang of violent street criminals whose motto is “Kill! Rape! Control!” just beca...4 days ago
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Why Technology Won’t Kill Brick And Mortar Retailers - Drone shipping is coming, but neither that nor any other driver of the expansion of online shopping is going to stop a large number of people from going to...5 days ago
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Wall of Bubble Voodoo - It’s interesting how thoroughly bubbles inform perceptions. Or, at least in most instances. Everyone lives in a bubble; only the radius and topography vary...5 days ago
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Refactor Camp: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding Summary and Wrap Up - Last weekend we hosted a diverse crowd for this year’s Refactor Camp. You can see the schedule and copies of the public talks here: Schedule: https://tiny....5 days ago
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Does monarchy help? - Monarchy is topical this week. Some suggest that it can be a positive force to guard against despotism, but I remain sceptical. The post Does monarchy he...5 days ago
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NYT: Richard Pipes, Historian of Russia and Reagan Aide, Dies at 94 - Richard Pipes in his study in Cambridge, Mass., in 1959. He spent his entire academic career at Harvard. Richard Pipes, the author of a monumental, sharply...5 days ago
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Why Marx Now? Part 1 - Recent years have seen a surge of renewed interest in Karl Marx’s political-economic thought. For those not living in a cave somewhere, this has been hard ...5 days ago
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oh no - It turns out that the progress of the counterculture is like pushing a canoe away from a pier; you generate movement until you run out of leg, and then you...5 days ago
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#AGundamForUs Delay: I Need Something New Now! - A while back, I posted a challenge to draft a mecha book by December 31, 2018 as part of #AGundamForUs, an initiative by Brian Niemeier and the rest of t...5 days ago
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The macroeconomics of Stanley Cup dynasties - This post was written by Davin Raiha at the Ivey Business School. As the NHL playoffs inch closer to the Stanley Cup, it is an appropriate time to reflect ...5 days ago
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BuzzFeed Goes After YouTube Super Chat System, Claims it “Monetizes Racism and Hate Speech” - I have a meeting to go to in like 30 minutes, but I thought it was worth writing a post about a BuzzFeed column that’s circulating this morning. It’s abo...5 days ago
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BOOYAH!!! - Booyah!!! Or, to use the more traditional terminology, *Baruch shekivanti*. I'm feeling pretty proud of myself, due to two things that happened. First was...5 days ago
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An Annotated Edition - No, this is not a female sumo wrestler trying to out-scowl her opponent. She is an Israeli singer, Netta Barzilai. She has just won the Eurovision, the i...6 days ago
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Whiplash [NKorea Yes No] and Double Vision [Jerusalem Gaza] - { by Charles Cameron — sudden reversal in Korea, synchronicity in Israel ] . Whiplash alert Whiplash alert: North Korea says maybe it will hold that summit...6 days ago
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New Era, New Priests: E.R. Dodds, Rome, Christianity and Intersectionality - Writing in the American Conservative, here’s Gilbert Sewall on the Oxford classicist, E.R. Dodds. Read the whole thing, really, but here is Sewall discuss...6 days ago
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Make No Law Episode Six: Street - Make No Law Episode Six: Street has dropped. It's about Street v. New York, a case about flag burning. Here are some of the resources mentioned in the epis...6 days ago
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On neoliberalism - Is neoliberalism even a thing? This is the question posed by Ed Conway, who claims it is “not an ideology but an insult.” I half agree. I agree that the ec...1 week ago
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Raymond Ibrahim: 'Islam’s Erasure of Christianity' - The recent discovery of of "how an eighth century Koran was found to be written over... the Bible" has been hailed by the media as evidence of "cultural in...1 week ago
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Bankers are more honest than the rest of us - Well, probably not. But that’s one interpretation you could take from a the oft-quoted and cited Nature paper by Cohn and colleagues Business culture and d...1 week ago
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SHUTTING DOWN THE INTERNET IN TIME OF WAR - During the series of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Syria, insurgents have used low-tech weapons against Western forces and their allies. Typical are s...1 week ago
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Capital’s Share of Income Is Way Higher than You Think - By Steve Roth The shares of income going to “capital” and “labor” are vexed issues. For a long time, economists thought these relative shares stayed roug...1 week ago
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Radical Markets and cognitive load - One frequent response so far is skepticism that ordinary people can handle the cognitive load some of our proposals would impose on them. Here’s Ryan Avent...1 week ago
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Listen to Me Talk about Iran Deal on Naked Diner Podcast - As you might have heard, Trump recently violated the UN resolution enshrining the JCPOA (that is, the Iran deal) into international law and if you have fol...1 week ago
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"What Is It Like" Interview Now Freely Available - ... here. It's a fairly long read (about 8000 words), but I gave a lot of thought to Cliff's questions, and I hope the result is both interesting and revea...1 week ago
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Michael Yon’s Campfire Series: Needs Your Support - [image: image001] *BookX* – The Michael Yon Campfire Series I am an author, photographer, war correspondent, and former cannibal hunter. Stick with me, ...1 week ago
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Michael Yon’s Campfire Series: Needs Your Support - [image: image001] *BookX* – The Michael Yon Campfire Series I am an author, photographer, war correspondent, and former cannibal hunter. Stick with me, ...1 week ago
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The Output Gap, the Federal Budget Deficit, and the Threat of Debt Monetization - In April 2018 Congressional Budget Office issued a report on the state of the federal budget in light of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” enacted in December ...1 week ago
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Death - "Death is such a monumental breakage in our logical understanding of the world that it fractures our language, our behavior — it excuses, in its way, almos...1 week ago
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Islam’s Erasure of Christianity - FrontPage Magazine A recent article titled “Passages from the Bible discovered behind Qur’an manuscript” is a reminder that for centuries Islam has been ...1 week ago
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The Art of the Shitpost: Call Me Maybe - Until yesterday, I had never heard of Childish Gambino, Donald Glover or This Is America, despite the latter racking up more than 1 million views on YouTub...1 week ago
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Similar War Theories of Hobbes and Schmitt - 1. Introduction Currently, I’m researching Thomas Hobbes’s (1588-1679) Leviathan (1651) for a book I’m writing. I noticed that Hobbes’s theory of war in on...1 week ago
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Geoff Robson: Lying for Jesus and Wrong about Richard Dawkins - Richard Dawkins gave a couple of talks in New Zealand recently. He’s here promoting his new book, Science in the Soul. As usual that brought people out o...1 week ago
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Rugby and free speech? Only for some… - When it comes to rugby, if you express Christian views you're sin-binned... ...but if you want to burn the flag taxpayer funds will be used to get you to...1 week ago
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Four new Pakistan related books - *by Salman Hameed* You should know that podcasts for New Books Network (NBN) are an amazing resource! This is the place you hear the authors not only talk ...1 week ago
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Can’t Be Liberals - Severian: I’m not a Liberal, first and foremost, because I’m lazy. This is the meta-reason, that encompasses all the other reasons. It just takes too much ...1 week ago
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Does Watching TV Make Nietzsche's Last Man Smarter? - In my last post, I commented on Ronald Beiner's* Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right. * I challenged him to present some...1 week ago
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The city of cockerels - The history of chickens (Gallus domesticus) is still a bit of a puzzle. Scholars agree that they were first domesticated by mixing two wild bird species...1 week ago
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Barsoom and Pulp Revolution on Inappropriate Characters - Inappropriate Characters is a new youtube series on tabletop games featuring some of the guys from the scene that are most likely to take flack from the cu...1 week ago
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Whoever you vote for – Hezbollah Wins - Jerusalem Post, 11/05 Lebanon’s May 6 elections have resulted in the further consolidation of Hezbollah and its associated movements within the legal frame...1 week ago
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How(e) I Love Hoxa - Time flies, and it's been all of three years since I was last in Orkney, so I was very happy to have the opportunity to go again last month. As so often, ...1 week ago
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Letters to Our Ruling Class (1): Senator Menendez on Syria - Here’s the text of a letter I wrote my Senator, Bob Menendez, on Donald Trump’s missile strikes on Syria a few weeks ago. His “response” follows. Obviously...1 week ago
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Why were the Balkans underdeveloped? A geographical hypothesis - The Balkans are an odd man in Europe. Its income level is much lower than the average income level of Western and Central Europe. This is a well-known f...1 week ago
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The sacrifice of the innocent - [This paper was originally delivered as an informal address to the Icelandic Philosophical Society, September 11, 1994] Is it ever morally right to sacrifi...1 week ago
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The paradox of markups, part 2 - I told you I wouldn’t leave you waiting on the next post concerning markups and the paper by David Baqaee and Emmanuel Fahri, so here you go. In the last ...1 week ago
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Outstanding Book Orders - I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently, righteously demanding information about their outstanding book orders. I am going to try and curb that a little, by o...1 week ago
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Blog will be down for a transition - For many years Jacques Chester has been generously providing technical support for this blog and several others. With a busy job in New York he is now tran...1 week ago
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Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers - Those who pay attention to the “republic of letters” in Canada will have noticed that Tanya Talaga’s book, *Seven Fallen Feathers*, has been cleaning up ...1 week ago
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US Digital Currency - I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far)...1 week ago
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A case for bitcoin - Mavrodi "biletov" In this post I'm going to outline a case for bitcoin. I still think bitcoin is a bad medium of exchange and a rubbish store of value. It'...1 week ago
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Marx at 200 Robespierre at 260 - This year is the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx (1818-1883). A recent biography of Marx (reviewed here) places him very much as a man of his t...1 week ago
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Exiting the Iran deal is a blow to financial transparency and US control - Over the past decade, the United States has succeeded at exercising an extraordinary degree of “extraterritorial” control over the Western financial system...1 week ago
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Are common diseases generally caused by 'common' variants? - The funding mantra of genomewide mapping is that common variants cause common disease (CV-CD). This was convenient for HapMap and other association-based ...1 week ago
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The era of ‘soft’ central planning - More than a decade ago, The Economist (at the time still a classical liberal publication – how times change…) published an excellent article on ‘soft pater...2 weeks ago
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Episode 196: Lynne Murphy on The Prodigal Tongue - It's a tale of two Englishes, as Richard Aldous speaks with linguist Lynne Murphy about the love-hate relationship between American and British English.2 weeks ago
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Working Paper on Polarization and Hegemony - I have a working paper on polarization and hegemony that I am sharing by request. You will find it to be interesting.2 weeks ago
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The Incel Question - A couple of interesting things happened on Twitter last week. One was this: The issue of sex inequality seems a “loose thread” of our social fabric, that c...2 weeks ago
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How communism affects the inequality U-curve - U-curves are all the rage in inequality studies. Increasingly viewed as a global phenomenon, the distribitional U-curve attempts to show changes in top inc...2 weeks ago
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Marketing is Life and Life is Marketing - Much of what we do on a daily basis is consummatory in nature, and is shaped by our deep-seated desire to market ourselves in endless ways.2 weeks ago
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Susan Dynarski and Judith Scott-Clayton on education tax benefits - Susan Dynarski and Judith Scott-Clayton: Taxpayers have filed for over thirty billion dollars in credits and deductions for college expenses they paid in 2...2 weeks ago
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Ever wonder where to find the Trump Tower? Then take this “Trump Walking Tour” with me, and learn even more - Meet at the southwest corner of 53rd Street and 6th Avenue, under the large statue across from the Hilton Hotel, the tour guide will be holding a “Social J...2 weeks ago
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What Would Milo Do - I am finding it difficult to stay cheerful of late. I could blame the hot flashes, which have been wearing me down for the past several months, but it isn’...2 weeks ago
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Brave the enemy’s gunfire, rejuvenate! - Defining the win in a trade war is difficult, even for a “winner” like Donald Trump. In an Apr 2018 tweet, the US President declared the trade war “already...2 weeks ago
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Assad vs. ISIS in Southern Damascus is the Culmination of the Regime’s Strategy - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 May 2018 The 130th edition of Al-Naba, the Islamic State’s (IS) newsletter, was published on 4 May 2018. The main story on...2 weeks ago
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New Release: Cato Journal on The Future of Monetary Policy - This issue of the Cato Journal is dedicated to Allan H. Meltzer who passed away on May 8, 2017. Allan spoke at the 1st Annual Monetary Conference in 1983...2 weeks ago
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The Big Book of Wisdom of Western Civilization - Jordan Peterson and Jonah Goldberg both published books this year that connect the social science understanding of how and why we humans do the things we d...2 weeks ago
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Links (16) & bodily redistribution - Collection of papers and articles that I’ve spotted since my previous links post that seem interesting. Energy Alliance of private fusion companies working...2 weeks ago
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Wellcome book Prize 2018: the podcasts - Interviews with the winner and shortlisted writers for the prestigious award Little Atoms is the official podcast partner of the Wellcome Book Prize, the ...2 weeks ago
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The Three Levels of Self-Awareness - Self-awareness is like great sex: everyone thinks they have a ton of it, but in reality no one knows what the fuck they’re doing. The fact is that the m...2 weeks ago
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The end of Britain/the end of democracy? - In 1999, the conservative commentator Peter Hitchens published a book called 'The Abolition of Britain' that described the constitutional changes taking pl...2 weeks ago
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Guest post: early interest in science predicts long-term trust of scientitsts - *Once again, we bring you the cutting edge of #scicomm science from someone who can actually do it! Our competitors can only watch in envy. * *The Endur...2 weeks ago
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Blast from the Past: 21 Years Ago - [cross-posted at BHL] I see that a video has recently been posted on YouTube of me, Jacob Levy, David Bernstein, and Richard Geddes on a panel on race, cla...2 weeks ago
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Looking at Luzon hominins, from the perspective of 1985 - In light of this week’s paper by Ingicco and colleagues showing evidence of 700,000-year-old human activity from Kalinga, on Luzon, I’ve been doing a lit...2 weeks ago
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The elites of Pueblo Bonito - In my recent travels in the Southwest, I visited Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, site of the most complex and astonishing pre-Columbian civilization in North Ame...2 weeks ago
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Book Notes — Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction - Antulio Echevarria’s Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction is a short and accessible introduction to military strategy, as ‘strategy’ is thought abo...3 weeks ago
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Save the Children - Jonathan Haidt is consistently unimpressive. Responding in this Chronicle piece about Jeffrey Adam Sachs’ great essay for the Niskanen Center, Haidt conced...3 weeks ago
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Brexit, Parliament and "The Will of the People" - Yesterday afternoon the House of Lords removed its glasses, stepped into the ring and struck the latest in a series of blows against the Executive. In vo...3 weeks ago
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EBay Would Rather Support Fraud and Theft Than Help Sellers - Yes, you read the title right. No, it is not spam, or false, or libel - it is in fact an accurate representation of their corporate policies, as I have now...3 weeks ago
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VoA Ukraine service interview on Russian organised crime - Below are clips of an interview I recorded last week for Voice of America’s Ukraine service (in English, subtitled) on Russian organised crime’s internatio...3 weeks ago
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The Case Against The Case Against Education - I am quite unqualified to review Bryan Caplan’s blockbuster The Case Against Education, by virtue of the fact that I have not (yet) found time to read all ...3 weeks ago
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How to Sell Public Housing in Everyone’s Interest - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 25 April 2018.) Turning public flats into homeownership flats is by far the fastest way to addre...4 weeks ago
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Hayek, Radner and Rational-Expectations Equilibrium - In revising my paper on Hayek and Three Equilibrium Concepts, I have made some substantial changes to the last section which I originally posted last June....4 weeks ago
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Progressivism on Steroids: The “Conservative” Anti-Humanism of Jonah Goldberg - Way back when, as a student interested in the analysis of modern mentalities of government, I picked up the following, simple set of methodological procedu...4 weeks ago
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Duffy’s Truck and Me - GEOFFREY ALLEN It would be rash to declare that a 1926 Whippet Six taught a young man invaluable lessons in the ways of the world, but in the Western Austr...4 weeks ago
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How To Derive A Demand Function from a CES Utility Function - Warning: Boring technical stuff that’s only here because I needed it for the model in the Helicopter Money paper, and there are no other good references on...4 weeks ago
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How To Derive A Demand Function from a CES Utility Function - Warning: Boring technical stuff that’s only here because I needed it for the model in the Helicopter Money paper, and there are no other good references on...4 weeks ago
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The 2018 John Bates Clark: Parag Pathak - The most prestigious award a young researcher can receive in economics, the John Bates Clark medal, has been awarded to the incredibly productive Parag Pat...4 weeks ago
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Aging America - A Brief Spin Through the New Age Estimates Census released new age and year-specific estimates of the national population today. So let me walk you through...4 weeks ago
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If you want to Sell More Books on Amazon, then you should probably read this… - Jeff Bezos, of whom I am a big fan, puts out a yearly letter to his shareholders. There’s some fascinating information in here, and, if you want to sell b...4 weeks ago
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A guide to using behavioural insights in local government - I wrote this for Sunderland City Council, following some work using behavioural insights in a range of projects. Although written for an internal audience,...4 weeks ago
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Two Articles tell a sad tale of misguided (de)construction and own-goal behavior - I just recently came across a excellent piece by a English literature professor, Eric Bennett in the Chronicle of Higher Education. It resonated with an ar...4 weeks ago
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Please Put Down Your Sledgehammers: On the Parkland Students, Left Reductionism, and Aversion to Strategic Alliance - By William J. Weikart When I Facebook reposted a .gif rendering of Emma González that said “I Stand With Her”, I was feeling her emotional courage, and ins...5 weeks ago
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Understand the important success points, for new product lunch with booth design - New is extremely important word for supreme exhibition marketing. Potential customers react and turn their interest to exhibition stands designs where a ne...5 weeks ago
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No Country for ‘Non-Men’: How The Green Party is Trying to Oust an Elected Labour LGBT Officer - Fuck you, James Vessey-Miller. Fuck you. The post No Country for ‘Non-Men’: How The Green Party is Trying to Oust an Elected Labour LGBT Officer appeare...5 weeks ago
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R1ans still at large (or, the story of India) - Ten ago, in the pre-ancient DNA "Dark Ages" a big debate raged on about the origin of R1a men in India. The stage had been set even earlier, by the pionee...5 weeks ago
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Back to blogging - stuff is happening :) - I have been pretty quiet on the blogging frontiers during the last few months. I have been juggling various manuscripts, including a book manuscript, as we...5 weeks ago
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Two Stories - Improvisation Is the Heart of Music “The rest was pure Arabian Nights. Gazelle-eyed maidens with perfumed robes brought inlaid boxes of Turkish delight an...5 weeks ago
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RD in neuroscience - Economics is invading nearby sciences (and some not so nearby, judging by the inclusion in the most recent NBER papers of "The Health Effects of Cesarean D...1 month ago
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Calling for Violent Jihad in Australia - *There is not a Bible, Jewish or Christian, containing such incendiary commentary as populates page after page of 'The Noble Qur’an', which for four years ...1 month ago
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Estonia’s Astonishing Development - by Andreas Hoffmann Intellectual Takeout’s Luis Pablo has published a nice piece on Estonia’s astonishing development. You can find it here. He attributes ...1 month ago
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The Death of Interchange: A conservative critique of Radical Gurus - ******** *Author's note* I wrote previously about the unaccredited year-long peer counseling program that I took part in called Interchange Counseling. ...1 month ago
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The Ibis and the Crocodile: Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign and Evolutionary Theory in France, 1801-1835 - In Republics of Letters. To Read the entire article, go here. There is today broad scientific consensus, and general if contested acceptance among nonexper...1 month ago
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Judge Xinis’ Outrage - Since the Dear Colleague letter confirmed tilted Title IX adjudication systems, more than 200 accused students have sued their schools. They’ve won more th...1 month ago
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Revisiting Epstein’s Freedom and Growth - I was fortunate to be invited give the Epstein Lecture at LSE this March. The series is named after the great LSE economic historian Larry (Stephen) Epst...1 month ago
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In Memory of John Murray - This post is a bit different than normal. Most of my posts are about the minutiae of economic theory or controversies. Today’s post is personal. All of us ...1 month ago
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Iran: the Girls of Revolution Street - By Atoosa This year, March 20th marked the first day of the solar calendar, the first day of spring. In Iran and across communities in Central Asia and t...1 month ago
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The problems with 'wargaming' history. (Particularly WWII.) - I had a good comment on my 'Ten Myths about the Phoney War' post from a Swedish respondent called DIREWOFLx75. He makes some fair points, adn of course som...1 month ago
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DeLong vs. Krugman on globalization - I'm going to do the inadvisable, and argue with Brad DeLong. Hopefully this will turn out OK, since it's in response to Brad doing the inadvisable and ar...1 month ago
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Charges filed against Egyptian atheist Sherif Gaber - Egyptian religious conservative Al-Nour party (Party of light) has filed a blasphemy claim against atheist, free-thinker and activist Sherif Gaber. The s...1 month ago
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An eleventh-century Chinese coin in Britain and the evidence for East Asian contacts in the medieval period - This post is concerned with a rather curious and unique find of an eleventh-century Northern Song dynasty coin from China in Cheshire, looking first at its...1 month ago
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Inflation and Unemployment (Part 2) - In my previous post (Inflation and Unemployment), I reviewed what I thought was a fair characterization of the way the Federal Reserve Board staff organize...1 month ago
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Caixin’s investigation of CEFC and Chairman Ye Jianming - On March 1, Caixin broke the news that Chairman Ye Jianming of the China CEFC Energy Co. has been detained by PRC authorities, and is under investigation f...1 month ago
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Redrawing the Map: How Jowei Chen is Measuring Partisan Gerrymandering - post written by Solmaz Spence “Gerrymandering”— when legislative maps are drawn to the advantage of one party over the other during redistricting—received ...1 month ago
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Don't shoot the messenger when confronted with inconvenient ideas - [By Russell Blackford, University of Newcastle. Republished from The Conversation, 15 March 2018] In August 2017, James Damore, a Google software engineer, ...1 month ago
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The New Anti-Semitism - *These are the opening comments I made in a debate at the Central Synagogue in London on 19 February 2015.* One thing has become very clear in recent wee...1 month ago
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The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...1 month ago
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The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...1 month ago
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Questions for Powell - Market participants widely expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates at the conclusion today’s FOMC meeting. The only real debate surrounding this...2 months ago
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Persecuted Global Refugees: No Place To Call Home - 09/09/2014 The official estimate for the number of refugees globally passes the 50 million mark for the first time since World War II. According to UNHCR...2 months ago
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John Bolton Called Trump’s Russia Strategy “Delusional” - Speculation has escalated that John Bolton, the former UN Ambassador under George W. Bush and one of the country’s leading consummate foreign policy hawk...2 months ago
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The trouble with feminism - In this post, I want to explain why I’m not a feminist and why I think you shouldn’t be either. Of course, I cannot discuss everything I think is wrong w...2 months ago
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Self-Correction: The Methodological Revolution in Psychology - Self-correction is one of the hallmarks of science, but it's been slow to work in psychology. How can the field become the self-correcting science it aspir...2 months ago
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What is the meaning of an accusation of racism? - Guy comes up to you on the street and says: “I know who you are. You may look like a human, but I know that’s a disguise. You have taken over the body of a...2 months ago
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How archaeology is distorted by Science magazine and the National Geographic Society - The public has a lot of interest in archaeology, and new finds and discoveries are often in the news. Sometimes the press reports outlandish, nonsense cla...2 months ago
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#137 – Song 5: A Song of Rice and Flour - ACast Link A History of Rice “Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want eat 2,000 of something.” – Mitch Hedberg Please consider helping THoC pay for ...2 months ago
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What do I mean by Skin in the Game? My Own Version - When selecting a surgeon for your next brain procedure, should you pick a surgeon who looks like a butcher or one who looks like a surgeon? The logic of ...2 months ago
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So how cheap is renewable energy? - This table from Peter Rees is an interesting analysis of proposed power plants for South Australia. At a time when zealots are claiming that so-called rene...2 months ago
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A day in the life of a 15th-century barrister - There have been calls in recent years to do away with the split legal profession. Proposals for a fused legal profession come with regularity, and attempts...2 months ago
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Kafkaesque Yo! Därför stängde Facebook av mig och raderade min kommentar. [Uppdatering: Facebook rättade och bad om ursäkt] - Maria Carlshamre Robsahm är en vaccinförnekare och f.d. politiker som tvingades lämna Folkpartiet efter att hon dömdes för bokföringsbrott, och som senar...2 months ago
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Hey! What About Term Limits for the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping?? - In my most recent China Watch video for Newsbud, I have some fun with the ostentatious handwringing and concern trolling the West concerning the CCP pro...2 months ago
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Arming teachers is a really dumb idea - Yesterday, I saw a video clip in which Trump recommended teachers carry a gun at school. You can see the video here. The idea seemed stupid to me, but I t...3 months ago
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Join Us at the Summer Research Lab! - Amidst all the craziness of this past … forever … I’m pleased to say that the Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois continues strong. We have a great pro...3 months ago
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The One Gun Control Measure That Gun Rights Advocates Should Support - I’m a huge gun rights advocate. I’ve been shooting and collecting guns since I was twelve. I got my first AR-15 thirty years ago, at age sixteen. I joined ...3 months ago
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Is the Bible Cool with Same-Sex Marriage? - A few weeks ago, a church in SoCal hosted a very thoughtful, cordial and substantive discussion between Matthew Vines and Sean McDowell on whether the Bibl...3 months ago
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Baltimore police trial: guilty - Yesterday the verdict came out. I wrote this op-ed for the *Washington Post* : This current scandal is more than a case of a few bad apples, though bad app...3 months ago
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“Woman” Is Not My Slave Name (from the DGS archives) - Before vagina hats, there was the “muff match”! 1st published WEDNESDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2011 I agreed with Naomi McAuliffe in her worry that feminism is...3 months ago
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On the Uses (and Abuses) of Economath: The Malthusian Models - Many American undergraduates in Economics interested in doing a Ph.D. are surprised to learn that the first year of an Econ Ph.D. feels much more like ente...3 months ago
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Review of Three Books on the Islamic State - JOURNAL ARTICLE Review: “What Was That All About?” Flawed Methodologies in Explaining the Origins of ISIS (2003–2013) Reviewed Works: The Master Plan by Br...3 months ago
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What is the "Right" Corporate Income Tax? Zero! - The recent tax bill signed by President Trump reduces the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. This was a positive change, but really, just a ...3 months ago
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Hey Democrats, the Problem Isn’t Jobs and Growth - It’s inequality. By James Kwak This American Life‘s forays into politics and economics are generally less satisfying than their ordinary storytelling fare....3 months ago
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NYT Op-Ed on Trump’s DACA Proposal - The New York Times asked me earlier this week if I had any thoughts on President Trump’s DACA proposal. I did. And here they are.3 months ago
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Review: Down Girl by Kate Manne - Kathryn Norlock reviews Kate Manne's book on the nature of misogyny3 months ago
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Charisma and Representation - (Reflections on the nature of charisma and charismatic authority. Applications to current events and people are left as an exercise for the reader. Warning...3 months ago
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Are NY Republicans a friend to men, boys, fathers, or families? - While Republicans in NYS certainly talk a good game of supporting men, fathers, and families the talk is just that, cheap talk. Now that we have 20 years ...3 months ago
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Top 100 in Global Economic Weight - According to the IMF China is the largest economy in the world and has been since 2014. This is on a PPP basis (see here for discussion) and all data is re...3 months ago
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Are journalists an “enemy of the American people”? - The Committee to Protect Journalists proclaimed President Donald Trump its winner in “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom” earlier this...4 months ago
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On the relevance of the income inequality to expected health expenditures. - Last week, Hubert Biscuit posted a response on Medium questioning the relevance per capita income to national health expenditures. Here’s more on the debat...4 months ago
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More on distinguishing ideas and interests -- an exchange with Peter Hall - My recent post on ideas versus interests elicited some comments from Peter Hall, my Harvard colleague who has done probably more thinking on this issue tha...4 months ago
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The Power of Positive Persistence - Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House will ...4 months ago
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Future U.S. Equity Returns: A Best-Case Upper Limit - The following chart shows the distribution of future return assumptions that state and local pension funds were using to value their liabilities as of Febr...4 months ago
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Quotes for 2017 - "In 2017, Trump is a major dating dealbreaker. Golden showers are not." - Dating in the 21st Century "Many people will find that their experiences with t...4 months ago
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Review of "Weep For Day" by Indrapramit Das (2012) - *Introduction: *Being well aware that this story was probably put at the head of the *Best New SF 26* anthology to highlight some sort of committment to "...4 months ago
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Year in Career: 2017 - This is a story about growing up. Coming of age. In 2018, I will have been a stenographer for 18 years – my career will be an adult. Whereas before it c...4 months ago
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Assorted Thoughts #1: Applying Averages - This series contains some of the key books, studies, papers and events that I’ve read over the last year. I’ve decided to try to write one of these posts f...4 months ago
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Remembering – Merry Christmas - Editors’ Note: Dr. Pournelle posted the following on December 24, 2002. The Web Guy wishes all a Merry Christmas – or your personal equivalent. From Rod Mc...4 months ago
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When Snowflakes Attack! - In my last post, I mentioned how important it is for those playing the SJW game to make sure their every utterance is in line with whatever the intellectua...4 months ago
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The Last Jedi AAR - The Star Wars movies have never been particularly concerned with accuracy when it comes to military tactics and strategy. From the start, the movies are de...5 months ago
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A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM - Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter account) ...5 months ago
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The Positive Inter-Religious Effect of Reading About Peace First’s Programs - In our last post, we wrote about how we are currently working with numerous partners bridging divisions and one of the common questions that partners get c...5 months ago
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Introducing Left-Versus-Right Book and Article Pairings - While I have spent my life living in a more liberal milieu, through personal experience and independent study I have found many truths on the right side ...5 months ago
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Why AARP has an entire team dedicated to answering Facebook comments - AARP, the 60-year-old special interest group that advocates for older Americans, has never been shy about flexing its policy muscles or leveraging its enor...5 months ago
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A People’s Tolerance For Change And Adaptation Should Not Be Strained Beyond Its Limits - With a hat-tip to Bill Vallicella, here’s a brief and worthwhile article on immigration. Go and read the whole thing. You may notice some overlap with the ...5 months ago
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radical book club: what Righties can do - The first time I raised the idea of Righties learning from Lefties, a lot of people greeted it with derision. Plenty still do. That’s a terrible attitude, ...6 months ago
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Houses, housing, and inquality in the distant past - When people talk about the relationship of residences--the places where people live--to social inequality and other aspects of society today, they talk abo...6 months ago
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New Immigration Blog - Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe a post...6 months ago
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Sam Biddle of The Intercept Accused of Masturbating in Front of Coworker - Several female journalists have accused their male colleagues of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and worse. They have been compiling their accusations i...7 months ago
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Guest Post: The Three Sisters of the Young King by Sharon Bennett Connolly - Today I am delighted to welcome Sharon Bennet Connolly to the blog. Sharon is going to present her new book, *Heroines of the Medieval World, *and tell us ...7 months ago
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Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence - There used to be more research and debate on the negative effects of labour resistance on economic development, but that topic has been crowded out by the ...7 months ago
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Innovation in Economics Pedagogy and Publishing - Well, it's Labor Day weekend, which means that Barnard and Columbia students are back on campus and classes are about to begin. This semester I'm teaching ...8 months ago
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Hurricane Harvey: Thanksgiving in The Wake of Tragedy - “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the ...8 months ago
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NATURAL DISASTERS ARE NOT A BOON TO ECONOMIC GROWTH!!!!!!!! - The usual, “Hurricane will raise GDP” stories are circulating and some of my free market friends are conceding the point but saying that not all rises in G...8 months ago
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Book review: Western Fringes - When I read the blurb of Western Fringes – a Muslim man trying to find a Sikh woman who has run away from home to escape an arranged marriage – I admit tha...9 months ago
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Behavioral biases don’t affect stock prices - Most people are probably somewhat overconfident. Most people – myself surely included – probably typically overestimate their own talents, and they (we) ...9 months ago
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Campbell Award & Invisible Disability - Last night I was overjoyed and overwhelmed to receive the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the Hugo Awards ceremony at Worldcon 75 here in Hel...9 months ago
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Dunkirk: A Deliverance Worth Cheering - My review of the film Dunkirk and case for celebrating the evacuation: https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/dunkirk-a-deliverance-worth-cheering/9 months ago
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Allow Me To Explain The Darkness Of The Human Soul - Church, State, Civilization Part 1: Allow Me to Explain The Darkness Of The Human Soul The title of this post … Continue reading →9 months ago
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For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...9 months ago
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Plato’s hijacking of Socratic aporia and media-friendly radicalism - In Plato’s early dialogues Socrates leads his interlocutors to *aporia*, a state in which they are unconvinced by their own beliefs and arguments, and do...9 months ago
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What is an Institution? - Find out in my new post at the NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice Blog.10 months ago
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I guess I need to say this again - Anyone who’s been reading this site for any length of time knows this, but apparently there are some drooling shit stirrers who haven’t gotten the message,...10 months ago
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This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issue...11 months ago
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The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...11 months ago
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Jacobite Magazine - Newly launched. No comment thread there, so feel free to use this place.11 months ago
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This Gay Life - Its always tough. Imagine, meeting someone that you synch with. For the moment or forever. You going back home, in a place that is safe for you, and for hi...1 year ago
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Being Human - I've just discovered that the pilot episode of UK series *Being Human *is online again, after having been taken down for a while. I first wrote about it ba...1 year ago
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Don’t abuse history in order to score cheap political points - "What I object to—and what my interlocutors maddeningly refuse to engage with—is the effort to use history and Jewish memory, in particular, the crimes of ...1 year ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.1 year ago
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Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...1 year ago
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Hayek, Knowledge, and Carbon Taxes: Markets Without Prices or Prices Without Markets? - As far as I know, Friedrich Hayek never wrote a word about climate change, but two of his most famous works contain arguments that bear directly on this ke...1 year ago
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Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.1 year ago
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A Tale of YouTuber Stupidity - Now if you haven't been living under a rock then you are likely aware that there are a great deal of people on YouTube. A select few garner enough of a f...1 year ago
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Japan and Philippines Challenge China on New Fronts - Japan is deploying a warship to the South China Sea while the Philippines pushes back against Chinese encroachments in the east.1 year ago
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How the Democrats can Rebuild - Appearing in: Orange County Register Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded the parlous state of the Democratic Part...1 year ago
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A catalog of density (Québec/Canada version) - So, I've recently discovered an interesting tool to visualize census data for Canada, www.censusmapper.ca. Among its various data, it allows to do visualiz...1 year ago
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The left and the right ignored their extremists and we ended up with Brexit and Trump - The Observer 11 February 2017 Three types dominate extremist movements: crazies, cynics and creeps. The true crazies are always at the bottom of the heap. ...1 year ago
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In defense of science - We are deeply concerned by the Trump administration’s move to gag scientists working at various governmental agencies. The US government employs scientists...1 year ago
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the blog’s not dead… - …it’s just restin’. (~_^) sorry for the lack of posting over the last few months. unfortunately, there’s been a lot of major illness in the immediate famil...1 year ago
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Improving Your Writing – Prioritizing Increased-Get Worries www.proofreadingessay.com - There are a good deal of diverse methods you can go about doing that 1 thing – you can offer ebooks that deliver solutions to folks’s difficulties, or you ...1 year ago
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This was never just a recession - Maybe to start with, but not for long. What does a recession look like? Take, for example, the 1981/82 recession, which was deep. Real output falls strongl...1 year ago
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Can pagerank-like algorithms be used to help improve democracy? - In an excellent post Ben Rattray, founder of change.org, suggest that technology can help improve democracy by addressing what he calls three core needs:...1 year ago
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Goodbye - [image: Snapshot corrected moving to unz] It’s goodbye to drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk After 4 years of blogging, and 1,062,720 page views, here i...1 year ago
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The Things You Learn from the Internet - The Spiritual Science Research Foundation (“Bridging the known and unknown worlds”) has discovered the cause of homosexuality for 85% of all gay people: 4....1 year ago
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Moving house - People connected to me have justifiably asked that I move my blog to a more anonymous platform. Although I’ve made an effort to remove my name from this bl...1 year ago
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Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...1 year ago
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Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...1 year ago
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Learning Arabic, Persian, and Urdu - I’m writing this to share my impressions on learning Arabic, Persian, and Urdu; I’ve studied all three languages in some capacity. Comparing the learni...1 year ago
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Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done? - This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, near...1 year ago
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501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...1 year ago
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Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons - MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the seasons and ...1 year ago
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What Motivates a Jihadist? - (McLeans) A new study based on interviews conducted over social media with foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria raises doubts about the commonly held notio...1 year ago
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THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…1 year ago
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Paper writing in the age of preprints and twitter - One side effect of the move to preprints is a change in the psychology of trying to get manuscripts published. Instead of targeting a journal, it becomes e...1 year ago
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The Redistribution of Humiliation - The recent EU referendum in the UK has drawn a great deal of attention to voters who had previously been ignored. Communities left behind by the 21st Centu...1 year ago
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A Tale of Two SIFIs - The Best of Managements, The Worst of Managements My apologies; neither of the banks I am about to discuss was ever large enough to be considered a SIFI (S...1 year ago
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My Blog Has Moved Again! - My new blog location is www.richardcarrier.info. I will maintain this old blog as a historical archive as I did before. But every other post I've blogged s...1 year ago
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Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - 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...1 year ago
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EU vote: Scotland will ruin UK’s chance of a Brexit - If you could pick one person from British society and be certain they would vote Remain, who would you choose?1 year ago
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‘Gen Why?’ – Perception Deception - “Most days are full of meaningless uninvited interactions with the same kind of simple minded individuals, that indeed would have definitely complained abo...1 year ago
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My blog moving to my website - I just wanted to give a heads up to readers that I have moved my blog to my website, which now houses all my work, videos, press coverage, photos and more....1 year ago
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Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...2 years ago
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結婚したい！それなら電話占いピュアリの占い師に聞いてみよう！ - 結婚したい皆さん、なかなかいい出会いがないと思っている方も多いかと思います。 そんな時は占い師さんに色々聞いた […]2 years ago
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The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...2 years ago
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Along came Phil - Gramm, former Senator from the state of Texas to set a few facts straight in the Wall Street Journal about the cause of the financial crisis. I.e., it wasn...2 years ago
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Fiscal Policy and the ZLB - I have been doing some reading for my undergraduate thesis, which looks at the role of credit-supply shocks in the Spain during its housing boom and bust, ...2 years ago
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Comments on the Democratic Debate in Miami - This was truly the most bizarre debate I've ever seen. The level of questioning from the three interviewers, two from Univision, a Spanish-language network...2 years ago
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By: the unBalanced ecoLOGist | The Unbalanced Ecologist - […] weeks ago, I was invited to write a commentary about an online essay written by Erle Ellis for the Social Evolution Forum (a project of the Evolution I...2 years ago
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Samurai Gifts - The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late sixteenth and ...2 years ago
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The Mayhem of GOP Class Politics in 2016 - Majority Report Radio conversation with Michael Brooks on the piece I wrote for the National on the political insurgency in the Republican mainstream. In A...2 years ago
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Where are the “devaluationists”? - A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section on policy op...2 years ago
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I have written six book reviews this year - What a rare thing – a blog post. At the end of another writingful year I thought it worth noting a few of the achievements now likely to vanish into poster...2 years ago
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Changing Stations - At the beginning of October, I packed up my family and we made the move ‘home’. The house is fairly new, but the place is old. It has a lot of history...2 years ago
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Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia. - Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia....2 years ago
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Salvaging the Tatters of the Obama Doctrine - When president Obama told George Stephanopoulos only hours before the Paris attack that his administration had “contained ISIS” he may have been wrong but ...2 years ago
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Podcast #363: The Future of America, Vulnerability, Cheating, and More - On Sunday’s episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, Greg Perkins and I answered questions on the future of the United States, the value of vulnerability, ch...2 years ago
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We've Moved - Effective September 9, 2015, the Mischiefs of Faction is now located at Vox.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, ...2 years ago
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A few more thoughts on monopsony and the minimum wage (and what I think is a much stronger post from Don) - In the last post I noted that monopsony is definitely not the only and not even really the best theoretical argument for why we see no disemployment effect...2 years ago
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Book Review: Intelligence (2015) by Stuart Ritchie - An Uphill Battle It’s no easy task to explain why intelligence is so important. The reason for this is oddly enough that many highly intelligent people i...2 years ago
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A CryptoFiction - Here’s a micro-story I started with the Access Crypto Summit flash fiction prompt in mind, left half done, and then belatedly finished off anyway, because ...2 years ago
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Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie. - Further to my Canada Day column Finding the Right Words for Canada’s History I thought I’d put this up. It’s from Rain Language, a long poem in translation...2 years ago
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It Is Accomplished - As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had...2 years ago
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Libertarianism and the Politics of Everything - It is a precept of Athenian philosophy in the Socratic tradition that the impetus to philosophy begins with wonder at the heavens, but the attempt to act...3 years ago
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Inflation and Deflation – Economics A2 Level Unit 4 - A short video on the joys of inflation (and deflation) covering their causes and [...]3 years ago
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Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef - In the last few days I’ve carefully read comments emanating from the Coalition government that suggested an undue intervention in Australian politics by Pr...3 years ago
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Our first virtual Screenwriting Workshop! - T woke up on Monday with the idea, bubbling with notions, and I think it's a fabulous way to explore the new media potentials for a virtual classroom. We c...3 years ago
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What does my research contribute to our understanding of the Hong Kong protests? - Did Xi Jinping miscalculate by not allowing free elections in Hong Kong? We cannot know whether the Chinese leadership expected protests of this magnitude,...3 years ago
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Taxation vs. Expropriation - What’s the difference between a 50% marginal tax rate on income vs. 50% expropriation by a kleptocratic ruler or corrupt officials? Some models might sug...3 years ago
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Families and time preferences: Should a libertarian society be childfree and polyamorous? - Usually when libertarians talk about marriage, it’s about how the government shouldn’t be involved. When we talk about children, we debate whether or not w...3 years ago
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The Pre-Columbian Population of Hispaniola - There have been many attempts over the past century to figure out the pre-Columbian population of the island of Hispaniola, which is now home to some 20 mi...3 years ago
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Why Indians are Too Stupid to Build Toilets – were it not for the Media! - There has been a ghastly rape in some Indian village. Two girls got raped and later hanged by the perpetrators after “they left their toilet-less home duri...3 years ago
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By: Anonymous - Great article, however, I don't see yet a study explaining the effects of Cannabis being freed completely overnight, lifting all restrictions and allowing ...3 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner4 years ago
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Why Monetary Policy Should Ignore Financial Stability - Financial stability is apparently the new hot reason to tighten monetary policy, and in this article for Quartz I go in on some reasons for why this is a h...4 years ago
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Governance, aesthetics and architecture - I have been meaning to write up a few thoughts that came out of a beer-fueled conversation with a friend some weeks ago. We both lived in Austin, TX for so...4 years ago
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Reaction Ruckus - Goodness, what a lot of noise lately! Everyone is trying to explain Neoreaction and the Dark Enlightenment. A confusing mess if you ask me. I’ll put my...4 years ago
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Norman Geras: 1943-2013 - I am very sad to announce that Norm died in Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge in the early hours of this morning. Writing this blog, and communicating wi...4 years ago
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Have You Heard Your Inner Voice Today? - New Study Shows There's A Reason Why We "Hear" Our Inner Voice4 years ago
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Jide Who Played Jesus to be Ordained - *MEDIA *INFORMATION *NEWS FROM THE EAST HAM TEAM* For Immediate Use 11 June 2013 *Jide who played Jesus to be ordained* The man who played Jesus in the Ne...4 years ago
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In which I amuse myself at a government ministers expense. - Now funnily enough I happen to live in the town where this has just happened. This may be the furthest south any group has landed, to put it in perspecti...5 years ago
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Another take on the “game of musical chairs” view of business cycle - Britmouse did a post that describes Scott Sumner´s “game of musical chairs” view of business cycles. I thought it interesting to see how it compares to the...5 years ago
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Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe - But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure gues...5 years ago
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An Independent Wild Hunt - We at the Patheos Pagan channel bid The Wild Hunt much luck in its new phase as an independent website. To catch the latest from TWH, please check out wild...5 years ago
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La Ghalib illa Allah - This was the Nasrid motto and means “There is no victor/conqueror except God. It is inscribed hundreds of times all over the Alhambra, appearing even more ...5 years ago
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Modeled Behavior’s RSS Feed - Hopefully within the next day or two we will be able to get Modeled Behavior.com to redirect to our Forbes Blog. Yet, it looks as if there is no way to ge...5 years ago
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Actually, maybe it is the NGDP after all - I’ve gotten a lot of really smart pushback on my claims about the UK economy, and I think I have significantly underestimated what I already believed to be...6 years ago
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“Bernanke invites Scott Sumner for lunch” - “Oct. 31 (Boomberg) US stock market closed sharply up after the Federal Reserve Bank announced that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has invited Bentl...6 years ago
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One Law for All campaign in Turkish media - Here's an article quoting an interview with me on Sharia law and One Law for All published in Turkish media.6 years ago
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The tax forum as a platform for a grand bargain? - In his Challenges of Federation speech we referred to in a previous article, Prime Minister’s Department Secretary Terry Moran said: *There are business l...6 years ago
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The 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...6 years ago
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Muslim Moderates Speak Up - The mad but brave pastor who wants to burn Korans is not relenting. He is not yielding to pressure, from the liberal press, from the Pentagon or from the W...7 years ago
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The Rand Paul reality for gays - Some Republicans are trying to brush it off as the kind of debate you have in you freshman dorm at 2 a.m. Not so for us gays. The objection raised by Rand ...7 years ago
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