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Blacklight Sunset - Because sometimes it’s fun to play with Photoshop’s sliders and see what you come up with. This is what happens (in part) when you push the “dehaze” slider...6 minutes ago
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Did Sessions Discuss Trump-Campaign-Related Matters With Russian Ambassador And Then Make False Statements About It? - Uh...da? But, of course, Kislyak could be lying.10 minutes ago
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History of the Referendum - Originally posted on English Legal History: It is fair to say that the result of the United Kingdom’s Referendum on continued membership of the European Un...13 minutes ago
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"The professor was just offering up some red meat so the racists and phony hero's would crawl out of their caves and show their disgusting underbellies." - "This blog is one big troll and the commentariat are the unwitting subjects of a psychopathology experiment." Said Howard in the post about the 5 teenagers...18 minutes ago
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Presidential Tweet - The Failing New York Times foiled U.S. attempt to kill the single most wanted terrorist,Al-Baghdadi.Their sick agenda over National Security— Donald J. Tru...20 minutes ago
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Ozark is yet another white guy antihero show. Its secret power is how boring it is. - Netflix’s latest stars Jason Bateman and Laura Linney — but its best character is played by neither of them. What keeps TV writers coming back to the wh...21 minutes ago
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‘Dunkirk’ Is a Booming, Bloodless Bore - This article contains spoilers for Dunkirk. When I walked out of the theater after watching Dunkirk, I realized I couldn’t recall any of the characters’ na...26 minutes ago
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My recollection of events - By Arthur Douglas Piercy Honouring another true South African hero – this is SAAF pilot Arthur Douglas Piercy’s crashed Mirage, here is his story: This is ...44 minutes ago
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A Man Who Really Wants To Be With You Won’t Make Excuses - When a man is determined to make it work, he will. He'll do what it takes. He'll fight for you.50 minutes ago
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Minneapolis police chief resigns; Bachmann says grand jury must be impaneled - Apparently Mohamed Noor still won’t talk to police investigators in the wake of the worst disaster for advocates of ‘diversity hires’ in America—the shooti...58 minutes ago
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Trump’s Warsaw Speech and the Real “Clash of Civilizations”, by Steven Yates - As everyone doubtless knows, President Trump gave the pot a hefty stirring in Warsaw, Poland prior to attending the G20 summit. His message was well-receiv...1 hour ago
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The math students dropped out because they could not understand anything - June Huh took a path less taken to the peak of the math world: Huh was born in 1983 in California, where his parents were attending graduate school. They m...1 hour ago
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He was too woke for this world - James Delingpole laments the passing of Godfrey Elfwick, the truest social justice warrior and the wokest of them all. To have your tweet singled out for p...1 hour ago
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A Fearful Appointment - The long-delayed and keenly-awaited appointment of 33 new justices for the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) is upon us. Who are these people, anyway?2 hours ago
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Former BP Chief Lord Browne: ‘When the going gets tough, minorities are always hurt by the majority’ - One of the first major CEOs to come out as gay has called on politicians and big businesses to continue the fight for LGBT inclusivity as England and Wales...2 hours ago
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Poll: Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr Considered ‘Extreme’ By 1 In 4 Brits - The poll, conducted for the Evangelical Alliance by market research company ComRes, demonstrated a general confusion over what constitutes as extremism, an...2 hours ago
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Artist of the Month: Frederic Church - -By William O’Connor Almost ten years ago I moved with my family to live on the Hudson River about 20 miles north of Manhattan. As an artist I was immed...2 hours ago
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Predatory Journals Hit By 'Star Wars' Sting - A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper. The manuscript is an absurd mess of factual errors, plagiarism and ...2 hours ago
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Red hand - Artist Catalin Badarau covered by one of his works during an interview in Bucharest, Romania, on July 19, 2017: [Photo: Vadim Ghirda / AP] An art exhibitio...3 hours ago
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Surge pricing is coming to a supermarket near you - When demand increases, the standard economic model of supply and demand tells us that the price will increase. However, most businesses don't dynamically a...4 hours ago
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"Uninhabitable Earth" ... Good #scicomm? - This article in *New York* magazine-- --has attracted a lot of critical attention, particularly from climate scientists, who have attacked many of its...5 hours ago
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James Bowman explains Hollywood’s Hero Deficit, spiritual malnutrition - Summary: Here James Bowman has a brilliant essay about two themes often discussed here. First, our lack of heroes. Second, our fear and apathy. He uses the...5 hours ago
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Donald Trump has a duty: to defend his family - *Guaranteed pardon for all family members is the right thing to do* Hardcore left-wing activists in the U.S. keep on attacking Donald Trump and his family....5 hours ago
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Climate bargain, going cheap! Pay now, save $Trillions, stop Storms, Droughts, Bad Stuff. Ends today! - Hurry Now and Save Trillions! A 500 trillion, gazillion dollar bill is coming for you unless you buy my solar-panel-techno-wind-battery gizmo NOW! Don’t mi...5 hours ago
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Best of the Web, 22nd July 2017 - Culture Richard Dawkins deplatformed at a book talk in Berkeley for “abusive speech” about Islam on Twitter Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True Why it’s a...5 hours ago
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How many safeguards do you need to make assisted suicide safe? - After reading the report to the government of Victoria, you realise that there can be no safe suicide Read more...5 hours ago
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What to make of Elon Musk’s hyperloop announcement? - Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Ju...6 hours ago
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Read into Things - A few weeks ago I walk into a coffee shop. I have a book in hand, and as I lean in to look at the menu, I place my book on the counter. The barista observ...7 hours ago
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Trump taking power – slowly. - I predicted that by now he would have power, which prediction failed to come true. But neither is he defeated. He is moving along. He recently reduced US s...7 hours ago
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Israel’s Possible Paths to Nuclear War - North Korea’s nuclearization has implications for Israel's nuclear deterrence posture. There are several plausible means by which a nuclear conflict could ...8 hours ago
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Washington Post: Two Intercepted Calls With Russian Ambassador Kislyak Detailed Conversations With Sessions On Campaign - For an Administration that has long complained about the effort of “the deep state” to undermine President Trump, the most recent leak detailed in the Wash...8 hours ago
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‘Spectator’ Sport - by Taki Theodoracopulos I switch personalities at Spectator parties, depending on who the guests are: For our readers’ tea party, I am a warm and gracious s...8 hours ago
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Reader’s links for July 22, 2017 - In order to preserve the flow of conversation about various posted items, and also in order to make it easier for visitors to find the list of related link...8 hours ago
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Libs FREAK As GoT Creators Announce New Show Reimagining The Civil War - The creators of HBO’s Game of Thrones have gotten the green light for their next project: an alternate reality in which the Confederate South won the Ameri...8 hours ago
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Tennis before larger racquet heads - Noticing my checking of vids of Wimbledon, Youtube has been serving up far too many excerpts of tennis for my own good but I’ve got a bit of a fascination ...9 hours ago
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It's like hippie Jade Helm... - I swear on the bones of Mises that this is the most schadenfreudelicious thing ever: https://t.co/EVxpHoUrGm — Tamara K. (@TamSlick) July 21, 20179 hours ago
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A Spiral Galaxy's Central Black Hole's Mass Is Accurately Measured By Its Spiral Arms - After carefully analysing a larger sample of galaxies, imaged by an array of space telescopes, the researchers observed an unexpectedly strong relationsh...9 hours ago
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More Comments on Douglas Murray’s “The Strange Death of Europe” - I promised that I would discuss Murray’s explanation for Europe’s suicidal tendencies (and sorry that it took longer than I thought it would). It is perhap...9 hours ago
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Another felonious disclosure. - "Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s accounts of two conversations with Sessions — then a top foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump — were in...9 hours ago
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Frank Knight on John B. Watson, by David Henderson - [image: knight.jpg] I dug out of my library a famous unpublished (until 1991) 1932 mimeograph (those under age 45 should look up that term) article by Fr...10 hours ago
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Sex addiction’s diversity problem - Why is sex addiction predominantly a wealthy, white issue?10 hours ago
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That all these troubles weighing down on you may rise - The Derb cringes in response to Trump's ebullient praise for China's president: Did you have to lay it on so thick, Mr. President? Couldn't we get the res...10 hours ago
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All the president’s men were ratfuckers - On MSNBC, former Bush White House Communications Chief Nicolle Wallace went after the new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci and his te...10 hours ago
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New Journal! The Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy - This looks very cool: *Call for Papers General Theme* *The Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy*, a peer-reviewed, open access publication, is dedicat...11 hours ago
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Speaking of Jeff Sessions… - Yet another boom-story. Sessions talked about policy issues with Kislyak during the campaign, even though he swore up and down that he hadn’t. Russia’s a...12 hours ago
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Farewell to the Bard of Man in Space; Can Republicans Rule; More on Education - Friday, July 21, 2017 Shuttle accomplished much. And she was all we had. And yes, I loved seeing her fly, and I can’t listen to ‘Fly Columbia’ without a te...12 hours ago
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The REAL housewives of ISIS . . . - . . . according to the BBC - with tongue firmly in cheek! Peter12 hours ago
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Assorted Musings - Some Assorted Musings: 1. I have a new policy brief at the Mercatus Center that makes the case for a Nominal GDP level target from the knowledge problem p...14 hours ago
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Dreamspinner Press GayRomLit Pre-Orders and Sales Table - Dreamspinner Press WILL be doing a Pre-Order for GayRomLit sale this year so you can pre-order any of the imprints’ attending authors at a discount and hav...14 hours ago
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Crowdsource Question: Do I Need A Thickness Planer? Conclusion - Thanks folks! I was delighted with the flurry of excellent comments. It helped me make a wise prudent intelligent decision. (Only time will tell if I made ...15 hours ago
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The best video ever? - Well, there’s a lot of competition for this title, but this is surely among the best videos involving cats. This is the best video ever pic.twitter.com/K06...16 hours ago
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An Apology and a Beginning without ending (yet.) - For those of you worrying, I’m sorry. We had a family errand to run early morning, and I came home with a head-splitting headache. Probably just tirednes...16 hours ago
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A new low: Media fat-shames Trump - Tucker has it: I thought the Left was against fat-shaming? But, there’s more. Tucker goes into something even lower: the media’s (and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-C...16 hours ago
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The Z-Cast: Radio Days - This week I’m continuing the experiment. The segments are shorter and there are more of them, but organized into logical groupings. I think I may have stru...16 hours ago
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Column: Pagans Join the ‘Ain’t I A Woman’ March - I joined with several hundred people to celebrate Black women at the “Ain’t I A Woman” march in Sacramento, California on July 15, 2017. Several hundred Bl...17 hours ago
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How White House Threats Condition Mueller’s Reality - FBI Director Robert Mueller leads a briefing for the President on the Boston Marathon bombings, April 2013 (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Wh...17 hours ago
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Sean Spicer resigns - To tell you the truth, I can’t say I blame him. What a difficult job it must be: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigned Friday in a move apparent...17 hours ago
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The Mooch in New York Magazine - http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/scaramucci-not-a-reassuring-choice-for-trump-comms-director.html After reading this article in New York Magazin...17 hours ago
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Trump surrenders to Putin on Syria - After the regime of Bashar al-Assad began its brutal and murderous repression of the largely peaceful Syrian uprising, I was very critical of then-presiden...17 hours ago
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Hemingway And Harsanyi: Sean Spicer, Russia, And Dunkirk - Senior editors Mollie Hemingway and David Harsanyi hash out their opposing views on Russia, dating, and more on the Federalist Radio Hour.17 hours ago
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Stan Weekly Roundup, 21 July 2017 - It was another productive week in Stan land. The big news is that Jonathan Auerbach, Tim Jones, Susanna Makela, Swupnil Sahai, and Robin Winstanley won f...17 hours ago
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Hiring Committees 2017-2018 - Please share in the comments the following information related to the 2017-2018 law school faculty hiring season: (a) your school; (b) the chair of your hi...18 hours ago
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More Sci-Fi Fake News Dishonesty - I conducted fun poll about whether you are blocked or not by a very public science fiction author personality who seems to block more than 50% of people wh...19 hours ago
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The Top-100 Libertarians - I’m in Las Vegas for FreedomFest, which is sort of like summer camp for libertarians, small-government conservatives, and others who don’t like a bloated a...19 hours ago
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cultural studies, ironically, is something of a colonizer - For a large academic project I’m working on, I’ve been trying to do something that is rather rare: discuss cultural studies and its practices in the academ...20 hours ago
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Philosophy Vs. Duck Tests - Philosophers, and intellectuals more broadly, love to point out how things might be more complex than they seem. They identify more and subtler distinction...20 hours ago
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BREAKING: Sean Spicer Resigns As White House Press Secretary - Spicer resigned on Friday morning, shortly after President Trump selected Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. His replacement will be Sarah Hu...20 hours ago
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Political influence on the movies - [ by Charles Cameron — Canada, Hollywood cave? ] . Sources: Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, Did the CBC get spooked? Hollywood Reporter, Vladimir Putin C...20 hours ago
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Post Mosul Liberation Day 10 Jul 20 2017 - July 20, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) admitted that fighting continued in the Old City of West Mosul. First, U.S. led Coalition spokesman Colonel Ryan...20 hours ago
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If Trump pardons, it could be a crime; with further meta-legal implications - Daniel Hemel and I argue that if Trump pardons family members and aides who committed crimes in connection with Russia, then Trump could be guilty of obstr...20 hours ago
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Dictionary money - Nick Rowe points out that if a central bank wants to control the economy's price level, it needn't issue any actual money—it can just edit the dictiona...21 hours ago
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“We Must Elect Senator Kid Rock” - Yes. Yes, we surely must. The news that Southern-fried rock/rapper Kid Rock will be running for some timeserving Dem hack’s Senate seat in Michigan should ...21 hours ago
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Book Review: Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus - Laura Kipnis does not care if you don’t appreciate her oppositional position – or her sense of humor. “Kiss my ass,” she states in the penultimate paragrap...21 hours ago
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IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. The summer ape blockbuster you’re been waiting for is here. In Science economists Seema Ja...21 hours ago
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On Intimidation and Character Assassination - After a short break from political posts, I have returned. This morning, I read an excellent piece at Liberty’s Torch, which touched on intimidation in pol...21 hours ago
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Philosophers Among Newly Elected British Academy Fellows - The British Academy, the United Kingdom’s scholarly organization for the humanities and social sciences, today announced its new class of fellows, “outst...21 hours ago
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I’m Not Your Pope (But Thanks for Asking) - A funny thing happened after my conversation with Sam Harris on the topic of President Trump. An avalanche of anti-Trumpers descended on my Twitter accou...21 hours ago
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Where did all the immigrants go? A fascinating puzzle with a mundane solution. - There are two ways of finding out how many immigrants there are in Canada. One is through administrative data, that is, by using landing records (the forms...22 hours ago
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Interest Rates Do Not Matter? Pondering International Capital Flows and Property Zoning - Recently, three very thoughtful but different sorts of monetary-policy thinkers have posited, “Interest rates do not matter.” Dan Thornton, a Cato Instit...22 hours ago
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Food for Thought on Jobs: Tidbits from Solow, Gershon, Mokyr - The US unemployment rate has been 5.0% or lower for nearly two years, since September 2015, and the most recent estimates for June 2017 show it at 4.4% in ...22 hours ago
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Arne Panula, RIP - Father Arne Panula breathed his last this past Wednesday, at the all-too-young age of 71. May the Good Lord protect him. Father Arne directed the Catholi...22 hours ago
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The Proud Boy And The Sockpuppet - Last week I wrote about Jason Van Dyke, a lawyer, violence-threatener, bigot, and perhaps-ironically self-styled Proud Boy. This was a post of little conse...22 hours ago
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Weekend Reading 22-23 July 2017 - Global Macro / Markets / Investing: The New “Supply-Side Economics” Fueling Asset Bubbles – Macro Mom What the Decline of the Dollar Means – NY Times IMF...22 hours ago
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Lobby launches to dismantle UNWRA - *A new Knesset lobby calling for the reform of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was launched this week. Although Jewish refugees from Ara...23 hours ago
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How Markets in Europe Opened Up as Guild Monopolies Declined in the Sixteenth Century - Markets don’t function well if they are ridden with frictions like lack of information or lack of trust. A new working paper finds that cities in the sixte...23 hours ago
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Lost in America - Due to the positive reaction to my previous post, I’ll do something even more self indulgent–keep a running tab of my trip. I write this from a secure undi...1 day ago
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FAKE NEWS IN MODERN ECONOMICS - *Sam Dumitriu* writes (20 July) in the *Adam Smith Institute Blog *HERE *‘Fake News in The Guardian’* “Oh dear, how embarrassing. *The Guardian’s *George Mon...1 day ago
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The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson [Review] - I’ve mentioned before that, after the 2016 election, I began a new reading agenda. (I essentially sacrificed November and December’s reading budgets for th...1 day ago
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CBO under attack - Marc Short and Brian Blase write, The CBO’s methodology, which favors mandates over choice and competition, is fundamentally flawed. As a result, its past ...1 day ago
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The Value of Alexander Cockburn - *"The first rule of journalism: ** to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it."-Alexander Cockburn* It is really hard to believe it w...1 day ago
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Higher education roundup - Claw back money spent on unhelpful college tuition after bankruptcy? Not if Connecticut has anything to say about it [The American Interest] Incoming civ...1 day ago
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Let's call this Rahn's Law - "It's hard to be an elitist after you've met the elite." From this episode of the Federalist Radio Hour.1 day ago
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The Morality of Faith Schools - On Wednesday July 19 I appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze to discuss the Al-Hijrah school controversy. A long-running legal battle between Ofsted and the...1 day ago
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Another attempt at normalising polyamory - Via TJ in the comments, the mainstream media has another go at normalising polyamorous relationships. This time it’s the BBC: Prof Aviram said she found li...1 day ago
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Monetary policy and inflation - Recent inflation in advanced capitalist countries remains subdued, despite the expansionary monetary policy that has dominated major economies.. As Guy Deb...1 day ago
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Office Survival Skills (Part III) - If you work for a modern American corporation, whether at an office or from home, you have the kind of conference calls that only today's modern Internet...1 day ago
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Where’s the ‘marital fidelity’ round? - The AFL is reeling after corporate adultery scandals. Yet it is promoting homosexual marriage - even though over 10% of older homosexuals have more than ...1 day ago
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Responding to Some Pro-Abort Feminist Bloggers - It occurred to me that RC has not had a blogpost about abortion, which is weird, because anti-abortion philosophy has been a conservative thing for many ye...1 day ago
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Msgr. Swetland’s confusions - Msgr. Stuart Swetland is a theologian and the president of Donnelly College. You might recall that, almost a year ago, he gained some notoriety for his b...1 day ago
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Is “information is physical” contentful? - “Information is physical.” This slogan seems to have originated around 1991 with Rolf Landauer. It’s ricocheted around quantum information for the entire ...1 day ago
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When We Can No Longer Tell the Truth... - *Lies, half-truths and cover-ups are all manifestations of fatal weakness.* *When we can no longer tell the truth because the truth will bring the whole rot...1 day ago
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Hyperloop Hype. What Else Do You Expect From Elon? - The classic sign of a con man is that he always responds to information or developments that undermine his previous promises with new!, better! promises. E...1 day ago
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June 2017 CPI - The story continues. Shelter inflation (YOY) remains at 3.3% and core minus shelter inflation remains at 0.6%. Core minus shelter inflation has been in a...1 day ago
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Friday Ephemera - This is one of these. // Attention, all fashion-conscious gentlemen. (h/t, Julia) // Why people get dashcams. // Where cash is (nearly) obsolete. // Studen...1 day ago
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How Media Matters has evolved in the age of Trump - When I met with Media Matters president Angelo Carusone in the organization’s DC headquarters, it was only a week after Fox News host Sean Hannity had dire...1 day ago
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On Teach for America and Immigration Policy - These days, almost all of the e-mails to alumni I get from Teach for America are about immigration policy. Today’s e-mail began: Bipartisan legislation was...1 day ago
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The Ominouslier Roar of the Bitcoin Wave - This post is co-authored by Artem and Venkat We have been annoyed with the state of blockchain visualizations. On the one extreme, we have the crappy not-e...1 day ago
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Hail To The Chief! - The Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, Rav Ephraim Mirvis, has accomplished something extraordinary. He took an impossibl...1 day ago
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Working Toward Tripartite Racial Disunity: Maybe Not a Really Great Idea - Regarding Latinos not as citizens but as internal enemies of America is an idea pushed not just by many racialist websites (e.g., Vdare).but also by Donald...1 day ago
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Working Toward Tripartite Racial Disunity: Maybe Not a Really Great Idea - Regarding Latinos not as citizens but as internal enemies of America is an idea pushed not just by many racialist websites (e.g., Vdare).but also by Donald...1 day ago
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Diversity Thursday - Some good news in the diversity battles. One of the most excused and patronized organizations in the USA that centers its existence on racist assumptions...1 day ago
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The Topsy Turvy Take Care Clause - From 2014-2016, I was one of the few scholars who maintained that President Obama's non-enforcement of the law ran afoul of his duty to take care that the ...1 day ago
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Why Brilliant Girls Tend to Favor Non-STEM Careers - If there are bona fide gender differences in preferences and interests, equal opportunities may never translate into equal outcomes.1 day ago
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What’s the Point of Self-Improvement Anyway? - There’s a paradox with self-improvement and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you no longer feel the nee...1 day ago
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The Out-of-India Theory (OIT) challenge: can we hear a viable argument for once? - Recent weeks have seen a rash of activity from OIT proponents defending their "truth", largely as a response to a news feature in The Hindu on new genetic ...1 day ago
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Capitalism versus the Philosophers: An Interview with Stephen Hicks - This interview was published at FEE in abridged form as Capitalism versus the Philosophers: An Interview with Stephen Hicks. Abstract: A1 day ago
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International Conference on Freedom of Conscience and Expression in the 21st Century - In April 2017 Pakistani student Mashal Khan was killed by an angry mob in the premises of his university over fake allegations of posting blasphemous conte...1 day ago
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Cheat Sheet to the Medieval Henrys - Are you confused by all the medieval people named Henry? Cait Stevenson provides you this awesome guide!1 day ago
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French comic book by William de Tamaris uses India’s war on beef to illustrate the dangers of Hindutva - scroll.in - 20 July 2017 A French comic book uses India’s war on beef to illustrate the dangers of Hindutva ‘Sacred Cow’ is re-examining stereotypes in the...2 days ago
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What is an Institution? - Find out in my new post at the NDSU Center for the Study of Public Choice Blog.2 days ago
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RBI skipped releasing its weekly balance sheet for 30 June 2017! - Apologies for waking up really late to this development (HT: Amit Varma) As per RBI Act Section 53: (1) The Bank shall prepare and transmit to the [Central...2 days ago
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You Have Been Warned! - In Israel, and by no means only in Israel—see the recent shitstorm around Robert Kelly—the man-hunt is on. Not a day goes by that does not bring new stor...2 days ago
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A Match Made in History - American Interest, 17/7 The recent two-day visit of Narendra Modi to Israel, the first ever by an Indian Prime Minister, has been depicted as heralding a n...2 days ago
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Classified Thread 2: Best In Classified - I’m still on vacation, so here’s another classified thread. Post ads, personals, and any interesting success stories from the last thread. …and I’ll start....2 days ago
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Samizdata quote of the day - The ADC is a fire-eater and longs for the fray. – Douglas Haig, Diary entry for 20 July 1917 commenting on a meeting with American Commander-in-Chief Per...2 days ago
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CHARLIE GARD AND OUR MORAL CONFUSIONS - An excerpt from my latest column for the New York Times on the contrasting cases of Charlie Gard and Noel Conway: Usually, a decision about a child’s best ...2 days ago
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Really Racist? - #RespectMyVote and start issuing Voter IDs. pic.twitter.com/B10ajO40vL — Pamela Moore (@Pamela_Moore13) July 19, 20172 days ago
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Yet another view of neoliberalism - An American liberal's interpretation of "neoliberalism" explores the messaging strategy of the left. The post Yet another view of neoliberalism appeared ...2 days ago
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Everything is Worse in China - One of the benefits of living in China is a certain sense of perspective. China exists outside of the Anglophone culture wars. It would not be accurate to ...2 days ago
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The New Polar Face and a Lovey Dovey Life - Once a person ingests the iron-clad implications of America’s who/whom principles a great deal of socio-political clarity comes into their life. Dialectic ...2 days ago
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"That’s quite a day’s work.” - Yesterday this video came out of Baltimore officer putting gel caps of heroin in a can, placing the can in trash in an alley, leaving the alley, and then "...2 days ago
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Thornton on interest rate humility - Dan Thornton has an interesting essay, ``The Limits of Monetary Policy: Why Interest Rates Don’t Matter.’’ Just why do we think that the Fed raising and lo...2 days ago
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The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time -- Part XVI - Fifteen posts into this series -- and I certainly hope that you have read all of them -- perhaps there are still a few of you out there who continue to b...2 days ago
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Stealth advocacy: a survey of weathercasters’ views on climate change - by Mike Smith For a decade, the weathercaster and broadcast meteorology communities have been subject of a focused campaign to force them to cover global w...2 days ago
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An Anti-Koch Rampage at Wake Forest - Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC is a selective school with a faculty that has a considerable number of, to use Roger Kimball’s phrase, tenured ...2 days ago
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Movie Special Effects Before CGI - I am a sucker for both 70's disaster movies and well-crafted pre-CGI special effects. So I enjoyed this article on the special effects techniques in The T...2 days ago
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London's Acid Test of Diversity - Things are going smashingly well in Londonistan. The City of London has the highest murder rate in the land. While the authorities launch investigations in...2 days ago
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West on the American Founding (1): The State of Nature and the Evolution of Religion - At the next convention of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco (August 31-September 3), I will be on a panel on Thomas West's new bo...2 days ago
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Medical tourism for controversial treatment options - By Dominic Wilkinson Baby C’s parents had done their research. They had read widely about different options for C and had clear views about what they fel...2 days ago
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Mapping China’s 19th century provincial incomes - A passing reference from the encyclopedic Pseudoerasmus sent me to the work of Paul Caruana-Galizia, who has done an impressive series of papers quantifyin...2 days ago
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Ranking the Most Popular Websites by Demographic - Which sites have the largest percentage of their visitors that are men, women, millennials, seniors, rich people, and more?2 days ago
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The Pope gets a bum rap - If you think this is yet another story of homosexual abuse within the Catholic Church, I hate to disappoint you. This time it’s the Pope who’s on the recei...2 days ago
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Calling all Business Owners—Take the Ostrom Challenge! - Do you own a business? If so, do you know about Elinor Ostrom? If not, then your business might not be performing as well as it could.2 days ago
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What is Community Justice? - Existing options for criminal justice participation focus too heavily on the decorum of deliberation. Much like the system they protect, they equate disru...3 days ago
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The slow birth of distributed software collaboration - This might become a new major section in Things Every Hacker Once Knew, but before I merge it I’m putting it out for comment and criticism. Nowadays we tak...3 days ago
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Bored With It All (Almost) - Having a good time with my Spanish relatives who will be leaving for home in a couple of days. We have done a lot of sightseeing. They also have taken over...3 days ago
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Episode 24 – The Psychology of the Flood - Direct Feed Soundcloud Upload Lecture 6 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series. The story of Noah and the Ark is next in...3 days ago
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No, Ibn Khaldun is not the father of economics - I am a great admirer of work of the C14th Muslim intellectual Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī (1332-1406), known as Ibn Khaldun...3 days ago
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Don't Touch the Computer - Under what circumstances should humans override algorithms? From what I have read I doubt that a hybrid team of human + AlphGo would perform much better th...3 days ago
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What is a ‘Perennial Seller’ and Why Do They Matter? - Hidden from view for the vast majority of public is a little page that explains the complicated methodology behind the famous New York Times Bestseller lis...3 days ago
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Yes, markets are efficient – *and* yes, stock prices are predictable - The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) was famously defined by Fama (1991) as “the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available infor...4 days ago
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Synthetic Control: Ur (probably) doin' it rong! - People, I've been refereeing a lot of synthetic control papers lately, and I have to say that I don't like what I'm seeing. I'm seeing 3 big mistakes that ...4 days ago
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Bureau Still Limiting Cooling to Minus 10 Degrees - TWO weeks ago, in response to my queries the Australian Bureau of Meteorology acknowledged that it had put in place limits on the lowest temperature that...4 days ago
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Castes are not just of mind - Before Nicholas Dirks was a controversial chancellor of UC Berkeley, he was a well regarded historian of South Asia. He wrote Castes of Mind: Colonialism a...4 days ago
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England and Australia: two higher education income contingent loan systems with very different consequences - The recent debate about student debt in England was triggered by this very interesting paper from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. I have used some of the...4 days ago
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A Hedgehog Named Heather! - I’ve got a hedgehog named after me! This is one of the coolest things ever to happen to me in my life, and a great honour! The hedgehog is a rescue one a...4 days ago
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Criminal Algorithms - A piece I wrote for the Observer over in the UK just dropped, as part of my book’s softcover launch over there. Here it is: How can we stop algorithms tell...4 days ago
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So on the question of productive use, I’m sure much would be wasted, but in also not convinced the… - So on the question of productive use, I’m sure much would be wasted, but in also not convinced the State govt spends them so efficiently either. I think ...4 days ago
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Kolac - Golac - In my post about Prokletija - the Cursing ceremony, I described a strange Serbian custom in which a stake was cursed and stoned in place of an unknown or m...4 days ago
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Our Republic of Second Chances - This morning I met an old gang banger in the play area at the mall. Teeth capped, tattoos decorating his neck, plaid shirt buttoned at the top over low pan...4 days ago
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Silencing War Criticism - Silencing War Criticism: The Iraq Invasion of 2003 W.J. Astore Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota (1999-2003), was a hot media commodity as the Bu...4 days ago
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Slaughtered Christians “A Viable Target”? Muslim Persecution of Christians, March 2017 - The Gatestone Institute The uptick in often lethal persecution of Christians in Muslim regions has caused many Christian leaders to appeal for aid. Canon...4 days ago
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How long before we get true driverless cars? - [image: Image: Daniel Dionne/Flickr] For the past few years it has felt as though we’re on the cusp of a revolution in transport technology. As a techno...4 days ago
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Another Turkish Ambassador Confronts Me - In February, Turkey's ambassador to Israel told this author to stay away from his country; at least he did so diplomatically. In June, Turkey's ambassador ...5 days ago
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Unintended Monetary Policy Effects – Tale II: ECB Crisis Policies - by Andreas Hoffmann and Nicolás Cachanosky The Federal Reserve’s (Fed) and European Central Bank’s (ECB) policy responses to the recent financial disasters...5 days ago
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Extended Interview with Raymond Ibrahim on Islam, by Hank Hanegraaf - This is an outstanding, "Ultimate" interview with Raymond Ibrahim, author of 'Crucified Again - Exposing Islam's New War On Christians', 'The Al Qaeda Read...5 days ago
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His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political style - It’s all they know. They aren’t prepared for anything else. The post His campaign to discredit the press is a permanent feature of Trump’s political styl...5 days ago
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Fraction - "I am persuaded that if truth is a number [...] it never comes out even ends in a fraction cannot be rounded off." John Stone,* Even Though*5 days ago
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The Pathetic Rehabilitation Of Max Boot - Since he held himself out as a courageous conservative critic of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign last year, Max Boot has enjoyed something ...5 days ago
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normative judgment internalism & motivational functionalism (redux) - David and I seem to agree that, for at least certain sorts of normative beliefs or judgments, a kind of moderate internalism is true. For example, Bri’s j...5 days ago
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There Obviously Is A Tech Bubble, But Hopefully That Doesn’t Matter - Economists love data, but I think anecdotes are pretty useful for spotting bubbles. And I see lots of anecdotes screaming that we are in a tech bubble.5 days ago
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Talking Symbolism with Jonathan Pageau - Jonathan Pageau is an Orthodox icon carver and friend of Jordan Peterson. Like me, Jonathan is a medievalist interested in reviving the complexity of Chr...5 days ago
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The Reformation of Star Wars - About Three Paragraphs into this article… This guy nails it. Right to the front door of Disney and Lucas. The Reformation of Star War has begun. http://dar...6 days ago
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Public Service Announcement: The US Labor Market is Still Losing Ground Relative to Trend - We keep hearing how good the labor market is these days. We've created more than 16 million jobs since the financial crisis! Unemployment is the lowest sin...1 week ago
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Animals and Women : Feminist Theoretical Explorations - An interesting book was published a few years back, and reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. The book is “Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Exp...1 week ago
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Love & Hate: A Muslim community’s response to a gay wedding - Islam in North America is increasingly finding itself in deep “intersectional identity” quicksand. Recently, we have seen religious conservatives like Li...1 week ago
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Transgenderism and the Neo-Fascism of the Regressive Left - In this video above I talk about two things which allow transgender ideology to survive in the real world. The first is no-platforming and the curtailment ...1 week ago
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Conor, my hero - *The* *Australian*, 15 July 2017 It’s 40 years since the Stranglers sang No More Heroes. “Whatever happened to / All the heroes? / All the Shakespearos?”...1 week ago
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Iron Fist: the Rosgvardiya - Behind a paywall, I’m afraid, but my latest piece on the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) has come out in the latest Jane’s Intelligence Review (August...1 week ago
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Liu Xiaobo - Liu Xiaobo is dead. Who the hell is Liu Xiaobo? A pyschopathic status maximizer from Northeast China. Or may I say a high-IQ status-greedy sociopath. Or a ...1 week ago
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Not my human evolution. - Back in December, I tweeted out some thoughts about a blog post by Jerry Coyne. A lot of people noticed, including JC (who wrote a few response posts) and ...1 week ago
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great leaders - The clearest benefits of Trump's election, from my perspective, are: 1) Matt wants to stay here and get Australian citizenship, and 2) my esteemed prime mi...1 week ago
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How Economics Can Free Itself from Religious Dogmatism - By John Rapley The Irish have been known to describe their notionally Catholic land as one where a thin Christian veneer was painted over an ancient paga...1 week ago
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Some Thoughts on “Seeing Like a State” - James C. Scott, the Yale political scientist, and the author of some of the best books on the history of states, has a new book coming out, entitled *Agai...1 week ago
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On feminism in Tunisia - I visited Tunis last month and one thing I was interested in finding out more about was what kind of discussions Tunisian feminists are having in the aft...1 week ago
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Kenneth Arrow on the welfare economics of medical care, a critical assessment - Kenneth Arrow wrote a paper in 1963, Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care. This paper tends to appear in debates regarding whether healthc...1 week ago
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White privilege does not exist - White privilege does not exist and I’m here to discuss why not, from a common sense perspective. As a so-called black man in America, I’m supposed to bel...1 week ago
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Inevitability of the need for economic growth—the nth time. - Today, I got into a bit of a Twitter spat with Kate Raworth who suggested in a talk to OECD top brass that their statement of objectives (defined, I gues...1 week ago
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Trump’s Warsaw Uprising - Red America found its local champion in Warsaw, versus Blue America's Berlin.1 week ago
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What James Buchanan Told Me.... - [image: Image result for james m. buchanan] ... and everyone else in class. I took two classes with James M. Buchanan. The first was in the late s...1 week ago
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S. Africa Ruling Party Will Downgrade Ties with Israel over Illegal Occupation - The Oliver Tambo Resolution — named after the prominent anti-apartheid figure who served as president of the ANC between 1967 and 1991 — states that the ...1 week ago
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Smart People Are Not Ruining America - Someone sent me an article by David Brooks, “How We Are Ruining America“. Brooks is a conservative columnist, and a capable writer with interesting ideas, ...1 week ago
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Pwned - With a hat-tip to Nick Land: Anti-Fascist, Trump protesters applaud speech comprised entirely of Hitler quotes. This is the best thing on the internet toda...1 week ago
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A Matter of Perspective - If you were going to strip away the layered sociocultural histories that surround opinions like “colleges are bad for America” or “bring back coal jobs”, y...1 week ago
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WESTERN CIV … - A lot of people didn’t get it at the time. Most still don’t get it even now. But my debut CD, American Dreams, was a concept record. It was a foray into we...1 week ago
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Check Out My Appearance on Recovering from Religion Podcast About Islam - Episode 22 of Recovering from Religion podcast, hosted by Emily Karp and Scott Smith is out, and I make a cameo! The podcast begins with a long interview w...1 week ago
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NSFW: transgender post-op vagina - Let me start with something a little on the light-hearted side: IRL I work for a company that has recently hired a trans woman as a technician. It’s a smal...1 week ago
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The Work Lives of Uber Drivers: Worse Than You Think - To be an Uber driver is to work when you want. Or so Uber likes to say in recruitment materials, advertisements, and sponsored research papers: “Be your ow...1 week ago
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Deadline Missed by 50 Years - A young reporter of literary bent is sent in the late Sixties to cover a council meeting, subsequently filing an account that, much to the amazement of the...1 week ago
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The Small Kindness (Qur’an 107): A Magnanimous Solution to the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Positive-sum westerners see “two states” as the obvious solution to the conflict on the land between the river and the sea. But analyzed in terms of honor-...1 week ago
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Just Glue Some Things on It - Misha Burnett, an interesting member of the online book club I’m in, notes that readers of his story in Cirsova Vol. 5 quite enjoy it: I’m rather surpris...1 week ago
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Retro Review of Men Like Gods, by H. G. Wells (1923) - *Introduction* Having gotten into science fiction in the *first* place by reading some of the classics, including of course several of the novels of H. G. ...2 weeks ago
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NORTH KOREA ICBMs: A COLD WAR SOLUTION - North Korea continues its march towards a nuclear-tipped ICBM capable of hitting anywhere in the U.S. Military experts agree they will eventually have th...2 weeks ago
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The Key to the Kingdom, or How I Sold Too Like the Lightning - I want to share an essay today, one of the most personal things I’ve ever written, and one of those I’m proudest of. It’s about how I sold my first novel. ...2 weeks ago
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A Legal Setback for the Fed - Twice here on Alt-M, yours truly has reported on The Fourth Corner Credit Union's attempts to get the Kansas City Fed to grant it a master account, so th...2 weeks ago
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A Legal Setback for the Fed - Twice here on Alt-M, yours truly has reported on The Fourth Corner Credit Union's attempts to get the Kansas City Fed to grant it a master account, so th...2 weeks ago
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Another boat burned - Today, I let another part of my old life go. In a pleasant conversation with a lady from the International Bar Association, I explained that I did not plan...2 weeks ago
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Arriving at Singularity - The Middle East has changed; it faces a period of abiding unpredictability “The one thing the Americans had to get right was not to conflate the defeat of ...2 weeks ago
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The Blockchain and Economic Organization - There are two things necessary for regular human exchange: 1) a way to keep track of balances, how much one has contributed versus taken, and 2) a way to p...2 weeks ago
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Fight For $15: The Forgery of Virtue - Last Friday the Minneapolis City Council approved a $15 an hour minimum wage ordinance however, they were unable to overturn the laws of supply and demand....2 weeks ago
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I guess I need to say this again - Anyone who’s been reading this site for any length of time knows this, but apparently there are some drooling shit stirrers who haven’t gotten the message,...2 weeks ago
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“Nation of Ideas” is a crock - There is a common saying in America that the U.S. is a nation founded on ideas, not the people ruling … Continue reading →2 weeks ago
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Why did Europe lose the Crusades? - A little while ago, I started to wonder about a historical question: Why did Europe lose the Crusades? The conventional wisdom, at least as I've always u...2 weeks ago
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Open Message to the West on Canada Day - Prospective immigrants must fully adopt the foundational values of their host nations and never the other way around. Immigration is a privilege. Protect f...2 weeks ago
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Canada 150 - Before immigrating to Canada, I never really felt attached to a particular land. I didn’t grow up having a sense of nationality to anchor my identity to. ...2 weeks ago
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2017 'Big Unplug' Begins Today - I'll be offline and incommunicado for the month of July. The plan is for normal operations to resume on or about 1 August. I ask my valued correspondents t...2 weeks ago
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A New Economic Vision, in 27 Words - By James Kwak A couple of weeks ago I posted a 6,000-word essay laying out a new economic vision for the Democratic Party. It kind of vanished into the eth...3 weeks ago
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The Return of Peasant Mentality? - Without intending to, I ended up taking a blog hiatus (blacation?) for about a month. But in that month I built up a whole reserve of speculative energy ...3 weeks ago
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The Next Twenty Years - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 28 June 2017.) When most citizens are public housing tenants, they will resist the arrival of sk...3 weeks ago
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Universal Basic Income on ABC radio - The ABC broadcast a panel discussion on the Universal Basic Income on the Big Ideas program on Monday, June 26. I was a panelist.3 weeks ago
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Documentary on Halal Certification in Australia - In 2015 the Australian Parliament conducted an Inquiry into food certification practices in Australia. Public pressure which led to this inquiry was the r...3 weeks ago
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Unhealthy - I have not read the Senate “health care” bill, but from the various summaries around the web, I am confident that Barack Obama is exactly correct in his pr...4 weeks ago
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On the referendum #23, a year after victory: ‘a change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points’ & ‘how to capture the heavens’ - ‘Just like all British governments, they will act more or less in a hand to mouth way on the spur of the moment, but they will not think out and adopt a st...4 weeks ago
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“The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy,” M. Dell & B. Olken (2017) - A good rule of thumb is that you will want to read any working paper Melissa Dell puts out. Her main interest is the long-run path-dependent effect of hist...4 weeks ago
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No, US school funding is actually somewhat progressive. - Note: I have already touched on these issues in a much longer, much broader post on education and on twitter at some length, however I thought it’d be usef...4 weeks ago
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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...4 weeks ago
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Liberals and Immigration - Peter Beinart has an excellent essay in The Atlantic entitled How the Democrats Lost Their Way On Immigration. The article perfectly encapsulates the conun...4 weeks ago
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Shanghai and Batumi - Two cities I have enjoyed visiting and hope to visit again. They are quite a long distance apart and in many ways very different, but they have one thing i...4 weeks ago
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Four Corners/Fairfax Levels Up to US-Class National Security Steno Work on China - There's a big to-do about an investigative thing by Australia's Four Corners/Fairfax Media concerning Chinese influence in Australia. ASIO investigation...5 weeks ago
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Nifong Ethics Trial - This week was the tenth anniversary of the ethics hearing that culminated in Mike Nifong’s disbarment for ethical misconduct in the Duke lacrosse case. On ...5 weeks ago
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Iraq: How I got the Ammo to shoot at the al Qaeda Guy - [image: image001] 15 June 2017 Yesterday, a busy Facebook page published some of my work. This sparked lively conversation. Some Soldiers cued me in. T...5 weeks ago
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Iraq: How I got the Ammo to shoot at the al Qaeda Guy - [image: image001] 15 June 2017 Yesterday, a busy Facebook page published some of my work. This sparked lively conversation. Some Soldiers cued me in. T...5 weeks ago
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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 ...5 weeks ago
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Genomes of straight-tusked elephants - Earlier this month in *eLife*, Matthias Meyer and colleagues published a cool paper: “Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the c...5 weeks ago
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Changes - If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you may have noticed a lack of updates recently. That’s for two reasons: I’ve been overall busier lately and I haven...5 weeks ago
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Real Alcazar (Sevilla) in the late 19th/early 20th c. - The Alcazar (from the Arabic al-Qasr meaning palace) is the royal residence of the kings of Spain. The Alcazar is considered a World Heritage Site, like ma...5 weeks ago
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman - If I ever have grandchildren, which seems a long shot at time of writing, I shall gather them on my knee and tell them of the General Election of 2017. "...1 month ago
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“Fuck your vote!” - That’s what I have been hearing ever since the morning after the presidential election. That what I keep hearing on most cable television and on National P...1 month ago
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What’s Wrong With Our System Of Global Trade And Finance? - That is what John Judis wanted to talk to me about, and we did. This over at TPM is what came out. By the way, Judis' book on populism is great. It makes a...1 month ago
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On Labour's success in the General Election and implications for Brexit - Labour hasn't won the General Election, but it feels like it has, and has good reason to feel that way. Theresa May called the election believing that she ...1 month ago
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Is Islamic terrorism really Islamic? - I always prefer Arab ex-Muslims when scouring for deeper study regarding the Islamic Question. An Arabian, ex-Muslim convert Christian is a serendipitous f...1 month ago
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The State of Sooner Football - About nine months ago I began writing this post in rough form following a pair of painful and disappointing losses to begin the 2016 Sooner football season...1 month ago
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Chinese political operations in Australia: a popular pro-CCP reading - Hua Daodao, a deputy editor in the Huanqiu Shibao‘s commentary department, has written a piece offering useful insights into how the Australian media’s lat...1 month ago
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A Primer on Vehicle Ramming Attacks - This was published last Sunday on Breach Bang Clear. Motoring Jihad: Vehicle Ramming Attacks Chris Hernandez Berlin, Germany. Nice, France. Ohio State Un...1 month ago
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Knock Out: a thuggish MMA fighter demystifies Chinese Kung Fu - Tai Chi is the art of circles. From the body’s smooth spins come strength, energy and an entire cosmology of balance and harmony. But for Lei Lei, a self-p...1 month ago
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Books cost too much! (so I wrote a blog post) - Academic textbooks are really expensive. The current version of Mankiw’s principles text is $186 in hardcover. I’ll go out on a limb and conservatively gu...1 month ago
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Trumpocalypse: Kathy Griffin and the Trump Head debacle - The Kathy Griffin “Trump Head” debacle would seem to be a textbook example of everything that’s gone wrong—in the brains and hearts of American progressive...1 month ago
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#123 – Tang 34: In the Rearview - ACast Link We take a sweeping look back at all 289 years of the Tang one more time before pressing into the 5 Dynasties and beyond, and also take a look at...1 month ago
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Jacobite Magazine - Newly launched. No comment thread there, so feel free to use this place.1 month ago
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Net Neutrality: America's "Other" Health Crisis - It seems like everyone who is talking about net neutrality today worries that we're not talking enough about net neutrality. They're right. So, allow me ...2 months ago
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What’s going on? - The post-crisis politico-regulatory consensus is breaking down. There have been tensions over the past couple of years, but overall the illusion of harmony...2 months ago
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This Gay Life - Its always tough. Imagine, meeting someone that you synch with. For the moment or forever. You going back home, in a place that is safe for you, and for hi...2 months ago
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Being Human - I've just discovered that the pilot episode of UK series *Being Human *is online again, after having been taken down for a while. I first wrote about it ba...2 months ago
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Reflections on 2017 MPS Regional Meeting in Seoul, Korea - |Peter Boettke| I just returned from a fascinating experience in Seoul -- including a Presidential election in Korea that saw a landslide victory for a soc...2 months ago
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Two new books of possible interest - *by Salman Hameed* There are some really good new books out. I want to highlight a couple of interviews with the authors as part of the fantastic New Books...2 months ago
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The Science Behind Heineken’s “Worlds Apart” Ad - Clearly some members of Heineken’s ad agency have been reading the social science literature as evidenced by this recent ad (video below), which has been a...2 months ago
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Don’t abuse history in order to score cheap political points - "What I object to—and what my interlocutors maddeningly refuse to engage with—is the effort to use history and Jewish memory, in particular, the crimes of ...2 months ago
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Some Myths About Interest on Reserves - There are two myths that I see repeated about interest on reserves that I would like to address: 1. “Of course the banking system is holding more reserves....2 months ago
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Britain, America and NATO: Commons Select Committee - On 18 April, I was lucky enough to appear before the House of Commons Defence Select Committee, along with my colleague Dr David Blagden. We were assisting...2 months ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.2 months ago
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Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...2 months ago
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The St. Louis Fed's Macroeconomic Outlook - St. Louis Fed president James Bullard recently gave this speech on the U.S. macroeconomic outlook. The key themes of his talk were: 1. The U.S. economy ...3 months ago
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How many jobs really require college? - It is the conventional wisdom in some circles that we need to send even more people to college. As Bill Gates wrote, “America is facing a shortage of col...3 months ago
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Quick thoughts about airline economics - If you’ve not already read this piece by Matt Stoller challenging the conventional wisdom that airline deregulation in the 1970s has been a great success, ...3 months ago
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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...3 months ago
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where do i go from here? - I am stuck. Feral Creatures has already grown in length and scope. Do I keep expanding and growing the story and if so when do i st...3 months ago
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Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.3 months ago
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A Tale of YouTuber Stupidity - Now if you haven't been living under a rock then you are likely aware that there are a great deal of people on YouTube. A select few garner enough of a f...3 months ago
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Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyin...3 months ago
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Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyin...3 months ago
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Cities through the ages: One thing or many? - VancouverI am in rainy Vancouver, BC. Tomorrow I will give a lecture at Green College, University of British Columbia, with this title ("Cities through th...3 months ago
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My Review of Sebastian Mallaby’s Bio of Alan Greenspan - The latest issue of CIS Policy includes my review of Sebastian Mallaby’s biography of Alan Greenspan. Here is a sample: *Far from being a tragedy, Greens...3 months ago
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Economic History Papers, Articles & Blogs - As a companion to my Economic History books page, which stresses economic history by region or country, I have created a new Economic History Papers page. ...4 months ago
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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.4 months ago
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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...4 months ago
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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...4 months ago
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The Teaching of Economics - In 2013, with funding from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University College London, Friends Provident Foundation, Azim Premji University (Bangal...4 months ago
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28 February 1155: In Celebration of Henry the Young King's Birthday - On the pages of his *Chronicon *Geoffrey, prior of Vigeois, described in meticulous detail how young Henry packed as much repentance into his deathbed as h...4 months ago
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The left and the right ignored their extremists and we ended up with Brexit and Trump - The Observer 11 February 2017 Three types dominate extremist movements: crazies, cynics and creeps. The true crazies are always at the bottom of the heap. ...4 months ago
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Overkill - So, I recently had cause to order some adhesive strips from Amazon, due to an unplanned vehicle replacement. This isn't a complaint thread - they did great...5 months ago
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Norska invandringskommissionen - År 2011 ledde sociologiprofessor Grete Brochmann en offentlig utredning om invandringens effekter på det norska samhället. Detta inkluderade uppmärksamma...5 months ago
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Propaganda as Literature: A Distant Reading of the Korean Central News Agency's Headlines - A rather long post on reading the Korean Central News Agency's headlines I am not putting directly on this blog because it contains interactive graphs that...5 months ago
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Responses to Privilege - Angelique Harris The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two cases which highlight the influence that race, class, disability, and privilege ...5 months ago
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Two More Minutes of Hate - The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This maxim holds not only in geometry, but in business as well. In that situation, the two p...5 months ago
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In defense of science - We are deeply concerned by the Trump administration’s move to gag scientists working at various governmental agencies. The US government employs scientists...5 months ago
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the blog’s not dead… - …it’s just restin’. (~_^) sorry for the lack of posting over the last few months. unfortunately, there’s been a lot of major illness in the immediate famil...6 months ago
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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 ...6 months ago
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Year in Career: 2016 - Pictures and numbers. Not things we usually have to worry too much about as stenographers. In fact most of us got into the game precisely because we are ...6 months ago
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Ten Myths about the Phoney War - new Quadrant Article - A new one of my articles has just been published in the Australian *Quadrant* magazine (Vol. 61 No.1-2, January-February 2017 edition), that attempts to k...6 months ago
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This was never just a recession - Maybe to start with, but not for long. What does a recession look like? Take, for example, the 1981/82 recession, which was deep. Real output falls strongl...7 months ago
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Can pagerank-like algorithms be used to help improve democracy? - In an excellent post Ben Rattray, founder of change.org, suggest that technology can help improve democracy by addressing what he calls three core needs:...7 months ago
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Mein weltanschauung - My friends Ben and Sam have both written posts about which articles and books have influenced their thinking. There’s not a whole world of difference betwe...7 months ago
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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...7 months ago
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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....7 months ago
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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...7 months ago
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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...7 months ago
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Learning Arabic, Persian, and Urdu - I’m writing this to share my impressions on learning Arabic, Persian, and Urdu; I’ve studied all three languages in some capacity. Comparing the learni...8 months ago
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Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done? - This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, near...8 months ago
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501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...9 months ago
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prince, apply to India’s top companies in just 3 steps. - A new way to get placed at India's best companies prince tiwari Introducing LinkedIn Placements * The New Way to Get Placed at India...9 months ago
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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 ...10 months ago
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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...10 months ago
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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…10 months ago
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Paper writing in the age of preprints and twitter - One side effect of the move to preprints is a change in the psychology of trying to get manuscripts published. Instead of targeting a journal, it becomes e...11 months ago
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The Brexit Referendum Through a Behavioural Lens - Behavioural effects may have had a real effect on the Brexit referendum outcome. Look at the question wording, and at the effects triggered by the Leave an...1 year ago
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The Redistribution of Humiliation - The recent EU referendum in the UK has drawn a great deal of attention to voters who had previously been ignored. Communities left behind by the 21st Centu...1 year ago
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Inside the Mind of the Cathedral: How the Left Thinks - Ever wonder just why it is that folks on the Left get so easily outraged and personally offended when somebody disagrees with them? To be sure, everybody h...1 year ago
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My Blog Has Moved Again! - My new blog location is www.richardcarrier.info. I will maintain this old blog as a historical archive as I did before. But every other post I've blogged s...1 year ago
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Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - [image: UNPlenary]At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a...1 year ago
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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?1 year ago
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‘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...1 year ago
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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....1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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結婚したい！それなら電話占いピ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 […]1 year ago
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The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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Farewell to Henry - Henry Harpending (1944-2016) died this past Sunday. He had a stroke a year ago, and then a second one three weeks ago, but apparently he died of a lung i...1 year ago
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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, ...1 year ago
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Comments on the Democratic Debate in Miami - This was truly the most bizarre debate I've ever seen. The level of questioning from the three interviewers, two from Univision, a Spanish-language network...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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 ...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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....1 year ago
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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 ...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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, ...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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 ...1 year ago
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Islamic State Spokesman Calls For Immigration to the Caliphate, All Factions To Join - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on July 1, 2015 On June 23, 2015, the Islamic State (IS) spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani gave a speech, “O Our People, Respond...2 years ago
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Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie. - Further to my Canada Day column Finding the Right Words for Canada’s History I thought I’d put this up. It’s from Rain Language, a long poem in translation...2 years ago
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It Is Accomplished - As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had...2 years ago
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Libertarianism and the Politics of Everything - It is a precept of Athenian philosophy in the Socratic tradition that the impetus to philosophy begins with wonder at the heavens, but the attempt to act...2 years ago
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Inflation and Deflation – Economics A2 Level Unit 4 - A short video on the joys of inflation (and deflation) covering their causes and [...]2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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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,...2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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Quote of the Week - This paragraph is huge, so for the sake of making it easier to read I’m breaking it down (and the paragraph continues beyond the point the excerpt below en...2 years ago
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Biofunctional Psychology and HBD - There is an issue currently being discussed on the Internet about the relationship between human psychology and human biodiversity. For example, take this ...3 years ago
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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...3 years ago
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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 ...3 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner3 years ago
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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...3 years ago
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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...3 years ago
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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...3 years ago
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Have You Heard Your Inner Voice Today? - New Study Shows There's A Reason Why We "Hear" Our Inner Voice4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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A tale of two obsessions - The 1960s was characterized by the unemployment obsession. The 1962 Economic Report of the President (ERP) is clear on that point: Unemployment of 4 percen...4 years ago
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Modigliani-Miller and Yanis’ response No. 2 - Yanis answers once more, directly to the first part of my response, before I had the chance to write my second part. He suggests that we should clearly mar...5 years ago
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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...5 years ago
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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...5 years ago
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“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...5 years ago
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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.5 years ago
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The tax forum as a platform for a grand bargain? - In his Challenges of Federation speech we referred to in a previous article, Prime Minister’s Department Secretary Terry Moran said: *There are business l...6 years ago
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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 ...7 years ago
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