Thinking Out Aloud: August 2013

Blog List

Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

Jefferson, Hemings, and the Evolution of Racial Mixing - "A Philosophic Cock," 1804. A Satirical Cartoon in a Federalist Newspaper of Jefferson's Relationship with Sally Hemings A week ago, the Thomas Jefferson...
11 minutes ago
Blazing Cat Fur

NPR: Trump Staffers Are Hypocrites for Eating at Mexican Restaurants - It’s come to this: according to some, people should be picking their casual dining choices based on their politics.
44 minutes ago
Cold Fury

News you can—and damned well should—use - Matis helpfully provides it: The Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, VA phone number is 540-464-4401 And the phone number for the MXDC Cocina Mexicana is 202....
1 hour ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Dragons, giants, and dwarves: Didrik saga translated into English - CUMBRIA, England — For Didrik of Bern, battling a queen who shape-shifts into a dragon, dueling with giants who wield iron bars, fighting alongside the son...
1 hour ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Thoughts on Scarcity: A Discussion on Keynsian Recessionary Spending (Wonky) - Originally posted on A Force for Good: Last week I guest-taught a class for my friend and colleague at GMU Dr. Colin Doran. The course was Introductory Ma...
1 hour ago
The Dark Herald

The Crisis of Our Time - From Belmont Club: *So great was elite prestige that fiction was sustained until suddenly it couldn’t any longer. The realization, when it came, was br...
1 hour ago
The Dark Herald

The Crisis of Our Time - From Belmont Club: *So great was elite prestige that fiction was sustained until suddenly it couldn’t any longer. The realization, when it came, was br...
1 hour ago
EconLog

Still Mine - I’ve been recovering from eye surgery since Thursday afternoon and so have spent more time than usual watching TV. (The World Cup soccer, by the way, has...
1 hour ago
The Burning Platform

Millennials Fly Fishing In NYC To Relieve Stress (Really) - The title of this thread was basically the gist of an article in yesterday’s NY Post. They included the actual picture below; the Milly’s name is Natash...
1 hour ago
CDR Salamander

It's a Midrats Mid-Summer Free for All - We know you've been waiting for it ... but it is time for our post Summer Solstice Free for All! We're back live Sunday from 5-6pm to catch up on all your ...
1 hour ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

I think they left something out. . . . - One sees this sign everywhere these days, but I don’t see the words, “. . unless you’re a Republican” on it. Those, I gather, are apparently okay to hate.
1 hour ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Florida AG Pam Bondi Accosted By Protestors At Tampa Movie Theater - "The video they are choosing to share is of the least aggressive portion of the attack"
2 hours ago
Marginal Revolution

Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum, proof of stake, and how he spends his time - 19 minutes long: The post Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum, proof of stake, and how he spends his time appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.
2 hours ago
macrobusiness.com.au

McKibbin: Hike interest rates to 6% now - Bring it on. At the AFR is Warwick McKibbin: Australian National University economist Warwick McKibbin said the Reserve Bank should evolve away from its ...
2 hours ago
Althouse

"Trump Calls for Depriving Immigrants Who Illegally Cross Border of Due Process Rights." - That's how the NYT puts it, looking at this tweet: We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, ...
2 hours ago
Vlad Tepes

Good thing they didn’t do this in England - Imagine if these girls had done this in a real sharia country like England. They would get months in jail and be conveniently killed, as Allah would want, ...
2 hours ago
Brown Pundits

Why Climate Change is a cult- - South Asian Monsoons Remove Smog, Spread Pollution https://t.co/muzcrQvuAV — The Aerogram (@theaerogram) June 24, 2018 I really enjoy the tweets from the A...
3 hours ago
PinkNews

Photos: New York City is ‘defiantly different’ as thousands celebrate Pride - Thousands turned out to celebrate individuality.
3 hours ago
Butterflies and Wheels

No judges, no hearings, no due process, no rule of law - Trump getting worse by the hour. Now he’s announcing that immigrants who cross the border illegally should have no due process. We cannot allow all of th...
3 hours ago
Rationalist Judaism

Who is Sporting with Leviathan? - The other day I came across a fascinating example of how historical context can shed light on rabbinic scholarship. And I'm pretty sure that nobody has eve...
3 hours ago
The Independent Whig

The Opening of my Hypothetical Talk at Heterodox Academy’s Next Open Mind Conference - The first 44 seconds of this video introduces my topic. Here’s a transcript of it: Alice Dreger: Yeah, you know, I mean, to my mind, the problem with these...
3 hours ago
THE LAST DITCH

Movie review: Black Panther - One of my lowbrow vices is superhero movies. For me it’s a continuation. My boyhood best friend and I collected and swapped American comic books. I fell in...
3 hours ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

Dear High School Graduates: the Status Quo "Solutions" Enrich the Few at Your Expense - *You deserve a realistic account of the economy you're joining.* *Dear high school graduates: please glance at these charts before buying into the conventio...
4 hours ago
Vox Popoli

They have to go back... immediately - No due process for non-citizen invaders: President Donald Trump said on Sunday that people who enter the United States illegally should be sent back to whe...
4 hours ago
The Kakistocracy

The Joy of Learning - I frequently think what truly separates man from animal is not his ability to learn, but his ability not to. Learning is, after all, fairly instinctive. A ...
4 hours ago
Mick Hartley

I never understood it - I find Martin Amis difficult to warm to. I don't mean his fiction. I don't rush out to buy his latest book, that's for sure, but I understand why he's so h...
4 hours ago
Chicago Boyz

Disruption – Online Ordering - The retail restaurant industry already is an area of fierce competition. Just think of all the restaurants in your community vying for your attention and b...
4 hours ago
Uncouth Reflections

A Tale of Two People (One City) - Fenster writes: Fenster’s readership is, to put it nicely, narrow. But it is deep. And so in keeping with that narrow and deep theme here is a book that ...
4 hours ago
Vox - All

The Bold Type is a romantic comedy where the love interest is the job - [image: Just three relatable 20-somethings with perfect hair.] There’s a new kind of love story in the show’s second season, and it’s great. *Every week,...
4 hours ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Syria: A Major Turn of Events In the South - by Willy B Whoever's making US policy in Syria, it's certainly not Nikki Haley. Despite her rabid statement of Friday, in which she declared that "Russia w...
5 hours ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

Musings On Iraq In The News - I was quoted by Paul Iddon twice for Ahval. First in "Turkish operations in Iraq aim at PKK's Qandil base", and then in "Erodgan's opportune attack on Qand...
5 hours ago
NGDP Advisers

All quiet ahead of the beginning of (trade) war - Week Ending Friday June 22, 2018 A super quiet week in equities and bonds, with just a modest rebound in the USD during the week and in oil prices at the...
5 hours ago
View From The Porch

Four Years -
5 hours ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

SciFi is Filled With Gross NERDS - This just in, an honest question regarding the nature of the Pulp Revolution scene: As I noted over on Google+, there is something to this. Science fiction...
5 hours ago
Mad Genius Club

Thoughts from the Road and a Sales Follow-up - So, I dragged my tired and relaxed self home recently from an extended road and air trip. This is a bit of a ramble, so please bear with me. I’m still brai...
5 hours ago
Overcoming Bias

Signaling Gains From Transparency - I said back in February: For millennia, we humans have shown off our intelligence via complicated arguments and large vocabularies, health via sport achiev...
5 hours ago
Maverick Philosopher

Conrad Black on Trump - The Canadian has been serving up excellent commentary. Here is a sample.
5 hours ago
Philosoraptor

PC ACLU: The ACLU Weakens Its Commitment To Free Speech - The general point isn't news: we've seen evidence of this for close to a year now. But Kaminer's report on the internal memo is clear confirmation.
5 hours ago
Communalism Watch

India: Gauri Lankesh murder suspect’s ‘hit list’ spikes threat perception to Karnataka - Karnataka Gauri Lankesh murder suspect’s ‘hit list’ spikes threat perception to Karnataka’s Hindutva critics K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj http://www.thehindu.co...
6 hours ago
Overlawyered

“HUD has nearly killed the manufactured homes with their stupid regulations.” - Despite a surge in jobs in some rural states, housing hasn’t caught up, as one traditional method of meeting sudden housing demand there — manufactured h...
6 hours ago
PrawfsBlawg

Universal injunctions in other countries - An alert reader emailed this photo, taken at a construction site in London. I found the court order. I cannot find details about the case or the separate i...
6 hours ago
interfluidity

Sandwichman Sunday - Sandwichman offers a précis of the putative economic basis of Stephen Miller views on immigration. Back when Miller was a Congressional staffer in a world ...
6 hours ago
Scott Adams Blog

Episode 116: Facts are not Influencing the Immigration Debate - Topics: Crime rate by illegal immigrants, just illegal immigrants… Is it higher or lower than for legal immigrants? Conflating legal immigrants with ill...
7 hours ago
According To Hoyt

Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike and Sunday Book Promo - Book Promo *Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog. Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that we’ve read them a...
7 hours ago
Isegoria

Heuristics that have worked in the past - Gore Burnelli explains how Nassim Taleb changed his mind about religion; I used to unquestioningly accept the atheistic framing of the theism vs atheism de...
7 hours ago
Modeled Behavior

Krugman Admits He Was Wrong On Trade Wars - In 2016 the Nobel Prize winning trade theorist Paul Krugman minimized the risks of a trade war in a piece critical of Mitt Romney. Writing in 2018, he is b...
7 hours ago
The Z Blog

Defending Our Own - For the longest time, the argument against the Progressive project, which in America means multiculturalism as a civic religion, is that the various tribes...
8 hours ago
Notes On Liberty

Eye Candy: Countries whose capital is not their largest city - Not much to add here. There doesn’t seem to be any correlation of any kind (colonialism, economic development, etc.). Still, I thought it was cool…
8 hours ago
Lawfare

Foreign Funded NGOs, Political Power, and Democratic Legitimacy - PHoto Credit: Moti Milrod via Haaretz *Editor’s Note: Back in May, Ron Krebs and James Ron argued in their Foreign Policy Essay that countries should wel...
8 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Regression to the mean continues to confuse people and lead to errors in published research - David Allison sends along this paper by Tanya Halliday, Diana Thomas, Cynthia Siu, and himself, “Failing to account for regression to the mean results in...
8 hours ago
Belmont Club

The Border Crisis - On both sides of the Atlantic borders have become a big issue in the guise of the equivalent question of whether a country can restrict the entry of migra...
8 hours ago
mathbabe

Everyone Should Hate Google Glasses - I wrote a new Bloomberg View essay about two of my favorite things to hate, Google Glasses and airplane flights: Everyone Should Hate Google Glass The devi...
8 hours ago
International Liberty

Libertarianism in Five Pictures - I often share quizzes and tests to help people determine whether they are libertarian. Though I wonder if these two sentences are all people need to know. ...
9 hours ago
readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore

#30DaySongChallenge, Day 24: A Song That Motivates You - Self-motivation is definitely NOT one my virtues. I don't have a hard time being productive and getting excited about the things I already want to do, bu...
9 hours ago
askblog

Cautious vs. disruptive - The WSJ reports that Atul Gawande is to head the Amazon-Berkshire-Morgan health venture. In addition to running the new venture, Dr. Gawande will continue ...
9 hours ago
Advice Goddess Blog

You Have To Incite Racial Hatred To Stop It? - Great thread follows -- click on Iona's tweet under mine...
10 hours ago
Caracas Chronicles

Battle of Carabobo: The Beginning of The End - After the Battle of Carabobo, almost 60 minor clashes took place before the last battle in the Maracaibo lake, on July 25, 1825. Then why is the Battle o...
10 hours ago
Refugee Resettlement Watch

International Rescue Committee says US businesses need more low wage workers - I’ve never thought this was a good argument to be pushed by the supposed ‘humanitarians’ receiving millions from the US taxpayer to place refugees in hundr...
10 hours ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

A Hunger for Heroes - On a Google+ thread by Jeffro Johnson, he talks about the decline of sci-fi since 1940 on account of Communist infiltration, but that wasn’t what generat...
10 hours ago
Simple Justice

The Public Life of Burritos - Is it hypocritical for Trump administration staffers to eat at a Mexican restaurant? [Stephen Miller] decided on Espita Mezcaleria in the Shaw neighborhood...
10 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

Sunday morning music - Here's a real piece of music history - in fact, almost the oldest music history we have. The Seikilos Epitaph is the oldest known complete piece of music,...
11 hours ago
White Sun of the Desert

Oliver Kamm and Fake News - Times columnist Oliver Kamm likes to accuse others of propogating fake news. Here are some examples: This, btw, is my standard response to inquiries from f...
12 hours ago
Point of no return

Jewish refugees the antidote to the 'right of return' - *If there is one thing that the “Great March of Return”—the ongoing campaign since 30 March to break through the fence into Israel from Gaza—has taught us...
12 hours ago
Books & Boots

Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece @ the British Museum - In my spare time I simply haunt the British Museum. (Rodin, 1892) Rodin and the British Museum François Auguste René Rodin (1840 – 1917), known as Auguste ...
12 hours ago
Bondwine Books

One step forward, two faceplants - June has not been particularly kind to us. The move took a lot out of me physically, and a fair amount out of the Beloved Other. Until a few days ago I was...
13 hours ago
OrientalReview.org

Marriage As A Lifetime Of Suffering - When couples come to ministers to talk about their marriage ceremonies, ministers think it’s interesting to ask if they love one another. What a stupid q...
13 hours ago
Samizdata

“If a nurse didn’t like you, you were a goner” - Remember the mockery that Sarah Palin got for her prediction that state health care might result in “Death panels”? She was wrong about a few things. The...
15 hours ago
Fabius Maximus website

Debunking the hysteria about kids in concentration camps - Another day, another moral panic in America. This time about the 2,300 illegal migrants under 18 held by the Feds who have been separated from their parents.
15 hours ago
West Hunter

Fixation index - According to wiki, Fst between Europeans (CEU) and sub-Saharan Africans (YRI) is 0.153. According to this study, Fst between North American wolves and coyo...
15 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

The Life and Genius of Charles Krauthammer - Below is my column in The Hill newspaper about the passing of my friend Charles Krauthammer. I spoke on Fox News about Charles, who was an extraordinary m...
17 hours ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Russia in Syria: Caught Between Iran and Israel - Intermittent Israeli strikes against Iranian positions in Syria have alarmed Russia, which is trying to solidify its military gains there. Active Israeli i...
17 hours ago
Taki's Magazine

The Week That Perished - by Takimag The Week’s Most Sadistic, Simplistic, and Fascistic Headlines IS TOM ARNOLD A C.I.A. MIND-CONTROL ROBOT? If it is true that whom the gods would d...
18 hours ago
The Unz Review:

Why Do We Underplay the Links Between Cannabis and Psychosis?, by Patrick Cockburn - What is really needed in dealing with cannabis is a “tobacco moment”, as with cigarettes 50 years ago, when a majority of people became convinced that smok...
18 hours ago
Armed and Dangerous

Respect can be hard - I had a good sword class today. There was much sparring with many different weapons. At one point, Sensei Varady and I faced off, him with paired shortswor...
20 hours ago
Medievalists.net

Voyagers in the Vault of Heaven: The Phenomenon of Ships in the Sky in Medieval Ireland and Beyond - This paper explores the phenomenon of ships voyaging in the sky. Such fantastical sightings are considered primarily in an early medieval Irish context, bu...
20 hours ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

Fired for using “N-word” - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jonathan-friedland-exits-netflix-1122675 When you read the headline that the chief of public relations for Netfl...
21 hours ago
Eurogenes Blog

Guest post: we owe many of our genetic traits to ancient steppe pastoralists, but... - This is a guest post courtesy of Samuel Andrews, a regular commentator for several years at this blog. I did edit parts of the original text submitted to m...
21 hours ago
Manhattan Contrarian

The Poverty Fraud In Action, With UN Assist - Back in December, I took note of a new Report out from the UN -- apparently it was just a draft -- supposedly addressing "extreme poverty" in the United St...
22 hours ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

Housing: Part 305 - If only we could burn all the extra houses down. - From Andrew Ross Sorkin's "Too Big to Fail"(pg. 190), from the summer of 2008 before Fannie and Freddie were taken over by the Treasury. Paulson and a half...
22 hours ago
Jim’s Blog

Kathy Forth’s suicide - Kathy Forth offed herself, leaving a lengthy suicide note in which she accused numerous men of sexually harassing her, and the entire society of ignoring t...
22 hours ago
Quillette

Privilege Versus Paranoia - If you are white and enjoy any level of public platform—politician, professor, policy wonk—and you use said platform to address social issues, you are ce...
23 hours ago
Whatever

The Collapsing Empire Wins the 2018 Locus Award for Science Fiction Novel - I’m unimaginably thrilled. Here is the speech I sent to be read at the awards ceremony, which was read by my friend Olivia Ahl, who also took the picture a...
23 hours ago
Minding The Campus

Harvard Says Asians Lack Courage, Kindness, Likability - As a freshman applicant to Washington & Lee University just after the middle of the last century, I had an interview with Frank Gilliam, its legendary, l...
1 day ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

Attack of the Killer Nouns - Milo and I were watching the livestream of the Heterodox Academy “Open Mind Conference” last week, and at one point he simply started shaking his head. “It...
1 day ago
Logarithmic History

Ice Age gear shift - 833-789 thousand years ago Around today’s date, there was a shift in the nature of glacial cycles. But let’s back up a bit. Earth’s climate took a turn tow...
1 day ago
Climate Etc.

Sea level rise: isostatic adjustment - by Judith Curry A discussion thread to ponder the uncertainties in glacial isostatic adjustment and the implications for past and future sea level rise. I’...
1 day ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

- 2008-2012 was, apparently, not enough for the Great and Good of Germany to decide to repair the Eurozone and European Union's structural economic flaws: **...
1 day ago
zenpundit.com

An Invitation to the Church of the Open Question - [ by Charles Cameron — announcing a new blog for matters quasi-religious, poetical ] . The Church of the Open Question is the name of my church. I have hel...
1 day ago
neo-neocon

The hats of Ascot, 2018 - Some are sunny: Some are proud: Some are avant garde: Some are over the top: But the Queen is the Queen is the Queen. I think this hat is one of her pretti...
1 day ago
Thought Catalog

Please Remember To Wait For Good Love - Why do we settle for love and attention that is just temporary or okay?
1 day ago
The Economics Detective

The Blockchain Anti-Trust Paradox with Thibault Schrepel - Today’s guest is Thibault Schrepel of the University of Utrecht. We discuss his work on the relationship between blockchain technology, which allows for ...
1 day ago
Declination

Western Self-Loathing: The Disease - Today, I intend to be very plain with my readers. I tire of beating around the bush. And to be frank, that is what I have been doing for quite some time, t...
1 day ago
www.counterpunch.org

Bears Ears, The Land of the Navajo -
1 day ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

Israel: Israeli-Palestinian Congress of Female Students 50 Israeli & Palestinian Female Students Negotiating Peace in Tel Aviv - This is the first time that only female students are going to sit around the negotiating table. This is an unusual and powerful event in the Middle East....
1 day ago
The Ex-Muslim

Shaikh Yasir Qadhi & anti ex-Muslim bigotry - Note: This article is a response to a post by Sheikh Yasir Qadhi attacking ex-Muslims – the original post is available at https://www.facebook.com/yasir....
1 day ago
JoNova

Weekend Unthreaded - … Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/*10* (0 votes cast)
1 day ago
Discover Blogs

Psychology, Neuroscience: Lacking in Individuality? - In research on people, scientists are typically interested in the group data - the mean, median, and variance of a sample of people. But according to a pro...
1 day ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Sargon of Akkad conversation on pomo and destabilization strategies - My discussion with Sargon of Akkad (aka Carl Benjamin) on these topics: What inspired you to write a book explaining
1 day ago
A Voice for Men

Consumer Reports veers off into PC territory, advocates laws to muzzle women’s choice and the free marketplace - It’s more of a male discount than a pink tax as men don’t buy many things as often as women, if at all. Women influence about 83% of all consumer spending....
1 day ago
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

Carnegie-Mellon's Clark Glymour interviewed... - ...at 3AM. Funny and opinionated, as we've come to expect. An excerpt: Compare Plato and Aristotle, superficially. Plato made no effective contributions to...
1 day ago
The Observation Post

An ‘unsung’ icon of Liberty … the ‘Lady in White’ - When researching wartime memories of British and Commonwealth servicemen and women during World War 2, a couple of iconic memories will stick out for them,...
1 day ago
davidthompson

Ever Decreasing Circles - Apparently, black men are the new white men and should be scorned and silenced accordingly: The author of the above, Harvard-educated sociology professor C...
1 day ago
Muddy Colors

The Starting Bloq Episode 3 - What Teaching Has Taught Me As a podcaster, I have talked to hundreds of creatives who do amazing work and make it look easy. One of the big takeaways f...
1 day ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

Gideon Rachman wants a world government - Nothing is more old fashioned than a future that has failed. Gideon Rachman, who writes for the *Financial Times*, is an intelligent man who nowadays stil...
1 day ago
The Reference Frame

Slow bottom-up HEP research is neither intellectually challenging, nor justified by the null LHC data - Ben Allanach has been a well-known supersymmetry researcher in Cambridge, England whose name has appeared a dozen of times on this blog and he wrote a gues...
1 day ago
Raedwald

Globalist granny-grabber mouths off - Globalist granny-grabber Emmanuel Macron mouthed-off in Brittany yesterday, according to France 24; "I'm saying to you in the gravest terms: Many hate it ...
1 day ago
The Audacious Epigone

California skin games - From a SurveyUSA poll conducted back in April, illustration 364,140 of how in a multiracial society, democracy inevitably devolves into a skins game, even ...
1 day ago
I Want a New Left

World Cup: Argentina Self-Destructs, and Nationalism and Multiculturalism - Yesterday, Argentina engaged in a painful episode of self-destruction on the soccer field. Their goalie made a horrible blunder: trying to pop the ball ove...
1 day ago
The Federalist

Beyoncé Claps Back At Accusations Of Fake Streaming Numbers On New Album - Beyoncé and Jay-Z's new collaborative album takes a shot at Spotify, presumably in response to recent reports about Tidal's fudging of subscriber numbers.
1 day ago
Popehat

Randazza: Vermin Supreme's Pony Horde Rides on Kansas (Popehat Signal Activated) - By Marc J. Randazza My client, Vermin Love Supreme (yes, that is his real name), recently filed to run for Attorney General of Kansas. Supreme is performan...
1 day ago
Rhys Ford

The hardest thing is waiting. - I’ve got some funky health things going on and I won’t talk to the next doc until Tuesday. Now, I’m by nature a worrier and I can stress like no one else. ...
2 days ago
Uneasy Money

Who’s Afraid of a Flattening Yield Curve? - Last week the Fed again raised its benchmark Federal Funds rate target, now at 2%, up from the 0.25% rate that had been maintained steadily from late 2008 ...
2 days ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

Lensing And Rotation Curve Data Consistent At One Sigma In Distant Galaxy - A new study has compared the amount of gravitational lensing observed in a galaxy 500 million light years away, with an estimate of its mass (including dar...
2 days ago
In Due Course | Building the Republic of Letters, one keystroke at a time

How to solve the problem of diving in soccer - Another World Cup, another wave of concerns about the plague of diving (or “simulation”) that afflicts the beautiful game. Every four years the most casu...
2 days ago
Coyote Blog

Wow, Public Schools Must REALLY Suck - The title was my first thought when I saw this over at Kevin Drum's: The Gates Foundation has spent about $200 million since 2010—in addition to other sour...
2 days ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (June 16–23) - AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner continues to make waves; a New York federal judge says the entire Consumer of Financial Protection Bureau needs to be eli...
2 days ago
Harry's Place

Billy Elliot cancelled in Budapest - Following an article in an Orban-supporting newspaper claiming that the show could cause homosexuality, fifteen performances of Billy Elliot have been canc...
2 days ago
Chris Blattman

IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. “Back in school we used to call it chew and pour,” he says. Meaning, for each possible que...
2 days ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

One America News – Tonight 5:25 EST + Captain Frugal Tonight 8:30 EST - When it rains it pours. I was invited to One America News tonight to be on Liz Wheeler’s program, Tipping Point. Make sure to tune in if your cable provide...
2 days ago
War Is Boring - Medium

The BPsVI Is Keeping This Cold War Troop Taxi Relevant - The disproportionate destruction that even a low-yield nuclear detonation could inflict on advancing armies made it suicidal for the Soviets to mass ground...
2 days ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Why does google scholar hinder open access? - Canada's major funding agencies now require all grant-holders to provide "green" open access to any funded publications: any peer-reviewed journal publicat...
2 days ago
Pandaemonium

PLUCKED FROM THE WEB #41 - The latest (somewhat random) collection of recent essays and stories from around the web that have caught my eye and are worth plucking out to be re-read. ...
2 days ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Happiness Around the World--And For Migrants - The utilititarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham wrote of a "sacred truth — that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and ...
2 days ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

Identity Politics Has Nearly Destroyed the Humanities; Now It Is Threatening the Hard Sciences - This article by Heather MacDonald is a must-read! If you thought you could escape identity politics by going into the sciences, or possibly even into engin...
2 days ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

Towards An Ethics of Activism - Frances Lee is a multidisciplinary creative scholar who investigates culture, knowledge production and matters of the heart. They have a MA in Cultural Stu...
2 days ago
Bracing Views

Education is Labor, Right? - W.J. Astore So, the Trump Administration wants to merge the Department of Education with Labor. What a surprise. According to Mick Mulvaney, the Director...
2 days ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

The Infinite Desire For Growth: a review - What’s so good about economic growth? This has been a tricky question ever since Richard Easterlin pointed out (arguably (pdf)) that there is no connection...
2 days ago
Mostly Economics

Indian Monetary Policy in the Time of Inflation Targeting and Demonetisation - Rakesh Mohan (Former Deputy Governor RBI) and Partha Ray (Prof at IIM Calcutta) review India’s Inflation targeting framework: This paper provides a narrati...
2 days ago
Josh Blackman's Blog

Property Final Exam: Coco - *Part 1 (50%)* *PLEASE ANSWER PART 1 FIRST, AND ANSWER PART 2 SECOND.* *Instructions*: You are a law clerk and asked to write a memorandum of no more than ...
2 days ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

The Rise of Formalism and the Decline of Chevron - Courts were too ready to find statutes ambiguous, which empowered federal agencies to read the law any way they wanted. That may be starting to change.
2 days ago
Political Calculations

Death in Ice Valley - When we're not solving economic or finance puzzles, we often turn our attention toward fighting crime. Recently, we have been following the case of the m...
2 days ago
Crisis Magazine

How to Properly Respond to the Homosexualist Priest - Let’s be honest: We do not have a “homosexual priest” problem within the Church. Rather, we have a homosexualist priest problem within the Church. Priests ...
2 days ago
Jonathan Spyer

Interview on ABC News - 19/6 Advertisements
2 days ago
Cultural Cognition Blog

Fake news vs. "counterfeit social proof"--lecture summary & slides - *Basic organization of talk I gave at the Lucern conference (slides here).* I. The public’s engagement with fake news is not credulous; it is *motivated...
2 days ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

How to Lose an Election with a Strong Governing Record. - Nothing they threw at Pres. Trump seemed to stick and then, they found pictures of crying toddlers. It did not take long before liberal liars affixed the p...
2 days ago
Mercatornet

Books for the social media age I: The Little Prince - It’s the perfect tonic for those besotted with Facebook and Twitter. Read more...
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Sultan Knish

Illegal Aliens Fatally Separate American Parents and Children - In 2008, Colorado separated a Jewish boy from his parents. Marten Kudlis was separated from his parents while waiting for his mother to bring him his ice ...
3 days ago
China Matters

"Little Reunion": Eileen Chang gets another turn in the revisionist meatgrinder - *"Eileen Chang's fractured legacy" is a piece I wrote for Asia Times way back in 2009, when Chang's "Little Reunion" received its first posthumous publicat...
3 days ago
ribbonfarm

Near-Deathness - In Brazilian jiu-jitsu, when someone attempts a submission—say they extend your arm and exert pressure onto the rear of your elbow joint—you have three opt...
3 days ago
The DiploMad 2.0

Trump Deals with the Prog Border Madness - Yesterday, I wrote a little piece which dealt with the progressives' latest calculated dramatic *OUTRAGE!* meltdown over children at the border being separ...
3 days ago
Coordination Problem

Special issue of Real-World Economic Review on The Public Economy and a New Public Economics - |Peter Boettke| The relationship between the economy and the state is as old as the discipline of economics itself. In the recent issue of Real-World Econo...
3 days ago
Bleeding Heart Libertarians

Don’t Be Unfair to News Viewers - The Pew Research Center conducted a survey/study recently, in which they claim to show that most Americans cannot adequately distinguish factual from opi...
3 days ago
Fredrik deBoer

What new construction? Where? For whom? - It may be going to far to say there’s a bipartisan consensus, but you certainly see many people from many political backgrounds saying that the solution to...
3 days ago
Practical Ethics

Spineless Ethics - Written by Roger Crisp Last week, at a seminar organized jointly by the Oxford Uehiro Centre and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, Prof. Irina...
3 days ago
Martin van Creveld

The Good Things in Life - My father died last week. No great disaster, that, because his one-hundredth birthday was not far away. He was practically blind, quite deaf, confined to...
3 days ago
Daily Nous

Philosopher Wins $1.8 Million Grant to Study Minority Entrepreneurship - Chris Surprenant, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans (UNO) and director of the university’s Honors Program, has won an $1...
3 days ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

Wealth and genes - Go back ten years, and most published attempts to link specific genetic variants to a trait were false. These candidate-gene studies were your classic, yet...
3 days ago
Semi-Partisan Politics

Donald Trump And The Media – On Immigration, Two Sides Of The Same Extremist Coin - – The American people support stronger immigration controls but disapprove of their government’s inhumane practice of separating child migrants from their ...
3 days ago
Insitome - Medium

Three drinks for the ages - Irish Coffee The “Irish coffee” is a a delicious concoction. Coffee, alcohol, and dairy. What more can you ask for? Man does not live on bread and water al...
3 days ago
Information Processing

Harvard Office of Institutional Research models: explicit racial penalty required to reproduce actual admit rates for Asian-Americans - This is my third post discussing the Students For Fair Admissions lawsuit against Harvard over discrimination against Asian-American applicants. Earlier po...
3 days ago
Slate Star Codex

Cost Disease In Medicine: The Practical Perspective - Sometimes I imagine quitting my job and declaring war on cost disease in medicine. I would set up a practice with a name like Cheap-O Psychiatry. The corny...
3 days ago
Akhilesh Pillalamarri: Analyst, Editor, Writer

Lessons From A Map of 12th Century Eurasia - The following map was doing the rounds on Twitter a couple of months ago. Its detail and accuracy are pretty stunning. See source here. What is particularl...
3 days ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

British Army Buddies: The Tragic Suicides of Kevin Williams and John Paul Finnigan - [image: image001]Kevin Williams, left, and John Paul Finnigan were battle buddies in Iraq They saw a lot of combat. I was with them for some of it. Gre...
3 days ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

British Army Buddies: The Tragic Suicides of Kevin Williams and John Paul Finnigan - [image: image001]Kevin Williams, left, and John Paul Finnigan were battle buddies in Iraq They saw a lot of combat. I was with them for some of it. Gre...
3 days ago
The World is Not Enough

We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free! The post We’re moving! appeared first on The World is Not Enough.
3 days ago
The Evolution Institute

The Biological Scars of Separation - The deliberate separation of migrant children from their parents is not only cruel and unnecessary but has the potential for long-term negative effects on ...
4 days ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

Pedophrasty, Bigoteering, and Other Modern Scams - Clearing the discourse from abuses and abusersPedophrasty Definition: *Argument involving children to prop up a rationalization and make the opponent look ...
4 days ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

While Belshazzar Drinks - While Belshazzar drank; the aromas of fine wine and elegant foods prepared by the cooks of the greatest empire in the world filled the opulent Assyrian hal...
4 days ago
Paul Musgrave

Everyone Is Misreading Burke’s View of Parties - So what are political parties? Burke’s definition of party as “a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon so...
4 days ago
Edward Feser

Gödel and the mechanization of thought - At the recent Society of Catholic Scientists conference, Peter Koellner gave a lucid presentation on the relevance of Gödel’s incompleteness results to t...
4 days ago
The Splintered Mind

The Perceived Importance of Kant, as Measured by Advertisements for Specialists in His Work - I'm revising a couple of my old posts on Kant for my next book, and I wanted some quantitative data on the importance of Kant in Anglophone philosophy de...
4 days ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

Vacation from facts, 2 - My last post finished by asking why ideological politics has grown in the United States, in contrast to almost all other countries. A distinctive featur...
4 days ago
The American Interest

Episode 199: Shakespeare’s Tyrants, And Our Own - Erdogan, Putin, Orban... and Trump—what, if anything, can a study of Richard III or Macbeth teach us about these leaders? Were Coriolanus and Julius Caesar...
4 days ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Freedom & Tyranny with Russell Brand Transcript - The post Freedom & Tyranny with Russell Brand Transcript appeared first on Jordan Peterson.
4 days ago
Priceonomics Blog

How Much Money Do You Save by Cooking at Home? - A cost comparison of cooking at home versus getting delivery or using a meal kit.
4 days ago
Thermidor

A German Mind in the Russian Academe: Ethnos & Society - Alexander Dugin. *Ethnos and Society*. Arktos, 2018. Sociologists, as a rule, consider themselves free from the demands of historical study in that they ...
4 days ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

Pakistan and the new East India Company - By Saima Baig “In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state,” said Charles d...
4 days ago
Andrew Norton

Is government spending on tertiary education getting more progressive? - One long-made argument against tertiary education subsidies is that they are regressive. University students tend to come from more privileged backgrounds,...
4 days ago
Blog - Traditions of Conflict

Ritual mutilation, human consumption, and contemporary insulation - “Until you have used a sieve to find the finger bones of a newborn baby in ploughsoil it is hard to explain how small they are.” – Timothy Taylor, *The B...
4 days ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

The Treasury Yield Curve Blues - The Fed needs to start worrying more about the flattening treasury yield curve. Bloomberg is reporting that bond traders are getting ready for a yield c...
4 days ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: The Watchman - [image: The Watchman] The Watchman by Robert Crais My rating: 5 of 5 stars Fast-paced and well-crafted. Crais twists his Cole series by telling the story ...
4 days ago
Policy of Truth

Enter Postman - Another episode in my ongoing contretemps with the world. One more of these, I swear, and I become a Buchananite Public Choice theorist, Nancy MacLean be d...
5 days ago
Regie's Blog

THE BABIES, THE BELIEVERS, AND THE BIRD FLU … - Oprah told us it was the most important story on the planet. I distinctly remember that phrase because I thought to myself, “Wow! That’s a big statement. S...
5 days ago
TheMoneyIllusion

Trade shocks and demand shocks - Paul Krugman has an excellent piece on the potential effects of an all out trade war. Likely Krugman, I think it unlikely that we actually go that far. M...
5 days ago
Alt-M

Some "Serious" Theoretical Writings that Favor NGDP Targeting - On Twitter last week Stephen Williamson wrote that he was "puzzled by the infatuation with NGDP targeting. We have good reasons to care about the path fo...
5 days ago
Kantoos Economics – Kantoos Economics

Find an exhibition design company that can easily create awareness, attention and maximize your presence at the event. - Creating an exhibition stand is a complex job, it is essential that your message is quick to understand and is in line with all your other marketing campai...
5 days ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

Challenging Continuums of Violence: #NiUnaMenos and the Transformative Power of Feminist Action in Argentina - By Olivia Storz for Denver Dialogues. María grew up in a heavily Catholic suburb of Buenos Aires under the military dictatorship. During her childhood, te...
5 days ago
Evo and Proud

Why is IQ declining in Norway? - Norwegian conscripts (Wikicommons: Soldatnytt) – in Norway, the conscript register provides invaluable information on IQ. This information can then be li...
5 days ago
Longrider

Here We Go… - Brian Cooke is in trouble. A former Transport for London board member branded three suspected graffiti artists killed when a train struck them ‘common scum...
5 days ago
Heather's Homilies

Trump Administration Abuses Children - The latest tactic of the Trump administration to stop illegal crossings of their southern border is horrific. It is child abuse, pure and simple. As most...
5 days ago
Bernard Gaynor

Lawfare is silencing this webpage - Due to ongoing and unconstitutional lawfare against me, I will not be writing again in the immediate future. Instead, I need to focus on ensuring that th...
5 days ago
Phillip W. Magness

Anti-voucher segregationism & the 1959 Virginia school crisis - Prof. Hardy Cross Dillard Several months ago I wrote a lengthy post on an intriguing historical discovery. In March 1959, Charlottesville, Virginia school ...
5 days ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Can Universities Lawfully Bully Academics into Silence? - Dr Peter Ridd has taken James Cook University to court protesting his sacking for what he says is, primarily, speaking-out about the lack of quality assu...
5 days ago
Veracities

loyalty is not black and white - A brief break from actively avoiding politics... My soul is middle American and my politics are centrist. I can't stand the far left any more than I can s...
5 days ago
Club Troppo

A lucky boy from a golden age of economics - When the financial crisis struck, it was back to the economics Max Corden learned in the 40s and 50s — a golden age of economics in which conceptual simpli...
5 days ago
Streetwise Professor

Putin’s Very Useful Idiots - This article is of interest primarily because it represents an inversion of, a retreat from, and a repudiation of, the collusion narrative: [Former CIA Mos...
6 days ago
Status 451

Tales from Underwater - 0. CHANGE IS GONNA DO ME GOOD Things change. Ain’t nothin’ like it once was. Ain’t a goddamn thing. ...
6 days ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

The size of a problem matters - Dominique Fong at The Wall Street Journal has checked in on Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and found that China’s most famous ghost town–the new district of Kangba...
6 days ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

Monday's Child is Full of Links - 1. News flash: People with below average income have below average income. Seriously, these folks are shocked that poor people can't afford middle class ...
6 days ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

Should we trust London police (and therefore the Mayor’s/Home Office’s) claims on crime stats? - I just read a report in the Islington newspaper about crime statistics. Ten days ago I was sitting outside a cafe in Islington. Thanks to a few years of wo...
6 days ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

Should we trust London police (and therefore the Mayor’s/Home Office’s) claims on crime stats? - I just read a report in the Islington newspaper about crime statistics. Ten days ago I was sitting outside a cafe in Islington. Thanks to a few years of wo...
6 days ago
Working-Class Perspectives

This is Your Daughter’s Labor Movement - If there is going to be a revival of the U.S. labor movement, it’s likely that women are going to lead it. Women activists, especially young women of color...
6 days ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

David Beckworth on Israeli NGDP Level Targeting - David Beckworth has a couple of graphs showing what NGDP level targeting looks like in practice, namely, countercyclical inflation… … will give you stable ...
6 days ago
The Arabist

Links 1-17 June 2018 - - The Long Shadow of 9/11 Rob Malley and Jon Finer on US counter-terrorism policy - Malley and Finer’s Foreign Affairs Article “The Long Shado...
6 days ago
Michael O. Church

Two Updates - I’ve updated the rules document for Ambition. I detected, after running some simulations, some simplifications to scoring that can be made without material...
6 days ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

The optimal queue - One of the biggest headaches that shoppers have to deal with is queues. Shoppers don't like having to wait, and if the queue is too long, some may simply g...
6 days ago
La Bocca della Verità

Real programmers understand that... - "Computers are *dumb*." -- Bjarne Stroustrup
6 days ago
Raymond Ibrahim

The Battle of Kosovo, 1389: Islam Enters and Conquers Eastern Europe - PJ Media Editor’s note: The following account is partially excerpted from the author’s new book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between I...
6 days ago
Miranda Yardley

Responding to Suggestions I’m A Big Meanie For Stating The Fact That Aimee Challenor is a Man - This is fucked up beyond belief, and we should all be thankful this batshit-crazy ideology has a finite shelf-life and has trundled well past its 'best b...
1 week ago
Alexander Boot

- Alex sends a message to all his readers that he is in hospital for a few days and will resume his blog when he is home again.
1 week ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Ask me anything: moral judgments edition - Reader Lewikee asked when I’d do another “Ask Me Anything.” So fine, let’s do one now (and for the next 24 hours or so, or until I get too fatigued). The...
1 week ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Ask me anything: moral judgments edition - Reader Lewikee asked when I’d do another “Ask Me Anything.” So fine, let’s do one now (and for the next 24 hours or so, or until I get too fatigued). The...
1 week ago
Rabble Rouser

Psychology Desperately Needs a Massive Influx of Skepticism - The House of Scientific Social Psychology is Crumbing. Skepticism Can Help Rebuild It.
1 week ago
Jacobite

In Defense of Myself - “Guilty or no,” the hangman intoned, “he was in need of editing.”
1 week ago
The XX Committee

Trump Betrayed Our Military by Saluting North Korea - President Donald Trump’s much ballyhooed Singapore pseudo-summit this week with Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s hereditary strongman, was a bizarre event by any...
1 week ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Fragment of a Memoir - As I’ve mentioned previously, my late mother had planned to write her memoirs. She never had the opportunity to do so, but I’ve come across some notes she ...
1 week ago
Evonomics

How Changing My Economic Model Made Me a Climate Change Optimist - By Anthony Patt Let’s start by assuming climate change is real and that the primary cause is fossil fuels, because those two things are true. The questio...
1 week ago
Old European culture

Yeti - This is Tibetan plateau, a vast elevated plateau in Central Asia and East Asia, covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai in western China, ...
1 week ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Trump to Europoodles: “Roll Over. Bark. Beg…Crawl.: With a Korean Preface - I don’t get it. I know, I know, I’m just some mutt in Mexico with a computer, and easily puzzled. But…huh? Trump, we are told, pulled off a master stroke i...
1 week ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Trump to Europoodles: “Roll Over. Bark. Beg…Crawl.: With a Korean Preface - I don’t get it. I know, I know, I’m just some mutt in Mexico with a computer, and easily puzzled. But…huh? Trump, we are told, pulled off a master stroke i...
1 week ago
globalinequality

Bob Allen's new "poverty machine" and its implications - Several days ago Bob Allen gave at the Center for Liberal and Democratic Studies in Belgrade an excellent lecture on the evolution of his own thinking ab...
1 week ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

Ignoring Metrics - Like anyone, I’m pleased when my blog gets many hits and mildly disappointed when I get few. I recognize the emotion for what it is; pride… or perhaps narc...
1 week ago
A Free Left Blog

My book: what's it all about? - My book, *The Tribe: the liberal-left and the system of diversity*, is being published on 1st of July, so not long to go now. Last week a courier dropped o...
1 week ago
Facing Islam Blog

'We are at a Lepanto Moment', says Roman Catholic priest at New Shrine for Persecuted Christians - Fr Benedict Kiely *“We are at a Lepanto moment in Western history,” said Father Benedict Kiely, founder of Nasarean.org... Lepanto refers to the 1571 nava...
1 week ago
Marquette Warrior

Goodbye Miss America -
1 week ago
Bloody shovel

The Past and Future of Korea - So Trump just Marshall or Chairman or whatever Kim Jong Un in Singapore. I don’t have any opinion on the meeting. Nothing substantial was agreed on. Seems ...
1 week ago
The Grumpy Economist

Different Planets - A friend, who reads an unusually diverse set of sources, passed on some interesting pictures suggesting that our media live on different planets. On the Tr...
1 week ago
Cop in the Hood

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder - Over on our Quality Policing podcast, Nick Selby and I hit the road and interview Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder Nassau County, if you do...
1 week ago
House of Eratosthenes

The Next Thing to Destory: Toy Guns - UK Independent: Prince George was pictured playing alongside Princess Charlotte and The Duchess of Cambridge yesterday, but not everyone was happy about th...
1 week ago
The Mermaid's Tale

Thinking about science upon entering the field. Part III: Ethics and Responsibilities - Here is the third of a four-part series of posts by Tristan Cofer, a graduate student in chemical ecology here at Penn State. He has been thinking about t...
1 week ago
traditionalRIGHT

The View From Olympus: The Big One - The 2008-09 financial crisis was a warning Washington has not heeded. We have continued in our profligate ways, increasing our federal deficit and nationa...
1 week ago
Irtiqa

Elaine Howard Ecklund lecture on "Science and Religion in Global Public Life" - *by Salman Hameed* Elaine Howard Ecklund has done some of the most extensive empirical sociological work on public perceptions of science and religion. If...
1 week ago
Tommy Ousslander

Feral Creatures cover Reveal - Well here is the cover for Feral Creatures, give or take a little tweaking. Will definitely be making some changes to the font and colour but this is it. ...
1 week ago
Wide Urban World

Resources on Teotihuacan (June 12, 2018) - * *** UPDATED JUNE 12, 2018 **** Teotihuacan was one of the major cities of the ancient world, and the available materials on the internet are scattered a...
1 week ago
Growth Economics Blog

Sustained growth and the increase in work hours - Back in March, I posted a summary of some research by Jane Humphries and Jacob Weisdorf on the onset of economic growth. Their paper documented *annual* ...
1 week ago
educationrealist

On Depression and Not Suicide - “I’ve told mine, now go tell yours. “–Kirsten Powers I had two close friends in high school and on into my twenties; I called them The Jays. Jay One was qu...
1 week ago
Colm Gillis Author

What is Thought Crime? - 1. Introduction Thought-crime is a phrase bandied about as much nowadays as ‘witch-hunt’ or ‘Benghazi.’ Its a pejorative term used on both the right and le...
2 weeks ago
Henry the Young King Blog

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

Was Anthony Bourdain facing a #MeToo allegation? - Even though I have never particularly cared for Anthony Bourdain’s swaggering, leftie, virtue-signalling persona – his holier-than-thou pretentiousness abo...
2 weeks ago
Order of the Coif

The lady doth protest: Saye v Clifton (1451) - In 1451, a widow brings a case in the Court of Chancery after being betrayed by her late husband's professional advisers.
2 weeks ago
ThinkMarkets

The “New” Monopsony Argument and the Suppression of Wages - A recent issue of The Economist had an article on monopsony and the “non-compete “agreements that some lower-paid fast-food chain workers have had to sign ...
2 weeks ago
Moneyness

Evading the next Iranian monetary blockade - Network view of cross-border banking, IMF, Minoiu and Reyes (2011) PDF I recently blogged at Bullionstar on the topic of the upcoming Iranian monetary bloc...
2 weeks ago
Jeb Kinnison

Old JebKinnisonForums Archive - The support and talk forums at JebKinnsonForums aren’t hosted here, so just in case the host over there fails, I’ve made a backup of the last few years of ...
2 weeks ago
Mark Manson

Why the Best Things in Life Are All Backwards - There’s a part of Navy SEAL training called “drown-proofing” where they bind your hands behind your back, tie your feet together, and dump you into a 9-...
2 weeks ago
The Syrian Intifada

Turkey’s Syria Policy and the Elections - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 June 2018 On June 24, for the first time in 15 years, there seems a possibility, however faint, that elections in Turkey w...
2 weeks ago
Lead and Gold

Respected editor (NY Times alum) both defends and condemns doxxing - Is she too stupid to understand simple words and concepts? Does she really think she lives in a quasi-feudal system where her class has special privilege...
2 weeks ago
Michael J. Totten's blog

Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...
2 weeks ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

Updates on a Few City Populations - I’m always here for inspirational header photos. Photo by Steven Lewis on Unsplash.Grading the Forecast Is Fun! It’s been a while since I blogged! I’ve bee...
2 weeks ago
Corey Robin

The Creative Class Gets Organized - The staff of The New Yorker—the people behind the scenes: editors, fact checkers, social media strategists, designers—are unionizing. They’ve even got a lo...
2 weeks ago
RyanHoliday.net

Here’s How You Stop Anger From Making You Do Something Stupid - In February, during the launch of my last book, I had one of those experiences that explain why many people don’t like or trust the media. I’ll leave the d...
2 weeks ago
Basil Halperin

The "Efficient Restaurant Hypothesis": a mental model for finance (and food) - I. The efficient market hypothesis says that you can’t pick out which stocks are undervalued versus which are overvalued. Likewise, I claim that you can’...
2 weeks ago
Abandoned Footnotes

Against Renaming Victoria - (Of mostly local interest. I speak only for myself, not for my colleagues or anyone else associated with Victoria University of Wellington, my employer. TL...
2 weeks ago
Nintil

Links (17) - Collection of papers and articles that I’ve spotted since my previous links post that seem interesting. Other Germany’s military: statistically actually aw...
3 weeks ago
PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS

Factors from Scratch: A Look Back, and Forward, at How, When, and Why Factors Work - I recently co-wrote a piece with Chris Meredith @chrismeredith23 and Patrick O’Shaughnessy @patrick_oshag of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management. We take a deep...
3 weeks ago
A Taste for Desert Landscapes

Blog moving to new address - A taste for desert landscapes has moved here.
3 weeks ago
The Scholar's Stage

Moral Hazards and China - Image Source. Four hundred thousand to one million people in concentration camps. If these estimates are true, that means that at least one—and perhaps fa...
3 weeks ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

The downside to Yes - *The Sunday Independent, 27 May 2018* Friday’s astonishing vote, that stirring people’s demand for reproductive choice, tells us two things about Ireland...
3 weeks ago
Caitlin Green

Phillack and the Hayle Estuary in the Late Roman and early medieval periods - The existence of early medieval Christian and secular centres in the Hayle Estuary, Cornwall, was mentioned in a previous post. The aim of the following po...
3 weeks ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

"He Has Lived" - My father Richard died peacefully in his sleep early in the morning on May 17, 2018. His physician did not disagree with me when I described the cause of d...
3 weeks ago
Cameron Harwick

Inside and Outside Perspectives on Legitimacy - This paper discusses the implications of the impossibility of totally incentive-compatible social behavior, whether organizationally or politically. Specif...
3 weeks ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

Inside and Outside Perspectives on Legitimacy - This paper discusses the implications of the impossibility of totally incentive-compatible social behavior, whether organizationally or politically. Specif...
3 weeks ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Drake’s blackface photo is racist and problematic - Just the facts. Drake is NOT black. He is a Jew. “Matrilineality in Judaism or matrilineal descent in Judaism is the tracing of Jewish descent through th...
3 weeks ago
Yue Chim Richard Wong 王于漸

Public Housing, the Housing Ladder, and the Public Interest - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 30 May 2018.) The Housing Authority has done a remarkable job housing millions and helping many ...
3 weeks ago
MILO NEWS

Las Vegas Police Dept to Conduct Active Shooter Drill at Area High School - Nearly eight months after the massacre at a country music festival, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department will hold an “active assailant” drill at...
3 weeks ago
Gun Culture 2.0

Back in Action Editing Book Chapters - Between the end of the semester, my sister visiting, and some tennis related events, I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus from gun culture. Of course, gun cultur...
3 weeks ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

Republishing posts from Talking Philosophy - Since the Talking Philosophy site now seems defunct, I've decided to republish a fair chunk of my contributions. If I republish on this site it gives me mo...
3 weeks ago
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle

Memorial Day 2018 - Editor’s note: I was reminded that Jerry used to post this on Memorial Day. Huzzah to all serving, and especially to those that died while serving. In Flan...
3 weeks 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
3 weeks ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

Bioethics culture wars – 2018 edition: Alfie Evans - Here's my current Editorial in *Bioethics* When health‐related tragedy befalls newborns, bioethical culture warriors are never far behind. The sad case of ...
3 weeks ago
A Myth in Creation

Aramaic - "I try to translate the Aramaic of the sky." Sean Thomas Dougherty, *Tamir Rice*
4 weeks ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

‘Orion’, MH17, and the GRU - A fascinating and imaginative joint international open source investigation, led by Bellingcat, has identified the figure with the callsign ‘Orion’ connect...
4 weeks ago
TheRalphRetort.com

Lingerie Joke Reduces Women’s Studies Professor to a Whimpering Wreck - It’s no secret that the authoritarian left thrives on stamping out comedy it doesn’t quite agree with. And thanks to the recent conviction of Markus Meec...
4 weeks ago
On the Margin of Error

Philip Roth (1933-2018): The Ideal Writer - Philip Roth will be remembered as a writer. And as a writer, he symbolized the writerly virtues completely, and wrote a large number of masterpieces. When ...
4 weeks ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

My Preferred Pronouns? - I was at an academic conference last week, somewhere in America, where we were invited by our hosts to place a 'preferred pronoun' sticker on our nametags....
4 weeks ago
No B-S here (I hope)

Emma Alberici, you’ve done it again! - Even casual stock-watchers know shares of vaccine-maker CSL go for around $180. But not the ABC’s go-to market guru, stumblebum chief economics corresponde...
4 weeks ago
Global Guerrillas

21st Century Authoritarianism - Here's a question you should be asking yourself: What does 21st Century authoritarianism look like? Given what we've seen so far, it isn't likely that we'r...
4 weeks ago
Magnitude Matters

Highly Linkable: Pay College Athletes Edition - With two important cases working their way through the courts (Jenkins v. NCAA and Alston v. NCAA), I continue to be optimistic that we are witnessing the ...
4 weeks ago
Institutional Economics

Trump Administration Divided on Trade Policy - I have an op-ed in the AFR noting the contradictions in US international economic policy. Full text below the fold (may differ slightly from edited AFR v...
4 weeks ago
Free Northerner

The Neoliberal-Socialist Synthesis - I’ve mentioned the neoliberal-socialist synthesis a few times on Twitter and have received flack for them being incompatible, but it is the best way to des...
4 weeks ago
Ideas

Thoughts on Book Covers - As I mentioned recently, I'm looking for a cover for my third novel. A number of artists are interested, which gets me thinking about what a cover should b...
4 weeks ago
PressThink

Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? - There was an exchange on "Reliable Sources" today that stands as a reveal. The post Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? appeared first on...
4 weeks ago
When You Say Tomato and Your Sister Says Tomahto – spottedtoad

All the Lonely People, Where Do They All Come From - Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychology professor and YouTube celebrity, received a hostile profile by the New York Times on Friday, from which the big ta...
5 weeks ago
Brad R. Torgersen

Dave Holmes and his gun revenge fantasy won’t save American kids - And then there was this. So now I’m angry. Now I’m finished trying to reason with you. So now I, a guy who was ambivalent about guns just a few years ago, ...
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
GayPatriot

Nuts - Things I Didn’t See Coming When PDT Was Elected: The Democrats defending a gang of violent street criminals whose motto is “Kill! Rape! Control!” just beca...
5 weeks ago
Secular Right

New Era, New Priests: E.R. Dodds, Rome, Christianity and Intersectionality - Writing in the American Conservative, here’s Gilbert Sewall on the Oxford classicist, E.R. Dodds. Read the whole thing, really, but here is Sewall discuss...
5 weeks ago
The Sociological Eye

SHUTTING DOWN THE INTERNET IN TIME OF WAR - During the series of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Syria, insurgents have used low-tech weapons against Western forces and their allies. Typical are s...
5 weeks ago
ERIC POSNER

Radical Markets and cognitive load - One frequent response so far is skepticism that ordinary people can handle the cognitive load some of our proposals would impose on them. Here’s Ryan Avent...
5 weeks ago
Norse and Viking Ramblings

How(e) I Love Hoxa - Time flies, and it's been all of three years since I was last in Orkney, so I was very happy to have the opportunity to go again last month. As so often, ...
1 month ago
MountainGuerrilla

Outstanding Book Orders - I’ve gotten a lot of emails recently, righteously demanding information about their outstanding book orders. I am going to try and curb that a little, by o...
1 month ago
Sam Altman

US Digital Currency - I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far)...
1 month ago
skepticlawyer

Marx at 200 Robespierre at 260 - This year is the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx (1818-1883). A recent biography of Marx (reviewed here) places him very much as a man of his t...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Homo Consumericus

Marketing is Life and Life is Marketing - Much of what we do on a daily basis is consummatory in nature, and is shaped by our deep-seated desire to market ourselves in endless ways.
1 month ago
milescorak

Ever wonder where to find the Trump Tower? Then take this “Trump Walking Tour” with me, and learn even more - Meet at the southwest corner of 53rd Street and 6th Avenue, under the large statue across from the Hilton Hotel, the tour guide will be holding a “Social J...
1 month ago
Chublic Opinion

Brave the enemy’s gunfire, rejuvenate! - Defining the win in a trade war is difficult, even for a “winner” like Donald Trump. In an Apr 2018 tweet, the US President declared the trade war “already...
1 month ago
Free Banking

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

Wellcome book Prize 2018: the podcasts - Interviews with the winner and shortlisted writers for the prestigious award Little Atoms is the official podcast partner of the Wellcome Book Prize, the ...
1 month ago
john hawks weblog

Looking at Luzon hominins, from the perspective of 1985 - In light of this week’s paper by Ingicco and colleagues showing evidence of 700,000-year-old human activity from Kalinga, on Luzon, I’ve been doing a lit...
1 month ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

The elites of Pueblo Bonito - In my recent travels in the Southwest, I visited Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, site of the most complex and astonishing pre-Columbian civilization in North Ame...
1 month ago
Easily Distracted

Save the Children - Jonathan Haidt is consistently unimpressive. Responding in this Chronicle piece about Jeffrey Adam Sachs’ great essay for the Niskanen Center, Haidt conced...
1 month ago
The Gladstone Diaries

Brexit, Parliament and "The Will of the People" - Yesterday afternoon the House of Lords removed its glasses, stepped into the ring and struck the latest in a series of blows against the Executive. In vo...
1 month ago
I aim to misbehave.

EBay Would Rather Support Fraud and Theft Than Help Sellers - Yes, you read the title right. No, it is not spam, or false, or libel - it is in fact an accurate representation of their corporate policies, as I have now...
1 month ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

The Case Against The Case Against Education - I am quite unqualified to review Bryan Caplan’s blockbuster The Case Against Education, by virtue of the fact that I have not (yet) found time to read all ...
1 month ago
The Dissenting Sociologist

Progressivism on Steroids: The “Conservative” Anti-Humanism of Jonah Goldberg - Way back when, as a student interested in the analysis of modern mentalities of government, I picked up the following, simple set of methodological procedu...
2 months ago
A Fine Theorem

The 2018 John Bates Clark: Parag Pathak - The most prestigious award a young researcher can receive in economics, the John Bates Clark medal, has been awarded to the incredibly productive Parag Pat...
2 months ago
Nick Cole's Books

If you want to Sell More Books on Amazon, then you should probably read this… - Jeff Bezos, of whom I am a big fan, puts out a yearly letter to his shareholders. There’s some fascinating information in here, and, if you want to sell b...
2 months ago
The Ripple Effect

A guide to using behavioural insights in local government - I wrote this for Sunderland City Council, following some work using behavioural insights in a range of projects. Although written for an internal audience,...
2 months ago
Augean Stables

Two Articles tell a sad tale of misguided (de)construction and own-goal behavior - I just recently came across a excellent piece by a English literature professor, Eric Bennett in the Chronicle of Higher Education. It resonated with an ar...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

R1ans still at large (or, the story of India) - Ten ago, in the pre-ancient DNA "Dark Ages" a big debate raged on about the origin of R1a men in India. The stage had been set even earlier, by the pionee...
2 months ago
n+1 » Articles

Two Stories - Improvisation Is the Heart of Music “The rest was pure Arabian Nights. Gazelle-eyed maidens with perfumed robes brought inlaid boxes of Turkish delight an...
2 months ago
markdurie.com blog

Calling for Violent Jihad in Australia - *There is not a Bible, Jewish or Christian, containing such incendiary commentary as populates page after page of 'The Noble Qur’an', which for four years ...
2 months ago
Jacob ex Machina

The Death of Interchange: A conservative critique of Radical Gurus - ******** *Author's note* I wrote previously about the unaccredited year-long peer counseling program that I took part in called Interchange Counseling. ...
2 months ago
Academic Wonderland

Judge Xinis’ Outrage - Since the Dear Colleague letter confirmed tilted Title IX adjudication systems, more than 200 accused students have sued their schools. They’ve won more th...
2 months ago
Stories by Mark Koyama on Medium

Revisiting Epstein’s Freedom and Growth - I was fortunate to be invited give the Epstein Lecture at LSE this March. The series is named after the great LSE economic historian Larry (Stephen) Epst...
2 months ago
The Everyday Economist

In Memory of John Murray - This post is a bit different than normal. Most of my posts are about the minutiae of economic theory or controversies. Today’s post is personal. All of us ...
2 months ago
rethinking history

The problems with 'wargaming' history. (Particularly WWII.) - I had a good comment on my 'Ten Myths about the Phoney War' post from a Swedish respondent called DIREWOFLx75. He makes some fair points, adn of course som...
2 months ago
Noahpinion

DeLong vs. Krugman on globalization - I'm going to do the inadvisable, and argue with Brad DeLong. Hopefully this will turn out OK, since it's in response to Brad doing the inadvisable and ar...
2 months ago
MacroMania

Inflation and Unemployment (Part 2) - In my previous post (Inflation and Unemployment), I reviewed what I thought was a fair characterization of the way the Federal Reserve Board staff organize...
2 months ago
southseaconversations 讨论南海

Caixin’s investigation of CEFC and Chairman Ye Jianming - On March 1, Caixin broke the news that Chairman Ye Jianming of the China CEFC Energy Co. has been detained by PRC authorities, and is under investigation f...
2 months ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

Redrawing the Map: How Jowei Chen is Measuring Partisan Gerrymandering - post written by Solmaz Spence “Gerrymandering”— when legislative maps are drawn to the advantage of one party over the other during redistricting—received ...
2 months ago
Unenumerated

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

The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...
3 months ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

Questions for Powell - Market participants widely expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates at the conclusion today’s FOMC meeting. The only real debate surrounding this...
3 months ago
InfidelsAreUs | 'Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you' 1 Peter 4:12-14

Persecuted Global Refugees: No Place To Call Home - 09/09/2014 The official estimate for the number of refugees globally passes the 50 million mark for the first time since World War II. According to UNHCR...
3 months ago
Stories by Michael Tracey on Medium

John Bolton Called Trump’s Russia Strategy “Delusional” - Speculation has escalated that John Bolton, the former UN Ambassador under George W. Bush and one of the country’s leading consummate foreign policy hawk...
3 months ago
Nec Pluribus Impar

The trouble with feminism - In this post, I want to explain why I’m not a feminist and why I think you shouldn’t be either. Of course, I cannot discuss everything I think is wrong w...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Publishing Archaeology

How archaeology is distorted by Science magazine and the National Geographic Society - The public has a lot of interest in archaeology, and new finds and discoveries are often in the news. Sometimes the press reports outlandish, nonsense cla...
3 months ago
The History of China

#137 – Song 5: A Song of Rice and Flour - ACast Link A History of Rice “Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want eat 2,000 of something.” – Mitch Hedberg Please consider helping THoC pay for ...
3 months ago
Ambit Gambit

So how cheap is renewable energy? - This table from Peter Rees is an interesting analysis of proposed power plants for South Australia. At a time when zealots are claiming that so-called rene...
3 months ago
Tino Sanandaji

Kafkaesque Yo! Därför stängde Facebook av mig och raderade min kommentar. [Uppdatering: Facebook rättade och bad om ursäkt] - Maria Carlshamre Robsahm är en vaccinförnekare och f.d. politiker som tvingades lämna Folkpartiet efter att hon dömdes för bokföringsbrott, och som senar...
3 months ago
Jonathan Tepper

Arming teachers is a really dumb idea - Yesterday, I saw a video clip in which Trump recommended teachers carry a gun at school. You can see the video here. The idea seemed stupid to me, but I t...
4 months ago
Russian History Blog

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

The One Gun Control Measure That Gun Rights Advocates Should Support - I’m a huge gun rights advocate. I’ve been shooting and collecting guns since I was twelve. I got my first AR-15 thirty years ago, at age sixteen. I joined ...
4 months ago
glenntstanton.com

Is the Bible Cool with Same-Sex Marriage? - A few weeks ago, a church in SoCal hosted a very thoughtful, cordial and substantive discussion between Matthew Vines and Sean McDowell on whether the Bibl...
4 months ago
Paula Wright

“Woman” Is Not My Slave Name (from the DGS archives) - Before vagina hats, there was the “muff match”! 1st published WEDNESDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2011 I agreed with Naomi McAuliffe in her worry that feminism is...
4 months ago
Douglas L. Campbell

On the Uses (and Abuses) of Economath: The Malthusian Models - Many American undergraduates in Economics interested in doing a Ph.D. are surprised to learn that the first year of an Econ Ph.D. feels much more like ente...
4 months ago
Talisman Gate, Again

Review of Three Books on the Islamic State - JOURNAL ARTICLE Review: “What Was That All About?” Flawed Methodologies in Explaining the Origins of ISIS (2003–2013) Reviewed Works: The Master Plan by Br...
4 months ago
Monetary Freedom

What is the "Right" Corporate Income Tax? Zero! - The recent tax bill signed by President Trump reduces the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. This was a positive change, but really, just a ...
4 months ago
The Baseline Scenario

Hey Democrats, the Problem Isn’t Jobs and Growth - It’s inequality. By James Kwak This American Life‘s forays into politics and economics are generally less satisfying than their ordinary storytelling fare....
4 months ago
LaborEcon

NYT Op-Ed on Trump’s DACA Proposal - The New York Times asked me earlier this week if I had any thoughts on President Trump’s DACA proposal. I did. And here they are.
4 months ago
Opinion - The Philosophers' Magazine

Review: Down Girl by Kate Manne - Kathryn Norlock reviews Kate Manne's book on the nature of misogyny
4 months 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 ...
5 months ago
Big P Political Economy

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

Are journalists an “enemy of the American people”? - The Committee to Protect Journalists proclaimed President Donald Trump its winner in “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom” earlier this...
5 months ago
Random Critical Analysis

On the relevance of the income inequality to expected health expenditures. - Last week, Hubert Biscuit posted a response on Medium questioning the relevance per capita income to national health expenditures. Here’s more on the debat...
5 months ago
Dani Rodrik's weblog

More on distinguishing ideas and interests -- an exchange with Peter Hall - My recent post on ideas versus interests elicited some comments from Peter Hall, my Harvard colleague who has done probably more thinking on this issue tha...
5 months 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 ...
5 months ago
The Other Side of History

Quotes for 2017 - "In 2017, Trump is a major dating dealbreaker. Golden showers are not." - Dating in the 21st Century "Many people will find that their experiences with t...
5 months 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 "...
5 months ago
Jadeluxe

Year in Career: 2017 - This is a story about growing up. Coming of age. In 2018, I will have been a stenographer for 18 years – my career will be an adult. Whereas before it c...
5 months ago
Anonymous Mugwump

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

CHAPTER 60. Pacific Islands - The last chapter of Mr Wallace's travel diary.
5 months ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

When Snowflakes Attack! - In my last post, I mentioned how important it is for those playing the SJW game to make sure their every utterance is in line with whatever the intellectua...
6 months ago
Grand Blog Tarkin

The Last Jedi AAR - The Star Wars movies have never been particularly concerned with accuracy when it comes to military tactics and strategy. From the start, the movies are de...
6 months 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) ...
6 months ago
Civil Politics Blog

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

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

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

A People’s Tolerance For Change And Adaptation Should Not Be Strained Beyond Its Limits - With a hat-tip to Bill Vallicella, here’s a brief and worthwhile article on immigration. Go and read the whole thing. You may notice some overlap with the ...
6 months 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...
7 months ago
Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play

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

Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence - There used to be more research and debate on the negative effects of labour resistance on economic development, but that topic has been crowded out by the ...
8 months 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 ...
9 months 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 ...
9 months ago
Cherokee Gothic

NATURAL DISASTERS ARE NOT A BOON TO ECONOMIC GROWTH!!!!!!!! - The usual, “Hurricane will raise GDP” stories are circulating and some of my free market friends are conceding the point but saying that not all rises in G...
9 months ago
iramramzan | Just another WordPress.com site…but better

Book review: Western Fringes - When I read the blurb of Western Fringes – a Muslim man trying to find a Sikh woman who has run away from home to escape an arranged marriage – I admit tha...
10 months ago
Ex Urbe

Campbell Award & Invisible Disability - Last night I was overjoyed and overwhelmed to receive the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the Hugo Awards ceremony at Worldcon 75 here in Hel...
10 months ago
The Offshore Balancer

Dunkirk: A Deliverance Worth Cheering - My review of the film Dunkirk and case for celebrating the evacuation: https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/dunkirk-a-deliverance-worth-cheering/
10 months ago
Darwinian Reactionary

Allow Me To Explain The Darkness Of The Human Soul - Church, State, Civilization Part 1: Allow Me to Explain The Darkness Of The Human Soul The title of this post … Continue reading →
10 months ago
The Rambling Infidel

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

Plato’s hijacking of Socratic aporia and media-friendly radicalism - In Plato’s early dialogues Socrates leads his interlocutors to *aporia*, a state in which they are unconvinced by their own beliefs and arguments, and do...
10 months ago
Money, Markets, and Misperceptions

What is an Institution? - Find out in my new post at the NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice Blog.
11 months ago
The Liberty Zone

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

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

The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...
1 year ago
Urban Future (2.1)

Jacobite Magazine - Newly launched. No comment thread there, so feel free to use this place.
1 year ago
GayUganda

This Gay Life - Its always tough. Imagine, meeting someone that you synch with. For the moment or forever. You going back home, in a place that is safe for you, and for hi...
1 year ago
MAN ABOUT TOWN

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

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

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

Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Being Classically Liberal

Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.
1 year ago
Rachel Edwards — Medium

A Tale of YouTuber Stupidity - Now if you haven't been living under a rock then you are likely aware that there are a great deal of people on YouTube. A select few garner enough of a f...
1 year ago
Via Meadia

Japan and Philippines Challenge China on New Fronts - Japan is deploying a warship to the South China Sea while the Philippines pushes back against Chinese encroachments in the east.
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Urban kchoze

A catalog of density (Québec/Canada version) - So, I've recently discovered an interesting tool to visualize census data for Canada, www.censusmapper.ca. Among its various data, it allows to do visualiz...
1 year ago
Nick Cohen: Writing from London

The left and the right ignored their extremists and we ended up with Brexit and Trump - The Observer 11 February 2017 Three types dominate extremist movements: crazies, cynics and creeps. The true crazies are always at the bottom of the heap. ...
1 year ago
The Pleistocene Scene – A.P. Van Arsdale Blog

In defense of science - We are deeply concerned by the Trump administration’s move to gag scientists working at various governmental agencies. The US government employs scientists...
1 year ago
hbd chick

the blog’s not dead… - …it’s just restin’. (~_^) sorry for the lack of posting over the last few months. unfortunately, there’s been a lot of major illness in the immediate famil...
1 year ago
Andrew Norton

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

This was never just a recession - Maybe to start with, but not for long. What does a recession look like? Take, for example, the 1981/82 recession, which was deep. Real output falls strongl...
1 year ago
Tim van Gelder

Can pagerank-like algorithms be used to help improve democracy? - In an excellent post Ben Rattray, founder of change.org, suggest that technology can help improve democracy by addressing what he calls three core needs:...
1 year ago
Psychological comments

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

The Things You Learn from the Internet - The Spiritual Science Research Foundation (“Bridging the known and unknown worlds”) has discovered the cause of homosexuality for 85% of all gay people: 4....
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
Council on Global Security

What Motivates a Jihadist? - (McLeans) A new study based on interviews conducted over social media with foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria raises doubts about the commonly held notio...
1 year 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…
1 year ago
Ancestry matters

Paper writing in the age of preprints and twitter - One side effect of the move to preprints is a change in the psychology of trying to get manuscripts published. Instead of targeting a journal, it becomes e...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Cantercap

A Tale of Two SIFIs - The Best of Managements, The Worst of Managements My apologies; neither of the banks I am about to discuss was ever large enough to be considered a SIFI (S...
1 year ago
Richard Carrier Blogs

My Blog Has Moved Again! - My new blog location is www.richardcarrier.info. I will maintain this old blog as a historical archive as I did before. But every other post I've blogged s...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
James Campbell - The Rebel

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

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

My blog moving to my website - I just wanted to give a heads up to readers that I have moved my blog to my website, which now houses all my work, videos, press coverage, photos and more....
2 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...
2 years ago
Critical Thinking Applied

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

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

Along came Phil - Gramm, former Senator from the state of Texas to set a few facts straight in the Wall Street Journal about the cause of the financial crisis. I.e., it wasn...
2 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, ...
2 years ago
Claritas

Comments on the Democratic Debate in Miami - This was truly the most bizarre debate I've ever seen. The level of questioning from the three interviewers, two from Univision, a Spanish-language network...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 years ago
Rootless Cosmopolitan – By Tony Karon

The Mayhem of GOP Class Politics in 2016 - Majority Report Radio conversation with Michael Brooks on the piece I wrote for the National on the political insurgency in the Republican mainstream. In A...
2 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...
2 years ago
Freethinking Economist

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

Changing Stations - At the beginning of October, I packed up my family and we made the move ‘home’. The house is fairly new, but the place is old. It has a lot of history...
2 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....
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
The Mischiefs of Faction

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

A few more thoughts on monopsony and the minimum wage (and what I think is a much stronger post from Don) - In the last post I noted that monopsony is definitely not the only and not even really the best theoretical argument for why we see no disemployment effect...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

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

Libertarianism and the Politics of Everything - It is a precept of Athenian philosophy in the Socratic tradition that the impetus to philosophy begins with wonder at the heavens, but the attempt to act...
3 years ago
deflationite.com

Inflation and Deflation – Economics A2 Level Unit 4 - A short video on the joys of inflation (and deflation) covering their causes and [...]
3 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...
3 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...
3 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,...
3 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...
3 years ago
The Mitrailleuse

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

The Pre-Columbian Population of Hispaniola - There have been many attempts over the past century to figure out the pre-Columbian population of the island of Hispaniola, which is now home to some 20 mi...
3 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...
4 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 ...
4 years ago
The Becker-Posner Blog

Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Handle's Haus

Reaction Ruckus - Goodness, what a lot of noise lately! Everyone is trying to explain Neoreaction and the Dark Enlightenment. A confusing mess if you ask me. I’ll put my...
4 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...
4 years ago
Healthy Curiousity

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

Jide Who Played Jesus to be Ordained - *MEDIA *INFORMATION *NEWS FROM THE EAST HAM TEAM* For Immediate Use 11 June 2013 *Jide who played Jesus to be ordained* The man who played Jesus in the Ne...
5 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...
5 years ago
Historinhas

Another take on the “game of musical chairs” view of business cycle - Britmouse did a post that describes Scott Sumner´s “game of musical chairs” view of business cycles. I thought it interesting to see how it compares to the...
5 years ago
Expectations Matter

Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe - But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure gues...
5 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...
5 years ago
Ballandalus

La Ghalib illa Allah - This was the Nasrid motto and means “There is no victor/conqueror except God. It is inscribed hundreds of times all over the Alhambra, appearing even more ...
5 years ago
Modeled Behavior

Modeled Behavior’s RSS Feed - Hopefully within the next day or two we will be able to get Modeled Behavior.com to redirect to our Forbes Blog. Yet, it looks as if there is no way to ge...
6 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...
6 years ago
The Market Monetarist

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

One Law for All campaign in Turkish media - Here's an article quoting an interview with me on Sharia law and One Law for All published in Turkish media.
6 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...
6 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...
7 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 ...
8 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...
8 years ago
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