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Jazz Birthday Calendar, August 16: Bill Evans - Jazz is famously an art form “in conversation”- members of a combo are responding to one another, a given improvised solo is often a set of licks and patte...
24 minutes ago
Eurogenes Blog

A homeland, but not the homeland #2 - Back in May, in a post titled A homeland but not the homeland, I said this: It seems increasingly likely that ancient DNA has identified a massive expansio...
26 minutes ago
The Unz Review:

Charlottesville 2, by Paul Craig Roberts - What the liberal/progressive/left is trying to do with Charlottesville is to associate Trump supporters with White Supremacists and in this way demonize Tr...
33 minutes ago
Vox - All

Steve Bannon just gave his own Scaramucci-style unsolicited interview and it's a doozy - It’s not as profane, but it’s still wild. In a surprising interview with the small liberal magazine The American Prospect, White House chief strategist...
37 minutes ago
Thought Catalog

This Is Why Marriage And Proposals Don’t Concern Me While Everyone My Age Is Getting Engaged - It seems like everyone my age is getting engaged.
47 minutes ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Reversal of Reality - The attacks on Trump over Charlottesville are beyond criticism.
47 minutes ago
EconLog

Hummel on the Curse of Cash, by David Henderson - In "Anti-Paper Prophet: Comments on *The Curse of Cash*." Jeff Hummel has written an excellent response to Ken Rogoff's response to Hummel's review of hi...
48 minutes ago
Althouse

At the Late-Night Questionable Artwork Café... - [image: P1140479] ... I'm soliciting opinion on the possibly deplorable politics of this image. I think there are a lot of suspicious details here, and we ...
1 hour ago
Blazing Cat Fur

Shadow President? - Barack Obama’s permanent residency in Washington breaks precedent and makes him the effective head of the anti-Trump opposition. After leaving the White Ho...
1 hour ago
Streetwise Professor

First They Came For Lee . . . - The battle over the monuments is not really about the monuments. It’s not even really about the legacy of the Civil War. It is about the left’s vision of w...
1 hour ago
macrobusiness.com.au

Medicare levy increase joins the the War on Youth - By Leith van Onselen The Turnbull Government is optimistic that its proposed 0.5% increase in the Medicare levy will be passed by the Senate. The bill wi...
1 hour ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Is ethical investing a dud? @NZSuperFund @JordNZ @EricCrampton @GreenpeaceNZ - Imagine how much more would be available for funding old age pensioners, schools, hospitals and kidney machines if you have a passively invested in portfol...
1 hour ago
Keith Burgess-Jackson

Neven Sesardić on Brian Leiter - If you are mainly surrounded by people who strongly lean to the left and who, living largely in the political echo chamber, tend to radicalize themselves m...
1 hour ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

I can’t tell where this is going - Big victory for the mainstream liberal establishment? Or the beginning of Trump finally dumping the GOP establishment and big business, and becoming the Pr...
1 hour ago
Butterflies and Wheels

He didn’t fire them, they quit - CNBC tells the story of how the CEOs decided to say bye-bye to Trump. After President Donald Trump’s incendiary comments last weekend about the violence ...
2 hours ago
Vlad Tepes

Are we seeing a Mao like Cultural Revolution? Links 1, Aug 16, 2017 - 1. The Anti-Semitic Jewish Media (This article is by Bruce Bawer. It should be understood that Mr, Bawer was one of the very first people to publicly discu...
2 hours ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

Two hundred to go - It’s getting close and now I’m beginning to think we’ll see 50,000. And then I will be happy complacent.
2 hours ago
Bernard Gaynor

A gay man states why he’ll vote no - Not all homosexuals support the redefinition of marriage. But it take courage to speak out. One such courageous man has done just that. The post A gay m...
3 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

*Sigh* Such is love . . . - I've been battling with a case of the seasonal crud that's going around at present. It's no fun, but you know what they say . . . take medicine, and it l...
3 hours ago
Slate Star Codex

Fear And Loathing At Effective Altruism Global 2017 - San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run – but no explan...
3 hours ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

HARPER: IDENTITY POLITICS--WE ALL LOSE - (Seattle Antifa) I vividly recall staying up past 1 AM on election night 2016, watching CNN, as it became clear that Donald Trump had been elected the next...
3 hours ago
GayPatriot

Now, Everybody Who Isn’t a Radical Is a Nazi - You knew, you had to know, that the left would take their glorious victory in Charlottesville and overplay their hand. Getting the approval of the media an...
3 hours ago
Marginal Revolution

Restaurant matching markets in everything those new service sector jobs use my ethnic dining guide instead - This very nice article covers “…a line of people wrapped around the block outside a newly opened restaurant”: …Surkus, an emerging app that allowed the r...
4 hours ago
Communalism Watch

The Rising Tide of Intolerance in Narendra Modi’s India | Shanoor Seervai (July 27, 2016) - 2016 Issue · Blog · Featured The Rising Tide of Intolerance in Narendra Modi’s India July 27, 2016 BY SHANOOR SEERVAI The resounding victory of Hindu n...
4 hours ago
The Federalist

Britt McHenry Talks Sports Reporting, ESPN, And Social Media Mobs - Sports journalist and former ESPN reporter Brit McHenry opens up about her career and interest in political issues on the Federalist Radio Hour.
4 hours ago
Discover Blogs

Ulcer-fighting Robots Swim Through Stomachs to Deliver a Cure - Tiny robots powered by bubbles have successfully treated an infection in mice. The achievement is another step forward in a field that has long shown promi...
4 hours ago
MILO NEWS

The “Alt-Left” Attacks Conservative Student at Charlottesville Vigil - Alt-Left activists attack a young conservative attending a vigil for Charlottesville. Conservatives and Republicans of all stripes have condemned white nat...
4 hours ago
Douglas L. Campbell

Alfred Crosby Deserves a Nobel Prize in Economics... - for his absolutely brilliant insights into Economic History and Development. Arguably, he should share it with Jared Diamond, who really succeeded in popul...
5 hours ago
Mercatornet

Modern Day Slavery - More profitable and more widespread than ever. Read more...
5 hours ago
Vox Popoli

From the Nazi's mouth - A number of historically ignorant defenders of national socialism have tried to claim that it is not a left-wing socialist ideology. This is utterly and ab...
5 hours ago
waka waka waka

Today’s Lesson - A comment on Charlottesville: this sort of chip-on-the-shoulder activism is a no-win for the Right. It attracts too many of the lowest, stupidest, and most...
5 hours ago
Notes On Liberty

Lunchtime Links - violence among foragers [pdf] building legal order in ancient Athens [pdf] why Congo persists [pdf] toward an old new paradigm in American international re...
5 hours ago
Philosoraptor

"Serious Attention To Vegetality": Critical Plant Studies - I actually listened to this whole damn thing. It's about like you'd expect.
5 hours ago
educationrealist

Great Moments in Teaching: Or, Browbeating Psychoanalysis - One of my strengths as a test prep instructor was spotting weird mental glitches that was interfering with a student’s success. I miss this part of the job...
5 hours ago
PinkNews

Man arrested on hate crime charge for ‘sending death threats’ to gay police officers - A man has been arraigned on a hate crime charge, after allegedly sending homophobic death threats directly to law enforcement.
6 hours ago
Isegoria

The Celtic Holocaust - Dan Carlin’s latest Hardcore History, episode 60, about The Celtic Holocaust, is self-recommending, as Tyler Cowen would say. While listening, I thought, w...
6 hours ago
The Evolution Institute

Addressing White Supremacy, Hate and Inequities in our Global Village - Creating a truly functional, equitable, stable and sustainable nation certainly won’t be easy but a “blueprint,” can be found in our evolutionary past. Wha...
6 hours ago
NGDP Advisers

A split at the FOMC - Low inflation in the face of low unemployment (low resource slack) and easing of financial conditions is fostering disagreement at the FOMC. FOMC Minutes...
6 hours ago
Climate Etc.

What do we know about Arctic sea ice trends? - by Dr. Ronan Connolly & Dr. Michael Connolly Satellite observations indicate that the average Arctic sea ice extent has generally decreased since the start...
6 hours ago
Overcoming Bias

Ems in Walkaway - Some science fiction (sf) fans have taken offense at my claim that non-fiction analysis of future tech scenarios can be more accurate than sf scenarios, wh...
7 hours ago
Whatever

Writing About Later, Now: Harder Than It Used to Be - I have a piece in the Los Angeles Times today about the difficulty of writing science fiction in today’s world, and no, it’s not just because one has to wo...
7 hours ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

- **Live from the Orange-Haired Baboon Cage**: Silver Lining Department : One piece of good news from the past week: we now know that the president and his c...
7 hours ago
Coyote Blog

Shifting Mix is Often Ignored as the Reason Behind A Shifting Mean - I have written about this mix effect many times, eg here. Imagine a corporate division that sells tables and chairs. The CEO is reviewing this division's...
7 hours ago
Caracas Chronicles

How Colombia does ‘I Told You So’ - Colombians have a way with words. President Juan Manuel Santos is no exception.
7 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Charlottesville: events, reactions, and aftermath - CHARLOTTESVILLE, Vir. – It began with online organizing among nationalist groups to protest the removal of a Confederate statue from a local park. It ended...
7 hours ago
Alexander Boot

Naughty Trump against PC tyranny - Even many Republicans, especially the neocons, hate Donald Trump because, unlike them, he intuitively opposes tyrannical PC orthodoxy. I suspect the feelin...
7 hours ago
Corey Robin

What’s the connection between Lytton Strachey and Monica Lewinsky? - Here’s a pop quiz for you: What’s the connection between Lytton Strachey and Monica Lewinsky? No googling! Answer: There’s a Bloomsbury tale, immortalized ...
7 hours ago
Nec Pluribus Impar

Some data about the blog after it reached a milestone - I’ve been mostly offline and busy with other things lately, which is why things have been slow here. However, I just noticed that Nec Pluribus went past ...
8 hours ago
neo-neocon

The “Trump defends white supremacists” meme is now set in stone - If you read the news at all, you noticed the explosion of the meme, but here’s are some examples. If you want to know what Trump actually said, take a look...
8 hours ago
Harry's Place

“This is 2017 in the United States of America.” - Can you guess by which of the two sides (to which President Trump has assigned approximately equal blame) Charlottesville’s Jews felt more endangered? Alan...
8 hours ago
Josh Blackman's Blog

Bad Presidents Make Bad Law - Over a century ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. lamented that “hard cases make bad law.” Such decisions, he noted in his *Northern Securities* disse...
8 hours ago
Stories by Michael Tracey on Medium

It’s Not Just Charlottesville: Government Officials Routinely Revoke Permits To Stymie Speech - After the harrowing events of last weekend in Charlottesville, Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia has blamed the ACLU of Virginia for the public disorder w...
8 hours ago
Priceonomics Blog

The Smiley Index: Ranking Countries, Companies & Jobs by 'Smileyness' - Who smiles at work? Ranking countries, companies, and job titles by propensity to smile.
9 hours ago
Cold Fury

The grave-robbing Left - Fucking worthless lunatics. A group of protesters who want the body of an alleged Ku Klux Klan leader removed from their city have broken the soil over the...
9 hours ago
Lawfare

Phones Move – and So Should the Law - I'd like to call your attention to an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court on Monday. Should the government be required to obtain a search warrant in ...
9 hours ago
n+1 » Articles

An Alternate Future for the Mall - While malls in the US have been on a steady decline, as the industry deals with the decline in brick-and-mortar sales that bode the “death of retail,” mal...
9 hours ago
The Mermaid's Tale

Holly & Anne Tell Penn Jillette Where Babies Come From - Our essay in Aeon magazine called "Sex Makes Babies" has gotten some mixed feedback, and the best reaction we've received so far has come from Penn Jillett...
9 hours ago
www.counterpunch.org

Gore Vidal Destroying the Lies of the American Empire -
9 hours ago
Fredrik deBoer

recalibrating your sites - Not too long ago, I felt the need to change the stream of personalities and attitudes that were pouring into my head, and it’s been remarkable. This was re...
9 hours ago
The Reference Frame

Czechs amazed by a PC lawsuit against a Czech Swedish writer - Czechia's economy grew by impressive 4.5% yoy and 2.3% qoq in Q2 of 2017, brutally beating estimates. Donald Trump made a speech about Charlottesville that...
10 hours ago
Declination

Moral Courage and Moral Arbitrage - Every good capitalist is on the look out for imbalances in the market, opportunities to earn a profit off of a thing that either the market lacks completel...
10 hours ago
Rhys Ford

Okay… So Let’s Talk About Hatred. - HATRED noun ha·tred \ˈhā-trəd\ 1: extreme dislike or disgust : hate 2: ill will or resentment that is usually mutual : prejudiced hostility or animosit...
10 hours ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Anti-racism is worse than racism - Yes, I said it – anti-racism is worse than racism. If we take a look at Charlottesville, we’ll see clear examples that support my theory. Firstly, if the...
10 hours ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

New printing of *Explaining Postmodernism* — the fifteenth - A new printing of the expanded edition was published this month in a snazzy hardcover. Its theme: “The failure of epistemology
10 hours ago
The Splintered Mind

What Would (or Should) You Do With Administrator Access to Your Mind (guest post by Henry Shevlin) - guest post byHenry Shevlin *'Dial 888,' Rick said as the set warmed. 'The desire to watch TV, no matter what's on it. 'I don't feel like dialling anything ...
10 hours ago
iramramzan | Just another WordPress.com site…but better

Book review: Western Fringes - When I read the blurb of Western Fringes – a Muslim man trying to find a Sikh woman who has run away from home to escape an arranged marriage – I admit tha...
10 hours ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 16 - 1933 Iraqi army campaign to kill Assyrians in north ended 1946 KDP founded by Mustafa Barzani and Hamzah Abdullah 1962 Turkish planes shot down Iraqi pla...
10 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

Review: Hugo Nominated Cirsova Magazine – Issue 6! - It’s the review everyone’s been waiting for, of the magazine completely redefining the science fiction and fantasy short fiction market. For the general ma...
10 hours ago
Daily Nous

Administrative Note - Dear readers, posting at Daily Nous will be on the rather light side for the remainder of the week. Feel free to email me with news, but note that respon...
11 hours ago
La Bocca della Verità

The tl;dr version of my life - See a fad? Don't follow it! ------------------------------ Longer version: try to resist silly trends that spread simply because they are catching on. T...
12 hours ago
mathbabe

Math: Still Not Everywhere - This is a guest post by Michael J. Barany, a postdoc in History at Dartmouth. One year ago, I wrote a post for the Scientific American Guest Blog arguing a...
12 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Also holding back progress are those who make mistakes and then label correct arguments as “nonsensical.” - Here’s James Heckman in 2013: Also holding back progress are those who claim that Perry and ABC are experiments with samples too small to accurately pred...
12 hours ago
Refugee Resettlement Watch

Trump Admin reining-in Obama plan to get more Central American children to US - Barack Obama illegally expanded the US Refugee Admissions Program a few years ago with his Central American Minors Program (CAM) which allowed Central Amer...
12 hours ago
Information Processing

Meet the Bot: OpenAI and Dota 2 - OpenAI has created a Dota 2 bot that plays at the level of human professionals. Humans can look forward to coexistence with increasingly clever AIs in both...
12 hours ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Autonomous Cars: Altering One in Nine Jobs - It seems clear that driverless vehicles are coming, although the timeline for their arrival remains unclear. David Beede, Regina Powers and Cassandra Ingra...
12 hours ago
askblog

Clarifying Two Terms - 1. Interpretive Charity This is Jeffrey Friedman’s term. I think that it means trying to understand someone else’s point of view before criticizing it. It ...
13 hours ago
The Z Blog

Tyler Cowen Is A Bigot - Tyler Cowen is a deadbeat who lives off the paycheck of others. That’s not his official title, of course. He calls himself an economist and he “works” at G...
13 hours ago
JoNova

SA Solar Thermal plant is a copy of US plant that was out of action for one third of its life so far - Crescent Dunes, Solar Thermal Plant, USA. | Wikimedia Author, Amble. A company called SolarReserve is planning to build the new Aurora 150MW solar the...
13 hours ago
davidthompson

The Psychology Of “Social Justice” Is A Thing To Behold - Want to thwart the life chances of black students? Then hey, become an educator. Say, a professor of Medieval literature at the City University of New York...
13 hours ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Eliot Spitzer: The Democratic Party Has Become the Party of the Status Quo - Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer talks about antitrust, digital platforms, economic concentration, and regulatory capture. Part 2 of 2. In the f...
13 hours ago
Muddy Colors

SmArt School with Greg Manchess, September 13th - --Greg Manchess To pull a person into your image for the split-second opportunity you have to capture their attention, you need mad skills to do it. Ski...
13 hours ago
Pandaemonium

LIVING ETHICALLY - Here is a recording of a discussion between myself, Rebecca Huntley and Emrys Westacott at the Byron Writers Festival on ‘Living Ethically’. It was broadca...
13 hours ago
View From The Porch

The Cradle and the Grave of Liberty... - Drove from Castle Frostbite to Boston yesterday to pick Marko & Robin up from the airport after their whirlwind tour of Europe. With BOS being right off th...
14 hours ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

What Exactly Fuels the Anticapitalism of Pope Francis? - Trust a Jesuit to split hairs. In *This Economy Kills: Pope Francis and Social Justice*, the Rev. Fr. Professor Diego Alonso-Lasheras SJ of the Pontific...
14 hours ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

People Will Die - Won’t someone think of the children!
14 hours ago
Free Northerner

On Political Rallies - Here’s a quick post on political rallies, as a short theoretical introduction to my coming post which will examine lessons to be learned from Charlottesvil...
14 hours ago
According To Hoyt

The Fringe - So I tried to find some hard numbers on this but all the “Strange things people believe” websites have “strange things Americans believe” being things that...
14 hours ago
Overlawyered

Oz court: supermarkets need not shadow shoppers against slip hazards - A court in Australia has ordered costs against a claimant who had sued a grocery store after a slip-fall, after finding that “the grape could not have be...
15 hours ago
White Sun of the Desert

Polyamory and Mental Illness - Via Twitter, I found this advice on talking about mental problems when in a polyamorous relationship: If your partner is constantly battling suicidal thoug...
16 hours ago
War Is Boring - Medium

Did an Israeli Drone-Maker Carry Out an Attack on Armenian Troops? - In July 2017, representatives from Aeronautics Defense Systems — an Israeli company specializing in drones — allegedly arrived in Azerbaijan on a sales tri...
16 hours ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

Why We're Doomed: Our Economy's Toxic Inequality - *Anyone who thinks our toxic financial system is stable is delusional.* *Why are we doomed?* Those consuming over-amped "news" feeds may be tempted to answe...
17 hours ago
West Hunter

Persistence - Jared Diamond notices that early development of complex civilizations had ongoing consequences: peoples that developed such things way later or not at all ...
17 hours ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

Medieval Studies Too White - *The saga continues...* *Read here.*
17 hours ago
Mostly Economics

When an island in USA issued its own shell based currency.. - Interesting bit from history of currency in US(HT: who else but JP Koning): When the Depression and resulting banking crisis hit their community, the resid...
17 hours ago
Political Calculations

Summer 2017 Snapshot of Expected Future S&P 500 Earnings - Every three months, we take a snapshot of the expectations for future earnings in the S&P 500 at approximately the midpoint of the current quarter, short...
17 hours ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

Try this: Who to vote for this (NZ) election? - Are you unsure which political party to vote for, and you want to know which party best matches your values? The Design+Democracy Project at Massey Univers...
17 hours ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

‘Underground Europe Calling’ – A Book Review - For about a decade between the mid-1930s and 40s the early Labour party in the United Kingdom was heavily influenced by an interesting little publisher cal...
18 hours ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

Housing: Part 250 - Interest Rates and Home Prices: Open Access, Closed Access, and Canada - Before I really started to dig into the details of the housing boom and bust, I used to excuse the run-up in home prices simply by using real long term int...
18 hours ago
Fabius Maximus website

Civil war is coming to America – our latest doomster story! - Summary: Civil war is coming, as political violence inevitably escalates. It’s another scary story of the kind we love so much! Before we panic, let’s look...
18 hours ago
zenpundit.com

Picking up on symmetries observed - [ by Charles Cameron — after Scaramucci on symmetry ] . It’s encouraging — heart-heartening — to see Doreen St. Félix at the New Yorker picking up on An Im...
18 hours ago
Quillette

What to do with Confederate Statues? - Could Russia teach us something about how to deal with difficult aspects of our national history? Many places in the South – from New Orleans to Louisvil...
18 hours ago
The Observation Post

Ops Savannah fashion statement; East German Helmets - One distinctive thing about the Angola/South West Africa Border war was the vast array of ‘Soviet’ and Communist ‘East Bloc’ military equipment, materials ...
19 hours ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

All That Fighting, All That Snow - I just got back from seeing Atomic Blonde, which was a lot of fun (especially for those of us who came of age in the 80s). But it really made me sad once a...
19 hours ago
Crisis Magazine

Committees, World Without End - C. S. Lewis was a university professor, and knew about the wheels within wheels of committees, with their informal “rings” that use the official bodies and...
19 hours ago
Point of no return

BHL discovers Baghdad-Jewish war hero - * The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, writing in The Tablet, has only just discovered the fascinating story of General Jack Jacob, but his name will...
19 hours ago
TheMoneyIllusion

Was the zero bound holding back the Fed during 2009-15? - Most people thought the answers was yes. I thought it was no. Here’s a question for the zero bound worriers. If the zero bound was holding back the Fed ...
20 hours ago
A Voice for Men

For real love to arise, romantic love must die: Part three - Paul offers part three and the conclusion of his series on red pill relationships.
20 hours ago
The Kakistocracy

A Brief History of Counterprotesting the Fascists - Owing to a formidable native facility for pessimism, I am infrequently surprised. Though three elements of the last few days did almost tease my brow to fu...
21 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

Charlottesville Protest Leads To Call For Expansion of Hate Crime and Terrorism Laws - Below is my column in USA Today on the calls for hate crime and terrorism charges against James Fields and possibly others. The response is understandable...
21 hours ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Russia Feels American Pressure - Russian-US relations have reached their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. President Donald Trump has signed a new package of anti-Russian sancti...
21 hours ago
Taki's Magazine

Carved Upon the Landscape - by Steve Sailer Why the ever-increasing hatred for America’s past? You might think that, on the whole, American history is, relative to world history, fairl...
21 hours ago
Jim’s Blog

Gassing the Jews is worse than a crime - It is a distraction. A Jewish neoreactionary accurately complains about today’s nazis: being happily married, with children, and having regular employment,...
21 hours ago
The Audacious Epigone

Zyklon Trump supporters were far more than Clinton supporters (and slightly more so than Sanders supporters) - As we wrap up with the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's surveys of high school students in 2016 (a sincere thanks again to Sid for pointing it out), we'll lo...
22 hours ago
The World is Not Enough

Who’s afraid of Alfred Deakin? - Judith Brett argues that Malcolm Turnbull should have learned some lessons from Alfred Deakin, but perhaps the problem is that his opponents have already...
23 hours ago
Rightly Considered

A Message for Leftist Professors from Jason Stanley - Jason Stanley has a message for leftist professors, and I just thought I’d help him get the word out as far and wide as possible. Yes, it’s true, leftist p...
23 hours ago
TheRalphRetort.com

Silicon Valley Seeks To Create “Harassment” Blacklist - I saw this story last week in the paper and I’ve been considering how I should address this it this entire time. You have already heard about it, but if ...
1 day ago
CDR Salamander

Black Swan Tuesday: The China-Indonesian War of 20XX - If history tells us anything, it is that nations often find themselves in conflicts that aren't so much unimaginable, as unlikely. These wars develop out ...
1 day ago
Heather's Homilies

My Picks for Top Tweets: 16 August 2017 - Day 11 of Top Tweets. I thought I could avoid it, but I can’t. Once again there are a lot of Political Tweets. Donald Trump is the president who keeps on...
1 day ago
Semi-Partisan Politics

When The Devil Is In Your House: Charlottesville, The Alt Right And Conservatism - – There is nothing conservative about the resurgent white identitarian movement taking root in America, and all decent conservatives must vehemently repudi...
1 day ago
PrawfsBlawg

Finalizing the U.S./Mexico Water Sharing Agreement - A summary of a tentative agreement on shortage sharing in the Colorado River basin was recently released by the International Boundary and Water Commission...
1 day ago
Sultan Knish

Weimar America - Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to cheer on Communists and Nazis punching each other in major American cities while civil society disintegr...
1 day ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

Retail Sales, Dudley, Wages - Some quick thoughts for the day. First, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley gave an extended interview to the Associate Press. Definitely wor...
1 day ago
Maverick Philosopher

Iconoclasm: Another Similarity Between Muslims and Leftists - Muslims are well-known for their iconoclasm, hostility to the arts, and destruction of cultural artifacts. Leftists are like unto Muslims in this regard to...
1 day ago
Longrider

Catz - Well, why not? Louis on the shed. Teo on the drive. Zorro on the step.
1 day ago
Practical Ethics

Does Female Genital Mutilation Have Health Benefits? The Problem with Medicalizing Morality - Does Female Genital Mutilation Have Health Benefits? The Problem with Medicalizing Morality By Brian D. Earp (@briandavidearp) * Please note: this piece wa...
1 day ago
Bracing Views

That Google Diversity Memo - W.J. Astore What does “diversity” mean in the workplace as well as American society? Are women at a disadvantage in technical fields and, if so, is this d...
1 day ago
Basil Halperin

Behavioral biases don’t affect stock prices - Most people are probably somewhat overconfident. Most people – myself surely included – probably typically overestimate their own talents, and they (we) ...
1 day ago
Regie's Blog

Yeah, but … - One of my dear friends called me last summer to tell me his son was visiting Tennessee. He was wondering if I might be able to connect with him. I was out ...
1 day ago
Alt-M

Anti-Paper Prophet: Comments on The Curse of Cash - Kenneth S. Rogoff stands out as the advocate of restricting hand-to-hand currency who has argued the case most comprehensively and probably the most caut...
1 day ago
Free Banking

Anti-Paper Prophet: Comments on The Curse of Cash - Kenneth S. Rogoff stands out as the advocate of restricting hand-to-hand currency who has argued the case most comprehensively and probably the most caut...
1 day ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

The Legacy of Reconstruction and Occupation After the US Civil War - Guest Post by Megan Stewart, American University, School of International Service Late last month, HBO announced the next project for the creators of Game ...
1 day ago
Lead and Gold

The miracle on the Vistula - 97 years ago
1 day ago
Shtetl-Optimized

What I believe II (ft. Sarah Constantin and Stacey Jeffery) - In my post “The Kolmogorov Option,” I tried to step back from current controversies, and use history to reflect on the broader question of how nerds should...
1 day ago
Little Atoms

From the archive: Martin Rees’ From Here to Eternity - Martin Rees is Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He was the President of the Royal S...
1 day ago
THE LAST DITCH

Comrade Detective: Channing Tatum's weird new show - Comrade Detective: Channing Tatum's hidden gem of Romanian TV | Television & radio | The Guardian I link above to the Guardian review of Comrade Detective ...
1 day ago
Belmont Club

No more worlds to conquer and still out of money -
1 day ago
Club Troppo

Barnaby Joyce: Not good at policymaking, either - Barnaby Joyce is in the news a bit right now. Coincidentally, I wrote an assessment of his abilities in a column for The CEO Magazine way back on 31 July, ...
1 day ago
Manhattan Contrarian

The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time -- Part XVII - Just keep your eyes open for more and more examples of tampering with and manipulation of the world temperature record to enhance the "global warming" na...
2 days ago
Easily Distracted

When In Truth Did We Win Anything? - Progress is dead. In the same sense that Nietzsche spoke of the death of God, only to be habitually misunderstood by the same kinds of people that misunder...
2 days ago
Popehat

Department of Justice Uses Search Warrant To Get Data On Visitors to Anti-Trump Site - I used to have DreamHost as a webhost. We parted ways, but I always admired and appreciated that they reliably stood up for their customers — including me ...
2 days ago
Medievalists.net

Cross purposes: Frankish levantine perceptions of gender and female participation in the crusades, 1147-1254 - Though numerous historians have studied the participation of women in the Levantine crusades during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, few have investig...
2 days ago
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

3rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Nietzsche Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, March 16-17, 2018: Call for Papers - Just a reminder about the call for papers for the third annual meeting of the International Society for Nietzsche Studies which will take place in London n...
2 days ago
Facing Islam Blog

Muslim takeover of Europe is ‘biggest story of our time’ and nobody knows it - *"Western Europe is already in the death throes of 'demographic suicide' because couples are no longer having enough children."* The implications of the co...
2 days ago
JudgyBitch

Theryn Meyer is a man. Here is the proof. - A beautiful woman affects a man’s brain in a manner similar to cocaine. When Harvard researchers showed men the faces of gorgeous women, the men’s brains l...
2 days ago
Bloody shovel

All politics are identity politics - Said Matt Yglesias. Who, while being a disgusting piece of grease, is more candid than most other apparatchiks. Which is useful in understanding what lefti...
2 days ago
Irtiqa

Fascinating new Pew poll on US Muslims: From religiosity to acceptance of homosexuality - *by Salman Hameed* A new Pew poll on US Muslims came out earlier this month and I think it is absolutely fascinating. There is much focus on the way Muslim...
2 days ago
Working-Class Perspectives

Getting Over in the Heart of Dixie - When people think about progressive battles in the U.S., they probably don’t think about Alabama. Instead, the state is known as the home of U.S. Attorney ...
2 days ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

The insidious racism of Mary Beard and the “diversity” operators - The diversity discourse appears to serve an insidious form of racism and Northern Euro supremacist agenda (with a redefinition of the Western world and a...
2 days ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

Scott Alexander on what passes for socialism these days - Scott Alexander Most of the policies being mooted by the supposedly socialist left today – Medicare-for-all, better social safety nets, et cetera – are wel...
2 days ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

Vilification of Faryal Makhdoom confirms outdated attitudes towards marriage break ups in South Asian communities - By Aisha Ali Khan This is a cross-post The announcement by Amir Khan on Twitter that his marriage was over was shocking enough. But then he followed it up ...
2 days ago
The DiploMad 2.0

The Hate - I am going to write about something that is not my area of expertise--I admit, it's not hard to find such an area. I am going to write about the insanity o...
2 days ago
Minding The Campus

Why Brilliant Girls Tend to Favor Non-STEM Careers - Do girls avoid STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields because of ongoing, widespread discrimination? Or do girls with the skill sets that wou...
2 days ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

Talking Back to the Fat Little Horror - Many have tried for a week or so to convince me that Pres. Trump should tone it down with North Korea, that he must stop threatening back. I have heard it ...
2 days ago
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle

NERVA and man in space; Trump and the Marshall - Sunday, August 13, 2017 Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -Robert A. Heinlein The map is not t...
3 days ago
Gene Expression

Open Thread, 08/13/2017 - Busy with kids and life. But perhaps time to read Peter Turchin’s Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History. I was skeptical w...
3 days ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

Will centralizing power solve China’s economic problems, or worsen them? - The relationship between the central government and local authorities is perhaps one of the least understood and most important questions about how China w...
3 days ago
Global Guerrillas

Charlottesville and Malicious Social Disruption - Charlottesville wasn't a standard protest. It was a social blasting cap. An open invitation to a public fist fight between the left and right. A fight orch...
3 days ago
Samizdata

The progress of social programs and the debt - 1960’s: Lets eliminate everything bad. We can go to the moon so why not end poverty! “Yes, do it.” 1970’s: Well, it doesn’t look so easy. We’ll have to s...
3 days ago
Secular Right

Des Moines: Theocrats Busted - The Des Moines Register (my emphasis added): The FBI raided a Catholic Worker House in Des Moines early Friday in search of evidence linked to efforts to s...
3 days ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Thinking about Costs and Benefits of Immigration - I find this a useful way to organise my thoughts about the costs and benefits of immigration. It may work for you too. I start out with a neutral benchmark...
3 days ago
skepticlawyer

The uselessness of “bubble” talk - This is based on a comment I made here. If turning points in asset prices could be reliably predicted, they wouldn’t happen (since no none would buy at the...
4 days ago
No B-S here (I hope)

Amazing! A Solid Journalism Academic - TONY THOMAS The adage that ‘those who can’t do teach’ might have been uttered with our universities’ media faculties in mind. There is at least one excepti...
4 days ago
Ex Urbe

Campbell Award & Invisible Disability - Last night I was overjoyed and overwhelmed to receive the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the Hugo Awards ceremony at Worldcon 75 here in Hel...
4 days ago
ERIC POSNER

A parable for Google - There was once a village nestled in a small valley where the people lived long and prosperous lives. The local deity, unlike so many of the other gods in t...
4 days ago
Modeled Behavior

Checking In On Meal Kit Economics - With Amazon’s plan to buy Whole Foods, this makes them an ideal provider of meal kits that combines both a platform and an incumbent grocery store.
4 days ago
Jacobite

How Message-Board Culture Remade the Left - For all we hear about 4chan and Trump, the main effects of radicalized posters have been on the left, not the right.
4 days ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

Capsule Review: ‘Putin’s War against Ukraine,’ by Taras Kuzio - ‘Putin’s War against Ukraine,’ by Taras Kuzio. Published in Association with the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, 2017, ISBN-13: 978-1543...
4 days ago
The Offshore Balancer

Dunkirk: A Deliverance Worth Cheering - My review of the film Dunkirk and case for celebrating the evacuation: https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/dunkirk-a-deliverance-worth-cheering/
4 days ago
glenntstanton.com

A Thick as a Brick Cover That’s Thick as a Brick - I’ve been a Jethro Tull fan since the age of 10. Looking at JT music tonight on YouTube, I stumbled upon this interesting bit. It’s a group of young music ...
4 days ago
Rabble Rouser

The Psychology of the New McCarthyism - On the rising threat to science and basic human rights in America.
4 days ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

Gay marriage is not a liberal cause - *The Australian, 12 August 2017* Why are activists calling for the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia? To give gay people more choices in the...
5 days ago
Edward Feser

Rucker’s Mindscape - In his book *Infinity and the Mind* (which you can read online at his website), Rudy Rucker puts forward the notion of what he calls the “Mindscape.” He...
5 days ago
Chris Blattman

IPA’s weekly links - Jobs: NPR’s Planet Money is looking for someone who knows about econ to do shorter stories linked to the news of the day (explaining the econ of current ...
5 days ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

Immigration Is Well Below Post-War Peaks - And Analysts on Both Sides Should Say So Few things irk me more than having an argument where we don’t agree on the basic facts of the situation. Increasin...
5 days ago
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

RE-WRITING HISTORICAL FACTS, NOW KNOWN AS FAKE NEWS - *Roshan Thiran* posts (11 August) on *LeaderEconomics* HERE https://leaderonomics.com/leadership/adam-smith-happiness What Adam Smith Teaches Us About Becomi...
5 days ago
Veracities

MTurk tips - 2 easy hacks to make MTurk/Web/Qualtrics data collection/management easier: 1. isn't actually a hack, just a recommendation to send users to an experiment ...
5 days ago
Paul Musgrave

Institutions, Turnout, and Local Politics - A few months ago, I wrote a summary of the political-science literature on institutional design and turnout in local elections (municipal elections and oth...
5 days ago
Stories by Mark Koyama on Medium

The Counterfactual and the Factual - Historians often appear skeptical of counterfactual arguments. E.H. Carr argued that “a historian should never deal in speculation about what did not hap...
5 days ago
Mick Hartley

Intermission - Off for a week. Back next Saturday, the 19th.
5 days ago
Rationalist Judaism

Chicken Shtick - Question: Why did the chicken cross the road? Answer: To ask the *posek *if he needs a *mesorah*. Many news outlets this week were reporting on the story of...
5 days ago
Cameron Harwick

Virtue Signalling is Good; It’s Piety Contests that are Dangerous - “Virtue signalling” has become a common term of abuse against people who repeat progressive pieties. The implication is something like, “you don’t actually...
5 days ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

Virtue Signalling is Good; It’s Piety Contests that are Dangerous - “Virtue signalling” has become a common term of abuse against people who repeat progressive pieties. The implication is something like, “you don’t actually...
5 days ago
Evonomics

What Peter the Great Discovered in Amsterdam: Inclusivity Creates Wealth - By Nick Cassella After coming to power in the late 17th century, Peter the Great of Russia decided to escape the confines of the Kremlin and travel incog...
5 days ago
Nintil

Contra Sadedin & Varinsky: the Google memo is still right, again - Two recent articles, published here and here claim to debunk the Google memo. They are wrong. Here is why. [This is my third post about the Googlegate (Pos...
6 days ago
Marquette Warrior

Not the Business You Are In -
6 days ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

The Storytelling Instinct in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"--Christian? Pagan? Wagnerian? - Next week (August 18-20), the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, will have three nights devoted to Peter Jackson's film trilogy of J. R. R. To...
6 days ago
Bleeding Heart Libertarians

Chuck ’em out! The politicians who proposed the RAISE Act are INELIGIBLE to live in the United States! - I wonder if the politicians who proposed the RAISE (Really Asinine Idea to Stimulate Emigration) Act would be allowed into the United States? Let’s see…....
6 days ago
ribbonfarm

Questions Are Not Just For Asking - This is a guest post by Malcolm Ocean Are questions just for asking? It kind of seems like it. I mean, if you consider the phrase “ask me a ______”, then t...
6 days ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

Italie. Migrations : Rome arrête un bateau d'ONG et déploie l'armée - L'organisation allemande Jugend Rettet (“La jeunesse sauve”), qui opère des sauvetages en Méditerranée, est accusée de favoriser l'immigration clandestin...
6 days ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Nuclear-Powered Cars, Tesla, Al Gore, Solar Power, Elon Musk, and More: A Broad Spectrum Column - OK, I’m trying to figure out cars. Especially the electric and nuclear-powered ones. Mostly the fizzing and fuming about how great electrics are, or maybe ...
6 days ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Nuclear-Powered Cars, Tesla, Al Gore, Solar Power, Elon Musk, and More: A Broad Spectrum Column - OK, I’m trying to figure out cars. Especially the electric and nuclear-powered ones. Mostly the fizzing and fuming about how great electrics are, or maybe ...
6 days ago
Status 451

Fixing The Label Printer - There’s an odd quirk of humans, and it can take us surprisingly long to clue in. Two people can do exactly the same things side by side, for a very long ti...
6 days ago
Moneyness

Why is a one pound coin worth more than four pennies? - The new 12-sided pound coin released earlier this year The UK's recently-introduced one pound coin is made of 8.75 grams of metal, 76% of that copper and ...
6 days ago
Martin van Creveld

Guest Article: Revolutionary Words that Will Forever Change the American Family - By Larry Kummer* Summary: Sometimes simple insights change the world. Here is one such— part of a quiet revolution already in motion yet still unseen. It...
6 days ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

The Google Memo: What Does the Research Say About Gender Differences? - The recent Google Memo on diversity, and the immediate firing of its author, James Damore, have raised a number of questions relevant to the mission of Het...
6 days ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

Modern Humans Reached Indonesia Shortly After The Toba Erruption - The Toba mega volcano eruption took place about 75,000 to 74,000 years ago. Toba Lake in northern Sumatra is the world's largest active volcanic caldera. T...
1 week ago
Michael J. Totten's blog

North Korea Leaves Us With Only One Good Option - Twenty-eight years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States once again faces the real possibility of nuclear war with a communist state. Beca...
1 week ago
Darwinian Reactionary

Allow Me To Explain The Darkness Of The Human Soul - Church, State, Civilization Part 1: Allow Me to Explain The Darkness Of The Human Soul The title of this post … Continue reading →
1 week ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

The Most Embarrassingly Wrong Book Ever on the Middle East? - "The Middle East is the graveyard of predictions" notes the left-wing writer and editor Adam Shatz. That's partly because it's so volatile (no one in 2014 ...
1 week ago
Coordination Problem

Will the Real James Buchanan Please Stand Up - |Peter Boettke| Hands down the best book you will read on James McGill Buchanan this year, or any year to this date, is Richard Wagner's James M. Buchanan ...
1 week ago
Armed and Dangerous

Please give generously to James Damore’s fundraiser - I just gave $100 to James Damore’s official fundraiser. Damore, for any of you who have been hiding under a rock, is the guy who wrote a completely sane an...
1 week ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: Lando - [image: Lando] Lando by Louis L'Amour My rating: 5 of 5 stars Like the other Sacketts, this book combines beautiful, lovingly described landscapes with th...
1 week ago
Andrew Norton

Some students could lose FEE-HELP by accident or no fault of their own - In supporting the government’s Education Legislation Amendment (Provider Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2017 in the House of Representatives yesterday,...
1 week ago
Simon Owens

The pageview is still king - Publishers keep announcing they’re moving beyond the pageview and are instead focusing on more meaningful metrics like time-on-site and repeat visitors. Bu...
1 week ago
Jonathan Spyer

Is Washington ceding Syria to Russian influence? - Jerusalem Post, 28/8 Goodbye ‘Timber Sycamore’: What will the end of the CIA program providing support to Syria’s rebels mean for the future direction of t...
1 week ago
Ambit Gambit

This is what you get when you dump rubbish in an old mine - Four Corners has struck again with another non-story that has panicked the political establishment. Queensland doesn’t have a waste levy. This means it is ...
1 week ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Four-Steps Needed to Restore Confidence in Bureau’s Handling of Temperature Data - THE Minister for Environment and Energy, Josh Frydenberg, needs to immediately instigate the following four-step process to restore confidence in the rec...
1 week ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Minoans and Mycenaeans - It is great to finally see the first data from the most ancient Greeks (Mycenaeans) and also the Cretan Minoans: - Ancestrally. both Mycenaeans and Mi...
1 week ago
Scott Adams Blog

The People’s Plan to Fix Health Care - *We the People* of the United States elected a populist president to go to Washington DC and make the changes the people want. Sounds good on paper. Unle...
1 week ago
The Everyday Economist

Free Banking and the Friedman Rule - Imagine that there are two types of people in the world — recognizable and unrecognizable. Recognizable people can develop reputations, which can have eith...
1 week ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

Activities Report - I post ever less here, and in consequence people occasionally ask me, in person or in writing, what is up, whether I am slowing down in my output, or hangi...
1 week ago
On the Margin of Error

Honoring the Truth Begins at Home - A number of days ago, I asked the readers of this to sign a “Pro-Truth Pledge”, one that I had also signed. I gave you my reasons for signing the pledge, w...
1 week ago
MacroMania

A monetary-fiscal theory of inflation - On December 17, 2015, the FOMC has raised its policy rate (IOER) from 25bp to 50bp. It has since raised the IOER rate three more times to 1.25%. Many on th...
1 week ago
chrishernandezauthor

Fear, Loathing, and Hysterical Panic at San Antonio College - On Tuesday, August 1st, the Texas “campus carry” law went into effect at community colleges, allowing students with Texas License to Carry (LTC) permits to...
1 week ago
globalinequality

English language and American solipsism - Several months ago Simon Kuper published what seemed to me a bizarre piece in the weekend edition of the *Financial Times* arguing that native English s...
1 week ago
Old European culture

Alidjun - Muslims from Zenica region celebrating Aliđun 1936 Second of August lies midway between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox. It also lies bang in t...
1 week ago
Against Jebel al-Lawz

House district partisanship map-link will be updated as news arrive - https://fusiontables.googleusercontent.com/embedviz?q=select+col5%3E%3E1+from+1HgBz3g-ZCGjxu8_GVKEH_vXfd04zwKs5H7m22VDQ&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=37.05628800013914...
1 week ago
InfidelsAreUs | 'Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you' 1 Peter 4:12-14

‘My Father Died for Pakistan’: An Examination of Religious Extremism - Shehrbano Taseer, daughter of the ex-Punjab governor Salman Taseer, gives a speech at the Middle East Institute as to the consequence of speaking out for r...
1 week ago
LaborEcon

Do We Need a RAISE? - I am away on a family vacation. But a couple of days ago, sitting on a beach at an undisclosed location, my iPhone started beeping and shaking. It turned o...
1 week ago
While We Slept | New Conservative Thought

Living Well Is The Best Revenge: From The Hood To The Burbs - I grew up in the Frog Hollow district of Hartford, CT. Imagine what life must have been like for a white kid growing up in Connecticut, years before the er...
1 week ago
The Ex-Muslim

What does Thriving mean to an ex-Muslim? - What do we mean by “Thriving”? Thriving is the state of feeling fully alive and connected to a meaning in life that is bigger than yourself. A state of s...
1 week ago
Cultural Cognition Blog

Mystery solved? Age, political knowledge, and political polarization - *What's going on here? Older partisans are more extreme than younger ones1. Age and polarization. *“Yesterday,”tm I reported an intriguing finding on the...
1 week ago
john hawks weblog

Arguing about species: Is it evidence, or ego? - For some people who follow human evolution news, recognizing “species” is really just about whether you’re a lumper or a splitter. Many people assume tha...
1 week ago
Policy of Truth

Covering Jerusalem: A response to Jacques Delacroix - I’d been thinking of writing some free-standing posts on the aftermath of the shooting two weeks ago at Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem (July 14), but haven’t ...
2 weeks ago
Michael O. Church

Aug. 2, 2017 Farisa update - To my mortal embarrassment, I declared in April that Farisa’s Courage was “revision complete”. Hahaha. I suppose that one can take liberties regarding what...
2 weeks ago
A Fine Theorem

Two New Papers on Militarized Police - The so-called militarization of police has become a major issue both in libertarian policy circles and in the civil rights community. Radley Balko has done...
2 weeks ago
Academic Wonderland

Campus Due Process, Back at the 6th Circuit - In recent years, campus due process claims have fared poorly before courts in the 6th Circuit. Judge Susan Dlott dismissed a complaint against Miami despit...
2 weeks ago
George Lakoff

The President Is The Nation: The Central Metaphor Trump Lives By - Metaphors in the Brain We know from neuroscience that most thought is unconscious, carried out by neural circuitry. In Metaphors We Live By, Mark Johns...
2 weeks ago
Russian History Blog

Anatomy of a Course: Syllabus construction, pt. 3 (topics and readings) - As I discussed in my first two posts on syllabus construction, I try to figure out the readings and weekly topics as my last step, after I’ve made decision...
2 weeks ago
The Grumpy Economist

On Climate Change - David Henderson and I wade in to perilous waters in the July 31 Wall Street Journal. We try to stake out a different and more productive conversation than ...
2 weeks ago
RyanHoliday.net

Here’s the Most Important Career (and Life) Asset You Can Develop - In 1931, Winston Churchill found himself more or less exiled from political life. In the previous years he had found himself vehemently fighting members of...
2 weeks ago
The Rambling Infidel

For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...
2 weeks ago
Miranda Yardley

Transgender, Transtrender, Identity and Validity - One thing trans people enjoy more than fighting feminists is fighting each other. What could possibly go wrong?
2 weeks ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

Reflecting on “Jitteh Dawn,” Ten Years Later - I find it hard to believe it’s been ten years since I released this thing. Jitteh Dawn (Windows, Mac, Linux), a visual novel I made on the Ren’Py engine,...
2 weeks ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

Reminder - "Apologies: Your Best Guide on the Internet" - I'm quite proud of this recent piece published by *The Conversation*. So, check it out if you haven't already.
2 weeks ago
Uneasy Money

What’s Wrong with the Price-Specie-Flow Mechanism, Part III: Friedman and Schwartz on the Great US Inflation of 1933 - I have been writing recently about two great papers by McCloskey and Zecher (“How the Gold Standard Really Worked” and “The Success of Purchasing Power Par...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian Intifada

The Fall of Islamic State’s Caliphate Won’t End the Foreign Attacks - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 July 2017 The Islamic State (IS) has escalated a campaign of global terrorism over the past few years, exactly as it was ...
2 weeks ago
Nice Mangos

Professor Jordan Peterson: Charlatan Conservative Christian Perpetually Paranoid about Pronouns & Postmodernism - *Trigger Warning: If you don't like feminists or leftists, avert your eyes. This could be upsetting.* ***** I ran a little contest for the title on Twit...
2 weeks ago
I Want a New Left

The Decline of the Job of Professor - I’ve blogged a bit in recent days, but after this post I’m going back to taking a break. Someone (and I can’t remember who it was) said that being a profes...
2 weeks ago
Random Critical Analysis

Health care prices do not play the role most believe - As I mentioned in two (long) posts on how comprehensive measures of household consumption or disposable income explain high US NHE rather well, I believe U...
2 weeks ago
Growth Economics Blog

Are some places "More Malthusian" than other? - I’ve got a new working paper out (pdf or repec), co-authored with Ryan Johnson, on Malthusian constraints. There is some material that we’re cutting from...
2 weeks ago
MountainGuerrilla

Upcoming Special Class - I have/had a private Clandestine Carry Pistol course in western NC coming up. The host’s local folks have come up short for some of their slots, and asked ...
3 weeks ago
The American Interest

Episode 175: Abbas, Palestine, and a Looming Zuma Dynasty - On this week's episode host Richard Aldous speaks with Amir Tibon about Mahmoud Abbas's role in Palestinian politics before discussing the potential for a ...
3 weeks ago
Monetary Freedom

Is Democracy in Chains Good for Buchanan's Legacy? - My impression of Nancy MacLean's *Democracy in Chains* is that it is primarily an attack on Charles Koch. The Koch brothers are hardly an unusual ta...
3 weeks ago
The Dissenting Sociologist

Wtf I Love Auguste Comte Now: Another Red-Pill Moment for Me - The following are excerpted from the overview of the thought of Auguste Comte (who coined the term, “sociology”) in Irving Zeitlin, Ideology and the Develo...
3 weeks ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

2017 Bioethics journals h5 / h5-median index - I suspect I could have had this easier, but be that as it may, I searched for bioethics/health care ethics/ medical ethics journals on google scholar to s...
3 weeks ago
Chublic Opinion

Ping Pong Fury - The match was scheduled for 19:40 on Jun 23. Thousands of viewers were eagerly anticipating Chinese Ping Pong superstar Ma Long to face off against his Jap...
3 weeks ago
Stories by Orestis Tsinalis on Medium

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

Learning From Old China - Last week's posting ("Everything is Worse in China") caught the attention of Rod Dreher, who reblogged it with comments over at the American Conservative. ...
3 weeks ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

Analytic Philosophy: An Informal Defense (and a Modest Criticism) - This is a post dealing with a few basic issues in contemporary philosophy, issues easily lost sight of even by some trained professionals depending on thei...
3 weeks ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

Assorted Musings - Some Assorted Musings: 1. I have a new policy brief at the Mercatus Center that makes the case for a Nominal GDP level target from the knowledge problem p...
3 weeks ago
Big P Political Economy

Monetary policy and inflation - Recent inflation in advanced capitalist countries remains subdued, despite the expansionary monetary policy that has dominated major economies.. As Guy Deb...
3 weeks ago
Mark Manson

What’s the Point of Self-Improvement Anyway? - There’s a paradox with self-improvement and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you no longer feel the nee...
3 weeks ago
Money, Markets, and Misperceptions

What is an Institution? - Find out in my new post at the NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice Blog.
3 weeks ago
Cop in the Hood

"That’s quite a day’s work.” - Yesterday this video came out of Baltimore officer putting gel caps of heroin in a can, placing the can in trash in an alley, leaving the alley, and then "...
3 weeks ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

Kasparov’s Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins - In preparation for my recent column in The Behavioral Scientist, which opened with the story of world chess champion Garry Kasparov’s defeat by the compute...
4 weeks ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood - Direct Feed Soundcloud Upload Lecture 6 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series. The story of Noah and the Ark is next in...
4 weeks ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

Synthetic Control: Ur (probably) doin' it rong! - People, I've been refereeing a lot of synthetic control papers lately, and I have to say that I don't like what I'm seeing. I'm seeing 3 big mistakes that ...
4 weeks ago
Raymond Ibrahim

Slaughtered Christians “A Viable Target”? Muslim Persecution of Christians, March 2017 - The Gatestone Institute The uptick in often lethal persecution of Christians in Muslim regions has caused many Christian leaders to appeal for aid. Canon...
4 weeks ago
ThinkMarkets

Unintended Monetary Policy Effects – Tale II: ECB Crisis Policies - by Andreas Hoffmann and Nicolás Cachanosky The Federal Reserve’s (Fed) and European Central Bank’s (ECB) policy responses to the recent financial disasters...
4 weeks ago
PressThink

His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political style - It’s all they know. They aren’t prepared for anything else. The post His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political styl...
4 weeks ago
A Myth in Creation

Fraction - "I am persuaded that if truth is a number [...] it never comes out even ends in a fraction cannot be rounded off." John Stone,* Even Though*
4 weeks ago
Nick Cole's Books

The Reformation of Star Wars - About Three Paragraphs into this article… This guy nails it. Right to the front door of Disney and Lucas. The Reformation of Star War has begun. http://dar...
4 weeks ago
Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play

Kindle Daily Deal – How Many Books Does it Sell? - “Your book has been selected to be a Kindle Daily Deal,” the email read, and asked whether I wanted to participate in the deal. I said yes to the dress. Un...
4 weeks ago
The Arabist

On feminism in Tunisia - I visited Tunis last month and one thing I was interested in finding out more about was what kind of discussions Tunisian feminists are having in the aft...
4 weeks ago
Augean Stables

The Small Kindness (Qur’an 107): A Magnanimous Solution to the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Positive-sum westerners see “two states” as the obvious solution to the conflict on the land between the river and the sea. But analyzed in terms of honor-...
5 weeks ago
Fantastic Worlds

Retro Review of Men Like Gods, by H. G. Wells (1923) - *Introduction* Having gotten into science fiction in the *first* place by reading some of the classics, including of course several of the novels of H. G. ...
5 weeks ago
The Sociological Eye

NORTH KOREA ICBMs: A COLD WAR SOLUTION - North Korea continues its march towards a nuclear-tipped ICBM capable of hitting anywhere in the U.S. Military experts agree they will eventually have th...
5 weeks ago
Talisman Gate, Again

Arriving at Singularity - The Middle East has changed; it faces a period of abiding unpredictability “The one thing the Americans had to get right was not to conflate the defeat of ...
5 weeks ago
The Liberty Zone

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,...
1 month ago
Publishing Archaeology

Science, publishing, and James E. Heath - I started this blog ten years ago with a quote from my father-in-law, James E. Heath: "If it's not published, it's not science." That seemed a good entry i...
1 month ago
Caitlin Green

Sasanian finds in early medieval Britain and beyond: another global distribution from Late Antiquity? - A previous post mapped and discussed the spread of early Byzantine finds across both Eurasia and Africa, ranging from Britain to Japan and Sweden to Tanzan...
1 month ago
Noahpinion

Why did Europe lose the Crusades? - A little while ago, I started to wonder about a historical question: Why did Europe lose the Crusades? The conventional wisdom, at least as I've always u...
1 month ago
Homo Consumericus

Open Message to the West on Canada Day - Prospective immigrants must fully adopt the foundational values of their host nations and never the other way around. Immigration is a privilege. Protect f...
1 month ago
milescorak

The Canada Child Benefit is an important innovation in cash benefits to families with children - The Canada Child Benefit offers a policy option that the United States should consider in pursuing a goal to reduce child poverty by half. The commitment t...
1 month ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

The web as school of manners: a beatific vision - What is the school of manners of the rising generation? There can be no doubt about that. It’s the web. Physically, we are still encased in the formalit...
1 month ago
The Baseline Scenario

A New Economic Vision, in 27 Words - By James Kwak A couple of weeks ago I posted a 6,000-word essay laying out a new economic vision for the Democratic Party. It kind of vanished into the eth...
1 month ago
Yue Chim Richard Wong 王于漸

The Next Twenty Years - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 28 June 2017.) When most citizens are public housing tenants, they will resist the arrival of sk...
1 month ago
A Taste for Desert Landscapes

What do equality campaigners want? - Most “equality campaigners” are confused as to what sort of equality they want. They’re unclear as to whether they’re looking for equal consideration of in...
1 month ago
markdurie.com blog

Documentary on Halal Certification in Australia - In 2015 the Australian Parliament conducted an Inquiry into food certification practices in Australia. Public pressure which led to this inquiry was the r...
1 month ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

Unhealthy - I have not read the Senate “health care” bill, but from the various summaries around the web, I am confident that Barack Obama is exactly correct in his pr...
1 month ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

On the referendum #23, a year after victory: ‘a change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points’ & ‘how to capture the heavens’ - ‘Just like all British governments, they will act more or less in a hand to mouth way on the spur of the moment, but they will not think out and adopt a st...
1 month ago
The Archdruid Report

This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issue...
1 month ago
Ideas

Shanghai and Batumi - Two cities I have enjoyed visiting and hope to visit again. They are quite a long distance apart and in many ways very different, but they have one thing i...
1 month ago
China Matters

Four Corners/Fairfax Levels Up to US-Class National Security Steno Work on China - There's a big to-do about an investigative thing by Australia's Four Corners/Fairfax Media concerning Chinese influence in Australia. ASIO investigation...
2 months ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Iraq: How I got the Ammo to shoot at the al Qaeda Guy - [image: image001] 15 June 2017 Yesterday, a busy Facebook page published some of my work. This sparked lively conversation. Some Soldiers cued me in. T...
2 months ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Iraq: How I got the Ammo to shoot at the al Qaeda Guy - [image: image001] 15 June 2017 Yesterday, a busy Facebook page published some of my work. This sparked lively conversation. Some Soldiers cued me in. T...
2 months ago
Political Theory – Niskanen Center

The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...
2 months ago
Ballandalus

Real Alcazar (Sevilla) in the late 19th/early 20th c. - The Alcazar (from the Arabic al-Qasr meaning palace) is the royal residence of the kings of Spain. The Alcazar is considered a World Heritage Site, like ma...
2 months ago
The Gladstone Diaries

The Incredible Shrinking Woman - If I ever have grandchildren, which seems a long shot at time of writing, I shall gather them on my knee and tell them of the General Election of 2017. "...
2 months ago
Dani Rodrik's weblog

What’s Wrong With Our System Of Global Trade And Finance? - That is what John Judis wanted to talk to me about, and we did. This over at TPM is what came out. By the way, Judis' book on populism is great. It makes a...
2 months ago
A Free Left Blog

On Labour's success in the General Election and implications for Brexit - Labour hasn't won the General Election, but it feels like it has, and has good reason to feel that way. Theresa May called the election believing that she ...
2 months ago
Magnitude Matters

The State of Sooner Football - About nine months ago I began writing this post in rough form following a pair of painful and disappointing losses to begin the 2016 Sooner football season...
2 months ago
southseaconversations 讨论南海

Chinese political operations in Australia: a popular pro-CCP reading - Hua Daodao, a deputy editor in the Huanqiu Shibao‘s commentary department, has written a piece offering useful insights into how the Australian media’s lat...
2 months ago
Cherokee Gothic

Books cost too much! (so I wrote a blog post) - Academic textbooks are really expensive. The current version of Mankiw’s principles text is $186 in hardcover. I’ll go out on a limb and conservatively gu...
2 months ago
Brad R. Torgersen

Trumpocalypse: Kathy Griffin and the Trump Head debacle - The Kathy Griffin “Trump Head” debacle would seem to be a textbook example of everything that’s gone wrong—in the brains and hearts of American progressive...
2 months ago
The History of China

#123 – Tang 34: In the Rearview - ACast Link We take a sweeping look back at all 289 years of the Tang one more time before pressing into the 5 Dynasties and beyond, and also take a look at...
2 months ago
Urban Future (2.1)

Jacobite Magazine - Newly launched. No comment thread there, so feel free to use this place.
2 months ago
readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore

Net Neutrality: America's "Other" Health Crisis - It seems like everyone who is talking about net neutrality today worries that we're not talking enough about net neutrality. They're right. So, allow me ...
2 months ago
Spontaneous Finance

What’s going on? - The post-crisis politico-regulatory consensus is breaking down. There have been tensions over the past couple of years, but overall the illusion of harmony...
2 months ago
GayUganda

This Gay Life - Its always tough. Imagine, meeting someone that you synch with. For the moment or forever. You going back home, in a place that is safe for you, and for hi...
2 months ago
MAN ABOUT TOWN

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...
3 months ago
Civil Politics Blog

The Science Behind Heineken’s “Worlds Apart” Ad - Clearly some members of Heineken’s ad agency have been reading the social science literature as evidenced by this recent ad (video below), which has been a...
3 months ago
"Two Terms" Trump

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

Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.
3 months ago
Modern Medieval

Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...
3 months ago
Devin Helton - Essays and Articles

How many jobs really require college? - It is the conventional wisdom in some circles that we need to send even more people to college. As Bill Gates wrote, “America is facing a shortage of col...
4 months ago
interfluidity

Quick thoughts about airline economics - If you’ve not already read this piece by Matt Stoller challenging the conventional wisdom that airline deregulation in the 1970s has been a great success, ...
4 months ago
Ed Dolan's Econ Blog

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

where do i go from here? - I am stuck. Feral Creatures has already grown in length and scope. Do I keep expanding and growing the story and if so when do i st...
4 months ago
Being Classically Liberal

Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.
4 months ago
PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS

Diversification, Adaptation, and Stock Market Valuation - Looking back at asset class performance over the course of market history, we notice a hierarchy of excess returns. Small caps generated excess returns ov...
4 months ago
Rachel Edwards — Medium

A Tale of YouTuber Stupidity - Now if you haven't been living under a rock then you are likely aware that there are a great deal of people on YouTube. A select few garner enough of a f...
4 months ago
Unenumerated

Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyin...
4 months ago
Unenumerated

Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyin...
4 months ago
Wide Urban World

Cities through the ages: One thing or many? - VancouverI am in rainy Vancouver, BC. Tomorrow I will give a lecture at Green College, University of British Columbia, with this title ("Cities through th...
4 months ago
Institutional Economics

My Review of Sebastian Mallaby’s Bio of Alan Greenspan - The latest issue of CIS Policy includes my review of Sebastian Mallaby’s biography of Alan Greenspan. Here is a sample: *Far from being a tragedy, Greens...
4 months ago
Pseudoerasmus

Economic History Papers, Articles & Blogs - As a companion to my Economic History books page, which stresses economic history by region or country, I have created a new Economic History Papers page. ...
4 months ago
Via Meadia

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.
5 months ago
Joel Kotkin

How the Democrats can Rebuild - Appearing in: Orange County Register Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded the parlous state of the Democratic Part...
5 months ago
Urban kchoze

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...
5 months ago
Rajiv Sethi

The Teaching of Economics - In 2013, with funding from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University College London, Friends Provident Foundation, Azim Premji University (Bangal...
5 months ago
Henry the Young King Blog

28 February 1155: In Celebration of Henry the Young King's Birthday - On the pages of his *Chronicon *Geoffrey, prior of Vigeois, described in meticulous detail how young Henry packed as much repentance into his deathbed as h...
5 months ago
Nick Cohen: Writing from London

The left and the right ignored their extremists and we ended up with Brexit and Trump - The Observer 11 February 2017 Three types dominate extremist movements: crazies, cynics and creeps. The true crazies are always at the bottom of the heap. ...
5 months ago
I aim to misbehave.

Overkill - So, I recently had cause to order some adhesive strips from Amazon, due to an unplanned vehicle replacement. This isn't a complaint thread - they did great...
5 months ago
Tino Sanandaji

Norska invandringskommissionen - År 2011 ledde sociologiprofessor Grete Brochmann en offentlig utredning om invandringens effekter på det norska samhället. Detta inkluderade uppmärksamma...
6 months ago
Abandoned Footnotes

Propaganda as Literature: A Distant Reading of the Korean Central News Agency's Headlines - A rather long post on reading the Korean Central News Agency's headlines I am not putting directly on this blog because it contains interactive graphs that...
6 months ago
vitam fracta

Responses to Privilege - Angelique Harris The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two cases which highlight the influence that race, class, disability, and privilege ...
6 months ago
The Other Side of History

Two More Minutes of Hate - The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This maxim holds not only in geometry, but in business as well. In that situation, the two p...
6 months ago
The Pleistocene Scene – A.P. Van Arsdale Blog

In defense of science - We are deeply concerned by the Trump administration’s move to gag scientists working at various governmental agencies. The US government employs scientists...
6 months ago
hbd chick

the blog’s not dead… - …it’s just restin’. (~_^) sorry for the lack of posting over the last few months. unfortunately, there’s been a lot of major illness in the immediate famil...
6 months ago
Andrew Norton

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 ...
7 months ago
Jadeluxe

Year in Career: 2016 - Pictures and numbers. Not things we usually have to worry too much about as stenographers. In fact most of us got into the game precisely because we are ...
7 months ago
rethinking history

Ten Myths about the Phoney War - new Quadrant Article - A new one of my articles has just been published in the Australian *Quadrant* magazine (Vol. 61 No.1-2, January-February 2017 edition), that attempts to k...
7 months ago
Historinhas

This was never just a recession - Maybe to start with, but not for long. What does a recession look like? Take, for example, the 1981/82 recession, which was deep. Real output falls strongl...
7 months ago
Tim van Gelder

Can pagerank-like algorithms be used to help improve democracy? - In an excellent post Ben Rattray, founder of change.org, suggest that technology can help improve democracy by addressing what he calls three core needs:...
7 months ago
Anonymous Mugwump

Mein weltanschauung - My friends Ben and Sam have both written posts about which articles and books have influenced their thinking. There’s not a whole world of difference betwe...
7 months ago
Psychological comments

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

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

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

Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...
8 months ago
Akhilesh Pillalamarri: Analyst, Editor, Writer

Learning Arabic, Persian, and Urdu - I’m writing this to share my impressions on learning Arabic, Persian, and Urdu; I’ve studied all three languages in some capacity. Comparing the learni...
8 months ago
Cliodynamica

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

501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...
10 months ago
An Opinionated Childless Woman

prince, apply to India’s top companies in just 3 steps. - A new way to get placed at India's best companies prince tiwari Introducing LinkedIn Placements * The New Way to Get Placed at India...
10 months ago
GEEKLY

Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons - MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the seasons and ...
11 months ago
Council on Global Security

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...
11 months ago
Tim Blair

THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…
11 months ago
Ancestry matters

Paper writing in the age of preprints and twitter - One side effect of the move to preprints is a change in the psychology of trying to get manuscripts published. Instead of targeting a journal, it becomes e...
1 year ago
The Ripple Effect

The Brexit Referendum Through a Behavioural Lens - Behavioural effects may have had a real effect on the Brexit referendum outcome. Look at the question wording, and at the effects triggered by the Leave an...
1 year ago
Roundworm Eyed Doll

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

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

Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - [image: UNPlenary]At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a...
1 year ago
James Campbell - The Rebel

EU vote: Scotland will ruin UK’s chance of a Brexit - If you could pick one person from British society and be certain they would vote Remain, who would you choose?
1 year ago
Seventh Voice

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

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

Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...
1 year ago
Critical Thinking Applied

結婚したい！それなら電話占いピュアリの占い師に聞いてみよう！ - 結婚したい皆さん、なかなかいい出会いがないと思っている方も多いかと思います。そんな時は占い師さんに色々聞いた […]
1 year ago
Capitalism's Cradle

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

Along came Phil - Gramm, former Senator from the state of Texas to set a few facts straight in the Wall Street Journal about the cause of the financial crisis. I.e., it wasn...
1 year ago
Evo and Proud

Farewell to Henry - Henry Harpending (1944-2016) died this past Sunday. He had a stroke a year ago, and then a second one three weeks ago, but apparently he died of a lung i...
1 year ago
Evan Soltas

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

Comments on the Democratic Debate in Miami - This was truly the most bizarre debate I've ever seen. The level of questioning from the three interviewers, two from Univision, a Spanish-language network...
1 year ago
Social Evolution Forum

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

Samurai Gifts - The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late sixteenth and ...
1 year ago
Rootless Cosmopolitan – By Tony Karon

The Mayhem of GOP Class Politics in 2016 - Majority Report Radio conversation with Michael Brooks on the piece I wrote for the National on the political insurgency in the Republican mainstream. In A...
1 year ago
uneconomical

Where are the “devaluationists”? - A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section on policy op...
1 year ago
Freethinking Economist

I have written six book reviews this year - What a rare thing – a blog post. At the end of another writingful year I thought it worth noting a few of the achievements now likely to vanish into poster...
1 year ago
The Black Steam Train

Changing Stations - At the beginning of October, I packed up my family and we made the move ‘home’. The house is fairly new, but the place is old. It has a lot of history...
1 year ago
The History of the Byzantine Empire – Over a thousand years of glory !

Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia. - Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia....
1 year ago
Belmont Club

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

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

We've Moved - Effective September 9, 2015, the Mischiefs of Faction is now located at Vox.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, ...
1 year ago
Facts & other stubborn things

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

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

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

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

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

Libertarianism and the Politics of Everything - It is a precept of Athenian philosophy in the Socratic tradition that the impetus to philosophy begins with wonder at the heavens, but the attempt to act...
2 years ago
deflationite.com

Inflation and Deflation – Economics A2 Level Unit 4 - A short video on the joys of inflation (and deflation) covering their causes and [...]
2 years ago
Thoughtlines with Bob Carr

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

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

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

A Two-Question Challenge for Supporters of Intervention and Big Government - I want to challenge supporters of intervention and big government. Here are two simple questions. I’ll be happy if I can get a semi-reasonable answer to ei...
2 years ago
Home

Taxation vs. Expropriation - What’s the difference between a 50% marginal tax rate on income vs. 50% expropriation by a kleptocratic ruler or corrupt officials? Some models might sug...
2 years ago
The Mitrailleuse

Families and time preferences: Should a libertarian society be childfree and polyamorous? - Usually when libertarians talk about marriage, it’s about how the government shouldn’t be involved. When we talk about children, we debate whether or not w...
3 years ago
Economic Thought

Quote of the Week - This paragraph is huge, so for the sake of making it easier to read I’m breaking it down (and the paragraph continues beyond the point the excerpt below en...
3 years ago
CrisisMaven's Blog

Why Indians are Too Stupid to Build Toilets – were it not for the Media! - There has been a ghastly rape in some Indian village. Two girls got raped and later hanged by the perpetrators after “they left their toilet-less home duri...
3 years ago
Comments on: The Price of Pot Prohibition

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

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

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

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

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

Have You Heard Your Inner Voice Today? - New Study Shows There's A Reason Why We "Hear" Our Inner Voice
4 years ago
Rowland Jide Macaulay

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

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

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

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

The monetary nature of the problem vividly described - For a long time market monetarists have argued that the Fed´s evasive monetary policy is the major force keeping the economy down and out. Keynesians, nota...
5 years ago
Kantoos Economics – Kantoos Economics

Modigliani-Miller and Yanis’ response No. 2 - Yanis answers once more, directly to the first part of my response, before I had the chance to write my second part. He suggests that we should clearly mar...
5 years ago
Modeled Behavior

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

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

“Bernanke invites Scott Sumner for lunch” - “Oct. 31 (Boomberg) US stock market closed sharply up after the Federal Reserve Bank announced that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has invited Bentl...
5 years ago
Maryam Namazie

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

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