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(READ) Trump on 'woke' Olympic athletes, purple hair, and 'fake news' - - August 5, 2021 - Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist M...2 hours ago
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Chris Chan Rapes His Own Mother--Who Has Dementia - This guy is kind of a living meme or something. I barely even knew who he was before this. He's just somebody people joke about on the interwebs, basically...2 hours ago
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Why Van Buren Is Good News for Cybersecurity - U.S. Supreme Court. (Geoff Livingston, https://flic.kr/p/2jJa7Sf; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) After years of unc...1 day ago
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The social mobility con - Strange as it might seem, we owe some thanks to Digby Jones – because he has reminded us that social mobility is a con. Over the weekend he tweeted: Enough...1 day ago
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Faith Commitments Fuel Dialogue Across Differences - The post Faith Commitments Fuel Dialogue Across Differences appeared first on Heterodox Academy.1 day ago
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Samizdata quote of the day - Like the Soviet Union, the United States has developed a system in which some social classes and races are officially favoured, and some are disfavoured,...1 day ago
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Back In The Saddle Again…. - Check out the open access article on Patreon. Cool news, including (1) We’re back to doing some open-enrollment classes, and (2) I’ll be posting a little b...2 days ago
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On blankfaces - For years, I’ve had a private term I’ve used with my family. To give a few examples of its use: No, I never applied for that grant. I spent two hours strug...2 days ago
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Pro-Government Militia Attacks Surge Amid COVID-19 - Guest post by Britt Koehnlein and Ore Koren The question of whether the COVID-19 pandemic caused a spike…3 days ago
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My submission to the current Senate consultation on freedom of expression - TO: Committee Secretary Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 FROM: Dr Russell Blackford 30 Bir...3 days ago
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More complicated than I thought - This title could apply to a lot of my posts, but the story behind this one is that in February Andrew Gelman sent an e-mail to several people who studie...5 days ago
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Review: The Cellist - [image: The Cellist (Gabriel Allon, #21)]The Cellist by Daniel Silva My rating: 4 of 5 stars Daniel Silva's Allon series is one of my favorite series. The n...5 days ago
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Michael T. Maloney: A Few Memories - Michael T. Maloney passed away this week. We both loved applied price theory and golfed to the exact same handicap. We both liked sailing too and together ...5 days ago
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Lessons From Neutrinos, Part II - Last week I talked about the history of neutrinos. Neutrinos come in three types, or “flavors”. Electron neutrinos are the easiest: they’re produced alongs...5 days ago
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Ben and Jerry: Deluded Men of “Peace” - A few days ago, the NYT (surprise) ran an op-ed by Bennet Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, entitled: “We’re Ben and Jerry. Men of Ice Cream, Men of Principle.” ...6 days ago
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Last Christmas, I Gave You My Head: The Green Knight - David Lowery’s The Green Knight is so beautiful it becomes painful at times. Lush, witty, dreamlike, it retells a 14th Century tale not by updating the s...6 days ago
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Mediocratopia: 10 - I once read a good definition of aptitude. Aptitude is how long it takes you to learn something. The idea is that everybody can learn anything, but if it t...6 days ago
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What can the government do about student associations and free speech? - The Australian this morning reports that ‘Education Minister Alan Tudge is considering cutting off funding to student organisations that attempt to stop t...6 days ago
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China in the 2020s is not France in the 1960s - That sentence seems obvious enough that I would not need to write it. But there does seem to be a strain of thought out there that sees China’s economic sy...6 days ago
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My European Speaking Trip (yet again) - It appears that the U.K. will start accepting U.S. vaccinations in a few days, so I am again planning a European speaking trip, probably starting in abou...6 days ago
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Following in Russia's Footsteps - The revolution of Peter the Great replaced the obsolete squirearchy of Russia -- with a European bureaucracy; everything that could be copied from the S...6 days ago
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Lockdowns, econometrics and the art of putting lipstick on a pig - Summary The effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the COVID-19 pandemic are very difficult to evaluate. In particular, most studies on the issue...1 week ago
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What’s going on with Manhattan residential real estate? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-global-properties/2021/07/29/inside-manhattans-co-op-market-where-prices-are-rising-amid-easing-covid-restrictions/ The ...1 week ago
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St Olaf and Orkney - Doorway in Kirkwall photo by Judith JeschToday is the feast day of Óláfr Haraldsson, king of Norway and saint, who died in battle, killed by his political...1 week ago
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India: Faceoff at Jaipur fort over tribal deities, saffron flag - dispute between the tribal Meena community and Hindu outfits - Faceoff at Jaipur fort over tribal deities, saffron flag Leaders of the Meena community have accused local Hindu outfits of allegedly trying to tamper wit...1 week ago
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Video Dispatch: COVID Strikes Back - The United States is seeing a second summer of rising COVID cases, though this year’s surge–and accompanying COVID-related deaths and hospitalizations–ar...1 week ago
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Kadokawa Will Not Censor Its Manga - A couple of days ago, I mentioned that Kadokawa plans to censor its manga in a larger post about the possible corruption of that industry. Well today, I’m ...1 week ago
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Wide World of ESG: Understanding Investor Demand - As we continue to span the globe to bring the constant variety of ESG topics, I’m reminded of my favorite part of watching live sports: being part of a c...1 week ago
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People Left Cities for Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk? - Zoom towns with high wildfire risk are also seeing the fastest growth in home prices, and therefore the fastest increase in wildfire exposure1 week ago
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LEVELLING UP? MORE LIKE HAMMERING DOWN - This essay, on the government’s new immigration proposals, was my Observer column this week. It was published in the Observer, 11 July 2021, under the head...1 week ago
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Women Rising: Life Stories from the Last Century - In 1920, for the first time, women nationwide could vote in a presidential election. In 2020, for the first time, a woman was elected on a presidential tic...1 week ago
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On Constructs and Mental Illness - Constructs are abstract concepts we use to organize available information for the purpose of (scientific) description and/or explanation. Constructs are ...1 week ago
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Awareness of Racism and Singing to the Choir - In the past few months, I have been exposed to more works by African Americans and to more documents about the black condition in America than usual. So fa...1 week ago
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Guns Are Normal, Normal People Use Guns - My involvement in gun culture has profoundly shifted my perspective on guns and gun owners. Several years into my transition to gun owner and scholar, I wa...1 week ago
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Are the Bank of Canada's bond purchases illegal? - Pierre Poilievre, Conservative MP for Carleton, alleges that the Bank of Canada's bond buying program contravenes the Bank's powers enunciated in the Ban...1 week ago
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The Sad, Discordant Ballad of Husham al-Hashimi - The man who pulled the trigger on Husham al-Hashimi—by first misfiring an assault rifle and then pulling out his pistol to shoot the victim at point-blank ...1 week ago
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Week in review – science edition - By Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye these past several weeks Early humans escaped the worse impacts of massive volcanic eruption [link] “Since ...1 week ago
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Cognitive Hurdles to Teaching Evolution - In another post, I describe research by Deborah Kelemen showing that even young children could grasp counterintuitive evolutionary concepts—a finding that ...1 week ago
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RANDALL COLLINS INTERVIEW: HOW I WRITE; IS EDUCATION NECESSARY; MICRO-RESEARCH ON POLITICS - Interview by Lukasz Remisiewicz, University of Gdansk, Poland *I: Creativity is one of your sociological interests. So I would like to ask about the ...1 week ago
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La Argentina Despues de la Tormenta – Mis Comentarios - El punto clave creo de este libro de Francisco Santibanes, un pensador Argentino, es que la Argentina carece de una vision estrategica de largo plazo para ...2 weeks ago
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Puttin’ on the Ritz - 171 – 162 thousand years ago. It’s fancy dress day on Logarithmic History. Between 170 and 80 thousand years ago, people started wearing clothes. We know t...2 weeks ago
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Israeli Victory, Palestinian Prosperity - Who can resist the optimism of Micah Goodman's op-ed "Israel's Surprising Consensus on the Palestinian Issue" (July 15)? Sadly, the fine print reveals that...2 weeks ago
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Climate risk to the financial system - I wrote a piece for Project Syndicate, here, on climate financial risk. (This resulted from a presentation on a panel at the NBER summer institute risk...2 weeks ago
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13 facts every Canadian economist needs to know - 1. Canada is a big country ...but not as big as one might think. Some maps show Canada as an enormous country, about twice the size of China or the US, sim...2 weeks ago
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On the origin of the Corded Ware people - There's been a lot of talk lately about the finding that the peoples associated with the Corded Ware and Yamnaya archeological cultures were close cousins ...2 weeks ago
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I’ve moved my blog to Substack… - Hello I now blog HERE. If interested in why I did the referendum, read THIS. In 2019, just before going to No10, I wrote about the likely failure of UK cri...2 weeks ago
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I’ve moved my blog to Substack… - Hello I now blog HERE. If interested in why I did the referendum, read THIS. In 2019, just before going to No10, I wrote about the likely failure of UK cri...2 weeks ago
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{Addended] Plaintiffs to Appeal: Indiana Federal Judge, Acting as Judge-Advocate For Indiana University, Denies Preliminary Injunction to Halt Indiana University Vaccine Mandate While Incurious About Lack of Covid-19 Risk to Students (Did Not Insist IU Present Those Data), and Trivializing Unnecessary Vaccine Risks To Undergraduate/Graduate Age Groups - Just learned plaintiffs will appeal decision Res Ipsa Loquitur “decision”. The judge was effectively an advocate for Indiana University. He did not insist ...2 weeks ago
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Queries IV - Whether gold may be obtained from the transmutation of base metals, as tin, brass, copper, lead. Whether life may be restored to an animal dead. Whether th...2 weeks ago
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Remembering the Menzies we forgot (a review of The Forgotten Menzies) - Robert Menzies is, of course, far from forgotten. Despite his death in 1978 he remains a live presence in Australian politics. The Liberal Party he helped ...3 weeks ago
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Lost Generation Philosopher Looks Critically at Critical Race Theory - Critical race theory: exposure of American racism and its history? the latest form of academic Marxism?... or a major distraction from the real problems we...3 weeks ago
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The Fed’s Average Inflation Target (AIT) will soon tell the Fed to aim for DEFLATION - Back in April I warned that given the massive expansion of the US broad money supply we could very well be heading from double-digit inflation in the US la...3 weeks ago
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New Release – In the Wings - I’m batting third again. This time with Barn Find, a story about two friends, a 100-year-old CASPer power armor suit, the invasion of Earth, and excerpts f...3 weeks ago
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Tactical Training Scenario- Crazy Man in the Park - [image: Story 451940027] Written by: Greg Ellifritz A few weeks ago I saw this particular news article and thought that the event it described would b...4 weeks ago
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Crypto, Gold and Dollars - I continue to struggle with the question of where cryptocurrency gets its value. (Note: When I say “value”, I mean private value, as reflected in the price...4 weeks ago
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Chris Best on why the free internet is bad for us and what to do about it - Chris Best While platforms that depend on ad sales must harvest attention any way they can, platforms that depend on people’s willingness to pay must foste...4 weeks ago
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Do Discrimination Self-Reports Follow Principles of Logic? - A possible case of the conjunction fallacy.4 weeks ago
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Imperial America - *Once upon a time, there was a colony that revolted against its ancestral kings and established itself as a republic. * *The people of the former colony co...4 weeks ago
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US investors cool on Australia - I have an op-ed in The Mandarin summarising my latest report on the Australia-US bilateral investment relationship. Text below the fold. There is an even...4 weeks ago
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Let's get Genetic Drift in K-12 evolution education standards - An undergraduate reflecting back on what they learned in introductory human origins and evolution. Perpetual chance change is the only way evolution make...4 weeks ago
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Spywar and Strategy: The Israel-Iran Contest in the Middle East - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 June 2021 The May 2021 round of fighting in Gaza brought with it the upending of the unspoken understanding between Isr...5 weeks ago
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The Cure for Feminism is Not More Feminism - “In the media, politics, arts, humanities and increasingly the sciences, feminist gatekeepers stand guard with an explicit agenda to keep non-feminist, ega...5 weeks ago
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The Tournament at Anet-Sorel: Henry and William Win the Day (Or Are They?) - Since I was not here on 11 June to mention Henry the Young King's untimely passing, amends need to be made. But instead of dwelling on his tragic end I wou...5 weeks ago
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"At the end of the day I think I am a teacher" -- Steve Horwitz (1964-2021) - |Peter Boettke| My dear friend, co-author, partner in so many educational and scholarly efforts since the mid 1980s passed away early Sunday morning (June ...5 weeks ago
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IEA World Congress 2021 - A few words on the International Economics’ Association online World Congress, July 2-6, on the theme “Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in a Fractured...5 weeks ago
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Janet Malcolm on the moral evasion of psychological language - Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer: “The book’s [Harry Cleckley’s The Mask of Sanity] thesis…is that there is a kind of evildoer called a psych...5 weeks ago
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The curious sine curve of equity returns - Occasionally, I take a new look at how equities are doing compared to a long-term sine wave. Over the course of the last century or so, real total retu...5 weeks ago
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Homosexuality Proves the Existence of God - It is with the greatest modesty that I reveal to the world the following argument which nevertheless has the greatest … Continue reading →5 weeks ago
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The Idea of Academic Freedom, Explained by Stone and Forrest* - Does the principle of academic freedom protect Australian academics who engage in pointed public criticism of their academic colleagues, and university g...5 weeks ago
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My interview with Atlantico: Biden, Macron, and a ‘transformed’ America - [The following is the English original of my interview with the French online magazine, Atlantico. The text has been lightly edited. The French translati...1 month ago
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A Hit-Piece on Cliodynamics - There is a remarkably biased and deceptive piece in Foreign Policy with a critique of Cliodynamics, among other things. The Past Doesn’t Tell Easy Stor...1 month ago
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“We believe in making treason odious:” U.S. Veterans of the Civil War Attack the Lost Cause - It was 1866, and the men of the US Army, Navy, and Marines had destroyed the rebellion on the battlefield and ushered in a “new birth of freedom.” Their wo...1 month ago
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A Response to a Response to my piece on The Lark Ascending - An Open Letter to Tom W Green, a composer and musician based in Glasgow. Dear Tom, Thank you for alerting me to your blogpost entitled ‘The Farts As...1 month ago
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Biden-Putin Geneva Summit, June 16, 2021 - This is a summary of the discussion at the most recent of the online Russia Hybrid Seminar Series (RHSS) webinars held on 15 June 2021 by the George C. Mar...1 month ago
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“Old Chicago” and the Freiburg School - Stefan Kolev and Ekkehard Köhler have published a paper in the Working Paper Series of the Stigler Center at Chicago University on the history of the polit...1 month ago
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Still Distracted, But Not Here - My online writing goes back to Usenet, early bulletin-boards and the pay service GEnie, but my public identity as an online writer really began a few years...1 month ago
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What if Japan's attempt at a decisive June 1942 'Midway' battle, had been at Ceylon instead? - Another amusing 'what if' that came out of the current series of 'what if' articles. Enjoy. *What if Japan had made a serious effort to finish off the US...1 month ago
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More on BIPOC and FIVM - There has been some productive discussion generated by the op-ed that I published in the Globe and Mail on May 28th, as well as a certain amount of unpro...1 month ago
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Per Capita - SO many people just repeat the line about the US having the "most deaths from COVID," as evidence that Trump (but NOT the CDC, FDA, and other bureau-neb...1 month ago
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In Defense of Motivated Belief - You open Facebook. It’s 2012, and at the top of your newsfeed is another post from your uncle, an image, telling you that Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a Muslim ...1 month ago
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In Defense of Motivated Belief - You open Facebook. It’s 2012, and at the top of your newsfeed is another post from your uncle, an image, telling you that Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a Muslim ...1 month ago
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Men Out of Focus: Cold War Scientists or Sixties Scientists? (Marko responds to Josh) - Josh’s post got me thinking about my disinclination to more directly acknowledge the connection between the Cold War and Soviet masculinity – esp. given th...1 month ago
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Who starts blogging in 2021? - It’s a reasonable question: who starts blogging in 2021? After all, it’s an old fashioned writing form, and not so many people spend their days reading blo...1 month ago
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Social Media Isn’t the Problem… We Are - When I was a kid, there were serious discussions in churches, schools, and in front of Congress about whether the music my friends and I listened to mig...1 month ago
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Oreskes & Tyson Present a Dishonest Picture of College Faculty Bias - In their recent essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Reactionary Propaganda Rides Again,” scholars Naomi Oreskes and Charlie Tyson take issue wi...1 month ago
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Why are we still not taking anti-Semitism seriously? - By Khadija Khan On a Sunday morning in May, a group of men travelled 200 miles from Bradford to London. When the convoy of cars, draped in Palestinian fl...2 months ago
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The People, Fearing Death, Will Be Reluctant To Move: The Zhu Yuanzhang Suite (1328-1398 CE) - Part 1: Blue Sky, Red Turban, White Lotus, Black Death As the Mongol lords of the faltering Yuan Dynasty continue to bicker and war amongst one another, cl...2 months ago
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Overheard at my health club - Two svelte American ladies of a certain age were having coffee today at my West London health club. They were in the next "pod" to me outdoors as I had a p...2 months ago
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S4 E23: Life at the Bottom | Theodore Dalrymple - On this episode of the Jordan B Peterson Podcast, Jordan is joined by Dr. Anthony Daniels or as you might know him, Theodore Dalrymple, which is his pen ...2 months ago
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DeLongTODAY: China Stands Up: 1978-2020: Part III: China Policy - #### DeLongTODAY: China Stands Up: 1978-2020: Part III 2021-05-142 months ago
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Starmer's First Year: The Signal and the Noise - A year ago, as Keir Starmer strapped himself to the mast of the Good Ship Labour, I joked that "*leading the Opposition is **not so much a job as a mu...2 months ago
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The return to public capital spending - In the time-honored tradition of the Growth Economics Blog, I am coming into a discussion about four weeks late. In this case it has to do with the value...2 months ago
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What is this ‘Culture War’? - Was the term ‘culture war’ coined by a privileged white man who should have gone home before his fifth pint of Old Spittle and Twig at the Fox and Crumpet..2 months ago
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Online talks: Apocalyptic Renaissance, Teaching Power in History, Inquisition, Rare Books - Hello, readers! The past few weeks have been very intense for me with the 2021 run of my Papal Election Simulation, but I wanted to post some links and ann...2 months ago
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What learn-to-code websites can teach us about the future of education - I’ve spent most of my life in school. Mostly as a student but occasionally as a TA or prof. Since finishing my PhD this year and striking out into the pr...2 months ago
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A Sad End - So Scott Winship has responded to my response to his response to my response to his article. And he’s said it’ll be his last word on the subject. That’s ...2 months ago
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A current list of my top problems in pressthink, May 2021 - The things I spend the most time puzzling about these days. Ranked by urgency. Updated from time to time. The post A current list of my top problems in p...2 months ago
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Safe Heaven - Foreword to Mark Spitznagel’s book *Safe Haven [**Amazon**]* *Santa Marina — Karl Popper — Herman Hesse’s Sidharta — Mutua Muli — Porsche’s no substitute...2 months ago
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Discoveries - For a long time, I've enjoyed my IPAs, and a single malt scotch, and good wine. I have now found the Old Fashioned, and realize what bourbon was meant ...3 months ago
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Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...3 months ago
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Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...3 months ago
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The TRICIPS of the world economy - In every era, there is a conflict between the new emerging forces and the old established forces. However, stagnant forces which are not emerging are often...3 months ago
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Labor Force Participation Gaps Between the U.S. and Canada - Am hearing some talk about whether the U.S. labor market can fully recover to its pre-Covid19 levels. Is it possible that a sizeable number of workers wi...3 months ago
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Benefits of exhibition stands - There are numerous businesses that want to earn success and development. Now success is surely possible but you have to work hard for it. A firm owner even...3 months ago
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Statistics for Strategic Scientists – A Clark for Isaiah Andrews - Today’s 2021 Clark Medal goes to the Harvard econometrician Isaiah Andrews, and no surprise. Few young econometricians have produced such a volume of work ...3 months ago
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Guest Essay: Santiago Matamoros in the Americas by Alfred J. Andrea - Main Image: Santiago Mataespañois, (Santiago, Killer of Spaniards) Museo das Peregrinacións e de Santiago. Photo by A. J. Andrea. See also: Guest Essay: Sa...3 months ago
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Misère de l’épidémiologie et variant anglais du SARS-CoV-2 - [Cet article est une traduction du billet de blog que j’ai écrit en anglais pour CSPI et qui a été publié le 9 avril. Une traduction a été réalisée par @...3 months ago
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Philip knew real suffering, unlike the Sussexes - *The Australian, 13 April 2021* There was a dark, sad irony to the Harry and Meghan circus that cast a shadow over the final months of Prince Philip’s li...3 months ago
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“Ain’t Nothin’ but a Party.” - The Tragedy of Liquid Excess – Ultimately, 4 – 6% inflation (conservatively) will stall the bull market – For now, … More3 months ago
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Inconvenient Facts is driving Norwegian warming hysterics nuts - Other than by misspelling "fjord," how would an American geologist draw the ire of a pair of Norwegian politicians? Answer: Write a book that counters t...3 months ago
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The Six-Thousand Martyrs of Georgia (†1615) - *On April 10 we commemorate two large groups of Georgian Orthodox martyrs under the sword of Islam: the Six-Thousand (†1615) recounted below, and the Mar...3 months ago
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Damn Yankees - Fenster wrote: Fenster has a good friend, a doppelganger, really, who is on the board of a non-profit farm in upstate New York. The farm is situated in the...4 months ago
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A Face for the Faces We Meet - The Neurocognitive Basis of Bias Against People Who Look DifferentSummary: Neuroimaging revealed when people saw an anomalous face, the fusiform gyri and ...4 months ago
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Movie Night – Dry Wind (2020) - Marketing a movie in the midst of a pandemic is a tough job. Doubly so when it’s a piece of esoteric queer cinema. At least one clever person has figured o...4 months ago
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“Little Platoons” - In Little Platoons: a Defense of Family in a Competitive Age, the writer Matt Feeney offers a finely observed and persuasively argued set of reflections on...4 months ago
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Humiliation: The Greatest Gift Our Adversaries Have For America - The country of slut and body shaming is about to learn the positive influence of shame. The only question will be, will we learn shame’s lessons? America ...4 months ago
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Marquette to Update University Seal - From the Office of the Provost today: • In case you missed it: Committee working on updating university seal – A university committee appointed by Preside...4 months ago
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This is a test - This is a test to see if the database server issue that froze this blog is resolved.4 months ago
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“We don’t have a chance in hell …”, Canada’s poverty reduction strategy needs real voice - The Minister of Employment and Social Development in the Canadian federal government, Ahmed Hussen, recently tabled an annual report taking stock of the co...4 months ago
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Is all GDP created equal? - Scott Corfe of the Social Market Foundation* has with his team produced an eye-catching report about gambling regulation**. The major headline: while gambl...4 months ago
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EBR: The Most Beautiful Battle Rifle EVAR - I put my trigger finger on the safety of my M14 Enhanced Battle Rifle (EBR), the most beautiful rifle in the entire world. As soon as the team leader gave ...4 months ago
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The Magic of Finding Your Spouse - Hello, friends! Yes, I know it’s been five months since I last updated Agony & Hope (eek!) – I appreciate your patience with my non-activity. Unfortunately...4 months ago
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WHEELS OF DECEPTION: Cawthorn Caught Lying About Car Crash That Crippled Him - Madison Cawthorn, one of the the youngest people ever elected to the… The post WHEELS OF DECEPTION: Cawthorn Caught Lying About Car Crash That Crippled H...5 months ago
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the future - Hey gang, I’m excited to say that Substack approached me recently and made an attractive financial offer for me to blog over there. Given that I’ve been ou...5 months ago
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Gay activist who claims sex with children is not always harmful fronts campaign for gender indoctrination in NSW pre-schools - The Australian gay lobby was quick to spruik that global 'gay icon' Peter Tatchell opposed Mark Latham's efforts to remove gender indoctrination from NSW...5 months ago
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Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and the evidence for people named Muhammad in medieval England - The aim of the following draft is to offer some thoughts on a local name from thirteenth-century Lincolnshire, *Macamathehou*, that involves a version of...5 months ago
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Finito Sic Semper Tyrannis - We are done here. turcopolier.com is working now. I have cancelled all guest author ships here. RSS is enabled on the new blog. Comments will no longer be ...5 months ago
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Nazis Take Over America and Establish a New Reich - With Joe Biden safely in the White House, America’s most powerful corporations have launched a new privatized reign of terror almost identical to Hitler’...5 months ago
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‘Feel Our Pain,’ Politicians Demand - Congress is increasingly not a place where the average member partakes in what’s generally understood as legislative activity, but rather engages in a va...5 months ago
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Mailbag: “Avoidant” - I get a lot of good feedback on my attachment books, even seven years after publication. This one was really touching. I hope you’re well. I read your book...5 months ago
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The limits of the proposed 'behavioral immune system' - Many evolutionary psychologists argue that humans have a sophisticated ‘behavioral immune system’. We are, so the story goes, endowed with a suite of sop...5 months ago
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The Moral Hypocrisy of Celebrities – The Case of Seth Rogen - If you are going to signal your virtue, make sure to live out your convictions fully.5 months ago
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Life Without Trump - I feel like a big weight is gone from my shoulders now that the White House is seeing Life Without Trump. However, he is still infecting the GOP like a f...6 months ago
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The Tragic Effect of the Left’s One-Dimensional World View on the Multi-Dimensional World - I recommend the documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” by historian Shelby Steele. Two things about it struck me. 1) Steele’s term “Poetic Truth” sounds ...6 months ago
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A Reply to Alex Danco: Revisiting MacLeod and the Three Ladders in the Wake of Trump - I will soon be migrating to an alternative site, because WordPress is garbage for running garbage ads without my say; stay tuned. Eight years ago, I wrote ...6 months ago
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Alfred the Great, and Viking History - [image: Assassin's Creed: Valhalla] A couple years ago on this site I “reviewed” Assassin’s Creed: Origins, which takes place in Cleopatra’s Egypt, the sa...6 months ago
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Introducing Astral Codex Ten - Thanks for bearing with me the past few months. My new blog is at https://astralcodexten.substack.com/. I’ll try to have a less unwieldy domain name workin...6 months ago
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Land > Moldbug / Jim - Land’s analysis is always cold and calculated, featuring zero ego or emotion.6 months ago
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Muh Private Company - Over the past two weeks we have witnessed big tech flexing their muscles against President Trump and against a social media site. After a month of labell...6 months ago
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The Classist Undertones of Anti-MAGA Sentiment - Democrat politicians wearing cloths worn historically by an African empire responsible for enslaving conquered peoples and selling them into the Euro-Ameri...6 months ago
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We lost. Now what? - I was preparing this post, anticipating that nothing would happen on January 6, that the certification of Biden would go forward with minor bluster and maj...6 months ago
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Best books I read in 2020 - The best books I *read* in 2020 - generally released in other years - were: - Albert Camus, *The Plague* - Tom Chivers, *The AI Does...6 months ago
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Indoors and introspective - 2020’s cultural highlights - The books, stories, records and shows that got me through a strange year These are personal choices from the culture that I consumed in 2020. If you choos...7 months ago
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An amazingly short history of philosophy - 1. In the beginning everyone searching for knowledge was doing philosophy. There was nothing else. 2. Then, gradually, one scientific discipl...7 months ago
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Quick Housekeeping Note - By James Kwak I’ve been asked if you can sign up for email notifications when I write stories on Medium. Apparently you can, but the option is a bit buried...8 months ago
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Get ready to supply Boomers with land parcels - Realtors, get ready to supply Boomers with land parcels. What does that mean to us who are land professionals? What type of land parcels are they looking...8 months ago
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Dates of US Bear Markets Since 1873 - It's useful to test longer-term rules, such as trend-following, across many cycles. To this end, it is useful to have dates for bull and bear markets. If...8 months ago
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The Strength of Being Misunderstood - A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong ...8 months ago
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Noahpinion has moved to a new website! - Well folks, it's been a fun 10-year run at this little website. I'm moving on to a new platform: Substack! Here's the new Noahpinion: https://noahpin...8 months ago
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Storytelling: Friday Chart Edition - I have not posted here in awhile, so I thought it would be good to share a few recent charts that tell interesting stories. *Central Bank Balance Sheets* F...8 months ago
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Biden's "unexpected powers of resistance" against the blob - David Bromwich, writing in the *London Review of Books* on Biden’s foreign policy nerve: On the face of things, Biden has surrounded himself with the con...8 months ago
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‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage - Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than the govern...9 months ago
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Nation – Large Space – Network - Three topological considerations beyond the US elections.9 months ago
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Yes Atlantic, What If Friendships, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? - The ridiculousness of the article is crafting these two great life riches – spousal love and deep friendship – into competitors. Life needs both and each d...9 months ago
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Subconscious Racism Amongst Whites? - I am compelled to believe that the majority of white people (only in America?) have some kind of subconscious racism implanted in their minds by the indo...9 months ago
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Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies” - Two years ago, when reviewing “The Benedict Option”, I wrote, “Almost all Dreher’s critics accuse him of crying wolf or being a Chicken Little at best … Me...9 months ago
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Likely University Wins in Sept. Appeals - Three accused student lawsuits went before Appeals Courts in September—Marian University (Seventh Circuit), University of Missouri (Eighth Circuit), and Un...10 months ago
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JoEP's excellent editorial on standards and practices - I was so thrilled to read this editorial in the Journal of Economic Psychology. I think they've hit the right balance on every point except possibly 14, ...10 months ago
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Biotin for hair: what can this vitamin do to hair? - What is this vitamin? How does it act on the wires? Does it make hair grow faster? For more insights jump to: best biotin shampoo We know that our hair l...10 months ago
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Upside-Down Markets: Profits, Inflation and Equity Valuation in Fiscal Policy Regimes - I just published a new long-form piece through OSAM entitled “Upside-Down Markets: Profits, Inflation and Equity Valuation in Fiscal Policy Regimes.” In th...10 months ago
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Now Posting At Substack - I'll be writing at The Popehat Report at Substack, and (generally) not here. This blog will remain as a historical artifact and collection of writing. Not ...11 months ago
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2020 Update - Civil Politics remains a free resource and we continue to support some partners who we previously worked with but due to time and funding constraints, we a...11 months ago
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Punish the Jezebel, Or, The King versus Joan in Parliament, 1432 - In 1432, a great lady appeared at the bar of the House of Lords. For my money, it was the trial of the century. She came with a first-class legal team of s...11 months ago
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Left Critics and the Biden-Harris Ticket - .. . By Darren Barany Unsurprisingly (and sadly), many Americans relate to campaigns for major elections in ways that reflect the society’s pervasive indiv...11 months ago
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Humanity’s second “cradle” in Southeast Asia - Pleistocene Sundaland This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib and Spencer talk about a topic which they hav...1 year ago
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The spin on the spin - There's been something of a triumph of spin on the EU's MFF share-out. Oh I don't mean the headlines, which we summarised last week, but the rationale. Spa...1 year ago
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The biggest intellectual nothing burger of the last century? - Douglas Hofstadter's *Gödel, Escher, Bach* contained some interesting musings on recursion, computation, self-reference, and so on. But of course is main "...1 year ago
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Unscrupulous Flattery - (A footnote on Crabtree, Kern, and Siegel, “Cults of Personality, Preference Falsification, and the Dictator’s Dilemma”, *Journal of Theoretical Politics* ...1 year ago
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In Memory of Bob Rossana - Robert “Bob” Rossana died back in February of this year. I was inadvertently left off of the university announcement email and did not hear about it until ...1 year ago
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The social justice steamroller: a pervasive and profound attack on citizenship - Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue, discussed how centre-right parties have not found a language to deal with ...1 year ago
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Migrating the blog - It should be back soon. If you really want it find something right now, it’s all still there, just hiding at a slightly different (temporary) address: http...1 year ago
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Turkey: 28.5% of Generation Z have abandoned Islam - A recent study conducted by Gezici Research Center recorded a massive shift in social and religious attitudes in Turkey among cohorts of Generation Z. In t...1 year ago
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John Cochrane on Stephanie Kelton's New Book: ‘The Deficit Myth’ Review: Years of Magical Thinking - John Cochrane has a review of Stephanie Kelton's new book, "The Deficit Myth". Here it is, for those who don't have access, with a few comments from me, o...1 year ago
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The End - Back in 2011, a group of academic philosophers started a blog called “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” The idea behind that blog was simple, but also somewh...1 year ago
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A good run: Overlawyered, 1999-2020 - I published the first Overlawyered post on July 1, 1999, and I expect this post on May 31, 2020 will be the last. As someone in the entertainment world onc...1 year ago
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Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials - The archaeological site of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is one of the most significant early Neolithic villages to have been excavated. It was occu...1 year ago
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Not which ones, but how many? - Perspective on research from Guoer Liu, doctoral student in Political Science, and recipient of the 2019 Roy Pierce Award “Not which ones, but how many” i...1 year ago
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Not a Whiff of Scandal . . . Yeah, Right, Joe. Sure thing . . . - OK. I was going to write a long warm up/intro to the main topic of this piece, but my anger level kept rising. In light of that, therefore, let me drop the...1 year ago
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Cold War 2 Propaganda - So it seems that hostility to China is now official American policy. Redgov, i.e. the Military Industrial Complex has been pushing it for quite a while, ...1 year ago
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Recent writing - I haven’t written recently on this blog. I wrote for a year at The American Conservative. All the pieces are available here. I also wrote a piece Covid-19 ...1 year ago
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A South African Korean War hero … killed in the Vietnam War - What! South Africa never took part in the Vietnam War, true – but some South Africans did, and two of them lost their lives. Of the two South Africans sac...1 year ago
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One flu over the cuckold’s nest - There have been a few articles like this doing the rounds: What It’s Like to Isolate With Your Girlfriend and Her Other Boyfriend Humiliating and degrading...1 year ago
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Where are the voices of those most at risk of Covid19? - We are in the midst of the most important economic and health crisis for a century on a global scale. Are we tackling the crisis in the correct manner? ...1 year ago
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Time for Individual Accounts at the Fed - As the COVID-19 virus tears through our bodies and our economy, policy makers are struggling to come up with a response that is bold enough to meet the cha...1 year ago
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COVID19 and the ethics of hospital triage decision-making - There is a lot of talk these days about the predicted coming wave of COVID19 patients needing ICU beds and ventilators in particular, and the inevitable ne...1 year ago
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The real problem is also nominal - The real problem is also nominal March 15, 2020 *Confidence level (?): thinking out loud* If I closed my eyes and completely wiped from my mind the fac...1 year ago
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We need our fear and anger to tackle COVID-19 - The most important thing that the response to COVID-19 has lacked in the West, compared to East Asia, is fear. President Xi and his subordinates are afrai...1 year ago
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Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague - [ by Charles Cameron — scientific [precision meets human error in cases of outbreak — with links to a terrific science thread by Palli Thordarson @PalliTho...1 year ago
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A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.1 year ago
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A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.1 year ago
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Steno Majesty - This beautiful lady, known as the White Rose, was Queen Consort Geraldine of Albania in the 1930s. Don’t look closely into her politics – she and her husba...1 year ago
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An Alternative Proposal for the BBC - by Douglas Carter I want to pay more money for product from the BBC. That’s not an intentionally incendiary sentiment. In terms, it’s exactly the correct ...1 year ago
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Network Behavior and Christian Ethics - In designing software for computer networks, the Robustness Principle states "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept" The firs...1 year ago
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In spite of Brexit… - Now that the British exit from the European Union is a legal reality, the economic situation in the UK has been surprisingly sedate. This will be a surpris...1 year ago
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Wuhan: a tale of immune system failure and social strength - For most Chinese people watching the unfolding of Wuhan’s coronavirus emergency, the situation escalated dramatically on Jan 20, almost 20 days after it wa...1 year ago
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Message heard. - I’ve been deeply moved and humbled by the overwhelming response to my post announcing that I planned on shutting down the blog. I’ve reconsidered and deci...1 year ago
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Is evolutionary psychology impossible? - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } Subrena Smith recently argued that “evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible” (Smith 2019). I ...1 year ago
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I now blog on the Volokh Conspiracy - For the past few months, I have blogged at the Volokh Conspiracy, hosted by Reason. I had hoped to give to give this blog, which I founded in September 200...1 year ago
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The utility of directly regulating Floor Area Ratio - In my last post on the obesity of midrise apartments, I mentioned that one possible solution to what I perceive as a problem is to restrict FAR (Floor-Area ...1 year ago
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Australian bushfires on Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera - Last night I was interviewed by TRT – Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera – on a panel moderated by Adnan Azwaz on the Australian fires. My fellow panellists wer...1 year ago
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The Estate of Jerry Pournelle Announces New Website and Facebook Group - To save Chaos Manor and provide ongoing care for Jerry Pournelle’s widow, the Estate of Dr. Jerry Pournelle has launched a new website at http://www.jerryp...1 year ago
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Nineteen Eleventy-Ten - First off: Happy New Year to my 3.6 Loyal Readers, and anyone else who may drop in! I have been terribly silent these last few months, and I believe I ough...1 year ago
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Using Python to Gather Data from FRED for the Solow Model - This script gathers and generates data for Solow. The second two functions plot the data using matplotlib and save the visualizations in a PDF. import pan...1 year ago
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Refuge Seeking in Relative Safety - There is a common misconception among Christians in particular that I’ve been mulling over these past weeks. As usual, my thoughts have been straying to Aa...1 year ago
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The Braais that Bind - A brief meditation on the meanings of South African cuisine for Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. Excerpt: South Africa’s identity is complicated, contest...1 year ago
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The Twelve Days of Christmas: An Analysis - There was a funny piece on the radio about the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," imagining the woman's response to all those gifts. She starts out thril...1 year ago
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A Plea for Third Spaces for Transmen and Transwomen - We are asking you to support our call for the provision of Third Spaces for transgender individuals of both sexes. The post A Plea for Third Spaces for T...1 year ago
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My Pronoun is U: My Life as a Non-Binary Iranian - An article about how my Iranian and non-binary identities have interacted in predictable and surprising ways.1 year ago
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Conservative Sense and Sensibility with George F. Will - Can a revolution be conservative? Can populism? And what distinguishes British from American conservatism? *Washington Post* columnist George F. Will joins...1 year ago
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The Cold War Roots of the African Swine Flu Plague - *[This is the script of a segment on African Swine Flu that I did for Newsbud China Watch in July 2018. Things have gotten worse since then, with the vi...1 year ago
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White views on spanking, 1980's-2010's - 1980's (above) 1990's: 2000's: 2010's: Variables: SPANKING, Years (1986-2018), Race(1)1 year ago
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Den ofördelaktiga utvecklingen av dödligt våld i Sverige - Förra veckan frågade SVT statsministern om ökningen av dödligt våld: ”Du har varit statsminister sedan 2014. Sedan dess har det accelererat. Vilket ansva...1 year ago
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Sex, Schisms and Pseudo-Scholarship - We are seeing open warfare between various feminist and other progressive factions on social media and in the universities. A key divide is between so-call...1 year ago
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Giving Credit Where It’s Due - The US economy is probably going into recession. Manufacturing production is down from the late-2018 highs, retail spending growth, wages and payroll gai...1 year ago
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The CTRL ALT Revolt Controversy - The Original Blog Post and some Thoughts on the Crisis of Where We Find Ourselves As the current culture war escalates into a series of asymmetrical engage...1 year ago
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Moved to http://nymensactionnetwork.org - This site is no longer moderated. Newer posts are at nymensactionnetwork.org and these posts have been moved there also. http://nymensactionnetwork.org Ad...2 years ago
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Important: Nintil.com is moving! - IMPORTANT NOTICE: I’ve been making changes to the way the blog looks like, making it load faster, and adding it a much needed feature, browsing by category...2 years ago
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Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash - I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live chat.2 years ago
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A Corrigendum to V1.3.2 and a Comment to V1.3.3 - Preface The publication of the book written by Richard Lynn and me (Lynn & Becker, 2019) and of V1.3.2 of the NIQ-dataset got a lot of attention and feedba...2 years ago
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Last Posting - To everyone that reads this blog, I want to thank you for following Gavin Kennedy 's expert insights into Adam Smith from this site. Unfortunately, Gavin ...2 years ago
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Guest Post: On Libertarianism - A friend of mine formerly known as Glomar Responder (Mr. X) on Twitter sent over this screed as a guest post. It’s an interesting commentary on the bifur...2 years ago
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Where might better ratings come from? - Suppose you wanted better ratings of intelligence reports. Where could that improvement come from? How could you possibly get it? Some years ago the U.S. ...2 years ago
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Find me on Facebook and at my other blog, Frauds, Crooks and Criminals - If you have missed news about refugees, I’m still writing about them at Frauds and Crooks and as of last night I am back up and running at Refugee Resettle...2 years ago
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The Cold War and the Ascendance of America’s Research University - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 29 May 2019.) ……… These three young universities, all founded in the second half of 19th century...2 years ago
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Crypto-Current (064) - §5.8612 — Decentralization of the ledger requires massive multiplication, and thus an effective method of compression. Only in this way does it become trac...2 years ago
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Blog moving to Spandrell.com - ***This blog is moving to Spandrell.com ***Please update your bookmarks/RSS readers. Spandrell.com, two ls. First they banned Youtubers, but I didn’t say a...2 years ago
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Running for Science: Science for Running – The Complete Series - The 12-episode series is now a wrap! Thank you to everyone who helped in the process, both as a contributor and as a listener. This post is intended to bri...2 years ago
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Fred on Everything is moving! - Henceforth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review NEW! Current column (June 13) is HERE The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of colu...2 years ago
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Fred on Everything is moving! - Henceforth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review NEW! Current column (June 13) is HERE The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of colu...2 years ago
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Data Driven Parenting - A leading economist helps you dig through the empirical evidence on parenting, and the result is essential reading.2 years ago
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More "Interesting" Thoughts about Socialist Monetary Policy - Interest income is forbidden in a socialist society due to socialist ideology. Someone is earning income on their money, when the only legitimate form of...2 years ago
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Catholic Emancipation as a Constitutional Revolution - Antonia Frazer’s new book *The King and the Catholics* brings to light a neglected topic in British history, the removal of legal restrictions on Catholi...2 years ago
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Some news + MMT and endogenous money - I know I haven’t posted in a long while, but I thought I’d give some news. And no it’s not an April fools’! Work and personal matters have taken much of my...2 years ago
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Offended by the term coloured? Let me show you what real racism looks like. - All the screeching about comments like Amber Rudd referring to a ‘coloured’ woman rather than a ‘person of colour’ or Angela Smith saying ‘funny tinge’ sug...2 years ago
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Why Are Children So Expensive? - I wrote this a few months back, but never got around to posting it. Scott’s post on wage stagnation reminded me to post it, because I discuss some of the s...2 years ago
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Seumas Milne and the Stasi - Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of ...2 years ago
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Linguistics and Theology Scholar Challenges Qur'an Origin Story - This blog post has been moved. Click HERE to read it. * Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is ...2 years ago
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Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...2 years ago
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The Sixth Risk is Boredom - Every chapter of Michael Lewis’s The Sixth Risk, as it sounds to somebody who had heard of the federal government before November 2016. John “Curley” Stoog...2 years ago
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Social Infrastructure in Cities Today: Eric Klinenberg's “Palaces for the People” - I just finished reading Eric Klinenberg’s excellent new book, *Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization,...2 years ago
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Reaction and Populism: Towards the Unpozzed Republic - Having been made by elites to dive headlong down the outhouse hole into the muck beneath, the common people have began to notice that it stinks and is very...2 years ago
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Moghul Emperor Jahangir's Interest in Science - *by Salman Hameed* Growing up in Pakistan, I did hear a lot about the Moghul Emperors, but rarely about science. In fact, if science was brought up, it wa...2 years ago
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When big data are bad data - As archaeologists turn increasingly to the analysis of large, systematic databases, we need to confront an epistemological problem: How do we identify bad...2 years ago
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Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube - Apparently the original posting of this (staggeringly brief) talk suffered from imperfect audio (I never listened to it, so I can't say first-hand whethe...2 years ago
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De-criminilazing Homosexuality in Botswana - They have pushed, Queer Batswana, they have pushed to the point that now they believe there is a great chance of getting to the point when they are NOT cri...2 years ago
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Wednesday double-barreled book BOMB! - WEDNESDAY MORNING DOUBLE-BARREL BOOK BOMB! My friend and colleague Larry Correia has been kind enough to double-promote Tuesday’s releases of A STAR WHEELE...2 years ago
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Review - "Some Zombie Contingency Plans," by Kelly Link (2005) - *Introduction: *There is a sort of story which pretends to be about one thing but is actually about something else entirely. This can be done well -- in ...2 years ago
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IDW Halloween Cards - Happy Halloween Folks! (I'll add the rest below the blogpost) I thought I’d have some fun with IDW/Classical Liberal Halloween cards. There's so many more...2 years ago
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New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/2 years ago
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Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle - Gloria Steinem once famously said that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Point taken, but let’s play with it a bit. Let’s ask whether a woma...2 years ago
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For Thomas Hobbes, Politics Was Simply About Doubt and Faith - Four hundred years ago, an English intellectual developed political ideas different to what we may recognize as familiar. 1. Schmitt and Hobbes In his cele...2 years ago
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Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...3 years ago
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New Release: Cato Journal on The Future of Monetary Policy - This issue of the Cato Journal is dedicated to Allan H. Meltzer who passed away on May 8, 2017. Allan spoke at the 1st Annual Monetary Conference in 1983...3 years ago
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A guide to using behavioural insights in local government - I wrote this for Sunderland City Council, following some work using behavioural insights in a range of projects. Although written for an internal audience,...3 years ago
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Caixin’s investigation of CEFC and Chairman Ye Jianming - On March 1, Caixin broke the news that Chairman Ye Jianming of the China CEFC Energy Co. has been detained by PRC authorities, and is under investigation f...3 years ago
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The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...3 years ago
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The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...3 years ago
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NYT Op-Ed on Trump’s DACA Proposal - The New York Times asked me earlier this week if I had any thoughts on President Trump’s DACA proposal. I did. And here they are.3 years ago
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Top 100 in Global Economic Weight - According to the IMF China is the largest economy in the world and has been since 2014. This is on a PPP basis (see here for discussion) and all data is re...3 years ago
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The Power of Positive Persistence - Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House will ...3 years ago
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Assorted Thoughts #1: Applying Averages - This series contains some of the key books, studies, papers and events that I’ve read over the last year. I’ve decided to try to write one of these posts f...3 years ago
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The Last Jedi AAR - The Star Wars movies have never been particularly concerned with accuracy when it comes to military tactics and strategy. From the start, the movies are de...3 years ago
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A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM - Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter account) ...3 years ago
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Introducing Left-Versus-Right Book and Article Pairings - While I have spent my life living in a more liberal milieu, through personal experience and independent study I have found many truths on the right side ...3 years ago
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Why AARP has an entire team dedicated to answering Facebook comments - AARP, the 60-year-old special interest group that advocates for older Americans, has never been shy about flexing its policy muscles or leveraging its enor...3 years ago
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New Immigration Blog - Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe a post...3 years ago
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Sam Biddle of The Intercept Accused of Masturbating in Front of Coworker - Several female journalists have accused their male colleagues of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and worse. They have been compiling their accusations i...3 years ago
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Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence - There used to be more research and debate on the negative effects of labour resistance on economic development, but that topic has been crowded out by the ...3 years ago
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Hurricane Harvey: Thanksgiving in The Wake of Tragedy - “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the ...3 years ago
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Book review: Western Fringes - When I read the blurb of Western Fringes – a Muslim man trying to find a Sikh woman who has run away from home to escape an arranged marriage – I admit tha...3 years ago
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Dunkirk: A Deliverance Worth Cheering - My review of the film Dunkirk and case for celebrating the evacuation: https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/dunkirk-a-deliverance-worth-cheering/3 years ago
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For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...4 years ago
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Plato’s hijacking of Socratic aporia and media-friendly radicalism - In Plato’s early dialogues Socrates leads his interlocutors to *aporia*, a state in which they are unconvinced by their own beliefs and arguments, and do...4 years 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,...4 years 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 years 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 ...4 years 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...4 years 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 ...4 years ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.4 years 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...4 years 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...4 years ago
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Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.4 years 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 years 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 years 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...4 years 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....4 years 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...4 years 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...4 years ago
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Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...4 years ago
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Anarchism - Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable, inclu...4 years 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...4 years 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...4 years 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 ...4 years 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...4 years 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…4 years 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...5 years 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...5 years ago
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Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a joint statement a...5 years 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?5 years 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...5 years 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....5 years 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...5 years ago
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The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...5 years 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...5 years 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, ...5 years 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...5 years 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 ...5 years 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...5 years ago
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History’s Most Exciting Period - What is my favorite period of history? While I love both the ancient-classical and medieval worlds (to use an oversimplification of time not equally applic...5 years 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...5 years ago
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do france and belgium have a berber problem? - i don’t know the answer to that question — i only ask because it turns out that several of the paris terrrorists (from the recent attacks) are of berber ex...5 years 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....5 years 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 ...5 years 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...5 years ago
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We've Moved - The Mischiefs of Faction is now located at mischiefsoffaction.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, here. You can...5 years ago
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ニキビと遺伝の関係について - ニキビが出来やすい肌は遺伝するのだろうか…と思ったことはありませんか？ 親もニキビが出来やすい肌の場合、子どももそうなるのでしょうか。 ■ニキビが出来やすい肌とは ニキビが出来やすい肌というものは、実際にあるのです。 そ […]5 years ago
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What Russian Intelligence Knows About Hillary Clinton - It is my privilege to reveal to you this highly classified National Security Agency intercept which reveals just what Russian intelligence knew about Hilla...5 years 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...5 years 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...5 years 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 ...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 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,...6 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...6 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...7 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 ...7 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner7 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...7 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...7 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...7 years ago
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OxcOOd1199 Error - Windows Media Player is a great way to view your favorite movie content. However, with the program comes the risk of the occasional OxcOOd1199 error occuri...7 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...8 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...8 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...8 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...8 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...9 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...9 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.9 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...10 years ago
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The satisfaction of learning a new skill - Today I learned how to do short row shaping in knitting. It's a technique that is easy to do, and hard to explain. I've tried several times in the past. so...10 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 ...11 years ago
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