Thinking Out Aloud: August 2013

Blog List

Vox Popoli

WARDOGS INC #2: HUNTER KILLER - *WARDOGS INC. #2: HUNTER KILLER is the April Book of the Month. Since it is the second book in the mil-SF series set in the Quantum Mortis universe, we a...
33 minutes ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 5 - 1916 British forces attacked Ottomans at Fallahiya to try to relieve surrounded British troops in Kut 1939 Abd al-Illah asked Nuri al-Said to become premi...
34 minutes ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

Les femmes et la révolution irakienne - Depuis au moins les années 90, les guerres et l'embargo économique ont profondément impacté les femmes irakiennes, qui avaient la charge de la vie au quo...
36 minutes ago
Mick Hartley

Spring Sunday - Down the Lea Valley to the Olympic Park and Hackney Wick for my daily exercise. Plenty of people about - running, cycling, families out for a walk - but ev...
43 minutes ago
Vox - All

Read these 12 moving essays about life during coronavirus - A woman wearing a face mask in Miami. | Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images Artists, novelists, critics, and essayists are writing the first draft of ...
47 minutes ago
Point of no return

Try a different Haroset recipe for Pesah - *As Passover (Pesah) approaches, thoughts turn to preparing the Seder plate, whose ingredients symbolise different stages in the liberation of the children...
48 minutes ago
Whatever

State of the Scalzi, Three Weeks In - I’ve been quarantining for three weeks now. How am I doing? Let’s break it down, in no particular order: 1. Weight: Quarantining offers many opportunities ...
51 minutes ago
askblog

Working backwards, again - Two reasons to do this. 1. I messed up the arithmetic the first time. Now corrected. 2. Let’s check this approach against New York information. New York is...
1 hour ago
LessWrong

What to draw from Macintyre et al 2015? - Published on April 5, 2020 4:56 PM GMT Last week it seems the West decided that we should all wear masks and wear cloth masks if we don't have proper masks...
1 hour ago
Althouse

Louis C.K. is back with a comedy special. - You have to pay $8 and buy it straight from his website. He's on his own now, the big pariah. If you think that might be funny, you're perfectly free to bu...
1 hour ago
The Independent Whig

My Position: Why I Write, and What I’m Trying to Say - This is an update of a Twitter thread I wrote, with minor edits for typos and one or two addenda for clarity. 1/ I want to try to explain yet again my posi...
1 hour ago
Marginal Revolution

Sunday assorted links - 1. “As of Wednesday, women and men in Panama are under different quarantine schedules.” 2. Banerjee and Duflo give their take. 3. On the decline of “Brid...
1 hour ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Bernie Supporter Joe Rogan Says He’d Rather Vote for Trump Than Biden - “I’d rather vote for Trump than him. I don’t think he can handle anything.”
1 hour ago
Overlawyered

“San Francisco reverses ban on plastic bags, now bars reusable totes” - “The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union is pleading with consumers to ‘just say no to reusable bags’ for the duration of the pandemic, in orde...
1 hour ago
Thought Catalog

Tarot for Coronavirus—This Week‘s Collective Energy To Guide You Through The Covid-19 Pandemic - We are living through extraordinary times. You may be feeling like you could use some advice right now, beyond how to make a mask out of an old hand towel.
2 hours ago
Scott Adams Blog

Episode 893 Scott Adams: Sip Time. Get in Here. - My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: A back-to-work prediction Back to work models, considerations and de...
2 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

The Great Fact -
2 hours ago
Vlad Tepes

Brad Johnson on the Wuhan Flu as a possible weapon of bioterrorism - Thank you Richard.
2 hours ago
PinkNews

Lil Nas X says he ‘planned to die with the secret’ of his sexuality – then Old Town Road happened - Lil Nas X has admitted that he planned to remain in the closet for the rest of his life, until ‘Old Town Road’ made him a star at the age of 19. The coun...
2 hours ago
Sharyl Attkisson

WATCH: Battling coronavirus in the lab - There’s important coronavirus news. Scientists at Stanford University in California are now beginning a landmark study. They’re using new antibody tests to...
2 hours ago
Medievalists.net

Medieval Manuscripts: The Book of the Hunt, by Gaston Fébus - Did Fébus not have better things to do that day than pick up his pen?
2 hours ago
Chicago Boyz

Covid-19 moment of truth for our healthcare systems - The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has crucial data on Covid-19 for planning and it comes with a moment of t...
2 hours ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

Anil Seth on the “real” problem of consciousness—and his hypothesis - Scholarpedia defines the “hard problem” of consciousness this way: The hard problem of consciousness (Chalmers 1995) is the problem of explaining the relat...
2 hours ago
Bracing Views

What Is the Coronavirus Really Changing? - W.J. Astore On the surface, our lives are changing. We’re staying home. We’re practicing social distancing. We’re wearing masks when we go out. Many of...
3 hours ago
The Burning Platform

State police cite Pa. woman for ‘going for a drive’ amid stay-at-home order - FUCK THE POPO Via Triblive A York County woman this week was the first person in Pennsylvania to be cited for violating Gov. Tom Wolf’s stay-at-home order,...
3 hours ago
Philosoraptor

Cuomo Hasn't Accepted Remington's Offer To Build Ventilators? - That would seem to indicate that it's not as much of an emergency as he's claimed.
3 hours ago
Climate Etc.

Sunday fun: personality testing - by Judith Curry And now for something different. A sociological experiment for the Denizens. Please take the Enneagram personality test (with instinctual v...
3 hours ago
International Liberty

Coronavirus Humor - Until the crisis is over, I plan on sharing coronavirus-themed humor every weekend (previous versions here and here). We’ll start with a meme that actually...
3 hours ago
macrobusiness.com.au

The dills that wrecked Australia try to fix it - Karen Middleton did a good job of rounding up the usual suspects on the weekend to get their views of the future of the Australian economy. Lost on her, ...
3 hours ago
Lawfare

Keeping to the Conditions of the U.S.-Taliban Agreement - Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, shakes hands with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, lead negotiator for the Talib...
3 hours ago
The Z Blog

Market Report Week Three - The market was very crowded today, suggesting that either the effects of the first round of hoarding have worn off or people fear the worst is yet to come....
4 hours ago
Rationalist Judaism

The Kezayis Post - With Pesach approaching, it's *kezayis *season again. The monograph that I wrote on the evolution of the *kezayis*, from the size of an olive to a matzah ...
4 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Career advice for a future statistician - Gary Ruiz writes: I am a first-year math major at the Los Angeles City College in California, and my long-term educational plans involve acquiring at least...
4 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Career advice for a future statistician - Gary Ruiz writes: I am a first-year math major at the Los Angeles City College in California, and my long-term educational plans involve acquiring at least...
4 hours ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

51 Things To Do at Home - I don’t know who compiled this list, but it’s an excellent collection of online resources. 51+ Things To Do While
4 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

Washington State: Hunting Bear and Turkey Spreads Corona Virus - By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife has once again submitted to absurdity, this…
4 hours ago
Belmont Club

Suddenly, Neither Liberty nor Civilization Is Assured - The two biggest uncertainties about the post-COVID-19 world are whether any privacy will survive and whether China or the United States will dominate. With...
5 hours ago
Advice Goddess Blog

Dose Matters - It's why masks and social distancing matter...
5 hours ago
Eurogenes Blog

Business almost as usual - I've just updated my dataset and Global25 datasheets with a wide variety of ancient and present-day samples. The datasheets are located at the same links a...
5 hours ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

"Results from a Controlled Trial of Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19" contagion live - "The initial results from a placebo-controlled trial of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 indicate that patients hospitalized with mild illness recovered mor...
6 hours ago
Isegoria

That works only because demand is typically so steady - The shelves are bare, because the toilet paper industry is split into two, largely separate markets, commercial and consumer: Georgia-Pacific, a leading to...
6 hours ago
The Federalist

Life Inside The Coronavirus Shutdown: What You Can And Can’t Do In America’s Capital - Today, as cities are shutting down and police are turning out-of-staters around at our borders, we're suddenly confronted with the real question: What will...
6 hours ago
Simple Justice

Voting In A Pandemic: Is Risking Death A Civic Duty? - I’m informed that one of Trump’s most endearing qualities is that he says out loud what no one else would be foolish enough to admit. One such admission in...
6 hours ago
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

Fascists never rest, Trump edition - Of course, he fired (on a Friday night) the person who did his job by acting lawfully in notifying Congress about a report about Trump's corruption. (Did y...
7 hours ago
Longrider

On Liberty - Someone said to me today that now is not the time to be concerned about civil liberties, for there are lives to be saved. This [...]
7 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

Sunday morning music - Last Sunday I put up a number of humorous songs related (more or less) to the coronavirus pandemic. They seem to have amused readers; but a couple of my...
7 hours ago
The Honest Courtesan

Links #509 - Right now we have a pinpointed risk…called New York City. – politician Gina Raimondo In this very funny Godzilla fan film provided by Franklin Harris, on...
7 hours ago
untethered

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8 hours ago
davidthompson

The Lockdown Diaries (3) - Because I’m generous, an open thread, in which to share links and bicker. I’ll set the ball rolling with scenes of lockdown enforcement in what appears to ...
10 hours ago
OrientalReview.org

Thinking About Good And Evil - Recent conversations have brought up questions about good and evil, particularly in the natural world. When the world is locked down in response to a virus...
10 hours ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

English language media as a whole are progressive - The days are long gone when the privately owned TV channels in England were not biassed against conservatives. This is the veteran chief political correspo...
10 hours ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

S2 E53: Personal Responsibility - Our final 12 Rules for Life lecture from Auckland, NZ. Recorded on Feb. 23, 2019. Thanks to our sponsor: http://trybasis.com/jordan/ Relevant Links 12 Ru...
11 hours ago
Mad Genius Club

The fruits of persistence - This year, I decided I would write every day – and it didn’t matter if it was 5 words of fiction or 5,000, as long as it was every single day. No, I didn’t...
11 hours ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

It Really Wasn’t So Bad, Before The Mayhem… - It’s difficult to articulate, much less to narrate the sense of loss those of us in distant places are feeling watching America’s epic struggle. I am, and ...
12 hours ago
Raedwald

When Globalism failed - Let's take just a couple of samples from the front pages. From the Telegraph - One of Britain’s few ventilator manufacturers was still prioritising suppli...
12 hours ago
A Voice for Men

Amber Heard & Johnny Depp (part 2/3) -
12 hours ago
Cold Fury

The Great Disconnect - The fishy smell intensifies. According to most national media hospitals are overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. U.S. media claim doctors and nurses are ...
13 hours ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Responses to Coronavirus Expose Governments’ Fault Lines - The failures of the Pakistani and Egyptian responses to the coronavirus crisis demonstrated that neither ultra-conservative science-rejecting worldviews no...
13 hours ago
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog

A Dry Five Days, With Welcome Warming, Thanks To Omega - Get out your sunglasses and put away your umbrella--the next five days should be bright and dry here in western Washington. Who can you thank for this mete...
14 hours ago
West Hunter

IHME projections - arguablywrong has taken a look at the projections the Feds are using for planning. He has some criticism of some features of their model: unfortunately he...
14 hours ago
Notes On Liberty

Nightcap - Coronavirus rattles US national security priesthood Nahal Toosi, Politico Has libertarianism dodged a bullet? Scott Sumner, EconLog States don’t really min...
14 hours ago
Logarithmic History

Griffinoceratops - Blog about dinosaurs and you also end up blogging about the great age of dinosaur discovery that began almost 200 years ago. But dinosaurs hunting didn’t b...
15 hours ago
The Mermaid's Tale

The plague of our times..... - What can one do when hunkered down in a plague, something we've not really seen in any of our lifetimes, at least in the wealthier part of the world? One ...
17 hours ago
Supply and Demand (in that order)

What's Wrong with this Reasoning? - 1. FACT: the population density of NYC is 27K per square mile 2. FACT: the population density of Indianapolis is 2K per square mile 3. FACT: COVID...
17 hours ago
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day - I stopped reading after the first sentence: “I grew up Asian American in North Dakota, South Dakota and Idaho, some of the whitest states in this country...
17 hours ago
Taki's Magazine

The Week That Perished - The Week’s Most Dyspeptic, Antiseptic, and Narcoleptic Headlines IS CORONAVIRUS THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO TRUMP? The thing about ideologues is t...
17 hours ago
Shtetl-Optimized

If I used Twitter… - I’m thinking of writing a novel where human civilization is threatened by a global pandemic, and is then almost singlehandedly rescued by one man … a man w...
18 hours ago
Shtetl-Optimized

If I used Twitter… - I’m thinking of writing a novel where human civilization is threatened by a global pandemic, and is then almost singlehandedly rescued by one man … a man w...
18 hours ago
Butterflies and Wheels

Where is that piano? - Another press briefing campaign rally, perhaps the weirdest yet. Trump criticizes New York for asking for tens of thousands of ventilators: "When they kn...
19 hours ago
Quillette

Where’s Harvey Weinstein Headed? It’s a Place I Know - Many people want to know where Harvey Weinstein is headed, especially now that it’s been revealed that he’s been infected with COVID-19. He recently was ...
19 hours ago
Pandaemonium

BILL WITHERS LESSER KNOWN - Bill Withers, who died lat week, was one of the most underrated songwriters of his generation. Everyone knows his popular songs – ‘Lean On Me’, ‘Ain’t No S...
19 hours ago
PrawfsBlawg

Zoom as the new normal in the legal academy? - Yes, says Josh Blackman. As for virtual academic conferences, workshops, and symposia, I wonder if we should separate long-term and short-term. Short-term,...
19 hours ago
PsyPost

Playing a violent video game makes people view themselves as a better fighter - New research provides evidence that violent video games can influence a person’s self-perceived ability and readiness to engage in a physical fight. The st...
20 hours ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Covid Economics: Social Distancing and the Relevant Benefits of Cost-Benefit Analysis - ProMarket reviews the most recent and interesting academic papers on the ongoing pandemic: Michael Greenstone and Vishan Nigam of the University of Chicago...
20 hours ago
Magnitude Matters

Some Secrets to Investing Success - To be a "successful" investor, you've got to start by defining success. It is different for just about everyone. Two investors with nearly identical demogr...
20 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Column: Can We Get a Refund on 2020? - [image: Column: Can We Get a Refund on 2020?] Clio Ajana on coping with social distancing and COVID-19. Continue reading Column: Can We Get a Refund on 202...
20 hours ago
neo-neocon

Contortionists creep me out - This is a change of pace from you-know-what. I’m not saying it’s a pleasant change of pace. But it’s certainly a weird one: If you want to know more about ...
21 hours ago
The New Neo

Contortionists creep me out - This is a change of pace from you-know-what. I’m not saying it’s a pleasant change of pace. But it’s certainly a weird one: If you want to know more about ...
21 hours ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

A Prayer for Resurrection in the Time of Coronavirus - John Moran, author of *The Resurrection Mantra, *joined me last night to talk about how saying the Resurrection Mantra (“Jesus, with you I will die and r...
21 hours ago
EconLog

Libertarianism dodged a bullet - If you had told me a year ago that there would be a global pandemic, I would have predicted that it would have the effect of somewhat discrediting libert...
21 hours ago
Fredrik deBoer

a little psa - I don’t really do discourse these days; 90% of my political energy is in housing activism and that space is blessedly largely discourse-free. But I do like...
21 hours ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

Investors, Gentrifiers, and Flippers, Oh My! - Last summer there was surge in the "Beware real estate investors!" genre. Here is NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. These are all quit...
21 hours ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

The Pattern of Normal Politics, 1870-1914: An Outtake from "Slouching Towards Utopia?: An Economic History of the Long 20th Century, 1870-2016" - Left-wing avowedly socialist—parties in pre-World War I Europe wanted, for the present, only weak tea. The Socialist Party of Germany’s Erfurt and Gotha pr...
22 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

Novel Writer Pro Secrets: Co-Writing Tips - New Youtube video! via https://youtu.be/accL8h4zI44 Like and subscribe!
23 hours ago
Brown Pundits

Open Thread, 04/04/2020 Brown Pundits - Thread to talk about whatever you want. What’s going in under lockdown???
23 hours ago
Setting the Record Straight

The Absolute State of Healthcare - Where do I even start with this one. How about this: 75% of medical costs in the US are spent on people in their last year of life. And I don’t have to tel...
1 day ago
TheMoneyIllusion

Tomorrow’s news, today - Suppose you want a heads up on what the news media will be talking about in a few weeks. Where do you go to find it? In the blogosphere. On March 1, I did ...
1 day ago
The Grumpy Economist

Whack-a-mole: the long run virus - This virus will be with us a long time. Even if the massive national shutdown stops the spread of the virus in the US by summer, there will remain hotspots...
1 day ago
JoNova

Weekend Unthreaded - …. Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/*10* (0 votes cast)
1 day ago
Caracas Chronicles

PRR Highlights: Paging Padrino López - Starting today, every Saturday we’ll be sharing some of the highlights of our subscribers-only Political Risk Report with all our readers. The post PRR H...
1 day ago
Fake Nous

Existential Risks: AI - Some people worry that superintelligent computers might pose an existential threat to humanity. Maybe an advanced AI will for some reason decide that it is...
1 day ago
According To Hoyt

Witch’s Daughter – Novel in Installments. Snippet 3 - *For the previous chapters, please go here. These are posted first draft, as the brain dictates to the fingers which are remarkably stupid. Eventually it w...
1 day ago
Policy of Truth

Coronavirus Diary (30): Reporting from Brooklyn - I am too fucking exhausted to blog today, but too wound up not to. It occurs to me that getting sick would not be a good look right now, but on the other h...
1 day ago
Maverick Philosopher

An Upside of the Pandemic - Suddenly, even globalists are big on borders. Well, whatever it takes.
1 day ago
Alexander Boot

First principles do work - As a rule, I eschew the I-told-you-so genre of journalism. Tooting one’s own horn invariably produces discordant music in questionable taste. And in any ca...
1 day ago
The DiploMad 2.0

Risky Business - All this ChiCom Virus insanity has me mulling over the idea of "risk" and its management. There's a ton of stuff out there about "risk" and "risk managemen...
1 day ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

Rise Of The Jewhunters - Here’s a biostatistic: it must get worse before it can get better. (If you wish to be pedantic, argue over “must” versus “will”.) I thought it would happen...
1 day ago
Discover Blogs

What Killed the Dinosaurs? - Dinosaurs suddenly disappeared 66 million years ago. What caused their demise?
1 day ago
Practical Ethics

Why you should not (be allowed to) have that picnic in the park, even if it does not make a difference - Why you should not (be allowed to) have that picnic in the park, even if it does not make a difference By Alberto Giubilini It’s a sunny Sunday afterno...
1 day ago
Harry's Place

Starmer wins Labour leadership election - As expected, Keir Starmer has won a convincing victory in the Labour Party leadership election. I very much hope that he will succeed in uniting the party...
1 day ago
Muddy Colors

Sketchbook Affirmations - Well, my computer had a meltdown two days ago and is currently out of commission. Life always has interesting ways of giving us perspective, and right now...
1 day ago
Jacobite

Bring Out the Bodies - The Coronavirus dwells in the interstices, and comes forth by highlighting the junctures fracturing civilization’s tectonic plates.
1 day ago
Communalism Watch

India: The Tablighi Jamaat is by no means the only body culpable of gross neglect and irresponsible conduct in the current crisis - The Indian Express Already rampant communal virus in India is gleefully piggy-back riding on coronavirus The Tablighi Jamaat is by no means the only body c...
1 day ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

The U.S.-Mexico border fence and homicides in Mexico - On Tuesday, I posted about the effect of coronavirus on the price of illegal goods, particularly in Mexico: When goods (or people) become more difficult (m...
1 day ago
Andrew Norton

International students and the COVID-19 recession - For Australian higher education the situation of international students in the COVID-19 crisis is especially concerning. They lack the local family and soc...
1 day ago
The Reference Frame

Mochizuki's proof gets officially published - The \(abc\) conjecture is a hypothesis in number theory (i.e. a Fermat-last-theorem-style claim in mathematics) that sort of imposes a bound on \(abc\) ass...
1 day ago
The Angry Staff Officer

Mean Hegemons - The common perception of the 2004 film Mean Girls is a memorable teen comedy. This is wholly incorrect. Mean Girls is a primer on the risks of an unrestrai...
1 day ago
bellingcat

How Coronavirus Disinformation Gets Past Social Media Moderators - The COVID-19 pandemic has forced social media companies to take a more active stance against disinformation. The most striking recent example came on Mar...
1 day ago
Blazing Cat Fur

Communist Chinese reprimand TV station over WHO interview that mentioned Taiwan - The Hong Kong government has accused a media organisation of “breaching the One-China principle” after a reporter asked a senior World Health Organisation ...
1 day ago
The Unz Review:

The Chaotic Response to Coronavirus Mirrors the Failures of 1914, by Patrick Cockburn - Government leaders everywhere are calling for their people to wage war against the coronavirus outbreak, recalling past victories in an effort to boost pub...
1 day ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

Lives of despair?, part 2 - This continues my last post, where I was looking at changes in answers to general questions about life and expectations for the future. The basic question...
1 day ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Patents and Competition: Thomas Edison, Xerox, Bell Labs, Medtronic - Patents are a tradeoff: they let an inventor escape direct competition, but only for a limited time and for a specific product, and in this way provide an ...
1 day ago
Tommy Ousslander

Can't stop, won't stop - The Feral Creatures party bus pulls into another stop. Today we are being hosted by Never Hollowed by The Stare. #gayreaders #urbnafantasy #blogtour #bookt...
1 day ago
Armed and Dangerous

On the implausibility of a war with China - In the wake of the PRC’s actions around the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been increasing speculation in some circles that the PRC might be preparing to wag...
1 day ago
4 gravitons

Socratic Grilling, Crackpots, and Trolls - The blog Slate Star Codex had an interesting post last month, titled Socratic Grilling. The post started with a dialogue, a student arguing with a teacher ...
2 days ago
War Is Boring - Medium

Ships, aircraft and troops deployed to Caribbean to help stop drug traffickers - WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has deployed several ships, aircraft and thousands of troops to strengthen counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean Sea and ...
2 days ago
Fabius Maximus website

Working from home – the next revolution, now happening - Industrial revolutions are not one big event. They are many incremental changes with giant effects. Wars and pandemics often accelerate them, changing so...
2 days ago
Peter Zeihan

Coronavirus: The Energy Guide - As a rule I try to stay out of discussions about energy prices. Energy trading is a hectic business with a lot of stress, plagued by fleets of hot-headed...
2 days ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

End the Coronavirus Shutdown to Protect Life and Liberty - Around the world, the governmental shutdown of the economy and society in the effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic threatens human life and liberty; and...
2 days ago
Political Calculations

How High Could U.S. Unemployment Rise in the Coronavirus Recession? - The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Employment Situation report for March 2020 early today, the first monthly report since the coronavirus r...
2 days ago
Gun Culture 2.0

9mm is the Official Ammo of Gun Culture 2.0 - I am a Gun Culture 2.0 “native.” That is, I never participated in Gun Culture 1.0 nor in the development of GC2.0. I only know GC2.0. As such, the long-sta...
2 days ago
The Splintered Mind

Wisdom and Chaos - *I. The Puzzle: Why Aren't Academic Philosophers Wise?* Etymologically, philosophy is the study of wisdom. In the popular imagination, philosophers sit c...
2 days ago
View From The Porch

It's an endless font of memes. - omg ded https://t.co/2mTH9P5xF4 — Tamara K. (@TamSlick) April 3, 2020
2 days ago
The Objective Standard

Statist Responses to COVID-19: An Interview with Michael Fumento - This grand social experiment in locking up healthy is a test run for imposing authoritarian government, but it won’t end well. People will push back—beca...
2 days ago
I aim to misbehave.

Quarantine World Update - So many things in the world right now, and I'm smart enough to not be an expert on any of them... Anyway - all surviving in my clan, despite the current is...
2 days ago
Daily Nous

Mini-Heap - The latest additions to the Heap of Links… “The demand for the sort of work I do seems to be increasing, and newly minted philosophy PhDs would be a good...
2 days ago
Mostly Economics

Why Bhutan is an outlier in the fight to Covid19? - Sayan Dey and Malati Sunar in this piece point to reasons for Bhutan’s low Covid19 numbers: Low Population, Diverse Geography, environmental consciousness ...
2 days ago
milescorak

What you need to know about Statistics Canada’s survey of the labour market - On Thursday, April 9th Statistics Canada will release the results of the Labour Force Survey for the month of March 2020. COVID19 makes this one of the mos...
2 days ago
Information Processing

COVID-19: Exiting Lockdown and Geolocation - Pressure will mount around the end of this month (assuming we are past the peak death rate and virus spread is under control) for the US to exit lockdown. ...
2 days ago
Information Processing

COVID-19: Exiting Lockdown and Geolocation - Pressure will mount around the end of this month (assuming we are past the peak death rate and virus spread is under control) for the US to exit lockdown. ...
2 days ago
The Evolution Institute

To Adapt to Your Current Challenges, Try this Speed Version of Prosocial - Are you feeling overwhelmed by the challenges that the global pandemic has thrust upon you? A positive change method called Prosocial can help you in the s...
2 days ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

Diversions: Objects of Repression - A new weekly PV@G series features one piece from our archive every Friday, chosen for its continued relevance,…
2 days ago
Active Response Training

Weekend Knowledge Dump- April 3, 2020 - Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Things You May Do That Give Away You’re Carry...
2 days ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

On “Coercive” Plea Bargaining - It’s far from clear that plea bargains drive the U.S. incarceration rate.
2 days ago
www.counterpunch.org

The Bigger Picture is Hiding Behind a Virus - Things often look the way they do because someone claiming authority tells us they look that way. If that sounds too cynical, pause for a moment and refl...
2 days ago
Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim Webinar on Islam - I was recently featured in a webinar by the United West’s Sharia Crime Stoppers. It follows; beneath it is SCS’s official description: Sharia Crime Stop...
2 days ago
Crisis Magazine

Cardinal Pell, the Living Martyr - A cardinal, a Prince of the Church, remains locked up in a small cell, separated from all, locked in, and without access to the sacraments. No, this is not...
2 days ago
Club Troppo

Troppo group subscription to Crikey: is this the last gasp? - From Twitter. Till now I’ve organisd a TROPPO GROUP CRIKEY SUBSCRIPTION for around 50 I advertised I was doing renewals on Twitter and Troppo a month ago a...
2 days ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

A Tocharian Love Poem From 600 CE - *. . . a thousand years, you will tell our story. * *I thus announce, heretofore there was no human being dearer to me than you; likewise hereafter ...
2 days ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

Creating Compassion in the Eventual Aftermath of COVID-19 - The post Creating Compassion in the Eventual Aftermath of COVID-19 appeared first on Heterodox Academy.
2 days ago
Manhattan Contrarian

How About Another $2 Trillion For "Infrastructure"? - * The so-called “CARES Act” is now under our belts, and some $2+ trillion will thus shortly fly out the government’s door, with no offsetting revenue. * Bu...
2 days ago
ribbonfarm

Pandemic Dashboard: 2 - Flattening the Curve We’ve moved on from the innumeracy edition to the “spot the inflection” phase as bureaucrats everywhere try to solve for the flattenin...
2 days ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

When Bulls Are Over-Anxious to Catch the Rocketship Higher, This Isn't the Bottom - *Everyone with any position in today's market will be able to say they lived through a real Bear Market.* *In the echo chamber of a Bull Market, there's alw...
2 days ago
Mercatornet

Abortion advocates score a win in the UK’s lockdown - ‘Home abortions’ will be permitted The post Abortion advocates score a win in the UK’s lockdown appeared first on MercatorNet.
2 days ago
mathbabe

Making facemasks: a step-by-step guide - You’ll need: Dishcloths (could use any cotton cloth but slightly thicker is better) 20 gauge metal wire cut into 2.5″ pieces (could use pieces of a thin wi...
2 days ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

The Hole in the Sky - Well I don’t think I have ever run AD&D before unless you count that one disastrous attempt to run “Roarwater Caves” from Dungeon Magazine issue #15 a long...
2 days ago
Minding The Campus

Virus ‘Stress’ Prompts Students to Demand Easy A’s at Harvard - America’s students will get a lot of pass/fail grades during the coronavirus pandemic. The University of Pennsylvania, Lehigh University, and Haverford C...
2 days ago
The World is Not Enough

Blog highlights, week two - Another compilation of past blog posts to provide some diverting reading for those in isolation.
2 days ago
Regie's Blog

PERFECT LOVE … - We were exposed two weeks ago. Several people at the airport, where my wife works, have tested positive for Covid 19. We went into immediate lock down, aft...
2 days ago
Sultan Knish

Why is the Media Exempt from Coronavirus Business Shutdowns? - "You're actually sitting too close," President Trump remarked at a press briefing. "Really, we should probably get rid of about 75, 80 percent of you.” T...
2 days ago
Alt-M

More on the Challenges of Main Street Lending - A few days ago, in response to the Fed's March 23rd announcement that it planned to help smaller businesses through a new Main Street Lending Program, I ...
2 days ago
CDR Salamander

The Law of Gross Tonnage Applies - Am I a bad navalist if I can't stop laughing at this ... and cannot wait for the video? Via Joseph Trevithick at The Drive; The incident occurred in the e...
3 days ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

Adam Schlesinger dead at 52 from Coronavirus - Adam Schelsinger, founding member of the group Fountains of Wayne, died from the Coronavirus. According to Wikipedia: “Stacy’s Mom” was written by bassist ...
3 days ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

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

Michael Yon on the The Jordan Harbinger Show - Check out my interview on *The Jordan Harbinger Show* episode 314
3 days ago
Overcoming Bias

Beware R0 Variance - The big push now re Covid19 is to use “social distancing” to cut “R0”, the rate at which infection spreads. More precisely, R0 is the average number of oth...
3 days ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Inequality, morals & Marxism - One thing this crisis is demonstrating is that there are plenty of bad employers: the Guardian and Labour List both have lists of them. Another is that, as...
3 days ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Inequality, morals & Marxism - One thing this crisis is demonstrating is that there are plenty of bad employers: the Guardian and Labour List both have lists of them. Another is that, as...
3 days ago
Martin van Creveld

Reaching for Immortality - As anyone who has ever watched a cockroach or spider running for its life knows, all creatures, swimming, crawling, walking, running, leaping, and flying...
3 days ago
Books & Boots

The Romantic by Hermann Broch (1931) - It was only fragments of the past that fleetingly emerged, and important and trivial things flowed chaotically through one another… (p.11) Hermann Broch (1...
3 days ago
Slate Star Codex

Book Review: The Precipice - I. It is a well known fact that the gods hate prophets. False prophets they punish only with ridicule. It’s the true prophets who have to watch out. The go...
3 days ago
Growth Economics Blog

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

Possible Victory for Accused Student in Third Circuit Appeal - Oral argument in a somewhat below-the-radar appeal suggests a possible, even probable, victory for the accused student in Doe v. University of the Sciences...
3 days ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

Assorted Macro Musings - 1. *USA Today* published my Op-Ed titled "Fighting the Coronavirus Pandemic: The Economic Front." In it, I make the case that the large relief package from...
3 days ago
Rabble Rouser

Seven Military Strategies for Coping with Social Distancing - Advice on how to cope with social distancing, from someone who was professionally required to do so on and off for almost 20 years.
3 days ago
Old European culture

Death of Prince Marko - This is the illustration by Juirij Šubić of the Serbian epic poem "Death of Prince Marko". It shows the scene when a monk from Serbian monastery Vilinda...
3 days ago
The Electric Agora

Endgame - by Mark English The foreign, defense and trade policies of the United States and the overt and covert operations designed to implement and support them hav...
3 days ago
La Bocca della Verità

Catching up with Zeno... - I just wanted to share another Zeno analysis I came across today, this one from Adolf Grüubaum: "According to a view that is as widespread *as it is errone...
3 days ago
Nec Pluribus Impar

Intellectual honesty in the time of COVID-19 - In my previous blog post, where I argued that we didn’t really know what was going on, I distinguished between two hypotheses: The conclusion of this dis...
3 days ago
Peter Turchin

Italy Turns the Corner - Last week my analysis of the Covid-19 epidemic in Italy yielded a very depressing result: despite all the measures taken by the government, there was no ...
4 days ago
waka waka waka

Sign Of The Times - Just to remind you, readers, as you contemplate the millenarian tableau unfolding before us: yes, there is also a comet. (Of course.)
4 days ago
Leah Schnelbach – Tor.com

Murderbot and Chill: TV Recommendations for Our Favorite Terrifying Murderbot - Have you read Murderbot? If you’ve read Murderbot then you know Murderbot is the BEST. Martha Wells’ series balances tense action with a delicate comment...
4 days ago
I Want a New Left

Elites Good and Bad - At last, an elite in the West actually states explicitly that he doesn’t want his country to be dominated by Muslims. France’s President Macron has stated ...
4 days ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Reading Amartya Sen on Poverty and Famines - The shut down of entire sectors of the economy in response a pandemic is akin to a crop failure. Both represent a sudden, large and unexpected decline in p...
4 days ago
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Australia Bushfire Smoke Now Warming the Lower Stratosphere? March 2020 Update - Last month I noted how the global average lower stratospheric temperature had warmed considerably in recent months, especially in February, and tentatively...
4 days ago
Ideas

Looking for More Volunteer Voices - A number of people have kindly recorded for me quotes for my audiobook of *Future Imperfect*, but there are still a fair number to be done. I could do all o...
4 days ago
No B-S here (I hope)

How the ABC hoaxes taxpayers - Regurgitating Democrat smears now passes for ‘news’ Tony Thomas ABC-TV 7pm news provides a nightly drip-drip of Democrat propaganda in its US coverage. The...
4 days ago
RyanHoliday.net

Will You Choose Alive Time Or Dead Time? - A few years ago, I was really stuck. I had accepted a one-year consulting contract that required me to commute from Austin to Los Angeles. It paid very wel...
4 days ago
Evonomics

COVID-19 and the Next Evolution of Economics - 31 March 2020 We’ve never needed new economic thinking like we do right now. The economic effects of the COVID crisis are again laying bare the failings ...
4 days ago
The Scholar's Stage

Bullet Reviews: A Bunch of Books on Epidemic and Disaster Response - As February turned to March I realized I needed a better understanding of epidemics and disaster response. It was clear to me then that the coronavirus was...
4 days ago
Insitome - Medium

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

We Need Data on the Virus, and the USS Roosevelt Is an Invaluable Source of It - There is an ongoing outbreak of Covid-19 on the Nimitz class carrier, USS Roosevelt. The outbreak is severe, and today the CO, Capt. Brett Crozier, wrote a...
4 days ago
Priceonomics Blog

The Places in America with the Most At-Risk Populations Based on Age - The places in America with the most and least people above the age of 65 years old.
5 days ago
Lead and Gold

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5 days ago
Evo and Proud

Affective empathy: a double-edged sword - March in Brooklyn (?) (Wikicommons - Amanda Hirsch). Can we learn to feel another person's pain or joy? Twin studies indicate that affective empathy is 5...
5 days ago
Coyote Blog

For the Left, Excess Hospital Beds Were "Too Many Deoderants" ... Until This Month - For years, a significant critique (mostly from the Left) of health care costs has been that over-investment by private hospitals in premium facilities (e.g...
5 days ago
Falkenblog

The Real Corporate Bond Puzzle - The conventional academic corporate bond puzzle has been that 'risky' bonds generate too high a return premium (see here). The most conspicuous credit met...
5 days ago
Edward Feser

Franklin on Aristotelian realism and mathematics - At YouTube, mathematician and philosopher James Franklin, author of *An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics*, offers a brief introduction to th...
5 days ago
Sam Altman

Please Fund More Science - Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to return roughly to normal. Either w...
6 days ago
Working-Class Perspectives

Class, Capitalism, and Coronovirus at Disney’s Newest Attraction - Last week the Coronavirus forced Disney to announce that its American parks are now closed indefinitely, resulting in the longest interruptions of any kind...
6 days ago
traditionalRIGHT

The View From Olympus: A Dry Run - Despite the current unnecessary panic, the coronavirus may end up doing us a favor. It has led the government to carry out a full-scale, force-on-force exe...
6 days ago
Against Jebel al-Lawz

Five myths of COVID - These are the five most pernicious myths I have seen regarding the COVID crisis from sources I regularly read. All are contradicted plainly by the facts. 1...
6 days ago
Inconvenient Facts

Virus slowdown was successful, but the patient died in poverty - Guest post - Viv Forbes - a view from Oz
6 days ago
Uncouth Reflections

Notes on “1917” - Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: There’s plenty to appreciate in director Sam Mendes’ “1917,” but it doesn’t amount to much as a movie. The one-shot scheme is g...
1 week ago
The Baseline Scenario

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

The world after corona - What can we say about the impact of the pandemic on the global distribution of income? It is hard to say anything meaningful now because we have no idea ...
1 week ago
Uneasy Money

My Paper “Hayek, Deflation, Gold, and Nihilism” Is now Available on SSRN - I contributed a chapter entitled “Hayek, Deflation, Gold and Nihilism” to volume 13 of Hayek: A Collaborative Biography edited by Robert Leeson and publish...
1 week ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Running out of Rice, While Wasting Water - Australia was once self-sufficient in rice. We now grow less than 25 percent of domestic rice consumption. The SunRice Group has been importing rice from...
1 week ago
Moneyness

Alphabet soup - It's *that *time of the economic cycle. Financial writers are flocking to the phrase *alphabet soup* again. This was a phrase we all adopted in 2008 to d...
1 week ago
History for Atheists

The Great Myths 8: The Loss of Ancient Learning - The idea that we only have a fraction of Greek and Roman learning and literature because most of it was destroyed by Christians is a common assumed truis...
1 week ago
Rhys Ford

Thank you to the service industry people who make Flattening The Curve possible! - One of the most interesting things about being in “isolation mode” has been getting things to make other things because stuff’s in short supply. Some stuff...
1 week ago
PressThink

The All Media Daily Briefing: A short concept sketch - A vehicle for it already exists. The post The All Media Daily Briefing: A short concept sketch appeared first on PressThink.
1 week ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

Virginity: losing my most ‘valuable’ asset - By Reema They say love is a beautiful thing. For many women in Saudi Arabia, that just isn’t the case. We were taught that love is only allowed after marri...
1 week ago
The Everyday Economist

The Coronavirus and Lessons for Preparedness - My new Mercatus policy brief is up. It is entitled, “The Coronavirus and Lessons for Preparedness.” You can find it here.
1 week ago
Homo Consumericus

Adaptive Fears That Protect Us From Pathogens - It is perfectly rational to be disgusted by mosquitoes, public restrooms, and hotel rooms.
1 week ago
Coordination Problem

The Modeling "Problem" in Economics - |Peter Boettke| Consider the situation of a complex adaptive system with intricate moving parts, and the critical element in all of this has purposes and p...
1 week ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You - (With Mark Spitznagel) Continue reading on INCERTO »
1 week ago
Michael O. Church

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

The Cathedral and the Holiness Spiral - “The Cathedral” was the hacker metalepsis for centralized authority, which Moldbug appropriated to describe the rule of the most holy unofficially official...
1 week ago
Institutional Economics

RBA money printer didn’t go brrrr - I’m in USSC’s The45th explaining why the RBA’s money printer didn’t go brrrr.
1 week ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Long Live the 25th March, 1821 -
1 week ago
A Myth in Creation

The Degenerative Agenda of Explaining Away Genetic Research in Schizophrenia - Jay Joseph's guest post on Duncan Double's blog – criticizing the notion that schizophrenia has a substantial genetic component – reminds me of the distin...
1 week ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

The Vexing Libertarian Issue of Transition - I have appointed myself an old sage to the world. When your knees are creaky and every snotty eighteen-year-old treats you patronizingly, the least you can...
1 week ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

Primary Prevention and the Three Levels of Health Care - In light of what may well be remembered as the Coronavirus Crisis of 2020, I am setting aside other projects and turning more attention to issues of public...
1 week ago
interfluidity

Pandemic diary 2020-03-24: Toying with collapse - Lately, the President is talking up the notion that we “can’t let the cure be worse than the problem itself”. He’s toying with relaxing the suppression mea...
1 week ago
House of Eratosthenes

Breaking the Law - Genius Times, which is a satire site: Analysts were shocked that a state that encourages foreigners to break the law should have so many residents break th...
1 week ago
Agony and Hope

Why Coronavirus might not be such a bad thing after all… - So since my impassioned letter to the Sydney Archbishop, my perspective on the ban on religious services has changed.
1 week ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Proliferate - My article, "Conspiracy Theories in a Time of Virus," offers deep background and some current conspiracy theories. This blog keeps up with some of the latt...
1 week ago
How Material Are We? – MADE IN AMERICA

COVID-19: Balancing Short-Term Solutions and Long-Term Effects. Are There Lessons from 1918? - Sheltering-in-Place, Berkeley, CA. March 23, 2020. Let’s think about the COVID-19 crisis in a cold-blooded, sociological, and historical way. Rough estimat...
1 week ago
educationrealist

Bush/Obama Ed Reform: Alex or Gloria?Common Core Assessments - In my last post* I said that the tests excited reformers “almost more” than the standards. That’s because the truth would have derailed the article. The t...
1 week ago
The Economics Detective

Ten Percent Less Democracy with Garett Jones - Garett Jones returns to the podcast to discuss his book, 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less. Duri...
1 week ago
Chris Blattman

IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. It’s a little tricky to write links when it feels like things are changing hourly. Here’s ...
1 week ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration - [image: Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration] Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan My rating: 5 of 5 stars ...
1 week ago
deflationite.com

Where are the voices of those most at risk of Covid19? - We are in the midst of the most important economic and health crisis for a century on a global scale. Are we tackling the crisis in the correct manner? ...
2 weeks ago
THE LAST DITCH

The truth about the Shrewsbury 24 - Private Eye reports that the Criminal Cases Review Commission will send the case of the 1970s “flying pickets” back to the Court of Appeal. Six of these vi...
2 weeks ago
Dr. Andrew Bostom

Chloroquine (CQ): From malaria prophylaxis to covid19 prophylaxis? - Might/Should this be offered to healthcare workers as a “chronic”/daily regimen while they deal with the covid19 epidemic (analogous to lupus patients who ...
2 weeks ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

Is It A Crime to Stop the Economy? - [I am happy to turn this space over to my former colleague and (I trust) lifelong friend Romans Pancs, who offers what he describes as a polemical essay. I...
2 weeks ago
Easily Distracted

An Actual Trolley Problem - I’ve always seen a certain style of thought experiment in analytic philosophy and psychology as having limited value–say for example the famous “trolley pr...
2 weeks ago
Russian History Blog

A Snapshot of the 1918 Global Influenza Pandemic in Russia - Judging by my social media feed, several folks with an interest in Russian history have been asking themselves “Hmm, I wonder what happened in Russia durin...
2 weeks ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Hotep Jesus Self-Quarantines after coming in contact with Possible Coronavirus COVID-19 Carrier - Op-ed by Bryan “Hotep Jesus” SharpeEstimated reading time: 3 minutes, Contains 715 words I believe this virus has been in the U.S. longer than people rea...
2 weeks ago
Bleeding Heart Libertarians

Using Zoom to teach Zoom - A Zoom class on Zoom in Sakai… 40 minutes, VERY introductory…. The post Using Zoom to teach Zoom appeared first on Bleeding Heart Libertarians.
2 weeks ago
Rajiv Sethi

Time for Individual Accounts at the Fed - As the COVID-19 virus tears through our bodies and our economy, policy makers are struggling to come up with a response that is bold enough to meet the cha...
2 weeks ago
PARALLAX OPTICS

ON Z/ACC - Interview with Meta-Nomad on Zero Accelerationism.
2 weeks ago
readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore

MEMPHIS VIRTUAL TIP BUCKET - *HELP SUPPORT LOCAL MEMPHIS MUSICIANS!*To mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the Center for Disease Control has urged U.S. citizens to cancel all events of ...
2 weeks ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

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

6 Books that Will Help You Grow from Your Pain - There are a lot of fluffy, feel-goody, “you can do it!” self-help books out there. There are far fewer books that take a realistic look at pain, trauma,...
2 weeks ago
The Market Monetarist

Well done! Decisive actions from global central banks - Sunday night European time global central banks under the leadership of the Federal Reserve moved decisively to calm down market fears of eroding global do...
2 weeks ago
Basil Halperin

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

Quote: Eileen Whitehead Erlanson defining taxonomic inflation - I was reading today to find the origin of the term “taxonomic inflation”. This is a common idea today from people who criticize an overzealous attention ...
3 weeks ago
The Arabist

Links up to 11 March 2020 - Trying to get into the habit of posting these links again, so clearing up the backlog… - Egypt jails prominent political figure for a year ove...
3 weeks ago
Talisman Gate, Again

A Shia ‘Awakening’? - Short essay: A Shia ‘Awakening’? Hoover Institution, The Caravan, Issue 2025
3 weeks ago
A Fine Theorem

The Simple Economics of Social Distancing and the Coronavirus - “Social distancing” – reducing the number of daily close contacts individuals have – is being encouraged by policymakers and epidemiologists. Why it works,...
3 weeks ago
Ancestry matters

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

The professional whinger whinges – again - On Wednesdays the NSW 'Thought Police' stamp away with gay abandon accepting complaints from Garry Bursn. So now I have to answer to the Temple of Accept...
3 weeks ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

Yuval Levin on conservative and progressive goals for education - Yuval Levin The left wants to be sure we do not take injustices in our society for granted—that we see the ways in which the strong oppress the weak, that ...
3 weeks ago
Veracities

so wrong, in every way - Bloomberg spent $500 million on his campaign. Multiple people on TV actually said or agreed with the statement that he could have instead given $1 million ...
3 weeks ago
zenpundit.com

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

Dealing With Corona Virus -
4 weeks ago
Darwinian Reactionary

Progress Report Regarding Our Efforts To Reestablish Theocracy - Thank you all for coming today. I’d like to take this opportunity to provide an update on our efforts to … Continue reading →
4 weeks ago
Jonathan Spyer

Idlib: The Next Phase - Jerusalem Post, 6/3 Russia’s desire to woo Turkey from the west likely to prevent all out Turkey-Syria War Clashes between Turkish and Syrian regime forc...
4 weeks ago
Augean Stables

Annals of Israeli Own-Goal Journalism: Haaretz on Al Durah Investigation - Israeli Army Stupidity – Al-Durra Case Posted on: 11/25/2000 4:07:44 PM Ha’aretz Editorial Board Stupidity marches on Editorial Ha’aretz Nov. 10th The d...
4 weeks ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

Maasai Remix - Post developed by Kelly Askew and Katherine Pearson Maasai Remix, a documentary directed by the award-winning team of filmmaker Ron Mulvihill and anthropo...
4 weeks ago
Thermidor

How to find the best contractor in Dubai to remodel your office - When you are running your service based company or company where your customers some in your office such as event management company, so these customers al...
4 weeks ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

Latin in the Voynich Manuscript - I think I'm finally ready to come out as a Voynich scholar. I've been studying hi-res scans of the manuscript off and on for four years or so, and I've bee...
4 weeks ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

Why Battleborn Is Good - When I heard that friend of the blog Adam Lane Smith had written Battleborn, a short story about mechs, I wanted to see what he would do with the concept...
4 weeks ago
Random Critical Analysis

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

A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.
4 weeks ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Raider - Raider so about the idol we’d been slogging through that jungle for weeks gasping through air that was like hot sludge with birds and bugs and monkeys heck...
5 weeks 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 weeks ago
ERIC POSNER

Coming soon! - Pre-order here.
5 weeks ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

The coronavirus crisis and China's inequality - Walter Scheidel’s book The Great Leveller argues that pandemics, along with war and state collapse, are among the historical forces that have been able to ...
5 weeks ago
TheRalphRetort.com

The Final Farewell - Almost 5 years years ago, I met the best person I’ve ever… The post The Final Farewell appeared first on TheRalphRetort.com.
5 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Facing Islam Blog

World Watch List 2020: '260 Million Christians Experience High Levels of Persecution' - *"...Not only does 'Islamic oppression' remain the chief 'source of persecution' faced by Christians in 7 of the absolute ten worst nations, but 38 of the...
5 weeks 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...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
The History of China

The Punishment of God: The Temüjin Suite (1162-1227 CE) - Part 1: The Blood Clot In the wilds of the Khentii Mountains, a child is born to a poor mother on the edge of the world. Part 2: The Black Sable A youn...
1 month ago
Cantercap

Even Stranger Things - The Stock Market Outlook (Plus: The Reasons Why Our Nation is All Upside Down.) Charles Cranmer … More
1 month 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...
1 month 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 ...
1 month ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

New Book: Combat Vehicles of Russia’s Special Forces - Admittedly, a touch more recondite than A Short History of Russia, but my next book from Osprey, due out in May, will be Combat Vehicles of Russia’s Specia...
1 month ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

Risk and loss aversion in ergodicity economics - In a previous post I posed the following bet: Suppose you have $100 and are offered a gamble involving a series of coin flips. For each flip, heads will in...
1 month ago
skepticlawyer

Making sense of the Arab explosion - Pastoralist peoples exploding out of the their lands and conquering farming peoples is a recurring feature of human history. The Indo-Europeans did so with...
1 month ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

Where we're going, we don't need roads. - A discussion on Facebook gave me this idea, but while I was letting it percolate, Stefanie S. on The Right Geek beat me to it, at least to some of it. Go r...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Andrew Norton

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

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

Kalecki on the Political Aspects of Full Employment - Michal Kalecki 1899 - 1970Sam Levey reminded me of Kalecki's 1943 article on the political aspects of full employment. This a very interesting and thought...
1 month ago
The Great Realignment

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

What’s Holding Back Blockchain Finance? - Despite the rapid innovation of the past decade in adapting blockchain technology to new uses, financial intermediation remains elusive except in basic and...
2 months ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

What’s Holding Back Blockchain Finance? - Despite the rapid innovation of the past decade in adapting blockchain technology to new uses, financial intermediation remains elusive except in basic and...
2 months ago
Chublic Opinion

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

10 reasons going to the beach is like going to hell - With January over and done with, our daydreams are finally starting to incorporate summer and beaches. And by we, I mean everyone but me. I’m not going any...
2 months ago
The Gladstone Diaries

Brexit in Historical Perspective: The Age of Britain in Europe - When the bell tolls at eleven o’clock tonight, ringing out Britain’s membership of the EU, an entire phase of British history will come to a close. For ...
2 months ago
ThinkMarkets

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

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

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

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

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

Mungowit's End - I created a YouTube channel, with short videos based on some of my essays on economics. Fun to make, and I'm learning a lot about videos, to help me teach ...
2 months ago
Stories by Tom X Hart on Medium

For the moment, I just go to various churches and pray. - For the moment, I just go to various churches and pray.
2 months ago
Urban kchoze

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

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

A South African, Mordor and a Hobbit - Let’s establish two things up-front about J.R.R. Tolkien the creator of ‘The Hobbit’ and the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, firstly he was a South African an...
2 months ago
Norse and Viking Ramblings

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

Astroturfing a revolution: Bernie and fake ‘BLM’ - It was reported yesterday that Mayor Pete was protested by individuals identified as “Black Lives Matter protesters”. It is understandable that this sort-o...
2 months ago
Ambit Gambit

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

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

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

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

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

PREDICTING WORLD WAR THREE, PREDICTING CLIMATE CATASTROPHE - Even the experts have a poor track record in predicting the future. Writers can be well-informed on the trends of their times and knowledgable about the...
3 months ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

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

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

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

2019 In Writing - I did a lot of writing this year. This is a brief list of some of my favorites. My book, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, came out. It got some pretty great ...
3 months ago
The XX Committee

Top German Spies Unload on Merkel’s Kowtowing to Putin - One of the West’s open secrets is that Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, consistently behaves in an obsequious manner towards Vladimir Putin and his a...
3 months ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

The voters have saved democracy - *The Australian, 16 December 2019* To grasp the magnitude of what has just happened in the UK, consider the constituency of Blyth Valley. This is a form...
3 months ago
The Syrian Intifada

Britain’s Brexit Debate is Finally Over - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 December 2019 This article was published at QPosts The victory of Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, and the crushing de...
3 months ago
Cop in the Hood

Murdered in the Park - Just last month, I swear I told my class, "People won't talk about crime until a cute white girl gets murdered." Tessa Majors, unfortunately, is that woman...
3 months ago
Andrew Holt, Ph.D.

Armenian Contributions to the Birth of the Crusading Movement - Much has been written about the plight of eastern Christians prior to the calling of the First Crusade, and the way in which their extensive lobbying effor...
3 months ago
Popehat

Murum Aries Attigit, Y'all - This here case is a pretty good story. It all starts in Orange County, North Carolina. Folks there, well, everywhere, say the wheels of justice turn slowly...
3 months ago
Money, Markets, and Misperceptions

Using Python to Gather Data from FRED for the Solow Model - This script gathers and generates data for Solow. The second two functions plot the data using matplotlib and save the visualizations in a PDF. import pan...
3 months ago
InfidelsAreUs | 'Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you' 1 Peter 4:12-14

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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Rootless Cosmopolitan – By Tony Karon

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

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

Deluded Departments - Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay on the contemporary sophistry that's poisoning academic philosophy.
4 months ago
Abandoned Footnotes

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

A Plea for Third Spaces for Transmen and Transwomen - We are asking you to support our call for the provision of Third Spaces for transgender individuals of both sexes. The post A Plea for Third Spaces for T...
4 months ago
The Other Side of History

Adam Schiff and the Drag Queen - Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell were in the private committee chamber, preparing for the start of the Thursday's hearings. "Jeff Zucker is about to have my...
4 months 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 started to enjoy it long ago. So I am not used to seeing som...
4 months ago
Kantoos Economics – Kantoos Economics

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

Labour’s eternal rift: the pub or the party - Left-wing politics in Britain has often been divided between a tradition that embraced popular culture and the abstemious, Nonconformist tradition that re...
5 months ago
Bloody Shovel 2

Those who show up - Hi everyone, sorry for neglecting the blog. I blame glycine: I’m the descendant of a long line of night-owls, but I’m able to sleep early now for the fir...
5 months ago
Phillip W. Magness

Something’s fishy with the Saez-Zucman tax stats - Just over two weeks ago, Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman approached the New York Times and Washington Post with an astonishing claim. ...
5 months ago
Dani Rodrik's weblog

Announcing the US-China Trade Policy Working Group - Concerned about where the US-China trade relationship is going, we recently formed a “US-China Trade Policy Working Group.” Yang Yao, Jeff Lehman and I are...
5 months ago
On the Margin of Error

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

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

What the betting markets are saying …. It’s complicated - I am pathologically fascinated by political probabilities, and have been for easily 20 years: my first big speculative win in life was to “buy” Labour seat...
6 months ago
The American Interest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2019 Campbell Speech + Refugee Charity Fundraiser - It was my honor last night to, for the second time, present the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, on behalf of last year’s brilliant winner Rebec...
7 months ago
NGDP Advisers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ladino: A Half-Forgotten Language - In 1996 I received a fellowship to study Ladino, a mix of 15th Century Spanish mixed with Hebrew. My travels took me to the Library of Congress in DC, the...
10 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months ago
Medieval Matters – Tor.com

War Crimes on Westeros and Daenerys’ Missing Character Arc - The general consensus is that a lot has gone wrong in this last season of Game of Thrones. To quote a friend of mine, “Jon can’t pet Ghost, but Drogon ca...
10 months 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...
10 months ago
The Pleistocene Scene – A.P. Van Arsdale Blog

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

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

Fred on Everything is moving! - Henceforth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review NEW! Current column (June 13) is HERE The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of colu...
10 months ago
In Due Course | Building the Republic of Letters, one keystroke at a time

The Rebel Sell at 15 - A funny thing about the book that Andrew and I wrote, *The Rebel Sell*, is that it was a bestseller in Spain. We recently did an interview with Manuel Ma...
10 months ago
rethinking history

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

Data Driven Parenting - A leading economist helps you dig through the empirical evidence on parenting, and the result is essential reading.
11 months ago
Monetary Freedom

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

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

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

Some news + MMT and endogenous money - I know I haven’t posted in a long while, but I thought I’d give some news. And no it’s not an April fools’! Work and personal matters have taken much of my...
1 year ago
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MULTICULTURALISM

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

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

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

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

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

Linguistics and Theology Scholar Challenges Qur'an Origin Story - This blog post has been moved. Click HERE to read it. * Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is ...
1 year ago
The Kakistocracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Archived - This blog is now in archival status.
1 year ago
GayUganda

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

Wednesday double-barreled book BOMB! - WEDNESDAY MORNING DOUBLE-BARREL BOOK BOMB! My friend and colleague Larry Correia has been kind enough to double-promote Tuesday’s releases of A STAR WHEELE...
1 year ago
Fantastic Worlds

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

IDW Halloween Cards - Happy Halloween Folks! (I'll add the rest below the blogpost) I thought I’d have some fun with IDW/Classical Liberal Halloween cards. There's so many more...
1 year ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

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

Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle - Gloria Steinem once famously said that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Point taken, but let’s play with it a bit. Let’s ask whether a woma...
1 year ago
Handle's Haus

Excerpts and Discussion of Rod Dreher’s “The Benedict Option” - Prologue (mine, not Dreher’s) The book is an extended exposition of what is at heart a very simple thesis and message. That premise: “Genuine, traditional ...
1 year ago
Colm Gillis Author

For Thomas Hobbes, Politics Was Simply About Doubt and Faith - Four hundred years ago, an English intellectual developed political ideas different to what we may recognize as familiar. 1. Schmitt and Hobbes In his cele...
1 year ago
vitam fracta

Modern Evidence and Speculation: Or, “What if Trump Did It?” - By H. Alexander Welcome The 2016 U.S. Presidential election signaled a number of important changes in U.S. society, including approaches to evidence and s...
1 year ago
The World is Not Enough

We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free! The post We’re moving! appeared first on The World is Not Enough.
1 year ago
Henry the Young King Blog

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

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

Blog moving to new address - A taste for desert landscapes has moved here.
1 year ago
Free Banking

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

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

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

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

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

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

NYT Op-Ed on Trump’s DACA Proposal - The New York Times asked me earlier this week if I had any thoughts on President Trump’s DACA proposal. I did. And here they are.
2 years ago
Big P Political Economy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) - Autie was born on this date 178 years ago.
2 years ago
Economic Thought

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

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

Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence - There used to be more research and debate on the negative effects of labour resistance on economic development, but that topic has been crowded out by the ...
2 years ago
When You Say Tomato and Your Sister Says Tomahto – spottedtoad

Tora Bora - In the mid-2000s, I was in a teaching methods class with an Army vet who had recently come back from Afghanistan and had been at the Battle of Tora Bora in...
2 years ago
While We Slept | New Conservative Thought

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

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

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

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

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

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

This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issue...
2 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 ...
2 years ago
MAN ABOUT TOWN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Blog Has Moved Again! - My new blog location is www.richardcarrier.info. I will maintain this old blog as a historical archive as I did before. But every other post I've blogged s...
3 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...
3 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?
3 years ago
Seventh Voice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Samurai Gifts - The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late sixteenth and ...
4 years ago
uneconomical

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ニキビと遺伝の関係について - ニキビが出来やすい肌は遺伝するのだろうか…と思ったことはありませんか？親もニキビが出来やすい肌の場合、子どももそうなるのでしょうか。 ■ニキビが出来やすい肌とはニキビが出来やすい肌というものは、実際にあるのです。そ […]
4 years ago
Facts & other stubborn things

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

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

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

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

It Is Accomplished - As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had...
4 years ago
Thoughtlines with Bob Carr

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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