Thinking Out Aloud: August 2013

Blog List

The Federalist

Alexander Vindman Cries ‘Retaliation’ While President Promotes Another Impeachment Witness - Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who destroyed his credibilty in the House impeachment trial announced his retirement this week as George Kent is promoted.
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View From The Porch

Pew! Pew! Pew! - Made it to the range again this morning to continue the FN 509 Compact MRD test... .
31 minutes ago
neo-neocon

I ♥ the Hodge twins - They’re not just funny, although they’re that. They also have a succinct way of stating common sense, a quality which is all too rare these days:
34 minutes ago
Discover Blogs

So You Know What Generation You Belong To — What Does That Even Mean? - Probably not a whole lot.
1 hour ago
Butterflies and Wheels

It could kill you but whaddya got to lose? - Fabulous. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is leading a Trump administration effort to demand the Food and Drug Administration reverse course and ...
1 hour ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

The empire strikes back... - Sultan Tayyip has reclaimed the Byzantine cathedral of Haggia Sophia for the Ottoman Empire by having a court cancel the Ataturk era decree that made it a ...
1 hour ago
The New Neo

Late start to posting today - Sorry about the late start. I had a lovely night last night. It featured a pretty severe gall bladder attack. That may be Too Much Information, but let me ...
1 hour ago
Vox - All

Unpacking the twisty genre of political fanfiction through Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham - Hillary Rodham Clinton during her senior year at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1969. | Wellesley College/Sygma via Getty Images Why we’re ...
1 hour ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Sen. Josh Hawley cursed out by ESPN insider after calling out NBA China hypocrisy - In response, ESPN said they’d deal with Wajnarowski. Because that’s the problem here?
1 hour ago
CDR Salamander

Fullbore Friday - How in one FbF can you do justice to a ship with 20 Battle Stars like the USS O'BANNON (DD-450)? 17 in WWII (second only to USS ENTERPRISE (CV-6) ), and t...
1 hour ago
PsyPost

Study links accurately guessing a first date’s personality to reduced chances for a second date - It’s hard to know if a first date had chemistry or if they were “the one.” However, research published in Psychological Science suggests that romantic inte...
2 hours ago
LessWrong

Your Prioritization is Underspecified - Published on July 10, 2020 8:48 PM GMT *Good prioritization as a key determinant of productivity. Ambiguity as a key determinant of prioritization. A brief...
2 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Airline Pilot Breaks Down Airplane Scenes from Movies | @GQ -
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CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Some Background about Police Shootings - The *Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science *devoted its January 2020 issue to a set of 14 articles on the theme of "Fatal Police...
2 hours ago
A Myth in Creation

Sola Scriptura and the Scientific Reformation - Recently I've been thinking about Reformation, the 16th century Christian movement in Europe led by Luther. As commonly understood, this movement "posed a ...
2 hours ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

Black: Cracking—Noted - **Duncan Black**: _Cracking_ : ‘27% will support him no matter what, and another 13% will support him almost no matter what, but once you start losing at t...
3 hours ago
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

Lawyer Wendy Kaminer on the unhinged responses to the Harper's letter about "cancel culture" - I was amazed to learn that the letter (referenced in passing earlier today) was actually controversial, albeit among the usual herd animals, who never met ...
3 hours ago
The Scholar's Stage

The World That Twitter Made - Allow me to explain something important about Twitter. This something is obvious to anyone with more than 10,000 followers on the platform but not so readi...
3 hours ago
PinkNews

Intersex activist reclaims the word hermaphrodite and shares the heartwrenching story of learning their medical history - Intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis has shared their heartbreaking story of how they learned about their medical history. In a Twitter thread shared earlie...
3 hours ago
The Burning Platform

ABSOLUTE **FACTS** ON COVID19 @RealDonaldTrump - Guest Post by Karl Denninger Fact: Sweden has had 74,333 confirmed cases Fact: Sweden has had 5,500 deaths. Fact: Sweden has approximately 10 million resid...
3 hours ago
www.counterpunch.org

The Struggle for Police-Free Schools and an Equitable, Safe Re-Opening - The post The Struggle for Police-Free Schools and an Equitable, Safe Re-Opening appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
3 hours ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

Photos of readers - We’ll end the work week with the very last readers’ contribution I have. By all means help me refill the tank. Today’s reader is John Dentinger, whose capt...
3 hours ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

South Asia: Faiz's ‘Hum Dekhenge' has continued to inspire activists for decades. Why do the leftist poet's words continue to resonate today? - From Iqbal Bano singing it to a charged crowd in Lahore in 1986, to students reciting its verses on campus protests across India late last year, Faiz Ahm...
3 hours ago
PrawfsBlawg

The process of Mazars and Vance - Some process questions following Mazars and Vance, less about what happens on remand in these cases* than about what happens in future cases. [*] I agree w...
3 hours ago
Policy of Truth

Tyler Cowen on the Harper’s free speech letter - Here is a link to the letter: https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ And here is a link to Cowen’s blog post (quoted extensively below, w...
3 hours ago
Maverick Philosopher

The Age of Decadence - Jeff Groom: Emphases and comments added. Immigration increases to levels too high for effective assimilation, and new ideas and cultural norms displace tho...
3 hours ago
bellingcat

Migrants From Another World: Introduction To The Project - Every year, thousands of people expelled from Asian and African countries cross Latin America looking for the north like swallows disoriented by an alter...
4 hours ago
Caracas Chronicles

Coronavirus Has Apparently Reached the PSUV - So far, we don’t know about any ruling party authority that has sought medical attention in the collapsed public health system, which should be the pride...
4 hours ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Why Facebook Failed Its Civil Rights Audit - The post Why Facebook Failed Its Civil Rights Audit appeared first on Pro Market.
4 hours ago
EconLog

Escaping Paternalism Book Club Starts Next Week - The *Escaping Paternalism* Book Club starts next week. Get your copy now and read this profound work of scholarship! (0 COMMENTS)
4 hours ago
Lawfare

The Strategic Logic of Russia’s Bounty Policy - U.S. Army Soldiers explore mountains in the Andar Province of Afghanistan on June 6, 2007. (Source: U.S. Army, https://flic.kr/p/2JtccF)) On June 26, the...
4 hours ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

Review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies, New Edition - *Kedourie, Elie, **The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies, New Edition**, Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1984* ...
4 hours ago
Vox Popoli

The decision was correct - It's fascinating to see "rule of law" conservatives decrying the Supreme Court decision to honor an 1833 Indian treaty that was never abrogated and is stil...
5 hours ago
Ideas

Two Things - 1. There is an annual "Friedman Conference" in Australia, which I had agreed to attend and speak at before the pandemic made travel too risky. This year th...
5 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

Absolute Killing Joke Review - ------------------------------ Support Jon Patreon Newsletter Independent journalism isn’t easy and I can use all of the help I can get. Please conside...
5 hours ago
Marginal Revolution

Excess deaths are down — below average — for those younger than eighteen - In the United States that is, link here, from Lyman Stone, photo here: In other words, lockdown and shelter at home have limited some of the otherwise ri...
5 hours ago
Thought Catalog

Horror Movies Streaming This Weekend (7/10-7/12) - If you haven't been googling "Rey Rivera" this month you're doing something wrong.
5 hours ago
International Liberty

The Economic Tragedy of Argentina - It doesn’t get as much attention as basket-case nations such as Venezuela, North Korea, Zimbabwe, or Cuba, but Argentina is one of the world’s worst-govern...
5 hours ago
Fredrik deBoer

the irresistible force vs the ironized object - Gideon Lewis-Kraus does yeoman’s work in this piece on SlateStarCodex and the deepening rift between media and Silicon Valley, but I’m afraid it is destine...
5 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

"A garden hose with a camcorder" - WTF??? - I've never had a colonoscopy in my life. However, now that I'm in my sixties, my medical practitioner is making meaningful noises at me that it's long pa...
5 hours ago
Philosoraptor

Conrad Black: A Nightmare Campaign Of Outright Idiocy - Sadly true: In the absence of a feasible presidential nominee, the Democratic campaign is being conducted by the national political media with almost the...
6 hours ago
JoNova

Hottest Day recorded and deleted in Australia was 51.7 C in Bourke in 1909 - Craig Kelly in our National Archives yesterday The hottest day ever recorded in Australia with modern official equipment was Jan 3rd, 1909 in Bourke wher...
6 hours ago
Mick Hartley

Hagia Sophia, the mosque - Erdogan's been threatening this for quite some time: the final nail in the coffin, perhaps, of Ataturk's secular legacy, and a hugely significant symbolic ...
6 hours ago
Vlad Tepes

When it is this obviously a communist revolution… Links 2, July 10, 2020 - 1. Twitter increases the degree of dishonest censorship against counter-revolutionaries, and some of them are getting quite upset. You @Twitter dictators a...
6 hours ago
Scott Adams Blog

Episode 1053 Scott Adams: Talking With Michael Shellenberger About Apocalypse Never, A Terrific Book - My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Find my “extra” content on Locals: https://ScottAdams.Locals.com Content: Spe...
6 hours ago
TheMoneyIllusion

Glass houses, stones, etc. - Someone comes to you with a letter advocating free speech, asking if you want to sign it. You ask, “Who’s signed it so far?” You are told that the only nam...
7 hours ago
4 gravitons

Kicking Students Out of Their Homes During a Pandemic: A Bad Idea - I avoid talking politics on this blog. There are a few issues, though, where I feel not just able, but duty-bound, to speak out. Those are issues affecting...
7 hours ago
War Is Boring - Medium

Japan gets OK to procure 105 F-35s, plans to make its own fighter - Japan was given the green light by the USA to accept 105 F-35 Lightning IIs, just as Japan announces a timeline to make their own fighter jet. The package,...
7 hours ago
Notes On Liberty

Systemic Racism: a Rationalist Take (Part 4 of 9) - A Public Torture-Killing What directly prompted this essay (actually, several years in gestation) is a barbarous act that took place on May 25th 2020 in Mi...
7 hours ago
A Voice for Men

Support Intact PAC – Health Equality Campaign -
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Rhys Ford

Follow the Silk Dragon Salsa Blog Tour! Stop Two: PRG! - Welcome back to Kai Gracen’s world and the Silk Dragon Salsa Blog tour! Visit each stop and enter that blog’s $20 USD gift certificate giveaway! Today’s st...
8 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

“People Will Do What They Do”: Pelosi Refuses To Condemn Statue Destruction - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to condemn the destruction of a statue of Christopher Columbus in the city of Baltimore…
8 hours ago
Althouse

"I guess I understand the compulsion to find somewhere to engage this national conversation... The white people who do this..." - "... don’t realize (or maybe just don’t give a damn) that we’re on different timelines. You learned *yesterday* what white privilege means? Great! Welcome ...
8 hours ago
macrobusiness.com.au

Weekend Reading 11-12 July 2020 - Global Macro / Markets / Investing: IMF’s chief economist urges ‘equity-like’ governments support for virus-hit firms – Reuters The World Can Show How Ph...
9 hours ago
According To Hoyt

The Mark of COVID by Dr. TANSTAAFL - The Mark of COVID by Dr. TANSTAAFL We wear masks at work. Surgical masks were originally used to keep us from contaminating a surgical wound. Nowadays, w...
9 hours ago
Whatever

A Note About Borderlands Books and Alan Beatts - This news story hit me like a punch to the gut. It features of accusations of sexual assault and domestic violence against Alan Beatts, the owner of Border...
9 hours ago
mathbabe

Quantifying Dread - You guys might have been wondering what happened to me! Well the answer is I moved to Somerville, MA temporarily, and it takes a TON of work to move, espec...
9 hours ago
Old European culture

Mold cape - This is the solid sheet gold cape, dated 1900–1600BC, found at Mold in Flintshire, Wales. It is thought to have formed part of a ceremonial dress and was...
9 hours ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Rand’s “Francisco’s Money Speech” [Waterfall] - Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone interested in issues upon which Objectivism has something distinctive and important
9 hours ago
Daily Nous

Discussion About Discussions Here - Since there appears to be interest in discussing the recent experiments here regarding the comments (see some of the comments on the “Illusion and Agreem...
9 hours ago
OrientalReview.org

The Hypocrisies Of Recognition: The Supreme Court, Native Americans And The McGirt Case - The Supreme Court of the United States has barely had time to gather its collective breath this last few days. Among its decisions, including those dealing...
9 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Coronavirus escaping from prison - Emma Pierson writes: My two sisters and I, with my friend Jacob Steinhardt, spent the last several days looking at the statistical methodology in a paper w...
9 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Coronavirus escaping from prison - Emma Pierson writes: My two sisters and I, with my friend Jacob Steinhardt, spent the last several days looking at the statistical methodology in a paper w...
9 hours ago
House of Eratosthenes

“Fighting Misinformation” - I’m seeing a lot of various resources in a big hurry to tell me what they’re doing to combat the spread of misinformation about the Kung Flu. When anyone u...
10 hours ago
Alt-M

Where Have All the Coins Gone? - "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert," the economist Milton Friedman once quipped, "in five years there'd be a shortage of s...
10 hours ago
Advice Goddess Blog

Perks Now! For Poor, Underprivileged Princeton Professors - So many of the "social justice" initiatives are affirmative action on steroids, and really, through that, what might be called "benevolent racism"...
10 hours ago
Sharyl Attkisson

Populism, Afghanistan, Drug Tunnels and Voodoo - What, exactly, is "populism" and why is it so-- popular? Sunday on Full Measure, I travel across Europe where there's been a rise in populism, both left an...
11 hours ago
Isegoria

Finland’s air force is quietly dropping the swastika - Finland’s air force has been using a swastika ever since it was founded in 1918, shortly after the country became an independent nation and before the Nazi...
11 hours ago
Point of no return

Albania unveils a Holocaust memorial - *Albania has unveiled a memorial to honour its Jews and its citizens who risked their lives to protect Jews during WW2. It is notable that these Albanians ...
11 hours ago
Moneyness

Bitcoin is more like ham radio than the early internet - People in the bitcoin community often make fun of me as a *nocoiner*. That is, I don't have any bitcoins and am vocal about that fact. (Neither of which ...
11 hours ago
askblog

An unflattering portrayal of social justice activists - Tyler Cowen writes, The actual problem is that we have a new bunch of “speech regulators” (not in the legal sense, not usually at least) who are especially...
11 hours ago
Simple Justice

Seaton’s Consumer Review: Palm Phones - This week’s post is going to be completely different from anything I’ve ever tried here. Today, I proudly assume the mantle of consumer critic. Yes, I’m st...
11 hours ago
The Z Blog

The Upshot - I was in the diner picking up my lunch and they had ESPN playing on the television in the main seating area. They used to have CNN playing during the panic...
11 hours ago
Active Response Training

Weekend Knowledge Dump- July 10, 2020 - Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Is Hollowpoint the Best Defensive Ammo for Co...
12 hours ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

Lebanon: from Ponzi to Antifragility - About two years before the recent collapse, at a dinner, a then (slow thinking) member of the Lebanese parliament kept bugging me for an economic forecas...
12 hours ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

Religious Schools and the Freedom of the Church - Wednesday’s ruling was a significant and welcome re-affirmation of a principle that, we should hope, is firmly entrenched in American constitutional law.
12 hours ago
The Honest Courtesan

Tenth Anniversary - I have no plans to stop fighting this war until there is no breath left in me. And truth be told, I’m not even sure I could stop even if I wanted to. – ...
12 hours ago
Alexander Boot

Confucius and the archbishop - Sometimes one wonders if our powers-that-be actually understand the words they use. I hope they don’t, for otherwise I’d have to accuse them of lying. One ...
13 hours ago
Crisis Magazine

What Father Martin Gets Wrong About ‘White Jesus’ - Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is among many largely forgotten Renaissance artists. While Michelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello, and Raphael are household names...
13 hours ago
Mercatornet

Hi, Premier Andrews: please say something nice about families - When parts of Melbourne, Victoria, were sent back into lockdown three weeks ago, state Premier Daniel Andrews identified the weakness that had allowed a ...
14 hours ago
Books & Boots

Gainsborough: A Portrait by James Hamilton (2017) - Executive summary Born in 1727, eighteenth century portrait and landscape artist Thomas Gainsborough was far less ambitious and canny than his main rival a...
14 hours ago
The Reference Frame

Ethan Siegel, not Stephen Hawking, lies about the black hole radiation - Years ago, I thought Ethan Siegel was a decent science writer. His texts seemed to be full of data that sort of overlapped with some basic knowledge about ...
14 hours ago
globalinequality

Is citizenship just a rent? - The modern idea of citizenship, after the French Revolution, is based on two pillars: one is voluntary or compulsive participation in the political life ...
14 hours ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Hottest Day Ever in Australia Confirmed: Bourke 51.7°C, 3rd January 1909 - The Australian Bureau of Meteorology deleted what was long regarded as the hottest day ever recorded in Australia – Bourke’s 125°F (51.7°C) on the 3rd Ja...
14 hours ago
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Observed Decrease in U.S. Child Mortality During the COVID-19 Lockdown of 2020 - Overview: Death certificate data, corrected for recent under-reporting, reveals a 10-20% decrease in weekly deaths compared to seasonal norms commencing in...
15 hours ago
Muddy Colors

Why Horror is Good For You (and Even Better for Your Kids) - One of the core reasons I make books now is because Ray Bradbury scared me so happy, that I am perpetually compelled to do is at best, ignite the same fla...
15 hours ago
Taki's Magazine

Hard Head, Soft Heart - Walking through Paris yesterday, I saw the following slogan daubed on a wall: Coronavirus: Inequality Equals Comorbidity I doubt that this was done by some...
15 hours ago
Political Calculations

Slicing Up Conway's Knot and Learning To Think Four Dimensionally - Mathematician John Conway passed away of COVID-19 earlier this year. Among his many legacies was a particularly difficult-to-classify knot with 11 crossi...
15 hours ago
Mad Genius Club

“Justice”, “Open Debate” and “cancel culture” – all foreshadowed by ancient history - In our increasingly intolerant society, it’s encouraging to see at least some writers, creative artists and educators take a stand against censorship and d...
15 hours ago
Mostly Economics

What explains the differences between rising stock markets and declining economic prospects? - Prof Robert Shiller in this Proj Synd piece: The performance of stock markets, especially in the United States, during the coronavirus pandemic seems to de...
16 hours ago
Medievalists.net

Book of the Month Club: Formal Combats in the Fourteenth Century - Our next book in the Book of the Month Club will be Formal Combats in the Fourteenth Century, by Steven Muhlberger.
16 hours ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Turkey’s Demographics Defy Erdoğan’s Designs - Only 12% of Turks say they trust Islamic clerics, and more and more young Turks are unhappy at religious school. As high a proportion as 60.5% of pro-Erdoğ...
18 hours ago
The Unz Review:

Has the Durham Investigation of the Russiagate Hoax Been Deep-Sixed?, by Paul Craig Roberts - I never had any expectation that the Trump Justice (sic) Department would investigate the Obama DOJ, FBI, and CIA officials who commited felonies while cre...
19 hours ago
The World is Not Enough

One cheer for Singapore - Singapore's election will, as usual, not really be an exercise in democracy. But this year the example of Hong Kong reminds us that things could be a lot w...
19 hours ago
Manhattan Contrarian

Energy Production And Consumption: The Seen And The Unseen - * Over the past several days, you have probably seen multiple articles reporting on reverses suffered in the U.S. courts by developers of pipelines to tran...
19 hours ago
Fabius Maximus website

We giggle while America burns. - News in the last years of the Second Republic (founded on the Constitution) is entertainment, as we watch the bolts pop out of our social structure. Best...
19 hours ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

What I’ve been listening to lately - Coleman Hawkins – The Middle Years: Essential Cuts 1939-1949. Out of all the classic tenor players, Hawkins has been the slowest to grow on me. His bluff, ...
20 hours ago
Communalism Watch

Hindi Article: Moplah Rebellion: Underlying Factors - केरल, मोपला क्रांति और साम्प्रदायिकीकरण पिछले कुछ महीनों से केरल ख़बरों में है. मीडिया में राज्य की जम कर तारीफ हो रही है. केरल ने कोरोना वायरस का अत्यंत मा...
21 hours ago
Blazing Cat Fur

Toronto police protect mayor’s condo from mob — City Hall still occupied by SJW squatters - When it comes to ensuring safety and freedom and the pursuit of legal commerce on Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square, to quote Colonel Trautman in the film F...
21 hours ago
I Want a New Left

Academics Demand End of Academic Freedom - See here. This is about a letter signed by a bunch of academics at Princeton, who want the end of academic freedom together with some committee that would ...
22 hours ago
Jacobite

Humanism from the Right - Political instincts at the crisis moment of reterritorialization.
23 hours ago
untethered

Siege Notes, Portland July 9: Witch Hunters Go to Salem - Well into the second month of BLM's siege of Portland, the ACLU, antifa and their allies in the state legislature are taking the fight to the state capitol...
23 hours ago
Chicago Boyz

El Palacio - [image: afternoon]
23 hours ago
davidthompson

Friday Ephemeraren’t - Yes, a chance to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. I’ll set the ball rolling with a film script waiting to happen; some c...
23 hours ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

Stoicism In A Time Of Madness - My most recent travelogue is delayed. I’ve been talking with the ghost of my dog. At least I’m better off than Hamlet talking to ghosts before he goes off ...
1 day ago
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day - It is ironic that this Cultural Revolution is being presided over by a Cavalier Prime Minister who is himself the embodiment of Libertarianism made subst...
1 day ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

DNA Evidence Of Polynesian Admixture With Native Americans Ca. 1200 CE - This has long been suspected, but the new evidence that it predated settlement of Easter Island is an interesting and novel twist to the hypothesis that th...
1 day ago
Minding The Campus

The Long March to Educational Reform - Today’s Marxist Left has captured America’s K-12 schools hire by hire, curriculum tweak by curriculum tweak, and nefarious reform by nefarious reform. Go...
1 day ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Release the Hounds, U.K. Edition: Aubrey Burl passes, damage to ancient oaks, and Cerne Abbas Giant findings - [image: Release the Hounds, U.K. Edition: Aubrey Burl passes, damage to ancient oaks, and Cerne Abbas Giant findings] A round-up of some of the latest news...
1 day ago
Overcoming Bias

Future Timeline, in Econ Growth Units - Polls on the future often ask by what date one expects to see some event X. That approach, however, is sensitive to expectations on overall rates of progre...
1 day ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

You Are Now Leaving FantasyLand: The Losses Will Be Taken By Somebody - *As the inverted pyramid collapses, the effects will be non-linear.* *Round about late March, we entered a Financial FantasyLand in which all the sins and e...
1 day ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

Covid-19 is not the big deal the media tell us - "Compare this April with last and yes, you will find an enormous number of ‘excess deaths’. But go to the Office for National Statistics website and look u...
1 day ago
waka waka waka

Service Notice - Sorry it’s been so slow around here — summer doldrums, mostly, and lack of anything interesting to say. (We also have our son Nick, whom we haven’t seen fo...
1 day ago
Peter Turchin

The Left Case against Open Borders - As the readers of my blog know, the opinions I express here are strictly non-partisan and non-ideological. My main interest is to go where science leads....
1 day ago
Longrider

Jolly Good - Well, a bit of Blairism is to bite the dust. Gavin Williamson has criticised the idea of wanting half of all young people to go on to higher education, des...
1 day ago
The Splintered Mind

The Peak-End Theory of Dessert: A New Philosophy of Wolfing - My daughter Kate eats desserts slowly -- has done so as long as I can remember. She is what I'll call an *extreme savorer*. In other words, she is a comple...
1 day ago
Martin van Creveld

Guest article: Old, Older, too Old - By Kobi Haron* Queen Elizabeth I is generally regarded as a very successful monarch, one of the best. For many years she did very well, making few mistak...
1 day ago
Marquette Warrior

- https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/responding-to-inequalities-common-words-or-phrases-with-racist-history https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/boston-tea-pa...
1 day ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Reclaiming freedom - We might be seeing a significant political change, with the left reclaiming freedom and anti-statism from the right. I'm prompted to say this by the Black ...
1 day ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Reclaiming freedom - We might be seeing a significant political change, with the left reclaiming freedom and anti-statism from the right. I'm prompted to say this by the Black ...
1 day ago
Bracing Views

Trump’s Garden of Heroes - W.J. Astore While castigating the “radical left” in his latest vitriolic speech before Mount Rushmore, Trump proposed a new garden of heroes to celebrate m...
1 day ago
Brown Pundits

The Jats and Indo-Aryan expansion in South Asia - There is this belief that is held by many that the high steppe ancestry in Jats is based somehow on some latter steppe migrations into the region. But obvi...
1 day ago
Information Processing

Wall Street Journal: Moral Panic at MSU - Professor Cesario and co-authors have retracted their PNAS paper Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings. I know...
1 day ago
Information Processing

Wall Street Journal: Moral Panic at MSU - Professor Cesario and co-authors have retracted their PNAS paper Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings. I know...
1 day ago
Harry's Place

The Man of Principle - This comes a bit late to the party, but there’s a point worth making here, every time it crops up. The back story: Rebecca Long-Bailey, Shadow Education Se...
1 day ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

A higher minimum wage and the choice to study in higher education - We are back into teaching next week, and one of the first things we'll discuss in my ECONS101 class is the effect of opportunity costs and relative prices ...
1 day ago
Raymond Ibrahim

Thomas Jefferson: Good or Evil Based on the Left’s Agenda - Before the “progressive” Left began tearing down American monuments, they tried to use the Founding Fathers’ names to their advantage. Thus, for Barack O...
1 day ago
Lead and Gold

Now what? - [The newspaper] fulfills in America the cultural function of the drama of Aeschylus. I mean that it is the expression through which a people – a people ...
1 day ago
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog

A Cold Start for the Summer Season - O*K....we need a new name.* Julanuary? Julember? Whatever the name, the last week has been mainly cloudy and well below normal in our area. According th...
1 day ago
Sultan Knish

Pro-Black Lives Matter Corporations are Using Modern Day Slave Labor - Coca-Cola would like you to know that it cares about oppression and believes America is evil. In a rambling statement by CEO James Quincey, titled, "Where...
1 day ago
Raedwald

Public blunder - it's Crimea all over again - A tempest is blowing through the complacent hubristic corridors of power in Whitehall. They have been tested and have failed utterly and humiliatingly, and...
1 day ago
Cold Fury

Red forever! - Well worth the trip, I’d say. Photographer Travels Around the World to Capture the Unique Beauty of Red Hair Entertainment photographer Brian Dowling has p...
1 day ago
Club Troppo

Thinking: Keep It ADAPTIVE Stupid - Here’s the transcript of my talk to Nudgestock which was held a few weeks ago. I was hoping to do it in London where it’s normally held, but in the world o...
1 day ago
Jim’s Blog

The left vision of the Eschaton - The left want to immanentize the eschaton. How exactly? What will the immanent eschaton be like? This is to them a minor detail that can be dealt with afte...
1 day ago
traditionalRIGHT

The View From Olympus: A Glimpse of Future War Among Great Powers - Several weeks ago, the world got a glimpse of what future war will look like among Great Powers. The weapons were rocks and clubs. Indian and Chinese troo...
1 day ago
The Objective Standard

Thank You, Big Tech, for Unfriending China - Tech companies get plenty of things wrong, but their response to China’s latest act of authoritarianism is not one of them. Thank you, big tech, for stan...
1 day ago
Henry the Young King Blog

To Crush Count Richard's Haughty Pride.The History of William Marshal on the War of 1183. Part II - Before he described the sad events surrounding Henry the Young King's death at Martel in June 1183, the author of the *History of William Marshal* offer...
1 day ago
Institutional Economics

China’s behaviour warrants increased scrutiny of foreign investment - I have an op-ed in The Mandarin on the government’s new national security test for foreign acquisitions. Full text below the fold.
1 day ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

Economic Metaphors - People who have a lot of money very rarely give it away. Some invisible hand prevents them. —Iris Murdoch Henry and Cato Click here to comment or read othe...
2 days ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

The public vs. the 1%? - I realize I left something out of my last post, which said that Americans were not in favor of high taxes on the rich. The Paul Krugman column that I ment...
2 days ago
Edward Feser

Other minds and modern philosophy - The “problem of other minds” goes like this. I have direct access to my own thoughts and experiences, but not to yours. I can perceive only your body an...
2 days ago
Regie's Blog

SOFT BIGOTRY… - “Bacon – like you might find in a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich,” is one of my favorite lines, from my favorite movie – Trading Places. Randolph Duke...
2 days ago
Fake Nous

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2 days ago
Quillette

A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor - In Congress, on July 4th, 1776, came the “unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.” Signed by 56 men, many of whom were considered...
2 days ago
Gun Culture 2.0

Gun Culture 2.0, or How a Liberal Professor Became an Armed American - Following is the text of my lunch presentation at the NRA Foundation National Firearms Law Seminar in Indianapolis, Indiana on 26 April 2019. The 36 minute...
2 days ago
Thermidor

How to pack your stuff without a hassle - There are self storage units in Dubai that are available which people can use to store their stuff for the time being when they are relocating or renovatin...
2 days ago
Andrew Norton

Regional universities are especially disadvantaged by funding based on average costs - Dan Tehan is the most regionally-focused education minister I can remember, and quite probably ever. Multiple new or expanded programs for regional campuse...
2 days ago
ribbonfarm

The Venus Effect - Velázquez’s Venus is perhaps the most naked on record: with nothing but her lovechild, Cupid, to hold up a mirror to her difuse reflection (deflection?), s...
2 days ago
RyanHoliday.net

Every Situation Has Two Handles. Which One Will You Grab? - The last few months have been rough for me, as they have been for most people. Most of my talks have been cancelled. Without retail stores open, physical...
3 days ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

June 2020 Yield Curve Update - The yield curve remains at about the same place it was a month ago. Since the mid-March peak of optimism after the initial reactions to COVID-19, yields ha...
3 days ago
Eurogenes Blog

On the exotic origins of the Hungarian Arpad Dynasty (Nagy et al. 2020) - Hungarians speak a Uralic and Finno-Ugric language. However, the founders of the Medieval Hungarian state, the Arpad Dynasty, probably had Irano-Turkic pat...
3 days ago
Leah Schnelbach – Tor.com

Language and Code Switching in Kai Ashante Wilson’s The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps - [image: book cover: The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps] It’s a question every writer asks as they begin work: how do I build my world? How do I create a univers...
3 days ago
The History of China

Nanjing & its Environs, ca. 1373 CE - [image: Nanjing 1373]
3 days ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

The slow-motion trainwreck - I can’t write about the pandemic without writing about how horrible Trump is. This is important for the audience of people who read this blog, because most...
3 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

My Enlightenment fanaticism - If there were ever a time for liberals and progressives to put aside their internal squabbles, you’d think it was now. The President of the United States i...
3 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

My Enlightenment fanaticism - If there were ever a time for liberals and progressives to put aside their internal squabbles, you’d think it was now. The President of the United States i...
3 days ago
Pandaemonium

POLITICIANS, VOTERS AND THE VALUES GAP - This essay, on the values gap between voters and politicians, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 5 July 2020, under the headline ‘What ...
3 days ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

White Fragility Is Not the Answer. Honest Diversity Is. - The post White Fragility Is Not the Answer. Honest Diversity Is. appeared first on Heterodox Academy.
3 days ago
The Grumpy Economist

A little financial-econometric history - The issues that have cropped up in applying present value ideas to government finance, in my last post, caused me to write up a little financial-econometri...
3 days ago
Historinhas

Toying with business cycle dating - In this year´s ASSA Annual Meeting in January, Christina & David Romer (R&R) presented “NBER Business Cycle Dating: Retrospect and Prospect”: “…Our most su...
3 days ago
Historinhas

Toying with business cycle dating - In this year´s ASSA Annual Meeting in January, Christina & David Romer (R&R) presented “NBER Business Cycle Dating: Retrospect and Prospect”: “…Our most su...
3 days ago
Armed and Dangerous

How not to treat a customer - First, my complaint to Simply NUC about the recent comedy of errors around my attempt to order a replacement fan for Cathy’s NUC. Sorry, I was not able to ...
3 days ago
Darwinian Reactionary

Religion As Source of the Social Emotions - Church, State, Civilization, part 2 Religion And/As the Controlling Source of the Social Emotions This is the long-delayed continuation of … Continue readi...
3 days ago
Climate Etc.

Covid discussion thread: Part X - by Judith Curry Latest roundup of interesting articles. I’m running out of steam on this topic, here are some random articles I’ve flagged over the last f...
3 days ago
educationrealist

Will the Rising Tide of Nuttiness Come My Way? - ******************************************************************************** Back when school was real life, my phone rang. “I need you to send Manuel ...
4 days ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

Make-Up Policy: Where Art Thou? - As we head into the second half of the year, the swift recovery many were hoping for is facing an uncertain future. The resurgence of the COVID-19 virus an...
4 days ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

Should the Jefferson Memorial Be Torn Down? - In today's *New York Times*, there is an article by Lucian Truscott IV, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, who argues that the Jefferson Memorial in Wash...
4 days ago
The Everyday Economist

In Memory of Bob Rossana - Robert “Bob” Rossana died back in February of this year. I was inadvertently left off of the university announcement email and did not hear about it until ...
4 days ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

What Can Reparations Do? - Guest post by Elsa Voytas On June 19, 2020 (Juneteenth), protesters from Minnesota to Louisiana chanted “Reparations Now”…
4 days ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

Is Imran Khan’s ‘Medina state’ founded on Osama Bin Laden’s Islam? - By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid Last week, reminiscences of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden sprung up in two unlikely arenas: Elland Road and the National Assem...
5 days ago
PARALLAX OPTICS

Anarchotyranny / Transvaluation - There has been a demonic synthesis of Anarchotyranny and Transvaluation under Bioleninism.
5 days ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

The Penultimate Men is Here! - I know exactly how you feel. More than once I’ve caught myself looking out the window to check for roving motorcycle games. Checked the news for the latest...
5 days ago
The Other Side of History

The Last Fourth - We remember important first events - the first time you met the person who will become your significant other, the first words and first steps of your gr...
5 days ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

S3 E13: Biblical Series – Jacobs Ladder - We continue with another Jordan B. Peterson lecture on the Bible. Mikhaila Peterson also has a podcast with a very special guest this past week: https://...
5 days ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

Happy Fourth of July - Myths about “systemic racism,” “white supremacy,” and “white privilege” get blown completely to pieces in this latest article by Paul Craig Roberts, easily...
5 days ago
History for Atheists

The Great Myths 9: Hypatia of Alexandria - Hypatia of Alexandria sits alongside Galileo and Giordano Bruno as kind of historical trinity in anti-theistic mythology. She is depicted as a martyr of ...
5 days ago
interfluidity

Social democracy and freedom - In 1962, Milton Friedman famously argued that liberal capitalism and political freedom go together, they are mutually reinforcing. Nowadays, for a lot of u...
5 days ago
Logarithmic History

Hits, slides, and rings - 438 – 415 thousand years ago Part of the challenge of language is coming up with some way to distinguish thousands or tens of thousands of words from one a...
6 days ago
Streetwise Professor

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6 days ago
Rationalist Judaism

The Invisible Women - The phenomenon of Charedi and Yeshivish magazines refusing to print pictures of women is well known. Still, perhaps people do not realize the extent of thi...
6 days ago
Popehat

The Fourth of July [rerun] - [I've re-posted this many times, because it's fundamental to what it means to me to be an American.] In the hot summer of 1992, I was working for Judge Ron...
6 days ago
The Electric Agora

Dialogues with Crispin on the Prolegomena: Vol. 3 - The third of my ongoing series of discussions with Crispin Sartwell on my Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics.
6 days ago
The Angry Staff Officer

An Ongoing American Revolution - The ideas presented by the founders – debated, argued, and finally articulated in the Declaration of Independence in 1776 – were not just meant for the peo...
6 days ago
Evo and Proud

Recent evolution of the British population - Frederick Morgan – *Off for the Honeymoon* (Wikicommons) Over the past 2,000 years, the British gene pool has shifted toward alleles that favor lighter h...
6 days ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

Frederick Douglass and the 4th of July - As promised, "something about the warts" of the USA on the 4th of July. In 1852 Frederick Douglass (one of my favorite libertarian heroes!) gave a speech...
6 days ago
Peter Zeihan

A Look Under the Hood: Oil and COVID - Getting reliable oil data on any country outside the United States is very nearly an exercise in futility. Even a country with “good” data like the Unite...
1 week ago
Medieval Matters – Tor.com

A Knight’s Tale Is the Best Medieval Movie (No, Really) - If you followed the Medieval Matters column, you know that I enjoy teaching folks about the history of the real Middle Ages by pointing out the real issu...
1 week ago
Magnitude Matters

From Hong Kong With Love - We stand at the precipice of a great opportunity. The government of China is doing what governments do by going state on Hong Kong. The leaders there corre...
1 week ago
Coordination Problem

Resources for Teachers in Comparative Economic Systems - |Peter Boettke| I have read with great benefit the books of Orlando Figes. He now has a website with resources for teachers. Recommend.
1 week ago
skepticlawyer

The social justice steamroller: a pervasive and profound attack on citizenship - Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue, discussed how centre-right parties have not found a language to deal with ...
1 week ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

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1 week ago
TheRalphRetort.com

The “Build Your Own” Fallacy - TRR STAFF As we recently reported, a massive purge occurred across multiple… The post The “Build Your Own” Fallacy appeared first on TheRalphRetort.com.
1 week ago
Against Jebel al-Lawz

Oh; ye of little faith - The sly and neurotic Kentuckian Hong Konger Lyman Stone has recently written a piece arguing that China’s population is destined to fall and converge with ...
1 week ago
The Sociological Eye

SOCIOLOGY OF MASKS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING - Throughout human history, people have generated almost all of their solidarity face-to-face, by physical co-presence. This has been disrupted by a world-w...
1 week ago
ERIC POSNER

Demagogue’s Playbook Audiobook -
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Uneasy Money

What’s Right and not so Right with Modern Monetary Theory - I am finishing up a first draft of a paper on fiat money, bitcoins and cryptocurrencies that will be included in a forthcoming volume on bitcoins and crypt...
1 week ago
Healthy Curiousity

The Removal of Dead Neurons - A remarkable video of how dead neurons are removed from the brain.For The First Time, Scientists Have Captured Video of Brains Clearing Out Dead Neurons
1 week ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Free Radicals - I’m part of a new blog, Radical Classical Liberals. Check it out.
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the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

France, the pandemic, and the crisis of authority - [The following conversation, recorded May 19 of this year, was hosted by Laurent de St. Martin, member of the French General Assembly for the government pa...
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Andrew Gillen's Blog

Freddie de Boer on woke opposition for free speech - Freddie de Boer what does it say when a completely generic endorsement of free speech and open debate is in and of itself immediately diagnosed as anti-pro...
1 week ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

Remember the Climate Apocalypse? - Remember climate apocalypse? The little girl lectures, scowling in hatred at the leaders of the free world because they refused to do what they were told? ...
1 week ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization - [image: The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization]The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization by Anthony Ev...
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Practical Ethics

The Urge to Destroy is Also a Creative Urge - Written by Neil Levy Statues are the latest front in our ongoing culture wars. Symbolism (as all sides agree) is not the be all and end all of politics, b...
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Homo Consumericus

Academia Selects for Careerist Cowardice - True intellectuals exhibit the necessary courage when engaging ideas in the public sphere.
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Freethinking Economist

What you need to think if you are calling for a NGDP target - Don’t worry. I am not going to write another post arguing that the world’s problems would all go away if its central banks adopted a NGDP level target (it ...
1 week ago
The Economics Detective

Angrynomics with Mark Blyth - Today’s episode features my conversation with Mark Blyth, co-author (with Eric Lonergan) of Angrynomics. Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the ri...
1 week ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

What When All the Statues Are Gone? - Alex von Marstall and Richard Storey had a question for me! As the radical left is on an iconoclastic crusade to entirely and selectively erase Western h...
1 week ago
THE LAST DITCH

A short, racist post about education - I cannot be sure and must beware of the post hoc fallacy, but I think I may once have done some good in the field of public education. I asked a question o...
1 week ago
Working-Class Perspectives

The Downwardly Mobile: How Some People Lose Class Privilege - We have two narratives about class in this country. Perhaps the most prominent is the American Dream – the idea that hard work and moral fortitude can lead...
1 week ago
The Evolution Institute

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1 week ago
Mark Manson

3 Reasons Why You Make Terrible Decisions (And How to Stop) - Everything you do in life is a trade-off. Anything you say, do, or pursue has a cost and a benefit. Those costs and benefits may not always be immediate...
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Daniel Pipes :: Writings

Explaining Israel's Timid Security Establishment - We who argue for Israel Victory watched with dismay as Qatar's government threatens Israel with ending its financial donations to Gaza, insinuating that Ha...
1 week ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

Am I right wing? - I’m always surprised when people call me right-wing. I’m not offended – I think right and left are largely meaningless categories these days, so I see ne...
1 week ago
Easily Distracted

Masking and the Self-Inflicted Wounds of Expertise - A broken clock tells the time accurately twice a day, but Donald Trump tells the truth even less often than that. Never on purpose and rarely even by accid...
1 week ago
Uncouth Reflections

Notes on “The Story of Adele H.” - Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Victor Hugo’s daughter sails to Nova Scotia to stalk a man who doesn’t love her. When her marriage schemes fail, and she become...
1 week ago
Cantercap

The Tribe Has Spoken - How Our Nation Got Turned Upside-Down Like many Americans, I am in despair over the deplorable state of our political … More
2 weeks ago
Cop in the Hood

Migrating the blog - It should be back soon. If you really want it find something right now, it’s all still there, just hiding at a slightly different (temporary) address: http...
2 weeks ago
Supply and Demand (in that order)

Shoddy Executive Order Bears Fingerprints of Navarro and Krugman - An immigration Executive Order was issued two days ago. I read it yesterday and gathered my thoughts and relevant memories over the subsequent 24 hours. ...
2 weeks ago
MacroMania

Why the Fed Should Create a Standing Repo Facility - [image: In Uncertain Times, Cash is King - Adi Dehejia - Medium]I was invited recently to take part on a panel discussion on *Modernizing Liquidity ...
2 weeks ago
How Material Are We? – MADE IN AMERICA

BLM Protests: Surprisingly Successful… So Far. Why? - I confess to being (pleasantly) surprised; I was too skeptical. The protests that began with the killing of George Floyd seem to be defying the historical ...
2 weeks ago
Slate Star Codex

NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog - So, I kind of deleted the blog. Sorry. Here’s my explanation. Last week I talked to a reporter who was planning to write a story on Slate Star Codex for th...
2 weeks ago
Cameron Harwick

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2 weeks ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

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2 weeks ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

The Brave Er Soğotoχ - These are the opening lines of Модун Эр Соҕотох, a now-canonical poem in the Sakha oral epic tradition known as Olonχo. The canonical version is based on a...
2 weeks ago
Facing Islam Blog

(VIDEO) Mark Durie - The Hidden History of the Qur’an - *How the text of the Qur’an tells a ‘hidden’ story about its own origins.* In his recent book, *The Qur’an and its Biblical Reflexes*, and in this video (f...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian Intifada

Islamic State Celebrates the Murderer of Sikhs in Afghanistan - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 June 2020 The Islamic State (IS) released the 239th edition of its newsletter, Al-Naba, on 18 June. Pages 9 and 10 of thi...
2 weeks ago
Sam Altman

Researchers and Founders - I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always individual exceptions, on average it’s surprising to ...
3 weeks ago
milescorak

The COVID19 pandemic is a threat to social mobility, as children in disadvantaged families will face more challenges in adulthood - The COVID19 pandemic will threaten social mobility. I examine four ways in which this is likely to happen in my presentation to the ZEW Seminar on COVID19 ...
3 weeks ago
Evonomics

Economist’s Open Letter to Economists About Race - The Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO seizes a teachable moment. The post Economist’s Open Letter to Economists About Race appeared first on Evonomics.
3 weeks ago
The Mermaid's Tale

The Miracle Waters? - This verse is inspired by Emile Zola's 1890 novel, *Lourdes*, but still seems cogent for our time. *On the road to Lourdes* The passengers who ride ...
3 weeks ago
No B-S here (I hope)

Feminist Queer Anticolonial Propositions for the Capitalocene - QED 10th June 2020 Comments (20) Tony Thomas Sydney University’s vice-chancellor, Michael Spence, is badgering the federal government for research funding...
3 weeks ago
Dani Rodrik's weblog

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3 weeks ago
Little Atoms

Review: George Galloway’s Queensway - It’s a novel. By George Galloway. What did you expect? First things first: an apology. I wish to say sorry to George Galloway, former MP for Glasgow Hillh...
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Chris Blattman

IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Professor Lisa Cook explains that black and white inventors put in equivalent numbers of pa...
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Jonathan Spyer

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4 weeks ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

Aren’t we smart, fellow behavioural scientists - Below is the text of my presentation at Nudgsestock on 12 June 2020. Intro Over the past decade or two, behavioural scientists have had a great ride. There...
4 weeks ago
The Ex-Muslim

Turkey: 28.5% of Generation Z have abandoned Islam - A recent study conducted by Gezici Research Center recorded a massive shift in social and religious attitudes in Turkey among cohorts of Generation Z. In t...
4 weeks ago
A Free Left Blog

Black Lives Matter - how should we respond? - *This article was posted yesterday, 10th June 2020, on the SDPtalk website.* Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a masterpiece of political marketing. It’s a sloga...
4 weeks ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

Hubris Alert: Recent Internet Events - How far one could call it an upside to the locking down of the world (and in fairness, if in the longer term it leads to less needless business travel, tha...
4 weeks ago
Bernard Gaynor

A lounge room chat with Tom Massey - Tom Massey interviewed me for 'Lounge Room Chats' on Monday and got me to tell a few war stories... The post A lounge room chat with Tom Massey appeared ...
4 weeks ago
West Hunter

At the Mountains of Madness - Just as Robert E. Howard’s take on prehistory was closer to the truth than the one promulgated by archaeologists in the past few decades, H.P. Lovecraft’...
4 weeks ago
Andrew Holt, Ph.D.

Accounts of the Mongols in The Medieval Record - Hackett Publishing has kindly given permission to reproduce the following source selections from my friend and senior colleague Alfred J. Andrea’s excellen...
4 weeks ago
Agony and Hope

Why modern dating is disastrous - Since last century women have been told they can have it all: independence, a career, casual sex, and that they can have it guilt-free, pain-free and worry...
4 weeks ago
PressThink

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4 weeks ago
rethinking history

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4 weeks ago
Douglas L. Campbell

John Cochrane on Stephanie Kelton's New Book: ‘The Deficit Myth’ Review: Years of Magical Thinking - John Cochrane has a review of Stephanie Kelton's new book, "The Deficit Myth". Here it is, for those who don't have access, with a few comments from me, o...
4 weeks ago
Dr. Andrew Bostom

Covid-19 and Herd Immunity Without Vaccination—Teaching Modern Vaccine Dogma Old Tricks? - “In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is” —Attributed to (among others) modern public philosopher, and sage, ...
5 weeks ago
The Market Monetarist

The shortest recession ever – unemployment will be below 6% in November - After US unemployment rose to nearly 15% (in April) I wrote a blog post forecasting unemployment would be back below 6% in November. That got me a lot of...
5 weeks ago
Ex Urbe

Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages - “If the Black Death caused the Renaissance, will COVID also create a golden age?” Versions of this question have been going around as people, trying to und...
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Bleeding Heart Libertarians

The End - Back in 2011, a group of academic philosophers started a blog called “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” The idea behind that blog was simple, but also somewh...
5 weeks ago
The Arabist

Links April-May 2020 - Belated linkdump… * The American Virus | LRB Elliot Weinberger on Trump and Covid. * No Bark, No Bite | Jewish Currents Peter Beinart: "With each passing w...
5 weeks ago
Coyote Blog

George Floyd, A Memo to Conservatives - A good many of my conservative friends are in shock at the reaction to the killing of George Floyd. "We saw the video. We agree its awful. No one we kn...
5 weeks ago
Setting the Record Straight

Blaq Violence & Aidan’s Guide to Da Streetz - Blacks get extremely pissed when the cops arrest and kill them because they are used to getting away with crimes. They resist arrest because they are used ...
5 weeks ago
Overlawyered

A good run: Overlawyered, 1999-2020 - I published the first Overlawyered post on July 1, 1999, and I expect this post on May 31, 2020 will be the last. As someone in the entertainment world onc...
5 weeks ago
Stories by Tom X Hart on Medium

Jordan Peterson is wrong about meaning - He offers a meaningless world. Jordan Peterson claims that his work will provide people with a meaningful life, but he does not actually understand the nat...
5 weeks ago
Rabble Rouser

Political Biases in Academia - A list of mostly peer-reviewed articles and academic books and chapters addressing the problem of political bias in academia.
1 month ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

I Was Going to Blog about a Rebuttal - …to my assessment of the problem with anime fandom, but Bradford C. Walker, author of Star Knight Saga, does a far better job of assessing them than I ever...
1 month ago
john hawks weblog

Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials - The archaeological site of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is one of the most significant early Neolithic villages to have been excavated. It was occu...
1 month ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

Not which ones, but how many? - Perspective on research from Guoer Liu, doctoral student in Political Science, and recipient of the 2019 Roy Pierce Award “Not which ones, but how many” i...
1 month ago
A Fine Theorem

Alberto Alesina and Oliver Williamson: Taking Political and Economic Frictions Seriously - Very sad news this week for the economics community: both Oliver Williamson and Alberto Alesina have passed away. Williamson has been in poor health for so...
1 month ago
Talisman Gate, Again

This is the best time for America to quit Iraq - (7400 words; approximate reading time 57 mins) The Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against the Iranian regime has bifurcated into two co...
1 month ago
Priceonomics Blog

How Many Healthcare Workers Have Gotten Coronavirus? - According to our estimate 10.9% of coronavirus cases in the United States are healthcare workers.
1 month ago
Inconvenient Facts

Naomi Seibt, the anti-Greta, needs your financial support now - Guest post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
1 month ago
The DiploMad 2.0

Not a Whiff of Scandal . . . Yeah, Right, Joe. Sure thing . . . - OK. I was going to write a long warm up/intro to the main topic of this piece, but my anger level kept rising. In light of that, therefore, let me drop the...
1 month ago
Opinion - The Philosophers' Magazine

Philosophy, In a Sense - Constantine Sandis on Doing Nothing in the Time of Covid-19
1 month ago
glenntstanton.com

Is Science Our One True Source of Finding Truth? - We are hearing, especially in the midst of the COVID crisis, that science is the only true and reliable means of finding truth. But is this true? Ironicall...
1 month ago
Neven Sesardić

LSE, Lakatos, and disappearing biographies - In my book When Reason Goes on Holiday (Encounter 2016) I argued that the biography of Imre Lakatos at the London School of Economics website was economica...
1 month ago
Augean Stables

Profiles in Lethal Journalism: Janine de Giovanni, She Who Cannot Err - The following is from my book ms: They’re so Smart cause we’re so Stupid: A Medievalist’s Guide to the 21st Century. It is part of a chapter on the Jenin “...
2 months ago
Corey Robin

CUNY, Corona, and Communism - The coronavirus has hit CUNY, where I teach, hard: more than 20 deaths of students, faculty, and staff, and counting. Yet the impact of the virus on CUNY h...
2 months ago
Order of the Coif

Strategic surprise and far-right terror - In June 2001, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz gave the commencement address to the incoming class at the West Point military academy. His them...
2 months ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Protests: Do They Work Or Are They Futile? - Nobody cares until it’s them. When black people across America protested and demonstrated in the streets and on the internet, the conservative right had ...
2 months ago
Falkenblog

Evolutionary Biology of Left-Right - not really true, but funnyIt's straightforward to explain why a binary set of competing coalitions within a collective is common. Given the non-linear pol...
2 months ago
Nec Pluribus Impar

Let’s have a honest debate about “herd immunity” - As you probably know if you’ve been following the discussions regarding the best way to deal with the pandemic, there has been a fierce debate about whet...
2 months ago
Bloody Shovel 2

Cold War 2 Propaganda - So it seems that hostility to China is now official American policy. Redgov, i.e. the Military Industrial Complex has been pushing it for quite a while, ...
2 months ago
The Gladstone Diaries

What Happens If A Prime Minister Dies in Office? - Less than a month ago, Britain's prime minister was in an Intensive Care bed, infected with a virus that has killed more than 28,000 people in the UK sin...
2 months ago
Blog - Traditions of Conflict

Does Male Competition Help Explain Human Sex Differences in Body Size? - Anthropologist Holly Dunsworth has a new paper questioning the common emphasis placed on sexual selection for explaining sex differences in human height....
2 months ago
chrishernandezauthor

Legends of the Old Corps: Gustav Hasford and the “Snuffies” - Guys, I’ve been in a hell of a writing slump. But a couple weeks back I unexpectedly encountered a Marine who served in Vietnam with Gustav Hasford, author...
2 months ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

More Thoughts on a Better Income Support System for the Next Crisis - This post was written by Mike Veall of the Department of Economics at McMaster University. I appreciated the comments on my earlier post, where I suggested...
2 months ago
Russian History Blog

Road rage - This blog post is inspired by petty anger. In this deeply weird and unsettling time, I am, like virtually everyone, staying at home. I am in almost every w...
2 months ago
The Independent Whig

The Viewpoint Hypothesis - The Viewpoint Hypothesis proposes that the World View (output) of an individual is a function of that individual’s relatively fixed innate nature* (process...
2 months ago
Belmont Club

There Are Some Mistakes Science Can't Save Us From - The COVID-19 pandemic has forced popular consciousness to face mortality after decades of anticipating life extension and even the Singularity as a birthri...
2 months ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

New Releases - I have a story in the upcoming Four Horsemen Universe anthology The Gates of Hell, due out May 1st. I’ll put in an Amazon link as soon as it goes live.In c...
2 months ago
La Bocca della Verità

How to Prep for Surprise Zoom Questions - You are at a boring Zoom meeting, and naturally, you are napping, or playing Word with Friends, or doing shots of tequila... anything but paying attention....
2 months ago
I aim to misbehave.

A change in plans... - At one point, I had my life and years clearly mapped out. See, after my time in the Navy, I was going to take my skills and put them to appropriate use. N...
2 months ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Happy Easter -
2 months ago
Jonathan Tepper

Recent writing - I haven’t written recently on this blog. I wrote for a year at The American Conservative. All the pieces are available here. I also wrote a piece Covid-19 ...
2 months ago
readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore

A Conversation with Your Past Self - This semester, I'm giving my students the option to submit a video "Conversation with My Past Self" in lieu of taking the Final Exam. I was inspired by t...
2 months ago
Tommy Ousslander

Just ordered my casting couch - How we all doing today? Quarantine life got you down and you don't know what to do with yourself? Wel...
2 months ago
The Observation Post

A South African Korean War hero … killed in the Vietnam War - What! South Africa never took part in the Vietnam War, true – but some South Africans did, and two of them lost their lives. Of the two South Africans sac...
3 months ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Michael Yon on the The Jordan Harbinger Show - Check out my interview on *The Jordan Harbinger Show* episode 314
3 months ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Michael Yon on the The Jordan Harbinger Show - Check out my interview on *The Jordan Harbinger Show* episode 314
3 months ago
Growth Economics Blog

Economic impacts of the coronavirus - part 3/n(?) - If you’re wondering what I’m attempting to do in these posts, then join the club. I’m just sort of grasping around for a way of thinking about the aggreg...
3 months ago
Academic Wonderland

Possible Victory for Accused Student in Third Circuit Appeal - Oral argument in a somewhat below-the-radar appeal suggests a possible, even probable, victory for the accused student in Doe v. University of the Sciences...
3 months ago
Insitome - Medium

The Insight Show Notes — Season 3, Episode 13: Pandemic! - The Insight Show Notes — Season 3, Episode 13: Pandemic! This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib and Spence...
3 months ago
The Baseline Scenario

COVID-19: Winners and Losers - By James Kwak I think it’s highly likely that the dust will clear eventually and that our economy will come back to life at some point in the next two or t...
3 months ago
White Sun of the Desert

One flu over the cuckold’s nest - There have been a few articles like this doing the rounds: What It’s Like to Isolate With Your Girlfriend and Her Other Boyfriend Humiliating and degrading...
3 months ago
Michael O. Church

Quitting WordPress – April 30, 2020 - I’ve gotten several complaints about ads on my blog. When I set this thing up in 2009, I didn’t know much about the web— I’m an AI programmer, web stuff I ...
3 months ago
deflationite.com

Where are the voices of those most at risk of Covid19? - We are in the midst of the most important economic and health crisis for a century on a global scale. Are we tackling the crisis in the correct manner? ...
3 months ago
Rajiv Sethi

Time for Individual Accounts at the Fed - As the COVID-19 virus tears through our bodies and our economy, policy makers are struggling to come up with a response that is bold enough to meet the cha...
3 months ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

COVID19 and the ethics of hospital triage decision-making - There is a lot of talk these days about the predicted coming wave of COVID19 patients needing ICU beds and ventilators in particular, and the inevitable ne...
3 months ago
Basil Halperin

The real problem is also nominal - The real problem is also nominal March 15, 2020 *Confidence level (?): thinking out loud* If I closed my eyes and completely wiped from my mind the fac...
3 months ago
Ancestry matters

We need our fear and anger to tackle COVID-19 - The most important thing that the response to COVID-19 has lacked in the West, compared to East Asia, is fear. President Xi and his subordinates are afrai...
3 months ago
zenpundit.com

Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague - [ by Charles Cameron — scientific [precision meets human error in cases of outbreak — with links to a terrific science thread by Palli Thordarson @PalliTho...
4 months ago
Random Critical Analysis

A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.
4 months ago
Random Critical Analysis

A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.
4 months ago
Rachel Edwards — Medium

Coronavirus, the Great Reality Check - I’ve been watching the situation in China for nearly a month now, and I don’t think there are really words for how bad things are over there. I really am...
4 months ago
Jadeluxe

Steno Majesty - This beautiful lady, known as the White Rose, was Queen Consort Geraldine of Albania in the 1930s. Don’t look closely into her politics – she and her husba...
4 months ago
Heather's Homilies

Mike Bloomberg and is “Stop and Frisk” Racist? - With the entry of former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg into the race to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee, we have the inevitable. The other r...
4 months ago
Semi-Partisan Politics

An Alternative Proposal for the BBC - by Douglas Carter I want to pay more money for product from the BBC. That’s not an intentionally incendiary sentiment. In terms, it’s exactly the correct ...
4 months ago
Andrew Norton

The rise of liberalism in colonial Australia (a review of the first volume of David Kemp’s history of Australian liberalism) - (A shorter version of this review, omitting discussion of how the American experience influenced Australian politics to the mid-19th century, is cross-post...
5 months ago
Jacob ex Machina

Network Behavior and Christian Ethics - In designing software for computer networks, the Robustness Principle states "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept" The firs...
5 months ago
The Great Realignment

In spite of Brexit… - Now that the British exit from the European Union is a legal reality, the economic situation in the UK has been surprisingly sedate. This will be a surpris...
5 months ago
Chublic Opinion

Wuhan: a tale of immune system failure and social strength - For most Chinese people watching the unfolding of Wuhan’s coronavirus emergency, the situation escalated dramatically on Jan 20, almost 20 days after it wa...
5 months ago
ThinkMarkets

New Book: ESCAPING PATERNALISM - by Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman Book description The burgeoning field of behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for paternalism. ...
5 months ago
Dalrock

Message heard. - I’ve been deeply moved and humbled by the overwhelming response to my post announcing that I planned on shutting down the blog. I’ve reconsidered and deci...
5 months ago
Ed Hagen

Is evolutionary psychology impossible? - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } Subrena Smith recently argued that “evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible” (Smith 2019). I ...
5 months ago
MountainGuerrilla

A Product Review - Last year, the host of a class gave me a ballistic helmet. I’ve never been much of a fan of helmets except as “air items,” but I graciously accepted the gi...
5 months ago
Josh Blackman's Blog

I now blog on the Volokh Conspiracy - For the past few months, I have blogged at the Volokh Conspiracy, hosted by Reason. I had hoped to give to give this blog, which I founded in September 200...
5 months ago
Urban kchoze

The utility of directly regulating Floor Area Ratio - In my last post on the obesity of midrise apartments, I mentioned that one possible solution to what I perceive as a problem is to restrict FAR (Floor-Area ...
5 months ago
Jeb Kinnison

Negative Reactions to “Avoidant” and “Bad Boyfriends” - Most of the reviews of Avoidant and Bad Boyfriends are positive, some embarrassingly so (“You saved my life / marriage /sanity!”) — I read the reviews and ...
5 months ago
Norse and Viking Ramblings

Dad Runes - The 29th of this month would have been Terje Spurkland's 72nd birthday. I first encountered him in the academic year of 1980-81, when I was on a scholarsh...
5 months ago
Ambit Gambit

Australian bushfires on Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera - Last night I was interviewed by TRT – Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera – on a panel moderated by Adnan Azwaz on the Australian fires. My fellow panellists wer...
6 months ago
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle

The Estate of Jerry Pournelle Announces New Website and Facebook Group - To save Chaos Manor and provide ongoing care for Jerry Pournelle’s widow, the Estate of Dr. Jerry Pournelle has launched a new website at http://www.jerryp...
6 months ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

‘Two hands are a lot’ — we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos… - ‘This is possibly the single largest design flaw contributing to the bad Nash equilibrium in which … many governments are stuck. Every individual high-func...
6 months ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

‘Two hands are a lot’ — we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos… - ‘This is possibly the single largest design flaw contributing to the bad Nash equilibrium in which … many governments are stuck. Every individual high-func...
6 months ago
Bondwine Books

Nineteen Eleventy-Ten - First off: Happy New Year to my 3.6 Loyal Readers, and anyone else who may drop in! I have been terribly silent these last few months, and I believe I ough...
6 months ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

You Can Circumnavigate Taiwan In a Long Weekend - Oh yeah.And Do Tons of Fun Stuff Along the Way Living in Hong Kong, it seems like everybody around us had been to Taiwan. So we decided, with a long weeken...
6 months ago
Status 451

Gender is not just a Social Construct - As the decade ends, I’m still pondering gender. Everything was so different in 2010. No intersectionality. No rape culture. No toxic masculinity. No incels...
6 months ago
Caitlin Green

A man of possible African ancestry buried in Anglo-Scandinavian York - The aim of the following brief note is to direct attention to a burial from a late ninth- to early eleventh-century cemetery in York. The burials here were...
6 months ago
The XX Committee

Top German Spies Unload on Merkel’s Kowtowing to Putin - One of the West’s open secrets is that Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, consistently behaves in an obsequious manner towards Vladimir Putin and his a...
6 months ago
Money, Markets, and Misperceptions

Using Python to Gather Data from FRED for the Solow Model - This script gathers and generates data for Solow. The second two functions plot the data using matplotlib and save the visualizations in a PDF. import pan...
6 months 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

Refuge Seeking in Relative Safety - There is a common misconception among Christians in particular that I’ve been mulling over these past weeks. As usual, my thoughts have been straying to Aa...
6 months ago
Rootless Cosmopolitan – By Tony Karon

The Braais that Bind - A brief meditation on the meanings of South African cuisine for Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. Excerpt: South Africa’s identity is complicated, contest...
7 months ago
Claritas

The Twelve Days of Christmas: An Analysis - There was a funny piece on the radio about the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," imagining the woman's response to all those gifts. She starts out thril...
7 months ago
Abandoned Footnotes

Dictators - In my corner of Twitter, I recently became obliquely aware of a kerfuffle about Michael Bloomberg saying that “Xi Jinping is not a dictator”. (Twitter is f...
7 months ago
Miranda Yardley

A Plea for Third Spaces for Transmen and Transwomen - We are asking you to support our call for the provision of Third Spaces for transgender individuals of both sexes. The post A Plea for Third Spaces for T...
7 months ago
Kantoos Economics – Kantoos Economics

Exhibition stand hire provides adaptability and cost proficiency - First-time exhibitors, who wish to experiment with the market, are a novice to exhibiting or have finances constraints, usually would rather hire a stand...
7 months ago
Phillip W. Magness

Something’s fishy with the Saez-Zucman tax stats - Just over two weeks ago, Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman approached the New York Times and Washington Post with an astonishing claim. ...
8 months ago
On the Margin of Error

My Pronoun is U: My Life as a Non-Binary Iranian - An article about how my Iranian and non-binary identities have interacted in predictable and surprising ways.
8 months ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

Science Fiction as a Lens into Future War - *(This is the written version of my presentation at a panel on “**Science Fiction and Futurism – Philosophy and Ethics for a Global Era”. The panel was pa...
8 months ago
The American Interest

Conservative Sense and Sensibility with George F. Will - Can a revolution be conservative? Can populism? And what distinguishes British from American conservatism? *Washington Post* columnist George F. Will joins...
9 months ago
Ballandalus

MESA 2019–Medieval and Early Modern Panels - The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is holding its annual conference, one of the largest gatherings of scholars working on the history of the greate...
9 months ago
China Matters

The Cold War Roots of the African Swine Flu Plague - *[This is the script of a segment on African Swine Flu that I did for Newsbud China Watch in July 2018. Things have gotten worse since then, with the vi...
9 months ago
Den of Inquiry

White views on spanking, 1980's-2010's - 1980's (above) 1990's: 2000's: 2010's: Variables: SPANKING, Years (1986-2018), Race(1)
10 months ago
Tino Sanandaji

Den ofördelaktiga utvecklingen av dödligt våld i Sverige - Förra veckan frågade SVT statsministern om ökningen av dödligt våld: ”Du har varit statsminister sedan 2014. Sedan dess har det accelererat. Vilket ansva...
10 months ago
Stories by Gore Burnelli on Medium

Is it even worth for people to work on non-AI based TTS? - Is it even worth for people to work on non-AI based TTS? Most voices out there are terrible. Why bother with the default ones from Amazon Polly when we c...
10 months ago
Secular Right

Sex, Schisms and Pseudo-Scholarship - We are seeing open warfare between various feminist and other progressive factions on social media and in the universities. A key divide is between so-call...
10 months ago
GayPatriot

GayPatriot Manifesto - Any gay person, and/or person of color, is suicidal if they would willingly give up their Constitutional rights of self-protection to a government run by P...
10 months ago
NGDP Advisers

Giving Credit Where It’s Due - The US economy is probably going into recession. Manufacturing production is down from the late-2018 highs, retail spending growth, wages and payroll gai...
10 months ago
Nick Cole's Books

The CTRL ALT Revolt Controversy - The Original Blog Post and some Thoughts on the Crisis of Where We Find Ourselves As the current culture war escalates into a series of asymmetrical engage...
10 months ago
Noahpinion

Why Kevin Williamson is wrong about poverty and bad behavior - I recently wrote a post at Bloomberg Opinion arguing that "bad behavior" - drug use, violence, single parenthood, and idleness - is not the main cause of...
11 months ago
Satire .. not quite dead yet.

Climate Crisis: We Must Learn From Other Countries - We have a global climate crisis, what are different countries doing? The UK Parliament was the first in the world to declare a ‘climate emergency’, followe...
11 months ago
ny mens action network

Moved to http://nymensactionnetwork.org - This site is no longer moderated. Newer posts are at nymensactionnetwork.org and these posts have been moved there also. http://nymensactionnetwork.org Ad...
11 months ago
Nintil

Important: Nintil.com is moving! - IMPORTANT NOTICE: I’ve been making changes to the way the blog looks like, making it load faster, and adding it a much needed feature, browsing by category...
11 months ago
Will Wilkinson

Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash - I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live chat.
1 year ago
PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS

The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means for Investors - I just published a new long-form piece through OSAM Research Partners entitled “The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means...
1 year ago
View on IQ

A Corrigendum to V1.3.2 and a Comment to V1.3.3 - Preface The publication of the book written by Richard Lynn and me (Lynn & Becker, 2019) and of V1.3.2 of the NIQ-dataset got a lot of attention and feedba...
1 year ago
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

Last Posting - To everyone that reads this blog, I want to thank you for following Gavin Kennedy 's expert insights into Adam Smith from this site. Unfortunately, Gavin ...
1 year ago
Declination

Guest Post: On Libertarianism - A friend of mine formerly known as Glomar Responder (Mr. X) on Twitter sent over this screed as a guest post. It’s an interesting commentary on the bifur...
1 year ago
Tim van Gelder

Where might better ratings come from? - Suppose you wanted better ratings of intelligence reports. Where could that improvement come from? How could you possibly get it? Some years ago the U.S. ...
1 year ago
JudgyBitch

Seeing poor white people makes me happy - The following piece was written by Nicholas Powers, an associate professor at State University of New York (SUNY), and first published by hate website Race...
1 year 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 year 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 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Fred on Everything is moving! - Henceforth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review NEW! Current column (June 13) is HERE The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of colu...
1 year ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Fred on Everything is moving! - Henceforth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review NEW! Current column (June 13) is HERE The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of colu...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
1 year ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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,...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Global Guerrillas

The Long Night is Coming - Written by an anonymous friend who also ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The Audacious Epigone

Archived - This blog is now in archival status.
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The World is Not Enough

We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free!
2 years 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 ...
2 years ago
A Taste for Desert Landscapes

Blog moving to new address - A taste for desert landscapes has moved here.
2 years 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...
2 years 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,...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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.
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
The Travel Diaries of Mr Wallace

CHAPTER 60. Pacific Islands - The last chapter of Mr Wallace's travel diary.
2 years 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...
2 years 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) ...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
Keith Burgess-Jackson

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) - Autie was born on this date 178 years ago.
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 years ago
When You Say Tomato and Your Sister Says Tomahto – spottedtoad

Tora Bora - In the mid-2000s, I was in a teaching methods class with an Army vet who had recently come back from Afghanistan and had been at the Battle of Tora Bora in...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years 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/
2 years ago
The Rambling Infidel

For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...
2 years 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...
2 years 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,...
3 years 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...
3 years 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 years ago
The Diecast

Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Being Classically Liberal

Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.
3 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.
3 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...
3 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...
3 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....
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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…
3 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...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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?
4 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...
4 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....
4 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...
4 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 […]
4 years ago
Capitalism's Cradle

The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...
4 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...
4 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, ...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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....
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 years ago
The Mischiefs of Faction

We've Moved - The Mischiefs of Faction is now located at mischiefsoffaction.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, here. You can...
4 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 […]
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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,...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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 ...
6 years ago
The Becker-Posner Blog

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

classical perfection - I'm gonna geek out about classical music for a minute or many. I'm in Berlin and in three days have seen two of the best classical concerts of my life (and...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
hbd chick

sex and “the other” - “the other” is a shapeless concept in anthropology/the social sciences which i never quite understood — prolly ’cause the anthropologists/social scientists...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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.
8 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...
9 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...
9 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 ...
10 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...
10 years ago
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