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- Beliefs as status markers
- Computer models and cognitive failure
- Conformity and dissent
- Death of the Author
- Eclectic useful links
- Explaining Postmodernism
- Function and form: of marriage, sex and Sodom
- Hayekian ignorance as cognitive affront
- I live by manipulating symbols, so I am a politically correct environmentalist
- Intellectual capital and opinion
- Markets and cognitive failure
- Moral universalism versus moral instrumentalism
- Neoliberalism and laissez faire
- Property rights, self-ownership, enforcement and crime
- Rulership and the paradox of politics
- Still disagreeing with Liberal Fascism
- Stirrups, a rant
- The moral case for free commerce
- The paradox of progressivism
- The Passing of an Illusion
- The utopian cruelty of the opposition to homosexuality
- There are no moral arguments against homosexuality (only arguments to evade morality)
- What is it to be human?
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"There are just two daily meals. One menu consisted of lentil purée, tomatoes, olives, fruit and water or red wine, at 9:30 a.m." - "'We eat fast,' Father Jeremiah warned. A typical meal lasts 15 minutes. One monk reads prayers, and any visitor who tries to talk is shushed. After the mo...4 minutes ago
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Sunday morning music - Time for something a little light-hearted. Ever heard of American composer Leroy Anderson? He's the man who introduced office equipment to the orchestra....34 minutes ago
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Donald Trump confirms US will pull out of nuclear arms pact with Russia - The United States will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, President Donald Trump announced Saturday. Trump justified t...38 minutes ago
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Gay couple arrested by Indonesian police for allegedly running an LGBT Facebook page - Two Indonesian men have been arrested in Jakarta after being linked to a Facebook page that helps gay people arrange meet-ups.1 hour ago
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My new bathroom accessory - Yes, I bought it. It stands 22 inches high, very solid (all resin), and anatomically correct except for the annoying speculum, which extends over the whole...1 hour ago
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“Gucci Kit” for the Concealed Carry Set - I found some extra material that got left out of my first three posts (here and here and here) reflecting on Matthew Ford’s study of military small arms in...1 hour ago
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Another Useful Perspective For The Controversy Surrounding Taking a Knee At US Sporting Events - By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor Often we can find value in the wisdom of other cultures, especially when we have…1 hour ago
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Weekly Links - By Patrick Pierson. Authorities in California used Doritos to capture a wild pig this week. The DEA’s drug war in Mexico continues. Thousands of Hondurans ...1 hour ago
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Mailvox: suspicions of jealousy - Stanley is convinced that I simply MUST be jealous of Jordan Peterson: You say you're not jealous of Peterson, but somehow I suspect you are, whether consc...1 hour ago
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Do Cameras “Educate”? - After Chief Justice John Roberts reiterated his opposition to cameras at the Supreme Court, Kansas Court of Appeals Judge Steve Leben took issue on the twi...1 hour ago
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Episcopal Migration Ministries might be dropped from federal refugee program - But so might seven other refugee contractors? Before you get too excited…. …..there must be an error in this report, but I am posting it just to see if we ...2 hours ago
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Quickly fire barbed Kevlar cords toward suspects at speeds of 640 feet per second - The NYPD is testing a high-powered lasso gun to subdue mentally ill suspects: Unveiled last year, the BolaWrap™ 100 is a hand-held remote that allows offic...2 hours ago
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P(Bayesian) = ? - Scott Alexander writes, I asked readers to estimate their probability that Judge Kavanaugh was guilty of sexually assaulting Dr. Ford. I got 2,350 response...2 hours ago
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The fall of Theresa May seems imminent - at least let's hope so - 50,000 people in London marched (the march was described as looking like the queue at Waitrose) in favour of another referendum. In fact it would not be an...3 hours ago
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Advice Goddess Free Swim - Advice Goddess Free Swim Saturday night, and I'm a little wiped. You pick the topics. I'll try to post a piece in the morning. P.S. One link per comment or...4 hours ago
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Love, Peace, And Joy (II) - The world is crammed with chaos, with loud distractions, each one screaming like the loud wind on the sea to look away from Christ. But as long as we foc...5 hours ago
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Book Review: Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy - I really enjoy Tim Harford's writing, on his blog, and in his previous books (here are my reviews of *Adapt*, *The Undercover Economist Strikes Back*, and ...5 hours ago
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The Week That Perished - The Week’s Most Frenetic, Splenetic, and Apathetic Headlines ELIZABETH WARREN PROVES THAT RACE IS MORE THAN A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT By releasing her DNA results...5 hours ago
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Seasonal Releases - When is the best time to release and promote your books? Usually, indie authors look at me and say “Uh, when they’re finished?” or they start thinking abou...7 hours ago
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Christiana Figueres, the Green Fairy - Ever-polite Stan Grant tried his very best to keep Christiana Figueres drifting off in a cloud of sob-sister vapours to Warmist Land, where only the transf...7 hours ago
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Memphis - A few days ago, a few of you thought I was dumping on Memphis. I did say the city is not an economic development success story, but it is perhaps my fav...7 hours ago
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Amateur Sports... - I love amateur sports. The very root of "amateur", whether in sports or photography or writing or whatever, is "someone who does a thing for the love of ...8 hours ago
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The end of RussiaGate approaches, with its stunning truth - Mueller prepares to close his investigation. Will the hysteria crash and burn, like the Salem Witches or Satanic Child Abusers? Or will Mueller produce dec...8 hours ago
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Universalism, Particularism, and Anti-Semitism - For the world to emancipate itself from anti-Semitism, religions and political movements will have to accept individual freedom of conscience and cultural ...9 hours ago
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More on Sticky Wages - It’s been over four and a half years since I wrote my second most popular post on this blog (“Why are Wages Sticky?”). Although the post was linked to and ...9 hours ago
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October’s 2018 Full Moon In Taurus Tells You It’s Time To Move Forward With Peace - Not only are you being called to make peace with your present, but you are being called to bring peace with you as you move forward and endlessly evolve.9 hours ago
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Planned Parenthood Endorsed Him, Then He Bit a Woman - State Senator Jeff Woodburn was the New Hampshire Senate Minority Leader, a frequent Trump critic and the former chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic P...10 hours ago
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Nightcap - There’s a long history of “grievance studies” in the US Chris Calton, Mises Wire The gap in preferences between men and women Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revol...10 hours ago
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Megamillions - Is it rational to play Megamillions, with the current jackpot of a billion dollars or so? Yes and no. Here are three questions: Are you willing to pay $20 ...11 hours ago
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“Killer Women” - Paleo Retiree writes: Netflix rec: My wife and I have been enjoying the documentary series “Killer Women with Piers Morgan.” In it, Morgan (a well-known Br...11 hours ago
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A cycle of Cathay - The innovations which make their appearance in East Asia round about the year 1000 … form such a coherent and extensive whole that we have to yield to the ...12 hours ago
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Invoking Liberation: A Review of Provocations - Camille Paglia's latest book, a collection of her own work, carries an air of finality.14 hours ago
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For Chloe, there was more to life than lunch - *This clip is from the World Jewish Congress, and illustrates the rich and varied contribution made by the Jews of Egypt in all walks of life. Here's the...14 hours ago
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Justin Trudeau’s finest hour - It wouldn’t kill us to give credit where credit’s due: Canada becomes second country to legalise recreational cannabis, reports the BBC. I expect crime ...14 hours ago
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The Coppersmith Vigilante: The Rise of the Saffarids - During the ninth century a simple craftsmen would take up arms, hoping to put an end to the warfare and violence plaguing his corner of the world. In the f...14 hours ago
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Column: The Spiritual Legacy of Matthew Shepard - Pagan Perspectives I had always been wary of strangers. Every gay child growing up in the 1970’s learned this important life skill. American culture was, a...16 hours ago
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Jersey Boys: here and there and everywhere - I saw a production of “Jersey Boys” recently in southern Maine at the Ogunquit Playhouse. It’s still going on, but apparently it’s sold out or almost sold ...16 hours ago
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Jersey Boys: here and there and everywhere - I saw a production of “Jersey Boys” recently in southern Maine at the Ogunquit Playhouse. It’s still going on, but apparently it’s sold out or almost sold ...16 hours ago
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We meme’d awareness into reality - The Kavanaugh hearings have brought a tremendous cultural success for our meme work to bring awareness on the issue of false allegations. This should be ap...17 hours ago
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India: The real reason for Allahabad’s rechristening must be sought in the BJP’s sustained campaign to distort history (The Telegraph) - The Telegraph Improper nouns: The mischief of renaming The real reason for Allahabad’s rechristening must be sought in the BJP’s sustained campaign to dist...17 hours ago
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Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (October 14-20) - Facebook’s WhatsApp finds itself at the center of Brazil’s political upheaval; the EU is pushing ahead with its planned tax on tech platforms; Trump’s repl...18 hours ago
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Everything is in the hands of heaven except the fear of heaven - In shul this morning, I came upon this passage from the Talmud: “Everything is in the hands of heaven except the fear of heaven.” It’s an arresting thought...18 hours ago
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NYTimes report shows how Twitter, McKinsey were complicit in helping Saudi Arabia silence critics - [image: Electronic billboards show advertisements for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with the hashag #ANewSaudiArabia in London in March 2018.] S...18 hours ago
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France : Quand Mouv', radio de service public, se demande si « la laïcité est une bonne idée » - Ce mardi 16 octobre, de 19h30 à 20h, la radio de service public organise en effet un débat intitulé : « Est-ce que la laïcité est une bonne idée ? ». Ce ...18 hours ago
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The Spectrum of Black Contrarianism - African-American politics are, it is often supposed, monolithic. Since the late 1960s, following the signing of landmark civil rights legislation by a Demo...18 hours ago
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View From a Hotel Window, 10/20/18: Salt Lake City - Well, it’s not the most inspiring view, but the room is lovely and the hotel is delightfully hipsterish. Today: I’m at Weller Book Works! At 2pm! It’s a ma...19 hours ago
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Don’t distract him - Trump is pretending to believe the Saudis. President Trump broke with his own intelligence agencies on Friday, appearing to accept Saudi Arabia’s explana...19 hours ago
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FFRF Embarrassingly Asinine Statement on Saudi Arabia - FFRF reacts to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi with an incredibly asinine statement on Saudi Arabia which should make skeptics feel disappointed.19 hours ago
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How the Bow and Arrow Caused the Neolithic and Agricultural Revolutions - A Reconstruction of Cahokia Mounds Cahokia Mounds Today in Illinois near St. Louis The Chaco Canyon Great Houses of the Anasazi People in New Mexic...20 hours ago
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Identity Politics for Me - It’s a solemn chore to give your sacred principles a proper eulogy. Despite the feigned anguish, praising what they’re burying has become a fairly prolific...20 hours ago
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Treadmill - I have a treadmill desk and at one point I used it religiously four to five hours a day. Then I started having asthma attacks, and had to stop using it. ...21 hours ago
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Wolchover, Ball face armies of brainwashed anti-quantum NPCs - Nine and two days ago, the Quanta Magazine posted the following two articles that were "sort of negative" about some "alternative interpretations" of quant...21 hours ago
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West Virginia’s constitutional crisis - Timothy Sandefur has been tracking (continued) the constitutional crisis unfolding in West Virginia, in which the legislature has impeached all of the Just...21 hours ago
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Episode 267 Scott Adams: Saudi Excuses, #JobsNotMobs, Voter Turnout - Topics: Paul Krugman’s IQ, credentials and his tweet this morning…TDS The persuasion that’s propelling the #JobsNotMobs slogan #FentanylChina, 30K Ameri...21 hours ago
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Warren's Claims About Her Racial Background (a) Poorly-Supported; (b)...Even WORSE! Z0MG TEH OFFENSIVE!!!!!!!11111 - link (a) There are apparently substantial scientific reasons for questioning EW's interpretation of her genetic test. That's significant. I personally d...22 hours ago
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Consent to State Legitimacy vs. Voluntary Obedience to Law? - Sorry to be so convoluted about the attributions and citations here, but Brandon Christensen over at Notes on Liberty drew my attention to this post by Arn...22 hours ago
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Magic Makes The Stuff God Happy - One of the things normal people struggle with when they look over the great divide, at the arguments of our side, is the lack of interest in economics. In ...22 hours ago
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Afghan Parliamentary and Provincial Elections - By Pamela Editor’s Note: Checking the news this morning, I saw the following report from Afghanistan: “A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Afghan capit...22 hours ago
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PM Designate Mahdi Did Not Like Oil Minister’s Action On Iraq National Oil Company - Oil Minister Luabi (Reuters) October 18 out going Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luabi transferred nine-state owned oil and service companies to the new National ...23 hours ago
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Unthreaded Party - Majority gone. The Liberals are not paying for the last leadership change, so much as the one before. Picking a Labor guy to run the Party was never goin...23 hours ago
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Amy Harmon articles update - Amy Harmon reports that in response to her previous article, a genetics organization has boldly and courageously denounced white supremacy.23 hours ago
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After Trump Administration Approves More Funds, the World Bank Launches Attack on the Flat Tax - When asked to pick the worst international bureaucracy, I generally respond as follows. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) or Organization for Economic ...23 hours ago
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Open College launched: “Free Speech: Why the *Philosophy* Matters” - Reposting for weekend listeners, the first episode of my Open College podcast series. Audio links: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/open-college...23 hours ago
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He’s a history teacher and he has a statistics question - Someone named Ian writes: I am a History teacher who has become interested in statistics! The main reason for this is that I’m reading research papers ab...1 day ago
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Thought of the day? - God forbid 🙄 India’s obsessive drive with cultural purity may have origins in caste purity? — Zachary Zavidé (@ZacharyLatif) October 20, 2018 Does India’s...1 day ago
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‘Carlos The Jackal’ Would Use Genocide to Run for President - Some men just want to watch the world burn. Ilich Ramírez, known as Carlos The Jackal, our most bloodthirsty, infamous terrorist has a dream for Venezuel...1 day ago
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Crimes of Command with Michael Junge - on Midrats - Since WWII, how has the Navy's understanding of responsibility, accountability, and culpability changed? Returning to Midrats for the full hour this Sun...1 day ago
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New Tutorials from Dorian Vallejo - Dorian Vallejo is quite simply one of the finest life painters I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch work. His portrait work often exudes a life-like qualit...1 day ago
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Head-choppers release statement on Khashoggi murder - *From the desk of the Chief Head Chopper (advisor: Mr Barrister Tony Blair)* "Mr Khashoggi came to the consulate to straighten out a visa matter. Unfortuna...1 day ago
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It’s Official: Even Hard Science Entering New Dark Age, by Lance Welton - It’s not a shock that Postmodernism has taken hold of subjects such as Literature or Social Anthropology. The more subjective the subject is, the easier it...1 day ago
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TriggerPod - Konstantin Kisin is a comedian who was born in Russia and emigrated to Britain with his family when he was twelve. And he’s a friend of mine whom I met at ...1 day ago
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Brawndo And The NPC Meme - The future documentary Idiocracy has a scene where an average person tries to solve a problem in a room full of idiots. It’s one of the best scenes in mode...1 day ago
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How The New York Times And Washington Post Do "Poverty" - My post this past Sunday took note of a prominent Wall Street Journal op-ed last week that drove home some points that I have been making here for a few ye...1 day ago
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Russian Electoral Interference: 2018 Midterms Edition - The former Internet Research Agency building in St. Petersburg, Russia. A Russian national charged on Friday for alleged interference in the 2018 midterm...1 day ago
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Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Attacked ‘Bullshit’ Stay-At-Home Moms For ‘Leeching Off Their Husbands’ - 'These women who act like staying at home, leeching off their husbands or boyfriends, and just cashing the checks is some sort of feminism because they're ...1 day ago
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Nyah, nyah! My study's bigger than your study!! - It looks like a food-fight at the Precision Corral! Maybe the Big Data era is over! That's because what we really seem to need (of course) is even *bigge...1 day ago
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Virgins await Russians in heaven - Whenever I talk about gun control, I make the same point: guns aren’t dangerous as such. They only become dangerous in the hands of either madmen or crimin...1 day ago
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China's Next Revolution Is on the Horizon - *The Mandate of Heaven will be withdrawn, and the autocratic regime overthrown.* *The absolute confidence that China's political structure is permanent and ...1 day ago
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This is The Resistance's Real Failure (Assuming They Want to Make Progress on Their Issues, and Not Just Score Political Points) - From even before day 1 of the Trump Administration, the "resistance" has proclaimed that Trump is an illegitimate President and anyone who even has civil d...1 day ago
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IPA’s weekly links - When massive development projects don't work out... Continue reading → The post IPA’s weekly links appeared first on Chris Blattman.1 day ago
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Today’s Lunch Stream Featuring Mike Baron! - I’ve been friends with Mike for awhile now, and am very excited to have him on the stream. The coolest part is every time I look him up, I see he’s done MO...1 day ago
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Fed bashing - I’ve tried to avoid commenting on Trump’s Fed bashing, as I don’t wish to insult my reader’s intelligence. But the media reports that Trump is now bashing...1 day ago
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I Need Some Muscle Over Here, by David Henderson - The title of this post is that now-famous quote from University of Missouri faculty member Melissa Click. It’s her threat to a reporter who was covering ...1 day ago
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Socialism is Elitism - Let’s begin with a quote from which the rest of this post will naturally follow: Oddly enough, it is the intellectual snobbery and elitism of many of the...1 day ago
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Insights Into the Dramatic Rise in Pre-Marriage Cohabitation - If you go back 70 years, the share of women and men living together before marriage was under 1%. If you go back 50 years, it was less than 10%. Now, abou...1 day ago
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Weekend Reading: 20-21 October 2018 - Global Macro / Markets / Investing: Goldman and Morgan Stanley Want to Lend the Ultra-Rich More Money – Bloomberg Bezos Bucks the Bullies – WSJ The Worst...2 days ago
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Mailbag - About once a week I get an email from some company, usually to do with energy, telling me about some development or other which might interest me (I seem t...2 days ago
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Teaching Gen Ed Students the Value of Philosophy (guest post by Andrew P. Mills) - Earlier this year, Andrew P. Mills , professor of philosophy and director of the Integrative Studies Program at Otterbein University, and president of th...2 days ago
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Featuring lifeboat and lighthouse in banknotes: Case of Norway… - Norway and Sea are connected deeply. They had earlier included cods in their 200 kroner note. Now the new 50 kroner has lighthouse and 500 kroner has lifeb...2 days ago
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Roberts Must Recognize that the Court Also Errs in Striking Down Laws - The Supreme Court has wrongly invalidated laws, just as it has upheld unjust ones.2 days ago
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Classified Thread 6 - This is the…monthly? bimonthly? occasional?…classified thread. Post advertisements, personals, and any interesting success stories from the last thread.2 days ago
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In 1987, U.S. Navy F-14s Engaged Phantom Iranian Planes - When it debuted in 1974, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was supposed to replace the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II in U.S. Navy service. This replacement occurr...2 days ago
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The Constants Inside the Fine Structure Constant - On 24 September 2018, mathematician Michael Atiyah announced that he believed that he had cracked the Riemann Hypothesis at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum...2 days ago
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When Priests and Prelates Dance Around the Golden Calf - After Moses had been up on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights, the children of Israel had grown impatient and asked Aaron to make them a god to le...2 days ago
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By Man on radio - Last week on *The Catholic Current* radio show, I was interviewed by Fr. Robert McTeigueabout *By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed* and the recent change to t...2 days ago
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Unflattening Hobbes - In political science, the idea of a Hobbesian state of nature, featuring an endemic war of all against all, is a notional initial condition from which civi...2 days ago
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The government they deserve - Ace, bless his heart, posts this: Krysten Sinema Just Virtue-Signaled Herself out of Senate Race As Twitchy says, she says “Arizona” with such disdain it l...2 days ago
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Ticked Off About Spoofing? Consider This - An email from a legal academic in response to yesterday’s post spurred a few additional thoughts re spoofing. One of my theories of spoofing is that is a w...2 days ago
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The coalition of the evil and unhinged - People form political coalitions within a larger society in order to knock over apple carts to grab some apples. That is what politics is. That is why peop...2 days ago
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Friday Ephemera - Today’s word is rethink. || Always respect the media. || Piano improvisation made simple. || Build your own mobile phone. || “No bathroom inside, but many ...2 days ago
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Progressive Misbelief - For well over a century, "progressives" have a proud tradition of not only exposing what is best for other people (often correctly, I might add) but also t...2 days ago
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Gessen on Shalamov: “It was nothing personal. Just the twentieth century.” - I really enjoyed Keith Gessen’s new novel A Terrible Country, a charming, convincing and moving account of a young American’s complicated relationship with...2 days ago
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Why Is Donald Trump Waging a Trade War? DeLong FAQ - **DeLong FAQ: Why Is Donald Trump Waging a Trade War?** You ask: who are the people who would want to see this U.S.-China trade war happen? We have been un...2 days ago
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St Paul among the Slavs - This is a fourth century painting of St. Paul. Paul's dress, the scroll in his hands, and the container with more scrolls at his feet, all identify Paul as...2 days ago
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Rationality Requires Common Priors - Late in November 2006 I started this blog, and a month later on Christmas eve I reported briefly on the official publication (after 8 rejections) of my pap...2 days ago
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Remarkable changes to carbon emission budgets in the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C - by Nic Lewis A close reading of Chapters 1 and 2 of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15) reveals some interesting changes from the IPC...2 days ago
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The demise of Davos in the Desert - TTG - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin just announced he will not be attending the Future Investment Initiative Summit in Saudi Arabia next week. Obviously he d...2 days ago
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Do Body Cameras Improve Police Conduct? - The police technology discussion tends to focus on privacy issues rather than equality issues—although there is a growing body of scholars to look to equal...2 days ago
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Daily Beast Highlights the Terrible Injustice Against Stiletto-Wearing Men - A buddy sent me a meme yesterday from the Onion saying they were on the verge of collapse because it was becoming impossible to make up stuff that was more...2 days ago
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Voting Early (and Often?) - I am not a great fan of the spreading contagion of early voting. In them-thar olden days, you voted on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November...2 days ago
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Palestinian Authority’s Top Cleric: Jerusalem Is Eternal Jihad’s Greatest Prize - PJ Media The Palestinian Authority has yet again made perfectly clear why achieving peace between Palestinians and Israelis is so difficult. In a speech ...2 days ago
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Irwin to spend one quarter at Stanford for at least the next three years - Terence Irwin (ancient philosophy, ethics), emeritus at both Oxford and Cornell Universities, will be teaching two courses per quarter at Stanford for at l...2 days ago
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Teaching Hitler, and My Neighbor's Attitude About the Holocaust - *Teaching Hitler* About once a year, I teach a giant lower division class called "Evil", focused on the moral psychology of evil. (This year, I have 420 st...2 days ago
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The weakest link - South Korea's President Moon is keen to relax sanctions against North Korea. Everyone else - those not quite so gullible - realises that Pyongyang can only...2 days ago
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Questioning Diversity – speech for session on my book at The Battle of Ideas - *This is the text of the speech I gave at the session about my book, 'The Tribe: the liberal-left and the system of diversity' at the Barbican, London on S...2 days ago
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The Flop - Is “me too” really a sign that women have finally gathered what it takes to avenge themselves on those bad, bad, bad men who always want one thing only? ...3 days ago
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Elizabeth Warren's DNA test - The results of Elizabeth Warren's DNA test are interesting and plausible and I dont think I have anything scientific to add about it beyond what my colleag...3 days ago
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When the Force is Not With You: Mentorship and Star Wars - We talk a lot about mentorship in the military, but for most of us, we don’t have a good example of what that even looks like. It’s not as though there are...3 days ago
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The Stamp of the Whatleys - Tom Whatley is running for reelection to the Alabama legislature. His campaign slogan is: “ONE OF US.” Which irresistibly reminds me of ….3 days ago
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Me on Rationally Speaking, plus some additional thoughts - My conversation with Julia Galef on Rationally Speaking is out, exploring territory on how behavioural economics and its applications could be better. Ther...3 days ago
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Yet another interview up (on Blueprint) - Talking with James Miller about Blueprint, here. Advertisements3 days ago
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Fantasies, facts and values - The Western cultural tradition, which combined various elements (religious, intellectual, scientific) into a rich and resilient and trans-national framewor...3 days ago
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Unwelcome to ourselves - Tom Friedman has an idea. Writing in the New York Times about the proper response to the murder of Jamal Kashoggi he argues that the West should aim at re...3 days ago
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democracy - Yesterday Queensland legalized abortion on demand during the first 22 weeks of pregnancy. Obviously I think this is fantastic, but even if you disagree, th...3 days ago
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Trump Weak on Khashoggi Disappearance - Each day for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been tweaking a post about Jamal Khashoggi. The post never quite gets to the completion stage, and developmen...3 days ago
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Catching Up - A large number of readers got emails today that their copies of The Guerrilla Gunfighter: Clandestine Carry Pistol, had shipped. They went out yesterday. T...3 days ago
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“There Is No Evidence for That” - In connection with Elizabeth Warren’s having finally taken a DNA test, someone has made this claim. Warren’s DNA shows in the best case scenario 1/64 India...3 days ago
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Georgia's racial gubernatorial race - A SurveyUSA poll on the upcoming gubernatorial election in Georgia asked respondents about who they planned on voting for and also about their opinions on ...3 days ago
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Europe's Civilizationist Parties - IS EUROPE RETURNING to the horrors of the 1930s? In an assessment typical of the moment, Max Holleran writes in the New Republic that "in the past ten year...3 days ago
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Habermas on the Judeo-Christian Origin of Equal Rights - Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct of life and emancipation...3 days ago
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Gone fishin’ - I’ll be taking a blogging break over the next few days. I’ll turn moderation on in a bit and will take it back off on Monday. Advertisements3 days ago
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The fault is not in other democracies, but in ourselves - I had a post almost two years ago about the idea that support for democracy was declining. That started as an example for a class I was teaching, and I'm ...3 days ago
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Housing: Part 325 - Lending and the Housing Market - I don't know if I have shared this graph before. I think there are some interesting things to see here regarding lending and housing. Surprisingly, the nu...3 days ago
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Are Colleges Turning Out Our Most Self-Absorbed and Fragile Generation? - Towards the end of Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Coddling of the American Mind, the authors declare that it is “a good time for us to...3 days ago
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The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 4: Finnish Genetics - The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 4: Finnish GeneticsMidsummer in Finland This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Google Play) we ...3 days ago
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CHEROKEE PEOPLE … - Mules are sterile. Horses aren’t and donkeys aren’t. But when they (horses and donkeys) mate, they make a mule …and that’s where it ends. I guess that’s na...3 days ago
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Of Note: Tim Furnish, & Trump’s National CT Strategy - [ by Charles Cameron — and a few ppl whose views on trump’s strategy document I’d also like to read ] . Tim Furnish, Trump’s New Counter-terrorism Strategy...3 days ago
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Book Review: Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone - [image: image001] *Finally, A Serious Scholarly Work on Comfort Women Translated into English* *By Marshall Wordsworth* Professor Ikuhiko Hata, a premie...3 days ago
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Book Review: Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone - [image: image001] *Finally, A Serious Scholarly Work on Comfort Women Translated into English* *By Marshall Wordsworth* Professor Ikuhiko Hata, a premie...3 days ago
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Disintermediation and Decentralization: A Familiar Tune for Credit Unions? - Last week, I had the pleasure of addressing the Michigan Credit Union Economic Summit on the future of financial services. I discussed emergent themes in...4 days ago
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Prop2 Class 17 – Zoning II - Today we continue talking about zoning, and focus on non-conforming uses, variances, special exceptions, and other ways of making zoning codes more flexibl...4 days ago
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Out on Their Ears - Derrida tells us, over and over, that différance is 'neither a word nor a concept'. This is, however, not true. The first time Derrida used that collocatio...4 days ago
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Larry Derfner on Al Durah, Pallywood and Conspiracy Theory - Recently a friend and colleague, Jeff Weintraub, who has written on the Al Durah case in the past, posted on his facebook page my article in the Tablet on ...4 days ago
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Where am I (or will be soon)? Vienna . . . - Will be talking (for 15 mins; that's less than a full sentence for me) about the uplifiting spectacle of motivated numeracy.4 days ago
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A closer look at a couple of ancients from Hellenistic Anatolia - Not sure if anyone's mentioned or noticed this already, but the two currently available genomes from Hellenistic Anatolia (samples MA2197 and MA2198 from D...4 days ago
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Trilby by George du Maurier (1895) - ‘Y a pas d’quoi!’ said Trilby, divesting herself of her basket and putting it, with the pick and lantern, in a corner. ‘Et maintenant, le temps d’absorber ...4 days ago
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New Astronomy Constraints On Extra Dimensions And Graviton Lifetimes - *NEW* The observation of GW170817 in both gravitational and electromagnetic waves provides a number of unique tests of general relativity. One question we ...4 days ago
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The case of Jamal Khashoggi - By Saima Baig Saudi Arabia has been a repressive country with a regime that has oppressed almost everyone living there — other than rich men. The ruling ...4 days ago
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Making Education Work for the Poor: The Potential of Children’s Savings Accounts - Post written by Katherine Pearson Dr. William Elliott contends that we need a revolution in the way we finance college education. His new book Making Educa...4 days ago
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The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Guide to Solving Relationship Problems - Hello there, friend. What’s that I hear? You’re pissed off at someone? Someone is pissed off at you? You have a fight in your life and you don’t know wh...4 days ago
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ASHG 2018 - See you in San Diego! American Society of Human Genetics. My schedule is so booked with meetings that I wonder whether I will be able to attend any talks.....5 days ago
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Ten reasons we should compromise and consider taking the Norwegian option, by Alan Johnson - ‘Norway is not a member of the EU but it is part of the European Economic Area (EEA), and therefore the EU’s single market. Having a deal like Norway’s mea...5 days ago
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The Devil Take Me Blog Tour Last Stop and RELEASE DAY: The Novel Approach and Jordan Castillo Price! - Join me and the other authors in the Devil Take Me anthology as we embarked on a week-ish blog tour leading up to the book’s release! AND TODAY IS RELEASE...5 days ago
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McVey's Rumsfeld assumption - When she was told yesterday that some Universal Credit victims were being driven into prostitution, Esther McVey replied: Tell these ladies that now we’ve ...5 days ago
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The “Bastiat Boom” - Retail sales frustrated expectations. It´s not that consumer spending is weakening but is now being properly measured again. After Harvey hit in August 2...5 days ago
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Elizabeth Warren and Minority Status - Early in her career, Elizabeth Warren listed herself in an online database used for law school recruitment as a minority law professor. At several later po...5 days ago
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A bad ‘driver’ and an equally bad ‘siren’ suit - Looking at this image I’m reminded of two things not known to many people about Smuts and Churchill and both are equally bad. That Winston Churchill inven...5 days ago
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Episode 204: The Immigration Impasse - Reihan Salam joins to discuss his new book making the case against open borders.5 days ago
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Yes, Mr. President, the Kremlin Murders Its Enemies—Even in the USA - On 60 Minutes Sunday night, President Trump finally admitted that Vladimir Putin “probably” murders his opponents abroad, but he insisted the Kremlin would...5 days ago
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Wirth Institute 2018 Conference on the Austrian School of Economics - |Peter Boettke| For over a decade, the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies has been hosting a biannual conference exploring the histo...6 days ago
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What Does the New Doctor Who Offer Working-Class Whovians? - The new season of British Sci-Fi show, Doctor Who has created a buzz due to the casting of a woman to play the Doctor for the first time in the show’s fift...6 days ago
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Julie Wronski on How Authoritarianism Divides the Democratic Party: Half Hour of Heterodoxy #36 - Listen to an interview with Julie Wronski, professor of political science at the University of Mississippi. In a new paper, she and her coauthors show a ...6 days ago
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Monday's Child is Full of Links - 1. Is "white liberalism" dying? Probably not, but there is some truth here. 2. It's holiday time, just around the corner. If you want a sound recovery, b...6 days ago
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE MODERATE? - This essay, on the meaning of being ‘moderate’, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on AI and bias). It was publish...6 days ago
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Involution and growth - This is a long-promised, long-simmering, longer-than-necessary post on the concept of involution. This term comes up often in discussions of Asian and/or...6 days ago
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'Where my house is, those trees were once growing' - The *New York Times* reports on a revival of the agricultural variety: “Finding Lost Apples and Reviving a Beloved Cider”. Mr. Rosen, the former chief ex...6 days ago
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When can domestic undergraduates be charged full fees? - This post is not related to any current policy issue. It is a summary created for another reason but might be useful for higher education administrators or...6 days ago
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The Reductio of Human Rights - "It's a human right" is what you say when you favor some political position but don't have any good arguments handy for it: You want universal healthcare? ...6 days ago
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2018 Campbell Speech, How New Authors Expand Fields (+Censorship, Manga) - This year I was honored to present the 2018 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at Worldcon’s Hugo Awards Ceremony, and several people have aske...6 days ago
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On the Pink Hats - I have a character flaw. Actually I have many, but perhaps the one that has alienated people most frequently is this one… From the time I could talk, I hav...6 days ago
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“The most important relationship”: Kissinger on China…and America - Henry Kissinger’s “On China” (Penguin Books, 2012) is a magisterial book. Although it deals almost entirely with China, it contains many valuable lessons...1 week ago
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On Gratitude - What are you thankful for? I find sometimes that asking myself this question is a helpful exercise as I sit on my front porch in the early African morning ...1 week ago
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A New American Philosophical Association Organization? - This past week, philosophy’s top blogger Brian Leiter posted a poll on a quite interesting topic: Would you leave the [American Philosophical Association] ...1 week ago
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How to Destroy Neoliberalism: Kill ‘Homo Economicus’ - By Nick Hanauer This piece is adapted from a speech delivered September 30th at MIT, where Nick Hanauer won the 2018 Harvard and MIT Humanist of the Year...1 week ago
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Harriet Taylor-Mill and The Enfranchisement of Women - Harriet Taylor-Mill was born Harriet Hardy in London on 8 October 1807. She met political... The post Harriet Taylor-Mill and The Enfranchisement of Wome...1 week ago
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Bitcoin and the bubble theory of money - A few months ago Vijay Boyapati asked me to "steel-man" the bubble theory of money. The bubble theory of money, which can originally be found in a few o...1 week ago
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People’s Vote Celebrities Burnish Their Woke Credentials By Giving False Hope To Remainers - As celebrities and failed politicians prepare to gather for another central London protest against Brexit, their unchanging tactics make clear that this is...1 week ago
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How To Destroy Everything - I don’t know you, but if you’re reading this manual, I can assume that you’re an immortal being of pure hatred. You view humans, the only sapient life form...1 week ago
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The Myth of Capitalism – Introduction and Chapter One - Dear Friends, In November 2018, The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition is coming out. You can order the book here. I’ve decided...1 week ago
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My #AGundam4Us Project Is Finished Its First Draft - For much of the year, I was frustrated. Ever since Brian Niemeier announced #AGundam4Us, I had great difficulty coming up with an idea for a story. Due t...1 week ago
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A Simple Lesson About Money and Models - Imagine you are in your high school algebra class and you are presented with the following two equations: Two linear equations with 2 unknowns. This is a s...1 week ago
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Should vegans avoid avocados and almonds? - Avocadon’t? Nataliya Arzamasova/Shutterstock Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford A video recently doing the rounds on Facebook included a segment from ...1 week ago
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US bond bears are right, but for all the wrong reasons - My piece for Business Insider on why rising US real interest rates are a good news story, have little to do with the Fed, and help explain the Australian...1 week ago
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Winning isn’t everything - I have a new essay up at Niskanen on what elections, and confirmations, do and don’t settle. The post Winning isn’t everything appeared first on Bleeding...1 week ago
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The Ruddock religious freedom review is a sham - Catholic schools don't want gay teachers. Unfortunately, it's likely the Ruddock religious freedom review will eventually force Catholic schools to hire ...1 week ago
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A Second Reformation? - Rome has fallen. Beginning in the 1960s, most mainline Protestant churches fractured over two divergent understandings of Christianity. In one camp are th...1 week ago
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The 25 Best & Worst Cities For Nursing Homes - We analyzed nursing home review data across the country to show shockingly abysmal performance.1 week ago
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Vacation - Fred and Vi will be in China until the end of October. 15 total views, 15 views today1 week ago
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Vacation - Fred and Vi will be in China until the end of October. 15 total views, 15 views today1 week ago
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Notes on my Kavanaugh Tweet - This week (October 5, 2018), I responded to a Twitter thread consisting of a conversation between Bret Weinstein, the American biologist and evolutionary...1 week ago
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Notes From All Over (9/10/18): Constitutional Cycles, Cognitive Gadgets, and the Uses of Repression - TOP BILLING "The Recent Unpleasantness: Understanding the Cycles of Constitutional Time" Jack M. Balkin, Public Law Research Paper No. 648. 8 August 2018. ...1 week ago
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Saving Social Constructivism - Social constructivism is on trial for being an academic fraud. Can it be rescued and does it have valid points to make about science after all?1 week ago
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GRU (GU) facing a little purge? If so, it’s not to spy less, but spy better - As is inevitable, in the wake of the Dutch hacking bust, the US DOJ indictment, and Bellingcat’s claim that the second member of the Skripal hit team was a...1 week ago
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Suicide and #MeToo - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } What single recent event in a woman’s life is most strongly associated with her subsequent suicide attempt? A sexual assaul...1 week ago
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Sokal on steroids: Why hoax papers submitted successfully to academic journals proves nothing (ok, little) - A trio of authors has, during a 12 months period, submitted - by their own account - 20 manuscripts to academic journals they broadly identify as being in ...1 week ago
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Why I'm a Racist - Racism is a form of determinism: it is the theory that the content of an individual's mind is innate and determined (somehow) by their genetic heritage. ...1 week ago
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Reposurgeon’s Excellent Journey and the Waning of Python - Time to make it public and official. The entire reposurgeon suite (not just repocutter and repomapper, which have already been ported) is changing implemen...1 week ago
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Dealing with the Deluge - It's that time of year again... so here is the slightly expanded version of my original post regarding the Deluge. Over the years I've received numerous qu...1 week ago
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How We Create and Destroy Growth: A Nobel for Romer and Nordhaus - Occasionally, the Nobel Committee gives a prize which is unexpected, surprising, yet deft in how it points out underappreciated research. This year, they d...1 week ago
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Thinking about the art of Teotihuacan - This post consists of an outline of themes and topics that relate to the art of Teotihuacan. It is focused on the objects in the exhibit, Teotihuacan: City...1 week ago
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Ten Years After Lehman (4): Chinese Imports - by Edward Chancellor* Interest rates in China may never have turned negative, as they did in neighbouring Japan. Yet China’s economy has also become distor...1 week ago
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Christine Balsey Ford gang near-raped (again) by fifty Senators, including three women! - I listened to NPR, this Sunday morning. (I make myself do it every day or nearly so). The commentators sounded as if they believe that but for a small sliv...1 week ago
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New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/1 week ago
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Building skyscrapers, and spending on major projects - How fast can buildings be built these days? I took all buildings taller than 200m from here and did some plotting. Data quality was a bit bad, it only stat...1 week ago
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Making sense of the “alt-right” - Ever since the Trump election, the label “alt-right” has been used by misinformed or dishonest commentators to willingly smear a wide variety of figures ...2 weeks ago
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One Angry Judge - What would you do if during the course of a job interview you were accused of crimes so heinous that they would not only disqualify you for the position, b...2 weeks ago
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The Most Narrow Possible Case Against Kavanaugh - Stipulate that Brett Kavanaugh has been the victim of a cynical partisan attack by Democrats, who have employed the lowest tactics imaginable to stymie h...2 weeks ago
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The Islamic State’s Lessons-Learned About Insurgency - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 October 2018 The 150th edition of Al-Naba, the Islamic State’s (IS) weekly newsletter, was published on 4 October. IS focu...2 weeks ago
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Recommending the Flip Side - I highly recommend the Flip Side. Each day, they present the main thinking on an issue from both the left and the right in short digestible quotes. I’ve on...2 weeks ago
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LAWSPLAINER: No, Kavanaugh's Confirmation Won't Free All Of Trump's Crimimous Minions Through An Obscure Double Jeopardy Case - I should not have to do this. But here we are. There's a political rumor/meme/argument going around in the last couple of weeks among people opposed to Jud...2 weeks ago
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Intellectual Corruption and Peer Review - In the service of advancing narratives supporting identity politics, group-based grievances, and victimhood, many academics will believe almost anything.2 weeks ago
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Psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience - Frederick Crews, *Follies of the Wise*: In a word, then, Freud had launched a pseudoscience-- that is, a nominally scientific enterprise that is so faul...2 weeks ago
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Dark Enlightenment Now - This is a series of posts I wrote in reply to Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now first published at Social Matter. … Continue reading →2 weeks ago
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Friday the 13th Part 5 (1985) review - With Part 4 representing a peak in the series' overall pop culture presence, but the producers not quite realizing it, they pushed another entry into produ...2 weeks ago
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"Et tu, John Williams?" - Tim Duy reports that r-star, which rose to prominence over the past few years, is experiencing a Caesar-like betrayal at the Fed: The Federal Reserve’s ...2 weeks ago
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excerpt from Feral Creatrures - Some of Brogan's people jumped up with guns bared. Charging rounds into the chamber, all aimed at the boy. BIlly knelt there with the guns pointe...2 weeks ago
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What The Correspondent adds to the American press - It reconfigures how a live public stands toward the makers of journalism. The post What The Correspondent adds to the American press appeared first on Pr...2 weeks ago
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Boof - (Just a few politics-related comments to get off my chest. Feel free to skip if American politics isn’t your 5-liter bottle of Coke.) FiveThirtyEight curr...2 weeks ago
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Boof - (Just a few politics-related comments to get off my chest. Feel free to skip if American politics isn’t your 5-liter bottle of Coke.) FiveThirtyEight curr...2 weeks ago
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statement - On August 18th 2017 I lied and accused Malcolm Harris of rape and sexual harassment of women, particularly of women he works with. These allegations were ...2 weeks ago
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Little Atoms 539 - Adam Rutherford’s The Book of Humans - Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he w...2 weeks ago
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Kanye’s MAGA-charged rant on SNL receives backlash but was it deserved? - All week I’ve been speaking on how people who believe they are “woke”, are really just emotional and misinformed. Despite what James Baldwin said, being ...2 weeks ago
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Experimental Economics and the Importance of Instructions - Today I discuss one of my own papers: “Instructions” by Freeman, Kimbrough, Petersen, and Tong. This research project on experimental instructions has be...2 weeks ago
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Monuments to the Caliphate in north-east Syria - 29/9 In Raqqa, they were exhuming a mass grave as we drove into the city. It was by the municipality, in the center of the town. A great gaping pit. A ...3 weeks ago
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The Cultural Ramifications of Kavanaugh vs. Ford - As I sat at my desk, watching the live stream of what may go down in history as the greatest He said She said story of all time, I got this sinking feeli...3 weeks ago
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Women, like men, lie sometimes - *The Australian, 29 September 2018* I have found myself wondering if today’s feminists, if they had been around 60 years ago, would have worn badges sayi...3 weeks ago
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Truth, morals and democracy - Democracy does not determine right and wrong. Democratic outcomes are not necessarily correct. If you live in an unfettered democracy like that of the Unit...3 weeks ago
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Feminism and the F-bomb - I’ve observed a deeply problematic trend on social media of late, one that has been amplified amidst Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings by the...3 weeks ago
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Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle - Gloria Steinem once famously said that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Point taken, but let’s play with it a bit. Let’s ask whether a woma...3 weeks ago
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Rise of the Intangible Capital Economy - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 26 September 2018.) Intangible investments are ideas that cannot be utilized by one firm without...3 weeks ago
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Rewording a national anthem - Once a merchant banker squatted up in Canberra He was as liberal as Liberals could be3 weeks ago
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What is the yield curve forecasting? - It's well-known that in the United States, recessions are often preceded by an inversion of the yield curve. Is there any economic rationale for why this s...3 weeks ago
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A different way to limit women’s influence at the ballot box - What if we simply got rid of elections altogether? Could we still have a functioning democracy without elections? I think so. There is another process, lon...3 weeks ago
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The Eceleb Cries Out in Pain as They Strike You - I’ve been doing this internet “content” thing for a long while. For years, this blog was my main outlet, and it was quite successful. Millions of people ...4 weeks ago
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Today in Yak-Shaving - (What is “yak shaving“?) I needed to add plots to a final draft of an article that my co-author had just finished revising. Most of the plots were pre-made...4 weeks ago
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Supply-side health care - The discussion over health policy rages over who will pay -- private insurance, companies, "single payer," Obamacare, VA, Medicare, Medicaid, and so on -- ...4 weeks ago
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August 2018 Republic of China Mainland Affairs Council Survey of Popular Attitudes on Cross Strait Relations - *click on individual graphs to enlarge. Image source here.* Trendlines for Unfication, Independence, and Maintaining Status Quo Maintain status qu...4 weeks ago
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Possible Victory for Accused Student in 7th Circuit - To date, in federal due process lawsuits, the only statistically significant factor in the outcome of a case is the gender of the judge. Accused students h...4 weeks ago
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Reading Popular Science Books In The Age Of Bad Science - Social science is undergoing a crisis where influential studies fail to replicate and stand up to scrutiny. With all this uncertainty, it's hard to know wh...5 weeks ago
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Were there camels in medieval Britain? A brief note on Bactrian camels and dromedaries in fifteenth-century Kent - The following brief note is concerned with an intriguing fifteenth-century reference to both Bactrian camels and dromedaries (aka Arabian camels) in Englan...5 weeks ago
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I have copies of The Tyranny of Opinion - I now have two author's copies (with more to come) of my new book, *The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism*. It's nice to reach t...5 weeks ago
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Levy on 25 years of Oslo - Daniel Levy – who was involved in Oslo negotiations on the *Israeli side *in the late 1990s* – * the 25th anniversary of the Oslo Accords, in Foreign Pol...5 weeks ago
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Euphemizing Eugenics - The involvement early 20th century Progressive Movement with the racial pseudo-science of eugenics has only recently begun to receive a thorough and approp...5 weeks ago
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SWF+UBD - Matt Bruenig has published an excellent proposal that the United States charter a large sovereign (“social”) wealth fund and use its profits to fund a univ...5 weeks ago
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Trump, Tresilian and the Merciless Parliament - On 19th February, 1388, the Sir Robert Tresilian, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench of England, was arraigned for treason at the bar of the House of Lords....5 weeks ago
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How Hurricanes Can Impact Population - Volcanic mountains at the edge of a major hurricane basin. What could go wrong? Photo by Mandy Beerley on UnsplashHawaii Dodged a Bullet in Lane: We’ll See...5 weeks ago
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#29 On the referendum & #4c on Expertise: On the ARPA/PARC ‘Dream Machine’, science funding, high performance, and UK national strategy - Post-Brexit Britain should be considering the intersection of 1) ARPA/PARC-style science research and ‘systems management’ for managing complex projects wi...5 weeks ago
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#29 On the referendum & #4c on Expertise: On the ARPA/PARC ‘Dream Machine’, science funding, high performance, and UK national strategy - Post-Brexit Britain should be considering the intersection of 1) ARPA/PARC-style science research and ‘systems management’ for managing complex projects wi...5 weeks ago
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Economists' statement in support of Atif Mian - It is with dismay that I learned recently that Princeton's Atif Mian, one of the greatest scholars on finance and macroeconomics I know, was disinvited fro...5 weeks ago
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Excerpts and Discussion of Rod Dreher’s “The Benedict Option” - Prologue (mine, not Dreher’s) The book is an extended exposition of what is at heart a very simple thesis and message. That premise: “Genuine, traditional ...5 weeks ago
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Wisdom from the (distant) past - [Socrates:] And amid evils such as these will not he who is ill-governed in his own person–the tyrannical man, I mean–whom you just now decided to be the m...1 month ago
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Scatterbrained - I have been driving Impendices three abreast, and working in a desultory way at other things (and wasting a good deal of time on Plants Vs. Zombies), and h...1 month ago
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Why do we care about the labour share of income? - And by 'we', I mean 'Canadians'. A lot has been said and written about the decline in the labour share of income, usually calculated as total employee comp...1 month ago
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The Authoritarian Power Base - As I’ve written, political power is, in essence, the capacity for violence and the will to use it. The power of a leader comes from his authority over, his...1 month ago
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Not one of us! - There’s an old Peter Gabriel song with some lyrics that really stuck with me when I first heard them as a teen. If you jump to 1:49, it goes: There’s safet...1 month ago
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#MeToo on the Chinese Blogosphere: Justice, Victimization and Intellectual Revolt - Deng Fei, Feng Yongfeng, Zhang Wen… Before this summer, they were, respectively, celebrated investigative journalist and philanthropist, respected environm...1 month ago
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Review: “Blagdaross” by Lord Dunsany - This should be a throwaway story. Filler. A curio. This should be the sort of tale that you skim past in order to get to something with a hero, a magic swo...1 month ago
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Four Things I Wish I Had Learned in School - When I was a kid I was good at school. That turned out to be way less important than I thought it would be. The basic school skills of memorization, arithm...1 month ago
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Stations Along the Rim - (105k words; approximate reading time 6hr15mins) Lately, I have taken to asking fellow Middle East watchers: “How long ago was Ali Abdullah Saleh killed?” ...1 month ago
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Episode 85 - Common Cause – Jabotinsky and Revisionist Zionism - Download RSS Marshaling a people to a common cause is never an easy task. In the case of the Jews, who have through history been spread throughout the w...1 month ago
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Why choosing successful stand suppliers is so beneficial? - Are you seeking to find new methods on how to show your product or services to the overall customer? Most likely you are wishing to present the relevance a...1 month ago
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I Can See Russia From My House - The common thread underlying all good conspiracy theories: an unreasonable assumption of general competence. Continue reading →1 month ago
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The BAP Trap - There’s a lot of odd, deeply odd, profoundly strange things about modern society. Things that would make any hypothetical man traveling through time to our...1 month ago
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Polar Bear Steak - In a blog post last year, I questioned whether the meat of the polar bear was especially edible. Well, travel is educational and I got some kind of an ans...1 month ago
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Selling Lots of Books On Amazon and my new Youtube Show! - I get a lot of questions from people on writing, writing tips, how to write, and indie, or what I like to call NewPub, publishing in general. So, I’ve sta...1 month ago
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Forbidden Utterances: Naming the Dead - All societies know grief, though how they handle it can vary significantly. One notable manner in which some cultures deal with the death of a member of ...1 month ago
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Population Immiseration in America - Last year I had an interesting conversation with someone I’ll call the Washington Insider. She asked me why my structural-demographic model predicted ris...1 month ago
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Canada’s Poverty Reduction Strategy adopts the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to end poverty - The targets to reduce income poverty in Canada’s Poverty Reduction Strategy take an important step toward the first UN Sustainable Development Goal address...1 month ago
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Labour and Anti-Semitism: Changing the Question - Was Enoch Powell "a racist"? The answer, perhaps, seems obvious. Powell spent decades inflaming racial tensions, conjuring an apocalyptic future in which...2 months ago
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117th Review of “Avoidant” - When the book was an Amazon Prime Reading selection (free to Amazon Prime members) it attracted so many new reviews I couldn’t keep up. But here’s a pair o...2 months ago
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The Urgent Relevance of Hannah Arendt - Richard J. Bernstein argues that she is worth reading, and rereading, in these dark times2 months ago
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An excellent new book on doubt in 19th century Victorian England - *by Salman Hameed* This year is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's *Frankenstein*. I am again reading it right now and I am again ...2 months ago
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Thoughts on the Paradox of Tolerance - This comic has been making the rounds on the internet, mostly by people justifying the legitimacy of punching Nazis. The response has been an interesting b...2 months ago
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Thoughts on the Paradox of Tolerance - This comic has been making the rounds on the internet, mostly by people justifying the legitimacy of punching Nazis. The response has been an interesting b...2 months ago
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For Thomas Hobbes, Politics Was Simply About Doubt and Faith - Four hundred years ago, an English intellectual developed political ideas different to what we may recognize as familiar. 1. Schmitt and Hobbes In his cele...2 months ago
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Ignore Your Parents’ Advice at Your Peril - Of all the pieces of parental advice that you’ve received, which one has yielded the greatest impact on your life—either because you heeded it or ignored it?2 months ago
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Jerry’s Birthday and a Book List - A ‘Huzzah!’ to a reader for reminding me that today is Jerry’s birthday – he would have been 85. His wife’s Roberta’s birthday was in June – Jerry would al...2 months ago
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Too Rich or Too Thin - An obvious and discouraging aspect of American inequality is the increasing association between obesity and low income, including among children. Here, for...2 months ago
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Review: Skinwalkers - [image: Skinwalkers] Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Bringing Leaphorn and Chee together was a brilliant stroke. Leaphorn is more lo...2 months ago
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Why is IQ declining in the Arab world? - African migrants at the Egyptian-Israeli border (Wikicommons) During most of the twentieth century people did better and better on IQ tests. This incre...2 months ago
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Queer in Africa: Breaking news from Kapiri-Mposhi, Zambia - I used to take this for granted. The fear and need to hide. The expectation of guilt, self-guilting, just because I am gay, of anyone finding out that am...2 months ago
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Raymond Ibrahim: 'The Dhimmi in the Mirror' - *"If Christian minorities living under Islamic authority have little choice but to speak well of their 'coexistence' with Islam, why are Western leaders, p...2 months ago
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George Cowgill, 1929-2018, a personal view - Some of the most vivid memories from my undergraduate days at Brandeis University are of my Friday afternoon meetings with George Cowgill. I took classes ...2 months ago
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How To be King, in Point Form. - One of the first orders of business in the renewal of Statecraft for Restoration is defining the scope of Statecraft. This scope is enormous. Statecraft is...2 months ago
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Yuppie Fishtanks: YIMBYism explained without "supply and demand" - YIMBYism is the idea that cities need to build more housing in order to relieve upward pressure on rents. In Northern California, where I live, YIMBYs te...2 months ago
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The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Meditations on Success and Flourishing - The July issue of *Psychiatric Times* contains a brief reflection piece by me titled *10 Meditations on Succeeding—and Flourishing*. Since the published ve...2 months ago
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Smoke rises from the nail house - I am told that Worldcon 2018 is in a state of crisis. That the grownup volunteers who used to shepherd the convention, year after year, have slowly gone aw...2 months ago
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NGDP futures via blockchain: Market monetarism meets cryptocurrency (And: how to set up a prediction market on Augur) - Scott Sumner has famously proposed that the Fed stabilize monetary policy by pegging nominal GDP futures contracts in such a way to ensure that expectati...2 months ago
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EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIAL INFLATION: AN INTERVIEW WITH RANDALL COLLINS - The following questions were posed by a Chinese on-line newspaper, The Paper [https://www.thepaper.cn]: [The Paper:] 1*. **The Credential Society* was p...3 months ago
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The First Principles of Western Civilization - The core principles upon which Western Civilization and The Constitution rest, are: 1. Primacy of the individual (Class, race, sex, sexual orientation, re...3 months ago
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Modern Evidence and Speculation: Or, “What if Trump Did It?” - By H. Alexander Welcome The 2016 U.S. Presidential election signaled a number of important changes in U.S. society, including approaches to evidence and s...3 months ago
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Pre-Ordering the Qur'an and its Biblical Reflexes - an update - Dear friends, I received a few emails from people who had tried to pre-order *The Qur'an and its Biblical Reflexes* from Amazon. Apparently Amazon no long...3 months ago
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Migration complexities and the campaigns against social bargaining - This is based on a comment I made here. Coming from a country (Australia) with a much higher proportional immigration flow than the US, I find US debates o...3 months ago
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Headed towards Collapse - Over the last several weeks we've seen a rapid diminishment in the fictive kinship that unites us as Americans. In fact, many of us don't just disagree wit...3 months ago
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Reinforcement Learning Progress - Today, OpenAI released a new result. We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train...3 months ago
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Shaikh Yasir Qadhi & anti ex-Muslim bigotry - Note: This article is a response to a post by Sheikh Yasir Qadhi attacking ex-Muslims – the original post is available at https://www.facebook.com/yasir....3 months ago
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How to solve the problem of diving in soccer - Another World Cup, another wave of concerns about the plague of diving (or “simulation”) that afflicts the beautiful game. Every four years the most casu...3 months ago
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We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free! The post We’re moving! appeared first on The World is Not Enough.4 months ago
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Pedophrasty, Bigoteering, and Other Modern Scams - Clearing the discourse from abuses and abusersPedophrasty Definition: *Argument involving children to prop up a rationalization and make the opponent look ...4 months ago
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Can Universities Lawfully Bully Academics into Silence? - Dr Peter Ridd has taken James Cook University to court protesting his sacking for what he says is, primarily, speaking-out about the lack of quality assu...4 months ago
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The History of William Marshal on the War of 1183. Part I - The anniversary of Henry the Young King's untimely passing is fast approaching and though I have discussed the surrounding events many times here, on the b...4 months ago
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Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...4 months ago
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Here’s How You Stop Anger From Making You Do Something Stupid - In February, during the launch of my last book, I had one of those experiences that explain why many people don’t like or trust the media. I’ll leave the d...4 months ago
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Against Renaming Victoria - (Of mostly local interest. I speak only for myself, not for my colleagues or anyone else associated with Victoria University of Wellington, my employer. TL...4 months ago
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Factors from Scratch: A Look Back, and Forward, at How, When, and Why Factors Work - I recently co-wrote a piece with Chris Meredith @chrismeredith23 and Patrick O’Shaughnessy @patrick_oshag of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management. We take a deep...4 months ago
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UPDATE - UPDATE I AM NOT ALTOGETHER WELL I SHALL RETURN TO HOSPITAL TOMORROW FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. I'II KEEP READERS INFORMED. BEST WISHES. GAVON4 months ago
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Highly Linkable: Pay College Athletes Edition - With two important cases working their way through the courts (Jenkins v. NCAA and Alston v. NCAA), I continue to be optimistic that we are witnessing the ...4 months ago
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Waking Up to Issues in the Atheist Scene - Not long ago, similar emails to the one I'll share below were only sent to me by Muslims questioning their faith, scripture and double standards, etc. I s...5 months ago
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Nuts - Things I Didn’t See Coming When PDT Was Elected: The Democrats defending a gang of violent street criminals whose motto is “Kill! Rape! Control!” just beca...5 months ago
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The era of ‘soft’ central planning - More than a decade ago, The Economist (at the time still a classical liberal publication – how times change…) published an excellent article on ‘soft pater...5 months ago
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New Release: Cato Journal on The Future of Monetary Policy - This issue of the Cato Journal is dedicated to Allan H. Meltzer who passed away on May 8, 2017. Allan spoke at the 1st Annual Monetary Conference in 1983...5 months ago
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The elites of Pueblo Bonito - In my recent travels in the Southwest, I visited Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, site of the most complex and astonishing pre-Columbian civilization in North Ame...5 months ago
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Save the Children - Jonathan Haidt is consistently unimpressive. Responding in this Chronicle piece about Jeffrey Adam Sachs’ great essay for the Niskanen Center, Haidt conced...5 months ago
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EBay Would Rather Support Fraud and Theft Than Help Sellers - Yes, you read the title right. No, it is not spam, or false, or libel - it is in fact an accurate representation of their corporate policies, as I have now...5 months ago
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A guide to using behavioural insights in local government - I wrote this for Sunderland City Council, following some work using behavioural insights in a range of projects. Although written for an internal audience,...6 months ago
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R1ans still at large (or, the story of India) - Ten ago, in the pre-ancient DNA "Dark Ages" a big debate raged on about the origin of R1a men in India. The stage had been set even earlier, by the pionee...6 months ago
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Two Stories - Improvisation Is the Heart of Music “The rest was pure Arabian Nights. Gazelle-eyed maidens with perfumed robes brought inlaid boxes of Turkish delight an...6 months ago
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Revisiting Epstein’s Freedom and Growth - I was fortunate to be invited give the Epstein Lecture at LSE this March. The series is named after the great LSE economic historian Larry (Stephen) Epst...6 months ago
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The problems with 'wargaming' history. (Particularly WWII.) - I had a good comment on my 'Ten Myths about the Phoney War' post from a Swedish respondent called DIREWOFLx75. He makes some fair points, adn of course som...6 months ago
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Caixin’s investigation of CEFC and Chairman Ye Jianming - On March 1, Caixin broke the news that Chairman Ye Jianming of the China CEFC Energy Co. has been detained by PRC authorities, and is under investigation f...6 months ago
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The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...6 months ago
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The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...6 months ago
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Persecuted Global Refugees: No Place To Call Home - 09/09/2014 The official estimate for the number of refugees globally passes the 50 million mark for the first time since World War II. According to UNHCR...7 months ago
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The trouble with feminism - In this post, I want to explain why I’m not a feminist and why I think you shouldn’t be either. Of course, I cannot discuss everything I think is wrong w...7 months ago
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Kafkaesque Yo! Därför stängde Facebook av mig och raderade min kommentar. [Uppdatering: Facebook rättade och bad om ursäkt] - Maria Carlshamre Robsahm är en vaccinförnekare och f.d. politiker som tvingades lämna Folkpartiet efter att hon dömdes för bokföringsbrott, och som senar...7 months ago
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Join Us at the Summer Research Lab! - Amidst all the craziness of this past … forever … I’m pleased to say that the Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois continues strong. We have a great pro...8 months ago
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The One Gun Control Measure That Gun Rights Advocates Should Support - I’m a huge gun rights advocate. I’ve been shooting and collecting guns since I was twelve. I got my first AR-15 thirty years ago, at age sixteen. I joined ...8 months ago
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“Woman” Is Not My Slave Name (from the DGS archives) - Before vagina hats, there was the “muff match”! 1st published WEDNESDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2011 I agreed with Naomi McAuliffe in her worry that feminism is...8 months ago
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On the Uses (and Abuses) of Economath: The Malthusian Models - Many American undergraduates in Economics interested in doing a Ph.D. are surprised to learn that the first year of an Econ Ph.D. feels much more like ente...8 months ago
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What is the "Right" Corporate Income Tax? Zero! - The recent tax bill signed by President Trump reduces the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. This was a positive change, but really, just a ...8 months ago
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Hey Democrats, the Problem Isn’t Jobs and Growth - It’s inequality. By James Kwak This American Life‘s forays into politics and economics are generally less satisfying than their ordinary storytelling fare....8 months ago
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NYT Op-Ed on Trump’s DACA Proposal - The New York Times asked me earlier this week if I had any thoughts on President Trump’s DACA proposal. I did. And here they are.8 months ago
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Are NY Republicans a friend to men, boys, fathers, or families? - While Republicans in NYS certainly talk a good game of supporting men, fathers, and families the talk is just that, cheap talk. Now that we have 20 years ...8 months ago
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Top 100 in Global Economic Weight - According to the IMF China is the largest economy in the world and has been since 2014. This is on a PPP basis (see here for discussion) and all data is re...8 months ago
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Are journalists an “enemy of the American people”? - The Committee to Protect Journalists proclaimed President Donald Trump its winner in “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom” earlier this...8 months ago
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On the relevance of the income inequality to expected health expenditures. - Last week, Hubert Biscuit posted a response on Medium questioning the relevance per capita income to national health expenditures. Here’s more on the debat...9 months ago
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The Power of Positive Persistence - Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House will ...9 months ago
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Year in Career: 2017 - This is a story about growing up. Coming of age. In 2018, I will have been a stenographer for 18 years – my career will be an adult. Whereas before it c...9 months ago
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Assorted Thoughts #1: Applying Averages - This series contains some of the key books, studies, papers and events that I’ve read over the last year. I’ve decided to try to write one of these posts f...9 months ago
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The Last Jedi AAR - The Star Wars movies have never been particularly concerned with accuracy when it comes to military tactics and strategy. From the start, the movies are de...10 months ago
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A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM - Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter account) ...10 months ago
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The Positive Inter-Religious Effect of Reading About Peace First’s Programs - In our last post, we wrote about how we are currently working with numerous partners bridging divisions and one of the common questions that partners get c...10 months ago
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Introducing Left-Versus-Right Book and Article Pairings - While I have spent my life living in a more liberal milieu, through personal experience and independent study I have found many truths on the right side ...10 months ago
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Why AARP has an entire team dedicated to answering Facebook comments - AARP, the 60-year-old special interest group that advocates for older Americans, has never been shy about flexing its policy muscles or leveraging its enor...10 months ago
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A People’s Tolerance For Change And Adaptation Should Not Be Strained Beyond Its Limits - With a hat-tip to Bill Vallicella, here’s a brief and worthwhile article on immigration. Go and read the whole thing. You may notice some overlap with the ...10 months ago
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New Immigration Blog - Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe a post...11 months ago
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Sam Biddle of The Intercept Accused of Masturbating in Front of Coworker - Several female journalists have accused their male colleagues of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and worse. They have been compiling their accusations i...11 months ago
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Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence - There used to be more research and debate on the negative effects of labour resistance on economic development, but that topic has been crowded out by the ...1 year ago
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Innovation in Economics Pedagogy and Publishing - Well, it's Labor Day weekend, which means that Barnard and Columbia students are back on campus and classes are about to begin. This semester I'm teaching ...1 year ago
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Hurricane Harvey: Thanksgiving in The Wake of Tragedy - “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the ...1 year ago
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Book review: Western Fringes - When I read the blurb of Western Fringes – a Muslim man trying to find a Sikh woman who has run away from home to escape an arranged marriage – I admit tha...1 year ago
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Dunkirk: A Deliverance Worth Cheering - My review of the film Dunkirk and case for celebrating the evacuation: https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/dunkirk-a-deliverance-worth-cheering/1 year ago
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For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...1 year ago
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Plato’s hijacking of Socratic aporia and media-friendly radicalism - In Plato’s early dialogues Socrates leads his interlocutors to *aporia*, a state in which they are unconvinced by their own beliefs and arguments, and do...1 year ago
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What is an Institution? - Find out in my new post at the NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice Blog.1 year ago
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I guess I need to say this again - Anyone who’s been reading this site for any length of time knows this, but apparently there are some drooling shit stirrers who haven’t gotten the message,...1 year ago
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This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issue...1 year ago
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The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...1 year ago
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Jacobite Magazine - Newly launched. No comment thread there, so feel free to use this place.1 year ago
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Being Human - I've just discovered that the pilot episode of UK series *Being Human *is online again, after having been taken down for a while. I first wrote about it ba...1 year ago
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Don’t abuse history in order to score cheap political points - "What I object to—and what my interlocutors maddeningly refuse to engage with—is the effort to use history and Jewish memory, in particular, the crimes of ...1 year ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.1 year ago
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Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...1 year ago
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Hayek, Knowledge, and Carbon Taxes: Markets Without Prices or Prices Without Markets? - As far as I know, Friedrich Hayek never wrote a word about climate change, but two of his most famous works contain arguments that bear directly on this ke...1 year ago
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Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.1 year ago
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Japan and Philippines Challenge China on New Fronts - Japan is deploying a warship to the South China Sea while the Philippines pushes back against Chinese encroachments in the east.1 year ago
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How the Democrats can Rebuild - Appearing in: Orange County Register Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded the parlous state of the Democratic Part...1 year ago
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A catalog of density (Québec/Canada version) - So, I've recently discovered an interesting tool to visualize census data for Canada, www.censusmapper.ca. Among its various data, it allows to do visualiz...1 year ago
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The left and the right ignored their extremists and we ended up with Brexit and Trump - The Observer 11 February 2017 Three types dominate extremist movements: crazies, cynics and creeps. The true crazies are always at the bottom of the heap. ...1 year ago
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In defense of science - We are deeply concerned by the Trump administration’s move to gag scientists working at various governmental agencies. The US government employs scientists...1 year ago
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Improving Your Writing – Prioritizing Increased-Get Worries www.proofreadingessay.com - There are a good deal of diverse methods you can go about doing that 1 thing – you can offer ebooks that deliver solutions to folks’s difficulties, or you ...1 year ago
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This was never just a recession - Maybe to start with, but not for long. What does a recession look like? Take, for example, the 1981/82 recession, which was deep. Real output falls strongl...1 year ago
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Can pagerank-like algorithms be used to help improve democracy? - In an excellent post Ben Rattray, founder of change.org, suggest that technology can help improve democracy by addressing what he calls three core needs:...1 year ago
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Goodbye - [image: Snapshot corrected moving to unz] It’s goodbye to drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk After 4 years of blogging, and 1,062,720 page views, here i...1 year ago
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The Things You Learn from the Internet - The Spiritual Science Research Foundation (“Bridging the known and unknown worlds”) has discovered the cause of homosexuality for 85% of all gay people: 4....1 year ago
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Moving house - People connected to me have justifiably asked that I move my blog to a more anonymous platform. Although I’ve made an effort to remove my name from this bl...1 year ago
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Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...1 year ago
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Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...1 year ago
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Anarchism - Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable, inclu...1 year ago
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Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done? - This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, near...1 year ago
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501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...2 years ago
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Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons - MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the seasons and ...2 years ago
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What Motivates a Jihadist? - (McLeans) A new study based on interviews conducted over social media with foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria raises doubts about the commonly held notio...2 years ago
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THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…2 years ago
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The Redistribution of Humiliation - The recent EU referendum in the UK has drawn a great deal of attention to voters who had previously been ignored. Communities left behind by the 21st Centu...2 years ago
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A Tale of Two SIFIs - The Best of Managements, The Worst of Managements My apologies; neither of the banks I am about to discuss was ever large enough to be considered a SIFI (S...2 years ago
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My Blog Has Moved Again! - My new blog location is www.richardcarrier.info. I will maintain this old blog as a historical archive as I did before. But every other post I've blogged s...2 years ago
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Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a joint statement a...2 years ago
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EU vote: Scotland will ruin UK’s chance of a Brexit - If you could pick one person from British society and be certain they would vote Remain, who would you choose?2 years ago
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‘Gen Why?’ – Perception Deception - “Most days are full of meaningless uninvited interactions with the same kind of simple minded individuals, that indeed would have definitely complained abo...2 years ago
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My blog moving to my website - I just wanted to give a heads up to readers that I have moved my blog to my website, which now houses all my work, videos, press coverage, photos and more....2 years ago
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Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...2 years ago
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The Original Know-Nothings Were Largely Northeasterners - In the year 1854, the Native American, or Know-Nothing Party rapidly emerged as a political force, to almost as rapidly disappear in succeeding years as a ...2 years ago
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結婚したい！それなら電話占いピュアリの占い師に聞いてみよう！ - 結婚したい皆さん、なかなかいい出会いがないと思っている方も多いかと思います。 そんな時は占い師さんに色々聞いた […]2 years ago
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The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...2 years ago
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Along came Phil - Gramm, former Senator from the state of Texas to set a few facts straight in the Wall Street Journal about the cause of the financial crisis. I.e., it wasn...2 years ago
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Fiscal Policy and the ZLB - I have been doing some reading for my undergraduate thesis, which looks at the role of credit-supply shocks in the Spain during its housing boom and bust, ...2 years ago
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Comments on the Democratic Debate in Miami - This was truly the most bizarre debate I've ever seen. The level of questioning from the three interviewers, two from Univision, a Spanish-language network...2 years ago
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By: the unBalanced ecoLOGist | The Unbalanced Ecologist - […] weeks ago, I was invited to write a commentary about an online essay written by Erle Ellis for the Social Evolution Forum (a project of the Evolution I...2 years ago
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Samurai Gifts - The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late sixteenth and ...2 years ago
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The Mayhem of GOP Class Politics in 2016 - Majority Report Radio conversation with Michael Brooks on the piece I wrote for the National on the political insurgency in the Republican mainstream. In A...2 years ago
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Where are the “devaluationists”? - A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section on policy op...2 years ago
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History’s Most Exciting Period - What is my favorite period of history? While I love both the ancient-classical and medieval worlds (to use an oversimplification of time not equally applic...2 years ago
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I have written six book reviews this year - What a rare thing – a blog post. At the end of another writingful year I thought it worth noting a few of the achievements now likely to vanish into poster...2 years ago
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Changing Stations - At the beginning of October, I packed up my family and we made the move ‘home’. The house is fairly new, but the place is old. It has a lot of history...2 years ago
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Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia. - Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia....2 years ago
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Salvaging the Tatters of the Obama Doctrine - When president Obama told George Stephanopoulos only hours before the Paris attack that his administration had “contained ISIS” he may have been wrong but ...2 years ago
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Podcast #363: The Future of America, Vulnerability, Cheating, and More - On Sunday’s episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, Greg Perkins and I answered questions on the future of the United States, the value of vulnerability, ch...3 years ago
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We've Moved - Effective September 9, 2015, the Mischiefs of Faction is now located at Vox.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, ...3 years ago
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ニキビと遺伝の関係について - ニキビが出来やすい肌は遺伝するのだろうか…と思ったことはありませんか？ 親もニキビが出来やすい肌の場合、子どももそうなるのでしょうか。 ■ニキビが出来やすい肌とは ニキビが出来やすい肌というものは、実際にあるのです。 そ […]3 years ago
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A few more thoughts on monopsony and the minimum wage (and what I think is a much stronger post from Don) - In the last post I noted that monopsony is definitely not the only and not even really the best theoretical argument for why we see no disemployment effect...3 years ago
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Book Review: Intelligence (2015) by Stuart Ritchie - An Uphill Battle It’s no easy task to explain why intelligence is so important. The reason for this is oddly enough that many highly intelligent people i...3 years ago
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A CryptoFiction - Here’s a micro-story I started with the Access Crypto Summit flash fiction prompt in mind, left half done, and then belatedly finished off anyway, because ...3 years ago
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Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie. - Further to my Canada Day column Finding the Right Words for Canada’s History I thought I’d put this up. It’s from Rain Language, a long poem in translation...3 years ago
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It Is Accomplished - As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had...3 years ago
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Retro Review of The Collapsium (2000) - *"Retro Review of * *The Collapsium* *© 2000 by** Wil McCarthy* * Review* *© 2015 by Jordan S. Bassior *3 years ago
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Inflation and Deflation – Economics A2 Level Unit 4 - A short video on the joys of inflation (and deflation) covering their causes and [...]3 years ago
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Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef - In the last few days I’ve carefully read comments emanating from the Coalition government that suggested an undue intervention in Australian politics by Pr...3 years ago
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Our first virtual Screenwriting Workshop! - T woke up on Monday with the idea, bubbling with notions, and I think it's a fabulous way to explore the new media potentials for a virtual classroom. We c...4 years ago
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What does my research contribute to our understanding of the Hong Kong protests? - Did Xi Jinping miscalculate by not allowing free elections in Hong Kong? We cannot know whether the Chinese leadership expected protests of this magnitude,...4 years ago
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Taxation vs. Expropriation - What’s the difference between a 50% marginal tax rate on income vs. 50% expropriation by a kleptocratic ruler or corrupt officials? Some models might sug...4 years ago
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Families and time preferences: Should a libertarian society be childfree and polyamorous? - Usually when libertarians talk about marriage, it’s about how the government shouldn’t be involved. When we talk about children, we debate whether or not w...4 years ago
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Why Indians are Too Stupid to Build Toilets – were it not for the Media! - There has been a ghastly rape in some Indian village. Two girls got raped and later hanged by the perpetrators after “they left their toilet-less home duri...4 years ago
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By: Anonymous - Great article, however, I don't see yet a study explaining the effects of Cannabis being freed completely overnight, lifting all restrictions and allowing ...4 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner4 years ago
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Why Monetary Policy Should Ignore Financial Stability - Financial stability is apparently the new hot reason to tighten monetary policy, and in this article for Quartz I go in on some reasons for why this is a h...4 years ago
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Governance, aesthetics and architecture - I have been meaning to write up a few thoughts that came out of a beer-fueled conversation with a friend some weeks ago. We both lived in Austin, TX for so...4 years ago
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Norman Geras: 1943-2013 - I am very sad to announce that Norm died in Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge in the early hours of this morning. Writing this blog, and communicating wi...5 years ago
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OxcOOd1199 Error - Windows Media Player is a great way to view your favorite movie content. However, with the program comes the risk of the occasional OxcOOd1199 error occuri...5 years ago
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Have You Heard Your Inner Voice Today? - New Study Shows There's A Reason Why We "Hear" Our Inner Voice5 years ago
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Jide Who Played Jesus to be Ordained - *MEDIA *INFORMATION *NEWS FROM THE EAST HAM TEAM* For Immediate Use 11 June 2013 *Jide who played Jesus to be ordained* The man who played Jesus in the Ne...5 years ago
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In which I amuse myself at a government ministers expense. - Now funnily enough I happen to live in the town where this has just happened. This may be the furthest south any group has landed, to put it in perspecti...5 years ago
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Another take on the “game of musical chairs” view of business cycle - Britmouse did a post that describes Scott Sumner´s “game of musical chairs” view of business cycles. I thought it interesting to see how it compares to the...5 years ago
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Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe - But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure gues...5 years ago
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An Independent Wild Hunt - We at the Patheos Pagan channel bid The Wild Hunt much luck in its new phase as an independent website. To catch the latest from TWH, please check out wild...6 years ago
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La Ghalib illa Allah - This was the Nasrid motto and means “There is no victor/conqueror except God. It is inscribed hundreds of times all over the Alhambra, appearing even more ...6 years ago
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Modeled Behavior’s RSS Feed - Hopefully within the next day or two we will be able to get Modeled Behavior.com to redirect to our Forbes Blog. Yet, it looks as if there is no way to ge...6 years ago
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Actually, maybe it is the NGDP after all - I’ve gotten a lot of really smart pushback on my claims about the UK economy, and I think I have significantly underestimated what I already believed to be...6 years ago
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“Bernanke invites Scott Sumner for lunch” - “Oct. 31 (Boomberg) US stock market closed sharply up after the Federal Reserve Bank announced that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has invited Bentl...6 years ago
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One Law for All campaign in Turkish media - Here's an article quoting an interview with me on Sharia law and One Law for All published in Turkish media.7 years ago
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The tax forum as a platform for a grand bargain? - In his Challenges of Federation speech we referred to in a previous article, Prime Minister’s Department Secretary Terry Moran said: *There are business l...7 years ago
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The satisfaction of learning a new skill - Today I learned how to do short row shaping in knitting. It's a technique that is easy to do, and hard to explain. I've tried several times in the past. so...7 years ago
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How to motivate a geek - How do you motivate a geek? With geek motivational posters of course! I've seen a few of these before, but Blastr has 16 in total. If you're a geek -- and ...7 years ago
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The Rand Paul reality for gays - Some Republicans are trying to brush it off as the kind of debate you have in you freshman dorm at 2 a.m. Not so for us gays. The objection raised by Rand ...8 years ago
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