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The Unz Review:

Terror Channel Report: Moral Equivalence Is A Crock - There’s something to report almost daily now in the war between Muslims and infidels being played out on the streets of Western cities. It’s getting to be ...
19 minutes ago
Blazing Cat Fur

Bomber planning to attack Mecca’s Grand Mosque blows himself up - Saudi security forces on Friday foiled a suicide attack on the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, cornering the would-be attacker in an apartme...
24 minutes ago
Muddy Colors

Inspiration: Piranesi - -By William O'Connor At the end of the 18th century a revolution was in the air. Not only were the people of France and America beginning to strain again...
24 minutes ago
Bloody shovel

Alt-psychopathic status maximizers - Coming soon…. pic.twitter.com/2Kp3d7dUGQ — Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) June 21, 2017 A while ago I called myself alt-right because hey, the God-Emperor got...
29 minutes ago
Mick Hartley

View from the 'G' Bridge - November 1942. "Bingham Copper Mine, Utah. Carr Fork Canyon as seen from the 'G' Bridge." [Photo: Shorpy/Kodachrome transparency by Andreas Feininger]
1 hour ago
GayPatriot

All this time, we’ve been in a Great Depression - A few weeks back, Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse blog looked at U.S. GDP growth rates for the ten years 1930-1939 and the ten years 2007-2016. I d...
1 hour ago
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

WILL WE SEE HIS LIKE AGAIN? - *The Guardian* posts (23 June) an obituary of *Donald Winch,* the celebrated and much appreciated intelllectual economist and historian in HERE *Donald Win...
2 hours ago
Harry's Place

Tariq Ramadan, Islam and FGM - Tariq Ramadan’s response to Imam Shaker Elsayed’s controversial pronouncements on FGM, circulated via a ten minute Facebook video, has already attracted co...
2 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Martha & the Vandellas – Heatwave - Filed under: economics, Music
2 hours ago
Fabius Maximus website

Why the Democratic Party loses – and can win again - Summary: The combination of a clownish president and far-right Congress give the Democratic Party the greatest political opportunity seen in America for de...
3 hours ago
Marginal Revolution

What is the proper penalty for scientific fraud the culture that is China what would Gary Becker say? - In the past few months, China has announced two new crackdowns on research misconduct — one of which could lead to executions for scientists who doctor t...
3 hours ago
Jonathan Spyer

US Strategy and Israel’s Stake in Eastern Syria - Jerusalem Post, 24/6 The downing on June 18th of a Syrian Air Force SU-22 by a UA Navy F-18 Super Hornet over the skies of northern Syria sharply raises t...
3 hours ago
The Reference Frame

Charles Munger explains how idiot Al Gore made a lot of money - Charles Munger, a famous investor, the generous $65m sponsor of new housing at KITP Santa Barbara, and the #2 in Warren Buffett's company made some interest...
4 hours ago
Longrider

Heh! - It’s nice to see people fight back against the idiocy of small-mindedness. The US constitution has long guaranteed the right to bear arms – but [...]
4 hours ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Our Grand American Delusion by Publius Tacitus - City on a Hill? Leader of the Free World? Defender of Freedom? How about a mass of delusional crazies? I have come to the sad conclusion that we are the la...
4 hours ago
Communalism Watch

India: Delhi journalist assaulted by a mob when identified as a Muslim - Caravan Magazine Reportage “Say, Pakistan Murdabad!”: A Reporter Recounts How a Mob In Delhi Assaulted Him When They Identified Him As Muslim By Basit Mali...
4 hours ago
Vox Popoli

Those talented immigrants - No doubt it's just their unique South Asian set of skills that accounts for this suspicious statistical anomaly. Infosys, the India-based information techn...
5 hours ago
Vlad Tepes

AfD warning to Europe - H/T Oz-Rita
5 hours ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

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6 hours ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Kurdistan: From Referendum to the Road to Independence - On September 25, a referendum will be held on the future of the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The vote will decide whether autonomous Kurdistan should disengag...
6 hours ago
Taki's Magazine

Collective Stupidity - by Taki Theodoracopulos The most famous epigrammatic nugget of wisdom appears in The Leopard, Lampedusa’s great novel of a noble Sicilian family’s fortunes,...
6 hours ago
A Voice for Men

Hate sex - Peter Wright looks at the psychology of hate sex.
6 hours ago
Keith Burgess-Jackson

From Today's Los Angeles Times - To the editor: Thank you for drawing much-needed attention to the frightening speed and heartlessness with which Senate Republicans are dismantling the Pat...
7 hours ago
Whatever

Interview, of Me, in Iowa, In Which I Talk About Writing - Gotta be honest, I had entirely forgotten I’d done this interview last year when I was in Iowa City for a book festival. But eventually it all came back to...
7 hours ago
CDR Salamander

Fullbore Friday - I missed that at age 98, Ben Steele passed away last September. In his honor, let's replay a FbF we did from 2009. ------------------------------ Just anot...
7 hours ago
Facing Islam Blog

VIDEO: 'Was Islam ever a religion of peace?' - *While it is still possible to post theological refutations of Islam on the internet, let us not hesitate to do so, for the day is fast approaching when Tr...
7 hours ago
MILO NEWS

Retired Detective Recounts Harrowing Moment Aliens Executed His Friend - In June of 1994, DEA special agent Richard Fass was working an undercover drug operation in Glendale, Arizona. Fass was attempting to purchase 20 pounds of...
8 hours ago
Butterflies and Wheels

Too late, honey, you said yes - Mother Jones reports: In North Carolina, women can’t legally withdraw their consent in the middle of sex, even if things get violent—and attempts to chan...
9 hours ago
Maverick Philosopher

Cornelius Plantinga on Cicero on Growing Old - Here
9 hours ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Mueller legal team approaching size of entire US Attorney’s Office for Rhode Island - They are not investigating a crime. They are organizing a search party to find a crime.
9 hours ago
Philosoraptor

This Pronoun Nonsense - Incidentally, how is the following not protected speech: Jenner is male; therefore he is a man ? It's not libelous--Jenner is male. ...
10 hours ago
PinkNews

Catholic Bishop denies communion and funeral rites to married gays - A Catholic Bishop in the US state of Illinois has said that same-sex spouses should be denied communion, last rites and funeral rites.
10 hours ago
Vox - All

Vox Sentences: Jobs, jobs, jobs (are still moving to Mexico) - *Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what's happening in the world, curated by Ella Nilsen. Sign up for the **Vox Sentences newsletter**, delivered s...
10 hours ago
Thought Catalog

We Should Stop Obsessing Over ‘Closure’ And Just Learn To Live With Ghosts - Every story – even love stories that have been over for years, or decades – can be rebooted in an instant. It’s not until the real end, death without quota...
10 hours ago
The Liberty Zone

This Callous, Evil Gargoyle is Teaching America’s Youth - You know, there are political views, there are social views, there are advocates for social justice, and then there are twisted, noxious, misanthropic cunt...
11 hours ago
EconLog

Both Sides Gain from Exchange, by David Henderson - My friend and blogging competitor Don Boudreaux writes: You say that China's agreement to buy more beef from America is "a big win for us." Well, these b...
11 hours ago
Old European culture

You will trample the great lion and the serpent - Have you ever heard of the Psalm 91 (Greek numbering: Psalm 90), also known as the Psalm of Protection? The psalm starts with: *Whoever dwells in the shel...
12 hours ago
Regie's Blog

KOOL AID AND COOKIES … - “I’m in your garage,” is the last text I have from him. I keep reading it over and over. There’s something surreal about an active text thread from someone...
12 hours ago
PrawfsBlawg

A Half-Hearted Two Cheers for the Victory of Federalism over Property Rights in Murr v. Wisconsin - Legal scholars like Ilya Somin who share my own libertarian inclinations are mourning the defeat of federally protected property rights in Murr v. Wisconsi...
13 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

America's most dangerous cities - Statista offers an interesting infographic, showing murder rates for various US cities per 100,000 residents over the past five years. The top of the lis...
13 hours 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...
13 hours ago
Isegoria

The null hypothesis is not an iron law - Statistically, educational interventions tend to affect resource allocation much more than outcomes, Arnold Kling reminds us, so, for educational intervent...
14 hours ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

Last post of the workweek: ducks and skipping - It’s the end of the week and a heavy thunderstorm in Chicago has become a hot and humid day. To end the week, I’ll first show how my mallard ducklings have...
14 hours ago
Althouse

At the Stalking Cat Café... - [image: DSC04840] [image: DSC04844] ... you can talk about anything you want. And if you need to buy a cat bell or anything else, please consider shoppi...
15 hours ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

India: 2017 Praful Bidwai Memorial Award goes to the Maharashtra-based Andhashradha Nirmulan Samiti (MANS, Maharashtra Blind Faith Eradication Committee) - Set up in 1989 by Narendra Dhabolkar, a medical doctor who was a rationalist and committed public intellectual, MANS has over the years involved itself i...
15 hours ago
JoNova

Al Gore says climate change is like slavery - Al Gore’s new move is to wrap the global warming religion in with a bucket-list of “moral movements”, evidently targeting the naive souls who seek an Ins...
15 hours ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

Indian BO is back - Gross. * * * The smelly Indian girl has left. It’s literally a breath of fresh air to have her gone.
15 hours ago
The Federalist

Podcast: The Slow Death Of European Culture, Politics, And Identity - Douglas Murray spells out how migration, declining birth rates, and a confused culture have led Western Europe astray, all on the Federalist Radio Hour.
15 hours ago
Discover Blogs

Sex Sells? No, It Doesn't - Chiseled abs and bikinis can sell just about anything, right? According to the minds behind those Carl’s Jr. ads—and countless others—you’d think that’d be...
15 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Column: Sweat, Tears or the Sea - Welcome to the other side of the solstice: light is waning but abundant, still at its strongest and letting us stare deep and long into the world and into ...
15 hours ago
Information Processing

The Prestige: Are You Watching Closely? - 2016 was the 10th anniversary of The Prestige, one of the most clever films ever made! This video reveals aspects of the movie that will be new even to fan...
16 hours ago
Alt-M

Banking Unbound: A Day in Charlotte - As policymakers begin to rethink the current financial regulatory regime, it is important to reconsider the relation between banking regulation, financia...
16 hours ago
Free Banking

Banking Unbound: A Day in Charlotte - As policymakers begin to rethink the current financial regulatory regime, it is important to reconsider the relation between banking regulation, financia...
16 hours ago
Coyote Blog

What Differentiates Republicans and Democrats - I saw this chart from Cato a while back (click to enlarge) With the proviso that it is super dangerous to analyze this sort of data by eyeballing a scatter...
16 hours ago
Caracas Chronicles

HIV Haunts Venezuela Again - Time was when public health officials in Africa travelled to Venezuela to learn best practices in handling the HIV/AIDS epidemic. But times change.
16 hours ago
Lawfare

Water Wars: The South China Sea Security Dialogue That Wasn’t - *U.S. and Chinese Officials Meet for Inaugural High-Level U.S.-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue, But South China Sea Issues Feature Less Prominentl...
16 hours ago
neo-neocon

The FBI appears to have lost its collective mind - Or perhaps it’s become a PC tool. I prefer the first explanation, but the second could be correct. What am I talking about? This: The FBI’s briefing appear...
16 hours ago
milescorak

Poor children are twice as likely to grow up to be poor adults in some Canadian communities than in others - Intergenerational cycles of poverty vary across Canada, with low income children in some places facing a less than one-in-five chance of growing up to be p...
16 hours ago
waka waka waka

Molon Labia! - Presented without comment: Beyond Pro-Choice: The Solution to White Supremacy is White Abortion An excerpt: White women: it is time to do your part! Your w...
16 hours ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

Gross Nets and Illegal Immigrants - Some More Thoughts I am unable to let an issue rest. Noah has a response to my critique of his claim that “illegal immigration has been zero/negative”. I ...
16 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Stan Weekly Roundup, 23 June 2017 - Lots of activity this week, as usual. * Lots of people got involved in pushing Stan 2.16 and interfaces out the door; Sean Talts got the math library, St...
16 hours ago
n+1 » Articles

Famoustown - The billboards began advertising the city long before I was even close to it. In fact, I’d barely left the Blandon City Limits when I saw the following qu...
16 hours ago
Bleeding Heart Libertarians

Conspire Me This: Is Nancy MacLean a Hired Gun for the Establishment? - Historian Nancy MacLean recently wrote a hit piece smearing James Buchanan and a number of other public choice theorists. What’s Buchanan’s basic message...
16 hours ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

Zachary Wood’s Quest for Political Diversity at Williams - Zachary Wood, President of Uncomfortable Learning (a group that invites controversial speakers to campus) and member of the Class of 2018 at Williams Colle...
17 hours ago
War Is Boring - Medium

The ‘Tsar Bomba’ Was a 50-Megaton Monster Nuke - Maj. Andrei Durnovtsev, a Soviet air force pilot and commander of a Tu-95 Bear bomber, holds a dubious honor in the history of the Cold War. Durnovtsev fle...
17 hours ago
International Liberty

Everything You Need to Know about Government, in a Single Picture - Last night, I retweeted an image that rubbed me the wrong way. It showed three kids who were handcuffed by undercover cops for criminal activity. And what ...
17 hours ago
Chris Blattman

IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Three relatively recent additions to development Twitter worth noticing if you haven’t alr...
17 hours ago
Semi-Partisan Politics

Donald Trump’s Radioactive Presidency Kills Reputations And Good Ideas - – The dysfunctional Trump administration can make even good ideas politically toxic, and there is nobody to blame but the president himself The problem wit...
17 hours ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

A Thousand Posts (6) - 2014 As has often been the case, some of my writing in 2014 reflected the courses I was teaching--in the spring, a course on "Hobbes, Kant, and Pinker: War...
17 hours ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

The Over-Criminalization of American Life - *The over-criminalization of America has undermined justice, the rule of law and legal egalitarianism.* *While the corporate media devotes itself to sports,...
17 hours ago
JudgyBitch

Trump is the New Punk: reasons to be young and conservative - I’m not sure why Canada breeds such outstanding culture warriors, but we can lay claim to some pretty spectacular characters: Steven Crowder, Gavin McInnes...
17 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

Psalm 40 - Many of you probably don’t know it, but it’s been a rather hard week for me. I don’t say much about things like that, because I am a firm believer that min...
18 hours ago
Fredrik deBoer

Study of the Week: We’ll Only Scale Up the Good Ones - When it comes to education research and public policy, scale is the name of the game. Does pre-K work? Left-leaning people (that is, people who generally s...
18 hours ago
zenpundit.com

Oh, the Trumpian DoubleQuotes I’ve missed! - [ by Charles Cameron — praise of Bruce Hoffman’s review of The Exile (ie Osama bin Laden) — interrupted by Trumpist verbal pyrotechnics ] . Saif al-Adel, k...
18 hours 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...
18 hours ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

Mosul Campaign Day 249 Jun 22 2017 - What’s left of the Al-Hadbaa minaret west Mosul after IS blew it up (BBC) The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) were still pushing into the Old City of Mosul f...
18 hours ago
The Grumpy Economist

Index funds and voting shares - Todd Henderson and Dorothy Shapiro Lund have an interesting OpEd in the Wall Street Journal, "Index funds are great for investors, risky for corporate gove...
19 hours ago
According To Hoyt

Usaians - Yeah, I’m back on the future history and the Usaian faith. I know it starts somewhere in the 21st century. Way too meta, but my name ain’t Hubbard, so ig...
19 hours ago
Josh Blackman's Blog

Property Exam Question Part II: Terminator 2 - My property exam this year was based on the first two installments in the Terminator series. Check the A+ answer. *Part 2 (50%)* *Instructions*: John has h...
19 hours ago
Medievalists.net

The Medieval History of Stonehenge - How was Stonehenge perceived in the Middle Ages? Was it simply abandoned to the passage of time?
20 hours ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Tobacco Taxes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - The appropriate taxation and regulation of tobacco use is well-trodden ground in US policy: after all, the breakthrough announcement by the US Surgeon Gene...
20 hours ago
macrobusiness.com.au

Weekend Reading 24-25 June 2017 - Global Macro / Markets / Investing: Companies with more women directors generate a 36% higher return on equity – QZ Podcast: Are we ready to live and wor...
20 hours ago
Samizdata

What were you doing a year ago this day, this hour, this minute? - While we are on the subject of reminiscences… The moment they knew. And here is the St Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V.
20 hours ago
View From The Porch

When is a courtroom not a courtroom? - When it's not a courtroom. See, Indiana's strong state preemption law generally prohibits political subdivisions of the state from making places off limits...
21 hours ago
Refugee Resettlement Watch

Guest commentary: What you can say, when they say _____ - I’m asked all the time: What can I do? What can I do? This is an excellent example of the kind of thing you can do. This is a list of talking points thou...
21 hours ago
White Sun of the Desert

Gatland’s Lions - This is a good line, from an article on Warren Gatland and the Lions: But sport is about guff and myth-making: it’s why Manchester United are criticised fo...
21 hours ago
The Z Blog

Essential Knowledge: Part XI - The last post in this series left off with English literature through the Victorian period, with a little overlap here and there, along with a few referenc...
21 hours ago
askblog

Housing Finance Today - Ike Brannon writes, The private market for mortgage-backed securities all but dried up in the aftermath of the Great Recession, so Fannie and Freddie are t...
21 hours ago
Mostly Economics

India to make a law for…its base in Antarctica! - The Sapiens (wise ones) continue to expand their ambit of living. Juts came across this news which says India will be making law for its station in Antarct...
22 hours ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

Behavioral Scientist is live - The folks at ideas42, the Center for Decision Research, and the Behavioral Science and Policy Association have kicked off a new online magazine, The Behavi...
22 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

Road Rage Leads To California Pile Up As Police Searched For Motorcyclist - There is an interesting possible criminal law and torts case out of Santa Clarita, California where a motorcyclist kicked a car on the 14 Freeway and trigg...
22 hours ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

On the Road - [image: cars] Every year in early May, tens of thousands of people gather in Ocean City, Maryland, for Cruisin’ Ocean City, a weekend dedicated to vintag...
22 hours ago
The Evolution Institute

Evolutionary Religious Studies Comes of Age - Religion puzzles the rational and scientific imagination for two reasons. First, why do people believe in supernatural agents in the absence of factual evi...
23 hours ago
THE LAST DITCH

La dolce vita in Florence - Last night I decided to make the effort to go out after all. I was glad that I did. Our whole group was invited to the home of Paolo and Tiziana, a local c...
23 hours ago
Overlawyered

Privacy and the common law - More regulation and legislation to protect privacy from a snooping press? “The common law is able to deal more flexibly with the questions that arise,” s...
23 hours ago
The Arabist

Sisi's "non-regime" - Already over a year ago Hisham Hellyer has described Sisi's Egypt as a "non-regime". Ashraf Sherif uses the same term in this POMED interview [PDF], desc...
23 hours ago
Rightly Considered

Roger Scruton chats with James Delingpole of Breitbart - When the venerable Sir Roger Scruton speaks, I listen. One of my favorite spokesman for conservatism and always a gentleman, he shares his insight on the r...
23 hours ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

Rx Glasses And Pondering A Universal Theory On Technology - [This post is not just about glasses. It’s about an optimistic future.] Curmudgeonly Gem Of Insight: “You can’t stop the signal. But folks can royally fuck...
23 hours ago
www.counterpunch.org

Brief Impressions of the Singaporean Conjucture - Last week I was in Singapore attending an academic conference. I was last there 10 years ago, having first gone to Singapore in the 1960s. There are gla...
1 day ago
Political Calculations

Missing from Movies This Summer: Fun! - Summer 2017 is turning out to be something of a disappointment at the cineplex. So, with that thought in mind, we're going to do what millions of teens t...
1 day ago
Bernard Gaynor

There are no rainbows in homosexual behaviour - There is a reason homosexual activists won't describe homosexual behaviour. Even they find it too disturbing to speak about publicly... The post There ar...
1 day ago
Point of no return

Why Judaism is reverting to the Middle East - *When the 12th century rabbi Benjamin of Tudela wrote The Book of Travels, over 80 percent of Jews lived in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Judais...
1 day ago
Michael J. Totten's blog

Why China Hasn’t Stopped North Korea and Probably Won’t - Senators John McCain and Al Franken are right. North Korea murdered Otto Warmbier, the 22-year old University of Virginia student sentenced to 15 years o...
1 day ago
TheMoneyIllusion

NBA GMs and Fed Governors - Here is Nate Silver, discussing the growing accuracy of NBA mock drafts: Mock drafts — and rumors/reporting about who would go where — were shockingly accu...
1 day ago
The Kakistocracy

Science and Cigarettes - Yesterday the LA Times featured an op-ed entitled The Case for Restricting Hate Speech. The author was a Laura Beth Nielson who reportedly earns her living...
1 day ago
The World is Not Enough

Election preview: Albania - Albania continues to move towards political stability, with its prime minister seeking a mandate to negotiate entry to the European Union. The post Elect...
1 day ago
Marquette Warrior

Hating Trump / Hating Liberals - From the American Thinker, with the provocative title “Some people hate Trump. More people hate liberals.” The piece starts with a discussion of the Republ...
1 day ago
Cold Fury

Sticky: Fundraiser update - Most profoundly grateful thanks to CF lifer Sam Sorenson; he knows why, I figure, but in case not, it involves the recent fundraiser for my young ‘uns comp...
1 day ago
Mercatornet

The magical appeal of Harry Potter - Twenty years ago youngsters were hooked. Why? Read more...
1 day ago
Quillette

Social Justice and the End of Moral Certainty - From the perspective of ‘Social Justice Warriors’, resistance to their demands—no matter how respectable the speaker or moderate the tone—is further evid...
1 day ago
davidthompson

Friday Ephemera - They do this better than you do. // Chap has skillz. (h/t, Tim) // “Chestfeeding” is a thing now. // Don’t look down. // Japanese robot fighting is brutal ...
1 day ago
A Fine Theorem

“The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy,” M. Dell & B. Olken (2017) - A good rule of thumb is that you will want to read any working paper Melissa Dell puts out. Her main interest is the long-run path-dependent effect of hist...
1 day ago
Manhattan Contrarian

People Are Starting To Catch On To The "100% Renewable Energy" Scam - Have you heard of a guy named Mark Jacobson? He's the trendy Stanford professor who has written a couple of big pieces claiming that having the United S...
1 day ago
The Audacious Epigone

Are atheists addicted to socialism? - In a great discussion between two leading libertarian minds who forthrightly deal with immigration and the National Question--that is, they don't ignore HB...
1 day ago
TheRalphRetort.com

CNN’s Jake Tapper Took Trump’s Side on DNC Claim, Then Deleted Tweet - President Trump went off on Twitter again, and this time the DNC was his target. …Why did the DNC REFUSE to turn over its Server to the FBI, and still ha...
1 day ago
Notes On Liberty

Is the United States a patriarchy? - When someone — whether laypeople, like Jill Soloway or the writers at Buzzfeed, or academics, like bell hooks — describes the United States as a “patriarch...
1 day ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

Fed's Labor Market Forecasts Don't Make Sense - The Federal Reserve’s unemployment forecast doesn’t add up. It is neither consistent with the median of policy makers’ growth forecasts nor consistent with...
1 day ago
Random Critical Analysis

No, US school funding is actually somewhat progressive. - Note: I have already touched on these issues in a much longer, much broader post on education and on twitter at some length, however I thought it’d be usef...
1 day ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Foucault as Rousseauian - From Rousseau’s 1749 Discourse on the Arts and the Sciences: “Princes always view with pleasure the spread, among their subjects,
1 day ago
The Mermaid's Tale

Everything is genetic, isn't it? - There is hardly a trait, physical or behavioral, for which there is not at least some familial resemblance, especially among close relatives. And I'm talk...
1 day ago
Daily Nous

Profs: What Do You Regret About Your Time In Graduate School? - In a new interview at What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?, David Wong (Duke) says of his time in graduate school: Yes, Princeton was competitive, but a ...
1 day ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

GIGO and the Intelligence of Countries: Disordered Thoughts - Apologies to the reader. Perhaps I wax tedious. But the question of intelligence is both interesting to me and great fun as talking about it puts commenter...
1 day ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

GIGO and the Intelligence of Countries: Disordered Thoughts - Apologies to the reader. Perhaps I wax tedious. But the question of intelligence is both interesting to me and great fun as talking about it puts commenter...
1 day ago
Mark Manson

What’s the Problem with Feminism? - In 1919, thousands of women stood outside the White House and demanded that they be allowed to vote. In the next presidential election, they would. And ...
1 day ago
globalinequality

The war for democracy and peace: a review of Adam Tooze’s “The deluge: The Great War, America and the remaking of the world order” - There are at least three ways to look at the period around the *end* and just after the World War I, from 1916 to the early 1920s, which provides both ch...
1 day ago
Rhys Ford

Writing 415 Ink and Editing Tramps and Thieves - Double….um.. I was going to say fisting but those aren’t the kind of books I write. So let’s just say tag teaming. Sort of. A fourth way into the first boo...
1 day ago
Alexander Boot

Naughty boy and his useful idiots - That so many brainwashed British voters opted for Corbyn may be a harbinger of impending disaster, but it’s not exactly a disaster in itself. After all, th...
1 day ago
Scott Adams Blog

President Trump’s Idea to Put Solar Panels on the Wall - Who doesn’t like free electricity?
1 day ago
Cultural Cognition Blog

Which provides more information--probability density distribution or scatter plot with locally weighted regression line? Which is easiest to comprehend? - I don't mean in *all* contexts, but here, which is better? Probability density distributions or scatter plots with locally weighted regression? Why? *Pa...
1 day ago
Martin van Creveld

Nemesis - The name Enoch Powell is unlikely to strike a chord with most of those who are under sixty years old. Yet at the time I took my PhD in London (1969-71) h...
2 days ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

Why researchers need to name their teaspoons - The annual Christmas issue of the *British Medical Journal* always has at least one 'interesting' paper included. For example, I recently blogged about the...
2 days ago
Heather's Homilies

Bulford Kiwi Given Protection Status - If you’re a New Zealander, or someone who knows about kiwi, you’re probably wondering what a “Bulford Kiwi” is. Well, it’s not a new species of kiwi. In ...
2 days ago
Noahpinion

Noah Smackdown, illegal immigration edition - In February, I wrote a Bloomberg View post called "The Myth of the Immigration Crisis" that got a fair bit of attention. In it, I wrote: Illegal immigrat...
2 days ago
Sultan Knish

Anger Privilege - If you want to know who has privilege in a society and who doesn’t, follow the anger. There are people in this country who can safely express their anger. ...
2 days ago
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle

Gravitational Waves?; Election results; how to get rich; left to right; Invictus - Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Monday, June 19, 2017 The map is not the territory. Alfred Korzybski Electricity has become a luxury good in Germany. Der Spiegel ...
2 days ago
Slate Star Codex

To Understand Polarization, Understand Conservativism’s Failures - Earlier today I talked about one reason for increased polarization on the Democratic side. Now I want to match it with one reason the Republicans have even...
2 days ago
Climate Etc.

National Climate Assessment and the Trump administration - The National Climate Assessment must be redirected or terminated by Patrick J. Michaels Periodic National Assessments of the effects of climate change on t...
2 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Alex Halderman testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee - This morning, my childhood best friend Alex Halderman testified before the US Senate about the proven ease of hacking electronic voting machines without le...
2 days ago
Minding The Campus

Napolitano and the Decline of Berkeley - Complicity or incompetence: those two alternatives describe a good deal of policing in the Bay Area these last few years. Peter Shrag writes, “California o...
2 days ago
Popehat

Free Speech Triumphant Or Free Speech In Retreat? - The First Amendment had a pretty good week. In Matal v. Tam the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that a federal law prohibiting "disparaging" t...
2 days ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

How Financial Regulations Can Create Barriers to Entry: The Case of Cumplo in Chile - A new Stigler Center case study chronicling the story of Chile’s first crowdfunding platform and its early regulatory challenges illustrates how financial ...
2 days ago
NGDP Advisers

The Fed embraces the Phillips Curve to everyone´s chagrin - And on they go in the wrong direction. In the news conference Wednesday, however, Yellen defended the Fed’s policy of gradual rate hikes as forestalling ...
2 days ago
Policy of Truth

Lies and Omissions of the “Opioid War” — Part 1 - I’ll be writing a series of little posts here about various articles in the media regarding the war on opioids, as I find that the news media often doesn’t...
2 days ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

Explaining Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry - I've long been an advocate of an approach to explaining the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe in which antimatter predominantly in a partner univ...
2 days ago
Edward Feser

Arguments from desire - On his radio show yesterday, Dennis Prager acknowledged that one reason he believes in God – though not the only one – is that he *wants*it to be the case...
2 days ago
Belmont Club

Stroke -
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Rationalist Judaism

Another View On How Torah Protects - A few years ago, in a post entitled What Is The Mechanism Via Which Torah Protects?, I discussed the concept that Torah protects from harm. This is found ...
2 days 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...
2 days ago
Nick Cole's Books

It’s Basically Stormtroopers in Afghanistan - It’s Basically Stormtroopers in Afghanistan. We just dropped a new Military SciFi novel and this what one reviewer posted: Top Customer Reviews 5.0 out of ...
2 days ago
Simon Owens

Why a public radio veteran launched a show on Audible Channels - There are two basic premises to The Genius Dialogues, a new podcast hosted by Bob Garfield. The first premise: What if we treated recipients of the MacArth...
2 days ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

How long was China Communist? - In the grand scheme of things, not that long at all. I’ve been reading a lot about the Soviet Union lately, and there are indeed these two large, multiethn...
2 days ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

Authority and Contestation inside Rebel Groups: Insights from Myanmar - Guest post by David Brenner. Recent scholarship highlights the importance of internal fragmentation for explaining the strategies of non-state armed group...
2 days ago
Little Atoms

The crucial question for Europe: what does Germany want? - Can the EU superpower continue as normal after Brexit? Determining where power lies today in Europe is no particularly hard feat. With the largest popula...
2 days ago
Pandaemonium

FOR COMMON VALUES, AGAINST PATRIOTISM - The British think tank Demos published this week as a special issue of its journal a collection of essays on British identity called ‘Renewal Britannia’. T...
3 days ago
La Bocca della Verità

Well Begun Is Half Done - Old aphorisms stick around for a reason. When I get a book to review, I create a new file, and enter the book's bibliographical information in it. When I ...
3 days ago
Yue Chim Richard Wong 王于漸

How to Understand Twenty Years of Economic Performance - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 21 June 2017.) How has Hong Kong’s economy performed in the twenty years since the establishment...
3 days ago
The Splintered Mind

The Dauphin's Metaphysics, read by Tatiana Grey at Podcastle - My alternative-history story about love and low-tech body switching through hypnosis has just been released in audio at PodCastle. Terrific reading by Tati...
3 days ago
Corey Robin

On China Miéville’s October: An Arendtian History of the Russian Revolution - I just finished October, China Miéville’s turbo-charged account of the Russian Revolution. Think Ten Days That Shook the World, but in months: from Februar...
3 days ago
The American Interest

Episode 171: Scholars, Policymakers, and Surveying Syria - On this week's episode, host Richard Aldous speaks with Hal Brands about why policymakers and scholars can't just get along before discussing in depth the ...
3 days ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

On Pronouns, and Blowing Your Nose - Back in the Middle Ages--according to J.S. Mill--it was possible to be an individual. Not. Any. More. As Mill argued in his *On Liberty *(1859): In sober ...
3 days ago
Overcoming Bias

A Tangled Task Future - Imagine that you want to untangle a pile of cables. It wasn’t tangled on purpose; tangling just resulted naturally from how these cables were used. You’d p...
3 days ago
LaborEcon

Liberals and Immigration - Peter Beinart has an excellent essay in The Atlantic entitled How the Democrats Lost Their Way On Immigration. The article perfectly encapsulates the conun...
3 days ago
Moneyness

The road to sound digital money - No, I'm not talking about *sound money *in the sense of having a stable value. I'm talking about money that is sound because it can survive natural disas...
3 days ago
Bracing Views

Turning Temporary Problems Into Permanent Ones: America’s Real Military “Strategy” - Tom Engelhardt. Introduction by W.J. Astore. Readers of Bracing Views are familiar with Michael Murry’s frequent contributions to our site. One of Mike’s...
3 days ago
markdurie.com blog

Introducing The Interface Institute - Readers of markdurie.com blog posts may wish to connect with the resources of the Interface Institute. [image: http://interfaceinstitute.org/] The Inte...
3 days ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

Financial economics is hard. - I saw this on twitter today. "Capitalism without financial failure isn't capitalism at all, but socialism for the rich." -James Grant @TheNIRP pic.twitter...
3 days ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

“Birds Without Wings” – A Book Review - I first encountered Louis de Bernières through his novel “War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts”; a playful romp through revolutionary Colombia – with magic. ...
3 days ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

Terror attack in Finsbury Park: Call out hate speech and the “us vs them” pronouncements - By Tehmina Kazi A few thoughts on Monday’s terror attack in Finsbury Park. 1. There is sometimes a crossover between terrorist attacks and hate crimes — ...
4 days ago
Practical Ethics

Targeted Killing and Black Boxes - Written By Mitt Regan and Michael Robillard Various aspects of the US targeted killing program have attracted considerable attention and some c...
4 days ago
Eurogenes Blog

Ancient herders from the Pontic-Caspian steppe crashed into India: no ifs or buts - It's now more than obvious that South Asia experienced an almighty pulse of admixture from an Early Bronze Age (EBA) population originally from somewhere o...
4 days ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

Update on Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination - At this stage, *Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination: Visions, Minds, Ethics* is scheduled for publication on 7 September 2017. There is a fair bit to...
4 days ago
On the Margin of Error

Why I signed the Pro-Truth Pledge (And You Should Too) - I signed the Pro-Truth pledge in order to promote skepticism and critical thinking, important tools of a functioning democracy.
4 days ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

How to value Aboriginal language television programming - Aboriginal programming is one of Canada's most worthwhile initiatives, from the classic radio program Dead Dog Cafe to Nick Rowe's favourite show, Moosemea...
4 days ago
Club Troppo

Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief - Beetles: Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief by George Akerlof, Pascal Michaillat – #23523 (LS PR) Abstract: This paper develops a theory of ...
4 days 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...
4 days ago
The DiploMad 2.0

Operation Barbarossa and its Lessons for Today - Seventy-six years ago, June 22, 1941, Hitler launched "Operation Barbarossa," the massive invasion of the Soviet Union. It involved some 4.5 million Axis t...
4 days ago
mathbabe

Guest post: Quatama Elementary - This is a guest post, converted from a letter to me, by Derek Osborne, a father of four and active participant in his community with a strong belief that r...
4 days ago
Working-Class Perspectives

Fear of Hygge and Working-Class Social Capital - One of the contenders for the Oxford Dictionaries’ “word of the year” in 2016 is the Danish word hygge (pronounced hoo-guh). As defined by Oxford, it deno...
4 days ago
I Want a New Left

Burned Out and Taking a Break from Blogging - I’m burned out and will take a break from blogging. Don’t expect to hear much from me before September. Basically, I’m up against total irrationality, and ...
5 days ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, and the Divided Israel They Created - [image: Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, and the Divided Israel They Created] Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who...
5 days ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

The betrayal of Brexit - *The Australian*, *17 June 2017* Britain is in the grip of a counter-revolution. We may look to outsiders like a largely peaceful, politically normal nat...
6 days ago
Uneasy Money

Hayek and Rational Expectations - In this, my final, installment on Hayek and intertemporal equilibrium, I want to focus on a particular kind of intertemporal equilibrium: rational-expectat...
6 days ago
Streetwise Professor

Out of the History, Into the Heat - Apologies for the paucity of posts over the last couple of weeks. I was traveling, bracketed by a visit Zug and Lugano for speaking and teaching and a trip...
6 days ago
Miranda Yardley

A History of Autogynephilia - Autogynephilia as an idea suffers from far more talk than understanding. A fair barometer of whether an individual understands even the first thing about a...
6 days ago
Modeled Behavior

Sorry, Advocates, The Minimum Wage Debate Is Not Over - Advocates on both sides of the fence like to imagine that the empirical debate over minimum wage impacts is over. Unfortunately for them, the academic deba...
6 days ago
West Hunter

African variation - Generally, sub-Saharan Africans have low scores on IQ tests, educational assessment tests like PISA, etc. Does that mean that all Africans are the same? No...
6 days ago
skepticlawyer

Don’t trust anyone over 47 - Theresa May, according to disgruntled former Chancellor and now editor of the Evening Standard George Osborne – is a ‘dead woman walking’. It is possible, ...
6 days ago
Nintil

Links (9) - Collection of papers and articles that I’ve spotted since my previous links post that seem interesting. Economics Are US companies too short-term oriented?...
6 days ago
ERIC POSNER

Trump and the Department of Justice - Russia Probe Causes Tension Among Top Officials at Justice Department, blares CNN. I’ll say. Trump is furious with Sessions for recusing himself from Russi...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
Against Jebel al-Lawz

A reason to use the NRSV/ESV/NABRE over the ASV/NASB/others - The NRSV/ESV/NABRE incorporate a lot more DSS/Septuagint readings into their main OT text than the other versions. Take, for example, … Continue reading →
1 week ago
Michael O. Church

Crossing the Equator 7: What Is Bad Writing? - Bad writing. I bring the topic up not to mock bad writing, because it’s rarely worth the time, and also because most of the sins of bad writing have also b...
1 week ago
Academic Wonderland

Nifong Ethics Trial - This week was the tenth anniversary of the ethics hearing that culminated in Mike Nifong’s disbarment for ethical misconduct in the Duke lacrosse case. On ...
1 week ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

Monetary Disequilibrium - This week on the podcast I had a great time talking the monetary disequilibrium view of business cycles with Steve Horwitz. This perspective sees the de...
1 week ago
Evonomics

Fascism and Full Employment: How to Create Both Prosperity and Peace - Fascism and Full Employment: How to Create Both Prosperity and Peace Michal Kalecki explains it all for you Jobs, Politics, Prosperity: Michal Kalecki Ex...
1 week ago
ribbonfarm

How I Hired Your Mother - I was once riding in the back of a friend’s car next to an intelligent, beautiful, exciting woman. We’d spent the last few hours talking to each other as t...
1 week 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...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
Priceonomics Blog

How Much Are People Making from the Sharing Economy? - We analyzed how much money people make from their side-gigs on Uber, Airbnb, Lyft and more.
1 week ago
Stories by Michael Tracey on Medium

Democrats, Paranoia, And Political Violence - The contemporary trend of making authoritative extrapolations based on the Facebook “likes” of an alleged assailant often leads amateur sleuths on pointl...
1 week ago
The Baseline Scenario

The Importance of Fairness: A New Economic Vision for the Democratic Party - By James Kwak A lot has been written recently about the direction of the Democratic Party. This is what I think. I have been a Democrat my entire life. Tod...
1 week ago
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 ...
1 week ago
john hawks weblog

Genomes of straight-tusked elephants - Earlier this month in *eLife*, Matthias Meyer and colleagues published a cool paper: “Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the c...
1 week ago
Global Guerrillas

Idea: The Automation of Terrorism - I figured out what I'm going to talk about at the Prime Minister's conference in Singapore next month: the automation of terrorism. Here's the outline of w...
1 week ago
ThinkMarkets

The Bank of Japan Creates a State-Led Monopolistic Banking System - by Taiki Murai and Gunther Schnabl[*] In the second half of the 1980s, 13 Japanese city banks climbed into the group of the world’s largest banks, boosted ...
1 week ago
Secular Right

Facing Death for Blasphemy - Technology may progress, but there is no right side of history, no rule than man is going to progress: New York Times: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An antiterror...
1 week ago
Andrew Norton

HELP is not a profit-sharing scheme - In today’s Oz, John Bryon argues against lowering the HELP repayment threshold by arguing that HELP is a profit-sharing scheme: HECS (by whatever name) is ...
1 week ago
The Dissenting Sociologist

‘Committing Sociology’ After Trump’s Election? An Open Letter to the Canadian Sociological Association - Sirs, Madams: “‘Committing Sociology’ After Trump’s Election” was the provocative title of a session of the Canadian Sociological Association 52nd Annual C...
1 week ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

Taxation without Representation; or Adam Silver wants to lower the Black Youth employment rate - The NCAA and NBA are back at it again, with the NBA making noises about further tightening restrictions on who's allowed to work in their industry. And of...
1 week ago
The Observation Post

South Africans destroy 101 Enemy Aircraft in East Africa - This is an interesting photograph of South African Airforce personnel celebrating a significant milestone. The photo was taken during the East Africa campa...
1 week ago
Jim’s Blog

Roman Catholic Church cuckolded. - I had thought the Philippines was the last place on earth where the Roman Catholic Church was not thoroughly cucked. Now it is cucked there also. Muslims i...
1 week ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

More on the Search for Intelligent Life - It is hard to read about SETI and more recent related projects looking for intelligent life in the stars without discerning in them certain silent presuppo...
1 week ago
Free Northerner

Changes - If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you may have noticed a lack of updates recently. That’s for two reasons: I’ve been overall busier lately and I haven...
1 week ago
The Syrian Intifada

Senior Islamic State Cleric Turki al-Binali Killed in an Airstrike - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on March 20, 2017 It was reported on jihadist websites and by local activists that Turki al-Binali, a senior cleric of the Isla...
1 week ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Episode 21 – God and the Hierarchy of Authority - Direct Feed Soundcloud Upload Lecture 3 from my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories Lecture Series. Although I thought I might get to Gene...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
educationrealist

The Trump Effect: Reboot or Yesterdays Enterprise? - The first Star Trek “reboot” took the bold act of altering the past in a famous fictional timeline. The new movies have the freedom to reinvent, while we ...
1 week ago
Paul Musgrave

Conspiracy Thinking In The Age of Trump - Originally written for Formiche, which published an Italian translation. Americans long held up the quality of their democracy as a standard for the rest o...
1 week ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

Castalia House Post: Deus Ex Magical Girl - Today on the Castalia House blog, I spotlight Deus Ex Magical Girl, an anime blog focused on the magical girl genre. That blog is worth looking at juse f...
1 week 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. "...
1 week ago
No B-S here (I hope)

The Serpent’s Egg - … a serpent’s egg, Which, hatch’d, would as his kind grow mischievous. Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I May Issue, Quadrant 2012 In June 1988, US Senators Ti...
1 week ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

“Fuck your vote!” - That’s what I have been hearing ever since the morning after the presidential election. That what I keep hearing on most cable television and on National P...
2 weeks ago
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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

From "Not a Crook" to "Not a Liar": A Potted History of Political Denials - It's a handy rule-of-thumb that when a politician – usually in a press conference, where he's annoyed repeatedly with the same question about his judgment ...
2 weeks ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Out of North Africa - I had previously called Irhoud 1 "The Father of Mankind" and proposed a "two deserts" theory of human evolution whereby our species originated in North Afr...
2 weeks ago
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

Is Islamic terrorism really Islamic? - I always prefer Arab ex-Muslims when scouring for deeper study regarding the Islamic Question. An Arabian, ex-Muslim convert Christian is a serendipitous f...
2 weeks ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

The “Shulaya Enterprise” organised crime bust in New York - A big case opened yesterday in New York, with 33 people being charged with membership of a Eurasian organised crime group (the “Shulaya Enterprise”) and a ...
2 weeks ago
George Lakoff

Karen Handel’s “I Am Not a Crook Moment”: “I Do Not Support a Livable Wage!” - During Watergate, Richard Nixon famously said, “I am not a crook.” And, immediately, Americans coast-to-coast thought of him as a crook. This incident insp...
2 weeks ago
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 weeks ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

More on whether state disinvestment is causing rising tuition - The Times Higher Education (UK) ran a short piece based off this recent post. From the Times Higher Education piece: over the past 26 years, average real s...
2 weeks ago
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 weeks ago
chrishernandezauthor

A Primer on Vehicle Ramming Attacks - This was published last Sunday on Breach Bang Clear. Motoring Jihad: Vehicle Ramming Attacks Chris Hernandez Berlin, Germany. Nice, France. Ohio State Un...
2 weeks ago
Chublic Opinion

Knock Out: a thuggish MMA fighter demystifies Chinese Kung Fu - Tai Chi is the art of circles. From the body’s smooth spins come strength, energy and an entire cosmology of balance and harmony. But for Lei Lei, a self-p...
2 weeks ago
RyanHoliday.net

A Leadership Lesson From Eisenhower’s Stoic Reversal at D-Day - On June 6th 1944, Dwight D. Eisenhower pulled off the most stunning and impressive invasion in military history. A total of 156,000 Allied troops invaded t...
2 weeks ago
Augean Stables

Pallywood 2017: The meaning of the Becky Anderson-UNRWA gaffes - Those paying attention to matters of Pallywood, or the faking of news in order to target a given population with lethal narratives, had a double feast yest...
2 weeks ago
Lead and Gold

Journalists and Twitter redux - *Ain’t no fun when the bunny gets a gun* Farhad Manjoo of the NY Times is having second thoughts about Twitter. How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misin...
2 weeks ago
The Rambling Infidel

On the Importance of Voting - On this Thursday, 8th of June 2017, millions of people will be going to polling stations throughout the United Kingdom in order to cast their vote in th...
2 weeks ago
Armed and Dangerous

Open Adventure ships - Colossal Cave Adventure, that venerable classic, is back and better than ever! The page for downloads is here. The game is fully playable. It would be asto...
2 weeks ago
Caitlin Green

Two long-distance migrants in the eighth- to tenth-century Islamic necropolis at Tauste, Spain - The current brief post is primarily concerned with two women buried in the eighth- to tenth-century Islamic necropolis at Tauste, Spain, both of whom appea...
2 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Climate Change: The Facts 2017 - Today’s Weekend Australian includes an article that begins: “Iconic, ailing Australian satirist Clive James has penned a savage essay on climate change a...
3 weeks ago
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...
3 weeks ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

There is a chapter on whistleblowers… Thanks. - There is a chapter on whistleblowers… Thanks.
3 weeks ago
While We Slept | New Conservative Thought

An Attack of Unimaginable Cruelty: Hillary Clinton at Wellesley College - The commencement speech is a remnant from a time when oratory was a crucial skill, and central to university education. From the mid-1600s until the early ...
3 weeks ago
MountainGuerrilla

Why I am not a Capitalist…Wait! What!? - I have repeatedly voiced my view in print, that I am as opposed to Capitalism as I am to Communism, because both reflect a material, consumption-centric vi...
3 weeks ago
A Myth in Creation

Village - "A good relationship is a village in which people share parts of themselves with various people and that doesn't mean sexual parts, it just means that ther...
3 weeks ago
Ambit Gambit

Who will pay for the benefits of global warming? - More and more studies are emerging showing the benefits of increased CO2 in the atmosphere. While there appears to be a correlation with temperature, there...
3 weeks ago
Nice Mangos

Thoughts on Manchester Attack....& Responses that Just aren't Helping - The Manchester terror attack broke my heart, as each and every terror attack does. It chilled me to my core…again. Image from CNN.com With the frequency o...
3 weeks ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

The revolt of the public and the “age of post-truth” - With Elites and With the Truth, It’s Complicated Three years ago I remarked that the public was engaged in a messy divorce from the elites who run the grea...
3 weeks ago
iramramzan | Just another WordPress.com site…but better

Walking the streets of Manchester, I find tolerance rather than hatred - Originally published in The Sunday Times At about 7am on Tuesday, I awake to several messages on my phone from friends asking me to text them as soon as I ...
3 weeks ago
Raymond Ibrahim

“Drip-Drip” Genocide: Muslim Persecution of Christians, February, 2017 - Gatestone Institute The Islamic State is at it again. More stories of atrocities against Christians continued to surface. In one, a Christian man, Meghr...
3 weeks ago
PressThink

Getting granular with the claim that Trump is some media wizard - That our President is a master of media manipulation is a view commonly expressed by American journalists. I doubt it. The post Getting granular with the...
3 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
Cop in the Hood

Tweet this - I've got over 2,500 posts on this blog. But I can't help but notice I've only posted six times in the past three months. That is a record low. So what have...
4 weeks ago
Urban Future (2.1)

Jacobite Magazine - Newly launched. No comment thread there, so feel free to use this place.
4 weeks ago
Russian History Blog

Foreigners, revisited - It’s not really a surprise that the Russia of Nicholas II was as interested in keeping lists of foreigners as the Russia of Alexander I had been back at th...
4 weeks ago
Easily Distracted

Trump As Desecration - I still regret to some extent that at the beginning of Swarthmore College’s Aydelotte Foundation (before it received its current name) we decided that a go...
4 weeks ago
The Ex-Muslim

It’s about time we listened to those speaking honestly about Islam - Obaid is a free speech advocate and Ex-Muslim. He was born in India and grew up in Canada. His love for science eventually lead to his abandoning Islam. ...
4 weeks ago
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 ...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
Veracities

Sokal v.2017 - I am crying simultaneously from laughter and sadness. New article blaming global warming on the conceptual penis, among other things. And the exposé. I c...
4 weeks ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

What Would a Post-Scarcity Society Really Look Like? - In 1930 John Maynard Keynes published Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. With this pamphlet, the hope of a post-scarcity society, where people n...
5 weeks ago
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...
5 weeks ago
The Sociological Eye

FACES AROUND A DICTATOR: NORTH KOREA - What does a dictator look like in action? There is a distinctive pattern, but it is visible not so much on the dictator’s own face as in the...
5 weeks ago
Growth Economics Blog

Understanding the Cost Disease of Services - As my internal clock is not on internet time, I’m only now getting up a post in reaction to the death of William Baumol, who has been a consistent refere...
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
Coordination Problem

Reflections on 2017 MPS Regional Meeting in Seoul, Korea - |Peter Boettke| I just returned from a fascinating experience in Seoul -- including a Presidential election in Korea that saw a landslide victory for a soc...
1 month ago
Irtiqa

Two new books of possible interest - *by Salman Hameed* There are some really good new books out. I want to highlight a couple of interviews with the authors as part of the fantastic New Books...
1 month ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

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1 month 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...
1 month 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 ...
1 month ago
Big P Political Economy

From Protectionism to Economic Liberalism: The Managed Decline of the Australian Automotive Industry - From Protectionism to Economic Liberalism: The Managed Decline of the Australian Automotive Industry *Tom Conley * *For a version in PDF see * *https://w...
1 month ago
The Everyday Economist

Some Myths About Interest on Reserves - There are two myths that I see repeated about interest on reserves that I would like to address: 1. “Of course the banking system is holding more reserves....
1 month ago
The Offshore Balancer

Britain, America and NATO: Commons Select Committee - On 18 April, I was lucky enough to appear before the House of Commons Defence Select Committee, along with my colleague Dr David Blagden. We were assisting...
1 month ago
Stories by Mark Koyama on Medium

Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence - Crossposted on Notes on Liberty Why did Japan successfully modernize in the 19th century while China failed to do so? Both China and Japan came under inc...
1 month ago
The Diecast

Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.
1 month 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...
2 months ago
Publishing Archaeology

Qualitative-quantitative bus joke - A quantitative evaluator, a qualitative evaluator, and a normal person are waiting for a bus. The normal person suddenly shouts, “Watch out, the bus is out...
2 months ago
MacroMania

The St. Louis Fed's Macroeconomic Outlook - St. Louis Fed president James Bullard recently gave this speech on the U.S. macroeconomic outlook. The key themes of his talk were: 1. The U.S. economy ...
2 months ago
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...
2 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, ...
2 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...
2 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...
2 months ago
Being Classically Liberal

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

NGDP targeting and the Friedman Rule - This post continues the discussion from Scott Sumner’s thoughtful reply to my critique of NGDP targeting from 2015. (Note to frequent readers: I previous...
2 months ago
Monetary Freedom

Must Capitalist Economies Grow? - I ran across a claim that a "capitalist" economy must grow. I believe that one of the key benefits of a market economy is creative destruction. Entrepre...
2 months ago
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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 months ago
Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play

Cernovich Gives 60 Minutes its First Ratings Win Since 2008 - Breaking his usual rule of never appearing on edited television, author and filmmaker Mike Cernovich went on 60 Minutes to show a record 15 million people ...
2 months ago
Talisman Gate, Again

Will it be Trump’s policy for the Middle East, or Hillary’s? - U.S. policy towards the Middle East yet again faces a crisis of presidential engagement, or rather the lack of it. Put differently, what Obama began may ...
2 months ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Agent of Shields - In a recent defense of mandatory national service, establishment media apparatchik Mark Shields writes: Contrary to Ayn Rand, we all do owe much to each ot...
2 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. ...
3 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.
3 months ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

Conscientious objection, ethical problems in clinical research in public health emergencies, problems with ethics guidelines and other stuff - I know I know, I have not posted much since September last year. It's been an unusually busy time, professionally, so I must beg for your understanding th...
3 months ago
Money, Markets, and Misperceptions

An Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge - I have developed a framework for complexity economics: Economics is a key component of the broader domain of social theory. The object of any social theory...
3 months ago
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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 months ago
Ex Urbe

Seven Surrenders is Out: New Links Post - Ada’s second novel, book two of the Terra Ignota quartet, Seven Surrenders, is published today, so at last people who have been waiting since reading Too L...
3 months ago
The Scholar's Stage

A Parable Concerning Tolerance - There once lived in a far country a people of gentle nature and perceptive understanding. They were led by a man of great vision. At great cost to his pers...
3 months ago
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...
3 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. ...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 months ago
Homo Consumericus

What Constitutes a Rational Immigration Policy? - The debate regarding the optimal immigration policy has been hijacked by rhetoric at the two extremes of the relevant continuum. Let's find the rational an...
4 months ago
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...
4 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...
5 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 ...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 months ago
Stories by Orestis Tsinalis on Medium

The architecture of intolerance: From Wahhabism to Le Corbusier and back again - Wahhabism is an extreme, fundamentalist strain of Sunni Islam that was created in the 18th century in central Arabia. It was originally founded by preach...
5 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...
6 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:...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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....
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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 ...
9 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...
9 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…
9 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...
10 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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
Fantastic Worlds

"Warning From the Stars" (1959) by Ron Cocking - "Warning From the Stars" *© 1959* Ron Cocking It was a beautifully machined container, shaped like a two pound chocolate candy box, the color and texture ...
1 year ago
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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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
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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Darwinian Reactionary

Biofunctional Psychology and HBD - There is an issue currently being discussed on the Internet about the relationship between human psychology and human biodiversity. For example, take this ...
2 years ago
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
3 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

A tale of two obsessions - The 1960s was characterized by the unemployment obsession. The 1962 Economic Report of the President (ERP) is clear on that point: Unemployment of 4 percen...
4 years ago
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...
5 years ago
Citizen Crain

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

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