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Is time an illusion? - Philosophers Alison Fernandes (Warwick) and Huw Price (Cambridge) discuss with a physicist.16 minutes ago
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Swing voters are extremely real - [image: There are even swing politicians.] There aren’t that many of them, but they matter a lot. With Democrats out of office and the party establishment...22 minutes ago
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Musk to suppliers: return cash, make Tesla profitable - *It's their duty to bail out Musk, keep him a billionaire* *TSLA is dropping some 6% today* The Wall Street Journal broke a story – covered by everybody – t...25 minutes ago
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The Brexit con - Brexiters told us that leaving the EU would be quick and easy and would save us £350m a week. With a chaotic no-deal looking a real possibility, however, J...31 minutes ago
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What it Means to be a Law Enforcer . . . - Guest Post by Eric Peters It is no accident that police have become more brutal – in appearance as well as action – since they became law enforcement. The ...42 minutes ago
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"Hiding The Ball": Liberals Take Over Professions, Then Cite "Expert Knowledge" To Support Their Positions - I've been trying to make this point (at the bottom of the overall-very-interesting quote) for about a year now...not sure "hiding the ball" is the best ter...44 minutes ago
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The Incredible Falling Copper Price - Copper futures have been tanking of late, sinking from of $3.32 per pound on June 8th, to $2.7 per pound on July 19th, a 19% drop. This drop has largely ...48 minutes ago
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Jaipur - I didn't make it to Rishikesh, alas. My friend in Dehradun didn't feel up to it, so I spent the day relaxing at my hotel. On Saturday morning, I took an ea...49 minutes ago
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Trump Warns Iran President Rouhani of Severe Consequences if He Threatens America Again - Pompeo said the Iranian regime "resembles the Mafia more than a government."51 minutes ago
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Betraying The President - Treason did actually occur — however it wasn't Trump who was guilty of it, but rather the political and academic community. The liberals and globalists w...55 minutes ago
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Ending Birthright Citizenship Will Make Republicans Look Like The Party Of Dred Scott - Are Republicans ready to become the party of Dred Scott? I ask, because that's what Michael Anton wants President Trump to make it look like.1 hour ago
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Readers’ wildlife photos (and video) - First a video from reader Rick Longworth, who added these notes: “This spider had just finished molting and was resting under its discarded exoskeleton. Th...1 hour ago
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Racism’s Awkward Rules - If the name Shiva Ayyadurai sounds familiar, it’s likely because he sued Mike Masnick and Techdirt over its calling bullshit on Ayyadurai’s claim that he ...1 hour ago
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Ottawa fails to secure new buyer for Trans Mountain pipeline by deadline - The Canadian government is set to become the official owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion after failing to quickly flip the project to another p...1 hour ago
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Shouting Down Offensive Speakers: Are You Sure That You Want To Do That? - Richard Prystowsky is a former professor of English and Humanities and current Vice President of Academic Affairs & Student Services at Marion Technical Co...1 hour ago
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Right Ho, Jeeves #4 - *THE PRICE OF A DRINK is the fourth issue in the RIGHT HO, JEEVES series, which tells of the travails of the inimitable Bertie Wooster, summoned from the ...1 hour ago
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Old TV Shows - I have been working on some projects that have required me to sit in front of the laptop most evenings. My habit when I have to work in the evening has bee...1 hour ago
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Mr Tacitus, meet Mr Morgan - If the Roman historian could read Piers Morgan’s self-serving apologia of Trump, he’d probably repeat his aphorism “they make a desert and call it peace”. ...1 hour ago
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Dispatches From Mexico’s Southern Border: Mexico’s Migrants - *This is the last in a series of four "Dispatches From Mexico’s Southern Border." Read parts one, two, and three.* Although it’s only 4 p.m., the man sit...1 hour ago
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Should Disney rehire James Gunn? Guardians of the Galaxy stars defend director - What do you think?1 hour ago
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Use and Mention - Tim Kaine, pajama boy, without any breach of logico-linguistic propriety, sez:1 hour ago
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What can you do when policymakers ignore your evidence? Tips from the ‘how to’ literature from the science community - Originally posted on Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy: Put down that huge blue pen. Step away from the flipchart. There is now a large literature on ...1 hour ago
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Monday's Child is Full of Links! - 1. What sort of person does this? It's not like running a red light. There was no chance of this working out well. 2. There has to be more to this sto...2 hours ago
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"If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be... a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea." - A line that explains the movie title "I Want to Be a Shellfish." I'm reading the plot summary of this 1959 movie... On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, To...2 hours ago
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The revenge of the doorstop - I’m damned sure I’m not the only reader who has hoped there’d be just a few more pages… (if you’re a writer who doesn’t read – trust me, you’re doing wrong...2 hours ago
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The Fed and Lehman Brothers - I haven’t read Laurence Ball’s book, but I did see the movie working paper. Ball’s thesis is that the Fed could have and should have lent Lehman the money ...2 hours ago
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Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education - In normal times and places house prices are kept fairly close to construction costs by the ordinary processes of supply and demand. Average house prices ...2 hours ago
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Google was not a normal place - Google was not a normal place, as this disjointed excerpt from Valley of Genius explains: Charlie Ayers, Google’s first executive chef and, therefore, a me...2 hours ago
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The mysterious vanishing of the We Love Trump rally in the UK - While everyone saw the flying baby Trump balloon, did your local Fake News Media show you footage of the “We Love Trump” rally? The ABC includes three...2 hours ago
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Human Rights Violations Established as Security Policy in Zulia - Omar Prieto and Lisandro Cabello are not afraid to violate human rights in order to guarantee security. Their promises to make Zulia the safest state are...2 hours ago
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Hamilton the Lawyer - “Colonel Hamilton, by means of his fine melodious voice, his reasoning powers and persuasive address, soared far above all competition.”2 hours ago
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It's a hell of a way to die - *CAUTION: This post contains graphic descriptions of a very unusual and extremely painful form of death. Do not read it if you're squeamish.* I was s...3 hours ago
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Black Working-Class Voices Doing It for Themselves - As a kid I didn’t expect to see myself reflected in a majority of the TV shows I saw or the magazines and papers I read. It was the same for many children...3 hours ago
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New Rs 100 banknote: first made in India note? - RBI just released a new design of Rs 100 currency note. Came across this ToI news which said this is the first indigenous/made in India note. Its design, c...3 hours ago
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English article-Need to uphold Pluralism in India - How do we Promote Peace in India, Today? Ram Puniyani We are passing through times when Hate against weaker sections of society and religious minorities is...3 hours ago
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Posting slowdown - Posting will be slow over the next week as I work on a writing deadline. Tags: about the site Posting slowdown is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling ...3 hours ago
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Harlan - Above: A memorial portrait of Harlan Ellison by Bill Sienkiewicz. Volatile. Bellicose. Pugnacious. Belligerent. Antagonistic. Truculent. Combative. Obstre...4 hours ago
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A Failure at State-Building, Hamas Sticks to Military Buildup in Gaza - Hamas has built up its military wing at the expense of ordinary Gazans, for whom it has completely failed to provide reliable civilian services. Its insist...4 hours ago
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Koch Industries Is Staffing Up with Voter Data Scientists to Tip the November Election to the Extreme Right - For at least forty years, Charles and David Koch, majority owners of a sprawling fossil fuels multi-national company called Koch Industries, have been blur...4 hours ago
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South Vietnamese Troops Almost Fought on Battle Bicycles - This story originally appeared on March 26, 2016. In early 1965, villagers across South Vietnam might have watched a curious military formation race throug...4 hours ago
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Population ageing can't be balanced by migration - A headline in The Conversation today attracted my attention for all the wrong reasons: *Migration helps balance our ageing population – we don’t need a mor...5 hours ago
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A Frenchman with an interesting hobby - This is a bizarre story which hasn’t received much attention in the UK, but is getting plenty in France. The incident took place in a popular tourist spot ...5 hours ago
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I return to the outpost of civilisation - *On Saturday I went back to Pacuiul lui Soare with Mihai once more and a visiting friend. This time the sand was not as hot as coals, or hot at all, the ri...5 hours ago
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Beach umbrellas impaling East Coast women - [ by Charles Cameron — the writer is an indoors man, both literally and in GM Hopkins’ metaphorical sense ] . The first event took place in Seaside Heights...5 hours ago
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Investors Split Their Forward-Looking Attention As Market Nears Record Highs - Earnings season for 2018-Q3 is off to a positive start, and with the S&P 500 now just 2% away from setting new records, investors have shifted a portion ...5 hours ago
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Victor Deloya, Oslo Children leader, dies - * With thanks: Soly Anidjar and Michelle* *Victor Deloya, one of the main organisers of the migration of Jewish children from North Africa to Israel via ...5 hours ago
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Did the Vatican get it right on the global financial crisis? - A long document on the economy has strengths and weaknesses Read more...6 hours ago
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Why moderating this weblog has become more difficult - This is still a modest weblog. But engagement is high (average time on the website is 4+ minutes). And the proportion of Indian readers getting is higher a...6 hours ago
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Elsewhere (278) - Grace Gottschling on what it takes to be a woke law professor: A Yale University law professor encouraged people to “hide” illegal immigrants from the Immi...6 hours ago
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The Coming Theocracy: Boogeyman of the Left - Once gain, paranoia is working its way through the cultural Left. It broke out during the candidacy of John F. Kennedy and with the presidency of George W....6 hours ago
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Macro Afternoon - A sputtering start to the trading week here in Asia with most stock markets having a bad day, except in China, while currency markets are reacting to Tru...6 hours ago
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Open Thread 106.5 - This would normally be one of the hidden open threads, but I’m posting it visibly so we can sort out issues around the adversarial collaboration contest. A...6 hours ago
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DESIGNER BABIES AND DYSTOPIAN VISIONS - This essay, on the debate about genome editing, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on being banned in Pakistan, a ...7 hours ago
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My Wonderful, Inspiring, and Embarrassing Hike In the Cleveland National Forest - As is often my practice, I used an out-of-town speech this week to experience another of our wonderful national parks. …7 hours ago
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Politics in turmoil - conditions favour the extremists - WE have had an unequivocal assurance from Mrs May in the past few days that there will not be a second Brexit referendum. Of course, that means nothing. Mr...8 hours ago
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Jessica Price and James Gunn on Free Speech - Below are Jessica Price’s comment on the firing of James Damore from Google and James Gunn’s remarks on Brendan Eich’s firing from Mozilla. … Advertisements8 hours ago
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The Imperial Naivete of the American Public - *The nation's premier corporate profit engines / social media giants are the ideal platforms for undermining the U.S. via the sowing of disintegration.* *W...9 hours ago
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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Theybies Grow Up To Be Cowqueers - by Jim Goad In the tiny sheltered pampered enclaves of coastal American cities, some parents are refusing to reveal their children’s biological sex to anyo...9 hours ago
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American Pravda: The Bolshevik Revolution and Its Aftermath, by Ron Unz - Although I always had a great interest in history, I naively believed what I read in my textbooks, and therefore regarded American history as just too blan...9 hours ago
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Comments On The Carter Page FISA Warrant Application - Saturday evening in the very middle of the summer, and suddenly the Justice Department finally releases a number of long-sought documents relating to the T...10 hours ago
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Nightcap - How conservatives won the law Steven Teles (interview), Wall Street Journal Libertarians in the Age of Trump Ross Douthat, NY Times Political theory for an...10 hours ago
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The gun gap (again) - The correlation between gun ownership rates at the state level and Romney's share of the presidential vote in 2012 was a robust .78. Late last year into ea...11 hours ago
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The Case Against The Case Against Education: How Did We Get Here? - “But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why d...11 hours ago
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Rick & Morty Co-Creator Dan Harmon DELETES TWITTER After Baby Rape “Comedy” Bit Surfaces - Dan Harmon, you know him, right? He’s the creator of NBC’s Community, and co-creator of the Adult Swim animated hit, Rick and Morty. Well, it looks like ...11 hours ago
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Look out, look out, don’t lose your minds - Not your call, dude. Democrats, please, please don’t lose your minds and rush to the socialist left. This president and his Republican Party are counting...12 hours ago
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The Whiskey Rebellion, by David Henderson - I’ve been at my cottage in Canada since last Monday. Thus the drop off in blog posts. I’ve been doing a lot of reading and so the next few posts will be ...13 hours ago
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We Looked Nothing Like Love - it was either acknowledging we were living in hell and calling it home, pretending nothing was out of ordinary in that relationship we called a residence, ...13 hours ago
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Well, Johan Is Running That Way with a Rifle, and... - Hans is running in the same direction with a rifle, and Eugen is also doing that. Methodological individualism says that is the way we have to explain Ge...14 hours ago
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Why Didn't China Give Birth to Democracy? - Yuhua Wang and Mark Dincecco have an interesting paper out in the Annual Review of Political Science. The paper offers and tests a new hypothesis for why E...14 hours ago
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You can’t win with insults - [D. H.] Lawrence tells me that because I have been to a public school I am a eunuch. Well, what about it? I can produce medical evidence to the contrary, b...14 hours ago
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Is This A Sign of Contrition From Disney - Okay, this one came out of the blue. Dave Filoni was supposed to be working on a show called Star Wars: The Resistance This is not that.15 hours ago
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Is This A Sign of Contrition From Disney - Okay, this one came out of the blue. Dave Filoni was supposed to be working on a show called Star Wars: The Resistance This is not that.15 hours ago
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Who Broke Brexit? - *Japan Times*, February 2018 In the mid-nineteenth century, the Victorian statesman Sir James Graham used to console himself at difficult moments with the ...15 hours ago
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That Tor Library eBook Lending Thing - Last week Tor Books announced that it would start windowing ebooks for libraries, which means that new ebook titles from Tor would now be available to libr...16 hours ago
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Pagan scholarly journal to focus on art, fashion - MELBOURNE, Australia — Witchcraft, says Caroline Tully, an honorary fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbo...16 hours ago
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July Maritime Natsec Melee - NATO, Russia, the Chinese Navy, Australia's pocket fleet of the future and a potpourri of other issues that come across the transom - it's Midrats Melee! ...17 hours ago
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Trying to Tell the Liberals Something - From the Chapter 2 manuscript…to copy into the folder marked “That’s quite good, isn’t it? Think I’ll keep that”… Sisyphus, in Greek legend, was an arrogan...17 hours ago
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I am shocked, shocked to find that Court-packing is going on in here - I do not want Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, just as I did not want Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. But some of the complaining from my ideologic...17 hours ago
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FISA Fraud by Obama's DOJ and Intel Community by Publius Tacitus - There is a growing body of evidence that the FBI leadership engaged in a criminal conspiracy and that the Department of Justice senior leaders were enthusi...18 hours ago
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Jefferson’s Conversation with Washington, 10 July 1792, and What Came Before: Weekend Reading - Washington thought it was fine that Jefferson argued with Hamilton inside the continent, but that funding and stoking opposition to policies once Washingto...18 hours ago
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In Memoriam: TV Knights & Radio Daze - We learned this week of the death of Adrian Cronauer, famous as the wild and wacky military radio DJ during a tour of duty in Vietnam, made even wilder and...18 hours ago
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to call things by their right names - The basic condition of the American radical left, today, is a rising social democrat movement that, for complex (and predominantly social) reasons, insists...20 hours ago
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The perils of ‘near-tabloid science’ - by Judith Curry A remarkable essay by esteemed oceanographer Carl Wunsch. While doing a literature survey for my paper on Climate Uncertainty and Risk, I ...21 hours ago
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NGDP futures via blockchain: Market monetarism meets cryptocurrency (And: how to set up a prediction market on Augur) - Scott Sumner has famously proposed that the Fed stabilize monetary policy by pegging nominal GDP futures contracts in such a way to ensure that expectati...21 hours ago
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More Theory - I’ve been pondering some of the points Robert Plomin has made in Blueprint, and I find myself thinking about some things that he doesn’t say, but should h...21 hours ago
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Writing Problems - The problem with having a bunch of writer friends is that we've all heard the same piece of advice a blue jillion times, and in turn we dispense it almost ...21 hours ago
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There They Blow! - Iyov is my favorite book of Tanach (and I am grateful that it may be studied in Tisha B'Av). It is fascinating, disturbing, challenging, subversive, profou...21 hours ago
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Review The Iran-Iraq War - *Razoux, Pierre, **The Iran-Iraq War**, Cambridge London: Belkmap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015* Pierre Razoux in *The Iran-Iraq War* was able t...22 hours ago
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Episode 152: Scott Adams Talks About Putin, Lying and Carter Page - Topics: The media shapes our opinion on topics They’re programming our brains If MSM stopped reporting their opinions, and just reported news… Would we ...22 hours ago
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Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike and Sunday Book Promo - Sunday Book Promo *Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog. Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that we’ve read...22 hours ago
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Great Moments in British Government - A couple of days ago, citing bizarre government policies in India, Belgium, Malaysia, Romania, and Spain, I wrote about some “great moments in foreign gove...22 hours ago
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On the referendum #24K: Observer fake news and a suggestion — I and the MPs discuss this with all of us under oath - Very short blog re the Observer story… As usual the news these days is very confusing. I have never refused to give evidence to MPs. I offered to give evid...22 hours ago
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On the referendum #24K: Observer fake news and a suggestion — I and the MPs discuss this with all of us under oath - Very short blog re the Observer story… As usual the news these days is very confusing. I have never refused to give evidence to MPs. I offered to give evid...22 hours ago
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A good argument for Brexit - A friend referred me to a relatively new site “Briefings on Brexit” yesterday which I checked out with interest. It was started by academics who were fed u...22 hours ago
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The role of identity politics in the Remainer Revolt - There is a new piece of mine up on the Briefings for Brexit website: 'The role of identity politics in the Remainer Revolt'. Click here to read.22 hours ago
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Are Entrepreneurs Irrational? (According to Standard Economic Theory) - For me the greatest eye-opener in The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley by Victor Hwang and Greg Horowitt was a realization that...22 hours ago
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"Cluster Failure": fMRI False Positives Revisited - Two years ago, a paper by Swedish neuroscientist Anders Eklund and colleagues caused a media storm. The paper, Cluster Failure, reported that the most wide...23 hours ago
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The Best Case Scenario For Trump Attacking The Fed - It's bad news that President Trump is attacking the Fed. But if he can make his party less afraid of low interest rates and a little inflation that would b...23 hours ago
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Samizdata quote of the day - As Mr O’Toole says it doesn’t need a majority just enough people that are prepared to use intimidation, at which point I look at Antifa and their habit o...23 hours ago
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How should the Chinese media approach Belt and Road reporting? - A conversation with Michael Anti, award-winning journalist, blogger and veteran media observer *This blog is republished from my new blog site Panda Paw Dr...23 hours ago
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Of statistics class and judo class: Beyond the paradigm of sequential education - In judo class they kinda do the same thing every time: you warm up and then work on different moves. Different moves in different classes, and there are ...1 day ago
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Weekly Links - By Patrick Pierson. Puerto Rico is still working to get the power back on in the wake of Hurricane Maria…the state power company has seen three CEOs over t...1 day ago
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LATTICE 2018 at MSU - The 36th Annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory begins tomorrow, hosted by MSU. My opening remarks are below. No peeking if you are an atte...1 day ago
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Habermas and pimps: the world of the day and the world of the night - The Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was assassinated in 2003, after being in power for less than three years (the first PM after the fall of Milos...1 day ago
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The Ruin We Cradle – A Poem - Each one of us has temptation; Tis something seeks us to bring down; A flesh-pull of being which echoes of meaning; And makes us lose sight for to drown. S...1 day ago
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Indo-Pacific beads from Europe to Japan? Another fifth- to seventh-century AD global distribution - The aim of the following post is to briefly discuss another global distribution from Late Antiquity, this time of Indo-Pacific beads. Indo-Pacific beads we...1 day ago
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Update III, Helsinki, Trump, Putin, and Tweets - Hopefully, this is the last of these just-to-keep-things-ticking-over-with-some-tweets posts. Last week, I had a Needs Assessment by an Occupational Ther...1 day ago
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Housing: Part 312 - An introductory slide deck to my new view of the housing boom and financial crisis - Here is a slide deck introducing my work on the housing bubble and the financial crisis. I will keep a version of this in the page links in the right marg...1 day ago
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Trump babies - London Squalling. The “Trump Baby” balloon was the most visible symbol of the days-long diarrhea fest that the haggard and perpetually sourpussed English l...1 day ago
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Big Edna and the decline of the arts - New contributor James Gervaise talks about the hijacking of the arts by the bitter, unfulfilled feminists who have dealt a fatal blow to the industry.1 day ago
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More on the Lack of Romance in Modern Media - I’ve talked about the denigration of romance in modern media before, and once again, my social media friend Misha Burnett hits it out of the park with a ...1 day ago
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Putting on the Ritz - 173-164 thousand years ago. It’s fancy dress day on Logarithmic History. Between 170 and 80 thousand years ago, people started wearing clothes. We know thi...1 day ago
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Interesting Article, But Note This Throw-Away Sentence on Who Has Power in America - Here. The article, in New York Magazine, calls into question the prevailing view among social scientists that conservatives are more intolerant and authori...1 day ago
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Review: Sports: The First Five Millennia - [image: Sports: The First Five Millennia] Sports: The First Five Millennia by Allen Guttmann My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is an ambitious project: telling...1 day ago
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The New Talented Tenth - Among the cohort of young Americans who were in 9th grade in 2009, somewhat over twice as large a percent of immigrants or children of immigrants attend or...1 day ago
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Ballet of the past - The ballet “La Sylphide” (not to be confused with the ballet “Les Sylphides”) is an old Romantic warhorse. It’s one of the oldest ballets—maybe even the ol...1 day ago
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Universal Basic Income - I make three arguments for UBI. They are neither mutually exclusive nor exhaustive. And there are good counter-arguments. But I am surprised at how many ...1 day ago
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The Capture of An ISIS Wife - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 July 2018 Turkish police announced on 19 July that they had arrested the wife of Tarkhan Batirashvili (Abu Umar al-Shisha...1 day ago
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The Chicken Paper Conundrum - Harald Uhlig delivered a talk on "Money and Banking: Some DSGE Challenges" (video here, slides here) at the Nobel Symposium on Money and Banking recently h...1 day ago
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Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (July 14–21) - The EU’s record-breaking antitrust fine against Google might be too little, too late; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thanks one of his biggest advertisers, P...2 days ago
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Nerd childhood piece: how I decided to become a mathematician - I’ve got a new Bloomberg View column out about how I decided to become a mathematician: How Dominoes Helped Make Me a Mathematician Proofs can be empowerin...2 days ago
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The predominantly ‘white’ armed struggle against Apartheid - Huh! There was also a ‘white’ ‘armed insurgency movement against Apartheid! The ‘whites’ had their own ‘struggle’ insurgents, their own version of ‘umkho...2 days ago
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A Mycenaean and an Iron Age Iranian walk into a bar... - What do they have in common? The same type of Near Eastern ancestry? From Iran? Nope, that's a joke. Obviously, they share the same type of steppe ancestry...2 days ago
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Palaeontology and the Photographic Trace - Some time back I took a group of students to the Galerie d'Anatomie Comparée at the Jardin des Plantes. This is the famous collection of skeletons laid out...2 days ago
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Did Buchanan support segregated school vouchers? - Last summer during the peak of the Democracy in Chains scandal, Georg Vanberg brought two letters to light in which James M. Buchanan shared his private th...2 days ago
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Apollo 11 - Some blurbs about today (20 July) being the 49th anniversary of the moon landing of Apollo 11 caught my eye today. Since Jerry was well-versed in space tra...2 days ago
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Trans Activism’s Dangerous Myth of Parental Rejection - When children and adolescents experience gender dysphoria, our aim should be to provide them with treatment of the highest standard of care. We should be...2 days ago
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The Failure of Magna Carta - The Introduction to the Medieval Warfare magazine issue on 'A War for England - the First Barons' War'2 days ago
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New Book - Per the request of a number of readers, I am announcing a pre-sale event for the new book. The new book is titled Guerrilla Gunfighter, Volume One: Clandes...2 days ago
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President Putin: How to Get the Progs to Love You - Dear President Putin: I know you are very busy these days trying to maintain Russia as a major power on the world stage. You had it pretty easy for most of...2 days ago
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Naked Lady of the Week: Iris Pantuhina - Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: There’s something about a cool redhead like Iris. And I would describe this neatly configured, very poised Crimean as cool, tho...2 days ago
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Artificial Intelligence, Risk, and Alignment with Roman Yampolskiy - My guest today is Roman Yampolskiy, computer scientist and AI safety researcher. He is the author of multiple books, including Artificial Superintelligen...2 days ago
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Fallacies physicists fall for - In his essay “Quantum Mechanics and Ontology” in his anthology *Philosophy in an Age of Science*, Hilary Putnam notes that “mathematically presented quan...2 days ago
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Trump-hating director James Gunn fired by Disney for old tweets - http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/07/20/guardians-galaxy-filmmaker-james-gunn-addresses-unearthed-tweets-about-rape-pedophilia.html Ha ha. Love it w...2 days ago
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SJWs Converge on Medieval Studies—in Real Time! - Unlike their modernist colleagues, medieval historians rarely get to study events as they are unfolding in real time. Usually we are stuck in the library, ...2 days ago
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Nobel Symposium on Money and Banking Day 2 - Day 2 of the Nobel Symposium on Money and Banking focused on monetary policy. (My last post covered Day 1 on banking.) *Bernanke* Sadly Ben Bernanke's vi...2 days ago
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IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. My colleague Rebecca Rouse guest edits today’s faiV newsletter from NYU’s Financial Access...2 days ago
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Collusion Takes Many Forms - W.J. Astore Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: The supposed big news here is that Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, didn’t know...2 days ago
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What Do You Do About The Haters And Losers? - I posted up some of the hate I receive regularly last night on social media, when a random person took to a wall and from that comment on actually spent th...2 days ago
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Is the Russia-America Global CoDominium About to Begin? - In the wake of the Putin-Trump Helsinki summit, there is much speculation about what was actually said between Putin and Trump behind closed doors and the ...2 days ago
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Rand in *The Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts* by Women Philosophers - I wrote this brief entry on “Self-interest in Ayn Rand”, contrasting her view to the strong nativist e.g., Christianity, Freud)2 days ago
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David Sedaris Visits a Gun Range in My Home Town - Reading The New Yorker magazine recently — or, rather, listening to it on Audible because I don’t have much time to read — I was interested to come across ...3 days ago
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Going away! But, am leaving you with summer reading! - I’ll be leaving today for a ten day visit to various family members in the west. It is going to be a challenge to not write a post for those ten days. It ...3 days ago
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Andy Smarick on Hayekian thinking in education reform - Andy Smarick: As Hayek noted, if we believe that all valuable institutions are the work of human planning, it’s a short step to the view that we have compl...3 days ago
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Little Atoms podcast 524 - Miranda Doyle’s A Book of Untruths - Miranda Doyle's family come from the tiny island of Coney in Sligo Bay. She grew up in Edinburgh alongside three brothers and a suspicious number of ill...3 days ago
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Duping Delight - Experts can tell a person is lying based solely on observation. They use a package of skills; including careful observation of tiny variations in facial ex...3 days ago
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Nick Lardy on the crowding-out of private investment - The Australian National University’s annual free China Update book is bigger and more interesting than usual this year, in honor of the 40th anniversary of...3 days ago
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A Matter of Perspective - There are certain subtleties of human relations that elude liberals entirely. One of these is the concept of perspective. What you think about yourself is ...3 days ago
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Freakouts Cause Flashbacks–to Montenegro, of All Places - The freakout du jour–Trump’s questioning whether it made any sense to have Montenegro in Nato–triggered a flashback (from inauguration day, in fact): Anoth...3 days ago
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Linkola, Montana - Ecofascism, more than any other right-wing movement, is destined for a surge in popularity as environmental collapse draws closer.3 days ago
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Quiver Doodles - I don’t know if this is still true, but I once read about exploited workers in the ship-breaking industry who were worked so hard, and paid so little, they...3 days ago
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415 Ink Savior On Sale at Dreamspinner Press. Now $4.15 for the ebook. Ends July 21. - Savior, eBook 2 of 415 Ink by Rhys Ford is on special pre-order sale. The price? $4.15, of course! Pre-order sale ends Saturday, July 21 at 11:59 PM ET. ht...3 days ago
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American Revolutions: A Continental History 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor (2016) - The picture which you have drawn, & the accts which are published, of the commotions & temper of numerous bodies in the Eastern States, are equally to be l...3 days ago
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The “New Questions of Philosophy” - “What subjects are now being confronted at the frontiers of philosophical inquiry, breaking from the familiar philosophical concerns of canonical figures...3 days ago
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Think of Your Dissertation as Your Longest Work, Not Your Best Work - You* know how to write a decent seminar paper. You've done it at least a dozen times. So why is it so hard to get going on that dissertation? [* for valu...3 days ago
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On the Writ of Erasure Fallacy - In a powerful new article, Jonathan Mitchell lays to rest one of the biggest myths on Constitutional Law: that the power of judicial review is akin to a ve...3 days ago
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Illinois Attorney General Stomps Notorious Censorious Jerkass Dennis Toeppen and His Infamous Suburban Express - Long-time Popehat readers may remember the persistently loathsome Dennis Toeppen and his what-if-you-had-a-racist-vexatious-litigant-bus-company Suburban E...3 days ago
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EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIAL INFLATION: AN INTERVIEW WITH RANDALL COLLINS - The following questions were posed by a Chinese on-line newspaper, The Paper [https://www.thepaper.cn]: [The Paper:] 1*. **The Credential Society* was p...3 days ago
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Stop Trying to Change Yourself - You can’t change yourself, so don’t even try. I know that’s not what the infomercials and self-help seminars tell you. But fuck it. They’re wrong. You c...3 days ago
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A New University Manifesto - “Higher education is in a lot of trouble, barely kept on track by massive price increases, grade inflation that keeps the mostly inattentive customers se...4 days ago
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In Praise of Potsdam - An old post that rings true today: I am writing this from Potsdam, a smallish (160,000 inhabitants) German city southwest of Berlin where my wife and I ...4 days ago
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Episode 79 - Dark Energy – Peak Oil and its Consequences - Download RSS ------------------------------ Energy is the single most vital ingredient after human capital to sustaining an advanced industrialized econ...4 days ago
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Too Late for Darwin - Er… A theatre director who was allergic to wasps died after he was stung and fell from a ladder, an inquest heard. Michael Gibson, 66, [...]4 days ago
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Fed Policy - by Jerry O’Driscoll Fed Chairman Jerome Powell testified to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. It was the semi-annual testimony m...4 days ago
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Latest Montague Filing - Former Yale basketball captain Jack Montague’s lawyer has filed his motion opposing summary judgment in his lawsuit against Yale. I’ve written extensively ...4 days ago
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Martin Wolf Reviews Adam Tooze on the 2008 Financial Crisis - The eminent Martin Wolf, a fine economist and the foremost financial journalist of his generation, has written an admiring review of a new book (Crashed: H...4 days ago
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World trade is squarely in the firing of the Trump revolution - I get a mention in this article by David Uren on the end game for the Trump Administration’s trade war with the rest of the world.4 days ago
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The First Principles of Western Civilization - The core principles upon which Western Civilization and The Constitution rest, are: 1. Primacy of the individual (Class, race, sex, sexual orientation, re...4 days ago
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The Insight show notes: Episode 29, The Genetics of China, Han & Beyond - This week Razib and Spencer discussed the genetics and history of China on The Insight (iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play). Chinese history looms large in...4 days ago
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The View From Olympus: The Real Cost of NATO - President Trump is right to raise the issue of Europe’s NATO members not spending enough on defense. For decades, those countries have been NATO’s welfare...4 days ago
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Abigail Adams, Bonobo: Darwinian Feminism & The Declaration of Independence - On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband John, who was in Philadelphia as a delegate to the Continental Congress. After passing on m...4 days ago
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Is Brett Kavanaugh an originalist? - If there is one thing that Kavanaugh’s critics and most ardent supports agree on, it is that he is an “originalist,” someone who interprets the Constitutio...4 days ago
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Conjectures, Thoughts and Questions To Explore - This post is just a rambling stream of consciousness and should provoke thought but not be considered a reliable source of information. The energy density ...4 days ago
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Why Western Efforts To Ban Plastic Drinking Straws Are GREAT for Global Prosperity - Yes, most plastic waste in the ocean comes from monsoon flooding of Asian rivers / cities that washes trash out into the ocean. Yes, plastic drinking stra...4 days ago
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Why did Trump choose to parrot Putin on Montenegro? - The tiny Balkan country of scarcely more than 600,000 people is known mostly for its sunny Adriatic beaches – so why is Trump portraying it as a threat? Fo...4 days ago
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How Did the Gold Standard Work? Part 1: The Efficiency of the Gold Standard - Sebastian Edwards has written an interesting new book about FDR’s devaluation of the dollar and the legal and economic consequences thereof. This post is n...4 days ago
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Did the Russians Hack the DNC to Help the Left Take Over the Democrats? - The Russia conspiracy theory hinges on the single creaky claim that the Democratic National Committee hacks were a Russian plot to elect Trump. The theory ...4 days ago
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Here’s What People Pawn Across America - Guns, rings, and steel (watches): here's what Americans pawn across the country.4 days ago
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On the semiotics of secularism and nakedness of village atheism in the culture war - Listening to the lovely bells of Winchester, one of our great mediaeval cathedrals. So much nicer than the aggressive-sounding “Allahu Akhbar.” Or is that ...4 days ago
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THE HEDGES AND THE MIDWIFE … - I have no idea what the voice of God sounds like. I don’t really claim to have ever heard it. In fact, I live in a constant state of wondering if it’s even...4 days ago
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Game - This is not a PUA blog. To learn PUA, read Heartiste and Rollo, But, I seem to have been conscripted by the Dark Enlightenment How to deal with woman, the...5 days ago
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Should Gene Editing Be Compulsory? - Written by Julian Savulescu Hypothetical Case 1: Enzyme Replacement Therapy for Gaucher’s Disease Consider a hypothetical version of a real life disease, G...5 days ago
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John Woodcock MP Quits Labour Party - The MP claims he is the victim of a “rigged process” and that Corbyn “would pose a clear risk to UK national security as Prime Minister” My letter to Jerem...5 days ago
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Tom Griffiths on Gigerenzer versus Kahneman and Tversky. Plus a neat explanation on why the availability heuristic can be optimal - From an interview of Tom Griffiths by Julia Galef on the generally excellent Rationally Speaking podcast (transcript here): Julia: There’s this ongoing deb...5 days ago
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An anthropologist looks at Trump’s attempt to end Cold War 2 - n a burst of bipartisanship, our leaders condemn Trump's attempt to stop Cold War 2. CW2 is the best demo yet that our political system has broken.5 days ago
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DNA genealogy and forensic cold cases - This year there have been some amazing new leads in “cold cases” by using a new kind of DNA approach, using public genealogy websites to look for people ...5 days ago
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The eagle and the dragon - At some point the populist rebellion will outgrow its personality roots and be asked to articulate a program. It is never enough in the long run to merely...5 days ago
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Episode 201: Grand Strategy with Chinese Characteristics - Sulmaan Wasif Khan discusses his new book tracing the history of Chinese grand strategy, from Mao to Xi.5 days ago
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Why I Am Disillusioned About Social Psychology - A social psychologist explains how the field's scientific and political malfunctions drove her out.5 days ago
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Curly and straight - *Portrait of Henriette-Marie de Buade-Frontenac*, Claude Mellan (1640). Curly European hair isn’t a holdover from Africa. Europeans initially had the thi...5 days ago
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The Elephant in the Brain - I haven’t been blogging much lately, but John Lanchester’s boneheaded review of Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler’s The Elephant in the Brain seemed to demand ...5 days ago
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Economists Rarely Say “Nothing But” - Imagine someone said: Those physicists go too far. They say conservation of momentum applies exactly at all times to absolutely everything in the universe....6 days ago
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Responsibility and Meaning with Lewis Howes Transcript - The post Responsibility and Meaning with Lewis Howes Transcript appeared first on Jordan Peterson.6 days ago
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Politics is Marketing - Media talking heads have long understood an important truth that has eluded most conservatives. The truth doesn’t matter in a debate. Being right is border...6 days ago
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The Future of the Eurozone - So we are live at NRO discussing the future of the Eurozone: Albert Einstein is rumored to have quipped that doing the same thing over and over again and e...6 days ago
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On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Palestine, and the Left - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose candidacy I’ve championed and worked for since May, had a bad moment late last week. Appearing on the reboot of Firing Line...6 days ago
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Bubble world is here - Lance Roberts has a new post with a neat graph: I like the term “everything bubble”. For a number of years I’ve been claiming that the 21st century would ...1 week ago
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The problems are in physics, too! - We write in MT mainly about genetics and how it is used, misused, perceived, and applied these days. That has been our own profession, and we've hoped to ...1 week ago
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Signature in the Cell and Intelligent Design: An Introduction to Protracted Desperation - A question that never ceases to fascinate is that of how life originated, and how and why it has progressed as it seems to have. The official story and de ...1 week ago
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Signature in the Cell and Intelligent Design: An Introduction to Protracted Desperation - A question that never ceases to fascinate is that of how life originated, and how and why it has progressed as it seems to have. The official story and de ...1 week ago
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Humanizing Corporations: A Nobel Prize for Enlightened Business Leaders - How Per L. Saxegaard's (Business for Peace Foundation) efforts to humanize corporations can be understood from a multilevel evolutionary perspective.1 week ago
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Humanizing Corporations: A Nobel Prize for Enlightened Business Leaders - By Per L. Saxegaard and David Sloan Wilson Imagine, if you can, that corporations truly are like people. They would vary in their dispositions. Some woul...1 week ago
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Banned in Turkey - A correspondent from Turkey informs me that he can no longer access my web site. I have no trouble accessing it from the U.S., so my guess is that it has b...1 week ago
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Education and redistribution - As a general rule, more educated people are more liberal than less educated people on most "social" issues and more conservative on most economic issues....1 week ago
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The €300 million cash withdrawal - The eyes of the world are on one of history's largest cash withdrawals ever. Earlier this week, the Central Bank of Iran ordered its European banker, Ha...1 week ago
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Thirty Day Facebook Ban Because The Truth is Hate Speech - At this point I’m thinking they just don’t care how stupid they look. And. ‘trans women’ are men. Every single one of them. The post Thirty Day Facebook ...1 week ago
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The Fed's Recent Defense of Interest on Reserves - As regular Alt-M readers know, I've been saying for over a year now that, despite their promise to "normalize" monetary policy, Fed officials have been d...1 week ago
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Putin the Recruiter and Trump the Potential Asset? Agent-handling and the Helsinki summit - Any political leader meeting another is seeking to get something out of the exchange, whether a specific deliverable or simply developing the relationship....1 week ago
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Exhibition stands that create an impressive and interesting atmosphere. - Visual exhibition marketing starts in the stand design to magnify the products features and presentation displays. The objective is to create a comfortable...1 week ago
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Censored Art, #FakeNews, Lethal Journalism, and Institutional Disorientation - In an article on censored art (which any progressive knows, that’s bad), an article in Fox News (!) included the following item (HT – Adam Levick: Brandeis...1 week ago
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Is southern Syria heading for ‘Lebanonization’? - Jerusalem Post, 13/7 The raid on the T4 base at Tiyas in southern Syria this week was, according to global media reports, the third such action by Israeli ...1 week ago
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Amjad Iraqi on anti-BDS legislation - This is an outrageous attack on freedom of speech and political organization: Late last month, the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee...1 week ago
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Aries must die - In my post "Two crosses" I talked about the division of the solar year using solar cross (solstices and equinoxes) and earth cross (quarter days). The seco...1 week ago
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Customers who liked this quantum recommendation engine might also like its dequantization - I’m in Boulder, CO right now for the wonderful Boulder summer school on quantum information, where I’ll be lecturing today and tomorrow on introductory qua...1 week ago
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Customers who liked this quantum recommendation engine might also like its dequantization - I’m in Boulder, CO right now for the wonderful Boulder summer school on quantum information, where I’ll be lecturing today and tomorrow on introductory qua...1 week ago
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Modern Evidence and Speculation: Or, “What if Trump Did It?” - By H. Alexander Welcome The 2016 U.S. Presidential election signaled a number of important changes in U.S. society, including approaches to evidence and s...1 week ago
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Black Swans of Common Knowledge - As I write this, the news are coming out that the 12 boys trapped in 4km inside a cave in northern Thailand have been rescued, after having trapped in a c...1 week ago
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The return of the servant problem - I think we all better hope we get germ-line genetic engineering and really effective nootropics real soon now. Because I think I have seen what the future ...1 week ago
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We should pay women to have children. The best women. - One of the most obvious solutions to our declining birth rate across the West is to simply pay women to have children. Cash for kids. My main problem with ...1 week ago
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Computing From the Middle Out, Part 1: Why Turing Machines Matter - While you’re here, my novel, Farisa’s Crossing, a steampunk fantasy novel in which a young mage battles with the world’s most powerful corporation, touchin...1 week ago
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A Little Context - Senator Joe Biden (yea, that Joe Biden) was chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearings for both Robert Bork and Clarence Th...1 week ago
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Pre-Ordering the Qur'an and its Biblical Reflexes - an update - Dear friends, I received a few emails from people who had tried to pre-order *The Qur'an and its Biblical Reflexes* from Amazon. Apparently Amazon no long...1 week ago
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Migration complexities and the campaigns against social bargaining - This is based on a comment I made here. Coming from a country (Australia) with a much higher proportional immigration flow than the US, I find US debates o...2 weeks ago
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What determines value? - I had the opportunity to read The Value of Everything, by Mariana Mazzucato, a few weeks ago, and have finally gotten around to writing up something of a...2 weeks ago
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Links (18) - Collection of papers and articles that I’ve spotted since my previous links post that seem interesting. Philosophy Sabine Hossenfelder wrote two years ago ...2 weeks ago
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The Trust Machine: The Story of Bitcoin - I came across a Bitcoin explainer the other day called The Trust Machine: The Story of Bitcoin. I thought it was very thoughtful presentation and I encou...2 weeks ago
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The Tyranny of Opinion - cover art - Here is the cover for my forthcoming book, *The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism*. Amazon is currently showing the book as avai...2 weeks ago
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The Social Dynamics of Sorcery - “The difference between sacrificial and nonsacrificial violence is anything but exact; it is even arbitrary. At times the difference threatens to disappe...2 weeks ago
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Getting over relationship FOMO - When I was younger, I didn’t know what I wanted in relationship. To be honest, I was driven by FOMO. There was this fantasy world in my mind full of perfec...2 weeks ago
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For A Proud New Immigrant, Independence Day Offers Much To Celebrate - – Some reflections on my first Fourth of July spent as a permanent resident of the United States of America Today I spent my first Fourth of July, my first...2 weeks ago
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Civil War Letters, Redux - A few days ago, right-wing blowhard and professional alarmist, Alex Jones (of InfoWars), posted a tweet announcing that "Democrats Plan To Launch Civil W...2 weeks ago
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Now Garry Burns wants the taxpayer to bail him out - Now the taxpayer is being asked to pay (again) for failed anti-free speech complaints... The post Now Garry Burns wants the taxpayer to bail him out appe...2 weeks ago
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Constitutional Principles, Political Economy, and The Teaching of Economics - |Peter Boettke| Watch this conversation between Walter Williams and James Buchanan. A couple things to note. For Buchanan and Williams the critical issue i...2 weeks ago
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Israel Victory Gains Strength - TEL AVIV - What do Israelis think of the idea of Israel winning and the Palestinians losing? It's a radical idea, very different from the 50-year-and-count...2 weeks ago
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Illegal Immigration & the Border Crisis is a mess - What do I think of illegal immigration? Can I start off with a joke? I believe there is nothing wrong with having the same immigration policy as Wakanda...2 weeks ago
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Everyone Is Wrong But Me - Sometimes, I’m wrong. Sometimes, everyone is wrong but me. Here are some instances where that is so. (Everyone means lots of people). 1) Rouhani is still a...2 weeks ago
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Evitant (Avoidant) Published in Romania - A year or so ago I sold rights to Avoidant to a Romanian publisher. I did a little research into the market — small and almost entirely still on paper. The...2 weeks ago
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civility; furthermore respect - I can't possibly agree more with Tyler's recommendations regarding civility. Read the whole thing; it's short! One highlight I want to comment on, especial...3 weeks ago
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Why Removing Trump Won’t Bury Trumpism - In 2019 there is a reasonable possibility that Donald Trump will be impeached. There is likely to be evidence that he, at the very least, had knowledge tha...3 weeks ago
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The Importance of Having Your Pain Be Legible - How to deal with ideological censorship in a community? Who gets empathy and who is humanized the most? Does contemporary rhetoric about toxicity hold up t...3 weeks ago
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Authority - We use the word “authority” to mean lots of things — police and state actors are “the authorities”, an expert may be “an authority on the matter, etc. But ...3 weeks ago
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Book Review - "The Space Between Us" - "Hey, there ain't no space between us!" - a flight attendant who saw me reading this book This is a very important book about a very important topic (seg...3 weeks ago
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Why I abandoned Enlightenment mythology. The Enlightenment as a Creation myth - In this short post I will not discuss the Enlightenment itself, as a historical phenomenon. I will instead discuss the perception of Enlightenment held b...3 weeks ago
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Islam's Conflict With Western Values & Human Rights - About one-third to one-half of Muslims (274.0 million - 503.5 million) in Muslim majority countries uphold beliefs and practices that are contrary to many...3 weeks ago
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“The First Patent Litigation Explosion,” C. Beauchamp (2016) - There has been a tremendous rise in patent litigation in the past decade (Bessen and Meurer 2005). Many of these lawsuits have come from “non-practicing en...3 weeks ago
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Fizzle…. - For a long time I’ve been promising to write a piece on the three stories that made me stop reading Asimov’s. I will, once I dig them out of the box they’r...3 weeks ago
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Is the perverse effect of AOT on political polarization confounded by a missing variable? Nah. - Interesting paper on "actively open-minded thinking" (AOT) and polarization on climate change beliefs: Stenhouse, N., Myers, T.A., Vraga, E.K., Kotcher, ...3 weeks ago
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The UK needs to legalise cannabis - By Saima Baig In the last few weeks or so, a fracas has unfolded in the UK media. Charlotte Caldwell, from Northern Ireland, had cannabis oil which was con...3 weeks ago
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Headed towards Collapse - Over the last several weeks we've seen a rapid diminishment in the fictive kinship that unites us as Americans. In fact, many of us don't just disagree wit...3 weeks ago
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Land for Development and Homes - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 27 June 2018.) A development strategy cannot emerge out of a list of land supply options. ….. Gi...3 weeks ago
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Heart of darkness - Sometimes African rulers get so corrupt that Western aid donors go on strike. Take what Trump would call the shit-hole state of Malawi (please!). Malawi re...3 weeks ago
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Important - A little background from the author: News Values A vitally important piece of the history of US/Russian relations is just being memory-holed. I ho...3 weeks ago
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It’s time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency - That is my recommendation. The post It’s time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency appeared first on PressThink.3 weeks ago
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Reinforcement Learning Progress - Today, OpenAI released a new result. We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train...3 weeks ago
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My preface to Santiago Levy's Book: Under-Rewarded Efforts -- The Elusive Quest for Prosperity in Mexico - A few years ago as I was finishing up my book Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science (Norton 2015), I realized that the manuscript co...3 weeks ago
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The Folly of Multiculturalism - PJ Media Exactly how beneficial to a society is multiculturalism, this word that is so celebrated in the West? First one must define the word: It is “the...4 weeks ago
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The universal genetic program and the custom-built phenotype: implications for race and sex - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } Could the scientific effort to understand sea urchin development, which began more than a decade before Darwin published On...4 weeks ago
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Should international students lose political rights? - One of the biggest changes to Australia migration this century, and through it to Australian society, has been the rise of long-term residents without the ...4 weeks ago
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Israel: Israeli-Palestinian Congress of Female Students 50 Israeli & Palestinian Female Students Negotiating Peace in Tel Aviv - This is the first time that only female students are going to sit around the negotiating table. This is an unusual and powerful event in the Middle East....4 weeks ago
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Shaikh Yasir Qadhi & anti ex-Muslim bigotry - Note: This article is a response to a post by Sheikh Yasir Qadhi attacking ex-Muslims – the original post is available at https://www.facebook.com/yasir....4 weeks ago
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How to solve the problem of diving in soccer - Another World Cup, another wave of concerns about the plague of diving (or “simulation”) that afflicts the beautiful game. Every four years the most casu...4 weeks ago
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Identity Politics Has Nearly Destroyed the Humanities; Now It Is Threatening the Hard Sciences - This article by Heather MacDonald is a must-read! If you thought you could escape identity politics by going into the sciences, or possibly even into engin...4 weeks ago
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How to Lose an Election with a Strong Governing Record. - Nothing they threw at Pres. Trump seemed to stick and then, they found pictures of crying toddlers. It did not take long before liberal liars affixed the p...4 weeks ago
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"Little Reunion": Eileen Chang gets another turn in the revisionist meatgrinder - *"Eileen Chang's fractured legacy" is a piece I wrote for Asia Times way back in 2009, when Chang's "Little Reunion" received its first posthumous publicat...4 weeks ago
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British Army Buddies: The Tragic Suicides of Kevin Williams and John Paul Finnigan - [image: image001]Kevin Williams, left, and John Paul Finnigan were battle buddies in Iraq They saw a lot of combat. I was with them for some of it. Gre...4 weeks ago
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British Army Buddies: The Tragic Suicides of Kevin Williams and John Paul Finnigan - [image: image001]Kevin Williams, left, and John Paul Finnigan were battle buddies in Iraq They saw a lot of combat. I was with them for some of it. Gre...4 weeks ago
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We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free! The post We’re moving! appeared first on The World is Not Enough.4 weeks ago
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Pedophrasty, Bigoteering, and Other Modern Scams - Clearing the discourse from abuses and abusersPedophrasty Definition: *Argument involving children to prop up a rationalization and make the opponent look ...4 weeks ago
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Everyone Is Misreading Burke’s View of Parties - So what are political parties? Burke’s definition of party as “a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon so...4 weeks ago
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Enter Postman - Another episode in my ongoing contretemps with the world. One more of these, I swear, and I become a Buchananite Public Choice theorist, Nancy MacLean be d...4 weeks ago
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Can Universities Lawfully Bully Academics into Silence? - Dr Peter Ridd has taken James Cook University to court protesting his sacking for what he says is, primarily, speaking-out about the lack of quality assu...4 weeks ago
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Fragment of a Memoir - As I’ve mentioned previously, my late mother had planned to write her memoirs. She never had the opportunity to do so, but I’ve come across some notes she ...5 weeks ago
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Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder - Over on our Quality Policing podcast, Nick Selby and I hit the road and interview Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder Nassau County, if you do...5 weeks ago
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Elaine Howard Ecklund lecture on "Science and Religion in Global Public Life" - *by Salman Hameed* Elaine Howard Ecklund has done some of the most extensive empirical sociological work on public perceptions of science and religion. If...5 weeks ago
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Feral Creatures cover Reveal - Well here is the cover for Feral Creatures, give or take a little tweaking. Will definitely be making some changes to the font and colour but this is it. ...5 weeks ago
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Resources on Teotihuacan (June 12, 2018) - * *** UPDATED JUNE 12, 2018 *** * Teotihuacan was one of the major cities of the ancient world, and the available materials on the internet are scattered ...5 weeks ago
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The History of William Marshal on the War of 1183. Part I - The anniversary of Henry the Young King's untimely passing is fast approaching and though I have discussed the surrounding events many times here, on the b...1 month ago
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The lady doth protest: Saye v Clifton (1451) - In 1451, a widow brings a case in the Court of Chancery after being betrayed by her late husband's professional advisers.1 month 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 ...1 month ago
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Updates on a Few City Populations - I’m always here for inspirational header photos. Photo by Steven Lewis on Unsplash.Grading the Forecast Is Fun! It’s been a while since I blogged! I’ve bee...1 month ago
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Here’s How You Stop Anger From Making You Do Something Stupid - In February, during the launch of my last book, I had one of those experiences that explain why many people don’t like or trust the media. I’ll leave the d...1 month ago
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Against Renaming Victoria - (Of mostly local interest. I speak only for myself, not for my colleagues or anyone else associated with Victoria University of Wellington, my employer. TL...1 month ago
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Factors from Scratch: A Look Back, and Forward, at How, When, and Why Factors Work - I recently co-wrote a piece with Chris Meredith @chrismeredith23 and Patrick O’Shaughnessy @patrick_oshag of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management. We take a deep...1 month ago
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The downside to Yes - *The Sunday Independent, 27 May 2018* Friday’s astonishing vote, that stirring people’s demand for reproductive choice, tells us two things about Ireland...1 month ago
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Inside and Outside Perspectives on Legitimacy - This paper discusses the implications of the impossibility of totally incentive-compatible social behavior, whether organizationally or politically. Specif...1 month ago
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Inside and Outside Perspectives on Legitimacy - This paper discusses the implications of the impossibility of totally incentive-compatible social behavior, whether organizationally or politically. Specif...1 month ago
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Las Vegas Police Dept to Conduct Active Shooter Drill at Area High School - Nearly eight months after the massacre at a country music festival, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department will hold an “active assailant” drill at...1 month ago
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UPDATE - UPDATE I AM NOT ALTOGETHER WELL I SHALL RETURN TO HOSPITAL TOMORROW FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. I'II KEEP READERS INFORMED. BEST WISHES. GAVON1 month ago
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Bioethics culture wars – 2018 edition: Alfie Evans - Here's my current Editorial in *Bioethics* When health‐related tragedy befalls newborns, bioethical culture warriors are never far behind. The sad case of ...1 month ago
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Aramaic - "I try to translate the Aramaic of the sky." Sean Thomas Dougherty, *Tamir Rice*1 month ago
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Highly Linkable: Pay College Athletes Edition - With two important cases working their way through the courts (Jenkins v. NCAA and Alston v. NCAA), I continue to be optimistic that we are witnessing the ...1 month ago
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The Neoliberal-Socialist Synthesis - I’ve mentioned the neoliberal-socialist synthesis a few times on Twitter and have received flack for them being incompatible, but it is the best way to des...2 months ago
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Dave Holmes and his gun revenge fantasy won’t save American kids - And then there was this. So now I’m angry. Now I’m finished trying to reason with you. So now I, a guy who was ambivalent about guns just a few years ago, ...2 months ago
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Waking Up to Issues in the Atheist Scene - Not long ago, similar emails to the one I'll share below were only sent to me by Muslims questioning their faith, scripture and double standards, etc. I s...2 months ago
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Nuts - Things I Didn’t See Coming When PDT Was Elected: The Democrats defending a gang of violent street criminals whose motto is “Kill! Rape! Control!” just beca...2 months ago
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How(e) I Love Hoxa - Time flies, and it's been all of three years since I was last in Orkney, so I was very happy to have the opportunity to go again last month. As so often, ...2 months ago
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The era of ‘soft’ central planning - More than a decade ago, The Economist (at the time still a classical liberal publication – how times change…) published an excellent article on ‘soft pater...2 months ago
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Marketing is Life and Life is Marketing - Much of what we do on a daily basis is consummatory in nature, and is shaped by our deep-seated desire to market ourselves in endless ways.2 months ago
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Ever wonder where to find the Trump Tower? Then take this “Trump Walking Tour” with me, and learn even more - Meet at the southwest corner of 53rd Street and 6th Avenue, under the large statue across from the Hilton Hotel, the tour guide will be holding a “Social J...2 months 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...2 months ago
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The elites of Pueblo Bonito - In my recent travels in the Southwest, I visited Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, site of the most complex and astonishing pre-Columbian civilization in North Ame...2 months ago
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Save the Children - Jonathan Haidt is consistently unimpressive. Responding in this Chronicle piece about Jeffrey Adam Sachs’ great essay for the Niskanen Center, Haidt conced...2 months ago
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EBay Would Rather Support Fraud and Theft Than Help Sellers - Yes, you read the title right. No, it is not spam, or false, or libel - it is in fact an accurate representation of their corporate policies, as I have now...2 months ago
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Progressivism on Steroids: The “Conservative” Anti-Humanism of Jonah Goldberg - Way back when, as a student interested in the analysis of modern mentalities of government, I picked up the following, simple set of methodological procedu...2 months ago
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If you want to Sell More Books on Amazon, then you should probably read this… - Jeff Bezos, of whom I am a big fan, puts out a yearly letter to his shareholders. There’s some fascinating information in here, and, if you want to sell b...3 months 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 months ago
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R1ans still at large (or, the story of India) - Ten ago, in the pre-ancient DNA "Dark Ages" a big debate raged on about the origin of R1a men in India. The stage had been set even earlier, by the pionee...3 months ago
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Two Stories - Improvisation Is the Heart of Music “The rest was pure Arabian Nights. Gazelle-eyed maidens with perfumed robes brought inlaid boxes of Turkish delight an...3 months ago
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Revisiting Epstein’s Freedom and Growth - I was fortunate to be invited give the Epstein Lecture at LSE this March. The series is named after the great LSE economic historian Larry (Stephen) Epst...3 months ago
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The problems with 'wargaming' history. (Particularly WWII.) - I had a good comment on my 'Ten Myths about the Phoney War' post from a Swedish respondent called DIREWOFLx75. He makes some fair points, adn of course som...3 months 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 months ago
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Redrawing the Map: How Jowei Chen is Measuring Partisan Gerrymandering - post written by Solmaz Spence “Gerrymandering”— when legislative maps are drawn to the advantage of one party over the other during redistricting—received ...3 months 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 months 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 months ago
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Questions for Powell - Market participants widely expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates at the conclusion today’s FOMC meeting. The only real debate surrounding this...4 months ago
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Persecuted Global Refugees: No Place To Call Home - 09/09/2014 The official estimate for the number of refugees globally passes the 50 million mark for the first time since World War II. According to UNHCR...4 months ago
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John Bolton Called Trump’s Russia Strategy “Delusional” - Speculation has escalated that John Bolton, the former UN Ambassador under George W. Bush and one of the country’s leading consummate foreign policy hawk...4 months ago
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The trouble with feminism - In this post, I want to explain why I’m not a feminist and why I think you shouldn’t be either. Of course, I cannot discuss everything I think is wrong w...4 months ago
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What is the meaning of an accusation of racism? - Guy comes up to you on the street and says: “I know who you are. You may look like a human, but I know that’s a disguise. You have taken over the body of a...4 months ago
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How archaeology is distorted by Science magazine and the National Geographic Society - The public has a lot of interest in archaeology, and new finds and discoveries are often in the news. Sometimes the press reports outlandish, nonsense cla...4 months ago
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So how cheap is renewable energy? - This table from Peter Rees is an interesting analysis of proposed power plants for South Australia. At a time when zealots are claiming that so-called rene...4 months ago
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Kafkaesque Yo! Därför stängde Facebook av mig och raderade min kommentar. [Uppdatering: Facebook rättade och bad om ursäkt] - Maria Carlshamre Robsahm är en vaccinförnekare och f.d. politiker som tvingades lämna Folkpartiet efter att hon dömdes för bokföringsbrott, och som senar...4 months ago
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Arming teachers is a really dumb idea - Yesterday, I saw a video clip in which Trump recommended teachers carry a gun at school. You can see the video here. The idea seemed stupid to me, but I t...5 months ago
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Join Us at the Summer Research Lab! - Amidst all the craziness of this past … forever … I’m pleased to say that the Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois continues strong. We have a great pro...5 months ago
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The One Gun Control Measure That Gun Rights Advocates Should Support - I’m a huge gun rights advocate. I’ve been shooting and collecting guns since I was twelve. I got my first AR-15 thirty years ago, at age sixteen. I joined ...5 months ago
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Is the Bible Cool with Same-Sex Marriage? - A few weeks ago, a church in SoCal hosted a very thoughtful, cordial and substantive discussion between Matthew Vines and Sean McDowell on whether the Bibl...5 months ago
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“Woman” Is Not My Slave Name (from the DGS archives) - Before vagina hats, there was the “muff match”! 1st published WEDNESDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2011 I agreed with Naomi McAuliffe in her worry that feminism is...5 months ago
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On the Uses (and Abuses) of Economath: The Malthusian Models - Many American undergraduates in Economics interested in doing a Ph.D. are surprised to learn that the first year of an Econ Ph.D. feels much more like ente...5 months ago
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Review of Three Books on the Islamic State - JOURNAL ARTICLE Review: “What Was That All About?” Flawed Methodologies in Explaining the Origins of ISIS (2003–2013) Reviewed Works: The Master Plan by Br...5 months ago
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What is the "Right" Corporate Income Tax? Zero! - The recent tax bill signed by President Trump reduces the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. This was a positive change, but really, just a ...5 months ago
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Hey Democrats, the Problem Isn’t Jobs and Growth - It’s inequality. By James Kwak This American Life‘s forays into politics and economics are generally less satisfying than their ordinary storytelling fare....5 months 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.5 months ago
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Review: Down Girl by Kate Manne - Kathryn Norlock reviews Kate Manne's book on the nature of misogyny5 months ago
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Are NY Republicans a friend to men, boys, fathers, or families? - While Republicans in NYS certainly talk a good game of supporting men, fathers, and families the talk is just that, cheap talk. Now that we have 20 years ...5 months 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...5 months ago
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Are journalists an “enemy of the American people”? - The Committee to Protect Journalists proclaimed President Donald Trump its winner in “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom” earlier this...6 months ago
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On the relevance of the income inequality to expected health expenditures. - Last week, Hubert Biscuit posted a response on Medium questioning the relevance per capita income to national health expenditures. Here’s more on the debat...6 months 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 ...6 months ago
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Review of "Weep For Day" by Indrapramit Das (2012) - *Introduction: *Being well aware that this story was probably put at the head of the *Best New SF 26* anthology to highlight some sort of committment to "...6 months ago
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Year in Career: 2017 - This is a story about growing up. Coming of age. In 2018, I will have been a stenographer for 18 years – my career will be an adult. Whereas before it c...6 months 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...6 months 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...7 months 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) ...7 months ago
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The Positive Inter-Religious Effect of Reading About Peace First’s Programs - In our last post, we wrote about how we are currently working with numerous partners bridging divisions and one of the common questions that partners get c...7 months 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 ...7 months 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...7 months ago
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A People’s Tolerance For Change And Adaptation Should Not Be Strained Beyond Its Limits - With a hat-tip to Bill Vallicella, here’s a brief and worthwhile article on immigration. Go and read the whole thing. You may notice some overlap with the ...7 months 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...8 months 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...9 months 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 ...9 months ago
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Innovation in Economics Pedagogy and Publishing - Well, it's Labor Day weekend, which means that Barnard and Columbia students are back on campus and classes are about to begin. This semester I'm teaching ...10 months 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 ...10 months ago
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NATURAL DISASTERS ARE NOT A BOON TO ECONOMIC GROWTH!!!!!!!! - The usual, “Hurricane will raise GDP” stories are circulating and some of my free market friends are conceding the point but saying that not all rises in G...10 months 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...11 months ago
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Campbell Award & Invisible Disability - Last night I was overjoyed and overwhelmed to receive the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the Hugo Awards ceremony at Worldcon 75 here in Hel...11 months 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/11 months ago
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Allow Me To Explain The Darkness Of The Human Soul - Church, State, Civilization Part 1: Allow Me to Explain The Darkness Of The Human Soul The title of this post … Continue reading →11 months 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...11 months 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...11 months 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.1 year 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,...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year ago
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Jacobite Magazine - Newly launched. No comment thread there, so feel free to use this place.1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year ago
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Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.1 year 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...1 year 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.1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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. ...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...1 year 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:...1 year 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...1 year 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....1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...1 year 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…1 year 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...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...2 years ago
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A Tale of Two SIFIs - The Best of Managements, The Worst of Managements My apologies; neither of the banks I am about to discuss was ever large enough to be considered a SIFI (S...2 years ago
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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...2 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...2 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?2 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...2 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....2 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...2 years 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 […]2 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...2 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...2 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, ...2 years 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...2 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...2 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 ...2 years 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...2 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...2 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...2 years 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...2 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...2 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....2 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 ...2 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...2 years 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, ...2 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...2 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...2 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 ...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...3 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...3 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...3 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 [...]3 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...3 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...3 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,...3 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...3 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...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...4 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 ...4 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner4 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...4 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...4 years ago
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Reaction Ruckus - Goodness, what a lot of noise lately! Everyone is trying to explain Neoreaction and the Dark Enlightenment. A confusing mess if you ask me. I’ll put my...4 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...4 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 Voice5 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...5 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...5 years ago
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Another take on the “game of musical chairs” view of business cycle - Britmouse did a post that describes Scott Sumner´s “game of musical chairs” view of business cycles. I thought it interesting to see how it compares to the...5 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...5 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...5 years ago
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La Ghalib illa Allah - This was the Nasrid motto and means “There is no victor/conqueror except God. It is inscribed hundreds of times all over the Alhambra, appearing even more ...6 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...6 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...6 years ago
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Where In Libya is Wadi el-Chalig? - Peter James describes the pottery of a 7th century Libyan Greek settlement of Wadi el-Chalig. Its plan is described here. However, when I look on Google Ea...6 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...6 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.6 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...7 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...7 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 ...8 years ago
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