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Finally a reason to root for a Climate Crisis! Climate change could make the Muslim pilgrimage of Hajj ‘extremely dangerous’ - The sacred annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca may be threatened by climate change, a new study has found. Hajj, one of the five central pillars of Islam, in...53 minutes ago
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Not the least racist person ever to serve in office - Michael Gerson on Trump’s deranged performance yesterday: With the whir of a helicopter engine in the background, President Trump veered from topic to to...1 hour ago
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Fish-Wrap Of Record - The New York Times has a spot of bother in the PR department today: its chief political editor is in hot water for blatant anti-Semitism. There isn’t a pee...1 hour ago
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DoorDash says it will roll out tipping changes to drivers sometime next month - [image: In this photo illustration the DoorDash logo is seen on a mobile phone] Food delivery app DoorDash is finally changing its tipping policy | Photo I...1 hour ago
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Final auction clearance rate highest in 27 months - Last weekend, CoreLogic released its preliminary auction clearance rates, which revealed the following results: Yesterday, CoreLogic released its final a...1 hour ago
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“Hands up, don’t shoot” never happened, according to the Obama Justice Dept. - "Hands up, don't shoot!" started a national movement. Problem is, it never actually happened, according to the Obama Justice Department.2 hours ago
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Sometimes You Just Have to Watch the Damned Video - I Suspect that this little whore is a communist response to the popularity of Soph. But who can ever really know.2 hours ago
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Another NYT Editor Busted for Crazy, Offensive Tweets - Last year, Sarah Jeong was hired by the NYT Editorial Board. She had a long history of overtly racist tweets targeting white people.2 hours ago
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Meme Of The Day: Congratulations PewDiePie - Such a beautiful thing. If you like watching two people enter into a permanent bond against all odds in a love conquers all story, read The Stars Entwined ...2 hours ago
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Goldman Sachs and the “hall of mirrors” - Here’s Bloomberg: As well as uncertainty over the U.S.-China trade war, [Goldman Sachs economists Jan Hatzius and Sven Jari Stehn] rationalize their call ...3 hours ago
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Damon Linker Shreds The NYT's "1619 Project" - link The claim that the real founding of the nation was when the first slave ships arrived is so stupid as to almost deserve no response. And that's just f...3 hours ago
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Our Microbiomes Might Shape Our Social Lives - (Credit: Sara López Gilabert/SAPIENS) It is early morning on a wide plain in Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya. With a small Dixie cup and a wooden ...4 hours ago
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The L Word: Generation Q trailer reveals some major updates for Bette, Shane and Alice - The first teaser trailer has landed for the long-anticipated L Word revival, and dropped some major reveals about what the main characters have been up t...4 hours ago
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The Double Ordeal of Being a Woman in a Venezuelan Prison - Cruel treatment against political prisoners are only a small part of the policy of horror in prisons against women and the LGBTQ community. The post The...4 hours ago
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Greenland: Trump's MAGA Idea!, by Pat Buchanan - To those of us of who learned our U.S. history from texts in the 1940s and '50s, President Donald Trump's brainstorm of acquiring Greenland fits into a ven...4 hours ago
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Pagan leader helps Dayton heal - [image: Pagan leader helps Dayton heal] We talk with Luna Eclypse of Dayton, Ohio about her efforts in helping the community heal after a natural disaster ...4 hours ago
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Life finds a way - There turn out to be a number of cell line infections – contagious cancers – in marine filter feeders, as I suspected a long time ago. I wonder if some may...5 hours ago
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Thoughts on ‘For Method’ - Our project hasn’t seen much public-facing action, but it’s still happening. For my part, I have (so far) read Lakatos’s lectures that were meant to form t...5 hours ago
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30 Cops Reveal The HILARIOUS Excuses Criminals Gave Them That Turned Out To Be True - See cars driving very slow and very odd in the middle of the night. Like at store parking lots, churches, closed parks. Think they might be casing or whate...5 hours ago
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Multilevel structured (regression) and post-stratification - My enemies are all too familiar. They’re the ones who used to call me friend – Jawbreaker Well I am back from Australia where I gave a whole pile of talks ...5 hours ago
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Multilevel structured (regression) and post-stratification - My enemies are all too familiar. They’re the ones who used to call me friend – Jawbreaker Well I am back from Australia where I gave a whole pile of talks ...5 hours ago
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Aquinas on creation and necessity - While we’re on the subject of divine simplicity and creation, let’s consider a closely related issue. In the *Summa Contra Gentiles*, Aquinas argues that...5 hours ago
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Photos of readers - Well, we haven’t yet run out of readers with fancy sports cars. Here’s reader Randy Schenck, who apparently had a young-life crisis. Randy’s words are inde...5 hours ago
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The Widespread Muslim Desecration of Christian Graves - Gatestone Institute Although the Islamic persecution of actual, living Christians is certainly more deplorable, Islamic attacks on inanimate Christian sy...6 hours ago
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India: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) warns of dire consequences of military escalation in Kashmir - “Until all the nuclear-armed states, including India and Pakistan, comply with the prohibitions spelled out in the ban treaty and eliminate their nuclear...6 hours ago
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Popehat on free speech - Ken White (a/k/a Popehat), a criminal-defense and First Amendment lawyer, has a piece in The Atlantic exposing free-speech cliches. He is spot-on, as always.6 hours ago
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Administrative National Security - In the past two decades, the United States has applied a growing number of foreign and security measures directly targeting individuals—natural or legal ...6 hours ago
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"There are times when Trump’s hair is blowing in the wind or his tie is blowing in the wind. He’s shouting. It’s just not conducive to the kind of presidential look that we often strove for." - Said a former senior Obama White House official, quoted in "Trump’s ‘chopper talk’ puts media on the defensive/Using Marine One as a backdrop, the White Ho...7 hours ago
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La Tournette - The reason I didn’t post anything today was because I hiked up La Tournette, a 2,351m mountain which is the highest in the area around Annecy. It took me 3...7 hours ago
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“After Minimum Wage Hike, Labor Day Will Be Replaced by Cheaper, More Efficient, Robot Labor Day” - … Foremost on the front burner is an attempt by the Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. A fiscal review by the Senate Budget Commit...7 hours ago
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Would a payroll tax cut help avoid a recession? - Right now, probably not. Here is an excerpt from my latest Bloomberg column: The inclination in American politics is to cut the payroll tax on the worke...7 hours ago
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Characters We Love to Loathe - No, not the Evil Warlord or his minions. I’m thinking of the characters that spice up a story by being Good but Irritating, or even Morally Neutral but Obn...7 hours ago
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When he’s beaten, something chemical happens - I was recently reminded of a story I first heard maybe 17 years ago, which NPR describes as why we need grandpas and grandmas, but which I always thought o...8 hours ago
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Marvel and the Devil Mouse abused Stan Lee - Both converged entities stand condemned by Stan Lee's daughter: “When my father died, no one from Marvel or Disney reached out to me. From day one, they ha...8 hours ago
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Joe Walsh ‘Strongly, Strongly Considering’ Launching Primary Challenge To Trump - Former Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., said Thursday that he is “strongly, strongly considering” a primary challenge to President Donald Trump.8 hours ago
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How Trump Started a Civil War Between the UN and Hamas - Even within the United Nations, a sprawling multinational bureaucracy linked by luxury dining, corruption and complicity in terrorism, the UNRWA stands out...8 hours ago
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Why is Kamala Harris fading? - In National Review John McCormack tackles the question of why Harris’s poll numbers have been falling after an early rise. His answer involves her back-and...8 hours ago
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Why is Kamala Harris fading? - In National Review John McCormack tackles the question of why Harris’s poll numbers have been falling after an early rise. His answer involves her back-and...8 hours ago
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Poem of the Day - THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON by Rudyard Kipling It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxo...8 hours ago
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There’s Very Bad News in CBO’s New Fiscal Forecast, but there Is a Solution to Excessive Government Spending - The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its new 10-year forecast. Unsurprisingly, it shows that Trump’s reckless spending policy is acceleratin...8 hours ago
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British MPs and Oxford dons say “No more cars for you”. Not even EVs! - Turning up the screws Ban cars to get better weather! A UK committee of academics and one of MP’s say cars are not compatible with life as we know it: D...9 hours ago
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Time for some reflection - Robert Brockway reflects on where we've been and where we're going.9 hours ago
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Philosopher's Annual: Ten top articles from the 2018 literature - Editor Patrick Grim just shared this announcement with the nominating editors: The Philosopher’s Annual volume 38 from the literature of 2018 Mark J. Alfan...9 hours ago
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Episode 636 Scott Adams: The Chosen One, The Anti-Semite Competition, Super Volcanoes - Content: Outrage Theatre Presents: President Trump looked to the Heavens and said WHAT? In his self-loathing heart…does David Frum understand himself? P...9 hours ago
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Ian Mulheirn says UK housing is not a supply problem. No one can prove him wrong - Around three years ago in some bistro in Soho, Ian Mulheirn startled a tableful of economists going at their cassoulet with the bland statement: “Housing? ...9 hours ago
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All Proceeds from Sale of the Song Support Immigrant Families Together - Flower In The Sand (feat. Sam Blasucci) by Omar Velasco The post All Proceeds from Sale of the Song Support Immigrant Families Together appeared first on...10 hours ago
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Can You Hear The People Sing - Yesterday, at coffee with friends, the following words were said “the Democratic party became communists so quickly everyone noticed.” I’m not sure this is...10 hours ago
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South Korea ending intelligence sharing program with Japan - Jesse Johnson and Sakura Murakami Japan Times, Tokyo In a stunning move that could further upend already fraying ties between Japan and South Korea, Seoul ...10 hours ago
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Immigrants - In 1986, a CBS News/NY Times poll asked "Overall, would you say most recent immigrants to the United States contribute to this country or do most of them c...10 hours ago
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Review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict - *Hybel, Alex Roberto and Kaufman, Justin Matthew, **The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict**, New York, Hampshire: Palgrave Mac...10 hours ago
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Probably the coolest thing ASP makes... - View this post on Instagram In class last weekend, @haggardchuck demonstrates refilling the @aspusa #keydefender A post shared by Tamara Keel (@tamarake...10 hours ago
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Inflation, and history - Phil Gramm and John Early have an excellent WSJ oped on inflation measurement. Many conventional inflation measures are overstated by around 1% per year,...10 hours ago
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Milton Friedman Was Wrong - Sure, Business Roundtable’s repudiation of Milton Friedman’s theory that corporations should maximize shareholder value is empty PR from business leaders w...10 hours ago
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Trump to Jews: Stop being disloyal! - The strangest thing about Trump’s latest series of unhinged rants– stranger than quoting a wacky conspiracy theorist comparing him to the King of Israel an...11 hours ago
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Twenty Worthy Reads at Equitable Growth and Elsewhere... August 23 - Worthy Reads at Equitable Growth: 1. Antitrust law and policy is probably the most "relatively autonomous" piece of our whole legal system. The laws as ena...11 hours ago
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Mega Emblem (Part 1) - As a kid, I was a big Mega Man fan. The first Mega Man game I played was not the first one but the second; to me that was Mega Man. I adored the music an...11 hours ago
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Climate Change: What’s the Worst Case? - by Judith Curry My new manuscript is now available. A link to my new paper ‘Climate Change: What’s the Worst Case?’ is provided here [worst case paper fina...11 hours ago
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I Didn’t Say That - Something very strange and disturbing happened to me this week. If it was just relevant to me, it wouldn’t be that important (except perhaps to me), and ...11 hours ago
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W.H. Auden: "Thou shalt not sit/ With statisticians nor commit/ A social science" - W.H. Auden wrote a poem delivered to Phi Beta Kappa graduates at Harvard University in 1946 called "Under Which Lyre." It contains a line often clipped and...11 hours ago
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Migration to Australia in political spotlight - The government has launched a "comprehensive review" Read more...12 hours ago
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San Francisco Declares That Convicted Felons Will Now Be Called “Returning Residents” Or “Justice-Involved Persons” - We have previously discussed how the effort to control language that has been prominent on college campuses has now spread…12 hours ago
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Getting Real With The US Foreign Policy Establishment Realists - On Russia-related matters, the more sane among us can perhaps be forgiven for becoming sedated by the kind of absurdities regularly spewed by some high pro...12 hours ago
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Understanding innovation - Paul Kennedy’s *Engineers of Victory* is one of the best books on innovation I’ve ever read. Which is extraordinary, really, given that it is a book about...12 hours ago
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The Uncertainty Of Money - Imagine a world in which governments do business with one another only in gold, as in physical gold. They can issue promissory notes to one another, but it...12 hours ago
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How soon we forget, by Scott Sumner - *The NYT* has a piece discussing the Fed’s gradual reduction in bank capital requirements: Some of the changes, seemingly incremental and technical on th...12 hours ago
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Greta vs Chantal: will a Navy save a carbon-neutral activist? - *Update Thursday afternoon: stuck in the middle of the ocean, windless conditions are clearly their biggest worry* Sailing from Europe to America on a yach...13 hours ago
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You May Have Noticed - I’ve been away this past week or so, so haven’t been paying attention. One of my readers alerted me to a couple of posts this [...]13 hours ago
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Manifold #17: Mark Moffett on the Life and Death of Human Societies - Steve and Corey talk with Mark Moffett, Photographer and Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute, about his new book The Human Swarm: How our Societie...13 hours ago
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Manifold #17: Mark Moffett on the Life and Death of Human Societies - Steve and Corey talk with Mark Moffett, Photographer and Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute, about his new book The Human Swarm: How our Societie...13 hours ago
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The Cardinal Pell Conclusion..? - This week was a terrible one for faithful Catholics across the country, but particularly in Victoria and New South Wales.13 hours ago
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Welcome to the World of Arthur Schnitzler - Imagine a world in which: An unknown person comes to visit another without any previous appointment. The one he is looking for is not at home. Neverthele...13 hours ago
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Willmoore Kendall Catches Fire - The foremost philosopher of the plural United States of America13 hours ago
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Has college gotten less rigorous? - Joe Pinsker writes, Lately, Ciocca Eller said, schools are being held more accountable for their graduation rates, with some states tying educational fundi...14 hours ago
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Short Take: Fight Or Flight Or . . . Whatever - In an article with a really well-crafted headline, “The Provability Gap,” and a trigger warning, “Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual assau...14 hours ago
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Free Books- Part 186 - Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website. On average, you can find approximately 11,000 free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day...14 hours ago
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How did the Arabs help the Nazi war effort? - *In this important 9-part series in **Israel National News, **historian Dr Alex Grobman examines the influence of the Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Hussei...15 hours ago
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Silent Originalism and the Reweighting of Precedent - The Court’s recent gerrymandering decision recognized *Reynolds v. Sims* as so flawed in its reasoning as not to deserve mention.15 hours ago
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Cashing In On Shame - The crime of blackmail is nearly as old as the concept of shame itself. But while in the past it was necessary to actually give the intended mark some kin...15 hours ago
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“Ohio State seeks to trademark the word ‘The'” - “Ohio State is seeking a trademark on one of the most common words in the English language. The school, formally known as The Ohio State University, is see...15 hours ago
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Data on demonetisation’s link to economic slowdown may have been suppressed - Puja Mehra (who has written the book The Lost Decade 2008-18) writes in this Hindu Business Line article: Was a task force report that recommended a new la...16 hours ago
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Beauty is bad for physics---and a blemish on life sciences, too! - We naturally like tidy answers to our more fundamental, or even troubling, questions about Nature and existence. In genetics we want to find the genes 'fo...16 hours ago
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Beducation - Beducation Today's Deal at Amazon: Save up to 20% on Premium Linens and Comforters. Also: •Save 20% or more on teaching supplies. •Save up to 30% on Educat...17 hours ago
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What The Dickens Is Going On With Recession Indicators? - A quote from Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities seems an appropriate introduction: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the ag...17 hours ago
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Directors on the art of Storyboarding - Storyboard artists are some of the most deft illustrators working in Hollywood. They have to be able to quickly draw an array of subject matter, from imag...17 hours ago
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Centre-left comes to the party in Italy - Italy looks to be heading towards a coalition of some sort between the populists and the centre-left. Will Silvio Berlusconi join in?18 hours ago
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Cardinal Pell is innocent. Those who persecute him are not - The boiling frog never marks that first millisecond, when the water in his pot becomes just a half-degree warmer. And so, Catholics living in America circa...18 hours ago
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Legislating Lethal Ladies Leggings - NEW YORK—As far as I can tell, there are six warring factions in the Leggings Wars. First come the “You’re Disgusting” people: Women should never wear legg...18 hours ago
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Middelboe Chronicles, Part 43: King March - From foxes’ dumplings to asses’ ears: King March (“Animated Tales of the World,” 2002), a Welsh version of the second-best-known Greek legend about King Mi...19 hours ago
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India: Modi's Speech Highlights How Closely He's Working With RSS - ndtv.com Modi's Speech Highlights How Closely He's Working With RSS by Swati Chaturvedi Published: August 16, 2019 11:44 IST The thrice-banned RSS (once du...19 hours ago
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News from the front lines of our experiment with feminism - Here are amazing progress reports about women in this massive social science experiment.20 hours ago
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Quote: Sherwood Washburn on intellectual traditions in human origins - Sherwood Washburn was a prominent biological anthropologist of the mid-twentieth century, best known as the architect of the “New Physical Anthropology” ...20 hours ago
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UK transport planning - post Brexit - For the past forty years, Europe's transport network has evolved on a spoke and hub basis for upgrades, new infrastructure and prioritisation. The hub is s...21 hours ago
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A Geopolitical Crossfire: Al-Azhar Struggles to Balance Politics and Tradition - When Pope Francis I visited Egypt in 2017 to stimulate interfaith dialogue he walked into a religious and geopolitical minefield at the heart of which was ...21 hours ago
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We Need More Unsexy - USNS, Auxiliaries, dry docks, depot level maintenance ... Are you asleep yet, or is your blood pressure up? Either way, I'm beating the drum over at USNIB...22 hours ago
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The NY Times, the Elites, and the Rest of Us - I presume everyone on the right knows how awful the NY Times is. Here is Ann Coulter’s latest column pointing out yet another awful article in the Times. I...22 hours ago
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Don’t Fear The Simulators - From the New York Times: Are We Living In A Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out. It lists the standard reasons for thinking we might be in a simulation...1 day ago
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Starbucks, monetary superpower - I recently spent some time on Twitter discussing the monetary wonders of Starbucks. In this post I'll bring a bunch of tweets together into a single blo...1 day ago
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Millinery - 28,000 years ago The Venus of Willendorf, from Austria, is one of a number of “Venus figurines” from the European Upper Paleolithic. The statuette is reali...1 day ago
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Ways to Choose A Futarchy Welfare Measure - In my futarchy proposal, I suggest a big change in how we aggregate info re our policy choices, but not in how we decide what outcomes we are trying to ach...1 day ago
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Hillary (and Google) Deny That Google Can Influence Voter Behavior, Which Would Imply That Google Is the Greatest Fraud Ever - The latest Trump tweet-induced hysteria (other than Greenland!) was his claim that Google had thrown millions of votes to Hillary by manipulating search re...1 day ago
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Justice, Equality, and Democracy - This post will not be nearly so interesting as its title would suggest. This review will also not be quite so interesting as its title suggests, but it wil...1 day ago
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New Technology Makes It Plausible the World Is a Simulation - The notion that the world might not be real may seem like madness but it is a serious proposition at least in academic circles. Max Tegemark, an MIT physic...1 day ago
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From the Editor, Fall 2019 - Check out the Fall 2019 issue of the journal for people of reason—and be sure to share it with friends. Amid the rampant irrationality in today’s culture...1 day ago
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Girls Who Grow Up Without Their Father Start Their Periods Earlier, Or Do They? - New research challenges the idea that girls who grow up in households without a father tend to start their periods earlier than girls whose fathers live wi...1 day ago
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Endless Weimar - One last look back at this weekend and no more. Also: I'm booted from Twitter. I think I welcome it. Subscribe to the channel.1 day ago
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INSERT NAME HERE … - “Dad, do you like President Trump?” my (then) 10-year-old son asked. I answered, “I don’t know him.” “I mean do you like him as a president?” he retorted. ...1 day ago
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How Manny beat Donny - The French have a slang word for the likes of Macron and Trump: collabo, short for collaborator. The term gained currency during the Nazi occupation of Fra...1 day ago
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On liberalism and democracy - I have a new podcast discussion with our friends at the Institute for Liberal Studies here. The new ILS podcast, “The curious task”, is hosted by Alex Ar...1 day ago
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The Death of Education in America - Originally posted on Bracing Views: Is American education becoming an exercise in mind-consumption? (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) W.J. Astore Trump! ...1 day ago
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Our Wile E. Coyote Federal Reserve - *Whatever the Fed chooses to do, it's already failed..* *Wile E. Coyote has gotten a bad rap:* in all fairness, his schemes are ingenious, if overly complic...1 day ago
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Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus Bypasses Nostalgia to Focus on Sheer Gothy Fun - [image: Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus] I don’t do nostalgia. I tend to think that looking back is a trap, a quicksand that will pull you down into a beli...1 day ago
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False information about SATs and college admissions in Atlantic article - The article says: Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale collectively enroll more students from households in the top 1 percent of the income distribution ...1 day ago
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Philosophers File Amicus Brief on LGBT Discrimination Cases - This fall, the Supreme Court will be looking at a trio of cases concerning the protection Federal employment discrimination law provides to lesbian, gay,...1 day ago
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Smart consumers. stupid voters - What do ordinary folk know about economics? This question has been revived by Simon, who argues that support for a no-deal Brexit is based upon “informatio...1 day ago
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Smart consumers. stupid voters - What do ordinary folk know about economics? This question has been revived by Simon, who argues that support for a no-deal Brexit is based upon “informatio...1 day ago
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Too Easy to Rebut the PC Ta-Nehisi / NYT - The long-suffering readers of this blog know that, like Bilbo Baggins, I occasionally inflict poetry upon you (in deference to this blog’s free speech co...1 day ago
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The legal basis of performance funding - In December 2017, the Commonwealth froze maximum Commonwealth Grant scheme funding for bachelor-degree places for the next two years. In subsequent years, ...1 day ago
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New footbridge opens at Tintagel - For the first time in more than 500 years, the two separated halves of Tintagel Castle will be reunited, thanks to a new footbridge unveiled by the charity...1 day ago
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Roopkund Lake dead (preliminary analysis) - Fifteen of the Roopkund Lake samples from the Harney et al. paper published today at Nature Communications made it into the Global25 datasheets. Look for t...1 day ago
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Joseph Mifsud, British "Joe", Not Russia's Boy by Larry C Johnson - Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese Diplomat who reportedly told George Papadopoulos that Russia had Hillary's emails, was a British intelligence asset (known as a ...2 days ago
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Predatory precarity - I was reading Matt Stoller’s newsletter this morning: To put it into words, the problem we have is corruption in the government contracting world, aided by...2 days ago
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Browncast Episode 64. We Talk with Meru Media about India, Pakistan, Hinduism, TNT, Aryans.. - Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher. Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a r...2 days ago
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What's the Point of Reading “Great Books”? A Lesson from the Middle Ages - “For over 1,000 years of the Western tradition, up to the dawn of printing, reading great books meant training for reading the Scriptures, not because th...2 days ago
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The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time -- Part XXVI - Before moving on from this business of July 2019 supposedly being the “hottest month ever,” I want to pause to take note of some follow-on propaganda fresh...2 days ago
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How To Entertain Guests - A Guide for Millenials and Zoomers by Julia Child Continue reading →2 days ago
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The Future of Capitalism and the Utopia That Never Was - In his review of Paul Collier’s recent book The Future of Capitalism, Branko Milanovic discusses ideology, social democracy, and the “ethical world.” P...2 days ago
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Abraham Lincoln in Donald Trump's Soul? - In its spring 2019 issue,* The Claremont Review of Books* published an article by Thomas Klingenstein arguing that Donald Trump has the soul of Abraham Lin...2 days ago
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Mises on Liberalism, Socialism and Democracy - |Peter Boettke| I reread Mises's classic work Socialism this summer. Fun historical fact -- this was the first book of Mises's that I read, followed by The...2 days ago
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The 295 Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - My son David Schwitzgebel is back in town with new mad computer skills, so I thought I'd have him update his 2014 scrape of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Ph...2 days ago
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Why I (Mostly) Don't Blog About Climate Anymore - Recently the journal Nature published a "study" arguing that climate contrarians got too much media attention and that, essentially, the media needs to sto...2 days ago
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Marx’s labor theory of value — Böhm-Bawerk’s rejection - The economist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk arguing, in the 1890s, against the beloved-by-Marxists labor theory of value: “Value and effort, as2 days ago
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South Korea at the crossroads - By mid-century, immigrant workers will be almost as numerous as native-born workers (AINZ 2016) Readers took exception to a population forecast in my ...2 days ago
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Remembering A Real Scientific Hero - Four years ago [as of August 18, 2019], Syrian archaeologist Khaled Al-Asaad was murdered by Daesh after refusing to give away the location of hidden art...2 days ago
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My Lawn Of Privilege - As usual, clueless fucknuggets at the New York Times (where else?) can’t be bothered to do actual “journalism”. (Does that word exist anymore?) As an alter...2 days ago
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Open border with the EU - I like this part of Boris’s letter to Donald Tusk: This government will not put in place infrastructure, checks or controls at the border between Northern ...2 days ago
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Conscientious objection, professional discretionary space, and good medicine - By Doug McConnell Some argue that good medicine depends on physicians having a wide discretionary space in which they can act on their consciences (Sulma...2 days ago
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Are Political Disagreements Real Disagreements? - If people disagree about anything, it’s politics. In the United States, nearly half of all Republicans and Democrats say they “almost never” agree with the...2 days ago
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Sting ’em, Bee - Shit’s starting to get real up in here. Last month, the satire site The Babylon Bee lawyered up after liberal fact-checker Snopes tried to deplatform it by...2 days ago
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The Damage You Didn't See - Like many of my friends, when I heard that Israel had banned Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country, I saw this as a colossal mistake. What...2 days ago
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Heron Island Corals: Still Constrained by Sea Level Fall - MY mother lived and worked on Heron Island at the Great Barrier Reef in 1955. That was the same year the young Bob Endean established the University of Q...2 days ago
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Campfire Chat - There weren’t many comments that warranted inclusion here, so there’s a couple from emails. —————————— I live in NW MT, where griz and mountain lions are c...3 days ago
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WILDNESS AND THE HUMAN IMAGINATION - This essay, on how the wild is created by humans, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on race, class and diversity.) ...3 days ago
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Guest Essay: A Colony by Any Other Name: The Latin States of Syria-Palestine - Above Image: Historian Alfred J. Andrea walking along the famous markets at Portobello Road in London. The following essay is the text, slightly revised, o...3 days ago
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City analogues and climate change 2019-2050 - [ by Charles Cameron — pretty sure there will be black swans between here and 2050 ] . We’re beginning to see visual expressions of the implications of cli...3 days ago
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Intimidation-Produced Silence at Stanford - Op-Ed: Back in the late middle of the last century I attended Stanford for my last three years of college and my last three years of graduate school. Sin...3 days ago
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The marriage marketplace connection to China’s ghost cities. - Way back in 2011 I wrote an off topic post on China’s ghost cities. With the current trade war with China I’ve been watching some youtube videos to try to...3 days ago
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How to Flip a Yield Curve - If the recent yield curve panic proves anything, it proves that, in financial markets, what may start out as a mere statistical correlation, and possibly...3 days ago
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2019 Campbell Speech + Refugee Charity Fundraiser - It was my honor last night to, for the second time, present the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, on behalf of last year’s brilliant winner Rebec...3 days ago
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Giving Credit Where It’s Due - The US economy is probably going into recession. Manufacturing production is down from the late-2018 highs, retail spending growth, wages and payroll gai...3 days ago
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Blainey’s blarney - Tony Thomas Geoffrey Blainey, Australia’s beloved history elder, has written 40 books and his terms like ‘tyranny of distance’ have pervaded our culture. B...4 days ago
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Workers of the World Unite (At Last) - Neoliberal globalization presents many challenges to labor organizing. Increased mobility of capital has led to a sharp increase in relocation, outsourcing...4 days ago
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What killed real wage growth? - This is the Project Link chart that most startles me: What killed the growth in real wages in the early 1970s? I've been trying to come up with an answer t...4 days ago
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Gun Control Won’t Stop Mass Shootings - In the wake of the mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso, even leading Republicans are endorsing some forms of gun control. The public’s demand for action ...4 days ago
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Can Evolution Explain Why There Are Two Predominant Ideologies Rather Than Just One? Maybe Yes. - Evolution shaped our minds as well as our bodies. Our bodies are all the same. We all have the same basic structure, organs, etc., and they all work the...4 days ago
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“Six Characters”, Absurdism and Madness - There’s a scene in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand which has Ellsworth Toohey forming a new organization called the “Council of American Writers” – a group of...4 days ago
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THE DEFENSE OF FORT DAVIS, Chapter 3 - Chapter 3 “This is it? What, is it the economy model?” “No, smartass,” Nguyen answered with an eyeroll. “This is literally the highest tech that exists any...4 days ago
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Train travel - Lord Berners, the painter, would roll down the window of his train carriage and beckon passengers in, putting his hand into his mouth and dragging down his...4 days ago
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Ko Wen-je Has No Staying Power - Image Source This post will be a bit parochial for readers outside of Taiwan. But let us jump in anyway. Ko Wen-je is a fairly popular mayor of Taipei. He ...4 days ago
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Always be a new customer - price discrimination and 'loyalty taxes' - Price discrimination is one of the most pervasive pricing practices that firms use. It involves the seller the seller selling the same product to different...4 days ago
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Trans Orwellianism - *The Australian, 17 August 2019* There is something chilling about Victoria’s rush to allow transgender people to change the sex on their birth certific...4 days ago
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Food Network - One of the things we do in our house is armchair quarterback Food Network shows. In a lot of ways, I feel like I’m like my great-grandmother screaming at t...4 days ago
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“Aron Ra” Gets Everything Wrong - Unfortunately the New Atheist activist who calls himself “Aron Ra” is all too typical of this kind of polemicist – he does not let his profound ignorance...5 days ago
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How the D candidates would introduce themselves at the next debate if they were honest - Hi, I’m Joe Biden. I’m the perfect apparatchik – nor principles, no convictions, and no plan. I’m senile, and I have a problem with groping children. But v...5 days ago
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Book Review: C.A. Bond’s “Nemesis” - I was going to put out the answer key to my last post this week, but Imperium Press saw fit to give me a review copy of C.A. Bond’s yet-unreleased work “Ne...5 days ago
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Wheat wreath - Harvest, 1902 painting by Serbian painter Nadežda Petrović In Labor, northern Croatia, when the last sheaf of wheat was cut, it was thrown as high up as...5 days ago
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We're on a Highway to Hell - And we're paving our way there with good intentions of course. Incentives matter. A key hallmark of higher-level thinking is understanding this and underst...5 days ago
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Abortion views by religion, 1970's-1990's - Variables: ABANY, RELIG16, Years (1972-1999), Race(1) Sample Size: 18,5735 days ago
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Finding Space – Chapter 6 - There had been dancing that night. The room had shimmered with the glorious hues of the dress uniforms, the stunning jewels flashing when ladies turned wit...5 days ago
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“It’s Masculinity to the Rescue” - Anybody else noticing this about the #MeToo thing? Not about the thing itself; about the quote-unquote “men.” Harvey Weinstein. Matt Lauer. Garrison Keillo...5 days ago
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How Trump Put Netanyahu in an Untenable Position - It was understandable but unfortunate that the Israeli government on Thursday banned a visit by two of its most hostile congressional critics, Rep. Ilhan O...5 days ago
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How Good are Refugees? This year’s MUST ATTEND dinner with Santo Cilauro. 12th Sept, Melb. - If these kinds of things existed in my country, I wouldn’t need to be running for President to fix everything up. Elizabeth Warren The only thing that didn...6 days ago
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Multitemporality: 1 - Today I officially start my fellowship at the Berggruen Institute, working on my multitemporality project. At the moment the plan for the project is to wri...6 days ago
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The CTRL ALT Revolt Controversy - The Original Blog Post and some Thoughts on the Crisis of Where We Find Ourselves As the current culture war escalates into a series of asymmetrical engage...6 days ago
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The strong horse and the weak horse - When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, they will naturally want to side with the strong horse. Israel has a law that people who call for the dest...6 days ago
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At Aspen - I’m at the Aspen Center for Physics this week, for a workshop on Scattering Amplitudes and the Conformal Bootstrap. Aspen is part of a long and illustrious...6 days ago
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July 2019 CPI Inflation - Core inflation has recovered a bit in the last two months, but we remain in the context of relatively low non-shelter inflation and high shelter inflation,...6 days ago
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Moon Madness and the Fate of the Liberty Movement - “You look pale.” —Blair to Clay, Less Than Zero (1987) My last article garnered responses I predicted but hoped would not occur: emails from folks who not...6 days ago
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The art of low expectations - First, a word of explanation after my long absence. In the past six months, my health has broken down for various periods in various ways, which the McStud...6 days ago
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Mark Latham roasts Burns/NSW Anti-Discrimination Board in parliament - Mark Latham has unleashed on Garry Burns, the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board and the Tribunal in parliament. And Burns has been triggered... The post Mar...1 week ago
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Yield-Curve Inversion and the Agony of Central Banking - Suddenly, we have been beset with a minor panic attack about our increasingly inverted yield curve. Since fear of yield-curve inversion became a thing a li...1 week ago
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Uncertain Outcome in Critical Occidental Case - In the early stages of the campus due process crisis, three cases in particular generated national attention—due to a combination of outrageous facts and a...1 week ago
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Bad headline, small changes at the New York Times - Anxiety over the core audience's rising influence helps explain events after 'Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism.' The post Bad headline, small changes at the ...1 week ago
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Amazon’s Online Bezos Brigade Unleashed On Twitter - On August 14, a Twitter thread that included a small army of “Amazon FC Ambassadors” went viral, bringing to light Amazon’s year-long social media brand ...1 week ago
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Episode 63: Joanna Schug, Relational Mobility and Cultural Confusion - Joanna Schug (@joannaschug) is a social and cross-cultural psychologist at the College of William and Mary. We discuss how the concept of relational mobi...1 week ago
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His Nuptials Were Impending - Posting will be, at best, intermittent for the next week or so, for which I apologise in advance. I can imagine the terrible, crushing impact this will hav...1 week ago
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Are Mass Public Shootings Seasonal? (Corrected) - ***CORRECTION: A FACEBOOK READER noticed something in the Mother Jones data I presented recently that I had missed. Beginning in 2013, MJ changed their def...1 week ago
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I have a Substack - I have a Substack. Nothing you won’t find here or elsewhere, but available for those who like the medium.1 week ago
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Who would win in a fight? Dominic Cummings or Seumas Milne? - Whoever wins, we lose There are many questions to be asked about Dominic Cummings and Seumas Milne. How much power do they really have in their parties? H...1 week ago
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All Philosophy is Activist Philosophy - by David Ottlinger ___ I used to brag about the state of philosophy to people concerned about the humanities. Philosophy had fought valiantly on the side o...1 week ago
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5 Relationship Books Everyone Should Read - Here’s something you may or may not expect: I drown in fucking emails. I know everyone says that. Everyone gripes about their overflowing inbox. But I’m...1 week ago
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How we operate the review process at Developing World Bioethics - [image: Developing World Bioethics branding banner]I had the great fortune of attending the World Congress of Bioethics in December 2018 in Bengaluru, Indi...1 week ago
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Primer on Direct Instruction: DI vs. di - (If you already know what the title means, feel free to comment on ways I could make this explanation clearer. If you have no idea what the title means, th...1 week ago
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How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything - Before we get to the article, just a reminder that my new book Stillness Is The Key releases on October 1! I put together a bunch of bonuses I’m offering t...1 week ago
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Do Americans Support Using Nuclear Weapons Because They Don’t Understand the Consequences? - Guest post by Lisa Langdon Koch and Matthew Wells. Seventy-four years ago last week, the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Naga...1 week ago
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Follow my commentary - Even though I post here occasionally, my regular monthly pieces are published on the Project Syndicate website and you can read them here. For a full list ...1 week ago
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Williamson M. Evers on California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum - Williamson M. Evers California’s Education Department has issued an “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum”… Capitalism is described as a “form of power and oppr...1 week ago
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Wild Surmise - This is pure wild speculation, which should put it squarely in the mainstream of commentary on the death of Jeffrey Epstein. But: Here’s a guy with a notor...1 week ago
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Scientism - Science has explained some things very nicely. But scientism attempts to move from that to the claim that “the only good explanation is a scientific explan...1 week ago
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The Return of the Hateful Pairs - A few months back a South Korean court ruled Japanese firms needed to pay compensation to Korean laborers who worked in Japanese-run factories during the 1...1 week ago
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False Sense of Security? - 'Lull in Terrorism Masks a Deepening Jihadist Threat, Dutch Report Warns' - *"Muslim extremism, and particularly Salafism, is on the rise across Europe, as are recruiting efforts to radicalize European Muslims through Salafist ...1 week ago
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Natalia Goncharova @ Tate Modern - Major retrospective This is the UK’s first ever retrospective of the Russian avant-garde artist Natalia Goncharova. It’s huge, bringing together over 160 i...1 week ago
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No, Productivity Does Not Explain Income - By Blair Fix Did you hear the joke about the economists who tested their theory by defining it to be true? Oh, I forgot. It’s not a joke. It’s standard p...1 week ago
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How to create an ethical country, if not the world: Part 2 review of Paul Collier’s “The future of capitalism” - This is the second part of my review of Paul Collier’s “The future of capitalism”. The first part is here. In this review of Collier’s policy recommenda...1 week ago
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I’m 40 and I’m stuck in a long-distance relationship with a dismissive guy… - Email today from a 40 year old reader who recognizes her hoped-for partner, who’s never let her get to know his friends and family, is dismissive-avoidant ...1 week ago
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Something a Little Light-hearted from Czechia - Trying to overcome my increasingly pessimistic view of the future of Western Civilization, I did what I normally do: engaged in potential "red flag" behav...1 week ago
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IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Chris has been threatening it for a while but looks like he’s finally done it (click thr...1 week ago
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Carnap – Heidegger 1-0 (certified) - Almost 8 years ago I published on my Facebook a post about Carnap’s well-known criticism of Heidegger. I reproduce it here (in blue font). Carnap famously ...1 week ago
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What do you want to DO? - To call things by their right names… is to do nothing at all. Everyone is so animated by the demand to say that mass shootings are white supremacy. So, you...1 week ago
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El Paso shooter’s extreme environmentalism deserves condemnation - Gregory Wrightstone 8/8/192 weeks ago
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Confirmation Bias: Real Bias or Delegitimization Rhetoric? - Confirmation biases are pervasive. But people often use the term to unjustifiably delegitimize their opponents. How can you tell the difference?2 weeks ago
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Linkage - Paleo Retiree writes: This doesn’t seem good. Meanwhile, this strikes me as an excellent development. Awkward. More and more Chinese-Americans are turning ...2 weeks ago
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Killing two bolshie birds with one stone - Pete North asks if the Union can survive Brexit and “do we really care?” Personally I think this damp archipelago, including Ireland, belongs together. We ...2 weeks ago
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Biology | The Darwinian role of Zen Buddhism - Darwin, feuds, and Zen. *Hypothesis: *Japan is a highly crowded country that operates a refined code of conduct to mediate social encounters. In the past, ...2 weeks ago
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Companies Collect a Lot of Data, But How Much Do They Actually Use? - 55% of the data that companies collect never gets used.2 weeks ago
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Comparing Presidents Reagan and Trump: The Case of International Trade - “I am a tariff man...” President Trump, December 2018 “We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weaken...2 weeks ago
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The Trillion-Dollar Grift: The Long-Term Plan for US-China Decoupling - *There is a certain amount of "OMG how did we get here??" handwringing over the escalating trade war between the US and China.* *BS.* *The decoupling s...2 weeks ago
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This Is Not Propaganda: Around the World with Peter Pomerantsev - From Manila to Moscow to Mexico City, Peter Pomerantsev's new book goes on a globetrotting tour to understand our age of disinformation. The post Thi...2 weeks ago
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David Leiser and Yhonatan Shemesh’s How We Misunderstand Economics and Why it Matters: The Psychology of Bias, Distortion and Conspiracy - From a new(ish) book by David Leiser and Yhonatan Shemesh, How We Misunderstand Economics and Why it Matters: The Psychology of Bias, Distortion and Conspi...2 weeks ago
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Did Right Wing Watch’s Jared Holt Inspire the Dayton Killer? - The other day, before the two major shootings this weekend, the topic… The post Did Right Wing Watch’s Jared Holt Inspire the Dayton Killer? appeared fir...2 weeks ago
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CNN Debate Math - The Democratic debates on July 30 and 31 were a little less than 3 hours long each. A conservative estimate would be 150 minutes. 150 minutes /10 candidat...2 weeks ago
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Homeland Insecurity and American Terrorism - Let’s stop talking about guns and gun control. Guns and gun control in America function as an intensifying signifier of cultural division. They amplify the...2 weeks ago
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Turkey Sets Course against the West in the Mediterranean - Jerusalem Post, 2/8 Turkey’s ambitions to assert itself as a Middle East power are currently in evidence across the western part of the region. Ankara occ...2 weeks ago
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What should be done? - Sometimes as a writer on social and political issues, I get this nagging feeling that it might be a good idea to suggest what should be done in government...2 weeks ago
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Why Kevin Williamson is wrong about poverty and bad behavior - I recently wrote a post at Bloomberg Opinion arguing that "bad behavior" - drug use, violence, single parenthood, and idleness - is not the main cause of...2 weeks ago
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Climate Crisis: We Must Learn From Other Countries - We have a global climate crisis, what are different countries doing? The UK Parliament was the first in the world to declare a ‘climate emergency’, followe...2 weeks ago
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Moved to http://nymensactionnetwork.org - This site is no longer moderated. Newer posts are at nymensactionnetwork.org and these posts have been moved there also. http://nymensactionnetwork.org Ad...2 weeks ago
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Jonathan Yaniv: This is the Product of Transgender Ideology - This is why Yaniv is a product. The post Jonathan Yaniv: This is the Product of Transgender Ideology appeared first on Miranda Yardley.2 weeks ago
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Review: The New Girl - [image: The New Girl] The New Girl by Daniel Silva My rating: 5 of 5 stars As with most spy thrillers, it is very hard to give a review without spoilers. ...2 weeks ago
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They Came From Everywhere - Last night, my wife Laura organized a terrific debate watch party for Bernie Sanders supporters at a local bar. About 40 to 50 people showed up. The best p...3 weeks ago
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Sakha Lessons - I began studying Sakha using L. N. Kharitonov's Soviet-era textbook, the Самоучитель якутского языка. This is an excellent resource for learning Sakha, ind...3 weeks ago
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Sports should be free from political and religious influence - By Khadija Khan It was heart-warming for many of us to hear the World Cup-winning Irish-born captain Eoin Morgen’s remarks, “We had Allah with us as well...3 weeks ago
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Some thoughts on the security side of Saturday’s Moscow crackdown - I enjoy going to Moscow for all kinds of reasons. One of, perhaps, the most recondite is the chance to take an up-close look at the security forces when th...3 weeks ago
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D'avin or John? Why not both? - So happy that my favorite little Killjoys are back. I am all about the Jaqobis brothers, sorry Dean and Sam. I will always a special place for the winchest...3 weeks ago
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Links, proofs, talks, jokes - For those who haven’t yet seen it, Erica Klarreich has a wonderful article in Quanta on Hao Huang’s proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture. This is how good p...3 weeks ago
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Links, proofs, talks, jokes - For those who haven’t yet seen it, Erica Klarreich has a wonderful article in Quanta on Hao Huang’s proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture. This is how good p...3 weeks ago
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Precise Theories Aren’t More Falsifiable - Suppose you’re a social scientist who wants to explain why something occurs. You have a model in your head: x causes y. How do you go about making your cas...3 weeks ago
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Precise Theories Aren’t More Falsifiable - Suppose you’re a social scientist who wants to explain why something occurs. You have a model in your head: x causes y. How do you go about making your cas...3 weeks ago
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[Bracket] Political Commentary [End Bracket] - [Note to readers: I started this blog not for political comments but for reporting social science, especially American social history. But I will scratch t...3 weeks ago
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Important: Nintil.com is moving! - IMPORTANT NOTICE: I’ve been making changes to the way the blog looks like, making it load faster, and adding it a much needed feature, browsing by category...3 weeks ago
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Blanchard and Farmer on the Phillips Curve - In case you missed it, there's an interesting (and slightly wonkish) debate going on between Olivier Blanchard and Roger Farmer concerning the theoretical ...3 weeks ago
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Drinking Through the Unfree World with Ben Powell - Ben Powell joins the podcast today to discuss his new book, Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World, coauthored with Rob...3 weeks ago
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About 90% of the genome is junk, which is very informative about ancestry but says little about biology - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } The genome, taken as a whole, has a profound influence on our biology. Many scientists, myself included, see it as a bluepr...3 weeks ago
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British Strategy in the Gulf as Iranian Aggression Escalates - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) and Rob Clark (@RobertClark87) on 26 July 2019 The series of provocations in the Gulf by the Islamic Republic of Iran, beginnin...3 weeks ago
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Does China have an ideological “red line”? - Not so long ago, the conventional wisdom in the US was that Chinese leaders were essentially hardcore pragmatists, capitalists in all but name, who would d...4 weeks ago
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The Small Matter of Malice: “The Pattern” of Antisemitsm now and then. - Meditations on “the Pattern” of antisemitism[1] I have just spent the week at Oxford (St. John’s College) at the annual ISGAP conference on antisemitism. A...4 weeks ago
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Angela Ocampo Examines the Importance of Belonging - Post developed by Katherine Pearson and Angela Ocampo Feelings of belonging are powerfully important. A sense of inclusion in a group or society can motiva...4 weeks ago
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Notes from a nameless conference - Sometime this year, I found myself at a conference centered around the theme of “regaining trust.” For obvious reasons, I won’t name names, but it was a p...4 weeks ago
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The Mongol Suite (Ongoing) - In order to better manage the growing list of episodes on the Mongol Empire, I’m putting them as a list all here. Please note that NOT ALL episodes are fre...4 weeks ago
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The urban rural divide in the US and other complexities of polarisation - Former libertarian, now progressive, Will Wilkinson has a report up on the rural urban divide in US politics (pdf), connecting the concentration of economi...4 weeks ago
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Abortion and the US Republican Party - Before I start, I should note I am unapologetically pro-choice. I’ve been pro-choice for as long as I can remember. I recall thinking women should be abl...4 weeks ago
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Cassinga talk sold out .. additional night now available – book now for Thursday 25th - Due to the high interest in this subject, my talk on the assault on Cassinga scheduled for Wed 24th is now fully booked, Quentin’s at Oakhurst asked me to ...5 weeks ago
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A Glimpse of Hell - Via Religion News: HOT SPRINGS, N.C. (RNS) — For years, liberals — even liberal people of faith — have been wary of fusions of faith and politics, careful ...5 weeks ago
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The Structural-Demographic Roots of the UK Crisis - I am often asked, after my talks or on social media, to pass a judgment on the stability, or lack of it, of a particular country. For example, looking ac...5 weeks ago
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Talking AD&D, Tolkien, and Edgar Rice Burroughs on Twitter - Okay, this might be danged hard to follow but it’s also a lot of fun. A lot of good points are made in here, so click on through for the rest of the discus...5 weeks ago
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Par For The Course - I changed my name on Twitter today to mock the Rose Garden fracas. After the #SocialMediaSummit @realDonaldTrump invited the conservative influencers to th...1 month ago
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It Sure Looks Like Jeffrey Epstein Was a Spy—But Whose? - In terms of scandals, the sordid saga of Jeffrey Epstein has it all. Mysterious gaudy fortunes. Jet-setting debauchery. Lots of pretty girls—including very...1 month ago
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Eternal Subjugation - *[T]he strongest on earth will be the most influential in the spirit world, and…the ghost of a slaughtered enemy must serve the ghost of him who has take...1 month ago
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Climate Change Denier by Jacques Delacroix | Posted on Liberty Unbound on June 27, 2019 Part I - Part I As the climate change End Time-ism appears to grow inexorably, I keep reading and hearing good debunking attempts. Most don’t do me lasting good, ho...1 month ago
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It Feels So Good When You Stop - The stock market is also soaring, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting a new record high this week on optimism about an end to the U.S.-China tr...1 month ago
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MARILYN MONROE’S NETWORKS PULLED HER APART - Marilyn Monroe had a famous career: famously good, famously bad, pretty much simultaneously. Once launched, everything she did made her famous; and everyt...1 month ago
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Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash - I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live chat.1 month ago
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Pride Before The Fall: What Woke Capitalism Tells Us About Power In Modern Society - A tale of two product launches, set against the most fawningly corporate Pride Month in American history Imagine that you are Jerry Falwell, Jr. or some ot...1 month ago
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The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means for Investors - I just published a new long-form piece through OSAM Research Partners entitled “The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means...1 month ago
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A Corrigendum to V1.3.2 and a Comment to V1.3.3 - Preface The publication of the book written by Richard Lynn and me (Lynn & Becker, 2019) and of V1.3.2 of the NIQ-dataset got a lot of attention and feedba...1 month ago
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Monday's Child is Full of Links - 1. VAR in women's Copa Mundial: You are not good. 2. WWII bomb in a barley field. In Germany. 3. Kamala Harris is a cop, and a political cop at tha...1 month ago
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New op-ed piece published by Arc Digital - "Philosophy Is Not Ideology" - This op-ed piece, "Philosophy Is Not Ideology", was published on 21 June 2019, over on the Arc Digital site. Check it out! Sample: Except in the disciplin...1 month ago
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Last Posting - To everyone that reads this blog, I want to thank you for following Gavin Kennedy 's expert insights into Adam Smith from this site. Unfortunately, Gavin ...1 month ago
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Guest Post: On Libertarianism - A friend of mine formerly known as Glomar Responder (Mr. X) on Twitter sent over this screed as a guest post. It’s an interesting commentary on the bifur...1 month ago
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The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 33: Scandinavian Genetics - The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 33: Scandinavian GeneticsBirch Forest This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google P...1 month ago
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On the referendum #33: High performance government, ‘cognitive technologies’, Michael Nielsen, Bret Victor, & ‘Seeing Rooms’ - ‘People, ideas, machines — in that order!’ Colonel Boyd. ‘The main thing that’s needed is simply the recognition of how important seeing is, and the will t...1 month ago
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On the referendum #33: High performance government, ‘cognitive technologies’, Michael Nielsen, Bret Victor, & ‘Seeing Rooms’ - ‘People, ideas, machines — in that order!’ Colonel Boyd. ‘The main thing that’s needed is simply the recognition of how important seeing is, and the will t...1 month ago
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What a long, strange trip it’s been…. - I’ve been at a loss for a while about what to write, which is sad when your blog is only quarterly. There really hasn’t been anything particularly scandalo...1 month ago
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Where might better ratings come from? - Suppose you wanted better ratings of intelligence reports. Where could that improvement come from? How could you possibly get it? Some years ago the U.S. ...2 months ago
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How far is far enough - A while ago I wrote a post on tax law, proposing some ideas that I thought could plausibly make for a better existence if implemented by a sane governmen...2 months ago
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A fragment.... - “Sunflower. Sunflower. Sunflower. Network compromised. Consider all comms hostile. No further official traffic will follow. Activate Tsunami protocol." Th...2 months ago
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New Bloomberg Opinion column: China’s AI shows us the future of health insurance - Hey! I’ve been kind of hibernating but this week I got so riled up about some incredibly terrible facial recognition stuff going on in China that I wrote...2 months ago
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Pro-Lifers, Senator Gillibrand Equates You With Racists and Anti-Semites - This is just one more example among many of how extremist and tone-deaf leading abortion advocates are. Yesterday, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to...2 months ago
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Find me on Facebook and at my other blog, Frauds, Crooks and Criminals - If you have missed news about refugees, I’m still writing about them at Frauds and Crooks and as of last night I am back up and running at Refugee Resettle...2 months ago
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Upon the King - I had an enjoyable conversation with Titus Techera on his American Cinema Foundation podcast about American public education and 13 Ways of Going on a Fie...2 months ago
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New Articles on NGDP Targeting - Just a quick note on a couple of my papers on NGDP targeting that recently got published. First, Josh Hendrickson and I published in the *Journal of Money...2 months ago
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Sexy Isn’t Sexist or The Allegory of the Peacock’s Train - Discussing human sexuality is a tricky, if not fraught, enterprise today. Critiques of human sexuality abound in the popular and academic press. That’s why...2 months ago
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Summer Reading - These are some books I’m planning to read over the summer. 1) Joan A. Holladay, Genealogy and the Politics of Representation in the High and Late Middle Ag...2 months ago
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Median Anonymous Crypto Exchange Costs 1.5%, Sometimes 100% - Gemini's Order GUIMany of the big exchanges like Gemini or Coinbase do not have lots of alt-coins, and if you don't have an account the process of creatin...2 months ago
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Ladino: A Half-Forgotten Language - In 1996 I received a fellowship to study Ladino, a mix of 15th Century Spanish mixed with Hebrew. My travels took me to the Library of Congress in DC, the...2 months ago
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John Cleese and Realism Concerning Kinds - John Cleese has caused some controversy for repeating his 2011 claim that London is no loner an English city. In … Continue reading →2 months ago
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The Cold War and the Ascendance of America’s Research University - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 29 May 2019.) ……… These three young universities, all founded in the second half of 19th century...2 months ago
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Postmillennial Public Service Announcements - For the last several years, I've been trying to incorporate new assignments and activities that encourage students to think of the work they do in my cou...2 months ago
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Dear Racist White Liberal Journalists & Media - Yesterday, one of your white liberal media “journalists”, from The New Yorker, contacted me in regards to racism within the TPUSA organization. Here’s wh...2 months ago
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The Iranian Law on Abortion is Less Restrictive than the One in Alabama. - In the past week, a number of red states passed laws that effectively ban abortion. Via 538: Alabama this week enacted a law that bans all abortions except...3 months ago
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Projected Release Dates for Farisa’s Crossing - I’m serializing Farisa’s Crossing. Conceptually, the story divides neatly into five segments: The Forest, The City, The Road, The Dead; and The Lovers. The...3 months ago
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The Attempted Sliming of Gordon Tullock - A few days ago I received a strange and unexpected notification in the form of a tweet. Calvin TerBeek, a political science PhD student at the University o...3 months ago
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Social Misuse of Disorder Designation - My 3-part articles series for *Psychiatric Times* in which I explore the question: what conceptual means are available to us to prevent behavioral conditio...3 months ago
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Congratulations to the Winners of the Harlan Institute – ConSource Virtual Supreme Court Competition - On May 13, 2019, ConSource and the Harlan Institute hosted the championship round of the sixth annual National Virtual Supreme Court Competition for high s...3 months ago
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Crypto-Current (064) - §5.8612 — Decentralization of the ledger requires massive multiplication, and thus an effective method of compression. Only in this way does it become trac...3 months ago
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War Crimes on Westeros and Daenerys’ Missing Character Arc - The general consensus is that a lot has gone wrong in this last season of Game of Thrones. To quote a friend of mine, “Jon can’t pet Ghost, but Drogon ca...3 months ago
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Hell hath no fury like a Popperian scorned - My post on falsificationism turned out to be a lot more popular than I expected. I’m particularly glad that many scientists seem to have found it useful,...3 months ago
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Blog moving to Spandrell.com - ***This blog is moving to Spandrell.com ***Please update your bookmarks/RSS readers. Spandrell.com, two ls. First they banned Youtubers, but I didn’t say a...3 months ago
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Running for Science: Science for Running – The Complete Series - The 12-episode series is now a wrap! Thank you to everyone who helped in the process, both as a contributor and as a listener. This post is intended to bri...3 months ago
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Fred on Everything is moving! - Henceforth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review NEW! Current column (June 13) is HERE The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of colu...3 months ago
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Fred on Everything is moving! - Henceforth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review NEW! Current column (June 13) is HERE The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of colu...3 months ago
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The Rebel Sell at 15 - A funny thing about the book that Andrew and I wrote, *The Rebel Sell*, is that it was a bestseller in Spain. We recently did an interview with Manuel Ma...3 months ago
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Journal Reporting Times, EJMR vs. Self-Reported Stats from Journals. - Methodology: I took the self-reported data I collected here (which come from from ejmr here), and compared to the official journal stats collected by Juan ...3 months ago
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The Price of Everything, the Value of the Economy: A Clark Medal for Emi Nakamura! - Fantastic and well-deserved news this morning with the Clark Medal being awarded to Emi Nakamura, who has recently moved from Columbia to Berkeley. Incredi...3 months ago
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King Alfred and India: an Anglo-Saxon embassy to southern India in the ninth century AD - One of the more intriguing references to early medieval contacts between Britain and the wider world is found in the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle', which mention...3 months ago
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The House is on Fire - As we stand on the precipice of yet another election where sociopaths stand on a stage and pretend to care, one thing is abundantly clear. Millennials ar...3 months ago
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You Can Do India With No Indian SIM Card - It Takes Planning and Flexibility, But, Really, You Don’t Need to be Daunted by India Continue reading on In a State of Migration »3 months ago
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Britain's Viking Graveyard - Viking ship model in Repton. Photo Judith JeschThis blog started off as a light-hearted romp through some of my interests, mainly to do with Vikings and S...4 months ago
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Which Powers could afford to ’do it all’ in World War Two - There’s an old saying that David and Leigh Eddings paraphrased in one of their fantasy books: “any fool can raise an army, but you start running into tro...4 months ago
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Data Driven Parenting - A leading economist helps you dig through the empirical evidence on parenting, and the result is essential reading.4 months ago
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The deep roots of development - Part 5 - In my quest to fall behind on everything in my life, I left writing up the next installment of the deep roots reviews until well after I actually gave th...4 months ago
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Intergenerational mobility between and within Canada and the United States - Intergenerational mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but the border only partially distinguishes the two countries with mobility varyin...4 months ago
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Don’t discriminate against Israel Folau - This is a vital free speech issue, so I’ve initiated a petition “Don’t discriminate against Israel Folau” and urge all readers to sign it. I don’t endorse ...4 months ago
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God, Creation, Design, and Science - This is the sixth post in a series that details my evolving thoughts on religion. The first ones are: 1. Why I am no longer a “New Atheist” 2. How ...4 months ago
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More "Interesting" Thoughts about Socialist Monetary Policy - Interest income is forbidden in a socialist society due to socialist ideology. Someone is earning income on their money, when the only legitimate form of...4 months ago
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Jealousy, Freedom & Friendship - This is a guest post by Haritha, a Syrian Ex-Muslim About half a year ago, I moved into my first place in the US, starting a new chapter of my life. One ...4 months ago
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Catholic Emancipation as a Constitutional Revolution - Antonia Frazer’s new book *The King and the Catholics* brings to light a neglected topic in British history, the removal of legal restrictions on Catholi...4 months ago
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Jump-Starting America - Can the United States grow faster, create more good jobs, and genuinely spread opportunity? Yes: by investing more in science and technology, by placing th...4 months ago
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Some news + MMT and endogenous money - I know I haven’t posted in a long while, but I thought I’d give some news. And no it’s not an April fools’! Work and personal matters have taken much of my...4 months ago
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"Stop the car or I'll step in front of it" - This was not a good shooting. And cringe-worthy from an officer's perspective. From the suspect's perspective, well, he's dead. I'm quoted in this article...5 months ago
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Mindfulness for Christians - The modern world ain't so good for your psyche. It's easy to get strung out, anxious as a wildebeast in a lion convention, with thoughts looping through...5 months ago
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Offended by the term coloured? Let me show you what real racism looks like. - All the screeching about comments like Amber Rudd referring to a ‘coloured’ woman rather than a ‘person of colour’ or Angela Smith saying ‘funny tinge’ sug...5 months ago
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blank slate - *Sociobiology *was published in 1975. *The Blank Slate* was published in 2002. And yet in 2018, this is still the outcome of a survey of 335 professional s...5 months ago
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Momentum needs to talk to its members about Israel - On Thursday afternoon, the left-wing activist group Momentum released a video designed to educate its members about anti-Semitism. It's the kind of initi...5 months ago
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Why Are Children So Expensive? - I wrote this a few months back, but never got around to posting it. Scott’s post on wage stagnation reminded me to post it, because I discuss some of the s...5 months ago
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Unlike the Fed the ECB Leaves Euro Area Banks Unprepared for the Downswing - Gunther Schnabl and Thomas Stratmann Ten years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, banks in the euro area have not recovered. The Euro Stoxx...5 months ago
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ON CULTS II - A cult is a strategico-organic entity. On an evolutionary timescale, they either survive, or they die. But different cults have different lifecycles; some ...6 months ago
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Anxieties of development: emerging voices in Chinese social media - As China experiences strong economic headwind domestically and globally, "development blogging" finds a growing audience online.6 months ago
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Seumas Milne and the Stasi - Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of ...6 months ago
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Linguistics and Theology Scholar Challenges Qur'an Origin Story - This blog post has been moved. Click HERE to read it. * Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is ...6 months ago
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How To Be Successful - I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, peopl...6 months ago
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Gillette So Woke - Gillette's new commercial opens with a montage of real-life and on-line bullying, men cat-calling, a row of men standing behind a row of barbecue grills ...7 months ago
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Going after my children is too much for me - Of all the things I have contended with in my life, watching grown adults stalk and harass my children online has been the most difficult to deal with, not...7 months ago
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Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...7 months ago
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The Sixth Risk is Boredom - Every chapter of Michael Lewis’s The Sixth Risk, as it sounds to somebody who had heard of the federal government before November 2016. John “Curley” Stoog...7 months ago
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Social Infrastructure in Cities Today: Eric Klinenberg's “Palaces for the People” - I just finished reading Eric Klinenberg’s excellent new book, *Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization,...7 months ago
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Reaction and Populism: Towards the Unpozzed Republic - Having been made by elites to dive headlong down the outhouse hole into the muck beneath, the common people have began to notice that it stinks and is very...7 months ago
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Four maidens, 8000 ducats: the Saga of Drapers’ Hall - On 28th July, 1540, Thomas Cromwell, the chief minister of Henry VIII, was led out to the block on Tower Hill and beheaded. This brought to a close a remar...7 months ago
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Moghul Emperor Jahangir's Interest in Science - *by Salman Hameed* Growing up in Pakistan, I did hear a lot about the Moghul Emperors, but rarely about science. In fact, if science was brought up, it wa...7 months ago
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Fortnite - I have been developing a bit of an interest in the evolution of leisure activities and my nephew was playing the computer game Fortnite, so I did a bit of ...7 months ago
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Year in Career: 2018 - Early in 2018, somewhere over Nawabshah, Pakistan, at 30,000 feet. We’ve been flying through turbulence for nearly two hours. I really need to go to the ...7 months ago
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Notes On The Withdrawals - Trump announced the withdrawal of US troops from two warzones, which prompted the resignation (and now, firing) of James Mattis. It’s one of the most con...7 months ago
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Endnotes - Happy solstice, everyone! I have not been very consistent this year about writing in this blog, despite my resolution last year. After a flurry of posts in...8 months ago
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Market Monetarism – Roadmap to Economic Prosperity – a free book (pdf) - You can download it here: Market Monetarism and Economic Prosperity Advertisements8 months ago
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Market Monetarism – Roadmap to Economic Prosperity – a free book (pdf) - You can download it here: Market Monetarism and Economic Prosperity Advertisements8 months ago
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When big data are bad data - As archaeologists turn increasingly to the analysis of large, systematic databases, we need to confront an epistemological problem: How do we identify bad...8 months ago
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Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube - Apparently the original posting of this (staggeringly brief) talk suffered from imperfect audio (I never listened to it, so I can't say first-hand whethe...8 months ago
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Creating a List of Prime Numbers with a Simple Generator Function - In working on curriculum for *Introduction to Computational Economics*, I like to imagine puzzles that I might have my students solve. One of these is to c...8 months ago
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Risken för talangutvandring & företagarflykt från Sverige - Mitt nästa projekt kartlägger risken för företagarflykt och talangutvandring från Sverige om samhällskontraktet inte efterlevs. Under 1970- och 80-talen...8 months ago
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Get More Done In Less Time with Squarespace and Zapier - Efficiency is key, especially when you’re running—or starting—a business. That’s why we’ve added Zapier, a helpful automation tool, to our integration of...8 months ago
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De-criminilazing Homosexuality in Botswana - They have pushed, Queer Batswana, they have pushed to the point that now they believe there is a great chance of getting to the point when they are NOT cri...8 months ago
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Wednesday double-barreled book BOMB! - WEDNESDAY MORNING DOUBLE-BARREL BOOK BOMB! My friend and colleague Larry Correia has been kind enough to double-promote Tuesday’s releases of A STAR WHEELE...8 months ago
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Why everything you have said about the determinants of health expenditure is wrong in one million charts: a response to Noah Smith. - Disclaimer: The title of this post is somewhat tongue-in-cheek and I fell slightly short of one million charts. Also, Noah probably isn’t wrong about eve...9 months ago
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Productive Exhibition stand Designs is a matter of planning - Exhibit stand design it is vital to think of the stand interior as a totality. A series of spaces linked together. It is therefore appropriate that a com...9 months ago
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Review - "Some Zombie Contingency Plans," by Kelly Link (2005) - *Introduction: *There is a sort of story which pretends to be about one thing but is actually about something else entirely. This can be done well -- in ...9 months ago
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IDW Halloween Cards - Happy Halloween Folks! (I'll add the rest below the blogpost) I thought I’d have some fun with IDW/Classical Liberal Halloween cards. There's so many more...9 months ago
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A Simple Lesson About Money and Models - Imagine you are in your high school algebra class and you are presented with the following two equations: Two linear equations with 2 unknowns. This is a s...10 months ago
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New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/10 months ago
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Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle - Gloria Steinem once famously said that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Point taken, but let’s play with it a bit. Let’s ask whether a woma...10 months ago
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Excerpts and Discussion of Rod Dreher’s “The Benedict Option” - Prologue (mine, not Dreher’s) The book is an extended exposition of what is at heart a very simple thesis and message. That premise: “Genuine, traditional ...11 months ago
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Stations Along the Rim - (105k words; approximate reading time 6hr15mins) Lately, I have taken to asking fellow Middle East watchers: “How long ago was Ali Abdullah Saleh killed?” ...11 months ago
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Episode 85 - Common Cause – Jabotinsky and Revisionist Zionism - Download RSS Marshaling a people to a common cause is never an easy task. In the case of the Jews, who have through history been spread throughout the w...11 months ago
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For Thomas Hobbes, Politics Was Simply About Doubt and Faith - Four hundred years ago, an English intellectual developed political ideas different to what we may recognize as familiar. 1. Schmitt and Hobbes In his cele...1 year ago
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Ignore Your Parents’ Advice at Your Peril - Of all the pieces of parental advice that you’ve received, which one has yielded the greatest impact on your life—either because you heeded it or ignored it?1 year ago
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Jerry’s Birthday and a Book List - A ‘Huzzah!’ to a reader for reminding me that today is Jerry’s birthday – he would have been 85. His wife’s Roberta’s birthday was in June – Jerry would al...1 year ago
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NGDP futures via blockchain: Market monetarism meets cryptocurrency (And: how to set up a prediction market on Augur) - Scott Sumner has famously proposed that the Fed stabilize monetary policy by pegging nominal GDP futures contracts in such a way to ensure that expectati...1 year ago
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Modern Evidence and Speculation: Or, “What if Trump Did It?” - By H. Alexander Welcome The 2016 U.S. Presidential election signaled a number of important changes in U.S. society, including approaches to evidence and s...1 year ago
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We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free! The post We’re moving! appeared first on The World is Not Enough.1 year ago
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The History of William Marshal on the War of 1183. Part I - The anniversary of Henry the Young King's untimely passing is fast approaching and though I have discussed the surrounding events many times here, on the b...1 year ago
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Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...1 year 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...1 year 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,...1 year 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...1 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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.1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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) ...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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 ...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...2 years ago
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Dunkirk: A Deliverance Worth Cheering - My review of the film Dunkirk and case for celebrating the evacuation: https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/dunkirk-a-deliverance-worth-cheering/2 years ago
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For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...2 years ago
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Plato’s hijacking of Socratic aporia and media-friendly radicalism - In Plato’s early dialogues Socrates leads his interlocutors to *aporia*, a state in which they are unconvinced by their own beliefs and arguments, and do...2 years 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,...2 years ago
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This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issue...2 years ago
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The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...2 years 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...2 years ago
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Don’t abuse history in order to score cheap political points - "What I object to—and what my interlocutors maddeningly refuse to engage with—is the effort to use history and Jewish memory, in particular, the crimes of ...2 years ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.2 years ago
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Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...2 years ago
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Hayek, Knowledge, and Carbon Taxes: Markets Without Prices or Prices Without Markets? - As far as I know, Friedrich Hayek never wrote a word about climate change, but two of his most famous works contain arguments that bear directly on this ke...2 years ago
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Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.2 years 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.2 years ago
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How the Democrats can Rebuild - Appearing in: Orange County Register Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded the parlous state of the Democratic Part...2 years 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...2 years 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 ...2 years ago
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Goodbye - [image: Snapshot corrected moving to unz] It’s goodbye to drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk After 4 years of blogging, and 1,062,720 page views, here i...2 years ago
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The Things You Learn from the Internet - The Spiritual Science Research Foundation (“Bridging the known and unknown worlds”) has discovered the cause of homosexuality for 85% of all gay people: 4....2 years ago
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Moving house - People connected to me have justifiably asked that I move my blog to a more anonymous platform. Although I’ve made an effort to remove my name from this bl...2 years ago
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Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...2 years ago
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Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...2 years ago
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Anarchism - Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable, inclu...2 years ago
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Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done? - This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, near...2 years ago
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501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...2 years ago
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Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons - MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the seasons and ...2 years 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...2 years ago
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THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…2 years ago
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The Redistribution of Humiliation - The recent EU referendum in the UK has drawn a great deal of attention to voters who had previously been ignored. Communities left behind by the 21st Centu...3 years 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...3 years ago
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My Blog Has Moved Again! - My new blog location is www.richardcarrier.info. I will maintain this old blog as a historical archive as I did before. But every other post I've blogged s...3 years ago
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Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a joint statement a...3 years ago
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EU vote: Scotland will ruin UK’s chance of a Brexit - If you could pick one person from British society and be certain they would vote Remain, who would you choose?3 years ago
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‘Gen Why?’ – Perception Deception - “Most days are full of meaningless uninvited interactions with the same kind of simple minded individuals, that indeed would have definitely complained abo...3 years ago
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My blog moving to my website - I just wanted to give a heads up to readers that I have moved my blog to my website, which now houses all my work, videos, press coverage, photos and more....3 years ago
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Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...3 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 […]3 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...3 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...3 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, ...3 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...3 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 ...3 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...3 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...3 years ago
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History’s Most Exciting Period - What is my favorite period of history? While I love both the ancient-classical and medieval worlds (to use an oversimplification of time not equally applic...3 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...3 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....3 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 ...3 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...3 years ago
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We've Moved - The Mischiefs of Faction is now located at mischiefsoffaction.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, here. You can...3 years ago
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ニキビと遺伝の関係について - ニキビが出来やすい肌は遺伝するのだろうか…と思ったことはありませんか？ 親もニキビが出来やすい肌の場合、子どももそうなるのでしょうか。 ■ニキビが出来やすい肌とは ニキビが出来やすい肌というものは、実際にあるのです。 そ […]3 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...4 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...4 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 ...4 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...4 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...4 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 [...]4 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...4 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...4 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,...4 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...4 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...5 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...5 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 ...5 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner5 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...5 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...5 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...5 years ago
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OxcOOd1199 Error - Windows Media Player is a great way to view your favorite movie content. However, with the program comes the risk of the occasional OxcOOd1199 error occuri...5 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 Voice6 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...7 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...7 years ago
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Why the Lachish III Assemblage Stays Where It Is - Long ago, when Albright ruled the world of Palestinian archaeology, the Lachish III assemblage was dated to 701-597 BC. It did not bother Albright (or, for...7 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...7 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.7 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...8 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...8 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 ...9 years ago
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