Thinking Out Aloud: August 2013

Blog List

Vox - All

Polling shows Fox News has been amazingly effective at shaping opinion on the Mueller report - [image: Trump speaks during an Easter event at the White House on Monday.] Viewers are buying the pro-Trump spin the network is selling them. If you got y...
11 minutes ago
Philosoraptor

When It's Suddenly Brought Home To You That Donad Trump Is President: NYT Down On Your Knees Edition - I more or less agree with some version of almost everything Trump says here... ...and yet the fact that the president of the United States is saying it...n...
14 minutes ago
Blazing Cat Fur

My Nearly 10 Year Old Everybody Draw Mohammed Day Contest Video Was Just Banned In India By YouTube At The Request Of The INDIAN Gov’t??!!?? - WTF? Some fine artwork was produced too.
36 minutes ago
www.counterpunch.org

Mountains of the Moon – Dean Wareham -
37 minutes ago
The Burning Platform

The Essence of Evil: Sex with Children Has Become Big Business in America - Guest Post by John W. Whitehead “Children are being targeted and sold for sex in America every day.”—John Ryan, National Center for Missing & Exploited Chi...
55 minutes ago
Marginal Revolution

Peter Thiel on medicine and longevity - Or is it that there’s something wrong with culture, with the funding? Almost no grants go to younger scientists. When it’s scientists under age 40 that...
1 hour ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

Julian Assange: Call for International Days of Action May 1 and May 2 - Worker's rights are closely connected to having a free press that can report the truth. On May 2, the preliminary hearing will be held in London on the e...
1 hour ago
Vlad Tepes

CCTV of one bomber entering church - #Update: Also cctv footage of the suicide bomber of the radical Islamic NJT group was captured on camera, performing the attack at the church in #SriLanka ...
1 hour ago
PinkNews

Tessa Thompson ‘intended’ to play Marvel’s Valkyrie as bisexual - “In the canon, yeah, she is bisexual." The post Tessa Thompson ‘intended’ to play Marvel’s Valkyrie as bisexual appeared first on PinkNews.
1 hour ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

Williams College considers ways to water down free speech - As Professor Luana Maroja wrote on this site some time ago, Williams College (where she teaches) is embroiled in a debate about whether to adopt the Chicag...
1 hour ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Smashed by Debbie – Middle Island Corals - WE have been led to believe that smashed coral is our fault – that when it is lying on the sea floor as untidy piles of grey it is because of catastrophi...
1 hour ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Random Tuesday thoughts- 23 april 2019 - Marcus, my avatar and muse seems in good voice today. This reminds me of the scene in "Tears of the Sun" in which the column passes under a jungle tree lim...
1 hour ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

Security In Iraq Apr 15-21, 2019 - (Iraqi News) The Islamic State announced a new offensive in the second week of April. There was a corresponding jump in attacks. The third week of the mont...
1 hour ago
Althouse

At the Late Morning Café... - ... you are, once again, on your own.
2 hours ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

New Hampshire Poll Shows Bad News For Joe Biden, and Even Worse News for Elizabeth Warren - Biden's star is falling, while Warren's has almost faded to black.
2 hours ago
Vox Popoli

Is it an invasion now? - People supporting immigration and the decline of the West have long argued that no amount of movement of peoples can be considered an invasion because arme...
2 hours ago
PrawfsBlawg

JOTWELL: Coleman on public comments on the code of judicial conduct - The new Courts Law essay comes from Brooke Coleman (Seattle), commenting on the proposed changes to the federal judicial code of conduct and the advocacy w...
2 hours ago
EconLog

You Have No Right to Your Culture, by Bryan Caplan - Most complaints about immigration are declarative: “Immigrants take our jobs.” “Immigrants abuse the welfare state.” “Immigrants won’t learn English.’ ...
2 hours ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

The Statute of Limitations on College Grades - As we move toward the end of the academic year for many colleges and universities, it is perhaps useful for students to be reminded that the final grade fo...
2 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

HIV as a way to cure other diseases??? - I was astonished to read this report. US scientists say they used HIV to make a gene therapy that cured eight infants of severe combined immunodeficiency,...
2 hours ago
macrobusiness.com.au

Labor loons to give unlimited visas to migrant elderly parents - By Leith van Onselen In one of the craziest policies ever written, a Shorten Labor Government will dramatically age Australia’s population by uncapping v...
2 hours ago
Mick Hartley

Minneapolis 1905 - Looking across the Mississippi. "St. Anthony's Falls and flour mills at Minneapolis." Panorama made from three 8x10 glass negatives from the Detroit Publis...
2 hours ago
Chicago Boyz

Vote Fraud may determine the 2020 election. - The Democrat Party has been perfecting their techniques of voter fraud for many years. In 1960, the presidential election was determined by vote fraud in C...
2 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

Revolutions Need A Purpose Or They Will Not Last - Waging the culture war is often like beating your head against a wall on repeat, hoping eventually the wall will fall down. It requires a hard head for one...
2 hours ago
Leah Schnelbach – Tor.com

Snapture vs. Rapture: Where Avengers: Infinity War Sticks With Biblical Lore, And Where It Departs - We were talking about how the remaining Avengers found Fury’s beeper. Let me back up. The ending of Avengers: Infinity War draws on imagery from a rather...
3 hours ago
The Z Blog

The Dissident Right - Labels are important in social discourse, as they are shorthand for a collection of ideas, arguments and images. It’s why the Left always makes its first a...
3 hours ago
OrientalReview.org

Lethal Bungling: Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings - The number of dead is bound to rise, already standing at more than three hundred. The bombs, worn by seven suicide bombers, struck at three churches durin...
3 hours ago
The Federalist

Sanders Thinks The Boston Marathon Bomber Should Be Able To Vote From Prison - "I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy," Sanders said. "Yes, even for terrible people."
3 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

R-squared for multilevel models - Brandon Sherman writes: I just was just having a discussion with someone about multilevel models, and the following topic came up. Imagine we’re building a...
3 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

R-squared for multilevel models - Brandon Sherman writes: I just was just having a discussion with someone about multilevel models, and the following topic came up. Imagine we’re building a...
3 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Friedrich von Hayek and Robert Bork Part I -
3 hours ago
Information Processing

Backpropagation in the Brain? Part 2 - I haven't had time to digest this yet, but am putting it here to remind myself :-) See earlier post Backpropagation in the Brain? Thanks for STS for the re...
3 hours ago
Maverick Philosopher

Is the Past Wholly Determinate? Edward Feser's Presentism, Part III - This is the third in a series. Part I here; Part II here. On the principle of bivalence, every proposition is either true, or if not true, then false. Give...
4 hours ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

AOC explained: A digital performer enters the political stage - From one perspective, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the second coming of Donald Trump. By this I mean that she surfed the same structural forces to Congress...
4 hours ago
Daily Nous

Brake from ASU to Rice - Elizabeth Brake, currently associate professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, is moving to Rice University, where she will be a full professo...
4 hours ago
Mad Genius Club

Adventures in Publishing - The last six weeks or so, I’ve been butt in chair and fingers on keyboard. Lots of words have been written. More important in some ways, new print versions...
4 hours ago
International Liberty

Good News from Washington: Social Security’s Long-Run Fiscal Shortfall Is “Only” $42.1 Trillion - Every year, the Social Security Administration issues a “Trustees Report” that summarizes the program’s financing. So every year (see 2018, 2017, 2016, 201...
4 hours ago
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

Some more pieces by philosophers on transgender and related issues - One by Kathleen Stock (Sussex); an excerpt: On one hand, many women feel blindsided by the argument that trans women should be considered literal women, an...
5 hours ago
Lawfare

The Cloud Act Is Not a Tool for Theft of Trade Secrets - After last year’s passage of the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (Cloud Act), officials and journalists in the European Union have ramped up c...
5 hours ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

Easter Terror in Sri Lanka: Who and Why? - By Page Fortna. Sri Lanka has a horrible history of deliberately indiscriminate attacks on civilians. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) (and othe...
5 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

Democratic Leadership: Trump Should Be Impeached But . . . - Rep. Adam Schiff, the head of the House Intelligence Committee, maintained the curious line of the Democratic leadership this weekend in…
5 hours ago
Isegoria

Those “forced labor battalions” showed a hell of a lot of fight - Japanese pilots were specimens, Dunlap noted — at first: One of the wounded prisoners in the hospital was a Jap Naval pilot, a warrant officer in rating. H...
5 hours ago
Simple Justice

The Meaning of “Sex” - The Supreme Court has granted cert in three cases, a two-to-one circuit court split, to decide the question of what “sex” means under Title VII of the Civi...
5 hours ago
Mercatornet

The stork goes digital - Women should be cautious about sharing data about intimate matters Read more...
5 hours ago
askblog

Worth re-reading on Internet regulation - I recently noticed that one of the most favorably-viewed essays of mine on medium is the one about How the Internet Turned Bad. It says many things, includ...
6 hours ago
Mostly Economics

How the Chicago School changed the meaning of Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ - Glory Liu (postdoctoral research associate at Brown University) in this article: You don’t have to look very far to find people invoking Adam Smith’s name ...
6 hours ago
View From The Porch

Hey, look! - The entirety of my article on the pros and cons of a sling on a home-defense long gun is up on RECOILweb... "*Naysayers point out, if you’re maneuvering ...
6 hours ago
Whatever

View From a Hotel Window, 4/23/19: London - We’ve moved into town and are staying at the hotel we were at for our 20th anniversary, and which also happens to be reasonably well located for the meetin...
6 hours ago
Muddy Colors

“The DragonSlayer” - by Justin Gerard I’ve been slowly working away on my 2018 Sketchbook (emphasis on slowly), the theme of which is based around a terrible sell which result...
6 hours ago
Samizdata

Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George! - Much beer will flow today…
6 hours ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

Originalism as Ideology - Once you think about where originalism came from and what it was supposed to do, you begin to suspect that it may have run its course.
6 hours ago
Brown Pundits

2019 Easter Massacre in Sri Lanka - There were plenty of indications that some kind of incident was going to occur. Some Muslim Leaders/Politicians had warned the govt of possible terror att...
6 hours ago
Overlawyered

Baltimore tries to grab the Preakness - Now unpaywalled: my WSJ opinion piece on the city of Baltimore’s outrageous move to use powers of eminent domain to seize the venerable Preakness thoroughb...
7 hours ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

Book review: Pricing Lives - The value of a statistical life (VSL) is a fairly difficult concept for a non-economist to get their head around. The fact that economists or policy makers...
8 hours ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

- The leading British Conservative paper the Daily Telegraph in its leader column today warns that “to survive” the Tory Party now needs “a populist leader”....
8 hours ago
Advice Goddess Blog

Mixmaster Flash - Mixmaster Flash Today's Deal at Amazon: Hamilton Beach 63232 Eclectrics All-Metal Stand Mixer, $139.99. Amazon's other Deals of The Day include: •Save up t...
8 hours ago
Books & Boots

Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919 – 1933 @ Tate Modern - This exhibition opened last summer and was timed to coincide with the centenary of the end of the Great War (November 1918) and to complement the Aftermath...
8 hours ago
Rationalist Judaism

A New Martyr - First, there was Sharansky. A true hero and martyr, the problem was that he was old news. And he wasn't especially *frum*. So then, the yeshivish community...
9 hours ago
JoNova

Solar Power at $70 is still twice the price of brown coal - More fake news: Miners are only switching to solar because they can’t get access to cheap coal fired power. “Miners switch on to renewables” A better he...
9 hours ago
Political Calculations

Direct U.S.-China Trade Contracts 9% In First Year Of Tariff War - Published last week, data for February 2019 saw the combined direct trade loss between the U.S. and China expand to $5.2 billion, as the trailing twelve ...
9 hours ago
Crisis Magazine

The Sri Lanka Terrorists: Martyrs or Murderers? - More than 290 are dead and 500 wounded in an Easter Sunday jihad massacre in Sri Lanka. The terrorists targeted three Catholic Churches and three luxury ho...
9 hours ago
Taki's Magazine

The Democrats Divide on Impeachment - The release of the Mueller report has left Democrats in a dilemma. For consider what Robert Mueller concluded after two years of investigation. Candidate D...
10 hours ago
No B-S here (I hope)

A Thwarted Career in the Public Service ‘Veggie Patch’ - 19th April 2019 Tony Thomas In late December, 1978, I trooped into a Canberra high school auditorium with a hundred other hopefuls. We were sitting the Cle...
10 hours ago
White Sun of the Desert

The Times they are a-changin’ - Theophrastus alerts me to an article in The Times: Almost certainly, the most exciting thing that ever happened to me occurred one evening last January in ...
11 hours ago
Point of no return

Haaretz: Jewish reparations claims could 'derail' Trump plan - *Long Haaretz article by Eeta Prince-Gibson controversially suggesting that reparations claims for Jews from Arab countries could derail the Trump peace pl...
11 hours ago
Sultan Knish

3 Muslim Terror Plots Targeted Synagogues in 3 Months - On Wednesday, April 3, FBI agents converged on a Bozeman shooting range and took Fabjan Alameti into custody. Alemati, an Albanian Muslim, had traveled fr...
11 hours ago
The Reference Frame

Thanks, CO2: the resilience of plants to drought is amazing - Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the CO2 concentration has grown from 280 ppm to 410 ppm or so (ppm is a part per million, of volume, or e...
11 hours ago
Raedwald

EU protectionism kills trade and innovation - I have commented before on a deeply protectionist, almost corrupt, culture of business in the EU that appears to offer advantages but in reality strangles ...
11 hours ago
Fabius Maximus website

Do not fear the future. Have faith in America. - Sometime during the past few generations we lost our self-confidence. But we exaggerate the dangers, and our history gives us reason for confidence.
12 hours ago
john hawks weblog

Broadening participation in research beyond research jobs - The current issue of *American Anthropologist* has a series of short essays by biological anthropologists, featured as a “Vital Topics Forum” in the jour...
12 hours ago
The History of China

#164 – S. Song 7: Out With the New, In With the Old - ACast Link Neo-Confucianism has made a strong comeback through the synthesis of its various doctrines under the philosophical guidance of Zhu Xi of the Sou...
12 hours ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Crafting a Regional Policy to Contain Erdoğan - Turkey poses a long-term threat to the security of the Middle East. Containing Neo-Ottomanism requires a defensive policy that integrates Greece, Cyprus, I...
12 hours ago
Notes On Liberty

Nightcap - Notre Dame is a magnificent monument to a misunderstood age Rachel Lu, the Week A rock, a human, a tree: all were persons to the Classic Maya Sarah Jackson...
13 hours ago
Slate Star Codex

1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled - [Epistemic status: Very speculative, especially Parts 3 and 4. Like many good things, this post is based on a conversation with Paul Christiano; most of th...
15 hours ago
Butterflies and Wheels

A self-styled free speech activist - One more Guardian piece on Carl “Sargon of Akkad” Benjamin, this one from a month ago: Ukip is expected to choose a controversial YouTube activist, who h...
16 hours ago
Discover Blogs

Decade-Long Geology Project Rewrites Origins of Earth's Methane - Turkey’s Mount Chimaera is on fire, and has been for millennia. Dozens of campfire-sized flames burst straight of the mountain’s rocky, sea-facing slope. T...
17 hours ago
Bloody shovel

Debt - A few weeks ago I had a short exchange with Nick Land on Twitter on the issue of debt. Debt is a huge issue, a big part of what’s wrong with the fabric of ...
17 hours ago
Pandaemonium

CIVILIZED DISCOURSE AND THE OUTRAGE MACHINE - This essay, on how the demand for a more civilised discourse has itself become a weapon in a polarised debate, was my Observer column this week. It was pu...
19 hours ago
Declination

The Plain Truth of the Sri Lanka Massacre - It was an attack against CHRISTIANS. The reason for the slaughter of men, women, and children was because they were CHRISTIANS. Not “Easter Worshippers” ...
19 hours ago
Quillette

Denmark’s Blaspheming Mother - “This is a nightmare. We’re in shock,” Jaleh Tavakoli says. Last month, the 36-year-old Iranian-Danish critic of Islam received notification from Danish so...
19 hours ago
According To Hoyt

Feral - Years ago — the record is here somewhere — I decided that to be able to write I needed to get out of the house. That wasn’t exactly wrong. I had identified...
19 hours ago
Caracas Chronicles

The Regime Must Be Treated Like The Criminal Organization It Is - Most of the world acknowledges Venezuela as a dictatorship. But not enough people see chavista officials like the criminals they are. A post in America’s...
19 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Pagan Community Notes: Earth Day 2019, Va. officers fired, update on Okla. child abuse case, and more! - [image: Pagan Community Notes: Earth Day 2019, Va. officers fired, update on Okla. child abuse case, and more!] This week's news that impacts the Pagan, He...
19 hours ago
The Unz Review:

The Democrats Divide on Impeachment, by Pat Buchanan - The release of the Mueller report has left Democrats in a dilemma. For consider what Robert Mueller concluded after two years of investigation. Candidate D...
20 hours ago
Thought Catalog

50 People Reveal How They Finally Realized Their So-Called Friend Was Toxic - When they made plans in front of me and didn’t invite me.
20 hours ago
neo-neocon

Ladies cycling, 1899 - The long skirts (and the corsets) couldn’t have made it easy: The sound was added later. As one YouTube commenter said: “Sexy. I think I saw some ankle.” …...
21 hours ago
The New Neo

Ladies cycling, 1899 - The long skirts (and the corsets) couldn’t have made it easy: The sound was added later. As one YouTube commenter said: “Sexy. I think I saw some ankle.” …...
21 hours ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

- **Note to Self**: Now down to 187 snoozed emails! Progress!! Excelsior!!! ---- #notetoself
21 hours ago
globalinequality

And if growth in the North by itself makes Africa poorer? - In a just published paper (in the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences *[of the United States of America]) on the effects of climate change o...
21 hours ago
War Is Boring - Medium

The Navy is starting to put up real money for robot submarines - By Samantha Masunaga Los Angeles Times The U.S. naval fleet of the future may one day include submarines without a sailor from bow to stern that prowl the ...
21 hours ago
Minding The Campus

Why Don’t More College Leaders Back Free Speech? - You might think that higher education leaders, who have almost all been steeped in the academic traditions of the free exchange of ideas, would uniformly...
22 hours ago
MountainGuerrilla

From the Library - From the Library The Rhodesian War by Moorcroft This is one of the old Stackpole Military History books. I read this a long time ago, and then pulled it ou...
22 hours ago
ribbonfarm

Infinite Machines: 3 — Turking Interfaces - At its peak, the 18th century Mechanical Turk toured the world; leaving audiences in awe at its seemingly advanced ability to beat opponents in chess. It o...
23 hours ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

IW on the web - Tech entrepreneur David Siegel has an interesting and thorough post up at medium.com that is a sort of reference point to cutting edge or wise thinking on ...
23 hours ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

The Orville, S02 E13 “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” - This was another very enjoyable episode. [spoilers ahead] Between the actress who plays Kelly (Adrianne Palicki) and the makeup people, it was totally conv...
23 hours ago
Alexander Boot

Trust the Muslims - Muslims have earned the right to be trusted. Perhaps not in everything they say or do, but whenever there are warnings that they might blow something up, w...
23 hours ago
Medievalists.net

News Roundup: The Notre-Dame Cathedral Fire - The fire that heavily damaged Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris generated headlines around the world. Here are 10 news stories that are worth a read, plus some...
23 hours ago
Scott Adams Blog

Episode 503 Scott Adams: Iranian Sanctions, Free College, 2020, Climate Credibility - Topics: Poll of Democrat activists says they support Kamala Harris Poll of the public shows Biden at 30%, Harris 8.5% Who will win the Dem nomination, a...
1 day ago
La Bocca della Verità

Well, So What? - Various readers have at times dismissed the idea that the pervasive and incessant use of smartphones is really something radically new in human history. Da...
1 day ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

Academic Malfeasance: Do Moderate Muslims Exist? - Did you know that that the War on Terror actually "is a war for natural resources – and that terrorism has little to do with it"? So argues John Maszka in ...
1 day ago
CDR Salamander

The Hope in Ukraine - Over a period of time 600 to 400 years ago, Jews throughout Central Europe fled east escaping wave after wave of expulsions and persecutions. In what was ...
1 day ago
The DiploMad 2.0

Sri Lanka Massacre - The death toll from the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka continues to climb. From press reports, it seems that perhaps some 300 people were murdered and hundre...
1 day ago
bellingcat

The Yemen Project: ADE10001 – Fayoush Market Strike - Incident ID: ADE10001 Location: al-Fayush Livestock [goats and sheep]/Qat Market, Lahj Governorate Co-ordinates: 12.979582, 44.937651 Incident grading: C...
1 day ago
Working-Class Perspectives

Notre Dame Cathedral and Questions from a Worker Who Reads (after Bertolt Brecht) - When Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire in Paris on April 15, 400 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze. One of those workers was seriously injured,...
1 day ago
Eurogenes Blog

R1b-M269 in the Bronze Age Levant (?) - The new Harvard genotype datasets that I blogged about recently include a couple of potentially very useful samples from the Levant dated to 1400-1100 BCE....
1 day ago
Norse and Viking Ramblings

Britain's Viking Graveyard - Viking ship model in Repton. Photo Judith JeschThis blog started off as a light-hearted romp through some of my interests, mainly to do with Vikings and S...
1 day ago
Longrider

The Price Went Up - Clearly my peccadilloes have increased in value: They want $1,000 now. That’s a marked increase from last summer. I mean, seriously, does anyone believe th...
1 day 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...
1 day ago
The World is Not Enough

Post-Easter results roundup - A swag of election results from Indonesia, Israel, Ukraine and North Macedonia.
1 day ago
Raymond Ibrahim

‘Diabolical’: Islam’s Past and Present Attacks on European Churches - PJ Media As explained in this recent article, all around Western Europe, churches are under attack. Along with arson attempts, typically—and rather with ...
1 day ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

The God-Ridden Bigotry of the Globalist Monomyth - Over 200 people died today in Sri Lanka as victims of bomb blasts at three hotels and three churches. It was Easter Sunday. The President of Ireland poste...
1 day ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

About that EKOS poll - A recent EKOS poll found "the incidence of [Canadians] thinking there are too many visible minorities is up significantly and no longer trails opposition t...
1 day ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

America's Forced Financial Flight: Fleeing Unaffordable and Dysfunctional Cities - *The forced flight from unaffordable and dysfunctional urban regions is as yet a trickle, but watch what happens when a recession causes widespread layoffs...
1 day ago
I Want a New Left

This Is Serious! - See here. It’s the Fred Astairization of our bee population. What are we to do?
1 day ago
Manhattan Contrarian

Let's Investigate For "Obstruction Of Justice" Every Prosecutor Who Has Ever Declined A Prosecution - Now that the 488 page Mueller Report is out, and we are informed that the whole “Russian collusion” story was a hoax from the get go, you may have the feel...
1 day ago
zenpundit.com

The Mercy, logic, the model digitized, the glass, the music survives - [ by Charles Cameron — logic, the arts, and technology offer an Easter, resurrection corrective, philosophically speaking, to the ruin of the cathedral of ...
1 day ago
Communalism Watch

India Life after lynching: The widows of Nuh | Namita Bhandare - https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/life-after-lynching-the-widows-of-nuh/article26889101.ece?homepage=true Life after lynching: The widows ...
1 day ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

Walkabout: Sketchy Launch - No point in cliffhangers; I’ll start with the end (which isn’t really the end) and then mention “misfortune roulette” which made departure memorable. The “...
1 day ago
ERIC POSNER

The horror of the internet has three causes - 1. As understood even 20 years ago, tech firms need to obtain network- (and/or IP-based) monopolies in order to earn returns that would justify the financi...
1 day ago
Uncouth Reflections

Weekend Linkage - Paleo Retiree writes: An interesting history of the index card. Dinosaur that I am, and despite going around with an iPhone in my pocket, I’m still a regul...
1 day ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

“Hovannes Toumanian: Selected Works” - There are few writers who are at once extraordinarily powerful and yet somehow also not well known beyond the scope of a few wise readers. Hovannes Toumani...
2 days ago
Old European culture

Apep - Today I would like to talk about snakes. And the sun. Apep or Apophis was the ancient Egyptian deity who embodied chaos. He was viewed as the greatest ene...
2 days ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

Sapolsky's Deflated Darwinian Left - I have just finished acting as the discussion leader for a Liberty Fund conference in Indianapolis on Robert Sapolsky's book* Behave: The Biology of Hum...
2 days ago
Overcoming Bias

Firms Are Not Aliens - The title of Tyler Cowen’s new book, Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero, is pretty clear on its topic and stance: Business, quite simply,...
2 days ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

On honesty, Stalin’s killings, and Western intellectuals (anecdote) - Hollywood screenwriter Anna Louise Strong was basically a Communist propagandist. When in 1956 Khrushchev “revealed” Stalin’s crimes, Strong suffered a
2 days ago
davidthompson

Everything It Touches - Via Dicentra, a tale of the severely educated. Screengrab here. Down-thread of which, I spotted this: Something to ponder. Added via the comments, a possib...
2 days ago
Lead and Gold

Rejoice! He is Risen! - Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain ot...
2 days ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

S2 E5: Lecture: Sacramento – June 27, 2018 - For this episode, we’re presenting Jordan’s lecture at The Community Theatre in Sacramento, California on June 27, 2018. Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life...
2 days ago
skepticlawyer

‘The Earth Below’ – now available for purchase - I’m proud to say that my debut novel, ‘The Earth Below’, is now available for purchase, through my publishers, Ligature Pty Ltd, here. There are also links...
2 days ago
Streetwise Professor

Evidence of Absence Is Incompatible With Obstruction - The Mueller Report was released (with redactions) on Thursday. Although the “collusion” portion of the report is framed, as is the case with most decisions...
2 days ago
Marquette Warrior

The Bunny Laid an Egg -
2 days ago
Cold Fury

Shit City - The tide is high, and rising. People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco Between 2011 and 2018, San Francisco experienced a massive ...
2 days ago
Logarithmic History

Gould’s Belt - 30.3-28.7 million years ago Logarithmic History has had a lot of geology and biology lately, not so much astronomy. But all is not peaceful in the heavens....
2 days ago
Dalrock

Never forget the eager role of the conservative anvil. - I originally left this as a comment in response to Larry Kummer’s recent post: Marriage: soon the Surgeon General will warn about it. Larry wrote: Summary...
2 days ago
Rhys Ford

My Resident Writer’s Cat: Harley - As you can see, her life is very rough.
2 days ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

Left turn?, part 2 - In my last post, I observed that four different measures of racial attitudes in the General Social Survey all had big moves in a liberal direction between ...
3 days ago
TheMoneyIllusion

Do Donald Trump and Bryan Caplan have the same goal (for immigration)? - I’ve recently been wracking my brain trying to figure out what Trump is trying to do with immigration policy. Last year he was close to a deal on funding t...
3 days ago
Policy of Truth

“Philosophical Vices,” A Discussion Continued - This is a response to the exchange David Riesbeck, Stephen Boydstun, and I are having below about the excerpt David posted from Alasdair MacIntyre’s essay,...
3 days ago
Climate Etc.

Energy Security and Grid Resilience - by Judith Curry Diversifying and securing energy supplies nationally and locally. Since we’ve moved to Nevada and have been integrating into the local comm...
3 days ago
Modeled Behavior

Data Driven Parenting - A leading economist helps you dig through the empirical evidence on parenting, and the result is essential reading.
3 days ago
Bernard Gaynor

Defence bans cross symbols as activists fight for Satanic chaplains - The Australian Human Rights Commission is mediating a complaint from a man who says he wants to see Satanic chaplains in the ADF. Defence has responded by ...
3 days ago
Bracing Views

After the Mueller Report, Should Trump Be Impeached? - W.J. Astore The redacted Mueller Report is out, and there’s plenty of evidence that President Trump attempted to obstruct the investigation, which he saw a...
3 days ago
Harry's Place

Campbell’s poop - Stuart Campbell is so repellent that midges swarm away at his approach. Stuart Campbell, a gaming journalist, gained his following during the Scottish inde...
3 days ago
untethered

Mind the Gap - Steve Sailer points out a remarkable disparity in accountability: A couple of weeks ago I pointed out a curious aspect of the rave review in the New York T...
3 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Not yet retired from research - Last night, two papers appeared on the quantum physics arXiv that my coauthors and I have been working on for more than a year, and that I’m pretty happy a...
3 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Not yet retired from research - Last night, two papers appeared on the quantum physics arXiv that my coauthors and I have been working on for more than a year, and that I’m pretty happy a...
3 days ago
Fredrik deBoer

no one is coming to save you - I have had a standing rule not to read anything with the word “Trump” in the headline since mid-2017. I have not kept to it 100% of the time, but I have be...
3 days ago
The Scholar's Stage

The Inner Life of Chinese Teenagers - This video is a good demonstration of what Chinese teenagers (or in this case, a Taiwanese teenager) mean when they say the 2D world is more 'meihao' than...
3 days ago
On the Margin of Error

Check Out My Interview with A Tippling Philosopher - My friend and colleague Jonathan MS Pierce interviewed me. We talk about the experience of being an atheist in Iran, and also politics, Iranian and America...
4 days ago
House of Eratosthenes

Stop Enabling Liberals - A fascinating comment about “sophisticated judgments,” as Carl Bernstein opines on the Mueller Report: It’s here in substance, in nuance, in context and it...
4 days ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

When failure succeeds - In politics, failure sometimes works better than success. This is the message of this piece by Janan Ganesh, wherein he argues that it is in Trump’s intere...
4 days ago
A Voice for Men

Boys Are Shamed at Brookfield High - Janice Fiamengo takes a look at the radically different ways boys and girls are treated at high schools.
4 days ago
Belmont Club

How Long Before the Fate of Benedict's Church Is the Fate of the West? - In an April 2019 letter, Pope Emeritus Benedict wrote an article describing how the church lost the ability to govern itself and found many of its formatio...
4 days ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

Actually, students seem substantially less free than the general public - As an organization, Heterodox Academy is growing increasingly focused on highlighting not just problems, and what is going wrong – but also solutions, an...
4 days ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

Mueller, Putin, Trump, and the Russian ‘adhocracy’ - For some time now I have been pushing the notion that Putin’s Russia is best understood as an ‘adhocracy’, which I define in my ECFR report Controlling Cha...
4 days ago
The Mermaid's Tale

Brains, not brawn, for college! - It has long been a secret--*not!*--that American football is not compatible with having any brains left to do college work. Now there is yet another story...
4 days ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

The Neutron Lifetime Discrepancy - Neutrons are electrically neutral particles that usually combine with protons to make up atomic nuclei. Some neutrons are not bound up in atoms; these fr...
4 days ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

Active Female Characters Are All Right - Online, I saw a comment stating that active female protagonists, especially those who do combat, are inherently non-conservative. The thinking goes that ...
4 days ago
Sharyl Attkisson

Unscientific Poll: Julian Assange - In our latest unscientific poll, we asked people’s opinion of Julian Assange. Most people surveyed regard him as a hero. Full results are below: Julian Ass...
4 days ago
Priceonomics Blog

What Kind of Online Fraud is Growing the Fastest? - By far, the largest way to defraud a company is just to email them and ask for money.
5 days ago
The Syrian Intifada

Israel is Losing Ground to the Iran-Russia Axis - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 April 2019 Israeli opinion generally regards the country’s efforts to contain Iran, especially in Syria, as having been s...
5 days ago
The Splintered Mind

Ethics in Publishing Philosophy - Tomorrow (Friday) afternoon from 1-4, I'll be a panelist in a session on "Publishing Ethics in Philosophy" at the Pacific Division meeting of the America...
5 days ago
The Angry Staff Officer

Thursday Thoughts: Warfare in 5G - Trade is a basic human function. Not only does it ensure monetary subsistence to individuals and societies, but it also spreads ideas and opens minds. It s...
5 days ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Debunking Deregulation: Bank Credit Guidance and Productive Investment - Deregulated banking in rich countries delivers more “investment” in speculative asset markets, not productive businesses. In academic and policy circle...
5 days ago
Urban Future (2.1)

Crypto-Current (062) - §5.861 — The early 1990s saw the conceptual innovation of robust (or ‘append-only’) data-structures capable of providing secure ledgers. Such structures in...
5 days ago
Alt-M

A Gold Standard Does Not Require Interest-Rate Targeting - Stephen Moore and Herman Cain, the two recent nominees to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, have in the past suggested returning to a gold standard...
5 days ago
Martin van Creveld

A Tale of Two Methods - Throughout history groups, rulers and states that wanted to change borders and annex territories, including the populations that lived on them and the re...
5 days ago
Growth Economics Blog

The deep roots of development - Part 5 - In my quest to fall behind on everything in my life, I left writing up the next installment of the deep roots reviews until well after I actually gave th...
5 days ago
Corey Robin

David Brion Davis, 1927-2019: Countersubversive at Yale - David Brion Davis, the pathbreaking Yale historian of slavery and emancipation, whose books revolutionized how we approach the American experience, has die...
5 days ago
Insitome - Medium

The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 23: The Ape That Understood The Universe - The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 23: The Ape That Understood The Universe This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Google ...
5 days ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Yesterday’s Country: Not to Worry, They Can’t Innovate - For many years the United States has regarded itself as, and been, the world’s technological leader. One can easily make a long and impressive list of semi...
5 days ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Yesterday’s Country: Not to Worry, They Can’t Innovate - For many years the United States has regarded itself as, and been, the world’s technological leader. One can easily make a long and impressive list of semi...
5 days ago
Moneyness

Supernotes - The U.S. $10,000 was available till Nixon nixed it in 1969 For the last few years the conversation about cash has been dominated by Ken Rogoff's proposal t...
5 days ago
Regie's Blog

RHONDA’S REMEDY … - It’s one of those old chestnuts you really hope happened. As the legendary story goes, a semi-truck got stuck under an overpass bridge. The clearance was j...
6 days ago
Armed and Dangerous

Contributor agreements considered harmful - Yesterday I got email from a project asking me to wear my tribal-elder hat, looking for advice on how to re-invent its governance structure. I’m not going ...
6 days ago
Peter Zeihan

Alberta’s Tryst With Destiny - By Peter Zeihan and Michael N. Nayebi-Oskoui Local politics, even at the national level, are rarely a focus for students of geopolitics. Personalities play...
6 days ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

Winners and Losers:  The Psychology of Attitudes Toward  Foreign Trade - Post developed by Katherine Pearson and Diana Mutz Foreign trade is a complex issue, but the public still has strong opinions about the issue. Diana Mutz d...
6 days ago
Jacobite

The Inflation of the Masses - Nuclear weapons made the size of armies irrelevant. Emerging technologies are doing the same to populist politics.
6 days ago
West Hunter

Herbert West - Just ran into an interesting question from a biology problem set: ” Using the laws of thermodynamics, explain why it’s impossible to re-animate organisms t...
6 days ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

William James on the value of doctorates and diplomas - Greg Ip at the WSJ has a nice piece responding to the ruckus over the nominations of Stephen Moore and Herman Cain to serve on the Federal Reserve Board. I...
6 days ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Vernal Venturings - Two weeks ago I was in New Orleans for the PPE conference. I gave a talk at a panel on self-ownership, and moderated two panels I’d organised, one on anarc...
6 days ago
Edward Feser

Vallicella on existence-entailing relations and presentism - Bill Vallicella continues his critical response to my defense of presentism in *Aristotle’s Revenge*. In the first part of his critique (to which I resp...
6 days ago
Josh Blackman's Blog

Harlan Institute-ConSource OT 2017 Virtual Supreme Court Semi-Finals - The Harlan Institute and ConSource have completed the semi-final rounds for the OT 2017 Virtual Supreme Court Competition. This year, we received a record-...
1 week ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

Is Low Inflation Really a Mystery? - Over the past decade, inflation has persistently undershot the Fed's inflation target. The Fed's preferred measure of inflation, the core PCE deflator, ...
1 week ago
Uneasy Money

Ralph Hawtrey Wrote the Book that Arthur Burns Should Have Read — but Didn’t - In my previous post I wrote about the mistakes made by Arthur Burns after Nixon appointed him Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Here are the critical ...
1 week ago
Club Troppo

Adam Smith was a feminist economist: Care – the essay - This recent essay in the Mandarin is a reworking of an essay I wrote in 2016 in a string of essays in which I developed the idea of the Evaluator General. ...
1 week ago
Heather's Homilies

US Politics of Single-Payer Healthcare and Abortion - As regular readers know, I’ve written multiple posts over the years about why I think the US needs a single-payer healthcare system. The most recent was ...
1 week ago
Gun Culture 2.0

“Militarized” Handguns on the Chopping Block - Regular readers of this blog know that I try to stay as a-political as possible, preferring to pursue my motto (as the sidebar notes) “Light over Heat.” La...
1 week ago
The Evolution Institute

Excerpt from “This View of Life” by David Sloan Wilson - Excerpted from This View of Life by David Sloan Wilson. Copyright © 2019 by David Sloan Wilson. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reprodu...
1 week ago
When You Say Tomato and Your Sister Says Tomahto – spottedtoad

13 Ways of Going on a Field Trip (Kindle book and Paperback) - A fuller-length, revised version of my book about teaching, 13 Ways of Going on a Field Trip, is available on Amazon on Kindle for 99 cents or in paperback...
1 week ago
milescorak

Intergenerational mobility between and within Canada and the United States - Intergenerational mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but the border only partially distinguishes the two countries with mobility varyin...
1 week ago
Refugee Resettlement Watch

You can still get refugee news like this at my new blog—Frauds, Crooks and Criminals! - Yesterday I posted this story at Frauds and Crooks: Writer: Solve Border Crisis by Turning Asylum Seekers Over to Refugee Resettlement Agencies for Care (a...
1 week ago
Practical Ethics

Should Religious Homophobia be a Firing Offence? - By Doug McConnell It looks as if Isreal Folau will lose his job as a professional rugby player for expressing his apparently genuine religious belief that ...
1 week ago
Tim van Gelder

Challenges in getting a citizen intelligence marketplace up and running - In an earlier post I suggested that a marketplace for citizen intelligence might take the form of a platform hosting sponsored challenges, similar to the d...
1 week ago
The Economics Detective

Challenging the State Lottery System with Matthew Curtis - My guest today is Matthew Curtis, founder of the startup Vice Lotteries. Vice Lotteries is a new startup that aims to challenge state governments’ legal ...
1 week ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

Tom Forth on how a city’s transportation network can affect its productivity - Tom Forth: Birmingham’s reliance on buses makes its effective population much smaller than its real population. This reduces its productivity by sacrificin...
1 week ago
Nec Pluribus Impar

Polarization and misrepresentation of the outgroup - It has become common to blame polarization for a variety of social ills and, while I often disagree with what people say about the causes of polarization...
1 week ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

Poverty under Democratic Socialism – Part III: Is the US Denmark? - Part Three of three. Parts One and Two were posted previously here an on Notes in Liberty. The whole essay is also on Notes on Liberty. You may comment on ...
1 week ago
Magnitude Matters

An Analogy For Cliff Asness - The great Cliff Asness recently wrote a piece about the difficulty in explaining a market-neutral portfolio at an intuitive level. The problem is more fun...
1 week ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - [image: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions] Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely...
1 week ago
traditionalRIGHT

A False God Fails - As Great Britain moves towards its independence day, i.e., Brexit, a false god is failing: the god named “democracy”. Prime Minister Theresa May, who shou...
1 week ago
The Grumpy Economist

Perpetually wrong forecasts - Torsten Slok of Deutsche Bank sends along the following fascinating graphs The titles seem a little off. Yes, the market is expecting rate cuts (forward ra...
1 week ago
Chris Blattman

IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action A wonderful back and forth between David Evans and DFID Deputy Chief Economist Nick Lea, os...
1 week ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

Materialism (Vers. 2.0, Part 4) - Materialism (Vers. 2.0, Part 4) continues the discussion begun in Parts 1 - 3, asking whether any secular moral theories are sufficient to thwart modern te...
1 week ago
Ambit Gambit

Don’t discriminate against Israel Folau - This is a vital free speech issue, so I’ve initiated a petition “Don’t discriminate against Israel Folau” and urge all readers to sign it. I don’t endorse ...
1 week ago
Bleeding Heart Libertarians

Open Borders and Self-Determination - One of the main philosophical arguments against free immigration that Bas van der Vossen and Jason Brennan seek to rebut in their excellent In Defense of...
1 week ago
Mark Manson

5 Skills to Help You Develop Emotional Intelligence - An astronaut is probably the most difficult job to land on the planet. Of tens of thousands of applications, NASA selects roughly half a dozen each deca...
1 week ago
Phillip W. Magness

How Government Monopolies Perpetuate Racial Discrimination - The problem of racial discrimination in society is usually examined through the lens of combatting its ethical wrongs. Without losing sight of this impor...
1 week ago
Augean Stables

The Moebius Strip of Opposing Cognitive Egocentrism - The following is from Part II, chapter 3 of my book: They’re so Smart cause we’re so Stupid: A Medievalist’s Guide to the 21st Century. I post in here to h...
1 week ago
Coyote Blog

Congratulations Bill Pearson, 2019 Coyoteblog Bracket Challenge Winner - Bill rode Virginia all the way to the championship. Congratulations.
1 week ago
Academic Wonderland

Near-Certain Defeat for Accused Student in Seventh Circuit Case - Normally, when an Appeals Court holds an oral argument on a lawsuit filed by an accused student, I write up the oral argument with clips. No such detail is...
1 week ago
Setting the Record Straight

Game Advice - This could be a massive post full of anecdotes with everything I know and have learned, but I’ve realized over the years that game really boils down to t...
1 week ago
Stories by Gore Burnelli on Medium

God, Creation, Design, and Science - This is the sixth post in a series that details my evolving thoughts on religion. The first ones are: 1. Why I am no longer a “New Atheist” 2. How ...
1 week 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 from of...
1 week ago
The American Interest

Germany’s Quest to Control the News - Heidi Tworek discusses how Germany sought to control communications networks in the 20th century—and what that half-forgotten history can teach us today.
2 weeks ago
Ballandalus

Il-Kantilena: A 15th-century Poem in Medieval Maltese - Il-Kantilena by the Maltese poet and philosopher Pietru Caxaro (d. 1485) is the oldest known literary text in the Maltese language, and dates to the late 1...
2 weeks ago
Miranda Yardley

A Full Life Uninterrupted By Transition - I look in detail at the different types of transgendered behaviours, and this was my contributon to the book 'Transgender Children and Young People', pub...
2 weeks ago
Andrew Norton

The proposed law against commercial cheating and the Constitution - Successive Commonwealth governments have been creative in finding ways to by-pass the Constitution. That has been very necessary in education, which was or...
2 weeks 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 ...
2 weeks ago
PressThink

A current list of my top problems in pressthink, April 2019 - Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. The post A current list of my top problems in pressthink, April 2019 appeared first on PressThink.
2 weeks ago
Michael O. Church

Can “fuck” function as all eight parts of speech in an 8-word sentence? A linguistic analysis. - Coming soon: an update on the status of my novel in progress, Farisa’s Crossing. Is Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. a valid English sentence? As s...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
Cameron Harwick

Environmentalism Needs Pronatalism - Since New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pondered the question out loud last month, the idea that climate change makes it immoral to have chi...
2 weeks ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

Environmentalism Needs Pronatalism - Since New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pondered the question out loud last month, the idea that climate change makes it immoral to have chi...
2 weeks ago
Jim’s Blog

The origin of cuckservatism - The Cathedral’s position on right wing individualism is rendered obvious by the mindless conformity and rigid ideological uniformity of our tenured academi...
2 weeks ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

Jamie Whyte! - Jamie Whyte, whose has been at various times an academic philosopher (and winner of the Analysis prize for the best paper by a philosopher under 30), a con...
2 weeks ago
The Baseline Scenario

Jump-Starting America - Can the United States grow faster, create more good jobs, and genuinely spread opportunity? Yes: by investing more in science and technology, by placing th...
2 weeks ago
TheRalphRetort.com

In Memoriam: Ronnie Ralph - I’ve written many articles on this site over the years, but I… The post In Memoriam: Ronnie Ralph appeared first on TheRalphRetort.com.
2 weeks ago
Nintil

Links (26) & GDP nihilism - Collection of papers and articles that I’ve spotted since my previous links post that seem interesting. What came first, God or complex societies? It has b...
2 weeks ago
Semi-Partisan Politics

Faith, Doubt and Brexit - A warning about the disturbing fundamentalism of Continuity Remain and the anti-Brexit crusaders In the course of arguing on Twitter this evening, I receiv...
3 weeks ago
Blog - Traditions of Conflict

The Assassin's Footprint - *“It is to be remembered that a person's footprints are as well known as his face.”* – Lorna Marshall, *The !Kung of Nyae Nyae*, 1976. You will know a ma...
3 weeks ago
Coordination Problem

F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy -- the podcasts - |Peter Boettke| My book on Hayek was published last September. Since that time I have presented the book at several colleges and universities, and did mult...
3 weeks ago
Facing Islam Blog

Apostate Pope advocates for Islam, forces Dhimmitude on Moroccan Christians - *Pope Francis has for some time now been openly teaching an explicitly false Gospel, what I have termed the "Same God Heresy". This is one of the greatest ...
3 weeks ago
Evo and Proud

They really are smart ... and other surprises - *Rachela* - Maurycy Gottlieb (1856-1879) (Wikicommons). Ashkenazi Jews have a higher incidence of genetic variants associated with high educational attai...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

Gigerenzer versus Kahneman and Tversky: The 1996 face-off - Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gerd Gigerenzer and friends wrote a series of articles critiquing Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work on heuris...
3 weeks ago
Noahpinion

Examining an MMT model in detail - What is MMT, the heterodox economic theory that has captivated Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, made its way into the Green New Deal discussion, and inspired do...
3 weeks ago
educationrealist

Education Reform with Beer and Bourbon - Tis my wont to recount conversations with colleagues and students by assigning them pseudonyms similar to their real names. However, the debates I describ...
3 weeks ago
THE LAST DITCH

It's no longer about Brexit - I joined the final leg of the March to Leave from Fulham to Parliament Square today. I did so with a heavy heart. Parliament is unable to agree terms to le...
3 weeks ago
Popehat

The State of the Hat - One of the most justifiably ridiculed type of blog posts is the "hey guys I haven't posted in a long time" non-substantive blog posts, but nonetheless, her...
3 weeks ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

I Support Elizabeth Warren for President - I support Elizabeth Warren for president. She is the only candidate with a real plan to make Facebook, Google, and Amazon into responsible actors within a ...
3 weeks ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Redacted Smollett Investigation - [image: JC133190 redacted and scanned 1] Click here to Download
3 weeks ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Redacted Smollett Investigation - [image: JC133190 redacted and scanned 1] Click here to Download
3 weeks ago
View on IQ

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

Boston Marathon Training Update, new podcasts - The last time I updated my marathon training, things were going great. I had steadily increased my mileage, and by the end of January did my first half-mar...
3 weeks ago
MacroMania

Is the ZLB an economic or legal constraint? - The so-called *zero-lower-bound* (ZLB) plays a prominent role in modern (and even older) macroeconomic theories. It is often introduced in a paper or at co...
3 weeks ago
Tommy Ousslander

Thank god it is not Schizophrenia - You're also probably crazy. I am.
3 weeks ago
Ex Urbe

Stoicism’s Appeal to the Rich and Powerful - I was recently interviewed for a piece in the Times on why the philosophy of stoicism has become very popular in the Silicon Valley tech crowd. Only a sliv...
3 weeks ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

On the referendum #24N: Actions have consequences - Watching SW1 these days reminds me of that scene in Citizen Kane when Boss Jim Gettys confronts Orson Welles (Kane): Gettys: ‘You’re making a bigger fool o...
3 weeks ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

On the referendum #24N: Actions have consequences - Watching SW1 these days reminds me of that scene in Citizen Kane when Boss Jim Gettys confronts Orson Welles (Kane): Gettys: ‘You’re making a bigger fool o...
3 weeks ago
Yue Chim Richard Wong 王于漸

Family Stability Under the Tenant Purchase Scheme: A 20-Year Experiment - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 27 March 2019.) If the TPS had been introduced in all 220 PRH estates . . . . . The housing shor...
3 weeks ago
Evonomics

Does Capitalism Kill Cooperation? - By Peter Turchin One of the chief reasons I became an advocate of the Cultural Multilevel Selection (CMLS) theory is that it wonderfully clarifies the re...
3 weeks ago
Institutional Economics

State of Confusion: Economic Policy Uncertainty and International Trade and Investment - I have an article in the latest Australian Economic Review, State of Confusion: Economic Policy Uncertainty and International Trade and Investment. The...
3 weeks ago
How Material Are We? – MADE IN AMERICA

Opening Day, 2019: Data-Crunching, Inequality, and Baseball - Baseball fanatics like me love to wallow in cliches such as “baseball is life.” “Baseball is a lot like life,” said Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell....
4 weeks ago
Ideas

Project I: Why do States Spend Money? - I have a file drawer full of research projects that I at some point started and then abandoned. Since I am unlikely to ever get back to them I thought it ...
4 weeks ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Long Live the 25th March, 1821 -
4 weeks ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

Monday's Child is Full of Links - 1. My closet is in the cloud. 2. Divorce in the UK. Deciders, not sliders. 3. Calling out Chelsea. 4. If you're worried about stocks, buy a house. ...
4 weeks ago
Peter Turchin

Do “Big Societies” Need “Big Gods”? - The scale at which humans cooperate expanded greatly over the last 10,000 years—from hundreds of people to hundreds of millions. One popular theory that ...
4 weeks ago
Rabble Rouser

Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria - A researcher published an article finding that parents claimed their teenage kids expressed transgender identification of the blue. All Hell broke loose. S...
4 weeks ago
Ed Hagen

Measles, mothers, leadership, and the evolution of big brains - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } In the last few months Nancy Pelosi won a major conflict with Trump over border wall funding, and her victory flipped the m...
4 weeks ago
The XX Committee

Ghosts of the Balkan wars are returning in unlikely places - Why is the Christchurch far-right terrorist obsessed with the crazy-haired Serb that the UN just sentenced to life in prison? How Balkan war criminals beca...
4 weeks ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

Touting Muslimophobic terrorism as a ‘reaction to jihad’ is as dehumanising as it is counterproductive - By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid Unfortunately, the aftermath of every major terror attack provides a platform for self-serving, narrow-minded, often bigoted, voi...
4 weeks ago
NGDP Advisers

NGDP Outlook Update – Outlook Moves Lower - The NGDP outlook continues to deteriorate. We’d known for a few quarters now that growth was likely to slacken in 2019 compared with the robust 2018, but...
5 weeks ago
Cop in the Hood

"Stop the car or I'll step in front of it" - This was not a good shooting. And cringe-worthy from an officer's perspective. From the suspect's perspective, well, he's dead. I'm quoted in this article...
5 weeks ago
The Independent Whig

Less Jussim’s Epic Twitter Thread on the Insanity (or Inanity?) of Social Justice - Rutgers Professor Lee Jussim, aka @Psychrabble, created an epic string of tweets on Twitter (starting here) about the rising tide of social justice insanit...
5 weeks ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

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5 weeks ago
Falkenblog

Why Taleb's Antifragile Book is a Fraud - In Nassim Taleb’ book *Antifragile* he emphasizes that ‘if you see a fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud,’ I am thus compelled to note that *Antif...
5 weeks ago
Jacob ex Machina

Mindfulness for Christians - The modern world ain't so good for your psyche. It's easy to get strung out, anxious as a wildebeast in a lion convention, with thoughts looping through...
1 month ago
Den of Inquiry

Pot legalization, Boomers, X-ers, and Millennials - Variables: GRASS, Race(1), Sex(1), Cohort(1946-2000), used 1973-2016 data
1 month ago
Jonathan Spyer

The Fall of the Caliphate - No new beginnings in sight for ravaged Syria. Jerusalem Post (8/3) The Islamic State proclaimed by the Iraqi jihadist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at the al-Nuri M...
1 month ago
readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore

On Snitches: Silence and Secrecy in the Information Age - Recently, I took part in an excellent interdisciplinary symposium (hosted by Ted George and Kristi Sweet of the Texas A&M Philosophy Department) focused ...
1 month 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 month ago
Jeb Kinnison

Jury Duty: Antiquated, Wasteful, and Unjust - Previously I’ve pointed out the high cost of justice (The Justice is Too Damn High! – Gawker, the High Cost of Litigation, and The Weapon Shops of Isher) a...
1 month ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Quit Entrepreneurship Right Now If You Can’t Do This! - “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.” — Sir Francis Bacon I love this quote. I live by it. It’s featured in “Dom...
1 month ago
Veracities

blank slate - *Sociobiology *was published in 1975. *The Blank Slate* was published in 2002. And yet in 2018, this is still the outcome of a survey of 335 professional s...
1 month ago
interfluidity

Three levels of controversy over MMT - One thing I think worth pointing out about the recent MMT controversializing is there are (at least) three levels, related but distinct, at which these arg...
1 month ago
A Free Left Blog

A Q&A on the trans-feminist war and wider identity politics for the French magazine L'Incorrect - *Here I have pasted in a lengthy series of questions **and answers **I conducted with **the journalist Sylvie Perez for an article t**hat has appeared in t...
1 month ago
The Gladstone Diaries

Momentum needs to talk to its members about Israel - On Thursday afternoon, the left-wing activist group Momentum released a video designed to educate its members about anti-Semitism. It's the kind of initi...
1 month 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 month ago
ThinkMarkets

Unlike the Fed the ECB Leaves Euro Area Banks Unprepared for the Downswing - Gunther Schnabl and Thomas Stratmann Ten years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, banks in the euro area have not recovered. The Euro Stoxx...
1 month ago
Bondwine Books

Impendix VI: The Morakh - After the sack of Eremis, the children of Morak were never again united in one cause. For it was the Destroyer who had brought them together by the thought...
1 month ago
History for Atheists

Jesus Mythicism 4: Jesus as an Amalgam of Many Figures - When discussing the historicity of Jesus and debating the claims of Jesus Mythicists I often come across people who take the view that there may be at le...
1 month ago
China Matters

“Vice”, Dick Cheney’s Ghost, and the Lies of America's Team China War - One thing missing from the movie “Vice” is the Cheney China obsession. Not just Dick Cheney. Lynne Cheney. In the movie Lynne Cheney is portrayed as the...
2 months ago
Medieval Matters – Tor.com

Kingdom of Heaven’s Disappointing Crusade Against History - In both my scholarship and my fiction, my mind has been on war of late. I think that’s why I’ve decided to take a breather from my workloads by queuing u...
2 months ago
Claritas

Themes for the Democrats I: Equality - *A party as large and varied as the Democrats needs some themes that people can use as a shorthand for what the party stands for, and that make sense out o...
2 months ago
Douglas L. Campbell

Ranking Economic Journals by Speed, Updated - I decided to update my previous ranking on economics journals ranked by speed. In the table below, # is the journal's rank by citations (may be 2 years ol...
2 months ago
The Observation Post

Shameful! The Dept. of Veterans snubs South African military sacrifice - The article in the Sunday Times, today 17 February 2019 is simply shameful and outrageous, on the Front page and Page 6 it makes for very grim and sad read...
2 months ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
2 months ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
2 months ago
Dani Rodrik's weblog

Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP) - We launched today a new initiative for academic economists that we hope will make the discipline of Economics more relevant to today’s pressing policy prob...
2 months ago
Secular Right

A “new post-ideological strategic world order”? - Pepe Escobar sees Eurasian integration and associated trade developments as possibly marking the emergence of a new, post-ideological strategic world order...
2 months ago
Chublic Opinion

Anxieties of development: emerging voices in Chinese social media - As China experiences strong economic headwind domestically and globally, "development blogging" finds a growing audience online.
2 months ago
Paula Wright

On Morals, Ethics and Abortion. - Abortion is an intractable human moral dilemma, one which needs ethical not ideological solutions. Legalising infanticide is not the answer. The distingu...
2 months 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 ...
2 months ago
mathbabe

Shame Machine: an owner’s manual - Friends, I’m writing today to announce that I’m hard at work on a new book, called: Shame Machine an owner’s manual It’s once again being written with ...
2 months 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 ...
2 months ago
glenntstanton.com

No, Coal Miners and Mary Poppins are Not Racists - The latest installment in “Reality is Getting Crazier Than the Onion” involves coal miners and Mary Poppins. Word is, they are both racists. A man named Ra...
2 months ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

Message Received - One of the greatest dividing lines in current Science Fiction is the debate over “Message Fiction”. It was an issue that began to rear its ugly head decade...
2 months ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

Helen Dale reviews THE TYRANNY OF OPINION - This is a very pleasing review by Helen Dale. She concludes: "[Blackford] writes gorgeously, guiding the reader through a great deal of material with exper...
2 months ago
chrishernandezauthor

Social Justice PD to the Rescue! - My response to current events and the state of our society. October 28th, 2046. A day I’ll never forget. It started just like any other day. I was at the s...
2 months ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

Can Solomon Kane Go Home Again? - Zaklog the Great, John C. Wright, and Nate discuss the Robert E. Howard poem “Solomon Kane’s Homecoming” in this recent podcast. My take on this…? The guy ...
2 months ago
Sam Altman

How To Be Successful - I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, peopl...
2 months ago
Easily Distracted

College of Theseus - Most of us know to be skeptical about the public statements of a person paid to defend a particular organization or corporation. For the same reason, we te...
2 months ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

Certainty is not a defensible standard for policy making in the context of assisted dying - [image: Image result for certainty]I mentioned in a Bioethics editorial a while ago that new frontiers are opening in the assisted dying debate. As an in...
2 months ago
The Other Side of History

Gillette So Woke - Gillette's new commercial opens with a montage of real-life and on-line bullying, men cat-calling, a row of men standing behind a row of barbecue grills ...
3 months ago
JudgyBitch

Going after my children is too much for me - Of all the things I have contended with in my life, watching grown adults stalk and harass my children online has been the most difficult to deal with, not...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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,...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
The Sociological Eye

DO MIYAMOTO MUSASHI’S ZEN SAMURAI TECHNIQUES APPLY TO EVERYTHING? - Miyamoto Musashi was the most famous sword fighter in the history of Japan. His *Book of Five Rings* has been taken as advice for how to win in business, ...
3 months ago
Order of the Coif

Four maidens, 8000 ducats: the Saga of Drapers’ Hall - On 28th July, 1540, Thomas Cromwell, the chief minister of Henry VIII, was led out to the block on Tower Hill and beheaded. This brought to a close a remar...
3 months ago
Global Guerrillas

The Long Night is Coming - Written by an anonymous friend who also ...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Nick Cole's Books

The Savage Wars and John Donne - Just wrapped The Savage Wars 1 and we needed to bring about a reason why a lone wolf bounty hunter like Tyrus Rechs would form the legion. Without giving a...
3 months ago
Ancestry matters

Fortnite - I have been developing a bit of an interest in the evolution of leisure activities and my nephew was playing the computer game Fortnite, so I did a bit of ...
3 months ago
Jadeluxe

Year in Career: 2018 - Early in 2018, somewhere over Nawabshah, Pakistan, at 30,000 feet. We’ve been flying through turbulence for nearly two hours. I really need to go to the ...
3 months ago
hbd chick

redecorating! - Whaddya think? (^_^) Advertisements
3 months ago
Rachel Edwards — Medium

The Patreon Problem - On March 31st 2017 I published an article entitled, *A Tale of YouTuber Stupidity*, where I made the case for third party monetization sites like Patreon...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

You Can Do An Unforgettable 67 Hours in Viet Nam - And It Will Be Worth Every Penny Recently, we had a free weekend, and also needed to re-up our visa in Hong Kong as we await our longer term visa being app...
4 months ago
Abandoned Footnotes

Endnotes - Happy solstice, everyone! I have not been very consistent this year about writing in this blog, despite my resolution last year. After a flurry of posts in...
4 months ago
Satire .. not quite dead yet.

Why we need ‘unsafe’ comedy - Why would a comic refuse to sign an agreement not to make racist, homophobic and sexist jokes? Surely, it can only be because they want licence to punch do...
4 months ago
Historinhas

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

Market Monetarism – Roadmap to Economic Prosperity – a free book (pdf) - You can download it here: Market Monetarism and Economic Prosperity Advertisements
4 months ago
RyanHoliday.net

The (Very) Best Books I Read in 2018 - Every year, I try to narrow down all the books I have recommended and read for this email list down to just a handful of the best. The kind of books where ...
4 months 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...
4 months 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...
4 months ago
Money, Markets, and Misperceptions

Creating a List of Prime Numbers with a Simple Generator Function - In working on curriculum for *Introduction to Computational Economics*, I like to imagine puzzles that I might have my students solve. One of these is to c...
4 months ago
Tino Sanandaji

Risken för talangutvandring & företagarflykt från Sverige - Mitt nästa projekt kartlägger risken för företagarflykt och talangutvandring från Sverige om samhällskontraktet inte efterlevs. Under 1970- och 80-talen...
4 months ago
The Audacious Epigone

Archived - This blog is now in archival status.
4 months ago
The Arabist

Get More Done In Less Time with Squarespace and Zapier - Efficiency is key, especially when you’re running—or starting—a business. That’s why we’ve added Zapier, a helpful automation tool, to our integration of...
4 months 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...
4 months 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...
4 months ago
Random Critical Analysis

Why everything you have said about the determinants of health expenditure is wrong in one million charts: a response to Noah Smith. - Disclaimer: The title of this post is somewhat tongue-in-cheek and I fell slightly short of one million charts. Also, Noah probably isn’t wrong about eve...
5 months ago
Opinion - The Philosophers' Magazine

Categories We Live By - Reviewed by Katharine Jenkins
5 months ago
Little Atoms

The tragic tale of Turkmenistan’s missing poet - Batyr Berdyev went from diplomat to prisoner in one of the world’s most oppressive states. Now his poems, smuggled out of jail, have been published in Eng...
5 months ago
Kantoos Economics – Kantoos Economics

Productive Exhibition stand Designs is a matter of planning - Exhibit stand design it is vital to think of the stand interior as a totality. A series of spaces linked together. It is therefore appropriate that a com...
5 months 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 ...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
Jonathan Tepper

The Myth of Capitalism – Introduction and Chapter One - Dear Friends, In November 2018, The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition is coming out. You can order the book here. I’ve decided...
6 months ago
The Everyday Economist

A Simple Lesson About Money and Models - Imagine you are in your high school algebra class and you are presented with the following two equations: Two linear equations with 2 unknowns. This is a s...
6 months ago
A Fine Theorem

How We Create and Destroy Growth: A Nobel for Romer and Nordhaus - Occasionally, the Nobel Committee gives a prize which is unexpected, surprising, yet deft in how it points out underappreciated research. This year, they d...
6 months ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

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

Dark Enlightenment Now - This is a series of posts I wrote in reply to Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now first published at Social Matter. … Continue reading →
6 months ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

Women, like men, lie sometimes - *The Australian, 29 September 2018* I have found myself wondering if today’s feminists, if they had been around 60 years ago, would have worn badges sayi...
6 months 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...
6 months ago
Caitlin Green

Were there camels in medieval Britain? A brief note on Bactrian camels and dromedaries in fifteenth-century Kent - The following brief note is concerned with an intriguing fifteenth-century reference to both Bactrian camels and dromedaries (aka Arabian camels) in Englan...
7 months 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 ...
7 months ago
Will Wilkinson

Test - This is a test.
7 months ago
Talisman Gate, Again

Stations Along the Rim - (105k words; approximate reading time 6hr15mins) Lately, I have taken to asking fellow Middle East watchers: “How long ago was Ali Abdullah Saleh killed?” ...
7 months ago
Thermidor

Episode 85 - Common Cause – Jabotinsky and Revisionist Zionism - Download RSS Marshaling a people to a common cause is never an easy task. In the case of the Jews, who have through history been spread throughout the w...
7 months ago
Status 451

I Can See Russia From My House - The common thread underlying all good conspiracy theories: an unreasonable assumption of general competence. Continue reading →
7 months 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...
8 months ago
Homo Consumericus

Ignore Your Parents’ Advice at Your Peril - Of all the pieces of parental advice that you’ve received, which one has yielded the greatest impact on your life—either because you heeded it or ignored it?
8 months ago
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle

Jerry’s Birthday and a Book List - A ‘Huzzah!’ to a reader for reminding me that today is Jerry’s birthday – he would have been 85. His wife’s Roberta’s birthday was in June – Jerry would al...
8 months ago
A Myth in Creation

The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Meditations on Success and Flourishing - The July issue of *Psychiatric Times* contains a brief reflection piece by me titled *10 Meditations on Succeeding—and Flourishing*. Since the published ve...
8 months ago
Basil Halperin

NGDP futures via blockchain: Market monetarism meets cryptocurrency (And: how to set up a prediction market on Augur) - Scott Sumner has famously proposed that the Fed stabilize monetary policy by pegging nominal GDP futures contracts in such a way to ensure that expectati...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
In Due Course | Building the Republic of Letters, one keystroke at a time

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

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

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

UPDATE - UPDATE I AM NOT ALTOGETHER WELL I SHALL RETURN TO HOSPITAL TOMORROW FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. I'II KEEP READERS INFORMED. BEST WISHES. GAVON
10 months ago
GayPatriot

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

EBay Would Rather Support Fraud and Theft Than Help Sellers - Yes, you read the title right. No, it is not spam, or false, or libel - it is in fact an accurate representation of their corporate policies, as I have now...
11 months ago
The Ripple Effect

A guide to using behavioural insights in local government - I wrote this for Sunderland City Council, following some work using behavioural insights in a range of projects. Although written for an internal audience,...
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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
InfidelsAreUs | 'Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you' 1 Peter 4:12-14

Persecuted Global Refugees: No Place To Call Home - 09/09/2014 The official estimate for the number of refugees globally passes the 50 million mark for the first time since World War II. According to UNHCR...
1 year ago
Russian History Blog

Join Us at the Summer Research Lab! - Amidst all the craziness of this past … forever … I’m pleased to say that the Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois continues strong. We have a great pro...
1 year 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.
1 year ago
ny mens action network

Are NY Republicans a friend to men, boys, fathers, or families? - While Republicans in NYS certainly talk a good game of supporting men, fathers, and families the talk is just that, cheap talk. Now that we have 20 years ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The Travel Diaries of Mr Wallace

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

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

A People’s Tolerance For Change And Adaptation Should Not Be Strained Beyond Its Limits - With a hat-tip to Bill Vallicella, here’s a brief and worthwhile article on immigration. Go and read the whole thing. You may notice some overlap with the ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
Rajiv Sethi

Innovation in Economics Pedagogy and Publishing - Well, it's Labor Day weekend, which means that Barnard and Columbia students are back on campus and classes are about to begin. This semester I'm teaching ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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/
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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,...
1 year ago
The Archdruid Report

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A catalog of density (Québec/Canada version) - So, I've recently discovered an interesting tool to visualize census data for Canada, www.censusmapper.ca. Among its various data, it allows to do visualiz...
2 years ago
Andrew Norton

Improving Your Writing – Prioritizing Increased-Get Worries www.proofreadingessay.com - There are a good deal of diverse methods you can go about doing that 1 thing – you can offer ebooks that deliver solutions to folks’s difficulties, or you ...
2 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...
2 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....
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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…
2 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...
2 years ago
Cantercap

A Tale of Two SIFIs - The Best of Managements, The Worst of Managements My apologies; neither of the banks I am about to discuss was ever large enough to be considered a SIFI (S...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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?
2 years ago
Seventh Voice

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Mayhem of GOP Class Politics in 2016 - Majority Report Radio conversation with Michael Brooks on the piece I wrote for the National on the political insurgency in the Republican mainstream. In A...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Freethinking Economist

I have written six book reviews this year - What a rare thing – a blog post. At the end of another writingful year I thought it worth noting a few of the achievements now likely to vanish into poster...
3 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...
3 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....
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 years ago
The Mischiefs of Faction

We've Moved - Effective September 9, 2015, the Mischiefs of Faction is now located at Vox.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, ...
3 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 […]
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
deflationite.com

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

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

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

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

Why Monetary Policy Should Ignore Financial Stability - Financial stability is apparently the new hot reason to tighten monetary policy, and in this article for Quartz I go in on some reasons for why this is a h...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Healthy Curiousity

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

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

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

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

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

Why the Lachish III Assemblage Stays Where It Is - Long ago, when Albright ruled the world of Palestinian archaeology, the Lachish III assemblage was dated to 701-597 BC. It did not bother Albright (or, for...
7 years ago
The Market Monetarist

“Bernanke invites Scott Sumner for lunch” - “Oct. 31 (Boomberg) US stock market closed sharply up after the Federal Reserve Bank announced that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has invited Bentl...
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.
7 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...
7 years ago
An Opinionated Childless Woman

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

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

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