Thinking Out Aloud: August 2013

Blog List

Vox - All

Avengers: Endgame is being rereleased in theaters with new post-credits scenes - The new scenes will appear on June 28. *Avengers: Endgame*, the concluding chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s 11-year Infinity Saga, isn’t quite...
7 minutes ago
Tommy Ousslander

Finally, it's happened to me - It has only taking a lifetime but I've finally released my first novel, Feral Creatures, a gay paranormal erotic thriller. Say that ten times, fast. Now...
23 minutes ago
Philosoraptor

Jewish Community Relations Council Of NY Condems AOC's Holocaust / Concentration Camp Analogies - link Here's a hint: the Nazis weren't like: well, you can come in and apply for asylum and we'll give you some public assistance...but if so, you've got to...
30 minutes ago
PrawfsBlawg

On professional decline - This Atlantic essay from Arthur C. Brooks, until this week the president of the AEI, is fascinating. I am the age (51) that Brooks was when he overheard th...
41 minutes ago
Discover Blogs

NASA's Successor to the Hubble Telescope Inches Closer to Launch - The James Webb Space Telescope -- minus the telescope -- recently underwent another round of testing. (Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn) The James Webb Space Telesc...
45 minutes ago
Blazing Cat Fur

Germany Accused Of Downplaying Antisemitic Attacks By Muslims - “Under the guise of ‘Israel criticism,’ they use classic anti-Semitic stereotypes, identifying Israel as having ‘Jewish characteristics’: ‘domineering,’ ‘g...
46 minutes ago
The Burning Platform

Thanks to sanctuary state policy, double-rapist could re-attack victim - Hat tip RiNS Guest Post by Dori Monson Our top story today is absolutely horrifying, and another example of the complete failure of our governor, attorney ...
58 minutes ago
Brown Pundits

Brown Pundits on Social Media- - We are now producing excellent content both on the blog & podcast; it’s time we really tried to push out our product on more platforms. Please Like Brown P...
1 hour ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

New Kurdish Govt Moving Forward Despite KDP-PUK Split - Nechirvan Barzani the new KRG President (KRG) On June 10 Nechirvan Barzani was named as the new Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) president. The next day...
1 hour ago
Scott Adams Blog

Episode 571 Scott Adams: Hacking the Algorithm and Other Stuff - Content: Joe Biden and Don Lemon both STILL spreading “FPH” My “FPH” test video…YouTube algorithm quickly demonetized it Reverse engineering YouTube’s ...
1 hour ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

Wednesday: Hili dialogue - At least for this week we’ll continue with Grania’s format for the dialogue, as well as using only the tweets she sent me. As she is not around to add the...
1 hour ago
PinkNews

US high schoolers suspended for burning Pride flag, yelling ‘all gays die’ - Their football coach said the incident "sickens" him. The post US high schoolers suspended for burning Pride flag, yelling ‘all gays die’ appeared first...
1 hour ago
Thought Catalog

The 7 Youngest Girls To Have A Baby In World History (The Youngest Was Only 5!) - Here are seven amazing cases—all of them verified by medical science—of females who gave birth between ages five and eight.
1 hour ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Trump - a man ffor some seasons - I have very mixed feelings and thoughts about the man: 1. I like his economic policies. I don't believe any of the Democrat ravings about his policies bein...
1 hour ago
Vox Popoli

Now on Unauthorized - - Owen Benjamin live in Los Angeles with Jesse Lee Peterson. - The Legend Chuck Dixon on his favorite characters. (subscribers only) - The second ...
1 hour ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

Federal Reserve Talking Points for Bloomberg: June 19, 2019 - For ten years now, the Federal Reserve has: * overestimated how fast the economy will grow without exceptional support. * underestimated how many people th...
1 hour ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

The snark intensifies - Many of us have long enjoyed satirical Web sites such as Duffelblog or the Babylon Bee. Now comes news that IMAO is putting up political satire as well. ...
1 hour ago
macrobusiness.com.au

Australian housing values slowly deflate back to earth - By Leith van Onselen The ABS on Tuesday released its property price data for the March quarter, which valued Australia’s dwelling stock owned by househol...
2 hours ago
The Federalist

If It Were Up To Jon Stewart, ‘Hamilton’ Never Would’ve Been Made - Jon Stewart's sassy segment mocking Lin-Manuel Miranda in 2009 did not age well.
2 hours ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

University in Missouri to Offer ‘Witnessing Whiteness’ Program for Faculty - “white people voluntarily coming together to do work around racism in a supportive, non-threatening setting”
2 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

Princeton Professor Declares Trump’s Deportation Plan “Terrorism” - Princeton Professor of African American Studies Eddie Glaude took to MSNBC this week to comment on the announcement of President Donald…
2 hours ago
Rhys Ford

Ready for the Ramen Assassin Blog Tour? Stop One is at It’s All About the Book! - Welcome to the Ramen Assassin Blog Tour where I’ll be sharing recipes of foods I love to prepare and well, eat. I hope you hit up every stop on this tour ...
2 hours ago
Marginal Revolution

My Conversation with Hal Varian - Hal of course was in top form, here is the audio and transcript. Excerpt: COWEN: Why doesn’t business use more prediction markets? They would seem to ma...
2 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Random patterns in data yield random conclusions. - Bert Gunter points to this New York Times article, “How Exercise May Make Us Healthier: People who exercise have different proteins moving through their bl...
2 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Random patterns in data yield random conclusions. - Bert Gunter points to this New York Times article, “How Exercise May Make Us Healthier: People who exercise have different proteins moving through their bl...
2 hours ago
Althouse

"For a liberal boomer like myself, there’s much to admire about the young: their passion for social justice, their empathy for the underdog, their celebration of racial and gender diversity, their respect for rules..." - "... their penchant for collaboration. But there are troubling signs too—a victim mentality, an intolerance of viewpoint diversity, a distrust of instituti...
2 hours ago
Taki's Magazine

Manifesto Destiny - This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto by Calcutta-born NYU journalism professor Suketu Mehta takes pro-immigration polemics to their logical conc...
2 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

What’s the Plane of the Future -
3 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

The Influence Of The Demonic - You can feel a sea change sometimes in the way The Enemy pushes harder against all that’s right and true. It’s beginning again with the media and the elite...
3 hours ago
According To Hoyt

But for Wales, Richard? – A Blast From The Past From October 2017 - But for Wales, Richard? – A Blast From The Past From October 2017 As you guys know I’ve been reading about von Braun. Mostly I’ve been reading about Von B...
3 hours ago
OrientalReview.org

How Yugoslavia Was Destroyed In Kosovo - As a matter of very historical fact, Kosovo-Metochia’s ethnic Albanians never accepted the state of Yugoslavia as their own state, nor did they ever recogn...
3 hours ago
Rationalist Judaism

Taxi! - There was something in the news the other day about plans to eventually replace taxi drivers in Israel with self-driving vehicles. If that ever happens, i...
3 hours ago
The Z Blog

The Long Road - A familiar phenomenon in dissident circles is for the super-black-pilled to come out of the woodwork, anytime someone suggests reforming the system in any ...
3 hours ago
Simple Justice

Short Take: Canceling Rory - Like it or not, the endorsement of the New York Times is a big deal for politics in general, and New York City in particular. And the Times gave its endors...
3 hours ago
Facing Islam Blog

Muslim Children in Philadelphia Proclaim True Islam: 'We will chop off their heads, subject them to eternal torture' - *Is this what Muslims do in mosques when they think no one is paying attention? * *For context on this shocking video (and the transcript below), it is es...
3 hours ago
Mad Genius Club

On the Road Again and Passing Thoughts - I’m sorry to interrupt the cover seminar again, but I’m “on the road again.” This time headed to Fyrecon where I’ll be presenting over the next three days...
3 hours ago
Advice Goddess Blog

How Is Google Coloring What You Can See On The Internet? - How Is Google Coloring What You Can See On The Internet? Brent Sher reports at Free Beacon that Google appears to be protecting Jussie Smollett from "dispa...
3 hours ago
View From The Porch

The 2020 race kicks off... - "*Our Radical Democrat opponents are driven by hatred, prejudice, and rage. They want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country, as we know it....
4 hours ago
Whatever

On the Move (Again) - Here’s a view I see a lot these days: The interior of Dayton’s airport, before I’m off again to elsewhere. Today it’s to Washington DC, where I’m doing an ...
4 hours ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

Responsible Policy Engagement: Some Challenges - By Cullen S. Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. Last month, the team at the Sié Center introduced our program on Rigor, Relevance, and Responsibility: Promotin...
4 hours ago
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

The destruction of the University [sic] of Tulsa - A scathing account from philosophy professor Jacob Howland.
4 hours ago
Isegoria

Getting under weigh at the coach office - Hans Schantz mentioned that Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s Two Years Before the Mast (1840) was the most challenging book he’d read, vocabulary-wise, because of ...
4 hours ago
Notes On Liberty

Learning Academic English Through Leftist Propaganda - Yesterday, in a large bookstore Apollo (part of the major shopping mall) in Tartu, Estonia, in a section “English books,” I stumbled upon a bunch of leftis...
4 hours ago
White Sun of the Desert

Standing on the shoulders of giants - Want to promote diversity in your institution but don’t know how? Why not turn to Harvard Medical School for inspiration: The walls were entirely bare. Thi...
4 hours ago
Alexander Boot

It’s time we learned the ABC of politics - Watching Tory hopefuls jousting on TV, it was clear they were all ignorant of the basic principle I call the ABC of politics: Anyone But Corbyn. The conseq...
4 hours ago
Lawfare

Does the U.S. Currently Have a Right of Self-Defense Against Iran? - U.S. ships transit through the Gulf of Oman in 2007. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Denny Cantrell) As most *Lawfare* reader...
4 hours ago
Vlad Tepes

Contributor’s links for June 19, 2019 - Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on ...
4 hours ago
askblog

A neoclassical Turing test? - I first heard of Ray Kurzweil 15 years ago and would joke that you know we are solidly in the twenty-first century when an A.I. convincingly insists it is ...
4 hours ago
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day - Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we obje...
5 hours ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

A Cord Of Wood - …is a maddening unit of measure. Technically it’s the volume of wood one can stack in a 4′ x 4′ x 8′ pile. This is bullshit because a buyer patiently stac...
5 hours ago
Policy of Truth

The Cloud Is Moving Nearer Still - Consider two countries, X and Y. X and Y sign an agreement. X unilaterally pulls out the agreement at will, then attacks Y through the imposition of sancti...
5 hours ago
Sharyl Attkisson

The Foreign Connection - Below is my investigation into foreign money influence into the U.S. political system as it aired on Full Measure on April 8, 2018. Watch the video of the ...
5 hours ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

China’s Privileging of “Mr. Science” over “Mr. Democracy” - Early in the life of the Chinese Communist Party, modernization had a democratic component—which dissidents remember but today’s CCP wants to forget.
5 hours ago
Communalism Watch

India: Modi Victory Emboldens Right-wing Goons - Peoples Democracy, June 16, 2019 HATE, THREAT & VIOLENCE: Modi Victory Emboldens Right-wing Goons SOON after the Narendra Modi-led BJP secured an emphatic ...
6 hours ago
Overlawyered

June 19 roundup - Gorsuch: “A free society does not allow its government to try the same individual for the same crime until it’s happy with the result.” And yet he and Gins...
6 hours ago
Muddy Colors

ShortTake: Back to the Drawing Board - back row: Donato Giancola, Iain McCaig, Scott Fischer, Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo; front row: Rebecca Leveille, Irene Gallo, Dan Dos Santos, Mike Mignola, ...
6 hours ago
Books & Boots

Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds (2005) - Tamara Drewe was a weekly comic strip serial by Posy Simmonds, which ran for 13 months in The Guardian newspaper from 24 September 2005. At the end of the ...
6 hours ago
www.counterpunch.org

Requiem for a Lightweight: the Mayor Pete Factor - For all of Buttigieg’s resumé stops—in Oxford, South Bend, Kabul, and Cambridge, Mass.—the only subject on which he can muster much passion is that of The ...
7 hours ago
bellingcat

Identifying the Separatists Linked to the Downing of MH17 - The full report can be viewed here (mirror) The Bellingcat Investigation Team has previously published a number of reports demonstrating that the deploym...
7 hours ago
Mick Hartley

Birth defects in North Korea - From the Daily NK - Radioactive decay from North Korean nuclear facility causes birth defects in Bungang. Bungang district is located in Yongbyon County, S...
7 hours ago
Political Calculations

Conflicting Dividend Futures for the S&P 500 - There are two main sources we draw upon for peering into the future for dividends in the S&P 500 (Index: SPX). The first of these is a relative newcomer,...
7 hours ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

Chile: Marta Harnecker (1937 – 2019) - There are many lessons to learn from these mass struggles, but one of the most important is that they show the central importance of a strategy of solida...
7 hours ago
Crisis Magazine

Treat the Marriage Vow with the Solemnity It Deserves - “If only I had been there with my Franks!” said the warlord Clovis when he heard the story of how Jesus, innocent of all wrong, had been condemned to death...
9 hours ago
Bernard Gaynor

Where are all the belligerent lesbians? - Defence recruiting was revolutionised based on the assumption that hordes of angry lesbians were banging down the door to serve the nation. Seven years lat...
9 hours ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

Auckland as an internal migration donor to the rest of New Zealand is nothing new - Newsroom reported a couple of weeks ago: A growing number of people are turning their back on Auckland for greener and cheaper pastures of the regions. A ...
9 hours ago
The World is Not Enough

Death in Egypt - A suspicious death in custody ends the unfortunate life of Egypt's first and only elected president.
9 hours ago
Slate Star Codex

If Kim Jong-Un Opened A KFC, Would You Eat There? - New corporate news: Philip Morris is pivoting to smoke-free cigarettes, because “society expects us to act responsibly, and we are doing just that by desig...
9 hours ago
Raymond Ibrahim

Juan Cole’s Imaginary Muhammad - Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires by Juan ColeNew York: Nation Books, 2018. 336 pp. Reviewed by Raymond IbrahimAuthor of Sword and Sci...
9 hours ago
Mostly Economics

Book Review: The Bank of England and the Government Debt (1928-1972) (Another way of looking at MMT?) - A new book by William Allen who worked for Bank of England from 1972 to 2004 on monetary policy formulation and financial market operations. John Wood revi...
10 hours ago
Point of no return

70 years since the airlift of 45,000 Yemen Jews - *In May 1949, when the Imam of Yemen unexpectedly agreed to let 45,000 of the 46,000 Jews in his country leave, transport planes operated by Alaska Airlin...
10 hours ago
THE LAST DITCH

Luxembourg - Perhaps it’s not an obvious destination for a European road trip but we have friends living in the Grand Duchy and wanted to visit them. So after breakfast...
10 hours ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Leonard Cohen Month, Songs 37-38 - June 19: Who By Fire (1974): – Another (quite different) version: Tower of Song (1988):
10 hours ago
Fabius Maximus website

Why we have not gone into space. Why we must. - Why do we have nothing but a space station, doing little useful at great cost? What will eventually push us into space?
11 hours ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Did Dutch Jews Go Like Lambs to the Gas Chambers? - Retired Dutch general Toine Beukering – a candidate for chairman of the Senate – said earlier this month that the Jews were “chased like docile lambs into ...
11 hours ago
Raedwald

EU hubris will reap destruction after Brexit - There was a reminder from Malcolm Rifkind of all people on Politico EU of all platforms of a risk of Brexit I had hitherto not clocked - France and Germany...
12 hours ago
Cold Fury

Equal means EQUAL, dammit! - Victimized by end-stage Femileftism. Two transgender male athletes kept high school track runner Selina Soule from advancing in the New England girls’ trac...
13 hours ago
Rabble Rouser

Are Scientists Biased Against Women Scientists? Part II - Are scientists biased against women in science? For women? Egalitarian? What does the evidence actually say?
14 hours ago
Quillette

Pop Fiction’s Rich History of #MeToo Drama - Lately, the very serious people who write about TV and film and books for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Times have been tripping ove...
14 hours ago
Butterflies and Wheels

Come on where? - A woman expresses passionate eagerness to erase the very category of women and girls. Just purchased #Period supplies for myself & my #Trans son. After b...
15 hours ago
Ex Urbe

Thoughts on a Bad Pain Day and How Teamwork Accumulates - I wrote 752 words of my novel after the pain set in today. I’m a writer. Getting the words down, advancing the project, is everything to me, my joy, my voc...
16 hours ago
EconLog

Ominous News from the San Francisco Fed, by David Henderson - And you thought the Fed was just about monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco wants banks to get extra credit for making loans that h...
16 hours ago
Chicago Boyz

Mice in a Maze - Arnade, Chris. Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America. Penguin Publishing Group, 2019. Chris Arnade certainly seems to have been called, and may well...
17 hours ago
Maverick Philosopher

The Rosenbergs: Still Guilty After All These Years - On this date in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death as atomic spies for the Soviet Union. They were most certainly guilty as we now know. Bu...
17 hours ago
Old European culture

Sowing - In Serbia in the past people lived in extended families called "zadruga". When grain needed to be sown, the family would choose one man to do all the sowin...
18 hours ago
Caracas Chronicles

Talking Censorship with Desorden Público - A true Venezuelan institution, the band just played in Berkeley, California, and gave us a chance to think on the meaning of being an artist in today’s V...
18 hours ago
TheMoneyIllusion

Will Libra impinge on monetary policy? - Here’s Tyler Cowen, discussing the proposed new Facebook cryptocurrency called “Libra”: 4. We are told “The association does not set monetary policy. It m...
18 hours ago
neo-neocon

Straka sues - Brandon Straka is the founder of the #WalkAway movement. A gay man and former liberal, Straka recently left the Democratic Party and made a YouTube video a...
18 hours ago
The New Neo

Straka sues - Brandon Straka is the founder of the #WalkAway movement. A gay man and former liberal, Straka recently left the Democratic Party and made a YouTube video a...
18 hours ago
JoNova

Midweek Unthreaded - … Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast) Rating: 10.0/*10* (1 vote cast)
18 hours ago
The Unz Review:

Mashed Potato and Another War for Israel, by Linh Dinh - Done with my article on walking, I rewarded myself by heading to the local Popeyes. Yes, there’s one in District 6, within walking distance of my mosquito ...
19 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Mastercard affirms True Names in new product - [image: Mastercard affirms True Names in new product] Mastercard's introduces the True Name (TM) product that lets you have your affirmed name on the credi...
19 hours ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

The Hypocritical Homosexuality of the Catholic Church: A Defense of Frederic Martel's Book - Almost a thousand years ago--in 1049--Saint Peter Damian published his book* The Book of Gomorrah,* condemning the practice of "sodomy" (*sodomia*)--a word...
20 hours ago
CDR Salamander

Afghanistan? Really China? Good Luck With That - Everyone things they can influence events in Afghanistan, but sooner or later you learn that it also influcences events in your own nation. Russia knows t...
20 hours ago
Minding The Campus

Liberals and the Looming Big Money Problem Facing Higher Education - Today’s liberals not only tolerate but encourage colleges and universities to give preferences based on race (see affirmative action and the College Boar...
21 hours ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

May 2019 CPI Inflation - Sorry I'm a few days late on this. Core CPI continues to ride along the 2% target range, bifurcated between shelter and non-shelter prices. CPI shelter in...
21 hours ago
War Is Boring - Medium

Acting Defense Sec. withdrawing after alleged domestic dispute incident goes public - By Glen Carey Bloomberg News Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn from consideration to take over the post on a permanent basis, Pres...
21 hours ago
Medievalists.net

Fantastic Beasts – Find them at the Getty - Unicorns, lions, and griffins - you can find real and fantastical beasts in Los Angeles, as the J. Paul Getty Museum hosts an exhibition on Book of Beasts:...
22 hours ago
Armed and Dangerous

While I was making other plans, teil vier - I can walk again. Wearing a joint-immobilizing boot brace, so I lurch around with a gait even more graceless than my usual palsied semi-stumble, but I can ...
22 hours ago
Dalrock

Gratitude is the enemy of feminism. - Darcy Lockman at The Atlantic warns wives against the danger of feeling gratitude in Mothers Shouldn’t Be Grateful for Their Husbands’ Help Gratitude is a ...
22 hours ago
ribbonfarm

Worlding Raga 6: World To Live - In a few weeks I’m going to become a dad. I’ve been feeling a new urgency to imagine what life might be like for a person born native to this weird atempor...
23 hours ago
Longrider

We’ve Been Here Before - I know I’ve discussed road behaviour here before and this generated some heated discussion. This time it is a cyclist who finds himself on the [...]
23 hours ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

The “Pride Shake” at Shake Shack - When I was a kid in the 1970s, the worst thing you could say about someone is that they were a faggot. (Although apparently it’s still a bad thing to say b...
23 hours ago
Sultan Knish

Jews and Jewish Anti-Semites Collide in California - On the last weekend of May, two very different responses to anti-Semitism came out of California. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, whose courageous response to a ...
1 day ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

America's Managerial Elite Has Failed, But We Can't Get Rid of Them - *The system is broken, and the managerial elite will keep it broken because it serves their interests to keep it broken.* *America's managerial elite came t...
1 day ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

The Economic Value of Household Production: 1965-2017 - Gross domestic product is not the total amount of output produced; instead, it is a a measure of what is bought and sold in markets. Pretty much every intr...
1 day ago
Mercatornet

The demographically divided Germany - The divide between East and West has not really disappeared. Read more...
1 day ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Orwell on Nazism as socialism - George Orwell, in contrast to those who want to distance National Socialism from their own preferred version of socialism: “National
1 day ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

Italy at the Crossroads - ROME – Italy is in the news these days for two main developments. First, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has – against massive opposition from the media, ...
1 day ago
Lead and Gold

The internet in historical perspective - Tom Wheeler, former chair of the FCC: Today, everybody talks about how much information is bombarding us. Imagine what it must have been like after the ...
1 day ago
Bloody Shovel 2

How far is far enough - A while ago I wrote a post on tax law, proposing some ideas that I thought could plausibly make for a better existence if implemented by a sane governmen...
1 day ago
Fredrik deBoer

life is not an actuarial science - One of the little benefits I get at work is a transit benefit. I get automatic deductions from my check that come out pre-tax, and those deductions then fu...
1 day ago
International Liberty

The Trump Tax Reform Is Generating Good Results - The crown jewel of the 2017 tax plan was the lower corporate tax rate. I appeared on CNBC yesterday to debate that reform, squaring off against Jason Furma...
1 day ago
I Want a New Left

Oberlin College and Self-Critical Leftism - The purpose of this blog is to promote self-critical leftism. Self-critical leftism means that leftists will be as hard on themselves as they will be on th...
1 day ago
The Reference Frame

Acharya: string/M-theory probably implies low-energy SUSY - Bobby Acharya is a versatile fellow. Whenever you search for the author Acharya, B on Inspire, you will find out that "he" has written 1,527 papers which h...
1 day ago
Daily Nous

Mini-Heap - Time for a new Mini-Heap. A virtual conference, “David Lewis and his place in the history of analytic philosophy,” is taking place over the next couple o...
1 day ago
A Voice for Men

How I cured domestic violence - John Freeman tells there's no reason a man ever need suffer DV again when it is so easily corrected.
1 day ago
Harry's Place

RAF Scrambled to Intercept Russian Fighter…Again - From a government press release: This weekend’s activity means that RAF jets operating from Ämari Air Base in Estonia have made eight intercepts of Russian...
1 day ago
The Scholar's Stage

If You Were to Write a History of 21st Century America, What Would It Look Like? - One of the best histories I have had the pleasure to read is Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. There are many thing...
1 day ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

CDM Fails Again In Describing Low Surface Brightness Galaxies - Empirically, low surface brightness galaxies (mostly, but with notable exceptions discussed in prior posts at this blog) have lots of "dark matter" effects...
1 day ago
I aim to misbehave.

A fragment.... - “Sunflower. Sunflower. Sunflower. Network compromised. Consider all comms hostile. No further official traffic will follow. Activate Tsunami protocol." Th...
1 day ago
Manhattan Contrarian

New York Tightens Up Its Rent Regulation - A couple of weeks ago, I reported that there was “excitement in the air” here in New York. The cause of the excitement was the prospect of significantly ti...
1 day ago
Institutional Economics

Lessons from quantitative easing in the United States: A guide for Australian policymakers - I have a new report out with the United States Studies Centre on Lessons from Quantitative Easing in the United States: A Guide for Australian Policymake...
1 day ago
Agony and Hope

How father absence is affecting our marriage prospects - A reader just put me onto this very enjoyable rant by Suzanne Venker in the Washington Examiner. I understand last Sunday was Father’s Day in the USA (in A...
1 day ago
Status 451

Everybody Is Looking For Something - Hell is other people. But as the paradoxical nature of real life hits back to the countless bedroom philosophers who fancy themselves nihilists, turns out ...
1 day ago
Bracing Views

When Will We Ever Learn? - Ronald Enzweiler (Guest Author) What America’s National Security State Got Wrong in Its Wars of Choice and How to Deconstruct the War State I’m a Washingto...
1 day ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Sorry, Mr. Delrahim: Big Tech’s Worst Abuses Can’t Be Cured Without Stiffer Regulation - Simply adding competition in the tech sector won’t solve problems like privacy abuses or discrimination. Competition is needed, but regulation is a necessa...
1 day ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

On South Dakota’s HB 1087 and Legislating Viewpoint Diversity - The South Dakota Board of Regents has solicited public comment on how to fulfill the intent of the new legislative requirement, recently passed in South ...
1 day ago
Leah Schnelbach – Tor.com

The Dead Don’t Die Is the Perfect Zombie Movie for Our Times - There is a certain comfort to be found in horror. The kids are going to head out into the country and find the weird heart of rural America. There will b...
2 days ago
The Observation Post

I got him! I got him! I got him! - This is a very rare audio clip of a SADF crew in a Ratel ZT3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle converted into a anti-tank role taking out Cuban/FAPLA coalition sov...
2 days ago
davidthompson

It’s The Everything-Is-Fine Klaxon - I’ll be busy for a couple of days, so you’ll have to amuse yourselves, I’m afraid. Consider this an open thread in which to share links and bicker. Here’s ...
2 days ago
The Angry Staff Officer

Finding Space – Chapter 2 - Welcome to an experimental story I’ve been working on of what war in the future might look like. It will be serialized until it is complete. Ian had been i...
2 days ago
Working-Class Perspectives

Across the Border: Teaching Service-Learning as Labor Activism - Summer is already in full swing and with that comes the promise of fresh, local produce available at community-supported agricultural (CSA) farms and farme...
2 days ago
Pandaemonium

THE CRIME OF AIDING THE WRONG KIND OF HUMAN - This essay, on the criminalisation of solidarity with undocumented migrants, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 16 June 2019, under the...
2 days ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

Borisophobia and a debate that should not have happened - "Think of it as Westminster’s answer to the World Cup third-place play-off." (Charlie Cooper in Politico) The mainstream media is in steep decline in man...
2 days ago
Marquette Warrior

Paul Joseph Watson: Politically Correct Prudes Aren’t Funny -
2 days ago
traditionalRIGHT

The View From Olympus: Making Maneuver Warfare Real in the Marine Corps - The indications that the new Marine Corps Commandant intends to get serious about maneuver warfare are proliferating. Serious plans for genuinely free pla...
2 days ago
The Sociological Eye

POPULAR STUPID SAYINGS - “For a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Whoever said this or repeats this must never have held a hammer in his or her hand. It might be ...
2 days ago
Logarithmic History

My handaxe - 1.23-1.17 million years ago By today’s date, Acheulean tools are well developed in Africa, and found in India too. Sophisticated tools like the Acheulean h...
2 days ago
MountainGuerrilla

Campfire Chat - Tools-DeWalt are ok, if you get a chance at a Milwaukee fuel set- jump on it. Milwaukees cordless are all awesome, cordless saws-all’s will trash your bat...
2 days ago
Inconvenient Facts

Pope’s climate policies would hurt the ones he loves - Gregory Wrightstone 6/16/19
2 days ago
Climate Etc.

Week in review – science edition - by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week. Runs that reduce sea ice also result in a significant decrease in the frequency and magnitu...
2 days ago
The Grumpy Economist

Real estate ups and downs - In a delightfully YIMBY "Americans Need More Neighbors" the New York times gets it almost all right. Housing is one area of American life where government ...
3 days ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

New Labour: success and failure - Did New Labour really ignore inequality? Responding to Corbyn’s claims that successive governments have neglected it for decades, Blair replies that New La...
3 days ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

New Labour: success and failure - Did New Labour really ignore inequality? Responding to Corbyn’s claims that successive governments have neglected it for decades, Blair replies that New La...
3 days ago
Belmont Club

Chronic Conflict in the Global World: Right at Your Doorstep or on Your Computer - The attack on tankers in the Gulf of Oman according to the Jerusalem Post was a scripted outcome that fell apart. It was designed to make Iran's armed for...
3 days ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

S2 E13: 12 Rules Kitchener: Hierarchy and Fair Play - Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's "12 Rules For Life" lecture at the Center in the Square in Kitchener, Ontario, recorded on July 21, 2018. Thanks to our sponsors...
3 days ago
Streetwise Professor

If They Didn’t Have Double Standards, They’d Have No Standards At All - Just when I think politics could not get any more retarded, I’m proven wrong. The latest example being the meltdown freakout over Trump’s statement that he...
3 days ago
Eurogenes Blog

Not Bell Beaker, not Corded Ware, but...the SGBR complex - I'd be very grateful if someone could explain to me what this new paper at the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society journal was actually about. Citation....
3 days ago
skepticlawyer

How to play intersectionality - I recently read, in quick succession, “Whiteness as Property” published in 1993 by Cheryl L. Harris and Kimberle Crenshaw’s 1991 essay “Mapping the Margins...
3 days ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

Normal Joe and the 2020 Election - Sorry if this is a little disjointed. Summer has finally arrived on the California central coast . So, I have been trying to recover my toxic masculinity f...
3 days ago
Bleeding Heart Libertarians

Economic Inequality: Three Takes - In June 1963, when Nathaniel Branden published a piece on “Inherited Wealth” in The Objectivist Newsletter, he was still the beloved disciple of Ayn Rand...
3 days ago
Peter Turchin

Impressions of China - I just came back from a trip to China, during which I and two friends traveled along the section of the Silk Route that passes through PRC. We started in...
3 days ago
Edward Feser

The bishops and capital punishment - A group of five prelates comprising Cardinal Raymond Burke, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Cardinal Janis Pujats, Archbishop Tomash Peta, and Archbishop Jan...
3 days ago
Uncouth Reflections

Weekend Linkage - Paleo Retiree writes: This used to be called “basic psychology,” and people weren’t puzzled by it. Some British profs don’t like being told what their atti...
3 days ago
The Syrian Intifada

America’s Policy in Eastern Syria Falters - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 June 2019 The Arab inhabitants of eastern Syria have once again turned out in protest against the Syrian Democratic Force...
3 days ago
House of Eratosthenes

F*cking With People - Rant: I do not believe in conspiracies but I do believe in common incentives and I believe some of these are hidden. These could be fairly called “conspira...
3 days ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

Amazon Women, Pulp Fantasy, and Old School Game Mastering Advice in The Fantasy Trip - The year was 1980 and Steve Jackson’s first complete role-playing game design hit the market. A pivotal time in gaming to be sure! Sign of the times: there...
4 days ago
The DiploMad 2.0

Back at the Keyboard - Lots of doings in the Diplo household. Diplowife has decided that all the furniture in House A in Wilmington must be switched with the all the furniture in...
4 days ago
La Bocca della Verità

Non-historical McWhorter - John McWhorter is an interesting writer and thinker. I have taken three of his audio courses, read a couple of his books, as well as a number of articles h...
4 days ago
untethered

Hate in the Afternoon - Talking about the status of the Purge and its next steps.
4 days ago
Coordination Problem

Hayek’s PhD students in Freiburg - |Peter Boettke| After I finished FA Hayek last summer, I received an email from Stefan Kolev detailing information he learned about Hayek’s time in Freibur...
4 days ago
Overcoming Bias

Range - A wide-ranging review of research … rocked psychology because it showed experience simply did not create skill in a wide range of real-world scenarios, fro...
4 days ago
4 gravitons

When to Read Someone Else’s Thesis - There’s a cynical truism we use to reassure grad students. A thesis is a big, daunting project, but it shouldn’t be too stressful: in the end, nobody else ...
4 days ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

That Eternal Question - Do you ever wonder about greatness? How about mediocrity? I have been considering these things lately – as I grow older and the future ceases to be laid ou...
4 days ago
Ideas

Why Many Scientific Articles are Wrong - Suppose you are a professional academic who wants to publish a journal article in order to improve your chance of getting an offer, getting tenure, gettin...
4 days ago
The Splintered Mind

Will Philosophy Ever Come to an End? - A couple of weeks ago, I was chatting with the prominent Chinese science fiction writer Xia Jia, who is visiting UC Riverside for a year. She asked me wh...
4 days ago
mathbabe

New Bloomberg Opinion column: China’s AI shows us the future of health insurance - Hey! I’ve been kind of hibernating but this week I got so riled up about some incredibly terrible facial recognition stuff going on in China that I wrote...
5 days ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

Gaps between elite and public opinion - In a recent post, I mentioned a tendency (especially among conservatives) to assume that elites are to the left of the public. In the survey I discussed t...
5 days ago
No B-S here (I hope)

Fact-checker? What about a bias-checker? - FEATURES AUSTRALIA Tony Thomas Tony Thomas 8 June 2019 ABC chair Ita Buttrose has got interested in the bias issue. Melbourne ABC 774 Drive host Rafael Eps...
5 days ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

The Prestige Cost of Affirmative Action - I. The Issue It’s often claimed (at least by politicians, journalists and their ilk) that affirmative action tends to “stigmatize” succcessful members of t...
5 days ago
The Electric Agora

Postmodernism as Truth in Advertising - by Kevin Currie-Knight __ Does postmodernism spell the death of reason? If you have been caught up in some recent online discussions of it, you’d think so....
5 days ago
Coyote Blog

Well, Sometimes You Can't Pick Your Allies - The only thing more annoying in an argument than trying to have a discussion with someone who does not think logically is to have an "ally" pop into the di...
6 days ago
Information Processing

Manifold Episode #12: James Cham on Venture Capital, Risk Taking, and the Future Impacts of AI - Manifold Show Page YouTube Channel James Cham is a partner at Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital firm focused on the future of work. James invests in com...
6 days ago
The Evolution Institute

Is Shame a Bug or a Feature? An Applied Evolutionary Approach - Shame seems to have two separate components. One, the corrective feedback for us by which to monitor social behavior. The other, the more troublesome one, ...
6 days ago
Martin van Creveld

I Ask You - Life sometimes does strange things and brings together strange people. Some weeks ago I had a strange experience I want to tell you about. It all started...
6 days ago
Insitome - Medium

The genetics of obesity is about the environment - An American classic In the 1960s the average American man weighed 166 pounds. Today, the average American man weighs 195 pounds. In the 1960s the average A...
6 days ago
Moneyness

Is bitcoin getting less volatile? - I'm going to make the following claim. The price of bitcoin is inherently volatile. Even if bitcoin gets bigger, its core level of volatility is never go...
6 days ago
PressThink

Key steps in the citizens agenda style of campaign coverage - It starts by asking people: what do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes? The post Key steps in the citizens agenda style o...
6 days ago
Regie's Blog

PREACH … - It has always been an interesting phenomenon to me. As someone raised by preachers (a lot of preachers), I’ve always found it intriguing that people seem t...
6 days ago
NGDP Advisers

Monetary Policy Informed by Fear! - Antonio Fatas writes “This time might not be different”: The US does not seem to be able to sustain a low unemployment rate. Once we reach “full employme...
6 days ago
glenntstanton.com

Pro-Lifers, Senator Gillibrand Equates You With Racists and Anti-Semites - This is just one more example among many of how extremist and tone-deaf leading abortion advocates are. Yesterday, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to...
1 week ago
RyanHoliday.net

Why Everybody Needs An Inner Citadel - This is a piece from The Obstacle is the Way, which is $1.99 on Amazon right now as part of Kindle’s Daily Deal. By age twelve, Theodore Roosevelt had spen...
1 week ago
Declination

EVERY Dollar Saved From Stopping This… - …should go to reducing the US public debt. I’m serious – that’s money that RAISED the debt, so ALL money saved from stopping illegal aliens from committi...
1 week ago
Augean Stables

J. Michael Waller on President Bush’s Post-9/11 Speech - Christine Brim, having read my section on George Bush’s Speech of September 17, 2001 at the Islamic Center in Washington DC, sent it to a White House inside...
1 week ago
Club Troppo

Blogging another inquiry: Valuing the Australian Census - Lateral Economics has been commissioned by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to estimate the value of the Australian Census to the Australian commu...
1 week ago
john hawks weblog

More on posters - Nell Greenfieldboyce of NPR covers the trend toward making posters at academic conferences more like billboards on the highway: “To Save The Science Post...
1 week ago
Jacobite

French Leave - Reagan-era fusionism is dead, but Catholic integralism isn't likely to replace it
1 week ago
West Hunter

Lifting degeneracy - Some time ago I discussed the idea that Neanderthals were fucked-up because their low effective population size led to inefficient purifying selection. But...
1 week ago
Refugee Resettlement Watch

Find me on Facebook and at my other blog, Frauds, Crooks and Criminals - If you have missed news about refugees, I’m still writing about them at Frauds and Crooks and as of last night I am back up and running at Refugee Resettle...
1 week ago
When You Say Tomato and Your Sister Says Tomahto – spottedtoad

Upon the King - I had an enjoyable conversation with Titus Techera on his American Cinema Foundation podcast about American public education and 13 Ways of Going on a Fie...
1 week ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

Ivan Golunov, Jan Kuciak, and the politics of the last straw (or the last straws…) - I’m always wary of grand claims that “everything has suddenly changed”, not least because specific events tend rather to be the dots on the graph that show...
1 week ago
The Economics Detective

Highway Expansions, Tolls, and Congestion with Robert Krol - Today’s guest is Robert Krol of California State University. Our topic is a recent policy paper he wrote for The Center for Growth and Opportunity at Uta...
1 week ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

Unauthorized Study Guide - Classes starting soon! I am sure you all want to get started on some reading, right?! No worries, the Unauthorized Professor has put together a study gui...
1 week ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

What I’ve been listening to lately - Eric Dolphy – Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions. A reissue with new material of two of Dolphy’s best albums, Conversations and Ir...
1 week ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

In Castoria - Prelude Unlike talk of, say, badgers or ermine, talk of beavers seems always to be the overture to a joke. So powerful is the infection of the cloud of its...
1 week ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

New Articles on NGDP Targeting - Just a quick note on a couple of my papers on NGDP targeting that recently got published. First, Josh Hendrickson and I published in the *Journal of Money...
1 week ago
The American Interest

Ill Winds for Democracy - Larry Diamond discusses his new book on the global crisis of democracy—and what we can do about it.
1 week ago
zenpundit.com

And the Word was made Script and dwelt among us - { by Charles Cameron — the embodiment of the word in script affords calligraphers of all religious beliefs the opportunity to illuminate the written script...
1 week ago
Chris Blattman

IPA’s weekly links - Measles vaccines? You might be part of the problem, and encouraging news from Ghana on helping school kids Continue reading → The post IPA’s weekly links...
1 week ago
ERIC POSNER

The human rights wars heat up! - For the past decade or so, a bunch of academics has debated whether international human rights law has improved human rights outcomes. In my book The Twili...
1 week ago
Jim’s Blog

The counter coup unfolds. - A couple weeks ago, Trump condemned congresswoman Ilhan Omar for dismissing 9/11, and all the left and all the mainstream media united around her, and to r...
1 week ago
Uneasy Money

Say’s (and Walras’s) Law Revisited - The annual meeting of the History of Economics Society is coming up in two weeks. It will be held at Columbia University at New York, and I will be present...
1 week ago
Magnitude Matters

Ethical Free Riding - Partial list of ethical ways to free ride (enjoy positive externalities). Free riding is generally economically destructive and potentially unethical. For...
1 week ago
Paula Wright

Sexy Isn’t Sexist or The Allegory of the Peacock’s Train - Discussing human sexuality is a tricky, if not fraught, enterprise today. Critiques of human sexuality abound in the popular and academic press. That’s why...
1 week ago
Priceonomics Blog

Quantifying the Staggering Cost of IT Outages - The insane cost of a network outage - per minute!
2 weeks ago
Alt-M

Fear of a Gold Planet - Proposed nominees Stephen Moore and Herman Cain having dropped out of contention, discussion continues over the Trump administration’s possible next nomi...
2 weeks ago
Miranda Yardley

Hidden AGender: Drag Queens and Gender Identity in Schools - The ‘drag queen story time’ in schools is about the promotion of a sexist, homophobic and racist ideology that pathologises behaviour that doesn’t confor...
2 weeks ago
China Matters

What I Witnessed in 1989 in Beijing - *"It cost us 20 million lives to win the rivers and mountains of China. Do the students believe they can take them from us without payment?"* Remark attr...
2 weeks ago
Ballandalus

Summer Reading - These are some books I’m planning to read over the summer. 1) Joan A. Holladay, Genealogy and the Politics of Representation in the High and Late Middle Ag...
2 weeks ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

Maid and Viking Dialogue — Results - A while back, I did a prompt asking for the blog readers to explain the image to the right — an image of a viking carrying off a maid. I got some rather ...
2 weeks ago
Falkenblog

Median Anonymous Crypto Exchange Costs 1.5%, Sometimes 100% - Gemini's Order GUIMany of the big exchanges like Gemini or Coinbase do not have lots of alt-coins, and if you don't have an account the process of creatin...
2 weeks ago
Shtetl-Optimized

NP-complete Problems and Physics: A 2019 View - If I want to get back to blogging on a regular basis, given the negative amount of time that I now have for such things, I’ll need to get better at dispens...
2 weeks ago
Shtetl-Optimized

NP-complete Problems and Physics: A 2019 View - If I want to get back to blogging on a regular basis, given the negative amount of time that I now have for such things, I’ll need to get better at dispens...
2 weeks ago
The XX Committee

Why J. Edgar Hoover Was Right to Spy on Martin Luther King, Jr. - New revelations from secret FBI files show that the civil rights icon had the morals of a goat – and that he had a troubling relationship with Kremlin agen...
2 weeks ago
Jonathan Tepper

Ladino: A Half-Forgotten Language - In 1996 I received a fellowship to study Ladino, a mix of 15th Century Spanish mixed with Hebrew. My travels took me to the Library of Congress in DC, the...
2 weeks ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

S-curves - mr-hire at Less Wrong on S curves vs. exponential growth S-curve is a fundamental pattern that exists in many systems that have positive feedback loops and...
2 weeks ago
educationrealist

Idiosyncratic Explanations for Teacher Shortages - “We have examined and rejected a number of idiosyncratic explanations for rising costs in education…” Why Are The Prices So D*** High?, Helland/Tabarrok Ec...
2 weeks ago
Darwinian Reactionary

John Cleese and Realism Concerning Kinds - John Cleese has caused some controversy for repeating his 2011 claim that London is no loner an English city. In … Continue reading →
2 weeks ago
History for Atheists

The Great Myths 7: “Hitler’s Pope”? - In God is Not Great the New Atheist writer Christopher Hitchens describes how March 2 1939 saw “the death of an anti-Nazi pope and the accession of a pro...
2 weeks ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

Materialism (Vers. 2.0, Part 7) - “Believe in me Once seemed a good line Now belief in Jesus Is faith more sublime…. Don’t be afraid Just treasure his word Singing his praises I know that I...
2 weeks ago
Jeb Kinnison

“Avoidant” – 135th Review. “Loved it.” - Avoidant: How to Love (or Leave) a Dismissive Partner keeps reaching new people. The latest review on Amazon: S***** S 5.0 out of 5 stars. Don’t judge a bo...
2 weeks ago
Practical Ethics

The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel - In a fascinating presentation hosted in March by the Oxford Uehiro Centre in Practical Ethics, Professor Seumas Miller spoke about what is now known as ‘mo...
3 weeks ago
Yue Chim Richard Wong 王于漸

The Cold War and the Ascendance of America’s Research University - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 29 May 2019.) ……… These three young universities, all founded in the second half of 19th century...
3 weeks ago
Corey Robin

What Thomas’s opinion about abortion today tells us about his jurisprudence as a whole - I’ve been getting a lot of queries about Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky. Briefly, Thomas spends ...
3 weeks ago
Gun Culture 2.0

Virtue and Guns: A Response - Earlier this year, philosopher Michael Austin posted a short reflection on “Virtue and Guns” on his Psychology Today blog “Ethics for Everyone.” If the tit...
3 weeks ago
Heather's Homilies

Heather’s Homilies on Facebook - I have to apologize to you all because it’s been so long since I’ve put anything on the website. For those who are on Facebook, there is a Heather’s Homi...
3 weeks ago
MacroMania

Is the U.S. budget deficit sustainable? - The U.S. federal budget deficit for 2018 came in just shy of $800 billion, or about 4% of the gross domestic product (the primary deficit, which excludes t...
3 weeks ago
readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore

Postmillennial Public Service Announcements - For the last several years, I've been trying to incorporate new assignments and activities that encourage students to think of the work they do in my cou...
3 weeks ago
Evonomics

Eight Reasons Why Inequality Ruins the Economy - By Chris Dillow I welcome Professor Sir Angus Deaton’s report into inequality. I especially like its emphasis (pdf) upon the causes of inequality: To und...
3 weeks ago
globalinequality

“We had everything before us, we had nothing before us”. - When I was young and would overhear (rare) conversations that my father and his friends had about their own young lives in the inter-war period, I would ...
3 weeks ago
Tim van Gelder

What might an alternative to the ODNI Rating Scale be like? - In the previous post I raised various issues with the ODNI Rating Scale for intelligence products. At least some of these are serious problems. Some time i...
3 weeks ago
Claritas

How Much Could We Raise Income Taxes on the Rich? Actually, A Lot. - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really set the cat among the pigeons with her recent remarks about taxation. Asked how she would pay for everything in the pr...
3 weeks ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Dear Racist White Liberal Journalists & Media - Yesterday, one of your white liberal media “journalists”, from The New Yorker, contacted me in regards to racism within the TPUSA organization. Here’s wh...
3 weeks ago
Neven Sesardić

A mistake in Gödel’s proof - A few years before her death Kurt Gödel’s mother asked her son whether they would see each other in a hereafter. He answered affirmatively and provided the...
4 weeks ago
Opinion - The Philosophers' Magazine

Things: In Touch with the Past - Reviewed by Erich Hatala Matthes
4 weeks ago
Andrew Norton

Current higher education policies are the unsatisfactory result of political misjudgements in 2017. There are better ways of balancing the interests of students, universities and taxpayers. - Higher education is one of the sectors most affected by Saturday’s surprise election result. Labor’s biggest promise, restoring demand driven funding from ...
4 weeks ago
TheRalphRetort.com

Ian Miles Cheong, Noted Internet Sociopath, Hired by Human Events - Ian Miles Cheong, the noted influence peddler, false rape accuser, swatter, doxer,… The post Ian Miles Cheong, Noted Internet Sociopath, Hired by Human E...
4 weeks ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Reflections on Westeros - Well, it is the May long weekend and a celebration of Queen Victoria but this year it has also coincided with the end of Game of Thrones and its own set of...
4 weeks ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics - [image: Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics] Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap My r...
4 weeks ago
Nintil

Stuff I own and use - Inspired by Alexey Guzey’s list As a general rule, I usually do some research before buying stuff, The Wirecutter is the one place I recurrently visit for ...
4 weeks ago
On the Margin of Error

The Iranian Law on Abortion is Less Restrictive than the One in Alabama. - In the past week, a number of red states passed laws that effectively ban abortion. Via 538: Alabama this week enacted a law that bans all abortions except...
4 weeks ago
Michael O. Church

Projected Release Dates for Farisa’s Crossing - I’m serializing Farisa’s Crossing. Conceptually, the story divides neatly into five segments: The Forest, The City, The Road, The Dead; and The Lovers. The...
4 weeks ago
Stories by Tom X Hart on Medium

Tech | The Buddhahood of Julian Assange - The Internet as a means of consciousness expansion. In a previous post, I described how there is a notion connected with the Tao and Buddhism that holds th...
4 weeks ago
Peter Zeihan

My Way or the Huawei - On May 15 the U.S. government put Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and nearly all its affiliates and subsidiaries on an export black list, which prohibits Ame...
4 weeks ago
Phillip W. Magness

The Attempted Sliming of Gordon Tullock - A few days ago I received a strange and unexpected notification in the form of a tweet. Calvin TerBeek, a political science PhD student at the University o...
4 weeks ago
Jonathan Spyer

Missiles in the Desert - Jerusalem Post 17/5 Evidence grows that Iran is stationing missiles directed at Israel with its client militias in western Iraq In a speech delivered o...
4 weeks ago
Setting the Record Straight

Abortion Rhetoric for Normies - To use on normies that is. Not the single liberal women, you’re not going to convince them, but you can trigger them and convince the onlooker. The pro-abo...
4 weeks ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Robots Recreating Past Temperatures – Are Best to Avoid Australian Data - AT an artificial intelligence (AI) conference in New York recently, Sean Gourley explained Wiener’s Law: automation will routinely tidy up ordinary messe...
4 weeks ago
A Myth in Creation

Social Misuse of Disorder Designation - My 3-part articles series for *Psychiatric Times* in which I explore the question: what conceptual means are available to us to prevent behavioral conditio...
4 weeks ago
Josh Blackman's Blog

Congratulations to the Winners of the Harlan Institute – ConSource Virtual Supreme Court Competition - On May 13, 2019, ConSource and the Harlan Institute hosted the championship round of the sixth annual National Virtual Supreme Court Competition for high s...
4 weeks ago
Urban Future (2.1)

Crypto-Current (064) - §5.8612 — Decentralization of the ledger requires massive multiplication, and thus an effective method of compression. Only in this way does it become trac...
4 weeks ago
Medieval Matters – Tor.com

War Crimes on Westeros and Daenerys’ Missing Character Arc - The general consensus is that a lot has gone wrong in this last season of Game of Thrones. To quote a friend of mine, “Jon can’t pet Ghost, but Drogon ca...
5 weeks ago
Nec Pluribus Impar

Hell hath no fury like a Popperian scorned - My post on falsificationism turned out to be a lot more popular than I expected. I’m particularly glad that many scientists seem to have found it useful,...
5 weeks ago
Mark Manson

#FakeFreedom - *The following is an excerpt from my new book Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope. You order it on Amazon or get a signed copy from Barnes and Noble....
5 weeks ago
A Free Left Blog

In defence of Claire Fox - Claire Fox is one of my heroes; one of my favourite people in public life. And she still is. To see her name being dragged through the mud since she comm...
5 weeks ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

Nick Chater’s The Mind is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind - Nick Chater’s The Mind is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind is a great book. Chater’s basic argument is that there are no ‘hidden ...
5 weeks ago
Blog - Traditions of Conflict

Sexual Selection Through Mate Choice Does Not Explain the Evolution of Art and Music - *With respect to the opposite form of selection, namely, of the more attractive men by the women, **although in civilised nations women have free or almo...
5 weeks ago
Bloody shovel

Blog moving to Spandrell.com - ***This blog is moving to Spandrell.com ***Please update your bookmarks/RSS readers. Spandrell.com, two ls. First they banned Youtubers, but I didn’t say a...
5 weeks ago
The Mermaid's Tale

The music of life--more than a collection of notes - My composer friend wants to be quite modern about creating beautiful music. He doesn't like to use computer programs for composing but he has devised anot...
5 weeks ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

Promoting a toxic modesty culture does a disservice to Muslim women - By Khadija Khan US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American, recently said in a Vogue magazine interview: “To me, the hijab means power, liberation, bea...
5 weeks ago
The Pleistocene Scene – A.P. Van Arsdale Blog

Running for Science: Science for Running – The Complete Series - The 12-episode series is now a wrap! Thank you to everyone who helped in the process, both as a contributor and as a listener. This post is intended to bri...
5 weeks ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Fred on Everything is moving! - Hence forth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review Current column is here. The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of columns on the ri...
5 weeks ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Fred on Everything is moving! - Hence forth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review Current column is here. The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of columns on the ri...
5 weeks ago
In Due Course | Building the Republic of Letters, one keystroke at a time

The Rebel Sell at 15 - A funny thing about the book that Andrew and I wrote, *The Rebel Sell*, is that it was a bestseller in Spain. We recently did an interview with Manuel Ma...
5 weeks ago
How Material Are We? – MADE IN AMERICA

Brain Twisting, or How We Evolved - It frustrates many parents. The kid is off in a corner, head down, hunched over, totally absorbed in what he or she is staring at, oblivious to anyone who ...
1 month ago
Douglas L. Campbell

Journal Reporting Times, EJMR vs. Self-Reported Stats from Journals. - Methodology: I took the self-reported data I collected here (which come from from ejmr here), and compared to the official journal stats collected by Juan ...
1 month ago
Den of Inquiry

PRES16, RES16, white guys only - Variables used: PRES16, RES16, Race(1), Sex(1)
1 month ago
A Fine Theorem

The Price of Everything, the Value of the Economy: A Clark Medal for Emi Nakamura! - Fantastic and well-deserved news this morning with the Clark Medal being awarded to Emi Nakamura, who has recently moved from Columbia to Berkeley. Incredi...
1 month ago
Caitlin Green

King Alfred and India: an Anglo-Saxon embassy to southern India in the ninth century AD - One of the more intriguing references to early medieval contacts between Britain and the wider world is found in the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle', which mention...
1 month ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

A new review of The Tyranny of Opinion - on the "Babbling Books" site - This review of *The Tyranny of Opinion* on the "Babbling Books" blog is one of the best yet: it's kind, and also very perceptive. The author "gets" where I...
1 month ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Happy Easter -
1 month ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

The hierarchy of victimhood - *The Australian, 27 April 2019* Where is the anger over the apocalyptic barbarism visited upon Christians in Sri Lanka? Where is the fury? Where are the...
1 month ago
interfluidity

Ethereum for humans - Note: I do my best to keep interfluidity noncommercial, but this post is kind of an ad. I also hold “Ether” as a speculative asset, so the post could be in...
1 month ago
Rachel Edwards — Medium

The House is on Fire - As we stand on the precipice of yet another election where sociopaths stand on a stage and pretend to care, one thing is abundantly clear. Millennials ar...
1 month ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

‘13 Reasons Why’ and Young Adults’ Risk of Suicide - By Michael Rozansky. Original post for the Annenberg Public Policy Center. One of the most heavily watched and debated fictional portrayals of suicide in...
1 month ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

You Can Do India With No Indian SIM Card - It Takes Planning and Flexibility, But, Really, You Don’t Need to be Daunted by India Continue reading on In a State of Migration »
1 month ago
Little Atoms

Tech is fragmenting society - and it will get a lot worse before it gets better - *Image: Pixabay* Media has diversified in recent decades. In the wake of changes to our consumption of information, identity politics have exploded. The...
1 month ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

AOC explained: A digital performer enters the political stage - From one perspective, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the second coming of Donald Trump. By this I mean that she surfed the same structural forces to Congress...
1 month ago
The History of China

#164 – S. Song 7: Out With the New, In With the Old - ACast Link Neo-Confucianism has made a strong comeback through the synthesis of its various doctrines under the philosophical guidance of Zhu Xi of the Sou...
1 month ago
Norse and Viking Ramblings

Britain's Viking Graveyard - Viking ship model in Repton. Photo Judith JeschThis blog started off as a light-hearted romp through some of my interests, mainly to do with Vikings and S...
1 month ago
rethinking history

Which Powers could afford to ’do it all’ in World War Two - There’s an old saying that David and Leigh Eddings paraphrased in one of their fantasy books: “any fool can raise an army, but you start running into tro...
1 month ago
Modeled Behavior

Data Driven Parenting - A leading economist helps you dig through the empirical evidence on parenting, and the result is essential reading.
1 month ago
Andrew Holt, Ph.D.

“Effeminate Greeks” in the Crusading Era - Editor’s note: The following essay is reprinted from The World of the Crusades: A Daily Life Encyclopedia by Andrew Holt. Copyright © 2019 by ABC-CLIO, LLC...
2 months ago
Growth Economics Blog

The deep roots of development - Part 5 - In my quest to fall behind on everything in my life, I left writing up the next installment of the deep roots reviews until well after I actually gave th...
2 months ago
milescorak

Intergenerational mobility between and within Canada and the United States - Intergenerational mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but the border only partially distinguishes the two countries with mobility varyin...
2 months ago
Ambit Gambit

Don’t discriminate against Israel Folau - This is a vital free speech issue, so I’ve initiated a petition “Don’t discriminate against Israel Folau” and urge all readers to sign it. I don’t endorse ...
2 months ago
Academic Wonderland

Near-Certain Defeat for Accused Student in Seventh Circuit Case - Normally, when an Appeals Court holds an oral argument on a lawsuit filed by an accused student, I write up the oral argument with clips. No such detail is...
2 months ago
Stories by Gore Burnelli on Medium

God, Creation, Design, and Science - This is the sixth post in a series that details my evolving thoughts on religion. The first ones are: 1. Why I am no longer a “New Atheist” 2. How ...
2 months ago
Monetary Freedom

More "Interesting" Thoughts about Socialist Monetary Policy - Interest income is forbidden in a socialist society due to socialist ideology. Someone is earning income on their money, when the only legitimate form of...
2 months ago
The Ex-Muslim

Jealousy, Freedom & Friendship - This is a guest post by Haritha, a Syrian Ex-Muslim About half a year ago, I moved into my first place in the US, starting a new chapter of my life. One ...
2 months ago
Stories by Mark Koyama on Medium

Catholic Emancipation as a Constitutional Revolution - Antonia Frazer’s new book *The King and the Catholics* brings to light a neglected topic in British history, the removal of legal restrictions on Catholi...
2 months ago
Cameron Harwick

Environmentalism Needs Pronatalism - Since New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pondered the question out loud last month, the idea that climate change makes it immoral to have chi...
2 months ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

Environmentalism Needs Pronatalism - Since New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pondered the question out loud last month, the idea that climate change makes it immoral to have chi...
2 months ago
The Baseline Scenario

Jump-Starting America - Can the United States grow faster, create more good jobs, and genuinely spread opportunity? Yes: by investing more in science and technology, by placing th...
2 months ago
Semi-Partisan Politics

Faith, Doubt and Brexit - A warning about the disturbing fundamentalism of Continuity Remain and the anti-Brexit crusaders In the course of arguing on Twitter this evening, I receiv...
2 months ago
Evo and Proud

They really are smart ... and other surprises - *Rachela* - Maurycy Gottlieb (1856-1879) (Wikicommons). Ashkenazi Jews have a higher incidence of genetic variants associated with high educational attai...
2 months ago
Spontaneous Finance

Some news + MMT and endogenous money - I know I haven’t posted in a long while, but I thought I’d give some news. And no it’s not an April fools’! Work and personal matters have taken much of my...
2 months ago
Noahpinion

Examining an MMT model in detail - What is MMT, the heterodox economic theory that has captivated Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, made its way into the Green New Deal discussion, and inspired do...
2 months ago
Popehat

The State of the Hat - One of the most justifiably ridiculed type of blog posts is the "hey guys I haven't posted in a long time" non-substantive blog posts, but nonetheless, her...
2 months ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Redacted Smollett Investigation - [image: JC133190 redacted and scanned 1] Click here to Download
2 months ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Redacted Smollett Investigation - [image: JC133190 redacted and scanned 1] Click here to Download
2 months ago
View on IQ

Version 1.3.2 now uploaded - Version 1.3.2 now uploaded A new version of the NIQ dataset was completed yesterday and uploaded today. It now includes 669 samples with a total of 617,581...
2 months ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

On the referendum #24N: Actions have consequences - Watching SW1 these days reminds me of that scene in Citizen Kane when Boss Jim Gettys confronts Orson Welles (Kane): Gettys: ‘You’re making a bigger fool o...
2 months ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

On the referendum #24N: Actions have consequences - Watching SW1 these days reminds me of that scene in Citizen Kane when Boss Jim Gettys confronts Orson Welles (Kane): Gettys: ‘You’re making a bigger fool o...
2 months ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

Monday's Child is Full of Links - 1. My closet is in the cloud. 2. Divorce in the UK. Deciders, not sliders. 3. Calling out Chelsea. 4. If you're worried about stocks, buy a house. ...
2 months ago
Ed Hagen

Measles, mothers, leadership, and the evolution of big brains - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } In the last few months Nancy Pelosi won a major conflict with Trump over border wall funding, and her victory flipped the m...
2 months ago
Satire .. not quite dead yet.

Tackling Middle Class Panic Syndrome (MCPS) - Brexit is coming. The planet is dying. Catastrophe is looming. Make sure you are prepared. Brexit is only weeks away and climate catastrophe is looming. It...
3 months ago
Cop in the Hood

"Stop the car or I'll step in front of it" - This was not a good shooting. And cringe-worthy from an officer's perspective. From the suspect's perspective, well, he's dead. I'm quoted in this article...
3 months ago
The Independent Whig

Less Jussim’s Epic Twitter Thread on the Insanity (or Inanity?) of Social Justice - Rutgers Professor Lee Jussim, aka @Psychrabble, created an epic string of tweets on Twitter (starting here) about the rising tide of social justice insanit...
3 months ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

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3 months ago
Jacob ex Machina

Mindfulness for Christians - The modern world ain't so good for your psyche. It's easy to get strung out, anxious as a wildebeast in a lion convention, with thoughts looping through...
3 months ago
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MULTICULTURALISM

Offended by the term coloured? Let me show you what real racism looks like. - All the screeching about comments like Amber Rudd referring to a ‘coloured’ woman rather than a ‘person of colour’ or Angela Smith saying ‘funny tinge’ sug...
3 months ago
Veracities

blank slate - *Sociobiology *was published in 1975. *The Blank Slate* was published in 2002. And yet in 2018, this is still the outcome of a survey of 335 professional s...
3 months ago
The Gladstone Diaries

Momentum needs to talk to its members about Israel - On Thursday afternoon, the left-wing activist group Momentum released a video designed to educate its members about anti-Semitism. It's the kind of initi...
3 months ago
Free Northerner

Why Are Children So Expensive? - I wrote this a few months back, but never got around to posting it. Scott’s post on wage stagnation reminded me to post it, because I discuss some of the s...
3 months ago
ThinkMarkets

Unlike the Fed the ECB Leaves Euro Area Banks Unprepared for the Downswing - Gunther Schnabl and Thomas Stratmann Ten years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, banks in the euro area have not recovered. The Euro Stoxx...
3 months ago
Bondwine Books

Impendix VI: The Morakh - After the sack of Eremis, the children of Morak were never again united in one cause. For it was the Destroyer who had brought them together by the thought...
3 months ago
PARALLAX OPTICS

ON CULTS II - A cult is a strategico-organic entity. On an evolutionary timescale, they either survive, or they die. But different cults have different lifecycles; some ...
3 months ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
4 months ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
4 months ago
Dani Rodrik's weblog

Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP) - We launched today a new initiative for academic economists that we hope will make the discipline of Economics more relevant to today’s pressing policy prob...
4 months ago
Secular Right

A “new post-ideological strategic world order”? - Pepe Escobar sees Eurasian integration and associated trade developments as possibly marking the emergence of a new, post-ideological strategic world order...
4 months ago
Chublic Opinion

Anxieties of development: emerging voices in Chinese social media - As China experiences strong economic headwind domestically and globally, "development blogging" finds a growing audience online.
4 months ago
Nick Cohen: Writing from London

Seumas Milne and the Stasi - Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of ...
4 months ago
markdurie.com blog

Linguistics and Theology Scholar Challenges Qur'an Origin Story - This blog post has been moved. Click HERE to read it. * Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is ...
4 months ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

Message Received - One of the greatest dividing lines in current Science Fiction is the debate over “Message Fiction”. It was an issue that began to rear its ugly head decade...
4 months ago
chrishernandezauthor

Social Justice PD to the Rescue! - My response to current events and the state of our society. October 28th, 2046. A day I’ll never forget. It started just like any other day. I was at the s...
4 months ago
Sam Altman

How To Be Successful - I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, peopl...
4 months ago
Easily Distracted

College of Theseus - Most of us know to be skeptical about the public statements of a person paid to defend a particular organization or corporation. For the same reason, we te...
4 months ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

Certainty is not a defensible standard for policy making in the context of assisted dying - [image: Image result for certainty]I mentioned in a Bioethics editorial a while ago that new frontiers are opening in the assisted dying debate. As an in...
4 months ago
The Other Side of History

Gillette So Woke - Gillette's new commercial opens with a montage of real-life and on-line bullying, men cat-calling, a row of men standing behind a row of barbecue grills ...
5 months ago
JudgyBitch

Going after my children is too much for me - Of all the things I have contended with in my life, watching grown adults stalk and harass my children online has been the most difficult to deal with, not...
5 months ago
The Kakistocracy

Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...
5 months ago
Paul Musgrave

The Sixth Risk is Boredom - Every chapter of Michael Lewis’s The Sixth Risk, as it sounds to somebody who had heard of the federal government before November 2016. John “Curley” Stoog...
5 months ago
Wide Urban World

Social Infrastructure in Cities Today: Eric Klinenberg's “Palaces for the People” - I just finished reading Eric Klinenberg’s excellent new book, *Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization,...
5 months ago
The Dissenting Sociologist

Reaction and Populism: Towards the Unpozzed Republic - Having been made by elites to dive headlong down the outhouse hole into the muck beneath, the common people have began to notice that it stinks and is very...
5 months ago
Order of the Coif

Four maidens, 8000 ducats: the Saga of Drapers’ Hall - On 28th July, 1540, Thomas Cromwell, the chief minister of Henry VIII, was led out to the block on Tower Hill and beheaded. This brought to a close a remar...
5 months ago
Global Guerrillas

The Long Night is Coming - Written by an anonymous friend who also ...
5 months ago
Irtiqa

Moghul Emperor Jahangir's Interest in Science - *by Salman Hameed* Growing up in Pakistan, I did hear a lot about the Moghul Emperors, but rarely about science. In fact, if science was brought up, it wa...
5 months ago
Nick Cole's Books

The Savage Wars and John Donne - Just wrapped The Savage Wars 1 and we needed to bring about a reason why a lone wolf bounty hunter like Tyrus Rechs would form the legion. Without giving a...
5 months ago
Ancestry matters

Fortnite - I have been developing a bit of an interest in the evolution of leisure activities and my nephew was playing the computer game Fortnite, so I did a bit of ...
5 months ago
Jadeluxe

Year in Career: 2018 - Early in 2018, somewhere over Nawabshah, Pakistan, at 30,000 feet. We’ve been flying through turbulence for nearly two hours. I really need to go to the ...
5 months ago
hbd chick

redecorating! - Whaddya think? (^_^) Advertisements
5 months ago
Stories by Michael Tracey on Medium

Notes On The Withdrawals - Trump announced the withdrawal of US troops from two warzones, which prompted the resignation (and now, firing) of James Mattis. It’s one of the most con...
5 months ago
Abandoned Footnotes

Endnotes - Happy solstice, everyone! I have not been very consistent this year about writing in this blog, despite my resolution last year. After a flurry of posts in...
5 months ago
Historinhas

Market Monetarism – Roadmap to Economic Prosperity – a free book (pdf) - You can download it here: Market Monetarism and Economic Prosperity Advertisements
6 months ago
Historinhas

Market Monetarism – Roadmap to Economic Prosperity – a free book (pdf) - You can download it here: Market Monetarism and Economic Prosperity Advertisements
6 months ago
Publishing Archaeology

When big data are bad data - As archaeologists turn increasingly to the analysis of large, systematic databases, we need to confront an epistemological problem: How do we identify bad...
6 months ago
Cultural Cognition Blog

Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube - Apparently the original posting of this (staggeringly brief) talk suffered from imperfect audio (I never listened to it, so I can't say first-hand whethe...
6 months ago
Money, Markets, and Misperceptions

Creating a List of Prime Numbers with a Simple Generator Function - In working on curriculum for *Introduction to Computational Economics*, I like to imagine puzzles that I might have my students solve. One of these is to c...
6 months ago
Tino Sanandaji

Risken för talangutvandring & företagarflykt från Sverige - Mitt nästa projekt kartlägger risken för företagarflykt och talangutvandring från Sverige om samhällskontraktet inte efterlevs. Under 1970- och 80-talen...
6 months ago
The Audacious Epigone

Archived - This blog is now in archival status.
6 months ago
The Arabist

Get More Done In Less Time with Squarespace and Zapier - Efficiency is key, especially when you’re running—or starting—a business. That’s why we’ve added Zapier, a helpful automation tool, to our integration of...
6 months ago
GayUganda

De-criminilazing Homosexuality in Botswana - They have pushed, Queer Batswana, they have pushed to the point that now they believe there is a great chance of getting to the point when they are NOT cri...
6 months ago
Brad R. Torgersen

Wednesday double-barreled book BOMB! - WEDNESDAY MORNING DOUBLE-BARREL BOOK BOMB! My friend and colleague Larry Correia has been kind enough to double-promote Tuesday’s releases of A STAR WHEELE...
6 months ago
Random Critical Analysis

Why everything you have said about the determinants of health expenditure is wrong in one million charts: a response to Noah Smith. - Disclaimer: The title of this post is somewhat tongue-in-cheek and I fell slightly short of one million charts. Also, Noah probably isn’t wrong about eve...
6 months ago
Kantoos Economics – Kantoos Economics

Productive Exhibition stand Designs is a matter of planning - Exhibit stand design it is vital to think of the stand interior as a totality. A series of spaces linked together. It is therefore appropriate that a com...
7 months ago
Fantastic Worlds

Review - "Some Zombie Contingency Plans," by Kelly Link (2005) - *Introduction: *There is a sort of story which pretends to be about one thing but is actually about something else entirely. This can be done well -- in ...
7 months ago
Nice Mangos

IDW Halloween Cards - Happy Halloween Folks! (I'll add the rest below the blogpost) I thought I’d have some fun with IDW/Classical Liberal Halloween cards. There's so many more...
7 months ago
The Everyday Economist

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...
8 months ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/
8 months ago
The March of the Virgin

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...
8 months ago
Handle's Haus

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 ...
9 months ago
Will Wilkinson

Test - This is a test.
9 months ago
Talisman Gate, Again

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?” ...
9 months ago
Thermidor

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...
9 months ago
Colm Gillis Author

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...
10 months ago
Homo Consumericus

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?
10 months ago
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle

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...
10 months ago
Basil Halperin

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...
10 months ago
vitam fracta

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...
11 months ago
The World is Not Enough

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.
11 months ago
Henry the Young King Blog

The History of William Marshal on the War of 1183. Part I - The anniversary of Henry the Young King's untimely passing is fast approaching and though I have discussed the surrounding events many times here, on the b...
1 year ago
Michael J. Totten's blog

Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...
1 year ago
PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS

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...
1 year ago
A Taste for Desert Landscapes

Blog moving to new address - A taste for desert landscapes has moved here.
1 year ago
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

UPDATE - UPDATE I AM NOT ALTOGETHER WELL I SHALL RETURN TO HOSPITAL TOMORROW FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. I'II KEEP READERS INFORMED. BEST WISHES. GAVON
1 year ago
GayPatriot

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...
1 year ago
Free Banking

New Release: Cato Journal on The Future of Monetary Policy - This issue of the Cato Journal is dedicated to Allan H. Meltzer who passed away on May 8, 2017. Allan spoke at the 1st Annual Monetary Conference in 1983...
1 year ago
The Ripple Effect

A guide to using behavioural insights in local government - I wrote this for Sunderland City Council, following some work using behavioural insights in a range of projects. Although written for an internal audience,...
1 year ago
n+1 » Articles

Two Stories - Improvisation Is the Heart of Music “The rest was pure Arabian Nights. Gazelle-eyed maidens with perfumed robes brought inlaid boxes of Turkish delight an...
1 year ago
southseaconversations 讨论南海

Caixin’s investigation of CEFC and Chairman Ye Jianming - On March 1, Caixin broke the news that Chairman Ye Jianming of the China CEFC Energy Co. has been detained by PRC authorities, and is under investigation f...
1 year ago
Unenumerated

The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...
1 year ago
Unenumerated

The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...
1 year ago
InfidelsAreUs | 'Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you' 1 Peter 4:12-14

Persecuted Global Refugees: No Place To Call Home - 09/09/2014 The official estimate for the number of refugees globally passes the 50 million mark for the first time since World War II. According to UNHCR...
1 year ago
Russian History Blog

Join Us at the Summer Research Lab! - Amidst all the craziness of this past … forever … I’m pleased to say that the Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois continues strong. We have a great pro...
1 year ago
LaborEcon

NYT Op-Ed on Trump’s DACA Proposal - The New York Times asked me earlier this week if I had any thoughts on President Trump’s DACA proposal. I did. And here they are.
1 year ago
ny mens action network

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 ...
1 year ago
Big P Political Economy

Top 100 in Global Economic Weight - According to the IMF China is the largest economy in the world and has been since 2014. This is on a PPP basis (see here for discussion) and all data is re...
1 year ago
Rightly Considered

Are journalists an “enemy of the American people”? - The Committee to Protect Journalists proclaimed President Donald Trump its winner in “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom” earlier this...
1 year ago
George Lakoff

The Power of Positive Persistence - Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House will ...
1 year ago
Anonymous Mugwump

Assorted Thoughts #1: Applying Averages - This series contains some of the key books, studies, papers and events that I’ve read over the last year. I’ve decided to try to write one of these posts f...
1 year ago
The Travel Diaries of Mr Wallace

CHAPTER 60. Pacific Islands - The last chapter of Mr Wallace's travel diary.
1 year ago
Grand Blog Tarkin

The Last Jedi AAR - The Star Wars movies have never been particularly concerned with accuracy when it comes to military tactics and strategy. From the start, the movies are de...
1 year ago
Gene Expression

A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM - Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter account) ...
1 year ago
Civil Politics Blog

The Positive Inter-Religious Effect of Reading About Peace First’s Programs - In our last post, we wrote about how we are currently working with numerous partners bridging divisions and one of the common questions that partners get c...
1 year ago
Devin Helton - Essays and Articles

Introducing Left-Versus-Right Book and Article Pairings - While I have spent my life living in a more liberal milieu, through personal experience and independent study I have found many truths on the right side ...
1 year ago
Simon Owens

Why AARP has an entire team dedicated to answering Facebook comments - AARP, the 60-year-old special interest group that advocates for older Americans, has never been shy about flexing its policy muscles or leveraging its enor...
1 year ago
Keith Burgess-Jackson

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) - Autie was born on this date 178 years ago.
1 year ago
waka waka waka

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 ...
1 year ago
Economic Thought

New Immigration Blog - Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe a post...
1 year ago
Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play

Sam Biddle of The Intercept Accused of Masturbating in Front of Coworker - Several female journalists have accused their male colleagues of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and worse. They have been compiling their accusations i...
1 year ago
Pseudoerasmus

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
Rajiv Sethi

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
While We Slept | New Conservative Thought

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
iramramzan | Just another WordPress.com site…but better

Book review: Western Fringes - When I read the blurb of Western Fringes – a Muslim man trying to find a Sikh woman who has run away from home to escape an arranged marriage – I admit tha...
1 year ago
The Offshore Balancer

Dunkirk: A Deliverance Worth Cheering - My review of the film Dunkirk and case for celebrating the evacuation: https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/dunkirk-a-deliverance-worth-cheering/
1 year ago
The Rambling Infidel

For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...
1 year ago
Stories by Orestis Tsinalis on Medium

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

I guess I need to say this again - Anyone who’s been reading this site for any length of time knows this, but apparently there are some drooling shit stirrers who haven’t gotten the message,...
1 year ago
The Archdruid Report

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

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

Being Human - I've just discovered that the pilot episode of UK series *Being Human *is online again, after having been taken down for a while. I first wrote about it ba...
2 years ago
"Two Terms" Trump

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

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

Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...
2 years ago
Ed Dolan's Econ Blog

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

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

Japan and Philippines Challenge China on New Fronts - Japan is deploying a warship to the South China Sea while the Philippines pushes back against Chinese encroachments in the east.
2 years ago
Joel Kotkin

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

A catalog of density (Québec/Canada version) - So, I've recently discovered an interesting tool to visualize census data for Canada, www.censusmapper.ca. Among its various data, it allows to do visualiz...
2 years ago
Andrew Norton

Improving Your Writing – Prioritizing Increased-Get Worries www.proofreadingessay.com - There are a good deal of diverse methods you can go about doing that 1 thing – you can offer ebooks that deliver solutions to folks’s difficulties, or you ...
2 years ago
Psychological comments

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

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

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

Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...
2 years ago
The Belgravia Dispatch

Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...
2 years ago
Three Sides to Every Story

Anarchism - Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable, inclu...
2 years ago
Cliodynamica

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

501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...
2 years ago
GEEKLY

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

What Motivates a Jihadist? - (McLeans) A new study based on interviews conducted over social media with foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria raises doubts about the commonly held notio...
2 years ago
Tim Blair

THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…
2 years ago
Roundworm Eyed Doll

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

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
Richard Carrier Blogs

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

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
James Campbell - The Rebel

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

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

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

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

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

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

Along came Phil - Gramm, former Senator from the state of Texas to set a few facts straight in the Wall Street Journal about the cause of the financial crisis. I.e., it wasn...
3 years ago
Evan Soltas

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

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

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

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

Where are the “devaluationists”? - A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section on policy op...
3 years ago
Akhilesh Pillalamarri: Analyst, Editor, Writer

History’s Most Exciting Period - What is my favorite period of history? While I love both the ancient-classical and medieval worlds (to use an oversimplification of time not equally applic...
3 years ago
Freethinking Economist

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

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

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

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

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

We've Moved - Effective September 9, 2015, the Mischiefs of Faction is now located at Vox.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, ...
3 years ago
Cherokee Gothic

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
Facts & other stubborn things

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
Healthy Curiousity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why the Lachish III Assemblage Stays Where It Is - Long ago, when Albright ruled the world of Palestinian archaeology, the Lachish III assemblage was dated to 701-597 BC. It did not bother Albright (or, for...
7 years ago
The Market Monetarist

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

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

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

The satisfaction of learning a new skill - Today I learned how to do short row shaping in knitting. It's a technique that is easy to do, and hard to explain. I've tried several times in the past. so...
8 years ago
Citizen Crain

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

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