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The predetermined defeat of Democrats’ big voting rights bill - [image: Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) (R) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) arrive for a bipartisan meeting on infrastructure after original talks fell through with th...27 minutes ago
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International students ‘take’ more jobs than they ‘create’ - Yesterday’s NSW Budget repeated the myth that international students drive job creation across the economy: The number of international students arriving...47 minutes ago
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So much for the security of your personal information - Self-described "counter-violence specialist" and security consultant Darren Friesen recently conducted an impromptu experiment. The results were star...54 minutes ago
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Bard College Program Declared ‘Undesirable Threat’ by Russia - "Following the examination of materials, received on June 21, the Prosecutor General’s Office decided to recognize the Bard College foreign-based educati...57 minutes ago
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EVIDENCE: Fauci’s Bosses Signed Research Deals With Chinese Communist Military Front. - Under the leadership of Dr. Francis Collins – who recently admitted the U.S. had “no control” over the Wuhan lab despite funding it – the U.S. National Ins...57 minutes ago
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"The next morning, I return to Viroqua for a stroll through the town’s vaunted bookstore, Driftless Books, housed in another massive tobacco warehouse." - "The walls are covered floor to ceiling in secondhand books. Framed custom portraits hang from the rafters. A moose head. A rusting sousaphone... 'So yea...58 minutes ago
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Sports and law in the news - Two items on sports in court: • As Orly mentioned, SCOTUS on Monday unanimously held that the NCAA violated antitrust laws by restricting the "educational ...1 hour ago
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“Educate Yourself”: Seattle Human Rights Commission Dismisses Complaint Over Requiring Whites To Pay “Reparations Fees” For Parade - There is a controversy in Seattle over plans for a pride event to charge people more based on their race.…1 hour ago
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WHAT DO YOU CALL TEN THOUSAND ACADEMICS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN? - Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer Love the photo. Do they ever not look like this? Professors Call For Hate Speech Protections To Be Extended To Animals Aut...1 hour ago
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They actually think it works - Of course, similar thinkers used to believe that sanctioning Russia would work too: “Deplatforming works,” boasted former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, who becam...1 hour ago
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Alternative Ruminations - Note: There is a new movie review behind the green door. This week the movie is Fargo, the great 1990’s crime comedy. For those on SubscribeStar it is here...1 hour ago
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Biden-Putin, A Yalta II Rather Than A New Berlin - The United States, defeated in Syria, went to Geneva to accept the conditions of the winner, Russia. The summit of June 16, 2021 should put an end to hosti...1 hour ago
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Moving Forward or Onward or Whatever - By now, you’re probably tired of reading about my journey away from being Amazon-exclusive. In some ways, I am as well. It’s been an interesting Continue re...1 hour ago
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Get this man a job at the Hoover Institution! - Paul Alper shares this charming/horrifying news story: Wisconsin pharmacist Steven Brandenburg who destroyed more than 500 doses of covid vaccine is a flat...1 hour ago
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Get this man a job at the Hoover Institution! - Paul Alper shares this charming/horrifying news story: Wisconsin pharmacist Steven Brandenburg who destroyed more than 500 doses of covid vaccine is a flat...1 hour ago
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Readers’ wildlife photos - Thanks to several readers for sending in photos. I still can always use others, though, so keep this site in mind. Today’s photos come from Andrew Furness,...1 hour ago
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Tucker Carlson for June 21, 2021: Defunding the police, murder in Democrat cities - Tucker’s focus is on the defund the police efforts, and its consequences. It should be noted that the purpose of the defund the police movement has exactly...2 hours ago
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Rising Inflation Looks Less Severe Using Pre-Pandemic Comparisons - The post Rising Inflation Looks Less Severe Using Pre-Pandemic Comparisons appeared first on ProMarket.2 hours ago
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Voting for Restoration of Democracy: Electoral Choices - Voting for Restoration of Democracy: Electoral Choices Ram Puniyani One will be amazed to compare the India of today with the same a decade ago. BJP’s gett...2 hours ago
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Advice Goddess Free Swim - Advice Goddess Free Swim It's Monday night, and my brain is on the verge of reporting me to an abuse hotline. (Book due soon, plus column.) You pick the to...2 hours ago
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The Big Idea: Jen Karner - Events can change you — and in her novel Cinders of Yesterday, author Jen Karner posits that this change can go more than just skin deep. In this Big Idea,...2 hours ago
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Less Wrong needs footnotes - Published on June 22, 2021 12:08 PM GMT I may have said this before, but footnotes would be an amazing feature for Less Wrong to have. The main way Less Wr...2 hours ago
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Kudos to Dan Wootton and GB News for Challenging the Lockdowns - Dan Wootton's comments on lockdowns are a welcome breath of fresh air in a society that at times seems to have almost wholly bought in to the idea that t...2 hours ago
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… SEP New: ∅ Revised: The Kokugaku (...3 hours ago
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Each kilo of bone supports up to five kilos of muscle - The skeleton you are bequeathed with, David Epstein explains (in The Sports Gene), has a lot tod o with whether you will ever pack on the weight you need f...3 hours ago
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Emmy Awards to finally recognise non-binary performers with new gender-neutral option - Emmy nominees will now have the option to use the gender-neutral term “performer”, the TV Academy has announced. Starting with the Daytime Emmy Awards ne...3 hours ago
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New York Fact of the Day - NYTimes: New York City built only 163,000 units of housing in the 2010s, fewer than the 205,000 created in the 1930s, during and after the Great Depressi...3 hours ago
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Narcissistic exploitativeness surfaces as a risk factor for future problematic behavior among teens - According to new research from the journal Self and Identity, the personality trait of exploitativeness may be a driving factor behind problematic behavior...3 hours ago
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Tuesday Talk*: Moneyball (But No Lambos?) - Let’s acknowledge the obvious: Certain collegiate sports are big money. Huge money. Coaches get millions. NCAA commissioners get millions. Colleges get mil...3 hours ago
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Signs that we face an epistemological crisis: book titles, 2021 - Some book titles in 2021, in chronological order. February. Adam Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know March. Gary Saul Morson and M...3 hours ago
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34% Of Healthcare Workers Haven’t Been Vaccinated - Healthcare workers demanded more vaccines and denounced the lack of information as state policy and the deaths in the sector. Oil minister and president ...3 hours ago
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Critter Encounter: Skunks Yet Again!?! - So I’d blasted a “teenaged” skunk to smithereens. 24 hours later I blasted 2 kits at the same location. Presumably they weren’t weaned, and I’d spared them...3 hours ago
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The last thing this century needs is a cold war between US and China - Joschka Fischer, Germany’s foreign minister and vice chancellor from 1998 to 2005, in this Proj Syndicate piece: This month’s G7 summit seemed to confirm w...4 hours ago
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Washington Post ‘Clarifies’ Error-Riddled Hit Piece On Top Anti-CRT Investigative Journalist - The article is a part of the left's response to stinging critiques of the open racism embodied in critical race theory, which has led to Chris Rufo and oth...4 hours ago
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Diary #573 - Lorelei was very cautious during the pandemic, so the only time we’ve seen each other since March of last year was when I went over to borrow her Doctor Wh...4 hours ago
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Yusri, Fortune’s Flame - Today I’m going to talk about two pieces rather than one, mostly because they depict the same character, but also because there’s not a ton to say about e...4 hours ago
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There’s No Juice Left in Lemon - Not only is this *Lemon* test vague and hard to apply, but it distracts courts from a focus on the original target of the Amendment: coercion.4 hours ago
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(READ) Congressmen call for a hearing into massive Covid-19 unemployment fraud - Amid massive fraud reported in the Covid-19 unemployment program, Congressional Republicans are renewing a call for the House Oversight Committee to invest...5 hours ago
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A Conversation with Daniel Elder, the Choral Music Composer Who Was Cancelled for Opposing Arson - On May 30th, 2020, amid an anti-police-brutality protest in Nashville, TN, several white protesters allegedly attempted to burn down the city’s Metro Court...5 hours ago
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Mymesis, beings and places - A spectacular mural opposite Burgos cathedral in northern Spain: A guardian angel in the form of a grey heron watches over an allegorical mural at Burgos C...5 hours ago
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The “Collateral Damage” of the Lockdown - [image: Fauci]Now that the COVID-19 lockdown is finally lifting (at least in America)—now that we can look back on a chaotic year and assess policy decisio...5 hours ago
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In Reply to Tim Cook’s “Speaking Up On Racism.” - To the Black community — we see you. You matter and your lives matter. —Tim Cook Your letter —“Speaking Up On Racism,” June 4 2021 —spoke to the pain and...6 hours ago
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Iron Mountain as a Successful Bet on the COVID-19 Economic Recovery - Back on 18 November 2020, we described the stock of document storage giant Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) as a "COVID-19 play, or rather, a bet on the future...6 hours ago
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Samizdata quote of the day - One of the themes of my law and policy commentary on this blog and elsewhere is that a culture of ‘constitutionalism’ is more important than constitution...7 hours ago
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The Spanish Golden Age: myth or reality? - *The debate rages on: did Jews experience a Golden Age in al-Andalus, in medieval Islamic Spain? Professor Mark R. Cohen of Princeton wrote an interestin...7 hours ago
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Not That Kind Of Diversity - Robby Soave on achieving “equity”: The Vancouver School Board in British Columbia, Canada, is eliminating honours courses as part of a push to foster inclu...7 hours ago
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50-year Anniversary of the Class of ’71 Statement - It was supposed to be my 50th graduation anniversary this June. We were asked to write for the yearbook. I just received an email from a classmate who saw ...8 hours ago
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The Greatest Heat Wave In Northwest History? - The meteorological community is all abuzz about the forecast this weekend: * several of the global models are predicting an extraordinarily unusual heat...9 hours ago
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More on Interest Rates and Home Prices - Some follow-up thoughts on yesterday's post. There might be some more to think about regarding interest rate sensitivity and local supply constraints. I...10 hours ago
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ASMLA: An Empirical Exploration of an Ethno-Nationalist Terrorist Organization - The Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz (ASMLA) is an ethno-nationalist Sunni Muslim organization that strives to establish an independent A...10 hours ago
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Change in the Middle East?, by Philip Giraldi - The media focus on the Summit meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin has to a certain extent crowded out news about the new government in ...10 hours ago
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What Do We Call This Racial Obsession? - Math is racist. Now, black holes are connected with something racial and there is a college course about it (here). A few months ago, someone insisted that...11 hours ago
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A Hit-Piece on Cliodynamics - There is a remarkably biased and deceptive piece in Foreign Policy with a critique of Cliodynamics, among other things. The Past Doesn’t Tell Easy Stor...11 hours ago
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Curiosity damned the cat - Aquinas tells us that curiosity is a vice. Before you clutch your pearls, dear village atheist reader, know that Aquinas was *not*condemning the pursuit...12 hours ago
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To have kids or not: which decision do Americans regret more? - Should you have children? And if so, how many? Asking and answering these questions is not only deeply anguishing for many individuals but also bears on ...13 hours ago
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More on that - I’ve realized I have more to say on Peter Tatchell’s fatuous remarks to the Guardian on the definite rightness of the Royal Academy’s libel of Jess DeWah...15 hours ago
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Will the Franco-German Project Beat NGAD? - Well, at least they have a full scale static display; The German defense ministry has forwarded a request to lawmakers seeking approval for almost 4,5 ...15 hours ago
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Pagan Community Notes: Week of June 21, 2021 - [image: Pagan Community Notes: Week of June 21, 2021] In this week's Pagan Community Notes, Solstice sunrise at Stonehenge, Lummi Nation totem moving to DC...15 hours ago
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Father’s Day - (This comes a day after US Father’s Day. My grilling responsibilities kept me from posting it on the day.) One man draws out the wire, another straights it...15 hours ago
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Could Misbehaving Muons Upend the Known Laws of Physics? - A tiny particle's unexpected magnetism is shaking up what physicists thought they knew about the universe.15 hours ago
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Zachary D. Carter’s Hatchet Job on Milton Friedman - The new consensus on Friedman’s work among economists has essentially reversed Summers’s verdict from 2006. “Almost nothing remains of his intellectual l...16 hours ago
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Burgeoning Evidence of Myopericarditis After Covid-19 Vaccination in Young People: A Call For Acknowledgment, Pause, and Serious Study - The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System [VAERS] (1) is a passive or “spontaneous” Centers For Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] and U.S. Food and Dru...16 hours ago
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47 Science Facts That Are Scarier Than Any Horror Movie - There were once sea scorpions the size of a great white shark.17 hours ago
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Prime Day Deals- 2021 - Today and tomorrow are this year’s “Prime Days” on Amazon.com. For members of their excellent “prime” service, they are discounting thousands of items sit...17 hours ago
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The return of politics - Last week I saw a tweet by Seth Masket saying "correlation of Biden vote share and adult Covid vaccination rate is now at .847." In the early stages of...17 hours ago
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I’m just a prole at heart - On a thread about the Steinman/Meatloaf song “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” commenter “mkent” wrote: Neo: Honestly, I’m a bit astonished to see you go down ...18 hours ago
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What's the Justice Department Doing in the E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit? - The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. (Ken Lund, https://flic.kr/p/5jSuKy; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/l...18 hours ago
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Give Tyler His Due - In this post I complained that three pundits took UFOs “seriously” mainly by talking “only about the fact that other people seem to be taking UFOs as alien...19 hours ago
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Minimum Wage Laws: Even Bad for the Workers Who Don’t Lose their Jobs - Politicians impose higher tax costs on tobacco because they want less smoking. And environmentalists want higher gas prices so there will be less driving. ...19 hours ago
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Multi-Culti (Still Tutti Frutti) - Yesterday I recorded one of the pre-recorded panels for the virtual Liberty Con (next weekend.) I must warn anyone who sees me, I’m not a zombie and I didn...19 hours ago
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France : Projet de loi « principes de la République » : sans amendements, ce serait un bilan négatif pour la laïcité ! - L'UFAL a salué la sortie officielle de 30 ans de déni de l'offensive islamiste contre la République : elle estime que le projet de loi doit être l'occasi...19 hours ago
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Why were people in the Early Middle Ages reopening graves? - In early medieval Europe, the dead and their possessions did not stop being important after the burial – researchers have discovered a widespread tradition...20 hours ago
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Industry Concentration: Is It Rising Overall? - One of the simplest ways to measure the degree of competition in an industry is the “four-firm concentration ratio.” Take the market share of the four larg...21 hours ago
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Elite Afghan troops were left to die in battle with Taliban because their backup was too scared - J.P. Lawrence Stars and Stripes At least 21 members of Afghanistan’s special forces died fighting the Taliban last week after Afghan reinforcements failed ...22 hours ago
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Review Turkey, the US and Iraq - *Hale, William, **Turkey, the US and Iraq**, London, Berkeley, Beirut: SAQI, 2007* *Turkey, the US and Iraq* by William Hale is a history of Turkish-...22 hours ago
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Biden’s Terror Strategy Defines Republicans as the New Terrorists - As the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, Joe Biden has made it clear that he doesn’t intend to fight Al Qaeda. Instead he’s going to...22 hours ago
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Chatting about Jerks with Myisha Cherry - ... on the UnMute podcast, episode #062 released last week! Topics include: * the nature of jerkitude and how it differs from assholery* jerks and social ...22 hours ago
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Episode 1413 Scott Adams: And Now For the Best Simultaneous Sip in the World! - My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Find my “extra” content on Locals: https://ScottAdams.Locals.com Content: Dr....23 hours ago
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Corvette Summer - For the official first day of summer, here's a 1973 Stingray. The current owner has had it for thirty two years and had the Jaguar Racing Green paint job ...23 hours ago
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Calculation of \(\zeta(2)\) - This post is just an irrelevant pure fun celebrating the release of MathJax 3.2.0 which replaces the version 3.1.4. The most visible improvement of the new...23 hours ago
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America, Land of Death - W.J. Astore Checking today’s headlines at CNN was a grim affair. First, gun violence: Ten mass shootings happened across the nation this weekend, leaving a...1 day ago
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It’s not just what you say, but how you say it - Phonetics matters, ladies and gentlemen. Mispronounce a word, and you can find yourself in trouble, or even in prison. Hence, by way of public service, I’v...1 day ago
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Dundee (Scotland) Students Free Speech Society - Enjoyed this one a lot: 15-minute overview of the free speech principles, historically and philosophically, and then a series of questions from the student...1 day ago
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What’s Driving Police Violence in Colombia? - By Aila M. Matanock and guest contributors Leonardo R. Arriola, David Dow, and Michaela Mattes Colombian police have…1 day ago
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Some Monday Links - Redefining Death (National Review) Some medical devices don’t mean to be racist, but they are (Psyche) Monetary Meld (IMF) And, inspired by this NOL discus...1 day ago
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Meron: The Unavenged - The new Israeli government has only been in place for a week, and it already has an important accomplishment under its belt - albeit one that ought not t...1 day ago
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Reginald by Saki (1904) - Hector Hector Hugh Munro was born in 1870 in Burma, then still part of the British Empire. He was the son of Charles Augustus Munro, an Inspector General f...1 day ago
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1991 starts to look like the Edwardian age - A woman on the BBC World Service talks gushingly about how everyone in the summer of 1991 was talking about Thelma and Louise and makes it sound like the l...1 day ago
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Robert McCullough on the causes of inequality in New Zealand - Inequality is one of the great challenges of our time. As I have noted before, there is no easy solution to the problem of inequality. That's because it ...1 day ago
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NOTHING they won’t try to ruin - Absitively, posolutely nothing. The Tolkien Society, a literary organization founded in 1969 and dedicated to promoting the works of J.R.R Tolkien, has hel...1 day ago
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Texas Starts Waking Up To The Issue Of The Full Costs Of "Renewables" - * The promoters of the climate scam have a variety of deceptions to get the gullible to accede to their socialist plans. Those deceptions range from the qu...1 day ago
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No surprise in Iran - Iran shifts sharply to the right, with its moderate but unsuccessful president to be replaced by a hardliner. Does that make diplomatic engagement a waste ...1 day ago
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Front-Running the Crash - *What if everyone in the market realizes it's now the moment to front-run the crash? * *We have a fine-sounding word for running with the herd: momentum*....1 day ago
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Cancelling Books - Written by Neil Levy One of the latest flare ups in the culture wars concerns book publishing. Recent books by Mike Pence, Woody Allen and by Milo Yiannopo...1 day ago
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ooooohhhh more Rice with Uncle Roger - I haven’t watched this yet. It’s gonna be gooooood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs5G-jRdKQI1 day ago
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civic societies ii - first of all, i’ve updated the original civic societies post — all the way from yesterday! — to include africa, latin america, and india, so you might want...1 day ago
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County Roads, Take Me Home - My mother was convinced that Lee Road was the most dangerous road in the Auburn area – because she was constantly reading in the paper about crimes or car ...1 day ago
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Lots Of Voters Think Trump Will Be Reinstated - Weird:Pubs: 30%Independents: 26%Dems: 13%Trump blew it with the 1/6 madness. And not what he said at the rally. That was actually the least of it--though I...1 day ago
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“We believe in making treason odious:” U.S. Veterans of the Civil War Attack the Lost Cause - It was 1866, and the men of the US Army, Navy, and Marines had destroyed the rebellion on the battlefield and ushered in a “new birth of freedom.” Their wo...1 day ago
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A Big Falsehood about Black Renters - On Thursday June 14th I heard the same terse announcement on NPR News four times. (Yes, four times; yes, I am a glutton for punishment.) : Black renters ar...1 day ago
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Griffin killing lizard - Griffin. 6th century mosaic, Great Palace Museum, Istanbul. Leopard, tiger, eagle, goat. All symbols of winter, killing a lizard, symbol of summer... In...1 day ago
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On Being Wounded by Injustice: A Response to Stephen Hicks - Stephen Hicks offers this analysis (a few weeks back) of being wounded by racist talk. To be blunt, his argument strikes me as wildly off base. I’ve number...1 day ago
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Father’s Day 2021 - This year, just like any other year, celebrations of Father’s Day will be rather subdued. Now part of the reason for that is that we Dads are spoiled, in a...1 day ago
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European Speaking Trip: The UK Problem - As I recently mentioned, I would like to travel in Europe this summer and give talks, having interrupted such a trip last March because of the pandemic. ...2 days ago
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Here We Go Again - This will never stop unless we all refuse to comply. They have had a taste of power and they don’t want to give it up. [...]2 days ago
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The View From Olympus: Groundhog Day in the Marine Corps - Over the past year or so, the Marine Corps Gazette has again become an important forum for debating maneuver warfare, a.k.a. Third Generation war. That is...2 days ago
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Migration regulation and the freedom of citizens (a review of Immigration and Freedom by Chandran Kukathas) - In Immigration and Freedom, Chandran Kukathas offers a distinctive analysis of the politics of immigration. His interest in migration goes beyond the usual...2 days ago
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Three Constraints on the Philosophy of Art - by Daniel A. Kaufman _____ Preliminary Remarks After a brief hiatus in the last century, the search for a definition of ‘art’ has resumed with Continue reading2 days ago
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Dating the Gospels - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 June 2021 The dates that the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament were composed has a great impact for Christian...2 days ago
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AIT so far - Last August, I did a blog post suggesting that in order for the Fed’s new average inflation targeting policy to be successful the PCE price level needed to...2 days ago
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The Philosopher's Consolation: The Owl of Minerva Spreads its Wings at Dusk - It may be too late to make America great again. Where is the glory that was Rome? How Nations Slip from Greatness to Obscurity2 days ago
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LEO SAR, hypersonics, and the death of the naval surface ship - Duh... Let's spend ~$10B each for new aircraft carriers that can be easily monitored from space and attacked using hypersonic missiles. Sure, in a real wa...2 days ago
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LEO SAR, hypersonics, and the death of the naval surface ship - Duh... Let's spend ~$10B each for new aircraft carriers that can be easily monitored from space and attacked using hypersonic missiles. Sure, in a real wa...2 days ago
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Stop the Nonsense About Voter ID - I heard from Joe Biden that voter ID laws are like “Jim Crow on steroids”. Wow. Requiring people to show ID cards when voting is much worse than legally ma...2 days ago
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Janet Malcolm and Joshua Cohen - Janet Malcolm has died. I, along with three other writers, wrote something about her for The New Republic. Like Orwell, who thought Homage to Catalonia wou...3 days ago
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New NASA Study: Earth has been trapping heat at an alarming new rate - “The magnitude of the increase is unprecedented.” A new study published by NASA’s Norman Loeb and co-authors examines the CERES satellite instruments’ meas...3 days ago
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Maoism: A Global History – A Review - Given the attempts at rehabilitation of Mao’s reputation being undertaken by the Xi regime of the Chinese Communist Party, it is warranted a better underst...3 days ago
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"Heterodox" economics as rediscovery - One of the perils of growing old is that you get that jaded “seen-it-all-before” feeling. Which is the reaction I have to so-called heterodox economics. Wh...3 days ago
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"Heterodox" economics as rediscovery - One of the perils of growing old is that you get that jaded “seen-it-all-before” feeling. Which is the reaction I have to so-called heterodox economics. Wh...3 days ago
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Neither Top-Down nor Bottom-Up - You want your classroom and your campus each to be a place of open and free inquiry and, thereby, a place of open and free critical discussion. You also ...3 days ago
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Lessons to Learn from The Folly of Herod Antipas - Verses 3 to 11 of Chapter 14 of the Gospel of Matthew contain one of the accounts of the beheading of John the Baptist by Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galil...3 days ago
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A Response to a Response to my piece on The Lark Ascending - An Open Letter to Tom W Green, a composer and musician based in Glasgow. Dear Tom, Thank you for alerting me to your blogpost entitled ‘The Farts As...3 days ago
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Getting it Horribly Wrong, ABC-Style - Tony Thomas During the all-important lead-up to the US election, a low point for President Trump was the Black Lives Matter riots in the capital. We learnt...3 days ago
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Bad Idea Comics’ Final Five UNVEILED! - ------------------------------ Support Jon Join My Patreon! Get FREE Books! Independent journalism isn’t easy and I can use all of the help I can get. ...3 days ago
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Open Thread – 09/19/2021 – Brown Pundits - What’s going on? Sweet-meat Islam is the best Islam.3 days ago
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The False Rhetoric of Systemic Racism: Charles Murray on Race Differences and America's Ideal of Individual Equality of Rights - In *Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America* (2021), Charles Murray argues that the rhetoric of "systemic racism" in America is mistaken for fo...3 days ago
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Fear the First Strike - *The closing days of the First World War* gave birth to modern combat. Previous to these developments, advances in firepower made titans of the trenchworks...3 days ago
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Franklin Fisher on Adjustment Processes and Stability - As an addendum to yesterday’s post I will merely quote the first three paragraphs of Franklin Fisher’s entry in The New Palgrave on “Adjustment Processes a...3 days ago
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Light and Lens, Collider and Detector - Why do particle physicists need those enormous colliders? Why does it take a big, expensive, atom-smashing machine to discover what happens on the smallest...3 days ago
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Bibliography – My Writings Commemorating 50 Years - For a historian, growing older has the special quality of having lived through history. With this in mind, I have since 2013 repeatedly commemorated the pa...4 days ago
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On Definitions of Fairness: A Response to Silver and Iceland - The post On Definitions of Fairness: A Response to Silver and Iceland appeared first on Heterodox Academy.4 days ago
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Storytelling — Mamet’s Conflict Airing Theory - One of the big questions to which I have yet to find a satisfying answer is what stories are, in the set of things that includes various other kinds of spe...4 days ago
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Alan Richard Chandler - My father died last week. He was just short of 91 years old. Born in the summer of 1930, he was the son of a tool and die maker for the Waltham Watch compa...4 days ago
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Balto-Slavic drift - A few years ago I began using the term "Balto-Slavic genetic drift" to describe the fine-scale genetic signal that is shared by the speakers of Baltic and ...4 days ago
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Why Creatives Surrender - Recently, two creatives surrendered to woke mobs: the small-press horror publisher Silver Shamrock Publishing, and big-time indie developer Scott Cawthon o...4 days ago
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Evidence Of Agriculture In The Amazon Ca. 1500 BCE - Some of the least well understood prehistoric cultures of the Americas are the sedentary food producing cultures of the Amazon river basin in South America...4 days ago
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Garicano's conversations with economists - Luis Garicano has just posted a very interesting free e-book, "Capitalism after covid: Conversations with 21 economists." I was honored to be one of his...4 days ago
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Oppressed Palestinians or Oppressive Terrorists? - Why do Palestinians, who present themselves as victims of land-grabbing Israeli oppressors, extol and find inspiration in the land-grabbing oppressors of h...4 days ago
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The Bitcoin Law: Counterfeit Free Choice in Currency - “Why should we not let people use freely what money they want to use? [They] ought to have the right to decide whether they want to buy or sell for franc...4 days ago
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Senior Citizens Face Mental and Financial Stress, Especially Women - Discover what our survey of Seniorly users revealed about gender and aging in America in the early months of 2021: a gender gap in stress and connectedness.4 days ago
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Getting the message - *Gaps between perceived and actual crime rates, by immigrant group in the Netherlands. **Dutch people underestimate the crime rate of immigrants from...4 days ago
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Public goods morphing through the ages: they need you! - Six years ago I posted the note below as part of Abbotsford Convent. I’m doing so again today to raise money again. Only there’s already an offer on the ta...5 days ago
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Barbarossa - Barbarossa (Redbeard) was the nickname of the medieval German Emperor Frederick I (reigned, 1155-90) whose image graces this post. More pertinent to our ...5 days ago
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Perry Link on how Westerners typically misunderstand propaganda - Perry Link A few years ago another outstanding Chinese writer, Su Xiaokang, brought me one step deeper. You Westerners, he explained, are too hung up on th...5 days ago
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UNDER HIS EYE … - Canada. That’s the part that always makes me break my suspension of disbelief. It might not have, a couple of years ago. But things are different now. I h...5 days ago
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SPORT, POLITICS AND TAKING THE KNEE - . This essay, on the debate over taking the knee, and the relationship between sport and politics, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 13...5 days ago
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Audiobook of Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination - An audiobook version of *Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination: Visions, Minds, Ethics* is now available. Check it out if interested. The book is r...6 days ago
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Biden-Putin Geneva Summit, June 16, 2021 - This is a summary of the discussion at the most recent of the online Russia Hybrid Seminar Series (RHSS) webinars held on 15 June 2021 by the George C. Mar...6 days ago
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34 Mistakes on the Way to 34 Years Old - The great Hyman Rickover used to say that success teaches nothing, only failure is educational. I don’t know if that’s completely true, but I will say th...6 days ago
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Whither Big Tech, or When Novelties Become (Regulated) Necessities - There is much discussion these days about the hammer of government regulation that may come down on internet companies–Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, M...6 days ago
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The spike protein is cytotoxic - We have seen a holiness spiral on China flu. Initial medical treatment was catastrophic, resulting in a huge number of iatrogenic deaths. Which of course c...1 week ago
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“Old Chicago” and the Freiburg School - Stefan Kolev and Ekkehard Köhler have published a paper in the Working Paper Series of the Stigler Center at Chicago University on the history of the polit...1 week ago
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Still Distracted, But Not Here - My online writing goes back to Usenet, early bulletin-boards and the pay service GEnie, but my public identity as an online writer really began a few years...1 week ago
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What if Japan's attempt at a decisive June 1942 'Midway' battle, had been at Ceylon instead? - Another amusing 'what if' that came out of the current series of 'what if' articles. Enjoy. *What if Japan had made a serious effort to finish off the US...1 week ago
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Splits in Israeli Right led to fall of Netanyahu - Since the process whereby splits in the Israeli right have now resulted in the fall of PM Netanyahu and the ending, for now at least, of Likud rule in Isra...1 week ago
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The Great Library of Alexandria – Part Two - Here is the second part of my episode on the myths surrounding the Great Library of Alexandria on the History for Atheists video channel. In Part Two we ...1 week ago
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Is Implicit Bias Training Useless? - Training programs make claims that are not justified by research.1 week ago
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Flee at Once ! All is Discovered ! - In the last few years, law enforcement has begun to cash in on modern genetic technology in a new and more powerful way, one that works on perps that have ...1 week ago
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The Reopening - The View from Las Vegas - As a reward to myself for blogging every day in May, I travelled to the place that is at the same time the most and the least American city, Las Vegas. ...1 week ago
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Hong Kong 612 — this was the day - [image: IMG 1642] This was the day in 2019 that I aborted research trip to India and packed for Hong Kong. I had just of own volition updated vaccines fo...1 week ago
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Hong Kong 612 — this was the day - [image: IMG 1642] This was the day in 2019 that I aborted research trip to India and packed for Hong Kong. I had just of own volition updated vaccines fo...1 week ago
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Review: Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever - [image: Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever]Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter My...1 week ago
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Trying to Be Compliant in California - I usually don't quote other blog posts in their entirety, but this is so classic that I feel the need to. This is from Holden Law Group, an excellent reso...1 week ago
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Why do ransomware gangs like bitcoin? It's the censorship resistance - A new type of crime has recently emerged: big-ticket repeatable *ransomware*. Bitcoin is the chosen payments method for ransomware gangs. But these gangs ...1 week ago
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Bad Day At BlackRock? - There has been something of a kerfuffle recently over the large scale purchases of single family homes by the likes of BlackRock and other institutional in...1 week ago
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More on BIPOC and FIVM - There has been some productive discussion generated by the op-ed that I published in the Globe and Mail on May 28th, as well as a certain amount of unpro...1 week ago
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Announcing "A People's Natural History" and inviting your voice to join the StoryCorps archive - Hello all, While people can continue to diversify the professional study and communication of human origins and evolution, we can do something else to ...1 week ago
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On Guilt - The other night Dana and I watched “The Internet’s Own Boy,” the 2014 documentary about the life and work of Aaron Swartz, which I’d somehow missed when it...1 week ago
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On Guilt - The other night Dana and I watched “The Internet’s Own Boy,” the 2014 documentary about the life and work of Aaron Swartz, which I’d somehow missed when it...1 week ago
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Per Capita - SO many people just repeat the line about the US having the "most deaths from COVID," as evidence that Trump (but NOT the CDC, FDA, and other bureau-neb...1 week ago
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The competitive education market for workers updating their skills - In 2019 I wrote a series of posts on declining participation in formal education and training by people already in employment. Falling enrolments ran count...1 week ago
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Death spiral of American academia - by Patrick J Michaels Earlier this year, Eric Kaufmann of the University of London published a remarkably detailed and comprehensive study of bias in acade...1 week ago
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The Market as a Social Space, and What Happens When The Firms that Occupy That Space Disappear Due to Economic Disruption - |Peter Boettke| Virgil Storr is one of the most perceptive and intellectually challenging social scientists I know. He also writes with grace and eloquence...1 week ago
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Name the solution - There is this notion, proclaimed on all sides of the political spectrum, that if you want to solve a problem, the first step is to name it, center it, beca...1 week ago
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In Defense of Motivated Belief - You open Facebook. It’s 2012, and at the top of your newsfeed is another post from your uncle, an image, telling you that Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a Muslim ...1 week ago
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In Defense of Motivated Belief - You open Facebook. It’s 2012, and at the top of your newsfeed is another post from your uncle, an image, telling you that Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a Muslim ...1 week ago
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Men Out of Focus: Cold War Scientists or Sixties Scientists? (Marko responds to Josh) - Josh’s post got me thinking about my disinclination to more directly acknowledge the connection between the Cold War and Soviet masculinity – esp. given th...1 week ago
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Russian Poet Dmitry Bykov Targeted by Navalny Poisoners - In a December 2020 investigation, Bellingcat and its partners identified seven FSB officers who had tailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny on mo...1 week ago
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Concealing Your Privates - Okay, so according to the news, the FBI has recovered the bulk of the Bitcoins paid as ransomware by the Colonial Pipeline Company, by acquiring the privat...1 week ago
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Video Dispatch: Mexico’s Midterm Elections - Mexicans went to the polls over the weekend. Preliminary results indicate that while incumbent president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (better known as A...1 week ago
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G7 tax deal is a threat to reformers - I have an op-ed in the AFR arguing that the G7’s proposed cartelisation of the international tax system threatens reform-oriented small open economies, b...2 weeks ago
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The Injustice of Blowing-Up Turtles, for Convenience - It is World Ocean Day, an opportunity to learn more about the Great Barrier Reef and also artificial reefs in the Gulf of Mexico. It is an injustice that...2 weeks ago
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Who starts blogging in 2021? - It’s a reasonable question: who starts blogging in 2021? After all, it’s an old fashioned writing form, and not so many people spend their days reading blo...2 weeks ago
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Social Media Isn’t the Problem… We Are - When I was a kid, there were serious discussions in churches, schools, and in front of Congress about whether the music my friends and I listened to mig...2 weeks ago
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Oreskes & Tyson Present a Dishonest Picture of College Faculty Bias - In their recent essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Reactionary Propaganda Rides Again,” scholars Naomi Oreskes and Charlie Tyson take issue wi...2 weeks ago
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James Howard Kunstler – Everyone Interested in Truth Should Be Reading His Writings - James Howard Kunstler exploded the myths of our culture of mass consumption and disposability years ago; more recently, he's been exploding those of the cu...2 weeks ago
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Why are we still not taking anti-Semitism seriously? - By Khadija Khan On a Sunday morning in May, a group of men travelled 200 miles from Bradford to London. When the convoy of cars, draped in Palestinian fl...2 weeks ago
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Bitcoin as PAYGO Pension Plan. And Land. - Suppose the government starts a Pay As You GO (unfunded) pension plan. What the young pay into the plan today is what the old take out today. The first gen...2 weeks ago
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Webinar: Too much money chasing too few goods - My former colleagues at Danske Bank has asked me to explain why I believe that the US might be heading for double-digit inflation in 2021-22. Watch the web...2 weeks ago
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May 1942: The end of empires - By the end of May 1942 the Japanese military had completed their conquest of the Asian colonies of France, Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States...2 weeks ago
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The People, Fearing Death, Will Be Reluctant To Move: The Zhu Yuanzhang Suite (1328-1398 CE) - Part 1: Blue Sky, Red Turban, White Lotus, Black Death As the Mongol lords of the faltering Yuan Dynasty continue to bicker and war amongst one another, cl...2 weeks ago
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New Mission at CSPI - Since I announced the founding of CSPI in November, our work has been regularly featured in the press. Articles by or about our fellows have appeared in ...2 weeks ago
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How China escaped, and Eastern Europe was felled by, the Volcker shock - In an excellent book “How China Escaped Shock Therapy” at whose launch I was one of the discussants (together with Jamie Galbraith and Bin Wong) Isabell...2 weeks ago
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Concealed Carry Revolution Book Update - It’s been a couple of weeks since I announced the availability of my small book on the history and current status of concealed carry in the United States. ...3 weeks ago
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The future of freedom - [In 2002, after years of intermittent research, I wrote a book-length essay titled “Freedom: A Question.” The question in the title concerned the very pos...3 weeks ago
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DOES MASCULINITY EXPLAIN VIOLENCE? - Males predominate in every form of violence, from the micro-level up through wars and other macro-violence. Is it because of a biological universal--...3 weeks ago
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Overheard at my health club - Two svelte American ladies of a certain age were having coffee today at my West London health club. They were in the next "pod" to me outdoors as I had a p...4 weeks ago
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S4 E23: Life at the Bottom | Theodore Dalrymple - On this episode of the Jordan B Peterson Podcast, Jordan is joined by Dr. Anthony Daniels or as you might know him, Theodore Dalrymple, which is his pen ...4 weeks ago
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DeLongTODAY: China Stands Up: 1978-2020: Part III: China Policy - #### DeLongTODAY: China Stands Up: 1978-2020: Part III 2021-05-144 weeks ago
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Starmer's First Year: The Signal and the Noise - A year ago, as Keir Starmer strapped himself to the mast of the Good Ship Labour, I joked that "*leading the Opposition is **not so much a job as a mu...5 weeks ago
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The return to public capital spending - In the time-honored tradition of the Growth Economics Blog, I am coming into a discussion about four weeks late. In this case it has to do with the value...5 weeks ago
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What is this ‘Culture War’? - Was the term ‘culture war’ coined by a privileged white man who should have gone home before his fifth pint of Old Spittle and Twig at the Fox and Crumpet..5 weeks ago
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Evolutionary Mismatch, Partisan Politics, and Climate Change: A Tragedy in Three Acts - Climate change is the quintessential Tragedy of the Commons1 problem of our time. We are collectively exploiting the world’s resources and producing poll...5 weeks ago
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Online talks: Apocalyptic Renaissance, Teaching Power in History, Inquisition, Rare Books - Hello, readers! The past few weeks have been very intense for me with the 2021 run of my Papal Election Simulation, but I wanted to post some links and ann...5 weeks ago
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China census reveals the true scale of the Northeast’s decline - China’s northeastern rust belt, dominated by state industry and comparatively isolated from global trade, has been in relative economic decline for decades...5 weeks ago
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What learn-to-code websites can teach us about the future of education - I’ve spent most of my life in school. Mostly as a student but occasionally as a TA or prof. Since finishing my PhD this year and striking out into the pr...5 weeks ago
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A Sad End - So Scott Winship has responded to my response to his response to my response to his article. And he’s said it’ll be his last word on the subject. That’s ...5 weeks ago
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A current list of my top problems in pressthink, May 2021 - The things I spend the most time puzzling about these days. Ranked by urgency. Updated from time to time. The post A current list of my top problems in p...1 month ago
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Safe Heaven - Foreword to Mark Spitznagel’s book *Safe Haven [**Amazon**]* *Santa Marina — Karl Popper — Herman Hesse’s Sidharta — Mutua Muli — Porsche’s no substitute...1 month ago
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Discoveries - For a long time, I've enjoyed my IPAs, and a single malt scotch, and good wine. I have now found the Old Fashioned, and realize what bourbon was meant ...1 month ago
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Common Conceptual Mistakes in Psychiatry & Psychology - Some common conceptual mistakes in psychiatry and psychology, in my opinion: 1. Thinking that scientific explanations must necessarily reside at a certai...1 month ago
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Red Planet by Robert Heinlein - Warning: I suppose this contains some minor spoilers. Over the past few years I’ve been re-reading Robert Heinlein books that I read a long time ago when I...1 month ago
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Service Notice - I’ve reopened the site for now, but may soon have to take it offline again for a bit. Sorry about the weird situation here.1 month ago
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Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...1 month ago
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Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...1 month ago
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The TRICIPS of the world economy - In every era, there is a conflict between the new emerging forces and the old established forces. However, stagnant forces which are not emerging are often...1 month ago
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Labor Force Participation Gaps Between the U.S. and Canada - Am hearing some talk about whether the U.S. labor market can fully recover to its pre-Covid19 levels. Is it possible that a sizeable number of workers wi...1 month ago
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Big Bear and the Trinitarians - *It was just supposed to be an interview...* *A conversation between brothers who have both been on the front lines of the culture war.* But then came the ...1 month ago
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IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. A quick note, my posting frequency has slowed down in 2021, thanks for sticking with it....1 month ago
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Statement regarding No10 claims today - The Prime Minister’s new Director of Communications Jack Doyle, at the PM’s request, has made a number of false accusations to the media. 1. Re Dyson. I d...1 month ago
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Statement regarding No10 claims today - The Prime Minister’s new Director of Communications Jack Doyle, at the PM’s request, has made a number of false accusations to the media. 1. Re Dyson. I d...1 month ago
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Benefits of exhibition stands - There are numerous businesses that want to earn success and development. Now success is surely possible but you have to work hard for it. A firm owner even...2 months ago
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Statistics for Strategic Scientists – A Clark for Isaiah Andrews - Today’s 2021 Clark Medal goes to the Harvard econometrician Isaiah Andrews, and no surprise. Few young econometricians have produced such a volume of work ...2 months ago
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Minnesota Gats - One of the stranger things to happen in what is a very strange age is that the great state of Minnesota has become the focus of race relations in America. ...2 months ago
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Fifty Years of Fantasy Gaming and You Still Don’t Get It - Fifty years ago the first fantasy campaign was announced thusly: “There will be a medieval ‘Braunstein’ April 17, 1971 at the home of Dave Arneson from 130...2 months ago
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Guest Essay: Santiago Matamoros in the Americas by Alfred J. Andrea - Main Image: Santiago Mataespañois, (Santiago, Killer of Spaniards) Museo das Peregrinacións e de Santiago. Photo by A. J. Andrea. See also: Guest Essay: Sa...2 months ago
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Misère de l’épidémiologie et variant anglais du SARS-CoV-2 - [Cet article est une traduction du billet de blog que j’ai écrit en anglais pour CSPI et qui a été publié le 9 avril. Une traduction a été réalisée par @...2 months ago
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How Redistribution Makes America Richer - Modeling the numbers on bottom-up and middle-out economics. The post How Redistribution Makes America Richer appeared first on Evonomics .2 months ago
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Philip knew real suffering, unlike the Sussexes - *The Australian, 13 April 2021* There was a dark, sad irony to the Harry and Meghan circus that cast a shadow over the final months of Prince Philip’s li...2 months ago
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“Ain’t Nothin’ but a Party.” - The Tragedy of Liquid Excess – Ultimately, 4 – 6% inflation (conservatively) will stall the bull market – For now, … More2 months ago
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Inconvenient Facts is driving Norwegian warming hysterics nuts - Other than by misspelling "fjord," how would an American geologist draw the ire of a pair of Norwegian politicians? Answer: Write a book that counters t...2 months ago
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The Six-Thousand Martyrs of Georgia (†1615) - *On April 10 we commemorate two large groups of Georgian Orthodox martyrs under the sword of Islam: the Six-Thousand (†1615) recounted below, and the Mar...2 months ago
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The Lion by the Ant Was Slain. A Guest Post by Richard Willis - Today I am very happy to welcome Richard Willis, the historian and friend of mine, to the blog. Richard has kindly decided to share his thoughts on the p...2 months ago
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Articles published in The Post Millennial - Link to published articles-> https://thepostmillennial.com/author/paula-wright https://thepostmillennial.com/author/paula-wright2 months ago
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The Tale of the 'Holiday Shocker' - Christine Fell in 1965 from a photo kindly provided by Gillian Fellows-Jensen One of my most treasured possessions is my copy of Sigurður Nordal's scho...2 months ago
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Damn Yankees - Fenster wrote: Fenster has a good friend, a doppelganger, really, who is on the board of a non-profit farm in upstate New York. The farm is situated in the...2 months ago
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Misleading Baltimore Stats for Celebrating Lax on Crime - In 2020, the City of Baltimore stopped prosecuting "minor charges" such as drug crimes. The headlines are that 2020 crime "went down a lot" from 2019. ...2 months ago
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A Face for the Faces We Meet - The Neurocognitive Basis of Bias Against People Who Look DifferentSummary: Neuroimaging revealed when people saw an anomalous face, the fusiform gyri and ...2 months ago
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Movie Night – Dry Wind (2020) - Marketing a movie in the midst of a pandemic is a tough job. Doubly so when it’s a piece of esoteric queer cinema. At least one clever person has figured o...2 months ago
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“Little Platoons” - In Little Platoons: a Defense of Family in a Competitive Age, the writer Matt Feeney offers a finely observed and persuasively argued set of reflections on...2 months ago
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Humiliation: The Greatest Gift Our Adversaries Have For America - The country of slut and body shaming is about to learn the positive influence of shame. The only question will be, will we learn shame’s lessons? America ...3 months ago
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Marquette to Update University Seal - From the Office of the Provost today: • In case you missed it: Committee working on updating university seal – A university committee appointed by Preside...3 months ago
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Verbal Mood in Sakha: A Comprehensive Analysis - These are notes I have compiled on the system of the Sakha verbal mood (Sakha: туохтуур киэбэ; Russian: наклонение глагола). I am drawing here mostly on th...3 months ago
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“We don’t have a chance in hell …”, Canada’s poverty reduction strategy needs real voice - The Minister of Employment and Social Development in the Canadian federal government, Ahmed Hussen, recently tabled an annual report taking stock of the co...3 months ago
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Force majeure, antitrust, and more - Why all the Sturm and Drang Over Force Majeure?, Clauses and Controversies Podcast Why Joe Biden Must Not Shy Away From the Full Power of the Presidency Wh...3 months ago
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Is all GDP created equal? - Scott Corfe of the Social Market Foundation* has with his team produced an eye-catching report about gambling regulation**. The major headline: while gambl...3 months ago
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EBR: The Most Beautiful Battle Rifle EVAR - I put my trigger finger on the safety of my M14 Enhanced Battle Rifle (EBR), the most beautiful rifle in the entire world. As soon as the team leader gave ...3 months ago
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The Magic of Finding Your Spouse - Hello, friends! Yes, I know it’s been five months since I last updated Agony & Hope (eek!) – I appreciate your patience with my non-activity. Unfortunately...3 months ago
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BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, Ep 22: "Smithereens" with James Buchanan Wallace - For Episode 22 (our last episode!), I am joined by Dr. James Buchanan "Bru" Wallace to talk about religion, techniques of the self, guilt, the imperat...3 months ago
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WHEELS OF DECEPTION: Cawthorn Caught Lying About Car Crash That Crippled Him - Madison Cawthorn, one of the the youngest people ever elected to the… The post WHEELS OF DECEPTION: Cawthorn Caught Lying About Car Crash That Crippled H...3 months ago
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the future - Hey gang, I’m excited to say that Substack approached me recently and made an attractive financial offer for me to blog over there. Given that I’ve been ou...3 months ago
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Gay activist who claims sex with children is not always harmful fronts campaign for gender indoctrination in NSW pre-schools - The Australian gay lobby was quick to spruik that global 'gay icon' Peter Tatchell opposed Mark Latham's efforts to remove gender indoctrination from NSW...3 months ago
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Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and the evidence for people named Muhammad in medieval England - The aim of the following draft is to offer some thoughts on a local name from thirteenth-century Lincolnshire, *Macamathehou*, that involves a version of...4 months ago
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Finito Sic Semper Tyrannis - We are done here. turcopolier.com is working now. I have cancelled all guest author ships here. RSS is enabled on the new blog. Comments will no longer be ...4 months ago
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Nazis Take Over America and Establish a New Reich - With Joe Biden safely in the White House, America’s most powerful corporations have launched a new privatized reign of terror almost identical to Hitler’...4 months ago
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‘Feel Our Pain,’ Politicians Demand - Congress is increasingly not a place where the average member partakes in what’s generally understood as legislative activity, but rather engages in a va...4 months ago
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Mailbag: “Avoidant” - I get a lot of good feedback on my attachment books, even seven years after publication. This one was really touching. I hope you’re well. I read your book...4 months ago
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The limits of the proposed 'behavioral immune system' - Many evolutionary psychologists argue that humans have a sophisticated ‘behavioral immune system’. We are, so the story goes, endowed with a suite of sop...4 months ago
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The Moral Hypocrisy of Celebrities – The Case of Seth Rogen - If you are going to signal your virtue, make sure to live out your convictions fully.4 months ago
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Life Without Trump - I feel like a big weight is gone from my shoulders now that the White House is seeing Life Without Trump. However, he is still infecting the GOP like a f...4 months ago
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The Tragic Effect of the Left’s One-Dimensional World View on the Multi-Dimensional World - I recommend the documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” by historian Shelby Steele. Two things about it struck me. 1) Steele’s term “Poetic Truth” sounds ...4 months ago
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A Reply to Alex Danco: Revisiting MacLeod and the Three Ladders in the Wake of Trump - I will soon be migrating to an alternative site, because WordPress is garbage for running garbage ads without my say; stay tuned. Eight years ago, I wrote ...4 months ago
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Alfred the Great, and Viking History - [image: Assassin's Creed: Valhalla] A couple years ago on this site I “reviewed” Assassin’s Creed: Origins, which takes place in Cleopatra’s Egypt, the sa...4 months ago
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Introducing Astral Codex Ten - Thanks for bearing with me the past few months. My new blog is at https://astralcodexten.substack.com/. I’ll try to have a less unwieldy domain name workin...5 months ago
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Land > Moldbug / Jim - Land’s analysis is always cold and calculated, featuring zero ego or emotion.5 months ago
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Muh Private Company - Over the past two weeks we have witnessed big tech flexing their muscles against President Trump and against a social media site. After a month of labell...5 months ago
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The Classist Undertones of Anti-MAGA Sentiment - Democrat politicians wearing cloths worn historically by an African empire responsible for enslaving conquered peoples and selling them into the Euro-Ameri...5 months ago
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The ‘Winning’ Narrative, and the Promise of the Trumpian Way - (75k words; approximate reading time 4hrs 45 mins) Why hello there! I see you looking perplexed, that you’re searching for something. Can I help you? What’...5 months ago
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We lost. Now what? - I was preparing this post, anticipating that nothing would happen on January 6, that the certification of Biden would go forward with minor bluster and maj...5 months ago
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Best books I read in 2020 - The best books I *read* in 2020 - generally released in other years - were: - Albert Camus, *The Plague* - Tom Chivers, *The AI Does...5 months ago
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Indoors and introspective - 2020’s cultural highlights - The books, stories, records and shows that got me through a strange year These are personal choices from the culture that I consumed in 2020. If you choos...5 months ago
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An amazingly short history of philosophy - 1. In the beginning everyone searching for knowledge was doing philosophy. There was nothing else. 2. Then, gradually, one scientific discipl...6 months ago
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The current concept of ‘violent crime’ is outdated, racist, and a tool of white supremacy - Key points What the law considers violent crime is too broad and needlessly locks up Black men more than white males. It has been proven that white people ...6 months ago
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Quick Housekeeping Note - By James Kwak I’ve been asked if you can sign up for email notifications when I write stories on Medium. Apparently you can, but the option is a bit buried...6 months ago
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Get ready to supply Boomers with land parcels - Realtors, get ready to supply Boomers with land parcels. What does that mean to us who are land professionals? What type of land parcels are they looking...6 months ago
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Dates of US Bear Markets Since 1873 - It's useful to test longer-term rules, such as trend-following, across many cycles. To this end, it is useful to have dates for bull and bear markets. If...6 months ago
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The Strength of Being Misunderstood - A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong ...6 months ago
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Noahpinion has moved to a new website! - Well folks, it's been a fun 10-year run at this little website. I'm moving on to a new platform: Substack! Here's the new Noahpinion: https://noahpin...6 months ago
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Update and New Contact Information - For those new to the page, since the move to Patreon, you can follow the weekly conversation there, at patreon.com/mountainguerrillablog. There are even so...6 months ago
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Storytelling: Friday Chart Edition - I have not posted here in awhile, so I thought it would be good to share a few recent charts that tell interesting stories. *Central Bank Balance Sheets* F...7 months ago
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Biden's "unexpected powers of resistance" against the blob - David Bromwich, writing in the *London Review of Books* on Biden’s foreign policy nerve: On the face of things, Biden has surrounded himself with the con...7 months ago
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‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage - Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than the govern...7 months ago
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Yes Atlantic, What If Friendships, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? - The ridiculousness of the article is crafting these two great life riches – spousal love and deep friendship – into competitors. Life needs both and each d...7 months ago
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Subconscious Racism Amongst Whites? - I am compelled to believe that the majority of white people (only in America?) have some kind of subconscious racism implanted in their minds by the indo...7 months ago
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Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies” - Two years ago, when reviewing “The Benedict Option”, I wrote, “Almost all Dreher’s critics accuse him of crying wolf or being a Chicken Little at best … Me...8 months ago
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Likely University Wins in Sept. Appeals - Three accused student lawsuits went before Appeals Courts in September—Marian University (Seventh Circuit), University of Missouri (Eighth Circuit), and Un...8 months ago
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JoEP's excellent editorial on standards and practices - I was so thrilled to read this editorial in the Journal of Economic Psychology. I think they've hit the right balance on every point except possibly 14, ...8 months ago
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Biotin for hair: what can this vitamin do to hair? - What is this vitamin? How does it act on the wires? Does it make hair grow faster? For more insights jump to: best biotin shampoo We know that our hair l...9 months ago
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Upside-Down Markets: Profits, Inflation and Equity Valuation in Fiscal Policy Regimes - I just published a new long-form piece through OSAM entitled “Upside-Down Markets: Profits, Inflation and Equity Valuation in Fiscal Policy Regimes.” In th...9 months ago
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Now Posting At Substack - I'll be writing at The Popehat Report at Substack, and (generally) not here. This blog will remain as a historical artifact and collection of writing. Not ...9 months ago
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2020 Update - Civil Politics remains a free resource and we continue to support some partners who we previously worked with but due to time and funding constraints, we a...9 months ago
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Punish the Jezebel, Or, The King versus Joan in Parliament, 1432 - In 1432, a great lady appeared at the bar of the House of Lords. For my money, it was the trial of the century. She came with a first-class legal team of s...10 months ago
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Left Critics and the Biden-Harris Ticket - .. . By Darren Barany Unsurprisingly (and sadly), many Americans relate to campaigns for major elections in ways that reflect the society’s pervasive indiv...10 months ago
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Humanity’s second “cradle” in Southeast Asia - Pleistocene Sundaland This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib and Spencer talk about a topic which they hav...10 months ago
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Religion As Source of the Social Emotions, part 2 - In The Meaning of Human Existence, E.O. Wilson writes: “Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of … Continue reading →10 months ago
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The spin on the spin - There's been something of a triumph of spin on the EU's MFF share-out. Oh I don't mean the headlines, which we summarised last week, but the rationale. Spa...10 months ago
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The biggest intellectual nothing burger of the last century? - Douglas Hofstadter's *Gödel, Escher, Bach* contained some interesting musings on recursion, computation, self-reference, and so on. But of course is main "...11 months ago
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Unscrupulous Flattery - (A footnote on Crabtree, Kern, and Siegel, “Cults of Personality, Preference Falsification, and the Dictator’s Dilemma”, *Journal of Theoretical Politics* ...11 months ago
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In Memory of Bob Rossana - Robert “Bob” Rossana died back in February of this year. I was inadvertently left off of the university announcement email and did not hear about it until ...11 months ago
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The social justice steamroller: a pervasive and profound attack on citizenship - Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue, discussed how centre-right parties have not found a language to deal with ...11 months ago
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Migrating the blog - It should be back soon. If you really want it find something right now, it’s all still there, just hiding at a slightly different (temporary) address: http...11 months ago
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Economics' race (and other) problems - There’s been much discussion in recent days about Economics’ race problem. Some of what has come out is quite disturbing. I have not said much, but I have ...1 year ago
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Turkey: 28.5% of Generation Z have abandoned Islam - A recent study conducted by Gezici Research Center recorded a massive shift in social and religious attitudes in Turkey among cohorts of Generation Z. In t...1 year ago
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John Cochrane on Stephanie Kelton's New Book: ‘The Deficit Myth’ Review: Years of Magical Thinking - John Cochrane has a review of Stephanie Kelton's new book, "The Deficit Myth". Here it is, for those who don't have access, with a few comments from me, o...1 year ago
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The End - Back in 2011, a group of academic philosophers started a blog called “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” The idea behind that blog was simple, but also somewh...1 year ago
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A good run: Overlawyered, 1999-2020 - I published the first Overlawyered post on July 1, 1999, and I expect this post on May 31, 2020 will be the last. As someone in the entertainment world onc...1 year ago
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Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials - The archaeological site of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is one of the most significant early Neolithic villages to have been excavated. It was occu...1 year ago
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Not which ones, but how many? - Perspective on research from Guoer Liu, doctoral student in Political Science, and recipient of the 2019 Roy Pierce Award “Not which ones, but how many” i...1 year ago
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Not a Whiff of Scandal . . . Yeah, Right, Joe. Sure thing . . . - OK. I was going to write a long warm up/intro to the main topic of this piece, but my anger level kept rising. In light of that, therefore, let me drop the...1 year ago
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Cold War 2 Propaganda - So it seems that hostility to China is now official American policy. Redgov, i.e. the Military Industrial Complex has been pushing it for quite a while, ...1 year ago
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Recent writing - I haven’t written recently on this blog. I wrote for a year at The American Conservative. All the pieces are available here. I also wrote a piece Covid-19 ...1 year ago
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A South African Korean War hero … killed in the Vietnam War - What! South Africa never took part in the Vietnam War, true – but some South Africans did, and two of them lost their lives. Of the two South Africans sac...1 year ago
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One flu over the cuckold’s nest - There have been a few articles like this doing the rounds: What It’s Like to Isolate With Your Girlfriend and Her Other Boyfriend Humiliating and degrading...1 year ago
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Where are the voices of those most at risk of Covid19? - We are in the midst of the most important economic and health crisis for a century on a global scale. Are we tackling the crisis in the correct manner? ...1 year ago
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Time for Individual Accounts at the Fed - As the COVID-19 virus tears through our bodies and our economy, policy makers are struggling to come up with a response that is bold enough to meet the cha...1 year ago
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COVID19 and the ethics of hospital triage decision-making - There is a lot of talk these days about the predicted coming wave of COVID19 patients needing ICU beds and ventilators in particular, and the inevitable ne...1 year ago
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The real problem is also nominal - The real problem is also nominal March 15, 2020 *Confidence level (?): thinking out loud* If I closed my eyes and completely wiped from my mind the fac...1 year ago
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We need our fear and anger to tackle COVID-19 - The most important thing that the response to COVID-19 has lacked in the West, compared to East Asia, is fear. President Xi and his subordinates are afrai...1 year ago
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Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague - [ by Charles Cameron — scientific [precision meets human error in cases of outbreak — with links to a terrific science thread by Palli Thordarson @PalliTho...1 year ago
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A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.1 year ago
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A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.1 year ago
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Steno Majesty - This beautiful lady, known as the White Rose, was Queen Consort Geraldine of Albania in the 1930s. Don’t look closely into her politics – she and her husba...1 year ago
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An Alternative Proposal for the BBC - by Douglas Carter I want to pay more money for product from the BBC. That’s not an intentionally incendiary sentiment. In terms, it’s exactly the correct ...1 year ago
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Network Behavior and Christian Ethics - In designing software for computer networks, the Robustness Principle states "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept" The firs...1 year ago
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In spite of Brexit… - Now that the British exit from the European Union is a legal reality, the economic situation in the UK has been surprisingly sedate. This will be a surpris...1 year ago
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Wuhan: a tale of immune system failure and social strength - For most Chinese people watching the unfolding of Wuhan’s coronavirus emergency, the situation escalated dramatically on Jan 20, almost 20 days after it wa...1 year ago
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Message heard. - I’ve been deeply moved and humbled by the overwhelming response to my post announcing that I planned on shutting down the blog. I’ve reconsidered and deci...1 year ago
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Is evolutionary psychology impossible? - p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } Subrena Smith recently argued that “evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible” (Smith 2019). I ...1 year ago
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I now blog on the Volokh Conspiracy - For the past few months, I have blogged at the Volokh Conspiracy, hosted by Reason. I had hoped to give to give this blog, which I founded in September 200...1 year ago
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The utility of directly regulating Floor Area Ratio - In my last post on the obesity of midrise apartments, I mentioned that one possible solution to what I perceive as a problem is to restrict FAR (Floor-Area ...1 year ago
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Australian bushfires on Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera - Last night I was interviewed by TRT – Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera – on a panel moderated by Adnan Azwaz on the Australian fires. My fellow panellists wer...1 year ago
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The Estate of Jerry Pournelle Announces New Website and Facebook Group - To save Chaos Manor and provide ongoing care for Jerry Pournelle’s widow, the Estate of Dr. Jerry Pournelle has launched a new website at http://www.jerryp...1 year ago
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Nineteen Eleventy-Ten - First off: Happy New Year to my 3.6 Loyal Readers, and anyone else who may drop in! I have been terribly silent these last few months, and I believe I ough...1 year ago
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Using Python to Gather Data from FRED for the Solow Model - This script gathers and generates data for Solow. The second two functions plot the data using matplotlib and save the visualizations in a PDF. import pan...1 year ago
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Refuge Seeking in Relative Safety - There is a common misconception among Christians in particular that I’ve been mulling over these past weeks. As usual, my thoughts have been straying to Aa...1 year ago
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The Braais that Bind - A brief meditation on the meanings of South African cuisine for Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. Excerpt: South Africa’s identity is complicated, contest...1 year ago
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The Twelve Days of Christmas: An Analysis - There was a funny piece on the radio about the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," imagining the woman's response to all those gifts. She starts out thril...1 year ago
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A Plea for Third Spaces for Transmen and Transwomen - We are asking you to support our call for the provision of Third Spaces for transgender individuals of both sexes. The post A Plea for Third Spaces for T...1 year ago
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My Pronoun is U: My Life as a Non-Binary Iranian - An article about how my Iranian and non-binary identities have interacted in predictable and surprising ways.1 year ago
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Conservative Sense and Sensibility with George F. Will - Can a revolution be conservative? Can populism? And what distinguishes British from American conservatism? *Washington Post* columnist George F. Will joins...1 year ago
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The Cold War Roots of the African Swine Flu Plague - *[This is the script of a segment on African Swine Flu that I did for Newsbud China Watch in July 2018. Things have gotten worse since then, with the vi...1 year ago
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White views on spanking, 1980's-2010's - 1980's (above) 1990's: 2000's: 2010's: Variables: SPANKING, Years (1986-2018), Race(1)1 year ago
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Den ofördelaktiga utvecklingen av dödligt våld i Sverige - Förra veckan frågade SVT statsministern om ökningen av dödligt våld: ”Du har varit statsminister sedan 2014. Sedan dess har det accelererat. Vilket ansva...1 year ago
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Sex, Schisms and Pseudo-Scholarship - We are seeing open warfare between various feminist and other progressive factions on social media and in the universities. A key divide is between so-call...1 year ago
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Giving Credit Where It’s Due - The US economy is probably going into recession. Manufacturing production is down from the late-2018 highs, retail spending growth, wages and payroll gai...1 year ago
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The CTRL ALT Revolt Controversy - The Original Blog Post and some Thoughts on the Crisis of Where We Find Ourselves As the current culture war escalates into a series of asymmetrical engage...1 year ago
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Moved to http://nymensactionnetwork.org - This site is no longer moderated. Newer posts are at nymensactionnetwork.org and these posts have been moved there also. http://nymensactionnetwork.org Ad...1 year ago
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Important: Nintil.com is moving! - IMPORTANT NOTICE: I’ve been making changes to the way the blog looks like, making it load faster, and adding it a much needed feature, browsing by category...1 year ago
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Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash - I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live chat.1 year ago
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A Corrigendum to V1.3.2 and a Comment to V1.3.3 - Preface The publication of the book written by Richard Lynn and me (Lynn & Becker, 2019) and of V1.3.2 of the NIQ-dataset got a lot of attention and feedba...1 year ago
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Last Posting - To everyone that reads this blog, I want to thank you for following Gavin Kennedy 's expert insights into Adam Smith from this site. Unfortunately, Gavin ...1 year ago
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Guest Post: On Libertarianism - A friend of mine formerly known as Glomar Responder (Mr. X) on Twitter sent over this screed as a guest post. It’s an interesting commentary on the bifur...1 year ago
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Where might better ratings come from? - Suppose you wanted better ratings of intelligence reports. Where could that improvement come from? How could you possibly get it? Some years ago the U.S. ...1 year ago
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Find me on Facebook and at my other blog, Frauds, Crooks and Criminals - If you have missed news about refugees, I’m still writing about them at Frauds and Crooks and as of last night I am back up and running at Refugee Resettle...2 years ago
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The Cold War and the Ascendance of America’s Research University - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 29 May 2019.) ……… These three young universities, all founded in the second half of 19th century...2 years ago
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Crypto-Current (064) - §5.8612 — Decentralization of the ledger requires massive multiplication, and thus an effective method of compression. Only in this way does it become trac...2 years ago
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Blog moving to Spandrell.com - ***This blog is moving to Spandrell.com ***Please update your bookmarks/RSS readers. Spandrell.com, two ls. First they banned Youtubers, but I didn’t say a...2 years ago
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Running for Science: Science for Running – The Complete Series - The 12-episode series is now a wrap! Thank you to everyone who helped in the process, both as a contributor and as a listener. This post is intended to bri...2 years ago
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Fred on Everything is moving! - Henceforth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review NEW! Current column (June 13) is HERE The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of colu...2 years ago
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Fred on Everything is moving! - Henceforth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review NEW! Current column (June 13) is HERE The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of colu...2 years ago
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Data Driven Parenting - A leading economist helps you dig through the empirical evidence on parenting, and the result is essential reading.2 years ago
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More "Interesting" Thoughts about Socialist Monetary Policy - Interest income is forbidden in a socialist society due to socialist ideology. Someone is earning income on their money, when the only legitimate form of...2 years ago
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Catholic Emancipation as a Constitutional Revolution - Antonia Frazer’s new book *The King and the Catholics* brings to light a neglected topic in British history, the removal of legal restrictions on Catholi...2 years ago
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Some news + MMT and endogenous money - I know I haven’t posted in a long while, but I thought I’d give some news. And no it’s not an April fools’! Work and personal matters have taken much of my...2 years ago
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Offended by the term coloured? Let me show you what real racism looks like. - All the screeching about comments like Amber Rudd referring to a ‘coloured’ woman rather than a ‘person of colour’ or Angela Smith saying ‘funny tinge’ sug...2 years ago
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Why Are Children So Expensive? - I wrote this a few months back, but never got around to posting it. Scott’s post on wage stagnation reminded me to post it, because I discuss some of the s...2 years ago
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Seumas Milne and the Stasi - Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of ...2 years ago
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Linguistics and Theology Scholar Challenges Qur'an Origin Story - This blog post has been moved. Click HERE to read it. * Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is ...2 years ago
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Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...2 years ago
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The Sixth Risk is Boredom - Every chapter of Michael Lewis’s The Sixth Risk, as it sounds to somebody who had heard of the federal government before November 2016. John “Curley” Stoog...2 years ago
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Social Infrastructure in Cities Today: Eric Klinenberg's “Palaces for the People” - I just finished reading Eric Klinenberg’s excellent new book, *Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization,...2 years ago
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Reaction and Populism: Towards the Unpozzed Republic - Having been made by elites to dive headlong down the outhouse hole into the muck beneath, the common people have began to notice that it stinks and is very...2 years ago
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Moghul Emperor Jahangir's Interest in Science - *by Salman Hameed* Growing up in Pakistan, I did hear a lot about the Moghul Emperors, but rarely about science. In fact, if science was brought up, it wa...2 years ago
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When big data are bad data - As archaeologists turn increasingly to the analysis of large, systematic databases, we need to confront an epistemological problem: How do we identify bad...2 years ago
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Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube - Apparently the original posting of this (staggeringly brief) talk suffered from imperfect audio (I never listened to it, so I can't say first-hand whethe...2 years ago
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De-criminilazing Homosexuality in Botswana - They have pushed, Queer Batswana, they have pushed to the point that now they believe there is a great chance of getting to the point when they are NOT cri...2 years ago
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Wednesday double-barreled book BOMB! - WEDNESDAY MORNING DOUBLE-BARREL BOOK BOMB! My friend and colleague Larry Correia has been kind enough to double-promote Tuesday’s releases of A STAR WHEELE...2 years ago
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Review - "Some Zombie Contingency Plans," by Kelly Link (2005) - *Introduction: *There is a sort of story which pretends to be about one thing but is actually about something else entirely. This can be done well -- in ...2 years ago
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IDW Halloween Cards - Happy Halloween Folks! (I'll add the rest below the blogpost) I thought I’d have some fun with IDW/Classical Liberal Halloween cards. There's so many more...2 years ago
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New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/2 years ago
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Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle - Gloria Steinem once famously said that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Point taken, but let’s play with it a bit. Let’s ask whether a woma...2 years ago
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For Thomas Hobbes, Politics Was Simply About Doubt and Faith - Four hundred years ago, an English intellectual developed political ideas different to what we may recognize as familiar. 1. Schmitt and Hobbes In his cele...2 years ago
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Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...3 years ago
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New Release: Cato Journal on The Future of Monetary Policy - This issue of the Cato Journal is dedicated to Allan H. Meltzer who passed away on May 8, 2017. Allan spoke at the 1st Annual Monetary Conference in 1983...3 years ago
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A guide to using behavioural insights in local government - I wrote this for Sunderland City Council, following some work using behavioural insights in a range of projects. Although written for an internal audience,...3 years ago
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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 years ago
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Caixin’s investigation of CEFC and Chairman Ye Jianming - On March 1, Caixin broke the news that Chairman Ye Jianming of the China CEFC Energy Co. has been detained by PRC authorities, and is under investigation f...3 years ago
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The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...3 years ago
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The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...3 years ago
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NYT Op-Ed on Trump’s DACA Proposal - The New York Times asked me earlier this week if I had any thoughts on President Trump’s DACA proposal. I did. And here they are.3 years ago
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Top 100 in Global Economic Weight - According to the IMF China is the largest economy in the world and has been since 2014. This is on a PPP basis (see here for discussion) and all data is re...3 years ago
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The Power of Positive Persistence - Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House will ...3 years ago
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Assorted Thoughts #1: Applying Averages - This series contains some of the key books, studies, papers and events that I’ve read over the last year. I’ve decided to try to write one of these posts f...3 years ago
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The Last Jedi AAR - The Star Wars movies have never been particularly concerned with accuracy when it comes to military tactics and strategy. From the start, the movies are de...3 years ago
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A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM - Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter account) ...3 years ago
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Introducing Left-Versus-Right Book and Article Pairings - While I have spent my life living in a more liberal milieu, through personal experience and independent study I have found many truths on the right side ...3 years ago
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Why AARP has an entire team dedicated to answering Facebook comments - AARP, the 60-year-old special interest group that advocates for older Americans, has never been shy about flexing its policy muscles or leveraging its enor...3 years ago
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New Immigration Blog - Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe a post...3 years ago
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Sam Biddle of The Intercept Accused of Masturbating in Front of Coworker - Several female journalists have accused their male colleagues of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and worse. They have been compiling their accusations i...3 years ago
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Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence - There used to be more research and debate on the negative effects of labour resistance on economic development, but that topic has been crowded out by the ...3 years ago
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Hurricane Harvey: Thanksgiving in The Wake of Tragedy - “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the ...3 years ago
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Book review: Western Fringes - When I read the blurb of Western Fringes – a Muslim man trying to find a Sikh woman who has run away from home to escape an arranged marriage – I admit tha...3 years ago
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Dunkirk: A Deliverance Worth Cheering - My review of the film Dunkirk and case for celebrating the evacuation: https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/dunkirk-a-deliverance-worth-cheering/3 years ago
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For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...3 years ago
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Plato’s hijacking of Socratic aporia and media-friendly radicalism - In Plato’s early dialogues Socrates leads his interlocutors to *aporia*, a state in which they are unconvinced by their own beliefs and arguments, and do...3 years ago
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I guess I need to say this again - Anyone who’s been reading this site for any length of time knows this, but apparently there are some drooling shit stirrers who haven’t gotten the message,...3 years ago
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This blog is now closed... - ...and I'm now blogging at http://www.ecosophia.net. All of the posts that appeared here during the eleven-year run of *The Archdruid Report* will be issue...4 years ago
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The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...4 years ago
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Being Human - I've just discovered that the pilot episode of UK series *Being Human *is online again, after having been taken down for a while. I first wrote about it ba...4 years ago
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Don’t abuse history in order to score cheap political points - "What I object to—and what my interlocutors maddeningly refuse to engage with—is the effort to use history and Jewish memory, in particular, the crimes of ...4 years ago
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Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.4 years ago
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Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...4 years ago
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Hayek, Knowledge, and Carbon Taxes: Markets Without Prices or Prices Without Markets? - As far as I know, Friedrich Hayek never wrote a word about climate change, but two of his most famous works contain arguments that bear directly on this ke...4 years ago
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Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.4 years ago
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Japan and Philippines Challenge China on New Fronts - Japan is deploying a warship to the South China Sea while the Philippines pushes back against Chinese encroachments in the east.4 years ago
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How the Democrats can Rebuild - Appearing in: Orange County Register Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded the parlous state of the Democratic Part...4 years ago
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Goodbye - [image: Snapshot corrected moving to unz] It’s goodbye to drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk After 4 years of blogging, and 1,062,720 page views, here i...4 years ago
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The Things You Learn from the Internet - The Spiritual Science Research Foundation (“Bridging the known and unknown worlds”) has discovered the cause of homosexuality for 85% of all gay people: 4....4 years ago
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Moving house - People connected to me have justifiably asked that I move my blog to a more anonymous platform. Although I’ve made an effort to remove my name from this bl...4 years ago
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Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...4 years ago
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Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...4 years ago
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Anarchism - Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable, inclu...4 years ago
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Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done? - This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, near...4 years ago
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501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...4 years ago
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Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons - MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the seasons and ...4 years ago
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What Motivates a Jihadist? - (McLeans) A new study based on interviews conducted over social media with foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria raises doubts about the commonly held notio...4 years ago
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THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…4 years ago
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The Redistribution of Humiliation - The recent EU referendum in the UK has drawn a great deal of attention to voters who had previously been ignored. Communities left behind by the 21st Centu...4 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...4 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...4 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?4 years ago
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‘Gen Why?’ – Perception Deception - “Most days are full of meaningless uninvited interactions with the same kind of simple minded individuals, that indeed would have definitely complained abo...5 years ago
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My blog moving to my website - I just wanted to give a heads up to readers that I have moved my blog to my website, which now houses all my work, videos, press coverage, photos and more....5 years ago
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Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...5 years ago
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The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...5 years ago
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Along came Phil - Gramm, former Senator from the state of Texas to set a few facts straight in the Wall Street Journal about the cause of the financial crisis. I.e., it wasn...5 years ago
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Fiscal Policy and the ZLB - I have been doing some reading for my undergraduate thesis, which looks at the role of credit-supply shocks in the Spain during its housing boom and bust, ...5 years ago
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By: the unBalanced ecoLOGist | The Unbalanced Ecologist - […] weeks ago, I was invited to write a commentary about an online essay written by Erle Ellis for the Social Evolution Forum (a project of the Evolution I...5 years ago
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Samurai Gifts - The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late sixteenth and ...5 years ago
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Where are the “devaluationists”? - A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section on policy op...5 years ago
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History’s Most Exciting Period - What is my favorite period of history? While I love both the ancient-classical and medieval worlds (to use an oversimplification of time not equally applic...5 years ago
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Changing Stations - At the beginning of October, I packed up my family and we made the move ‘home’. The house is fairly new, but the place is old. It has a lot of history...5 years ago
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Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia. - Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia....5 years ago
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Salvaging the Tatters of the Obama Doctrine - When president Obama told George Stephanopoulos only hours before the Paris attack that his administration had “contained ISIS” he may have been wrong but ...5 years ago
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Podcast #363: The Future of America, Vulnerability, Cheating, and More - On Sunday’s episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, Greg Perkins and I answered questions on the future of the United States, the value of vulnerability, ch...5 years ago
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We've Moved - The Mischiefs of Faction is now located at mischiefsoffaction.com. Here's how to follow us: All our posts will appear on our new homepage, here. You can...5 years ago
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ニキビと遺伝の関係について - ニキビが出来やすい肌は遺伝するのだろうか…と思ったことはありませんか？ 親もニキビが出来やすい肌の場合、子どももそうなるのでしょうか。 ■ニキビが出来やすい肌とは ニキビが出来やすい肌というものは、実際にあるのです。 そ […]5 years ago
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What Russian Intelligence Knows About Hillary Clinton - It is my privilege to reveal to you this highly classified National Security Agency intercept which reveals just what Russian intelligence knew about Hilla...5 years ago
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A few more thoughts on monopsony and the minimum wage (and what I think is a much stronger post from Don) - In the last post I noted that monopsony is definitely not the only and not even really the best theoretical argument for why we see no disemployment effect...5 years ago
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Book Review: Intelligence (2015) by Stuart Ritchie - An Uphill Battle It’s no easy task to explain why intelligence is so important. The reason for this is oddly enough that many highly intelligent people i...5 years ago
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A CryptoFiction - Here’s a micro-story I started with the Access Crypto Summit flash fiction prompt in mind, left half done, and then belatedly finished off anyway, because ...5 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...5 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...5 years ago
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Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef - In the last few days I’ve carefully read comments emanating from the Coalition government that suggested an undue intervention in Australian politics by Pr...6 years ago
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Our first virtual Screenwriting Workshop! - T woke up on Monday with the idea, bubbling with notions, and I think it's a fabulous way to explore the new media potentials for a virtual classroom. We c...6 years ago
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What does my research contribute to our understanding of the Hong Kong protests? - Did Xi Jinping miscalculate by not allowing free elections in Hong Kong? We cannot know whether the Chinese leadership expected protests of this magnitude,...6 years ago
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Taxation vs. Expropriation - What’s the difference between a 50% marginal tax rate on income vs. 50% expropriation by a kleptocratic ruler or corrupt officials? Some models might sug...6 years ago
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Why Indians are Too Stupid to Build Toilets – were it not for the Media! - There has been a ghastly rape in some Indian village. Two girls got raped and later hanged by the perpetrators after “they left their toilet-less home duri...7 years ago
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By: Anonymous - Great article, however, I don't see yet a study explaining the effects of Cannabis being freed completely overnight, lifting all restrictions and allowing ...7 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner7 years ago
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Why Monetary Policy Should Ignore Financial Stability - Financial stability is apparently the new hot reason to tighten monetary policy, and in this article for Quartz I go in on some reasons for why this is a h...7 years ago
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Governance, aesthetics and architecture - I have been meaning to write up a few thoughts that came out of a beer-fueled conversation with a friend some weeks ago. We both lived in Austin, TX for so...7 years ago
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Norman Geras: 1943-2013 - I am very sad to announce that Norm died in Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge in the early hours of this morning. Writing this blog, and communicating wi...7 years ago
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OxcOOd1199 Error - Windows Media Player is a great way to view your favorite movie content. However, with the program comes the risk of the occasional OxcOOd1199 error occuri...7 years ago
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Jide Who Played Jesus to be Ordained - *MEDIA *INFORMATION *NEWS FROM THE EAST HAM TEAM* For Immediate Use 11 June 2013 *Jide who played Jesus to be ordained* The man who played Jesus in the Ne...8 years ago
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In which I amuse myself at a government ministers expense. - Now funnily enough I happen to live in the town where this has just happened. This may be the furthest south any group has landed, to put it in perspecti...8 years ago
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On John Quincy Adams and His Photograph - Of late there’s been notice that John Quincy Adams was photographed once or twice (the link is to Razib Khan’s thoughtful post). I’m not sure why the meme ...8 years ago
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Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe - But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure gues...8 years ago
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An Independent Wild Hunt - We at the Patheos Pagan channel bid The Wild Hunt much luck in its new phase as an independent website. To catch the latest from TWH, please check out wild...8 years ago
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Modeled Behavior’s RSS Feed - Hopefully within the next day or two we will be able to get Modeled Behavior.com to redirect to our Forbes Blog. Yet, it looks as if there is no way to ge...9 years ago
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Actually, maybe it is the NGDP after all - I’ve gotten a lot of really smart pushback on my claims about the UK economy, and I think I have significantly underestimated what I already believed to be...9 years ago
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One Law for All campaign in Turkish media - Here's an article quoting an interview with me on Sharia law and One Law for All published in Turkish media.9 years ago
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The tax forum as a platform for a grand bargain? - In his Challenges of Federation speech we referred to in a previous article, Prime Minister’s Department Secretary Terry Moran said: *There are business l...9 years ago
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The satisfaction of learning a new skill - Today I learned how to do short row shaping in knitting. It's a technique that is easy to do, and hard to explain. I've tried several times in the past. so...10 years ago
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The Rand Paul reality for gays - Some Republicans are trying to brush it off as the kind of debate you have in you freshman dorm at 2 a.m. Not so for us gays. The objection raised by Rand ...11 years ago
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