Thinking Out Aloud: August 2013

Blog List

The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

Fans are FURIOUS Over The Marvel’s Wolverine New Look! - ------------------------------ Support Jon Support Me On Subscribe Star Get FREE Books! Independent journalism isn’t easy and I can use all of the help I...
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Butterflies and Wheels

Just slap a coat of paint on it - What a strange thing to do. When soccer fans converge on Dallas this month for World Cup games, the aesthetically inclined ones will encounter a city hom...
1 hour ago
Marginal Revolution

My twenty-minute AI talk for the Swedish company Sana - The post My twenty-minute AI talk for the Swedish company Sana appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.
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Vox - All

Trump’s attorney general pick has exactly one qualification - In May 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat, arrived at an ICE detention facility in his New Jersey city and asked for a tour. Though he was initially...
2 hours ago
JoNova

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Discover Blogs

Rare Meteorite From Sahara Desert Hints at Moon-Sized Protoplanet That Shattered 4.5 Billion Years Ago - Learn about a rare meteorite that may have separated from a protoplanet around the size of the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.
3 hours ago
The Mermaid's Tale

Sapiens pages 22-25: Careful! Watch where you step! - Here's the second of (what will be) four posts covering Chapter 2 in this endeavor to review *Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind *by Yuval Noah Harari...
4 hours ago
macrobusiness.com.au

The great Australian international education export rort - Education exports have long been touted as Australia’s fourth-largest export earner—used by governments and universities alike to defend generous post-st...
5 hours ago
Philosoraptor

Illegal-Alien Attrition Through Enforcement - The NYT is outraged that the administration is cutting off illegals from jobs, banking, government assistance, etc.Sadly, Trump's dragging his feet on anti...
6 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Against shallow anti-rational humanism - Jessica writes: I get so tired of people dumping on decision theory because real world decisions are complex. If decision theory is so deeply flawed, I’d l...
6 hours ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

Nicholas Wade's Darwinian Liberal Conservatism - In 1975, the left-wing critics of Ed Wilson's *Sociobiology* accused him of promoting a genetic determinism and a conservative (or even neo-Nazi) politic...
7 hours ago
Minding The Campus

The Satanic Temple Is Creating a ‘Collegiate Affiliation Program’ - In March, a Colorado school district granted a religious accommodation to a student affiliated with The Satanic Temple (TST). The dispute, TST reports, c...
7 hours ago
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog

Wet, Cool Winter-Like Weather in June - *During the next week or so, the weather will be more reminiscent of February than June, with lots of rain and MUCH colder than normal temperatures. * ...
7 hours ago
View From The Porch

Meme Dump! -
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Political Calculations

New Homes at Upper Threshold of Affordability in April 2026 - [image: Hand holding a green key to a house photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash - https://unsplash.com/photos/a-hand-holding-a-green-key-to-a-house-8RFii...
9 hours ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

AI Won’t Stave Off the Debt Disaster - The political class hopes in vain for a miracle.
9 hours ago
EconLog

Commerce and Warehouse Clubs - Adam Smith articulated the rhetoric of the Bourgeois Deal by highlighting fundamental differences among commercial, political, and martial societies. Eve...
9 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

Who's behind the anti-ICE riots in New Jersey - The Twitter user known as DataRepublican, whom we've met in these pages before, has done another masterful job of analyzing the groups and individuals...
10 hours ago
Crisis Magazine

We Have Never Been Alone - What are the theological, spiritual, and philosophical implications of humanity’s ever-growing fascination with extraterrestrial intelligence?
10 hours ago
Paula Wright

Malam Berapi di Lembang: Camping dan Api Unggun - Lembang, sebuah kawasan yang dikenal dengan keindahan alamnya, adalah salah satu destinasi favorit bagi para pecinta camping. Dikelilingi oleh pegunungan...
10 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

BOAC Flight 777 - On June 1,1943 the BOAC Flight 777,a scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation civilian airline flight from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal to Whi...
10 hours ago
Books & Boots

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (1939) - My literary or spare-time compositions, written not infrequently with animation and enjoyment, I always found tedious of subsequent perusal. This sense of ...
11 hours ago
Brown Pundits

Review: William Dalrymple’s Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan - I’m sharing this review that was originally published in 2020. After the victorious Taliban takeover of Kabul on August 15, 2021 and President Ghani’s flig...
11 hours ago
The World is Not Enough

Another round of Trump vs Netanyahu - Donald Trump's self-interest pushes him to pursue peace in the Middle East, regardless of the wishes of his usual allies.
13 hours ago
www.counterpunch.org

It’s Time to Abolish the Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Now that Donald Trump has established himself as the worst president in the history of the United States, George W. Bush can breathe a sigh of relief. A...
13 hours ago
Daily Nous

Virginia Held (1929-2026) - Virginia Held, professor emerita of philosophy at the City University of New York and an influential figure in ethics and social and political philosophy...
13 hours ago
The Unz Review:

Determined to Know: Free-Will, Randomness and the T.B.Q.P., by Tobias Langdon - Fish swim in water; humans swim in philosophy. But I doubt that any fishes ponder what surrounds and sustains them as fish, just as I know that few humans ...
15 hours ago
Althouse

2 sunrise pictures, taken 22 seconds apart. - [image: IMG_7628] [image: IMG_7629] What a striking color shift, as seen by the iPhone. It certainly wasn't apparent to me, the human. Write about what...
19 hours ago
Policy of Truth

Nowhere to Hide - Scenes from Delaney Hall (1)It’s been widely reported that the curfew at Delaney Hall was issued on Sunday night, and was to run nightly from 9 pm to 6 am....
20 hours ago
CSPI Center

PROJECT HUNT MANCHURIAN TAIGA TENOKE Free Download - PROJECT HUNT MANCHURIAN TAIGA TENOKE Free Download PC Game setup in single direct link for Windows. It is an amazing action, adventure and indie game. PRO...
21 hours ago
PsyPost

Psychopathy and Machiavellianism often look identical, but daily behavior suggests otherwise - Are Machiavellianism and psychopathy the same trait? A new 30-day diary study reveals that while these dark personalities look identical on paper, tracking...
21 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Brazil’s First Federal Indigenous University Joins Growing Global Movement - [image: Brazil’s First Federal Indigenous University Joins Growing Global Movement] Brazil has created its first federal Indigenous university, establishin...
21 hours ago
The New Neo

California dreaming - Although California is doing its usual counting of votes in geologic timeframes, it looks as though Republicans Steve Hilton (governor’s race) and Spence...
23 hours ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

US Demands About Iranian Influence In Iraq Causing Disarray Amongst Ruling Shiite Parties - Iraq’s Shiite elites and Hashd are worried about their political future. They are afraid that the United States not only wants the pro-Iran Resista...
1 day ago
Overcoming Bias

We Must Change How We Source Morality - Consider three sources of opinions or habits:
1 day ago
A Voice for Men

RMS Titanic -
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According To Hoyt

On Iran - I don’t like writing posts about my disagreements with Trump. This is neither because I feel muzzled, or am afraid of my commenters, or idolize the man. In...
1 day ago
Mad Genius Club

Set Yourself Free - It seems to me — and perhaps I’m looking at this sideways and backwards as I always do, but it doesn’t mean it’s not valid — that most of the arguments abo...
1 day ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Hilton Leads in California Governor Primary; Pratt Looks Poised for LA Mayoral Runoff - If the current numbers hold, Pratt will have outperformed recent polling that projected he would miss the runoff entirely. The post Hilton Leads in Califo...
1 day ago
Medievalists.net

Effeminate Greeks or Sophisticated Romans? The Western View of Byzantium - Western Europeans often portrayed the Byzantines as deceitful, weak, and overly luxurious, dismissing them as “Greeks” rather than true Romans. Michael Goo...
1 day ago
LessWrong

Towards Shutdownable Agents: Generalizing Stochastic Choice in RL Agents and LLMs - Summary - Misaligned artificial agents might resist shutdown. - One proposed solution is the POST-Agents Proposal: roughly, training agents t...
1 day ago
International Liberty

Red States vs. Blue States, Part VII - Blue-to-red migration is an under-appreciated phenomenon, particularly if the people and businesses moving between states tend to be more productive (in ot...
1 day ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Ganesh - The new Jesus and Mo strip, called “butt2,” is, as the caption say, “A resurrection from 2006 – Ganesh’s debut appearance in the strip.” And it has a prett...
1 day ago
Bracing Views

Freedom of Speech But Without Any Say - BILL ASTORE JUN 01, 2026 I woke up this morning with a depressing reality in my head: Americans may have freedom of speech (be careful criticizing Zionist ...
1 day ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Epidemiologist Donna Spiegelman sez: SUTVA is “mostly not necessary for valid causal estimation and inference most of the time” - Donna Spiegelman shares this presentation she gave at the recent American Causal Inference Conference. I like what she has to say. Here are the two parts o...
1 day ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

Federal Inspection Reportedly Finds Delaney Hall in Compliance on Virtually All Standards - Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill has repeatedly claimed that conditions in the Delaney Hall ICE facility are abhorrent, inhuman, and intolerable.…
1 day ago
Peter Zeihan

Should Alberta Secede from Canada? - Apologies for the wind on this video, one of the downfalls of recording with a view… Enough signatures have been gathered to force an independence refere...
1 day ago
Isegoria

The brain is not designed for thinking - As a pair of psychologists first put it in the 1980s, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), humans are “cognitive misers”: With our limited cognitive...
1 day ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

This research doesn’t convincingly show that biodiversity is good for business - I was interested to read this article in The Conversation last month by Paul Griffin (University of California, Davis) and Martien Lubberink (Victoria Un...
1 day ago
No B-S here (I hope)

Little Kids and Green Monsters, part 1 - TONY THOMAS JUN 03 2026SaveDownload PDF Anew battle has started for the souls and sanity of Australian schoolchildren. On one side are the climate indoctri...
1 day ago
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – Two-tier Britain - “When one your tribe is murdered, I call for calm and unity because that is according to your principles; when one of my tribe is murdered, I call for pr...
1 day ago
The Objective Standard

The Summer 2026 Issue of The Objective Standard Is Released! - by Thomas F. Walker
1 day ago
Regie's Blog

THE SPIRIT OF ’76… - When I was 8-years-old, I sold replicas of the Declaration of Independence door to door. I can’t even remember where the supply came from. But we rolled t...
2 days ago
The Federalist

What Graham Platner Did At His Brother’s Wedding Revealed His Repulsive Character 10 Years Ago - [image: Graham Platner]Graham Platner's behavior reveals him to be an immature, self-centered person who shouldn't get to replace a harmless centrist.
2 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

On hope - The comments on my previous post, on recent AI breakthroughs in solving Erdös problems and beyond, must’ve set some sort of record for the number of separa...
2 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

On hope - The comments on my previous post, on recent AI breakthroughs in solving Erdös problems and beyond, must’ve set some sort of record for the number of separa...
2 days ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Does Leniency for First Offenders Pay Off? - Consider a person who is convicted of a misdemeanor. It is their first offense. Should that person be punished to the full extent of the law, or dealt wi...
2 days ago
Alexander Boot

Wokery kills - If you want to know what’s wrong with Britain, look no further than the Nowak murder case. On second thoughts, do look further, all the way to Minneapolis....
2 days ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

What is the correct amount of US government ownership of the economy? - One side suggests 10%. The other side says 50%. They agree in principle and are merely negotiating degrees of implementation. Related: “Third Way” Politics...
2 days ago
Whatever

The Big Idea: Isabel J. Kim - Two paths diverge in a wood… and what happens when, in fact, you can travel both? In her debut novel Sublimation, author Isabel J. Kim looks at what happen...
2 days ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

Those eyes. - Sibiu (Hermannstadt) yesterday. The Pied Piper brought the children he enchanted with his piping underground to Hermannstadt. I'm on my travels.
2 days ago
Civil Politics Blog

Consejos infalibles para mejorar tus probabilidades en el juego - Consejos infalibles para mejorar tus probabilidades en el juego Entender las reglas del juego Para mejorar tus probabilidades en el juego, lo primero que d...
2 days ago
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for May, 2026: +0.53 deg. C - This month I’m adding Australia to the Global, USA48, and Canada time series plots. The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anom...
2 days ago
The Honest Courtesan

Whores’ Day 2026 - Today is International Whores’ Day. It is not “Sex Worker Day”; that is March 3rd. Today is a day to shamelessly celebrate our shameless history, not a d...
2 days ago
Thought Catalog

Why God’s Peace Prevails Through Life’s Chaos - In this reflection, Karin Hadadan shares how God provides a steady refuge during difficult times. In the same way, Rebecca Simon’s Finding God Every Day hi...
2 days ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Online Markets for Loans are Punishing Borrowers for Shopping - [image: Online Markets for Loans are Punishing Borrowers for Shopping ] Digital marketplaces make comparing credit lending options easier for potential...
2 days ago
Edward Feser

Leo XIV contra the new Babel: Reflections on the pope’s landmark encyclical - Last week, Pope Leo XIV issued *Magnifica Humanitas*, the first encyclical of his pontificate. It has received much attention, both positive and negativ...
2 days ago
Mostly Economics

To Be or Not to Be in Oikonomia - To Be or Not to Be in Oikonomia Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Former Economics Professor, SRCC, DU Having worked in SRCC for about 35 years, if I were to inter...
2 days ago
Manhattan Contrarian

What Percent Of U.S. Households Headed By Illegal Immigrants Receive Welfare Benefits? - * As you are probably aware, in most circumstances and for most categories of handouts, illegal immigrants in the United States do not qualify for welfare ...
2 days ago
mathbabe

AI Skeptics: The Audit Revolution is Nigh (with Karrie Karaholios) - This week I had the pleasure of talking with MIT Media Lab Professor Karrie Karaholios about her book on AI Auditing. Apple Spotify YouTube
3 days ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

AI Data Centers Are Not the Railroads of Today - *The AI boom shares all the risk profiles of previous speculative manias but lacks society-wide benefits while generating fast-metastasizing negative conse...
3 days ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion - [image: The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion]The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from...
3 days ago
n+1 » Articles

A Fan’s Notes - Klosterman may often be subversive, kind of lazily seditious, but he is, clearly, self-aware about his counterrevolutionary inclinations, accepting and ev...
3 days ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

A Novel GUT - There is virtually no chance that this grand unification theory reflects reality, but it is a quite unusual approach that combines a mishmash of ideas. W...
3 days ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

Crap Welds Lead To Successful Germination - Among the things that seem stupidly easy is using a tractor to prepare soil and seed a big game food plot. Farmers prep and plant huge fields. How hard can...
3 days ago
Simple Justice

Bernie’s 50% Solution - Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is all aboard the AI train. Artificial intelligence will almost certainly be the most transformational technology in the his...
3 days ago
PinkNews

Ohio man tased after allegedly pulling down trans women’s skirt at amusement park - An 18-year-old Ohio man has been arrested after allegedly pulling down a transgender woman’s skirt and underwear in front of numerous bystanders, includi...
3 days ago
Logarithmic History

The Great American Interchange - 3.03 – 2.87 million years ago For most of the last 100 million years, South America was an island continent, like Australia, with its own peculiar mix of s...
3 days ago
House of Eratosthenes

Beautiful Mice - Smithsonian Magazine, 2/26/15 updated 8/8/24: What does utopia look like for mice and rats? According to a researcher who did most of his work in the 1950s...
3 days ago
waka waka waka

Service Notice - Away in CA for a few days, seeing to my brother’s final affairs. We gave him a good sendoff yesterday, with more than a hundred in attendance. Back in a fe...
3 days ago
Henry the Young King Blog

'What's In A Name?' A Few Names of Anglo-Norman Aristocracy and Their Orbit - To Henry the Young King readers. Greetings! Just a quick update on my progress. This coming month I will be travelling on the King's business (modern me...
3 days ago
Vlad Tepes

Bataclan, More Ackbarists stabbing people in Europe, UK police accessories after the fact? Stinging dialectics and more: Links 1 for May, 31 2026 - 1. After only 10 years in prison, and in Belgium for some reason, the architect of the Bataclan attack is being prepped for release. They do this with a se...
3 days ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

Highly Respected? - It's often said that a large part of Donald Trump's support represents a reaction to the disdain that ordinary people receive from the educated middle c...
4 days ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Monthly Monitoring of Analytical Publications on Post-Soviet Conflicts - *PSCRP-BESA Reports No 207 (May 31, 2026)* Just as in the previous issue of our monitoring, readers saw many studies of Central Asia, the April issue con...
4 days ago
The Syrian Intifada

Usama bin Laden’s Eulogy for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 May 2026 Read the article over at Substack.
4 days ago
Caracas Chronicles

What the Alex Saab Paradox in Colombia’s Elections Means - The crucial split of the Colombian Right suggests that populist theatrics can override the institutional anti-chavismo we are used to
5 days ago
Alt-M

USPS Issues Proposed Mail Voting Rules Pursuant to Trump Executive Order - Stay tuned. Never a dull moment in American election administration!
5 days ago
4 gravitons

Doing Things Well Is an International Activity - In the US, funding agencies seem to be increasingly opposed to an often inevitable feature of good science: international collaboration. Scientists have be...
6 days ago
Active Response Training

Weekend Knowledge Dump- May 29, 2026 - Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Inside the Mind of a Home Defense Shooting R...
6 days ago
Modeled Behavior

Top Features of Osaka88 Link Alternatif Online - modeledbehavior.com – Osaka88 Link Alternatif stands out with its user-friendly interface, making navigation simple for all players. Whether you’re a new...
6 days ago
The Angry Staff Officer

What a 98-Year Old Children’s Book Teaches Us About AI - Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a big fan of using fiction as a lens through which to view the world – some might say, to my detriment. But...
6 days ago
Streetwise Professor

Will Compute Futures Compute? - Time to scrape the rust off the ol’ blog! Been a while. Life comes at you fast sometimes. The Rustoleum (a product originally from my home town, whose plan...
1 week ago
Corey Robin

From Bentham to steps and smartphones - In his Deontology (1834), Jeremy Bentham anticipates our world of “steps” and smartphones: A whole kingdom, the great globe itself, will become a gymnasium...
1 week ago
THE LAST DITCH

Farewell to Speranza: My Ferrari Journey - The author reflects on the sale of Speranza, his cherished 2009 Ferrari California, after driving over 105,000 miles during memorable journeys, including a...
1 week ago
Rhys Ford

More dinner! - Tonight’s dinner: Pan fried snapper, purple rice, Japanese style pickled cucumbers.
1 week ago
Longrider

Because… - In a rare eclipse of both sun and moon, I find myself agreeing with Tony Blair. He is right that the current rabble are not [...]
1 week ago
Practical Ethics

Human Identity and Biotechnologies: special issue just published - Alberto Giubilini, Andrew Moeller In 2024, the TORCH Medical Humanities Hub, in collaboration with the Stanford Boundaries of Humanity project and the Ue...
1 week ago
bellingcat

The ‘Lost’ Villages of Myanmar’s Rakhine - A “river of blood” was how one survivor described the scene in western Myanmar. “I saw shooting. I saw mass killing.” Another told the UN High Commission...
1 week ago
The Splintered Mind

New Paper in Draft: Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness (with Jeremy Pober) - Given the surge of interest in AI consciousness, the issue of "substrate independence" or "substrate flexibility" is now a hot topic in the metaphysics of ...
1 week ago
Little Atoms

Podcast interview scam - Podcast interview scam padraig Tue, 05/26/2026 - 09:49 Dear readers and authors Several authors have made the Little Atoms team aware of emails, claiming ...
1 week ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

A New Deputy Defence Minister; A New Problem for Minister Belousov? - Today (25 May 2026) it has emerged that since 22 May, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Police Colonel General Vitaly Shulika has been appoint...
1 week ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

Woman With Nose Ring - This one got a little weird, but it’s sort of striking. https://www.artpal.com/joeldhirst/?i=319328-21
1 week ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

Cartesianism: Facing and Escaping Its Legacy - TLDR version: the pivotal philosopher René Descartes left a long legacy that misdirected most subsequent philosophy, from Locke and Hume down through Kant'...
1 week ago
The Sociological Eye

WAR AND ABSURDITY: CATCH-22 IS REALITY - *Catch-22* is the most serious funny book ever written. It is a completely serious account of what combat is like, and the reactions of war-fighters ...
2 weeks ago
RyanHoliday.net

My Office Explained in 13 Objects - When I first moved in, six years ago. If you walk into the locker room or practice facility for a professional sports team or elite college program, one of...
2 weeks ago
Blazing Cat Fur

Leaked: The secret Chinese surveillance programme tracking people like me - At first glance, the bright blue data dashboard looks like any other – a series of graphs, charts, numbers and menus belying its darker purpose. … Leaked: ...
2 weeks ago
Old European culture

Ennead - This is my 5th Horus post... Ancient Egyptians had several myths regarding the creation of the world. One of the most popular creation myths featured the...
2 weeks ago
Norse and Viking Ramblings

All Erling Together - Erling Skjalgsson by Theodor Kittelsen (public domain) It seems to be Erling Haaland weekend. The most famous contemporary Norwegian and footballing supers...
2 weeks ago
How Material Are We? – MADE IN AMERICA

Immigrants and Crime: A Timely Reminder - In the midst of his excursion (or, avows Hegseth, his crusade) against Iran, Donald Trump took a break to post a video of a Haitian immigrant beating a wom...
3 weeks ago
Thermidor

The Ultimate Breakdown Of Top-Rated Lice Treatments For Kids - Little bugs in a child’s hair cause stress for every parent. These tiny pests spread quickly at school and during play dates. Finding a fast solution helps...
3 weeks ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

Harvard 55th Alumni Comments - The five years under review, covering my ages 70-75, have been good ones. Semi-retirement means I get to do the work I enjoy (writing primarily) while avoi...
3 weeks ago
Leah Schnelbach – Tor.com

The Sheep Detectives: A Fun, Funny Mystery of Unexpected Depth - Look, I'm as surprised as you. The post The Sheep Detectives: A Fun, Funny Mystery of Unexpected Depth appeared first on Reactor.
3 weeks ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

Information Brokers: Rethinking Political Socialization in Latino Immigrant Families - When we think about how political beliefs are formed, conventional wisdom points to parents as the primary teachers—passing down party loyalties, civic v...
4 weeks ago
Sultan Knish

Billionaires Against Billionaires Funded by Billionaires - During the California gubernatorial debate, Tom Steyer, who is a billionaire, claimed that the billionaires are out to get him. “The billionaires and co...
4 weeks ago
Uneasy Money

Hayek and Dworkin on the Meaning of Discretion - Here is a slightly edited text of the conversation I had this afternoon on ChatGPT that began with a question about comparing how Hayek and Dworkin underst...
4 weeks ago
The Market Monetarist

Powell’s last meeting - Trump says Powell has been too tight. The data says the opposite. Powell has run the easiest monetary policy in modern Fed history, and the credibility cos...
5 weeks ago
Freethinking Economist

Maybe Europe is winning after all? - Today when I should have been enjoying the non-monetary benefits of Wimbledon Common I was instead getting depressed by The Economist, which I listen to as...
5 weeks ago
PressThink

Subscribers buy a product. Members join the cause. - When Josh Marshall asked me if I would participate in TPM’s membership drive, I said yes because… well, because it’s TPM! And Josh is one of my heroes. I...
1 month ago
La Bocca della Verità

Regression to the mean - Sports fans in particular mis-use the idea of "regression to the mean," speaking of it, as though it were some causal power, impacting real, physical eve...
1 month ago
Paul Musgrave

Moving to Qatar: The Hidden Guide - There are many online guides about moving to Qatar and settling in. Employers also often provide instructions and assessments. This is not a replacement fo...
1 month ago
Evonomics

A New Economics for a New World Order - By Dennis Snower For decades, the global economy ran on a quiet assumption: that rules—codified, institutionalized, and broadly respected—could promote t...
1 month ago
Jonathan Spyer

Kittleson Kidnapping Laid Bare Iraq’s Militia State - Jerusalem Post, 11/4 The (mercifully brief and now concluded) incarceration of the US freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson in Iraq at the hands of the Shi...
1 month ago
Sam Altman

- - Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am shar...
1 month ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

The thesis of How We Became Post-Liberal - My 2024 book *How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration* is about an unfortunate outcome in Western political life. Why and how did we...
1 month ago
Coyote Blog

Oops - I posted a draft of something I am tinkering with on viral ideas and intellectual immune systems by accident. It is an idea I am playing with but still ha...
2 months ago
Notes On Liberty

“Must Liberalism be Atomistic?” by Jacob Rodriguez - During his inauguration ceremony, the newly elected mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani pledged to run the city as he had run his campaign, as a committe...
2 months ago
The Scholar's Stage

China and the Future of Science - *THE CHINESE* socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here is the most salient distinction: the ...
2 months ago
Climate Etc.

Rethinking climate change - by Nicola Scafetta My new book is now published: The Frontier of Climate Science: Solar Variability, Natural Cycles and Model Uncertainty For more than t...
2 months ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

Check it out - If you’re planning to attend the APS Global Physics Summit in Denver next week (along with about 14,000 other people), please visit the World Scientific bo...
2 months ago
Darwinian Reactionary

Ethno-Nationalism Isn’t Contrary to Liberalism; Multiculturalism Is - For most of my life it was understood that, say, Germany was the land of the Germans, England was the land of the English, Japan was the land of the Japane...
3 months ago
The Mitrailleuse

Apa yang Dimaksud dengan Baby Blues? Ini Penjelasan Lengkap untuk Ibu dan Keluarga - Kehadiran bayi dalam keluarga biasanya identik dengan kebahagiaan. Namun, tidak sedikit ibu yang justru merasa sedih, cemas, mudah menangis, atau kewalah...
3 months ago
Chicago Boyz

Rabbit Season (UPDATED) - Well, last night’s Super Bowl made me nostalgic for my youth because it reminded me of every bad game from the ’80s. I had better things to do than watch t...
3 months ago
Cameron Harwick

The Sabbath Was Made For Man: On Dynamic Stability as a Metaethical Criterion - This paper argues that a rule, to have normative force, must provide for its own persistence, and shows that the axiomatic-universalist approach of modern ...
4 months ago
Ex Urbe

How is Inventing the Renaissance an SFF-Related Work? - It’s a surprisingly fun question. This year, the British Science Fiction Association Awards included my nonfiction history, Inventing the Renaissance: Myth...
4 months ago
Eurogenes Blog

New Iron Age samples from southeastern Poland - A new dataset has appeared online from a yet to be published paper titled Cosmopolitanism in the depths of Barbaricum evidenced by archaeogenomic data from...
4 months ago
milescorak

The best teaching strategy meets students where they are, even if that is AI - My teaching style varies with student need, trying to meet individuals where they are and appreciating the barriers they may face. Putting it perhaps too c...
4 months ago
The Z Blog

Green Door Post- Draft 6/24/25 - “We liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it” is often attributed to Georgy Zhukov, the great Soviet general during the Great P...
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Order of the Coif

Against the Strawman God - Stellan Skarsgård, the famous Swedish actor, reportedly declared that the question of G-d’s existence is “absurd and completely uninteresting” because if a...
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Gun Culture 2.0

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Andrew Batson's Blog

The best music I heard in 2025 - Another good year for music. Thanks to some lucky coincidences I saw the Sun Ra Arkestra, led by Knoell Scott, three times this year. Every show was differ...
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Mark Manson

4 Simple Steps to Change Your Life - If you want to change your life—like really, seriously, no bullshit, actually change your life—do this: Step 1: Write down everything you care about. Ste...
5 months ago
Club Troppo

Market – what market? The catch 22 at the heart of innovation in government - The first of what may be quite a few articles I reproduce here which I wrote for The Mandarin from around 2016 to 2020 or thereabouts (The Mandarin has put...
5 months ago
Phillip W. Magness

Disraeli Left Me Tariffs? - In a recent piece for National Review (“Why I Will Never Be A Free Trader“) writer Michael Brendan Dougherty builds the core of his argument around the o...
5 months ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

GDP Marches On! - A discussion has been had over on X about how GDP sucks, and is also better than measures of happiness. I was moved to song. To the tune of “Battle Hymn...
5 months ago
West Hunter

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5 months ago
History for Atheists

Interview – Bart Ehrman on Jesus Mythicism - My very special guest today is Professor Bart Ehrman. Bart will need no introduction for most people, but in case you aren’t aware: he is the James A. Gr...
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Tino Sanandaji

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Facing Islam Blog

VIDEO: Dr Gavin Ashendon on Prince William's 'discomfort with Christianity', Islam's 'muscular' ascendency in the UK - Here is an older (January 2024) interview I just came across, but it treats such perennial issues in the UK as to be most timely: the blatant apostasy an...
7 months ago
I aim to misbehave.

Obligatory Furlough Post - Presented without further commentary...
7 months ago
Pandaemonium

OPERA, ELITISM AND THE WORKING CLASS - This is the opening to my essay on the forgotten relationship between opera and the working class, published in the Observer on 12 October 2025. You can re...
7 months ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

On the Road to ruin. Fasten seatbelts - Twaddle to the right, twaddle to the left, and not a drop to drink. In contemplating China’s meteoric rise (though on thought I am not sure that meteors ri...
7 months ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

On the Road to ruin. Fasten seatbelts - Twaddle to the right, twaddle to the left, and not a drop to drink. In contemplating China’s meteoric rise (though on thought I am not sure that meteors ri...
7 months ago
A Fine Theorem

A Nobel for Innovation: Mokyr, Aghion, Howitt - This site is currently inactive; however, an A Fine Theorem post about the 2025 Nobel can be found on my personal site at https://kevinbryanecon.com/mokyra...
7 months ago
PrawfsBlawg

Meet the new Prawfs, same as the old Prawfs - After twenty years at Typepad, we have completed our move to WordPress and to PrawfsBlawg.com. We have exported all our posts (thanks to Typepad and the IP...
8 months ago
Big P Political Economy

Military Spending in 2024 - Source: Sipri (2025) https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/2504_fs_milex_2024.pdf
8 months ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

The World in Which We Live Now - Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Ron Paul Institute, 2025 Friends, I have seven points. Why seven? Because I’ve been reading too much Babylonian hist...
8 months ago
neo-neocon

Question for you all: what was your experience with the Shingles vaccine? - My doctors have been urging me to get it, despite the fact that I had shingles about twenty-five years ago. Back then, the word on shingles was that you ...
8 months ago
The Other Side of History

Logistics for Humanitarian Crises - Introduction Logistics for humanitarian crises is quite unlike logistics for traditional military operations: in the case of natural disasters, there is f...
8 months ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

The crisis of UK democracy - Conventional UK politics is in crisis. By this I don't mean merely that things are bad. I mean that destabilizing forces have strengthened and stabilizing ...
9 months ago
Brad R. Torgersen

Footprints in the Firmament is on sale now! - Fresh boxes of both softcovers and hardcovers arrived today. If you’d like a signed, personalized copy of my new short fiction treasury, Footprints in the ...
9 months ago
Raymond Ibrahim

The EU’s Fake History Project: Islam, Europe, and €10 Million in Revisionism - The Stream The European Union has decided that what the continent really needs right now — amid economic stagnation, mass illegal immigration, rising crime...
9 months ago
Andrew Norton

Has the University Funding Freeze Caused Commencing Enrolments to Fall? - The release of 2018 enrolment data reveals a rare decline—commencing domestic bachelor-degree students fell by approximately 0.8% compared to 2017. On the ...
9 months ago
Bondwine Books

Obiter dictum - There is a peculiar form of human idiocy, unusually common on the political Left but not, alas, unheard of in any segment of society: the assumption that i...
9 months ago
NGDP Advisers

NGDP consulting approaches to improve project management efficiency - What are NGDP consulting approaches to improve project management efficiency? NGDP consulting approaches to improve project management efficiency include p...
9 months ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

I’ll say it: I told you so - (Transplanting a post from DeviantArt) So British and EU censorship laws have dropped, and especially on X, people are hitting the roof as every adult flag...
10 months ago
Being Classically Liberal

Incredible Lessons I’ve Learned About - Auto Diagnostics: The Key to Understanding Your Vehicle’s Health In today’s fast-paced automotive world, understanding the health of your vehicle is more c...
10 months ago
The Burning Platform

Planned Parenthood Warns Funding Cut Will Result In Birth Of Thousands Of Babies - Via The Babylon Bee U.S. — Following the passing of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” to set the government’s spending budget, Planned...
10 months ago
Communalism Watch

The Country I Miss | Naseeruddin Shah (Indian Express, 4 July 2025) - Every. Single. Word.𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗻𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰...
10 months ago
Andrew Norton

The ideas of Liberal liberals - Nearly 30 years ago now I dropped out of a PhD exploring the communitarian critique of liberalism. My interest in liberalism continued through articles, ch...
11 months ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

At long last, my re-education ‘coach’ has been chosen - But I will not submit until if the proceedings are to be behind closed doors Jordan Peterson: “We look at Carney and we don’t pay any attention to politics...
11 months ago
The History of China

#295 – Qing 30: Building Better Worlds - The Yongzheng Emperor seeks to capitalize on his father’s greatness abroad – but cautiously. He wants to exterminate the barbarians… but delicately. He wan...
11 months ago
Moneyness

Trump-proofing Canada means ending our dependence on SWIFT - It's time to stop staring into the headlights and respond to the fact that Canada is being eyed as a choice morsel by a much larger predator: our former...
1 year ago
Agony and Hope

We’re Moving - I have decided to move Agony & Hope to a new home.
1 year ago
Peter Turchin

My Blog Has Moved to Substack - As I wrote at the beginning of 2025, the previous year turned out to be quite a challenge. It took me a while to recover and, then, to deal with the “stuff...
1 year ago
Anonymous Mugwump

- I did not consent to have my blog stored in the wayback machine - see the following link for a list of URLs currently captured on your site - and as copy...
1 year ago
MAN ABOUT TOWN

Recent Call of Cthulhu work for the Miskatonic Repository - The last time I posted on this poor, neglected blog was in August 2023, and a lot has happened since then - I've been meaning to blog about it for ages, bu...
1 year ago
Dr. Andrew Bostom

Forthcoming: “A MODERN QUR’ANIC KAMPF AGAINST THE JEWS” First full translation of, “The Children of Israel in the Qur’an & Traditions,” written by late (d. 2010) Al-Azhar University Grand Imam, & Sunni Islam’s Pre-eminent Modern Qur’anic Commentator, Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi - Forthcoming: A MODERN QUR’ANIC KAMPF AGAINST THE JEWS First full translation of, “The Children of Israel in the Qur’an & Traditions” Written by late (d. 2...
1 year ago
The Observation Post

Never let facts stand in the way of a good story - “South Africa’s most decorated combat soldier, Colonel Jan Breytenbach, has died in his homeland at 91” So, proclaimed Mr. John Elsegood in an article on O...
1 year ago
MacroMania

The End - I started this blog back in 2008. What a ride it's been! Thanks to all who took the time to interact with me -- I profited greatly from the experience. And...
1 year ago
Evo and Proud

New location and new horizons - *The Travelling Companions*, 1862, Augustus Egg (1816-1863) I'm now blogging at *Peter Frost's Newsletter.* Please drop by and offer your comments: ...
1 year ago
MountainGuerrilla

General Preparedness Discussion–9MAR2025 - It’s been said that most American households only have enough food on hand for 2-3 days worth of meals. We tend to see this as factual, because of the run ...
1 year ago
Bernard Gaynor

Sign up for the fight – join my fighting team today! - Join my fighting team and help win the battle against porn in our public libraries! The post Sign up for the fight – join my fighting team today! appeare...
1 year ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

Algeria - The Algerians were mostly pirates at first. They preyed on European commerce and enslaved tens of thousands of Europeans. They ransomed what they could and...
1 year ago
Supply and Demand (in that order)

Deepseek gets F+ in Econ - LLMs have trouble with this pretty-basic economics question: Prompt: “*Is this factually accurate?* *Positively correlated price-quantity pairs reveal th...
1 year ago
Cherokee Gothic

The Revitalization of the Cherokee Language - The Cherokee language is a key part of the rich and diverse history of the Cherokee people. This unique language, with its syllabary alphabet created by ...
1 year ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

The Humanoids by Jack Willamson - I had my hopes up for this one. After all, “With Folded Hands” is a bona fide super-classic short story. Yeah, sure. Isaac Asimov was onto something when h...
1 year ago
Cold Fury

Joy! - Genuine, heartfelt joy, REAL joy, that is. Look close, Kumala, so’s you’ll always know it when you see it from now on. ‘This Is What Victory Feels Like!’ M...
1 year ago
globalinequality

To be young, perchance to dream - *He got to the river quay, or more exactly to the sidewalk on the other side of the paved road running along the river, in the late morning. Too many ...
1 year ago
Lead and Gold

Merry Christmas - And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them...
1 year ago
Institutional Economics

Institutional Economics on Bluesky - I have a Bluesky account you may wish to follow. Also a reminder to subscribe to my Substack newsletter if you have not already done so. The back-end of th...
1 year ago
Augean Stables

The “Public Secret” Dossier: Revelations about the MSM from the Al Durah Affair - This text was first posted July 10, 2008, but much of it is missing there. I will clean this text (with formatting) but in the meantime, I publish it here ...
1 year ago
War Is Boring - Medium

Japan’s PM ‘runs’ to Trump, Ishiba aims for a meeting in November - Adnkronos International, Rome(TNS) During the phone call that lasted about five minutes, Ishiba and Trump – Kyodo reports again – did not talk about the ...
1 year ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

About Simone and Malcolm Collins’ Smear Campaign Against Me - If you’re interested at all in pronatalism, you’re familiar with Simone and Malcolm Collins, the pronatal Silicon Valley investors-turned-Pennsylvania-pr...
1 year ago
ribbonfarm

Ribbonfarm is Retiring - After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm....
1 year ago
Jeb Kinnison

Podcast Review of “Avoidant” - I’ve been trying out AI assistance in marketing. This is an excellent example of what you can do, and it’s amazingly good at bringing out the value of th...
1 year ago
Sharyl Attkisson

(WATCH) NATO - The US is one of 32 nations belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. The alliance is 75 years old this year. Because of the Russia-Uk...
1 year ago
Rightly Considered

Hello world! - WordPress へようこそ。こちらは最初の投稿です。編集または削除し、コンテンツ作成を始めてください。
1 year ago
interfluidity

China has much to teach us. John Roberts does not. - So, I don’t really write here any more. I write at drafts.interfluidity.com instead. Please follow that feed or subscribe by e-mail. I do still offer perio...
1 year ago
TheMoneyIllusion

A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...
1 year ago
Martin van Creveld

Dear Friends - Dear Friends: Ten years after I started this blog, circumstances are making it impossible for me to continue with it. So I am going to suspend it, at lea...
1 year ago
untethered

Sanity Fair - *"Antifascist" demonstration Portland, Oregon. August 17, 2019. * The two sides squared off across a field, defined by police cordons at each end, like dis...
1 year ago
Fabius Maximus website

The Deep-State Strikes Back - Biden is out. Kamala is in. Democracy and laws be damned. Biden through Saturday night was insisting he would stay in the presidential race to the end su...
1 year ago
Falkenblog

A Better Stablecoin on a Perp DEX - Creating a stablecoin position on a perp exchange is hard, but it should be easy. It not only caters to demand, but it also adds liquidity to perp marke...
1 year ago
traditionalRIGHT

Sitzkrieg? - Several People have inquired why I have not written a column for TR in some time. Let me assure them I am in good health and face no lack of material as o...
2 years ago
Information Processing

Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...
2 years ago
Information Processing

Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...
2 years ago
Ideas

Speaking trip this April - I'm speaking at Libertycon in Tbilisi on April 20th, will probably either go or come via London. Anyone interested in a talk? I'll probably be in Europe ...
2 years ago
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
2 years ago
deflationite.com

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
2 years ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

British Jews are living under the shadow of fear: Whatever happens in Israel and Palestine, nothing excuses bigoted and criminal behaviour in the UK - By Khadija Khan The increase in anti-Semitic incidents following Hamas’s barbaric attack on Israeli civilians on October 7 is abhorrent – but regrettably...
2 years ago
Belmont Club

Belmont Club: A Bellyful of War -
2 years ago
Jacobite

Who Can File An Ethics Complaint Against A Realtor – Your Shield Against Unethical Realtors - Real estate transactions are pivotal moments in our lives, often involving significant financial and emotional investments. When ethics are compromised ...
2 years ago
LaborEcon

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2 years ago
ERIC POSNER

Recent work - The New Labor Antitrust, SSRN The Trump Indictment and America’s Political Order, Project Syndicate, June 14, 2023 The Revised Merger Guidelines Will Resto...
2 years ago
TheRalphRetort.com

ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION - Snacks, aka “Bread” or “The Louisiana Succubus”, is infamous within the sector.… The post ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION appeared first on TheRa...
2 years ago
Maverick Philosopher

New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve - They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat, get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every Democrat-...
2 years ago
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

"Realist Jurisprudence: Selected Essays" - A Spanish translation by Dr. Francisco M. Mora-Sifuentes of eight of my essays on realist jurisprudence and related topics (with a new preface by me and an...
2 years ago
Mick Hartley

A pyramid scheme of misery - Róisín Michaux at The Critic on the mothers who affirm their children's trans identities: I’ve spent the last couple of years lurking on their online fora....
2 years ago
Working-Class Perspectives

Biden’s Labor Initiatives and Organizers’ Challenges - Is Joe Biden, as he claims, the best friend workers have had in the White House either ever or since Franklin Delano Roosevelt? We could debate that all d...
2 years ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives - Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the...
2 years ago
Andrew Holt, Ph.D.

A Crusader’s Mom - Something a bit different. Early crusaders were volunteers, who took vows to go on a crusade, rather than members of a professional army. As a result, they...
2 years ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

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2 years ago
OrientalReview.org

U.S. Openly Militarizes Space - The media have noticed that the new USSF Doctrine is more focused on aligning space activity with the twelve principles of warfare as a whole The post U....
2 years ago
Critical Thinking Applied

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2 years ago
GayUganda

Weird, Queer Mood; Uganda, Ugandans on the World Bank - The World Bank released a statement. To dear Uganda; sorry, but our values and the values enshrined in the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 are at war. W...
2 years ago
Uncouth Reflections

Rochester gets burned over - Fenster writes: The burned over district: The term “burned-over district” refers to the western and central regions of New York State in the early 19th cen...
2 years ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

A Fond Farewell to Political Violence @ A Glance - Dear Readers, After eleven incredible years, we have made the difficult decision to close the doors of Political…
2 years ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

Russia: Defend Boris Kagarlitsky! - News of Kagarlitsky's arrest has sparked anger and empathy among a wide range of activists. People may perish, but ideas do not, and Kagarlitsky has done...
2 years ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

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2 years ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

Draco Layer Four: The Anagogic or Mystical Sense - Here be dragons. And doves. Human beings long for transcendence. Such longing is, for the world, always out of fashion because, of course, it is not a long...
2 years ago
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
2 years ago
JudgyBitch

Your own relaxing retreat: tips for designing a dream backyard escape - There’s nothing quite like having a peaceful and relaxing outdoor space to unwind and escape the stresses of everyday life. And what better way to achieve ...
2 years ago
Taki's Magazine

Conversations With Cabbies - Many a foreign correspondent, sent to an obscure country of which he knows nothing but which has suddenly drawn the world’s attention to itself by a terrib...
2 years ago
Growth Economics Blog

Moving to Substack - Hi all, this is a pointer to direct you over to Substack. I’m moving the Econ Growth Blog over there, with the hopes of creating a little more interactio...
2 years ago
Mercatornet

France’s fertility fall began long ago, before the Revolution. Was dechristianization to blame? - Why do fertility rates fall? All over the world, in rich countries, in middle-income countries, and in poor countries, fertility rates are falling below ...
2 years ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order - The post Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order appeared first on Heterodox Academy.
2 years ago
The Baseline Scenario

A Few Quick Announcements - By James As I wrote a couple of years ago, I don’t post here anymore. I just have a couple of updates for people who subscribe and may be interested in my ...
3 years ago
The Evolution Institute

Democracy Bottom-Up: Building a Dialogue between Civil Society and Politicians - Warsaw Summit 1-2 June Forum Ruchu Europejskiego, European Movement International, Evolution Institute, and Collegium Civitas Place: Collegium Civitas, Pal...
3 years ago
A Myth in Creation

What Whitaker wants us to know about Mad in America - Read the post here on my Substack newsletter: https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/what-whitaker-wants-us-to-know-about
3 years ago
CDR Salamander

Breaking my Flag - For those who missed the previous announcements, please read the previous posts for the details, but after 18 2/3 years here, I will no longer be posti...
3 years ago
Jennifer Marohasy

March Update: Mediation Ongoing, Temperature Tipping Point Already Exceeded - Thanks to everyone who has enquired about the outcome of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal hearing with John Abbot versus the Bureau of Meteorology fir...
3 years ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

The Erdmann Housing Tracker - For my latest work, please see my new substack newsletter: The Erdmann Housing Tracker
3 years ago
Scott Adams Blog

Episode 2045 Scott Adams: Silicon Valley Bank Prediction, Trump Dominance, & Race Relations Reframed - Content: Bill Maher reframes DeSantis out of 2024 SVB, Silicon Valley Bank situation Mark Cuban on FDIC 250,000 protection limit USA Today compares Maine...
3 years ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

The Debt Ceiling: An Economist's Analysis - Economics Professor Cameron Harwick explains government debt, the debt ceiling, and what it means when we hit it.
3 years ago
Quillette

Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities - The social dynamics of girls’ and women’s friendship groups, including a desire to fit in and avoid conflict, may make them more susceptible to social cont...
3 years ago
Michael O. Church

AI Will Kill Literature, and AI Will Resurrect It - The literary novel, as far as genres go, is not old: novels have existed in our culture for about three hundred years. If you had a time machine, you could...
3 years ago
Chris Blattman

Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated - My piece in Wired The post Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more co...
3 years ago
Against Jebel al-Lawz

Subscribe to my Substack - For most intents and purposes, this blog is dead. Comments are still permitted and errors will be corrected if pointed out. Nevertheless, all new writing w...
3 years ago
Rationalist Judaism

Blog Migration! - Birds migrate, butterflies migrate, whales migrate, and this blog is migrating! It's being moved over from Blogger to Substack. The URL is currently http...
3 years ago
Healthy Curiousity

Have the Baby Boomers Ruined Society? - Introduction.The author is a young energetic historian who has entertaining and insightful ideas. His exuberance on occasion leads him astray, he can be to...
3 years ago
The Electric Agora

Electric Agora shutting down, new media venture launching soon - Today we are shutting down all activities for The Electric Agora and will soon be archiving the site. The social media accounts for The Electric Agora were...
3 years ago
davidthompson

As Good As A Rest, They Said - Or, The Cause Of All The Banging And Salty Epithets. After close to sixteen years, this blog has a new home. Come see. Bring cake.
3 years ago
Jim’s Blog

Another one bites the dust. - I don’t usually cover the events of the day, because one loses track of the big picture. The events of the day only reveal their meaning when viewed months...
3 years ago
Muddy Colors

Character Design, Pt 8: Designing Alternatives (Layer Comps) - Phew, it has been a busy couple of months, but I’ve got a quick chance to dive back into this guy. He’s getting close to finished, the colors and general ...
3 years ago
Coordination Problem

Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
3 years ago
Council on Global Security

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3 years ago
When You Say Tomato and Your Sister Says Tomahto – spottedtoad

10 Predictions for the next 5 to 10 years - A friend asked what the big trends in American society over the next five to ten years would be. This is a fun time frame to think about, because you don’t...
3 years ago
PARALLAX OPTICS

Interview with Anon: On Subversion - Don't contribute to a system that hates you.
3 years ago
The Liberty Zone

Getting Down To Basics with - Bar Mitzvah Food Catering – Tips For Budget-Conscious Caterers For lots of, bar mitzvah food catering is a high-ticket item. […] The post Getting Down To...
3 years ago
Rabble Rouser

The Problem with Research on Microaggressions - Commentary: Some of the key claims made in microaggression research are backed by weak evidence.
3 years ago
Fake Nous

Who Cares About Diversity? - All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires. Everyone has to submit a statement explaining how they a...
3 years ago
Magnitude Matters

Moving to Substack . . . - The times, they are a changin'. Going forward, I will primarily be blogging on Substack: https://stevewinkler.substack.com. Bryan Caplan, who else, convin...
3 years ago
I Want a New Left

My Final Post - For various reasons, I have decided to quit blogging. For one thing, my numbers are down to a level that it doesn’t seem worth it to continue, though let m...
4 years ago
The Reference Frame

AdSense became unusable - For several months, I have been getting direct censorship requests from Google AdSense. In recent days, the frequency increased to "several articles to be ...
4 years ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

The 1/N portfolio versus the optimal strategy: Does a simple heuristic outperform? - Gerd Gigerenzer is fond of telling a story about Harry Markowitz, modern portfolio design pioneer and winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...
4 years ago
Advice Goddess Blog

RIP, Amy's Blog: 1997 to 2021 - I have two intense books I'm completing, and I've been increasingly unable to put the effort into blogging that I have done for years...
4 years ago
Declination

Filtering For Truth In The Age Of Google - Over the years, I’ve met several individuals of immense capacity for logical deduction, genuinely impressive education, and sky-high IQ (we’re talking well...
4 years ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

The shameful silence on the Waukesha massacre - Is silence still violence? If it is, then a whole lot of people, from the Hollywood set to the virtue-signalling left, are guilty of some serious violenc...
4 years ago
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
4 years ago
askblog

The blog has moved - It is now on substack (In My Tribe). There is still no charge to read it. I am trying to maintain the feel of this blog, including the daily scheduled post...
4 years ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Good Chart Checklist - Note: this was prepared for my ECON 3403 students, and is a list of all of the mistakes I commonly see in student charts. Please add your suggestions for t...
4 years ago
readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore

Hotel Bar Sessions, Ep 31: Whose History? - The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. to talk about whose history is (and isn't) being taught. Following on the heels of a recent and ...
4 years ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...
4 years ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...
4 years ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

Angelo Codevilla on changes in the educational landscape - Angelo Codevilla (circa 2010) whereas within living memory school nurses could not administer an aspirin to a child without the parents’ consent, the peopl...
4 years ago
Armed and Dangerous

Sample post. - Checking to see if RSS works.
4 years ago
Michael Totten

The Kruiser Kabana Episode 154: Trump Needs to Make Up His Mind About 2024 ASAP -
4 years ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

What does Lisa Birnbach say about preppy cars? - I happen to have a copy of The Official Preppy Handbook, and it seems that preppy cars barely changed at all since the book was written in 1980. That’s 41 ...
4 years ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

18 Theses on Poetry - The principal purpose of poetry is to lay bare the hidden powers of the language in which it is written. These powers are found both at the level of the ph...
4 years ago
Nec Pluribus Impar

Pourquoi le COVID-19 est là pour de bon, et pourquoi vous ne devriez pas vous en inquiéter - [Cet article est une traduction d’un billet de blog que j’ai publié en anglais sur le site de CSPI le 17 août. La traduction a été réalisée conjointement...
4 years ago
Marquette Warrior

Dr. John McAdams - *October 26th, 1945 - April 15th, 2021* Dr. John Charles McAdams passed away on Thursday, April 15th, 2021, at the age of 75. He was a devoted husband, ...
4 years ago
Veracities

health care - These two graphs really say it all: A few years ago I got a freak knee infection that landed me in the hospital. The experience was so smooth, non-st...
4 years ago
Vox Popoli

A new legend - Unauthorized is very, very pleased to announce that MADE BY JIMBOB has joined the intellectual outlaws of the Internet. Look for his videos on the Made b...
4 years ago
Point of no return

Point of.No Return has moved! - The new address is www.jewishrefugees.org.uk. See you there!
4 years ago
Priceonomics Blog

People Left Cities for Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk? - Zoom towns with high wildfire risk are also seeing the fastest growth in home prices, and therefore the fastest increase in wildfire exposure
4 years ago
Satire .. not quite dead yet.

A handy guide to getting pinged - The NHS App could be expanded to help us make ‘informed decisions’ in all kinds of everyday scenarios. AI algorithms would replace the flawed notion of ‘wo...
4 years ago
Talisman Gate, Again

The Sad, Discordant Ballad of Husham al-Hashimi - The man who pulled the trigger on Husham al-Hashimi—by first misfiring an assault rifle and then pulling out his pistol to shoot the victim at point-blank ...
4 years ago
Dani Rodrik's weblog

IEA World Congress 2021 - A few words on the International Economics’ Association online World Congress, July 2-6, on the theme “Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in a Fractured...
4 years ago
Russian History Blog

Men Out of Focus: Cold War Scientists or Sixties Scientists? (Marko responds to Josh) - Josh’s post got me thinking about my disinclination to more directly acknowledge the connection between the Cold War and Soviet masculinity – esp. given th...
4 years ago
Historinhas

Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...
5 years ago
Inconvenient Facts

Inconvenient Facts is driving Norwegian warming hysterics nuts - Other than by misspelling "fjord," how would an American geologist draw the ire of a pair of Norwegian politicians? Answer: Write a book that counters the...
5 years ago
Kantoos Economics – Kantoos Economics

The advantages of working with a qualified exhibition stand builder - When looking for constructing services providers construction in all exhibitions in Europe, the primary is to get a competent exhibition stand builder pr...
5 years ago
GayPatriot

Humiliation: The Greatest Gift Our Adversaries Have For America - The country of slut and body shaming is about to learn the positive influence of shame. The only question will be, will we learn shame’s lessons? America ...
5 years ago
Fredrik deBoer

the future - Hey gang, I’m excited to say that Substack approached me recently and made an attractive financial offer for me to blog over there. Given that I’ve been ou...
5 years ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Finito Sic Semper Tyrannis - We are done here. turcopolier.com is working now. I have cancelled all guest author ships here. RSS is enabled on the new blog. Comments will no longer be ...
5 years ago
Stories by Michael Tracey on Medium

‘Feel Our Pain,’ Politicians Demand - Congress is increasingly not a place where the average member partakes in what’s generally understood as legislative activity, but rather engages in a va...
5 years ago
The Independent Whig

The Tragic Effect of the Left’s One-Dimensional World View on the Multi-Dimensional World - I recommend the documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” by historian Shelby Steele. Two things about it struck me. 1) Steele’s term “Poetic Truth” sounds ...
5 years ago
Slate Star Codex

Introducing Astral Codex Ten - Thanks for bearing with me the past few months. My new blog is at https://astralcodexten.substack.com/. I’ll try to have a less unwieldy domain name workin...
5 years ago
Setting the Record Straight

We lost. Now what? - I was preparing this post, anticipating that nothing would happen on January 6, that the certification of Biden would go forward with minor bluster and maj...
5 years ago
Harry's Place

‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage - Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than the govern...
5 years ago
Handle's Haus

Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies” - Two years ago, when reviewing “The Benedict Option”, I wrote, “Almost all Dreher’s critics accuse him of crying wolf or being a Chicken Little at best … Me...
5 years ago
Via Meadia

A Letter to TAI’s Subscribers and Readers - Dear TAI readers,Due primarily to financing difficulties, The American Interest is taking a hiatus from publishing new material.We are glad that there is...
5 years ago
Stories by Tom X Hart on Medium

Biotin for hair: what can this vitamin do to hair? - What is this vitamin? How does it act on the wires? Does it make hair grow faster? For more insights jump to: best biotin shampoo We know that our hair l...
5 years ago
Insitome - Medium

Humanity’s second “cradle” in Southeast Asia - Pleistocene Sundaland This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib and Spencer talk about a topic which they hav...
5 years ago
Raedwald

The spin on the spin - There's been something of a triumph of spin on the EU's MFF share-out. Oh I don't mean the headlines, which we summarised last week, but the rationale. Spa...
5 years 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 ...
5 years 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...
5 years ago
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...
6 years 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 o...
6 years 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...
6 years 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...
6 years ago
Opinion - The Philosophers' Magazine

Philosophy, In a Sense - Constantine Sandis on Doing Nothing in the Time of Covid-19
6 years 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, ...
6 years 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 ...
6 years 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...
6 years 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...
6 years 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...
6 years 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...
6 years ago
The Economics Detective

Maritime Policy and the Merchant Marine with Josh Hendrickson - Today, Josh Hendrickson joins the show to discuss his paper, “U.S. Maritime Policy and Economic Efficiency.” The paper discusses the controversial Jones ...
6 years ago
The Everyday Economist

Podcast on Maritime Policy - I recently recorded an episode of The Economics Detective podcast with Garrett Petersen. The subject of the podcast is my paper, “U.S. Maritime Policy and ...
6 years ago
Douglas L. Campbell

How to Respond to the Next Recession: Central Bank Fiscal Support - Now that it looks like like the next recession may be coming sooner rather than later, it's time to lay out what I think is clearly the best path forward f...
6 years ago
Blog - Traditions of Conflict

Book Review: Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier - There are two core arguments put forward in *Not Born Yesterday*, the latest book by cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier. The first argument, one which I be...
6 years ago
A Free Left Blog

On race and racism in everyday life – or how the race ideologues are winning - Public, political and institutional discourse can often appear strangely detached from ordinary, everyday life. On identity politics, now a specialist are...
6 years 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...
6 years 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...
6 years 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 ...
6 years ago
Easily Distracted

Free College: Not So Extreme - I’ve complained that for the most part, self-identified centrists and moderates prefer not to engage in direct arguments about their policy preferences in ...
6 years ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Laugh About It, Shout About It When You’ve Got to Choose - I’m going to be one of the moderators for the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidates’ debate on Friday, February 28th, in conjunction with the Alabama...
6 years ago
Tommy Ousslander

Trashed Hotel rooms and horny groupies - Hey y'all, starting on April first, I am hitting the virtual road on my first blog tour to support Feral Creatures. Over 14 days, we will be making twenty...
6 years 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...
6 years ago
Ancestry matters

Coronavirus - radical thoughts. - On January 25th, Neil Ferguson said that it was sensible to plan for the eventuality that containment efforts will not succeed: I think the evidence now s...
6 years ago
The Great Realignment

Forgiveness is only appropriate after repentance - The people who tried to thwart the implementation of a vote they lost must not be forgiven until they repent. People like Jolyon Maugham QC could have push...
6 years 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. ...
6 years 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...
6 years 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 ...
6 years 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...
6 years ago
Academic Wonderland

Cautious Optimism for Accused Student in Critical Eighth Circuit Appeal - Today featured the second of what likely will be five oral arguments in accused student appeals during the 2019-2020 session of Eighth Circuit, which cover...
6 years ago
Urban kchoze

The midrise obesity crisis in North America - Well, it's been a long while since my last post. A combination of a busy life, a feeling that I had said most of what I felt comfortable saying and a des...
6 years 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 years 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 years 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 years 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 years ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Merry Christmas -
6 years 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 years ago
Jacob ex Machina

On the nature of forgiveness - Forgiveness is not an emotion or a single action. It is rather a change in your ontological* orientation towards the forgiven person, removing them fro...
6 years 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 years ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

2019: The year revolt went global - Revolt as Consumer Backlash Beyond Washington DC, Donald Trump, and impeachment, there lies a great big world – and that world, at the moment, is being con...
6 years ago
Rootless Cosmopolitan – By Tony Karon

“Goodnight, and Good Luck” - My February 2016 valedictory editorial note on the home page of Al Jazeera America the day we closed down. Still proud of the work we did, and the way we c...
6 years 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...
6 years ago
Random Critical Analysis

Noah means Noah: the high income-elasticity of health expenditure does not mean we are all going to starve! - No, @Noahpinion, we can spend proportionally more on health care and still consume much more of everything else. This is easily explained by productivity.
6 years ago
The Arabist

Links 1-30 November 2019 - Tab dump. - Moral Leadership and the Lebanese Military | Carnegie - Reforming Tunisia’s military courts | Brookings - Ira...
6 years ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

On the referendum #34: BATSIGNAL!! DON’T LET CORBYN-STURGEON CHEAT A SECOND REFERENDUM WITH MILLIONS OF FOREIGN VOTES - Dear Vote Leave supporters LET’S HONOUR THE REFERENDUM RESULT AND GET BREXIT DONE SO THE COUNTRY CAN MOVE ON Summary: Tell your family and friends face-to-...
6 years ago
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle

Announcing New Books from Jerry Pournelle - Jerry’s son Alex has asked that we let you know of exciting book news for fans of Dr. Jerry Pournelle’s fiction. The “Best of Jerry Pournelle” is available...
6 years ago
glenntstanton.com

Some Nice Praise in the Midst of Curses - I am well used to getting trashed on the internet. It comes with the job. And truth be told, I […] The post Some Nice Praise in the Midst of Curses appea...
6 years ago
Random Critical Analysis

A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare - Properly understood, US healthcare is NOT an outlier. The slope is very consistent with the pattern of diminishing returns observed in other high-income ...
6 years ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

Nature Author's Oddball Piece on Bioethics - The journal Nature has published a lengthy Commentary piece by a UK based sociologist on Bioethics (the field, not the journal). It's part of a series of...
6 years ago
Miranda Yardley

From lesbian and gay liberation to equality - Ruth Hunt, for her hundred thousand a year pieces of silver, has sold out lesbians and gay men out to girl dick and corporate cock. The post From lesbia...
6 years ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

Allan Meltzer's Life Work - The Hoover Press and the Mercatus Center have just released a new book on Allan Meltzer's contributions to economics. The book is comprised of papers th...
6 years 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...
6 years 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...
6 years ago
chrishernandezauthor

THE DEFENSE OF FORT DAVIS, Chapter 4 - Chapter 4 Six miles west of Fort Davis, Fall 1881 Chief Victorio blew into his clenched hands, rubbed them together and held them toward the flames. Even w...
6 years ago
On the Margin of Error

Why Trump Is a Potential Tyrant: A Comparative Look - The question is not about whether Trump will be a tyrant, but that he wants to. Trump wants to be a tyrant, his behavior shows he's behaving like other tyr...
6 years ago
Den of Inquiry

Abortion views by religion, 1970's-1990's - Variables: ABANY, RELIG16, Years (1972-1999), Race(1) Sample Size: 18,573
6 years 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...
6 years ago
Claritas

CNN Debate Math - The Democratic debates on July 30 and 31 were a little less than 3 hours long each. A conservative estimate would be 150 minutes. 150 minutes /10 candidat...
6 years 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 o...
6 years 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...
6 years ago
Secular Right

A Glimpse of Hell - Via Religion News: HOT SPRINGS, N.C. (RNS) — For years, liberals — even liberal people of faith — have been wary of fusions of faith and politics, careful ...
6 years 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 cha...
6 years 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...
6 years 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...
6 years ago
Tim van Gelder

What might an alternative to the ODNI Rating Scale be like? - In the previous post I raised various issues with the ODNI Rating Scale for intelligence products. At least some of these are serious problems. Some time i...
7 years 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...
7 years 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...
7 years 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...
7 years ago
Yue Chim Richard Wong 王于漸

The Economic Contribution of Recent Immigrants - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 24 April 2019.) Expanding the youthful population through immigration is incredibly important fo...
7 years ago
rethinking history

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

Socialist Monetary Policy - Consider a command economy that doesn't fully dispense with money but rather pays wages to the workers in all of the nationalized industries and charges th...
7 years ago
View on IQ

Version 1.3.2 now uploaded - Version 1.3.2 now uploaded A new version of the NIQ dataset was completed yesterday and uploaded today. It now includes 669 samples with a total of 617,581...
7 years ago
The Pleistocene Scene – A.P. Van Arsdale Blog

Boston Marathon Training Update, new podcasts - The last time I updated my marathon training, things were going great. I had steadily increased my mileage, and by the end of January did my first half-mar...
7 years ago
Stories by Mark Koyama on Medium

The Institutional Foundations of Antisemitism - Antisemitism has returned to mainstream politics in Europe and America. One fundamental misconception about antisemitism is that it is simply another for...
7 years ago
Neven Sesardić

Physicists, sex differences, and a new inquisition - When a book entitled 100 authors against Einstein came out in Germany in 1931, Einstein allegedly exclaimed: “If I were wrong, then one [author] would have...
7 years 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...
7 years ago
The Gladstone Diaries

Momentum needs to talk to its members about Israel - On Thursday afternoon, the left-wing activist group Momentum released a video designed to educate its members about anti-Semitism. It's the kind of init...
7 years ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
7 years ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
7 years 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 ...
7 years 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...
7 years 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...
7 years 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...
7 years ago
Global Guerrillas

The Long Night is Coming - Written by an anonymous friend who also ...
7 years ago
hbd chick

redecorating! - Whaddya think? (^_^)
7 years ago
China Matters

Debunking the China Debt Trap Myth, Sri Lanka/Hambantota Edition - *[I've come to the opinion that a not insignificant chunk of China coverage that currently pops up in the Western media is an info op curated by China ha...
7 years ago
Irtiqa

Please read this short story - "My Mother is a Lunar Crater" - *by Salman Hameed* There are very few writers who can provide a nuanced critique of politics in different cultures, bring science into their stories, an...
7 years 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...
7 years ago
The Audacious Epigone

Archived - This blog is now in archival status.
7 years ago
Publishing Archaeology

George Cowgill's database and my introduction to scientific archaeology - Here is a very short video that describes how I first got into the science of archaeology: George had a database!
7 years ago
The Ex-Muslim

European Court’s Anti-Muslim Ruling - In a decision made this October, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has neglected the basic principle of freedom of speech to uphold the “right of o...
7 years ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/
7 years ago
Free Northerner

The Authoritarian Power Base - As I’ve written, political power is, in essence, the capacity for violence and the will to use it. The power of a leader comes from his authority over, his...
7 years 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...
7 years ago
The World is Not Enough

We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free!
7 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 ...
7 years ago
A Taste for Desert Landscapes

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

UPDATE - UPDATE I AM NOT ALTOGETHER WELL I SHALL RETURN TO HOSPITAL TOMORROW FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. I'II KEEP READERS INFORMED. BEST WISHES. GAVON
8 years ago
Nice Mangos

Waking Up to Issues in the Atheist Scene - Not long ago, similar emails to the one I'll share below were only sent to me by Muslims questioning their faith, scripture and double standards, etc. I s...
8 years ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Dragon Ball series teaches valuable life lessons - Watching the Dragon Ball series life lesson nostalgia. Every episode hints at hidden esoteric gems. Allow me to provide a high-level overview of what’s r...
8 years ago
Spontaneous Finance

The era of ‘soft’ central planning - More than a decade ago, The Economist (at the time still a classical liberal publication – how times change…) published an excellent article on ‘soft pater...
8 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...
8 years ago
vitam fracta

Please Put Down Your Sledgehammers: On the Parkland Students, Left Reductionism, and Aversion to Strategic Alliance - By William J. Weikart When I Facebook reposted a .gif rendering of Emma González that said “I Stand With Her”, I was feeling her emotional courage, and ins...
8 years ago
markdurie.com blog

Calling for Violent Jihad in Australia - 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 ...
8 years ago
The March of the Virgin

What is the meaning of an accusation of racism? - Guy comes up to you on the street and says: “I know who you are. You may look like a human, but I know that’s a disguise. You have taken over the body of a...
8 years ago
ny mens action network

Are NY Republicans a friend to men, boys, fathers, or families? - While Republicans in NYS certainly talk a good game of supporting men, fathers, and families the talk is just that, cheap talk. Now that we have 20 years ...
8 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 ...
8 years ago
Fantastic Worlds

Review of "Weep For Day" by Indrapramit Das (2012) - *Introduction: *Being well aware that this story was probably put at the head of the *Best New SF 26* anthology to highlight some sort of committment to "...
8 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) ...
8 years ago
Grand Blog Tarkin

The Stormtrooper Marksmanship Myth - [Jonathan Jeckell is a regenerated U.S. Army officer striving find unique ways to remain useful to his country.] Stormtroopers have been the butt of jokes ...
8 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...
8 years ago
Keith Burgess-Jackson

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) - Autie was born on this date 178 years ago.
8 years ago
The Ripple Effect

Ideas Generation and Behavioural Insights - Here is the ideas grid I use when working with local authorities to co-produce ways of using behavioural insights. Each effect has a ‘how can we use it?’ c...
8 years ago
The Travel Diaries of Mr Wallace

CHAPTER 34. Glasgow and the Exhibition - I tried to get permission for the ladies to accompany me, but that was not given and when I got into the yards I saw how utterly impossible it would be for...
8 years ago
Devin Helton - Essays and Articles

What caused the dramatic rise of crime and blight in American cities from 1950 to 2000? - On Reddit’s most lauded history subreddit (/r/AskHistorians) someone asked “What caused the dramatic rise of violent crimes and urban decay in the mid-to...
8 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...
8 years ago
Pseudoerasmus

Labour relations & textiles: addenda - This post contains related topics and disjointed observations as addenda to “Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence” in cotton textiles. (Lack of...
8 years ago
Rajiv Sethi

Innovation in Economics Pedagogy and Publishing - Well, it's Labor Day weekend, which means that Barnard and Columbia students are back on campus and classes are about to begin. This semester I'm teaching...
8 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 ...
8 years ago
iramramzan | Just another WordPress.com site…but better

The Morality of Faith Schools - On Wednesday July 19 I appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze to discuss the Al-Hijrah school controversy. A long-running legal battle between Ofsted and the...
8 years ago
Stories by Orestis Tsinalis on Medium

Moderate rebels and augmented reality - A common characteristic of the multiple regime change interventions in the Middle East is the financial, military, and moral support given by Western gov...
8 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 issu...
8 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 ...
8 years ago
southseaconversations 讨论南海

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

On the Importance of Voting - On this Thursday, 8th of June 2017, millions of people will be going to polling stations throughout the United Kingdom in order to cast their vote in t...
8 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 ...
9 years ago
The Diecast

Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel. 01:35: Bay Eats Candy Bay tries famous candies for the first time. You can read the results on her blog. 11:...
9 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...
9 years ago
Unenumerated

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

Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyi...
9 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...
9 years ago
Cantercap

Trump’s Immigration Fatwa - I recently read an article by a conservative writer who I normally respect. But this piece brought me up short. … More
9 years ago
The Offshore Balancer

Military Power in an Age of Raiding - I was lucky enough to be invited to speak as part of the Ministry of Defence’s new ‘Force Exploration’ Cadre. Here it is. I’m so grateful and honoured to b...
9 years ago
Psychological comments

Africa and the cold beauty of Maths - [image: Africa TIMMS equipercentile] Things move fast. A published paper comes to the attention of Steve Sailer and suddenly a section of a puzzle get...
9 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...
9 years ago
Box Turtle Bulletin

“The Intel On This Wasn’t 100 Percent” - Gee. Ya think? Mr. Welch, the father of two daughters, said he woke up Sunday morning and told his family he had some things to do. He left “Smallsbury,” a...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago
Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play

Florida Election Officials Caught Filling Out Absentee Ballots, Affidavit Alleges #FloridaFraud - Florida voters have complained that they have not been receiving their requested absentee ballots. We may now know the reason why. According to a former Se...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago
Modern Medieval

Heroic Age Papers! - Merovingians and Their Neighbors Sponsor: *The Heroic Age* Session Organizer: Deanna Forsman Contact: Deanna Forsman North Hennepin Community College 7411 ...
9 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 ...
9 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…
9 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...
9 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...
9 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?
9 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...
10 years ago
Capitalism's Cradle

The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...
10 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, ...
10 years ago
Maryam Namazie

Every day should be International Women’s Day - Every day should be International Women’s Day Bread and Roses TV with Maryam Namazie and Fariborz Pooya 8 March 2016 Interview with Bangladeshi Author and ...
10 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...
10 years ago
Seventh Voice

Convicted Pedophile Admits to Sexually Abusing Young Girl with Asperger’s Syndrome - Convicted pedophile Paul John Bickford, aged 70, has received a 16 month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting (sexually molest...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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....
10 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 ...
10 years ago
His Story is Bunk

The Sumner Also Rises (to the task) - We again interrupt our blogging hiatus, to acknowledge some fine work by Bentley University economist Scott Sumner (who is also the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 years ago
The XX Committee

What Russian Intelligence Knows About Hillary Clinton - It is my privilege to reveal to you this highly classified National Security Agency intercept which reveals just what Russian intelligence knew about Hilla...
10 years ago
Akhilesh Pillalamarri: Analyst, Editor, Writer

A Koku of Rice - Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the concept of a koku (石) of rice: I find it pretty neat. A koku was a Japanese unit of volume (of rice) in use especially ...
10 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...
10 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 ...
10 years ago
Medieval Matters – Tor.com

Getting Medieval on George R. R. Martin - As my fellow medievalists around the world will attest, telling people that you specialize in the Middle Ages (roughly dated from 500 to 1500 CE) is a de...
10 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...
10 years ago
Facts & other stubborn things

Don Boudreaux seems to pick and choose his view on average product and wages depending on what the liberal du jour is arguing - Recently, Don Boudreaux called Robert Reich sophomoric for suggesting that productivity (as the BLS measures it) and real wages should move in tandem. Even...
11 years ago
Homo Consumericus

Why Mothers Are So Special - Mothers hold a privileged status within the human experience. I address some of the foundational evolutionary principles that explain the mother-child bond...
11 years ago
Modeled Behavior

Half Of Ferguson's Young African-American Men Are Missing - This is a guest post by Stephen Bronars, a Senior Economist at Welch Consulting, Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago. His opinions are his own. M...
11 years ago
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Years Of Writing Dangerously - Thirteen years ago, as I was starting to experiment with this blogging thing, I wrote the following: [T]he speed with which an idea in your head reaches th...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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,...
11 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...
11 years ago
educationrealist

Ed Schools and Affirmative Action - Education policy rarely—hell, let’s say never—results in anticipated consequences. But usually, this acknowledgment turns our thoughts to bleak, dark place...
11 years ago
The Black Steam Train

18c – a win for Sally Sensitive - Sadly, it looks like 18c is not going to be done away with in a hurry. It’s a shame, because making a crime out of causing offence to someone is an utte...
11 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...
11 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 ...
12 years ago
The Becker-Posner Blog

Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner
12 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...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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 N...
12 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...
13 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 gue...
13 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...
13 years ago
Historinhas

“Three panics and a nonevent” - While exploring Blogs yesterday I came across this one from John Cochran at The Circle Bastiat: In a comment at Coordination Problem, “Is This How the Myth...
14 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...
14 years ago
Richard Carrier Blogs

Moving to FTB! - Today I am freezing my Blogger account and moving my blog to Freethought Blogs, a prominent all-atheist venture. This move will help me earn an income doin...
14 years ago
Maryam Namazie

Sharia law, universal rights and secularism - See my speech and the ensuing discussion at a meeting organised by the Danish Atheist Association in Copenhagen, Denmark on 27 September 2011. There was a ...
14 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...
14 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...
15 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 ...
16 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...
16 years ago
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