Thinking Out Aloud: August 2013

Blog List

The Federalist

Biden Justice Department Sought ‘Federal Hook’ To Go After Parents As ‘Domestic Terrorists’: Documents - [image: sparkle sooknanan and merrick garland]After colluding with the NSBA to produce a letter calling for a crackdown on concerned parents, Biden DOJ off...
22 minutes ago
Chicago Boyz

Absence of Abilities - I took on a few more sewing projects in the last few weeks, and pulled up some videos and movies to watch, as I finished the hand-stitching; attaching butt...
44 minutes ago
neo-neocon

Rescissions bill passes - PBS and USAID funding cut: Just after midnight, the House of Representatives approved a $9 billion rescissions package by a 216-213 vote. The bill now he...
1 hour ago
Thought Catalog

3 Things That Worked (And 3 That Didn’t) In ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ - We have to admit...some of this movie just wasn't very good.
1 hour ago
Alt-M

Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Income Tax for Wrecking Health Care - The damage that the second federal income tax has done to health care is reason enough to let it go the way of the first.
1 hour ago
JoNova

The Secret Ruling Class — Why the anonymous Blob needs to be invisible - By Jo Nova The Class with No Name Martin Durkin has an excellent new video out on the rise of a secret new ruling class in society. The most powerful c...
1 hour ago
A Voice for Men

Sugar dating -
2 hours ago
The New Neo

And as the sun quickly sets on the MSM empire, the WSJ morphs into the National Enquirer - They won’t stop, they can’t stop, they don’t want to stop, and why would they? Salacious allegations get clicks, salacious allegations about Trump get mo...
2 hours ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

Musings On Iraq In The News - Musings On Iraq was cited in the new book Rupturing Architecture, Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003-2023 by Sana ...
2 hours ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Documents: White House, DOJ Communicated Over Memo Targeting Parents at School Board Meetings - "We’re aware; the challenge here is finding a federal hook. But WH has been in touch about whether we can assist in some form or fashion." The post Docume...
3 hours ago
Vox - All

There’s a bigger story behind Colbert’s cancellation - On Thursday, CBS announced that it was going to cancel The Late Show With Stephen Colbert after Colbert’s contract ends in May 2026. The news comes at a po...
3 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing - This post is by Lizzie. The photo is from Mount Rainier. I decided this week on some new rules for myself relating to graduate student training. I will on...
3 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing - This post is by Lizzie. The photo is from Mount Rainier. I decided this week on some new rules for myself relating to graduate student training. I will on...
3 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Immigrant Assimilation Is Obviously High - I recently argued that self-reports understate the personality gender gap. As long as some men rate their personalities relative to the average male, and s...
3 hours ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Does the US Benefit When the US Dollar is the Global Reserve Currency? - I have been asked a surprising (to me) number of times over the years whether the US dollar was in danger of losing its status as the global “reserve cur...
3 hours ago
educationrealist

The “In Case I Get Hit by a Truck” Assignment - I originally planned on following up on my group projects assignment within a week, but got distracted by semantics. I’ll probably put that in another piec...
3 hours ago
Marginal Revolution

Will this law be enforced? - Mayor Adams has proposed a new 15mph speed limit for all ebikes in New York City. Lyft received direction from the Mayor’s office to reduce the maximum p...
3 hours ago
Butterflies and Wheels

The missive - Oh dear how sad, Trump is simply *furious* at the Wall Street Journal. Whatever next? A feud with Putin? Fisticuffs with JD? Fox News on the naughty stoo...
3 hours ago
PrawfsBlawg

Bruce, Carlin, Smothers Brothers, . . . Colbert - Consensus is forming around CBS canceling Late Show and thus firing Stephen Colbert (Go 'Cats): They had financial reasons related to the general demise of...
4 hours ago
Minding The Campus

Congressional Hearings on Campus Anti-Semitism Need to Have a Point - For Americans living in the age of social media and instant clicks, Washington often feels like a nonstop, partisan version of the Jerry Springer Show. A...
4 hours ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

I have landed. . . . - . . . in Reykjavik. Yes, our voyage is over, we have left the ship, and our “expedition,” as they call it, is now an ex-expedition. Still, I have five day...
4 hours ago
Whatever

Publishers Weekly on The Shattering Peace: “A Treat” - And, well, yes! It is! The full review (here, warning, mild spoilers) also says that it is “tightly plotted” and otherwise praises the writing for catching...
4 hours ago
Althouse

"Biden aides look to Fifth Amendment as autopen probe widens/The former president’s allies are seeking legal protections amid fear that they have become the latest targets for political retribution." - Headline at The Washington Post. I'd make that a free-access link, but I only have 4 left to give this month and it's only the 18th. And it's one of thes...
4 hours ago
Alexander Boot

Sweet 16 leaves a sour taste - Our governments in general, and Labour in particular, can be expected to break any promise of a half-decent policy. But we can count on them to honour any ...
5 hours ago
EconLog

It’s Time to Think About the Big Picture Again - Although Paris still gets fed, our economy is facing turbulence. There’s presumably more than one reason for this. One reason I want to highlight here is...
5 hours ago
LessWrong

A night-watchman ASI as a first step toward a great future - Published on July 18, 2025 4:40 PM GMT *I took a week off from my day job of aligning AI to visit **Forethought** and think about the question: if we can a...
5 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

A Heartfelt Thanks to Each of You - This week has obviously been one of the toughest in my life. The death of my mother, Angela Piazza Turley,…
5 hours ago
PsyPost

Chronic pain rewires how the brain processes punishment, new research suggests - A new brain imaging study finds that people with chronic inflammatory arthritis are more sensitive to negative outcomes and show heightened brain activity ...
6 hours ago
4 gravitons

Hype, Incentives, and Culture - To be clear, hype isn’t just lying. We have a word for when someone lies to convince someone else to pay them, and that word is fraud. Most of what we call...
6 hours ago
PinkNews

I Know What You Did Last Summer star shares moving message of support for LGBTQ+ fans - I Know What You Did Last Summer star Jennifer Love Hewitt has thanked queer fans for keeping her character Julie James alive for decades. The 2025 slashe...
6 hours ago
Philosoraptor

Shapiro and Arm: Trump Can Unmask the Protest Class - linkThe progressive left now seems to think that it's permissible for them to wear masks to break the law, and it's permissible for them to dox, harass and...
6 hours ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

Where was I? - It has been a long time since my last post. I've been away for the past couple of weeks, at the International Sociological Association Forum of Sociolog...
7 hours ago
Isegoria

Alpha School is doing something remarkable - After twelve months, an anonymous parent (who follows Scott Alexander) is persuaded that Alpha School is doing something remarkable — but that almost every...
7 hours ago
macrobusiness.com.au

Weekend reading and MB media releases - International Reading: Student-loan borrowers are at high risk if Trump dismantles the Department of Education, 11 organizations told Elizabeth Warren – ...
8 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

Sorry, but life's like that... - Stefan Pastis draws another great cartoon. Click on the image to be taken to a larger version at the "Pearls Before Swine" Web page. Blame, guilt, ...
8 hours ago
International Liberty

Ranking European Paternalism - Being a libertarian is refreshingly simple. You get to control your own life and you have no desire to dictate how other people live. Government exists (or...
8 hours ago
Discover Blogs

The Universe Started as a “Hot Soup of Particles and Photons" 13.8 Billion Years Ago - How old is the universe? Learn more about the age of the Universe, from it's explosive beginnings to how we on Earth can measure its age.
9 hours ago
View From The Porch

Thank God it's Memeday! -
9 hours ago
Bracing Views

Trump Can’t Drain the Swamp–He Is the Swamp - The Jeffrey Epstein Case BILL ASTORE JUL 17, 2025 Chris Hedges has a superb show on the case of Jeffrey Epstein: Donald Trump, along with other “luminaries...
10 hours ago
Simple Justice

Judge Oetken Holds ALAA Anti-Israel Resolution Protected Speech - In the good old days, the purpose of a union was to represent a collective bargaining unit with regard to compensation and the terms and conditions of empl...
11 hours ago
According To Hoyt

Growing Up - So, Once Great Britain is going to grant the vote to sixteen year olds. Upon reading this a friend pointed out it was the opposite of the reason to give th...
11 hours ago
Active Response Training

Weekend Knowledge Dump- July 18, 2025 - Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Beretta 1301 Tactical: Still the Best After 1...
11 hours ago
Political Calculations

How Do AI Chatbots Work? - Over the last few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in the form of chatbots have become widespread. Over the same time, they have been improvi...
12 hours ago
The Honest Courtesan

Tweet to the Beat - The world was beautiful for eons before there were self-aware eyes to appreciate it, and it will still be beautiful for eons after we are all gone. And the...
12 hours ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

Wokeism’s Deeper Roots - It cannot simply be eradicated, either by presidents or by vibes.
12 hours ago
Peter Zeihan

The Highs and Lows of Burgum’s Energy Strategy - Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, has shifted his energy strategy to focus on oil and gas. He’s doing this because renewables are no longer...
12 hours ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Google Search’s Exclusivity Payments Must Be Capped - [image: Google Search’s Exclusivity Payments Must Be Capped] Judge Amit Mehta will shortly provide his remedy to Google’s monopoly in internet search. Fion...
12 hours ago
Mostly Economics

Interlocking directorates and competition in banking - Guglielmo Barone, Fabiano Schivardi and Enrico Sette in this voxeu research show that having directors present in multiple firms lead to collusion: The pre...
12 hours ago
Crisis Magazine

The Screens Are Killing Your Children - With all the monstrous challenges facing parents today, screen time is the Hydra, and once it comes into being, it can't easily be slayed.
13 hours ago
Logarithmic History

Learn this one weird trick - … that humans use, and now you can too! There are people who think that human beings are nothing special. Sure (the argument goes) people have uniquely lar...
14 hours ago
Books & Boots

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (1930) - ‘My dear young man, you underestimate the detective instinct of village life. In St. Mary Mead everyone knows your most intimate affairs. There is no detec...
14 hours ago
Brown Pundits

Hans Zimmer and the Polite Dismissal of the Ramayana - When producer Namit Malhotra began explaining the Ramayana to Hans Zimmer, the legendary composer cut him off: “You don’t have to explain it to me. Somethi...
14 hours ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

This week in research #84 - For the last two days, I've been at the International Population Conference in Brisbane. This conference only happens every four years, so it is like the...
15 hours ago
www.counterpunch.org

Democrats: Neither an Alternative nor an Opposition - Offering feeble excuses for why their top-down selected Presidential candidate in 2024 lost badly to an individual they held in the deepest contempt and ...
16 hours ago
Paula Wright

Desain Ruang Pertemuan Jakarta yang Bikin Pengunjung Betah di Instagram - Jakarta, sebagai pusat bisnis dan kreatifitas di Indonesia, menawarkan berbagai pilihan ruang pertemuan yang tidak hanya fungsional tetapi juga menarik s...
18 hours ago
Vlad Tepes

Reader’s Links for July 18, 2025 - Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on ...
18 hours ago
The Unz Review:

Israeli Migration Sparks Debate in Cyprus, by Jose Alberto Nino - Map of Cyprus. The gray line separates the northern part, occupied by Turkish Cypriots, from the southern part, occupied by Greek Cypriots and the Jewish s...
18 hours ago
The World is Not Enough

Election preview: Tasmania, again - Tasmania votes tomorrow in the earliest of early elections, but a change of government will be more the responsibility of the politicians than of the voters.
18 hours ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

The Grown Up Tax Bill: Sorry, Grown-Ups Are Out of Stock - *Dear Martian Central Bank: could you please send us some Grown-Ups?* *Scott Galloway recently sketched out a common-sense set of tax reforms that would g...
18 hours ago
Sultan Knish

Who Really Backed Epstein? - The first time Jeffrey Epstein was locked up, it was in a private wing of the Palm Beach Stockade with unlocked doors and a ‘work release program’ (ev...
21 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

Anti-AI Is Just Cope For Pretenders, Literally Wu Pops Up Again - ------------------------------ Support Jon Support Me On Subscribe Star Get FREE Books! Independent journalism isn’t easy and I can use all of the help I...
23 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Pagan Community Notes: Week of July 17, 2025 - [image: Pagan Community Notes: Week of July 17, 2025] Mystic South sets a new attendance record; the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida takes legal action to stop...
1 day ago
Policy of Truth

“Kalven’s Complicit Executioners” - A Critique of the Kalven Committee Report Here for whatever it’s worth is the whole of the “Skeptics’ Panel” at the Heterodox Academy conference, including...
1 day ago
The Syrian Intifada

How Much Responsibility Does the Syrian State Have for the Alawi Massacres? - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 July 2025 Read the article over at Substack.
1 day ago
RyanHoliday.net

37 Lessons From The Birthplace Of Stoicism - From my run on a trail overlooking Mt. Olympus. On a fateful day in the fourth century BC, the Phoenician merchant Zeno lost everything. While traveling ...
1 day ago
Daily Nous

Administrators, Trustees, Students, and the Future of the Liberal Arts - “The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in pow...
1 day ago
NGDP Advisers

Understanding NGDP Consulting’s Market Analysis Techniques - What are NGDP Consulting’s Market Analysis Techniques? NGDP Consulting employs various market analysis techniques to assess market conditions. These techni...
1 day ago
Samizdata

Congratulations, sixteen year olds! We now trust you to help decide the nation’s future - “Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election”, the Guardian reports. No, this does not mean you can leave school. You are too young and...
1 day ago
Raymond Ibrahim

Beheaded for Christ: The Great but Forgotten Martyrdom - Video version of this article below The Stream July 4 marked the anniversary of the Battle of Hattin, one of the most catastrophic defeats of Christian by ...
1 day ago
Mad Genius Club

You have to beat the dough to make it rise - (And it complains a lot in the process.) Now, the title metaphor isn’t literally true necessarily, since there are soft breads that don’t rise, but they ju...
1 day ago
Longrider

Yes, But No, - Avinash in the comments: The enemies are winning without firing a single shot. Up until recently, I agreed with this. I also feel that unless [...]
1 day ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Analysis and Recommendations for Israel’s New National Cyber Strategy - *BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,349, 17 July, 2025* *EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: **The Israel National Cyber ****Directorate (INCD) **recently published a...
1 day ago
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog

Have the winds been unusual this summer? - People talk to me about the weather....and several have told me that the *winds this summer have been unusual.* Last night, I gave a talk at a local para...
1 day ago
Blazing Cat Fur

John Robson: Carney’s conflict-of-interest falsehoods part of a long history of mistruths - He lied. Right in our faces. A brazen, self-serving, manipulative, obvious lie that was bound to get found out. Have we lost the capacity to care? No, I’m ...
1 day ago
n+1 » Articles

The Prison Conference Money Shower - Each of these classification rooms was decorated with an astonishing density of Disney paraphernalia. Men with grief-lined faces sat in front of Mickey Mo...
2 days ago
Climate Etc.

Temperature – a driver of the carbon cycle - By Joachim Dengler Are the natural carbon sinks failing? For a long time, the discussion about the relation between temperature and CO2 concentration has...
2 days ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

Rex Lex? Or Lex Rex? From King Charles I to President Trump. The Evolutionary Psychology of Natural Law and Sovereign Immunity. - On January 20, 1649, King Charles I of England was brought before a court established by Parliament--the High Court of Justice--and charged with being "t...
2 days ago
No B-S here (I hope)

Pascoe’s Pals at the Copyright Agency - TONY THOMAS JUL 16 2025Save Download PDF It’s always disconcerting to discover the intensity of leftist brainwashing in Australian classrooms. A case in po...
2 days ago
Manhattan Contrarian

Argentina Economy Update: All Is Proceeding As I Have Foreseen - * Javier Milei (pictured above) was elected President of Argentina in October 2023, and took office in December of that year. He promised large cuts to gov...
2 days ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

Unsolved Physics Problems - I would add at least a couple more. There are false problems that ask "why doesn't the universe act like I think (for no good reason) that it should?...
2 days ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

A Low Pressure Post About Rebuilding Dewalt Batteries - [I’ve been distracted lately (by undisclosed or at least only vaguely explained bullshit). In the interest of gradually and incrementally crawling out from...
3 days ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: Before They Are Hanged - [image: Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)]Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie My rating: 5 of 5 stars The second book in the First Law Trilo...
3 days ago
The Market Monetarist

The Forgotten Mandate: How “Moderate Long-term Interest Rates” Exposes the Fed’s Achilles Heel - The Hidden Third Mandate The Federal Reserve Act may soon create serious problems for Jerome Powell – or perhaps I should say “Too Late” Jerome Powell, as ...
3 days ago
Freethinking Economist

There really is no getting out of this fiscal corner - It is something of a cliche to argue that Britain is running out of money, living beyond its means, wandering through a fiscal fool’s paradise – but no les...
3 days ago
mathbabe

What’s the right way to talk about AI? - Yesterday I came across this article in the Atlantic, written by Matteo Wong, entitled The AI Industry is Radicalizing. It makes a strong case that, while ...
3 days ago
bellingcat

Violence in the Name of Cows: The ‘Animal Welfare’ Groups That Beat Up Truck Drivers in India - This article is a collaboration with Alt News, a non-profit fact-checking website in India. They describe themselves as “cow protectors” or “gau rakshaks...
3 days ago
Caracas Chronicles

Conversations with a Regime Insider - Two decades after leaving Venezuela, I’ve maintained a bond with an active chavista official who insists that the ruling elite remains unchallenged, and un...
3 days ago
Coyote Blog

Welcome to the Tesla Earnings Presenta... Squirrel! - Several years ago I was pretty active in the online community that was deeply skeptical of Tesla. When I backed away from blogging for several years, the ...
3 days ago
Corey Robin

Billy Ackman, Michael Walzer, and the Things Money Can and Can’t Buy - I’m not a fan of Billy Ackman for several reasons, but nothing has roused my ire more than than this: Because of Ackman, I now have to write about sports, ...
3 days ago
Streetwise Professor

Elon Returns to Being Elon - Elon Musk has apparently jumped back into his various businesses with both feet since his butthurt departure from his temporary government post. And in so ...
4 days ago
The Splintered Mind

Yayflies and Rebugnant Conclusions - In Ned Beauman's 2023 novel *Venomous Lumpsucker*, the protagonist happens upon a breeding experiment in the open sea: a self-sustaining system designed to...
4 days ago
Practical Ethics

Practically Prompted #2 – Regulating the Regulators: Europe’s New AI ‘Code of Practice’ and the Ethics of Voluntary Compliance - This is the second in a trial blog series called “Practically Prompted” – an experiment in using large language models to independently select a recent, ...
4 days ago
waka waka waka

Full House! - At the moment the lovely Nina and I have our daughter, her husband, and our three energetic grandsons (ages 3, 6, and nearly 9) visiting with us from Hong ...
5 days ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

Chicago: “The Canyon” - Down Wells Street or LaSalle Street or State Street towards the Chicago River, the buildings rise up on both sides, creating a canyon of metal and concrete...
5 days ago
Being Classically Liberal

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

High-Dimensional Foraging - Me in 2018: Spaceship Earth is in fact a story of a brave crew risking much to explore a strange new territory.
6 days ago
Medievalists.net

The Daily Life of a Medieval King - Have you wondered what a medieval king did on a typical day? Thanks to Christine de Pizan, we have an account of what daily life was like for King Charles ...
6 days ago
Edward Feser

A second Honorius? - Like his predecessor Honorius, Pope Francis failed clearly to uphold traditional teaching at a time the Church was sick from heresy. So I argue in my co...
1 week ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Some leftist economic policies - The prospect of a new leftist party poses the question: what should its economic policies be? I'll tell you what they shouldn't be: fiscal expansion. The m...
1 week ago
Rhys Ford

Odds and Ends - And I’m reclaiming my brain and routine, it’s kind of been an odd long haul where I think; Oh, I’ve got some things brewing up and I can start writing. And...
1 week ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

Quotations - “In this world, you can search for everything, except Love and Death. They find you when the time comes.” Sergei Yesenin, who committed suicide at the age o...
1 week ago
Facing Islam Blog

Dreher: 'Britain: Rape Gangs & A Conquered Nation' - *Kudos to Rod Dreher for his unflinching writing on the ruling elites of Great Britain and Western European countries in general, as they surrender to Mu...
1 week ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Standpoint epistemology and social fracture [interview excerpt] - From a 2020 interview: Jennifer Grossman [27:04]: One thing I hear is when we talk about race, and this gets to sort of the metaphysics and epistemology...
1 week ago
The Burning Platform

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

The Country I Miss | Naseeruddin Shah (Indian Express, 4 July 2025) - Every. Single. Word.𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗻𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰...
1 week ago
Regie's Blog

THINK IT WAS THE 4TH OF JULY… - Right about now, I would imagine they were sweating. Two hundred and forty nine years ago (right about now, give or take) 54 white guys sat in a swelterin...
2 weeks ago
Leah Schnelbach – Tor.com

Jurassic World Rebirth Is More of a Retread - We've had seven movies and still I must ask: WHEN WILL IT BE ANKYLOSAURUS' TIME TO SHINE?? The post Jurassic World Rebirth Is More of a Retread ...
2 weeks ago
The Objective Standard

TOS Weekly - Life vs. Faith - “Discovering the idea of rational self-interest helped me rebuild my worldview from the wreckage of my religious faith,” recalls William Hagerup.
2 weeks ago
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for June, 2025: +0.48 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for June, 2025 was +0.48 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down slightly...
2 weeks ago
The Angry Staff Officer

All I Really Need to Know about Leadership I Learned from Spaceballs - Editor’s note (with apology built in): Reader, if as you peruse the following, you wonder whether the author is sick in the head or does not understand F...
2 weeks ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

(1) The Big Book of Evolution: On the Origin of Specious - The intent of this essay is not to debate with the ardent of evolutionism. To do so would be pointless. Nor is it to present any religious point of view as...
2 weeks ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

(1) The Big Book of Evolution: On the Origin of Specious - The intent of this essay is not to debate with the ardent of evolutionism. To do so would be pointless. Nor is it to present any religious point of view as...
2 weeks ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

Updates on the Persecution of Alawites - My article "'Are you Alawite?': A Call to Prevent Genocide in Syria" covers the experience of Alawites under the Sunni regime that came to power in Decembe...
2 weeks ago
Club Troppo

Some collected observations on the Middle East crisis. - I posted something similar on Facebook a few days back, and thought I might get some useful feedback here. Iran is criticised for violating their obligatio...
2 weeks ago
How Material Are We? – MADE IN AMERICA

Why MAGA Loves the 1950s (from The Dispatch) - The 1950s loom large in the imagination of MAGA leaders and followers; that decade is the when of America’s past greatness. Steve Bannon praises the “1950s...
2 weeks ago
The Mitrailleuse

Keajaiban Baso Goreng: Resep, Tips, dan Cara Menikmati yang Sempurna - Apa itu Baso Goreng? Baso goreng adalah salah satu makanan jalanan yang paling disukai di Indonesia. Terbuat dari campuran daging yang digiling halus, bi...
2 weeks ago
History for Atheists

Interview – Dr Thomas C. Schmidt on Josephus’ Testimonium - My guest today is Dr Thomas C. Schmidt of Fairfield University. Tom has just published an interesting new book through Oxford University Press: Josephus ...
2 weeks ago
Shtetl-Optimized

BusyBeaver(6) is really quite large - For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on re...
2 weeks ago
Shtetl-Optimized

BusyBeaver(6) is really quite large - For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on re...
2 weeks ago
The Z Blog

The End Of Free Will - Note: Last night we had a great show, one of the greatest shows ever, on Iran and Islam, with a special mystery guest who has a lot of first hand experienc...
3 weeks ago
Andrew Norton

The ideas of Liberal liberals - Nearly 30 years ago now I dropped out of a PhD exploring the communitarian critique of liberalism. My interest in liberalism continued through articles, ch...
3 weeks ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

Doomed! How America’s Apocalyptic Mindset Shapes Political Disengagement - In recent years, global crises have increasingly come to define the times we live in. These big challenges, ranging from climate change and political ins...
3 weeks ago
Andrew Norton

The Prac Payment that will go to Services Australia and the ATO, as well as students - Last year I was critical of how I thought the Commonwealth Prac Payments were going to work. These were to provide Austudy level payments, currently equiva...
3 weeks ago
Eurogenes Blog

‘Proto-Yamnaya’ Eneolithic individuals from Kuban steppe c. 3700 BC ? (guest post) - This is a guest post by an anonymous contributor. I don't necessarily agree with its findings, but I think it's a good way to get the ball rolling here aga...
3 weeks ago
House of Eratosthenes

Dead Narratives - Over the last twenty years or so I’ve observed much and taken copious notes on narratives. Their importance continues to emerge, and surprise me, for I kee...
3 weeks ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

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

Book Notes: Stoner (1965) - *NEITHER THE MALE AUTHORS NOR THE MALE READERS* most preoccupied with middle age are inclined to face it cleanly. The male author depicts the mid-life cris...
4 weeks ago
The History of China

#295 – Qing 30: Building Better Worlds - The Yongzheng Emperor seeks to capitalize on his father’s greatness abroad – but cautiously. He wants to exterminate the barbarians… but delicately. He wan...
4 weeks ago
The Other Side of History

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4 weeks ago
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5 weeks ago
Notes On Liberty

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Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

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Sam Altman

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5 weeks ago
PressThink

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5 weeks ago
Cameron Harwick

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1 month ago
The Mermaid's Tale

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1 month ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

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2 months ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

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2 months ago
Bondwine Books

The Perceptual Layer: In the mind’s ear - Nowadays, we usually take in written language by reading it silently. This was not always the case. For thousands of years after the invention of writing, ...
2 months ago
Gun Culture 2.0

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2 months ago
Moneyness

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2 months ago
Agony and Hope

We’re Moving - I have decided to move Agony & Hope to a new home.
2 months ago
Thermidor

Beauty In The Details: Home Interior Decoration Tips - The way you decorate your home can have a significant impact on how it feels and functions. From the furniture you choose to the colors you paint your wall...
2 months ago
Peter Turchin

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

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

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

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

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

A GENERAL THEORY OF LONGEVITY AND DEATH - Medical expenses for an individual in their last year of life are approximately equal to their medical expense during the rest of their life. The sam...
3 months ago
milescorak

Inequality and Economic Opportunity … what do we care about? what do we measure? what should we do? - Inequality erodes opportunity, and limited opportunity exacerbates inequality. This vicious inter-generational cycle has brought inclusive growth into ques...
3 months ago
Henry the Young King Blog

Excellent News! Henry the Young King's Star Is Rising.... Again! - These past two weeks were hectic, to say the least. But since I have received a bit (pardon me, a few bits) of terrific Henry the Young King news I canno...
3 months ago
Darwinian Reactionary

In Which I Prove The Existence Of God - I was thinking about the philosophy of mathematics where Platonism is alive and well and the following argument came to me. It is a variety of cosmological...
3 months ago
MacroMania

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

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

STATEMENT ON THE DOUGLAS MURRAY DEFAMATION CASE - In the wake of the Douglas Murray defamation case against the Observer this week, which focused on a column I had written last August, there have been a la...
4 months ago
MountainGuerrilla

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

Beatrice Twice Queen of Hungary - Time to meet one of the coolest Renaissance queens no one has heard of: Beatrice of Naples TWICE Queen of Hungary. She’s one of the awesome people who didn...
4 months ago
Bernard Gaynor

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

Algeria - The Algerians were mostly pirates at first. They preyed on European commerce and enslaved tens of thousands of Europeans. They ransomed what they could and...
4 months ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

Robert Louis Stevenson, essayist - One of the reasons I keep a blog is as a kind of commonplace book, to keep a record of things that I liked reading and found thought-provoking. I recently ...
4 months ago
Jonathan Spyer

Searching for the Last Jews of Damascus: A Journey Through Memory and Ruins - Jerusalem Post, 24/1 In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight years, I decided to see what remained of the city’s once flourishing Jewish community...
5 months ago
Supply and Demand (in that order)

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

The Revitalization of the Cherokee Language - The Cherokee language is a key part of the rich and diverse history of the Cherokee people. This unique language, with its syllabary alphabet created by ...
5 months ago
Uneasy Money

Hicks on Temporary Equilibrium - J. R. Hicks, who introduced the concept of intertemporal equilibrium to English-speaking economists in Value and Capital, was an admirer of Carl Menger, on...
5 months ago
Evonomics

Curing Economics’ Addiction to Unreal Theories - A Review of Ricardo’s Dream, by Nat Dyer The post Curing Economics’ Addiction to Unreal Theories appeared first on Evonomics.
5 months ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

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

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

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

Merry Christmas - And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them...
6 months ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

SCSS#3, 9 December 2024: Russia End State – “Assad Deposed: Implications for Russia?” - This is a summary of the discussion at the latest of the current series of online Strategic Competition Seminar Series (SCSS) webinars held on 9 December 2...
7 months ago
West Hunter

Books 2024 - You might also be interested in my booklists from from 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Undersea Victory In the Shadow of Man ...
7 months ago
I aim to misbehave.

Latest from Germany - As Tam has stated numerous times, Europe has the ability to go from "friendly to jackboots" in about .5 seconds. Germany might be close to that cusp again ...
7 months ago
Institutional Economics

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

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

Japan’s PM ‘runs’ to Trump, Ishiba aims for a meeting in November - Adnkronos International, Rome(TNS) During the phone call that lasted about five minutes, Ishiba and Trump – Kyodo reports again – did not talk about the ...
8 months ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

Quick note - Just a quick reminder to all you MilSF authors out there: Reticle: A Crosshair or aiming device. Reticule: A small purse. I swear, Microsoft Word must have...
8 months ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

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

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

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

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

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

Page not found - Page not found admin Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:31
9 months ago
interfluidity

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

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

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

Sanity Fair - *"Antifascist" demonstration Portland, Oregon. August 17, 2019. * The two sides squared off across a field, defined by police cordons at each end, like dis...
11 months ago
Paul Musgrave

test - testing something
11 months ago
Fabius Maximus website

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

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

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

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

Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...
1 year ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

A Few Things We Don’t Quite Get About the Levant - (First Draft of the Foreword to Pierre Zalloua’s forthcoming book. For comments.) Europa was the daughter of Agenor, king of Tyre Some people believe tha...
1 year ago
Mark Manson

How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear - What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all? In this article, I'm going to help you do exactly that b...
1 year ago
Ideas

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

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
1 year ago
deflationite.com

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

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

Belmont Club: A Bellyful of War -
1 year ago
Jacobite

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

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1 year ago
ERIC POSNER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1 year ago
OrientalReview.org

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

好きな人と付き合って結婚、幸せな家庭を気づくためのノウハウ - 彼と付き合って一年が過ぎ、より実りのある二年目を過ごすには彼と付き合って、一年も経つとだいたいどんな人となり […]
1 year ago
GayUganda

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

Rochester gets burned over - Fenster writes: The burned over district: The term “burned-over district” refers to the western and central regions of New York State in the early 19th cen...
1 year ago
THE LAST DITCH

Lionising the lionesses - Football has kept me sane during a difficult part of my life. There have been weeks in the past two years when the only place I’ve left my home to visit ha...
1 year ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

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

Russia: Defend Boris Kagarlitsky! - News of Kagarlitsky's arrest has sparked anger and empathy among a wide range of activists. People may perish, but ideas do not, and Kagarlitsky has done...
1 year ago
La Bocca della Verità

"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness - I am currently reading *The Master and His Emissary*, which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature...
1 year ago
Brad R. Torgersen

The persistence of belief and certainty - Long thought. Don’t say you had no warning. The explicitly secular perspective is that there is no proof of a spiritual layer to human experience, Continue...
2 years ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

Protected: Story Post (Private) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
2 years ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tucker Carlson’s War on Official Narratives. Fired from Fox News. What’s Next? - Theories abound for why Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News. The bottom line: he's a truth-teller on the issues that count, and was operating in a media...
2 years ago
The Evolution Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Debt Ceiling: An Economist's Analysis - Economics Professor Cameron Harwick explains government debt, the debt ceiling, and what it means when we hit it.
2 years ago
In Due Course | Building the Republic of Letters, one keystroke at a time

Wrapping things up here - I thought I should mention to any long-time readers that I am going to be letting this domain name lapse at the end of the month. I notice that certain p...
2 years ago
Quillette

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

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

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

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

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

How Eric Hobsbawm anticipated Synthetic Marx - I have to admit that I expected some pushback against the thesis of my paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) “The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the ...
2 years ago
Healthy Curiousity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CSPI is Moving To Substack - A couple of months ago, I wrote about why, if you’re a writer, you should be on Substack. At the same time, CSPI was publishing all of its material on ou...
3 years ago
Rabble Rouser

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...
3 years ago
Medieval Matters – Tor.com

The Medieval Origins of Halloween Traditions - We’ve been knee-deep in pumpkin spice for weeks, now, which means (1) Starbucks may be part of a secret cabal intent on world domination through tasty me...
3 years ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The social justice steamroller: a pervasive and profound attack on citizenship - Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue, discussed how centre-right parties have not found a language to deal with ...
5 years ago
Cop in the Hood

Migrating the blog - It should be back soon. If you really want it find something right now, it’s all still there, just hiding at a slightly different (temporary) address: http...
5 years ago
Bleeding Heart Libertarians

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

A good run: Overlawyered, 1999-2020 - I published the first Overlawyered post on July 1, 1999, and I expect this post on May 31, 2020 will be the last. As someone in the entertainment world o...
5 years ago
john hawks weblog

Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials - The archaeological site of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is one of the most significant early Neolithic villages to have been excavated. It was occu...
5 years ago
The DiploMad 2.0

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

Philosophy, In a Sense - Constantine Sandis on Doing Nothing in the Time of Covid-19
5 years ago
Bloody Shovel 2

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

Recent writing - I haven’t written recently on this blog. I wrote for a year at The American Conservative. All the pieces are available here. I also wrote a piece Covid-19 ...
5 years ago
White Sun of the Desert

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

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

Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague - [ by Charles Cameron — scientific [precision meets human error in cases of outbreak — with links to a terrific science thread by Palli Thordarson @PalliTho...
5 years ago
Rachel Edwards — Medium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Three laws of contemporary philosophy - FIRST LAW: Question everything! SECOND LAW: . . . except for the victimhood of women, racial minorities, LGBT, etc. THIRD LAW: Never, ever mention the seco...
5 years ago
Tommy Ousslander

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

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

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

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

Warming and the Snows of Yesteryear - I was recently reminded of one of the most common misconceptions about our changing climate that is often accepted as fact by climate skeptics and true b...
5 years ago
ThinkMarkets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Australian bushfires on Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera - Last night I was interviewed by TRT – Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera – on a panel moderated by Adnan Azwaz on the Australian fires. My fellow panellists wer...
5 years ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

‘Two hands are a lot’ — we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos… - ‘This is possibly the single largest design flaw contributing to the bad Nash equilibrium in which … many governments are stuck. Every individual high-func...
5 years ago
Status 451

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

A man of possible African ancestry buried in Anglo-Scandinavian York - The aim of the following brief note is to direct attention to a burial from a late ninth- to early eleventh-century cemetery in York. The burials here were...
5 years ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Merry Christmas -
5 years ago
Money, Markets, and Misperceptions

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

On the nature of forgiveness - Forgiveness is not an emotion or a single action. It is rather a change in your ontological* orientation towards the forgiven person, removing them fro...
5 years ago
InfidelsAreUs | 'Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you' 1 Peter 4:12-14

Refuge Seeking in Relative Safety - There is a common misconception among Christians in particular that I’ve been mulling over these past weeks. As usual, my thoughts have been straying to Aa...
5 years ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

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

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

Dictators - In my corner of Twitter, I recently became obliquely aware of a kerfuffle about Michael Bloomberg saying that “Xi Jinping is not a dictator”. (Twitter is f...
5 years ago
Random Critical Analysis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From lesbian and gay liberation to equality - Ruth Hunt, for her hundred thousand a year pieces of silver, has sold out lesbians and gay men out to girl dick and corporate cock. The post From lesbia...
5 years ago
A Fine Theorem

What Randomization Can and Cannot Do: The 2019 Nobel Prize - It is Nobel Prize season once again, a grand opportunity to dive into some of our field’s most influential papers and to consider their legacy. This year’s...
5 years ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

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

Taking the BPTC in the 15th-century - The 15th-century was the time in which English law came, in many ways, to resemble its modern form. There was parliament with a House of Commons and a Hous...
5 years ago
The American Interest

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

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

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

Den ofördelaktiga utvecklingen av dödligt våld i Sverige - Förra veckan frågade SVT statsministern om ökningen av dödligt våld: ”Du har varit statsminister sedan 2014. Sedan dess har det accelererat. Vilket ansva...
5 years ago
On the Margin of Error

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

Abortion views by religion, 1970's-1990's - Variables: ABANY, RELIG16, Years (1972-1999), Race(1) Sample Size: 18,573
5 years ago
Nick Cole's Books

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

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

Why Kevin Williamson is wrong about poverty and bad behavior - I recently wrote a post at Bloomberg Opinion arguing that "bad behavior" - drug use, violence, single parenthood, and idleness - is not the main cause o...
5 years ago
Nintil

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

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

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

The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means for Investors - I just published a new long-form piece through OSAM Research Partners entitled “The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means...
6 years ago
Refugee Resettlement Watch

Find me on Facebook and at my other blog, Frauds, Crooks and Criminals - If you have missed news about refugees, I’m still writing about them at Frauds and Crooks and as of last night I am back up and running at Refugee Resettle...
6 years ago
Yue Chim Richard Wong 王于漸

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

What might an alternative to the ODNI Rating Scale be like? - In the previous post I raised various issues with the ODNI Rating Scale for intelligence products. At least some of these are serious problems. Some time i...
6 years ago
Urban Future (2.1)

Crypto-Current (064) - §5.8612 — Decentralization of the ledger requires massive multiplication, and thus an effective method of compression. Only in this way does it become trac...
6 years ago
Bloody shovel

Blog moving to Spandrell.com - ***This blog is moving to Spandrell.com ***Please update your bookmarks/RSS readers. Spandrell.com, two ls. First they banned Youtubers, but I didn’t say a...
6 years ago
rethinking history

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

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

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

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

The Institutional Foundations of Antisemitism - Antisemitism has returned to mainstream politics in Europe and America. One fundamental misconception about antisemitism is that it is simply another for...
6 years ago
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MULTICULTURALISM

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

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

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

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
6 years ago
Nick Cohen: Writing from London

Seumas Milne and the Stasi - Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of ...
6 years ago
The Kakistocracy

Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...
6 years ago
Wide Urban World

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Authoritarian Power Base - As I’ve written, political power is, in essence, the capacity for violence and the will to use it. The power of a leader comes from his authority over, his...
6 years ago
Colm Gillis Author

For Thomas Hobbes, Politics Was Simply About Doubt and Faith - Four hundred years ago, an English intellectual developed political ideas different to what we may recognize as familiar. 1. Schmitt and Hobbes In his cele...
6 years ago
The World is Not Enough

We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free!
7 years ago
Michael J. Totten's blog

Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...
7 years ago
A Taste for Desert Landscapes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Calling for Violent Jihad in Australia - This Blog Post has been moved – click HERE to read it. * Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is ...
7 years ago
The March of the Virgin

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

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

The Power of Positive Persistence - Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House will ...
7 years ago
Fantastic Worlds

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

CHAPTER 59. Yosemite - Overawed by the majesty of the Yosemite National Park
7 years ago
Gene Expression

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

The Positive Inter-Religious Effect of Reading About Peace First’s Programs - In our last post, we wrote about how we are currently working with numerous partners bridging divisions and one of the common questions that partners get c...
7 years ago
Grand Blog Tarkin

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

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

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

Ideas Generation and Behavioural Insights - Here is the ideas grid I use when working with local authorities to co-produce ways of using behavioural insights. Each effect has a ‘how can we use it?’ c...
7 years ago
Devin Helton - Essays and Articles

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

New Immigration Blog - Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe a post...
7 years ago
Big P Political Economy

Financial globalisation: Whither Financialisation - McKinsey has recently released an excellent summary of global finance. The authors present a positive picture of global finance despite the significant de...
7 years ago
Pseudoerasmus

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

Innovation in Economics Pedagogy and Publishing - Well, it's Labor Day weekend, which means that Barnard and Columbia students are back on campus and classes are about to begin. This semester I'm teaching...
7 years ago
While We Slept | New Conservative Thought

Hurricane Harvey: Thanksgiving in The Wake of Tragedy - “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the ...
7 years ago
iramramzan | Just another WordPress.com site…but better

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

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

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

The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...
8 years ago
southseaconversations 讨论南海

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anarchism - Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable, inclu...
8 years ago
Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play

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

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

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

Heroic Age Papers! - Merovingians and Their Neighbors Sponsor: *The Heroic Age* Session Organizer: Deanna Forsman Contact: Deanna Forsman North Hennepin Community College 7411 ...
8 years ago
GEEKLY

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

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

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

Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a joint statement a...
9 years ago
James Campbell - The Rebel

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

Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...
9 years ago
Capitalism's Cradle

The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...
9 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, ...
9 years ago
Maryam Namazie

Every day should be International Women’s Day - Every day should be International Women’s Day Bread and Roses TV with Maryam Namazie and Fariborz Pooya 8 March 2016 Interview with Bangladeshi Author and ...
9 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...
9 years ago
Seventh Voice

Convicted Pedophile Admits to Sexually Abusing Young Girl with Asperger’s Syndrome - Convicted pedophile Paul John Bickford, aged 70, has received a 16 month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting (sexually molest...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 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....
9 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 ...
9 years ago
His Story is Bunk

The Sumner Also Rises (to the task) - We again interrupt our blogging hiatus, to acknowledge some fine work by Bentley University economist Scott Sumner (who is also the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair ...
9 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...
9 years ago
The Mischiefs of Faction

We've Moved - The Mischiefs of Faction is now located at mischiefsoffaction.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, here. You can...
9 years ago
The XX Committee

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

A Koku of Rice - Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the concept of a koku (石) of rice: I find it pretty neat. A koku was a Japanese unit of volume (of rice) in use especially ...
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 years ago
Terry Glavin

Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie. - Further to my Canada Day column Finding the Right Words for Canada’s History I thought I’d put this up. It’s from Rain Language, a long poem in translation...
10 years ago
Facts & other stubborn things

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

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

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

The Years Of Writing Dangerously - Thirteen years ago, as I was starting to experiment with this blogging thing, I wrote the following: [T]he speed with which an idea in your head reaches th...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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,...
10 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...
10 years ago
The Black Steam Train

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

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

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

Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 years ago
MILO NEWS

OxcOOd1199 Error - Windows Media Player is a great way to view your favorite movie content. However, with the program comes the risk of the occasional OxcOOd1199 error occuri...
11 years ago
Rowland Jide Macaulay

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

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

Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe - But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure gue...
12 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...
12 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...
13 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...
13 years ago
Richard Carrier Blogs

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

Sharia law, universal rights and secularism - See my speech and the ensuing discussion at a meeting organised by the Danish Atheist Association in Copenhagen, Denmark on 27 September 2011. There was a ...
13 years ago
The State of Play in Australian Politics

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

The satisfaction of learning a new skill - Today I learned how to do short row shaping in knitting. It's a technique that is easy to do, and hard to explain. I've tried several times in the past. so...
14 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 ...
15 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...
15 years ago
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