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Social and Anti-Social Housing - We have public housing, but it has never been as well designed, built, or maintained. We have limited-equity co-ops built by limited-dividend companies, b...
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Civil Politics Blog

Maximize your play: Tips for enjoying live table games at Rainbet Slots - Live table games have become an exhilarating component of the casino experience, engaging players with real-time action and social interaction. If you are ...
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4 gravitons

Paying the Truthseekers - Academics and journalists have a lot in common, at least in principle. Whether you’re a reporter or a professor, your job is to go out into the world and f...
1 hour ago
The Objective Standard

TOS Weekly - Airline Boss Points the Finger at Government - Plus why you should not strive to be an Objectivist, Ayn Rand contra Nietzsche, Henry Kitchell Webster’s life-loving fiction, and the beautiful, American m...
1 hour ago
Butterflies and Wheels

A role designed to boost women’s representation - Sigh. Of course they did. Greens face legal fight after trans activist elected as female rep Gender-critical members of the party are consulting lawyers ...
2 hours ago
Daily Nous

Free to Be Experimental Philosophy - “But is this actually philosophy?” Ethan Landes (Eindhoven University of Technology) is tired of experimental philosophers being asked The Question. And ...
3 hours ago
Mostly Economics

Fiscal Playground: A platform to figure Indian Public Finance - Pranay Kothasthane and Sarthak Pradhan of Takshashila Institute have written this interesting book: Fiscal Fables – A Citizen’s Guide to Public Finance. Th...
3 hours ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

Readers’ wildlife photos - Very few people are sending in wildlife photos, so if you have some good ones, shoot them my way, please. Fortunately, ecologist Susan Harrison has come t...
3 hours ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Israel Captures Hezbollah’s Main Terror Command Center in South Lebanon - Reuters: Iran had threatened a "large-scale attack if Israel launches offensive on Ali al-Taher ridge." The post Israel Captures Hezbollah’s Main Terror C...
4 hours ago
Vox - All

Can synthetic cells save the world? - Associate professor Kate Adamala has been busy. Her lab at the University of Minnesota takes chemicals and dead, isolated biological parts — like DNA, memb...
5 hours ago
Peter Zeihan

Global Shipping Comes Under Attack - While oil is still moving through the Strait of Hormuz, flows remain a fraction of pre-war levels. Some tankers have made it through by using tactics sim...
5 hours ago
Isegoria

Panamanian officials see them as retaliation - Panama is paying a price for stepping away from Beijing: Recent reporting indicates that Chinese authorities have sharply increased inspections and detenti...
6 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

No blog today - I'm trying to get all my ducks in a row, and the little buggers are busting out all over. I'll be back as soon as I've wrangled them. Peter
7 hours ago
Political Calculations

Hauser's Law in Action: 1946-2025 - We first wrote about Hauser's Law in 2009. At the time, we described it as "one of the stranger phenomenons in economic data". The law itself was propos...
7 hours ago
Medievalists.net

Medieval Past Revealed at Bayeux Tapestry Museum - Archaeological excavations at the Bayeux Tapestry Museum reveal medieval tanning and dyeing, hundreds of burials and nearly 2,000 years of history.
7 hours ago
View From The Porch

TGIF Memes! -
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- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

American Companies Expect Their Customers To Stay Much Longer. That May Be Making the Economy Less Competitive - [image: American Companies Expect Their Customers To Stay Much Longer. That May Be Making the Economy Less Competitive] In new research, Li Azinovic-Yang, ...
7 hours ago
Crisis Magazine

The Sandusky Hearing and the Cost of Overzealous Prosecution - Can the law still protect us in an age of "moral panic," where we find ourselves condemning the innocent and protecting the guilty?
8 hours ago
Longrider

Interesting Times - Kemi is enjoying a surge in the polls. The Tories have overtaken Reform UK in a new poll for the first time in 18 months in a huge boost [...]
8 hours ago
Books & Boots

Winner Take Nothing by Ernest Hemingway (1933) - ‘Let’s not talk about how I am,’ Nick said. ‘It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about it any more.’ (Perceptions not thoughts) Published...
9 hours ago
No B-S here (I hope)

How leftist NewsGuard tries to send its opponents broke - NewsGuard, Shmoozhard TONY THOMAS SEP 04 2026SaveDownload PDF ‘Now, our team has expanded to Australia and New Zealand … to support quality journalism and ...
10 hours ago
Marginal Revolution

Shout it from the rooftops (of the data centers) - Data-center investment has become one of the largest capital-expenditure cycles in financial markets, with U.S. hyperscalers expected to deploy roughly $...
10 hours ago
Thermidor

6 Ways To Set Up A Successful Cake Delivery Business - Starting a cake delivery business gives bakers a chance to turn creative skills into a profitable service. Customers look for fresh cakes, attractive desig...
11 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

State Film Subsidies Lose Money. Trump Wants To Try the Idea Nationally. - There’s “no reason to think a federal incentive would work any differently from state incentives,” says one expert. State Film Subsidies Lose Money. Trump ...
11 hours ago
Notes On Liberty

The Rebel Realist: My Arctic and Realist Journeys Converge - For decades, the high priests of the Arctic establishment—the tenured mandarins, the deep-state bureaucrats, and the military-industrial gatekeepers—have p...
12 hours ago
Vlad Tepes

Reader’s Links for September 4, 2026 - Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on ...
13 hours ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

This week in research #142 - Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week: - Sacerdote, Staiger, and Tine (with ungated earlier version here) find that test score–...
13 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Pagan Community Notes: Week of September 3, 2026 - [image: Pagan Community Notes: Week of September 3, 2026] In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Witch-obsessed undersecretary nominated for Secretary of th...
14 hours ago
Whatever

View From a Hotel Window, 9/3/26: Tampa, FL - Nothing like a big ol’ vent to inspire one to lofty heights of imagination. In any event: Hello! I’m in Tampa. It’s warm. I figure I’ll find out more about...
14 hours ago
waka waka waka

Get A Life! - Here’s a fun little AI toy: Any Human Ever.
17 hours ago
Blazing Cat Fur

Key government jobs, such as safety inspectors and intelligence analysts, being prioritized by race - Applicants to some of the most critical jobs in the Canadian federal government, including safety inspectors and intelligence agents, are now being explici...
17 hours ago
Discover Blogs

DNA From a Deadly Sheep Virus Survived for Centuries Beneath Medieval Ink - Learn how ancient sheeppox virus DNA was found on the parchment of medieval manuscripts across Europe.
17 hours ago
Althouse

Sunrise. - [image: IMG_0610] That's my only photo. I saw a flash of lightning and chose to head back home. But Meade made a target of himself out on the dock, and he ...
18 hours ago
JoNova

Iran shuts down a UK power plant for four days, but that’s no biggie… - Image by emely krause from Pixabay By Jo Nova Net Zero makes our grids fragile Australians may not be aware but Iranian hackers managed to knock out a U...
20 hours ago
Alt-M

Congress Takes Aim at Executive Tariff Power - Some members of Congress seem increasingly interested in reasserting some congressional authority over trade policy—even if these efforts do not amount to ...
20 hours ago
Corey Robin

Amazing educational opportunity - Two of my favorite historians, Steve Fraser and Josh Freeman, are teaching a course, starting in mid-September, at the New York City DSA Academy—yes, an ac...
21 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Update on “I don’t understand this paper claiming election fraud in 2024 in Pennsylvania” - Last year we briefly discussed a hard-to-follow paper by political scientist Walter Mebane discussing possible “malevolent distortions of electors’ intenti...
21 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Update on “I don’t understand this paper claiming election fraud in 2024 in Pennsylvania” - Last year we briefly discussed a hard-to-follow paper by political scientist Walter Mebane discussing possible “malevolent distortions of electors’ intenti...
21 hours ago
PsyPost

Psilocin triggers rapid neural growth in laboratory study - Psilocin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, promotes the rapid growth of neural connections in laboratory settings. A new study reveals how these str...
21 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

The End Of WorldCon? Attendance Hits A 10-Year Low And It’s Only Getting Worse! - ------------------------------ Support Jon Support Me On Subscribe Star Get FREE Books! Independent journalism isn’t easy and I can use all of the help I...
21 hours ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

We're Living in a Tragicomic Parody - *It's hard to take a joke when our entire economy and financial system is the joke. * *We're blessed/cursed to be living in a very peculiar era in which p...
23 hours ago
Minding The Campus

The Accountability Crisis - Top of mind this week is Douglas Belkin and Roshan Fernandez’s Wall Street Journal article, “Why Syracuse Can’t Attract the Students It Needs to Pay the ...
23 hours ago
According To Hoyt

There appears to have been . . . cats? - By Holly the Assistant Fairly late last night, Sarah dropped me a note asking if I could put something, anything, up today. This is anything. The various c...
1 day ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

AI confirms what I was sure of. I am five removes from King Charles II - Using AI I confirmed that Harold Macmillan did. know Frederic Harrison. How wonderful AI is. I met Harold Macmillan. Frederic Harrison went to his weddin...
1 day ago
International Liberty

Gun Control Humor - I’ve become very slack about posting gun control humor (just one column in 2024 and one column in 2025). But there’s a very upbeat reason for my diminished...
1 day ago
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog

Tropical Storms Invade Hawaiian Waters: The Role of El Nino - *Normally, tropical storms and hurricanes avoid the area of the Hawaiian Islands. * Why? Because the nearby Pacific is usually too cool! In general...
1 day ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

Musings On Iraq In The News - I was quoted in this article by Wladimir van Wilgenburg “Beyond the MoU: The Future of U.S.-Peshmerga Relations” for the Kurdish Center for Studies
1 day ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Gross and Net US Investment - Each year, more than half of the total or gross investment by US firms just makes up for depreciation in older equipment and knowledge. in recent year, i...
1 day ago
macrobusiness.com.au

Aussie banks forecast biggest house price falls on record - According to Cotality, the largest capital city house price decline on record, based on 40 years of data, was between October 2017 and May 2019, when val...
1 day ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

- From here. Copyright Andrew Oh-Willeke (2012-2020)
1 day ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

Supreme Irony: Congressional Democrats Seek to Reform Institution That is More Popular Than They Are - Congressional Democrats blocked an effort to introduce a constitutional amendment to bar the Court’s expansion, with many members reiterating their…
1 day ago
The New Neo

Open thread 9/3/2026 - The post Open thread 9/3/2026 appeared first on The New Neo.
1 day ago
Bracing Views

Scary Democratic Socialists! - Empty the Prisons, Fire the Police, Be Afraid BILL ASTORE SEP 02, 2026 I had to laugh as I saw this definitional alchemy in the New York Times this morning...
1 day ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Best Insults in History - 1. “He had delusions of adequacy. “ — Walter Kerr 2. “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.“ — Winston Churchill3. “I have never...
1 day ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

A Novel on Aristotelian Islam - During the early days of the Islamic caliphate, around the 8th and 9th centuries, the Arab Muslim world was at the peak of civilization. These are the days...
1 day ago
Philosoraptor

*Nature* Beclowns Itself Yet Again--This Time Re: Jason Arday - This is a bit surprising even to those of us who have come to expect bullshit from Nature editorials...
1 day ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

Have You Appreciated This Summer? - Forgive me for this post… Increasingly, I avoid politics. Where I once participated, now I disengage. The madness is too much. I’ll get stupid on my shoes....
1 day ago
LessWrong

Personal Effort to Reduce Biorisk - I'm pretty worried about how AI might change the world a lot very soon. In some of these cases things go very wrong very quickly, in others things go ver...
1 day ago
Simple Justice

Van Wagner: Hung Jury or Verdict By Coercion in Clancy Case - Ed. Note: This is a guest post by Madison, Wisconsin, criminal defense lawyer Christopher Van Wagner. It has been a busy week for Court TV’s Managing Edito...
1 day ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

Abusing Aristotle - The New Right's "common good" dresses textbook collective action problems in lofty philosophical language.
1 day ago
The World is Not Enough

Election preview: Saxony-Anhalt - A German state election raises the possibility of a far-right majority.
1 day ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

The 2006 Origins of Israel’s Multi-domain Post-October 7 Warfare Strategy - *BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,407, September 3, 2026* *EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:* *Israel’s failed 2006 war against Hezbollah spurred IDF doctrinal and ...
1 day ago
Thought Catalog

Why Dating Feels Impossible For Each Zodiac Sign In 2026 - Aries You’re forced to use dating apps and you suck at advertising yourself. Taurus You can never tell when someone is straight-up flirting with you or onl...
1 day ago
www.counterpunch.org

Brick by Brick: Dismantling the ICC and the Rule of Law - Secretary of State Marco Rubio's denunciations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) last July are only the latest U.S. threats against that judicia...
1 day ago
The Unz Review:

Sanctioning a Ghost: Europe’s Empty Gesture Against Iran, by Larry C. Johnson - US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced today that the European Union has “officially joined” the American sanctions campaign against Iran — Operatio...
1 day ago
Manhattan Contrarian

Here's An Idea To Get 30% Cheaper Groceries In New York Without Taxpayer Subsidies: Allow Walmart! - * During his campaign for office last fall, our new Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to make groceries “affordable” for New Yorkers; but he provided few speci...
1 day ago
Policy of Truth

Home Is Where the Bombs Are - For decades now, we’ve been force-fed the dogma that American higher-education is the epitome of “woke”–a fully-owned subsidiary of “the Left.” I spent thr...
1 day ago
Mad Genius Club

Keeping the story under control - I have a special fondness for some particular authors who have their story-telling chops under control, so that I can not only enjoy the ride, but also soa...
1 day ago
Caracas Chronicles

Every Political Transition Is Wickedly Tortuous - Much like Spain’s transition half a century ago, every reform reveals its true purpose only with time
1 day ago
The Federalist

205 House Democrats Vote To Kill Anti-Court Packing Amendment - [image: Supreme Court building.]Nearly every House Democrat voted to kill a constitutional amendment proposal on Wednesday that would have kept the Supreme...
1 day ago
Paula Wright

Pentingnya Travel Insurance saat Bepergian untuk Liburan yang Lebih Aman - Rencana liburan biasanya disusun dari hal-hal yang menyenangkan: memilih tujuan, memesan penginapan, dan membayangkan kegiatan yang ingin dilakukan. Namu...
1 day ago
Leah Schnelbach – Tor.com

Boorman and the Devil Will Make You Want To Create Art - And it might make you reassess The Exorcist II The post Boorman and the Devil Will Make You Want To Create Art appeared first on Reactor.
1 day ago
Brown Pundits

Quick Review: Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam - This was an old review I wrote and is now lost in our archive somewhere, so I decided to repost. Shahab Ahmed tells us up front that he is not going to ans...
2 days ago
PinkNews

The Challenge star goes public with girlfriend after saying he’s no longer gay - Davis Mallory, who appeared on MTV‘s The Challenge, has gone Instagram official with his girlfriend a year after announcing that he’s ‘no longer gay’. Ma...
2 days ago
A Voice for Men

The Goal Post Episode 80 – AVFM Quick Update / Leonardo da Vinci / Charles Martel -
2 days ago
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for August, 2026: +0.68 deg. C - The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for August, 2026 was +0.68 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up from the...
2 days ago
EconLog

The NIMBY Prisoner’s Dilemma - In the last thirty years or so, the United States has seen persistent shortages of housing, waste disposal facilities, electricity generation, and oil r...
2 days ago
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day – Leaving the ECHR will not save us - This brings us back to legal fetishism and the importance of grasping regime politics and how it informs judicial thinking. Judges do not simply make and...
2 days ago
Active Response Training

Upcoming Classes September-October 2026 - Here are my upcoming open enrollment classes for the next couple months. Here we go… September 12, 2026- Home Defense Shotgun at Blackwing Shooting Cen...
2 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

LLMs and self-referentiality - I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Dou...
3 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

LLMs and self-referentiality - I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Dou...
3 days ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

Are Rape, Polygyny, and Unjust War Desirable and Thus Good for Homer's Men? - THE GOOD IS THE DESIRABLE I have been persuaded by Aristotle that “the good is whatever is desirable for its own sake” (*Rhetoric*, 1362a22; *NE*, 1113a1...
3 days ago
Old European culture

Shard from Mehrgarh - A ceramic fragment, found in Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, Pakistan. The fragment was found in the layer IV, dated to around 2800BC. I want to thank Gabriella ...
3 days ago
Overcoming Bias

Modern Worries - Hope is more fragile than fear.
3 days ago
The Honest Courtesan

Diary #844 - I did realize that a full-grown turkey could not live comfortably in a henhouse with chickens, but what I did not realize was just how much trouble it woul...
3 days ago
Logarithmic History

First signs - 17.3 – 16.4 thousand years ago In July and August, this blog covered one of the great revolutions in information transmission, the evolution of language. ...
3 days ago
Regie's Blog

LEFT RIGHT LEFT… - All I asked Chat GPT to render was a picture of national socialists. That’s all. I said no names and asked for no times in history. The picture above is w...
3 days ago
Streetwise Professor

No, AI Will Not Solve the Knowledge Problem and Usher in a Centrally Planned Utopia - Back when AI began to emerge as the Next Big Thing, I asked myself “how long until some idiot comes along and says AI will permit efficient, rational centr...
4 days ago
Alexander Boot

Let’s not be beastly to intellectuals - I wish I had a tenner for each time someone says that university education, or erudition in general, doesn’t equate intelligence. That’s true, it doesn’t, ...
4 days ago
The Sociological Eye

ANTI-MODERN MODERNISM AND ITS ANTIDOTE: JAMES JOYCE AND HART CRANE'S THE BRIDGE - Modernist literature is anti-modern society. Most poetry and major novelists of the 20th century inveigh against the machine age, the superficiality of p...
4 days ago
bellingcat

Investigating a Murder: Public Records Uncover New Clues in Chinatown Cold Case - Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. On a June night in 1996, in a basement apartment in B...
4 days ago
House of Eratosthenes

Memo For File CCXXIII - I found this incredibly discouraging: Lindsay Clancy verdict watch: Jury ends second day without verdict, will return Monday By Peter Yankowski, Lisa Backu...
4 days ago
Edward Feser

Just war doctrine and Congress’s war powers - As I have argued since it began, President Trump’s war on Iran fails to meet several of the conditions of traditional just war doctrine. Not the least o...
5 days ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, Library Edition - [image: Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, Library Edition]Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, ...
5 days ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

The plague years - I'd heard about a decline of self-reported happiness in recent years, but I hadn't looked at the numbers until I saw a post by Noah Smith a few days ago...
6 days ago
RyanHoliday.net

The Discipline Required To Create The Life You Want - You know, not everything has to be big. I realize that the impulse, especially when it comes to business, is to try to grow everything to the absolute big...
6 days ago
The Syrian Intifada

Podcast: What Do We Know About Islam’s Origins? - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 August 2026 I recently went on Razib Khan’s podcast to discuss the various historical questions that surround the origins...
1 week ago
The Mermaid's Tale

Sapiens, Ch. 5: "We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us." - *We did not? * *It did? * *Without thumbs?* This is the next post in my ninth and final journey through the book *Sapiens*. We are in Chapter 5: Hist...
1 week ago
Practical Ethics

2026 Uehiro Lectures: Miranda Fricker on Moral Pressures: Bending Time, Shaping Wills - By Kartik Upadhyaya (Research Fellow, the Oxford Uehiro Institute) From the 1st to 8th of this June , Miranda Fricker, Silver Professor of Philosophy at ...
1 week ago
The Splintered Mind

Summary of The Weirdness of the World - Just what you wanted! And just in time for National Cherry Popsicle Day! A summary of my 2024 book, *The Weirdness of the World*, by the author himself. ...
1 week ago
mathbabe

AI Skeptics: From Mathematics to AI Safety (with Jacob Tsimerman) - We were psyched to talk to Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman about his decision to leave his math professorship and move to Silicon Valley to work at OpenAI ...
1 week ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

Reading the 2026 Polls: Fake Data Inserted into Campaign Coverage Reveals a Weakness of Our Political System - Editor’s note: Michael W. Traugott is professor emeritus of communication and media and of political science at the University of Michigan and is current...
1 week ago
Rhys Ford

Fried rice for dinner - … Tonight’s dinner: fried rice I had a bunch of leftover stuff sort of floating around in the freezer. Lap Cheong. A couple of shrimp. Some peas and carrot...
1 week ago
Darwinian Reactionary

Answer To Euthyphro - In the Euthyphro Plato has Socrates ask whether things are good because God wills them, or that God wills them because they are good. The former is rejecte...
1 week ago
The Angry Staff Officer

What Became of The Army Strategy? - “Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.” Most anyone who has served in combat arms as a tactical level leader in the Army is familiar with this ...
1 week ago
THE LAST DITCH

Home from Romania - On my road trips, I was usually alone. Blogging about my experiences was a nice way to end each day. This trip (from which I returned at midnight last nigh...
1 week ago
Jonathan Spyer

Hamas Plays for Time in Gaza - Spectator, 19/8: The current, troubled and glacial diplomatic process between Israel, the US/‘Board of Peace’ and the de facto Hamas authority in Gaza is a...
2 weeks ago
Cameron Harwick

The Race to Serfdom - 20 years ago, it was common to hear people say something like “I love Hayek, but The Road to Serfdom is a bit embarrassing. Clearly not every intervention ...
2 weeks ago
The Market Monetarist

Last chance: A proposal for fiscal and nominal stability in the US - What the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve should announce: 1) The fiscal house needs to be put in order right now: a) Introduction of a federal VAT at a...
2 weeks ago
I aim to misbehave.

Precognition Purchase - Finding that past me had bought an item and squirreled it away, that is now hard to find and triple the price is pretty much my win of the summer. Go, me!
2 weeks ago
The Other Side of History

Brief Note on Military Applications of Big Data - One of my students brought up the military uses of big data. Here's my response. Warning: major oversimplifications ahead! In the mid-2000s, the Army to...
3 weeks ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

The Book is a Book, not Disembodied Information - Believing that the book is just abstract information that can be merely held on a stick is an error we will call dimension overtrucation. *Definition: *D...
3 weeks ago
Modeled Behavior

Leaked Info on Highest RTP Live Gacor Tangandewa Slot Today - modeledbehavior.com – Are you ready to dive into the thrilling world of Tangandewa slots? With the latest buzz swirling around high RTP (Return to Player...
3 weeks ago
Evonomics

Western Europe Is Richer Than the US - Originally published at People’s Policy Project By Matt Bruenig There has been a weird debate over the last few months about whether the United States is...
4 weeks ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

Outsmarting Google — and More - The most controversial and most widely debated topic ever covered on this blog began with a post called
4 weeks ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

Real talk about the exchange rate - (This post reproduces a thread I wrote on Twitter/X on July 29.) A lot of the discussion about the depreciation of/undervaluation of China’s real effective...
4 weeks ago
Norse and Viking Ramblings

I Wrote This on Ólafr's Day, or the Saint in Runes - Door from Rauland church with runic inscription on the upper iron fitting. Photo J. Jesch 2023. Today is the feast day of the holy King Ólafr Haraldsson, wh...
5 weeks ago
Money, Markets, and Misperceptions

InCognito (All Content Moved) - It is a bit late (almost 2 years), but now is a better time than never to share that I have moved my blogging to InCognito.
5 weeks ago
Eurogenes Blog

The G25 Proto-Indo-European master sheet - I'm putting together a G25 Proto-Indo-European master sheet that I'll be using in a future blog post about the Indo-European, or, if you wish, Indo-Anatoli...
5 weeks ago
educationrealist

The Cognitive Barrier to Teaching - When people want to mock ed schools and the low IQ of the students within them, they often go straight to the coursework. Millions of pages mocking absurd ...
1 month ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

They’re Not Rape Gangs… - Of course there was a cover-up. Of course it continues—witness the deafening silence of the legacy media in response to Rupert Lowe’s crowdfunded Rape Gang...
1 month ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

New article on privacy rights and privacy law in the University of New South Wales Law Journal - I have a new article in the *University of New South Wales Law Journal*, entitled "Liberal Principles and the Right to a Private Life: Why Australia's I...
1 month ago
CSPI Center

Car Parking Multiplayer 2 MOD APK (Unlimited Money, Gold) v1.1.4.10119880 Download Free 2026 - 🚗 CPM 2 MOD APK 2026 Car Parking Multiplayer 2 MOD APK (Unlimited Money, Gold) v1.1.4.10119880 — Olzhass | 170+ Cars | Open World | Android 11+ The high...
1 month ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

Syria, Revolt and War in the Digital Age - World War I saw the emergence of the soldier's camera; the American side of the Vietnam conflict marked the first televised war; the Kuwait War inaugurated...
1 month ago
How Material Are We? – MADE IN AMERICA

Lessons We Learn from Donald Trump - As I compose this sentence, Donald Trump appears beleaguered: thrashing about trying to escape being labeled Loser of the Iran War, facing basement-level a...
1 month ago
The History of China

#299 – Qing 34: Remember to Remember to Forget You Forgot Me - This was no peace borne of reconciliation; this was silence, enforced by amnesia. Time Period Covered:~ 1739-1759 CE Major Historical Figures:Qing Empire:T...
1 month ago
Coyote Blog

My (Mostly Contrarian) Thoughts on AI - I am not an expert in AI, but I have seen a lot of waves software-based productivity innovations in my lifetime, and have developed some intuition as to ho...
1 month ago
Publishing Archaeology

- Just What we DON’T Need: A New Predatory Journal in Archaeology I just got a notice about a new predatory journal, “Archaeological Studies,” publishe...
1 month ago
PressThink

Jay Rosen’s Internet Archive: an Introduction. - To get things started, here's a Q & A. The post Jay Rosen’s Internet Archive: an Introduction. appeared first on PressThink.
1 month ago
Climate Etc.

Climate Etc. is now an archive - Climate Etc. closed in June 2026 and this site is preserved as a read-only archive. This feed will not update again -- visit the homepage for where to find...
1 month ago
Andrew Holt, Ph.D.

Interview with Alfred J. Andrea Regarding his Forthcoming Book, “Traveling to the ‘Tartars’: Three Missions to the Mongols, 1245-1248” - Over the next several posts, I will be presenting a sustained, multi‑part (and at times) longform interview with my dear friend, medieval historian Dr. Alf...
2 months ago
Uneasy Money

The Monumental Dishonesty and Appalling Bad Faith of Chief Justice Roberts’s Decision: Updated - In light of Justice Alito’s opinion today in the consolidated cases Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, relying on the 2018 Trump v. Hawaii case, I am updatin...
2 months ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

Mysterianism: Broadened - Mysterianism. Mysterianism (or: the new mysterianism) is an idea that has been kicking around philosophy of mind circles at least since 1989, the year Coli...
2 months ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Fred’s Utterly Necessary New Books - A tale of woe, though not very woeful, but I believe in straining for an effect: After decades of inciting insurrection, sedition, and the corruption of y...
3 months ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Fred’s Utterly Necessary New Books - A tale of woe, though not very woeful, but I believe in straining for an effect: After decades of inciting insurrection, sedition, and the corruption of y...
3 months ago
Henry the Young King Blog

'What's In A Name?' A Few Names of Anglo-Norman Aristocracy and Their Orbit - To Henry the Young King readers. Greetings! Just a quick update on my progress. This coming month I will be travelling on the King's business (modern me...
3 months ago
Little Atoms

Podcast interview scam - Podcast interview scam padraig Tue, 05/26/2026 - 09:49 Dear readers and authors Several authors have made the Little Atoms team aware of emails, claiming ...
3 months ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

A New Deputy Defence Minister; A New Problem for Minister Belousov? - Today (25 May 2026) it has emerged that since 22 May, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Police Colonel General Vitaly Shulika has been appoint...
3 months ago
Sultan Knish

Billionaires Against Billionaires Funded by Billionaires - During the California gubernatorial debate, Tom Steyer, who is a billionaire, claimed that the billionaires are out to get him. “The billionaires and co...
4 months ago
Freethinking Economist

Maybe Europe is winning after all? - Today when I should have been enjoying the non-monetary benefits of Wimbledon Common I was instead getting depressed by The Economist, which I listen to as...
4 months ago
La Bocca della Verità

Regression to the mean - Sports fans in particular mis-use the idea of "regression to the mean," speaking of it, as though it were some causal power, impacting real, physical eve...
4 months ago
Paul Musgrave

Moving to Qatar: The Hidden Guide - There are many online guides about moving to Qatar and settling in. Employers also often provide instructions and assessments. This is not a replacement fo...
4 months ago
Sam Altman

- - Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am shar...
4 months ago
The Scholar's Stage

China and the Future of Science - *THE CHINESE* socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here is the most salient distinction: the ...
5 months ago
The Mitrailleuse

Apa yang Dimaksud dengan Baby Blues? Ini Penjelasan Lengkap untuk Ibu dan Keluarga - Kehadiran bayi dalam keluarga biasanya identik dengan kebahagiaan. Namun, tidak sedikit ibu yang justru merasa sedih, cemas, mudah menangis, atau kewalah...
6 months ago
Chicago Boyz

Rabbit Season (UPDATED) - Well, last night’s Super Bowl made me nostalgic for my youth because it reminded me of every bad game from the ’80s. I had better things to do than watch t...
6 months ago
Ex Urbe

How is Inventing the Renaissance an SFF-Related Work? - It’s a surprisingly fun question. This year, the British Science Fiction Association Awards included my nonfiction history, Inventing the Renaissance: Myth...
7 months ago
milescorak

The best teaching strategy meets students where they are, even if that is AI - My teaching style varies with student need, trying to meet individuals where they are and appreciating the barriers they may face. Putting it perhaps too c...
7 months ago
The Z Blog

Green Door Post- Draft 6/24/25 - “We liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it” is often attributed to Georgy Zhukov, the great Soviet general during the Great P...
7 months ago
Order of the Coif

Against the Strawman God - Stellan Skarsgård, the famous Swedish actor, reportedly declared that the question of G-d’s existence is “absurd and completely uninteresting” because if a...
7 months ago
Gun Culture 2.0

Collected Posts on NSSF SHOT Show - I have only been to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) SHOT Show (Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show) once. I am attending the show, hel...
7 months ago
Mark Manson

4 Simple Steps to Change Your Life - If you want to change your life—like really, seriously, no bullshit, actually change your life—do this: Step 1: Write down everything you care about. Ste...
8 months ago
Club Troppo

Market – what market? The catch 22 at the heart of innovation in government - The first of what may be quite a few articles I reproduce here which I wrote for The Mandarin from around 2016 to 2020 or thereabouts (The Mandarin has put...
8 months ago
Phillip W. Magness

Disraeli Left Me Tariffs? - In a recent piece for National Review (“Why I Will Never Be A Free Trader“) writer Michael Brendan Dougherty builds the core of his argument around the o...
8 months ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

GDP Marches On! - A discussion has been had over on X about how GDP sucks, and is also better than measures of happiness. I was moved to song. To the tune of “Battle Hymn...
8 months ago
West Hunter

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8 months ago
History for Atheists

Interview – Bart Ehrman on Jesus Mythicism - My very special guest today is Professor Bart Ehrman. Bart will need no introduction for most people, but in case you aren’t aware: he is the James A. Gr...
9 months ago
Tino Sanandaji

2025 Dopaminas Casino Argentina – Análisis Completo, Bonos, Juegos y Enlaces Oficiales - Dopaminas Casino Argentina – Análisis Completo, Bonos, Juegos y Enlaces Oficiales Dopaminas Casino es una de las plataformas de apuestas online más recon...
9 months ago
Facing Islam Blog

VIDEO: Dr Gavin Ashendon on Prince William's 'discomfort with Christianity', Islam's 'muscular' ascendency in the UK - Here is an older (January 2024) interview I just came across, but it treats such perennial issues in the UK as to be most timely: the blatant apostasy an...
10 months ago
Pandaemonium

OPERA, ELITISM AND THE WORKING CLASS - This is the opening to my essay on the forgotten relationship between opera and the working class, published in the Observer on 12 October 2025. You can re...
10 months ago
A Fine Theorem

A Nobel for Innovation: Mokyr, Aghion, Howitt - This site is currently inactive; however, an A Fine Theorem post about the 2025 Nobel can be found on my personal site at https://kevinbryanecon.com/mokyra...
10 months ago
PrawfsBlawg

Meet the new Prawfs, same as the old Prawfs - After twenty years at Typepad, we have completed our move to WordPress and to PrawfsBlawg.com. We have exported all our posts (thanks to Typepad and the IP...
11 months ago
Big P Political Economy

Military Spending in 2024 - Source: Sipri (2025) https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/2504_fs_milex_2024.pdf
11 months ago
neo-neocon

Question for you all: what was your experience with the Shingles vaccine? - My doctors have been urging me to get it, despite the fact that I had shingles about twenty-five years ago. Back then, the word on shingles was that you ...
11 months ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

The crisis of UK democracy - Conventional UK politics is in crisis. By this I don't mean merely that things are bad. I mean that destabilizing forces have strengthened and stabilizing ...
1 year ago
Brad R. Torgersen

Footprints in the Firmament is on sale now! - Fresh boxes of both softcovers and hardcovers arrived today. If you’d like a signed, personalized copy of my new short fiction treasury, Footprints in the ...
1 year ago
Raymond Ibrahim

The EU’s Fake History Project: Islam, Europe, and €10 Million in Revisionism - The Stream The European Union has decided that what the continent really needs right now — amid economic stagnation, mass illegal immigration, rising crime...
1 year ago
Andrew Norton

Has the University Funding Freeze Caused Commencing Enrolments to Fall? - The release of 2018 enrolment data reveals a rare decline—commencing domestic bachelor-degree students fell by approximately 0.8% compared to 2017. On the ...
1 year ago
Bondwine Books

Obiter dictum - There is a peculiar form of human idiocy, unusually common on the political Left but not, alas, unheard of in any segment of society: the assumption that i...
1 year ago
NGDP Advisers

NGDP consulting approaches to improve project management efficiency - What are NGDP consulting approaches to improve project management efficiency? NGDP consulting approaches to improve project management efficiency include p...
1 year ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

I’ll say it: I told you so - (Transplanting a post from DeviantArt) So British and EU censorship laws have dropped, and especially on X, people are hitting the roof as every adult flag...
1 year ago
Being Classically Liberal

Incredible Lessons I’ve Learned About - Auto Diagnostics: The Key to Understanding Your Vehicle’s Health In today’s fast-paced automotive world, understanding the health of your vehicle is more c...
1 year ago
The Burning Platform

Planned Parenthood Warns Funding Cut Will Result In Birth Of Thousands Of Babies - Via The Babylon Bee U.S. — Following the passing of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” to set the government’s spending budget, Planned...
1 year ago
Communalism Watch

The Country I Miss | Naseeruddin Shah (Indian Express, 4 July 2025) - Every. Single. Word.𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗻𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰...
1 year ago
Andrew Norton

The ideas of Liberal liberals - Nearly 30 years ago now I dropped out of a PhD exploring the communitarian critique of liberalism. My interest in liberalism continued through articles, ch...
1 year ago
Moneyness

Trump-proofing Canada means ending our dependence on SWIFT - It's time to stop staring into the headlights and respond to the fact that Canada is being eyed as a choice morsel by a much larger predator: our former...
1 year ago
Agony and Hope

We’re Moving - I have decided to move Agony & Hope to a new home.
1 year ago
Peter Turchin

My Blog Has Moved to Substack - As I wrote at the beginning of 2025, the previous year turned out to be quite a challenge. It took me a while to recover and, then, to deal with the “stuff...
1 year ago
Anonymous Mugwump

- I did not consent to have my blog stored in the wayback machine - see the following link for a list of URLs currently captured on your site - and as copy...
1 year ago
MAN ABOUT TOWN

Recent Call of Cthulhu work for the Miskatonic Repository - The last time I posted on this poor, neglected blog was in August 2023, and a lot has happened since then - I've been meaning to blog about it for ages, bu...
1 year ago
Dr. Andrew Bostom

Forthcoming: “A MODERN QUR’ANIC KAMPF AGAINST THE JEWS” First full translation of, “The Children of Israel in the Qur’an & Traditions,” written by late (d. 2010) Al-Azhar University Grand Imam, & Sunni Islam’s Pre-eminent Modern Qur’anic Commentator, Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi - Forthcoming: A MODERN QUR’ANIC KAMPF AGAINST THE JEWS First full translation of, “The Children of Israel in the Qur’an & Traditions” Written by late (d. 2...
1 year ago
The Observation Post

Never let facts stand in the way of a good story - “South Africa’s most decorated combat soldier, Colonel Jan Breytenbach, has died in his homeland at 91” So, proclaimed Mr. John Elsegood in an article on O...
1 year ago
MacroMania

The End - I started this blog back in 2008. What a ride it's been! Thanks to all who took the time to interact with me -- I profited greatly from the experience. And...
1 year ago
Evo and Proud

New location and new horizons - *The Travelling Companions*, 1862, Augustus Egg (1816-1863) I'm now blogging at *Peter Frost's Newsletter.* Please drop by and offer your comments: ...
1 year ago
MountainGuerrilla

General Preparedness Discussion–9MAR2025 - It’s been said that most American households only have enough food on hand for 2-3 days worth of meals. We tend to see this as factual, because of the run ...
1 year ago
Bernard Gaynor

Sign up for the fight – join my fighting team today! - Join my fighting team and help win the battle against porn in our public libraries! The post Sign up for the fight – join my fighting team today! appeare...
1 year ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

Algeria - The Algerians were mostly pirates at first. They preyed on European commerce and enslaved tens of thousands of Europeans. They ransomed what they could and...
1 year ago
Supply and Demand (in that order)

Deepseek gets F+ in Econ - LLMs have trouble with this pretty-basic economics question: Prompt: “*Is this factually accurate?* *Positively correlated price-quantity pairs reveal th...
1 year ago
Cherokee Gothic

The Revitalization of the Cherokee Language - The Cherokee language is a key part of the rich and diverse history of the Cherokee people. This unique language, with its syllabary alphabet created by ...
1 year ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

The Humanoids by Jack Willamson - I had my hopes up for this one. After all, “With Folded Hands” is a bona fide super-classic short story. Yeah, sure. Isaac Asimov was onto something when h...
1 year ago
Cold Fury

Joy! - Genuine, heartfelt joy, REAL joy, that is. Look close, Kumala, so’s you’ll always know it when you see it from now on. ‘This Is What Victory Feels Like!’ M...
1 year ago
globalinequality

To be young, perchance to dream - *He got to the river quay, or more exactly to the sidewalk on the other side of the paved road running along the river, in the late morning. Too many ...
1 year ago
Lead and Gold

Merry Christmas - And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them...
1 year ago
Institutional Economics

Institutional Economics on Bluesky - I have a Bluesky account you may wish to follow. Also a reminder to subscribe to my Substack newsletter if you have not already done so. The back-end of th...
1 year ago
Augean Stables

The “Public Secret” Dossier: Revelations about the MSM from the Al Durah Affair - This text was first posted July 10, 2008, but much of it is missing there. I will clean this text (with formatting) but in the meantime, I publish it here ...
1 year ago
War Is Boring - Medium

Japan’s PM ‘runs’ to Trump, Ishiba aims for a meeting in November - Adnkronos International, Rome(TNS) During the phone call that lasted about five minutes, Ishiba and Trump – Kyodo reports again – did not talk about the ...
1 year ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

About Simone and Malcolm Collins’ Smear Campaign Against Me - If you’re interested at all in pronatalism, you’re familiar with Simone and Malcolm Collins, the pronatal Silicon Valley investors-turned-Pennsylvania-pr...
1 year ago
ribbonfarm

Ribbonfarm is Retiring - After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm....
1 year ago
Jeb Kinnison

Podcast Review of “Avoidant” - I’ve been trying out AI assistance in marketing. This is an excellent example of what you can do, and it’s amazingly good at bringing out the value of th...
1 year ago
Sharyl Attkisson

(WATCH) NATO - The US is one of 32 nations belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. The alliance is 75 years old this year. Because of the Russia-Uk...
1 year ago
Rightly Considered

Hello world! - WordPress へようこそ。こちらは最初の投稿です。編集または削除し、コンテンツ作成を始めてください。
1 year ago
interfluidity

China has much to teach us. John Roberts does not. - So, I don’t really write here any more. I write at drafts.interfluidity.com instead. Please follow that feed or subscribe by e-mail. I do still offer perio...
1 year ago
TheMoneyIllusion

A long strange trip - For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog bega...
2 years ago
Martin van Creveld

Dear Friends - Dear Friends: Ten years after I started this blog, circumstances are making it impossible for me to continue with it. So I am going to suspend it, at lea...
2 years ago
untethered

Sanity Fair - *"Antifascist" demonstration Portland, Oregon. August 17, 2019. * The two sides squared off across a field, defined by police cordons at each end, like dis...
2 years ago
Fabius Maximus website

The Deep-State Strikes Back - Biden is out. Kamala is in. Democracy and laws be damned. Biden through Saturday night was insisting he would stay in the presidential race to the end su...
2 years ago
Falkenblog

A Better Stablecoin on a Perp DEX - Creating a stablecoin position on a perp exchange is hard, but it should be easy. It not only caters to demand, but it also adds liquidity to perp marke...
2 years ago
traditionalRIGHT

Sitzkrieg? - Several People have inquired why I have not written a column for TR in some time. Let me assure them I am in good health and face no lack of material as o...
2 years ago
Information Processing

Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...
2 years ago
Information Processing

Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...
2 years ago
Ideas

Speaking trip this April - I'm speaking at Libertycon in Tbilisi on April 20th, will probably either go or come via London. Anyone interested in a talk? I'll probably be in Europe ...
2 years ago
The Grumpy Economist

Understanding Trumpers - WSJ oped and substack post.
2 years ago
deflationite.com

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
2 years ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

British Jews are living under the shadow of fear: Whatever happens in Israel and Palestine, nothing excuses bigoted and criminal behaviour in the UK - By Khadija Khan The increase in anti-Semitic incidents following Hamas’s barbaric attack on Israeli civilians on October 7 is abhorrent – but regrettably...
2 years ago
Belmont Club

Belmont Club: A Bellyful of War -
2 years ago
Jacobite

Who Can File An Ethics Complaint Against A Realtor – Your Shield Against Unethical Realtors - Real estate transactions are pivotal moments in our lives, often involving significant financial and emotional investments. When ethics are compromised ...
2 years ago
LaborEcon

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2 years ago
ERIC POSNER

Recent work - The New Labor Antitrust, SSRN The Trump Indictment and America’s Political Order, Project Syndicate, June 14, 2023 The Revised Merger Guidelines Will Resto...
2 years ago
TheRalphRetort.com

ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION - Snacks, aka “Bread” or “The Louisiana Succubus”, is infamous within the sector.… The post ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION appeared first on TheRa...
2 years ago
Maverick Philosopher

New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve - They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat, get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every Democrat-...
2 years ago
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

"Realist Jurisprudence: Selected Essays" - A Spanish translation by Dr. Francisco M. Mora-Sifuentes of eight of my essays on realist jurisprudence and related topics (with a new preface by me and an...
2 years ago
Mick Hartley

A pyramid scheme of misery - Róisín Michaux at The Critic on the mothers who affirm their children's trans identities: I’ve spent the last couple of years lurking on their online fora....
2 years ago
Working-Class Perspectives

Biden’s Labor Initiatives and Organizers’ Challenges - Is Joe Biden, as he claims, the best friend workers have had in the White House either ever or since Franklin Delano Roosevelt? We could debate that all d...
3 years ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives - Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the...
3 years ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

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3 years ago
OrientalReview.org

U.S. Openly Militarizes Space - The media have noticed that the new USSF Doctrine is more focused on aligning space activity with the twelve principles of warfare as a whole The post U....
3 years ago
Critical Thinking Applied

好きな人と付き合って結婚、幸せな家庭を気づくためのノウハウ - 彼と付き合って一年が過ぎ、より実りのある二年目を過ごすには彼と付き合って、一年も経つとだいたいどんな人となり […]
3 years ago
GayUganda

Weird, Queer Mood; Uganda, Ugandans on the World Bank - The World Bank released a statement. To dear Uganda; sorry, but our values and the values enshrined in the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 are at war. W...
3 years ago
Uncouth Reflections

Rochester gets burned over - Fenster writes: The burned over district: The term “burned-over district” refers to the western and central regions of New York State in the early 19th cen...
3 years ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

A Fond Farewell to Political Violence @ A Glance - Dear Readers, After eleven incredible years, we have made the difficult decision to close the doors of Political…
3 years ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

Russia: Defend Boris Kagarlitsky! - News of Kagarlitsky's arrest has sparked anger and empathy among a wide range of activists. People may perish, but ideas do not, and Kagarlitsky has done...
3 years ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

Protected: Story Post (Private) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
3 years ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

Draco Layer Four: The Anagogic or Mystical Sense - Here be dragons. And doves. Human beings long for transcendence. Such longing is, for the world, always out of fashion because, of course, it is not a long...
3 years ago
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
3 years ago
JudgyBitch

Your own relaxing retreat: tips for designing a dream backyard escape - There’s nothing quite like having a peaceful and relaxing outdoor space to unwind and escape the stresses of everyday life. And what better way to achieve ...
3 years ago
Taki's Magazine

Conversations With Cabbies - Many a foreign correspondent, sent to an obscure country of which he knows nothing but which has suddenly drawn the world’s attention to itself by a terrib...
3 years ago
Growth Economics Blog

Moving to Substack - Hi all, this is a pointer to direct you over to Substack. I’m moving the Econ Growth Blog over there, with the hopes of creating a little more interactio...
3 years ago
Mercatornet

France’s fertility fall began long ago, before the Revolution. Was dechristianization to blame? - Why do fertility rates fall? All over the world, in rich countries, in middle-income countries, and in poor countries, fertility rates are falling below ...
3 years ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order - The post Summary of Why We Disagree About Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order appeared first on Heterodox Academy.
3 years ago
The Baseline Scenario

A Few Quick Announcements - By James As I wrote a couple of years ago, I don’t post here anymore. I just have a couple of updates for people who subscribe and may be interested in my ...
3 years ago
The Evolution Institute

Democracy Bottom-Up: Building a Dialogue between Civil Society and Politicians - Warsaw Summit 1-2 June Forum Ruchu Europejskiego, European Movement International, Evolution Institute, and Collegium Civitas Place: Collegium Civitas, Pal...
3 years ago
A Myth in Creation

What Whitaker wants us to know about Mad in America - Read the post here on my Substack newsletter: https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/what-whitaker-wants-us-to-know-about
3 years ago
CDR Salamander

Breaking my Flag - For those who missed the previous announcements, please read the previous posts for the details, but after 18 2/3 years here, I will no longer be posti...
3 years ago
Jennifer Marohasy

March Update: Mediation Ongoing, Temperature Tipping Point Already Exceeded - Thanks to everyone who has enquired about the outcome of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal hearing with John Abbot versus the Bureau of Meteorology fir...
3 years ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

The Erdmann Housing Tracker - For my latest work, please see my new substack newsletter: The Erdmann Housing Tracker
3 years ago
Scott Adams Blog

Episode 2045 Scott Adams: Silicon Valley Bank Prediction, Trump Dominance, & Race Relations Reframed - Content: Bill Maher reframes DeSantis out of 2024 SVB, Silicon Valley Bank situation Mark Cuban on FDIC 250,000 protection limit USA Today compares Maine...
3 years ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

The Debt Ceiling: An Economist's Analysis - Economics Professor Cameron Harwick explains government debt, the debt ceiling, and what it means when we hit it.
3 years ago
Quillette

Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities - The social dynamics of girls’ and women’s friendship groups, including a desire to fit in and avoid conflict, may make them more susceptible to social cont...
3 years ago
Michael O. Church

AI Will Kill Literature, and AI Will Resurrect It - The literary novel, as far as genres go, is not old: novels have existed in our culture for about three hundred years. If you had a time machine, you could...
3 years ago
Chris Blattman

Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated - My piece in Wired The post Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more co...
3 years ago
Against Jebel al-Lawz

Subscribe to my Substack - For most intents and purposes, this blog is dead. Comments are still permitted and errors will be corrected if pointed out. Nevertheless, all new writing w...
3 years ago
Rationalist Judaism

Blog Migration! - Birds migrate, butterflies migrate, whales migrate, and this blog is migrating! It's being moved over from Blogger to Substack. The URL is currently http...
3 years ago
Healthy Curiousity

Have the Baby Boomers Ruined Society? - Introduction.The author is a young energetic historian who has entertaining and insightful ideas. His exuberance on occasion leads him astray, he can be to...
3 years ago
The Electric Agora

Electric Agora shutting down, new media venture launching soon - Today we are shutting down all activities for The Electric Agora and will soon be archiving the site. The social media accounts for The Electric Agora were...
3 years ago
davidthompson

As Good As A Rest, They Said - Or, The Cause Of All The Banging And Salty Epithets. After close to sixteen years, this blog has a new home. Come see. Bring cake.
3 years ago
Jim’s Blog

Another one bites the dust. - I don’t usually cover the events of the day, because one loses track of the big picture. The events of the day only reveal their meaning when viewed months...
3 years ago
Muddy Colors

Character Design, Pt 8: Designing Alternatives (Layer Comps) - Phew, it has been a busy couple of months, but I’ve got a quick chance to dive back into this guy. He’s getting close to finished, the colors and general ...
3 years ago
Coordination Problem

Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...
3 years ago
Council on Global Security

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4 years ago
When You Say Tomato and Your Sister Says Tomahto – spottedtoad

10 Predictions for the next 5 to 10 years - A friend asked what the big trends in American society over the next five to ten years would be. This is a fun time frame to think about, because you don’t...
4 years ago
PARALLAX OPTICS

Interview with Anon: On Subversion - Don't contribute to a system that hates you.
4 years ago
The Liberty Zone

Getting Down To Basics with - Bar Mitzvah Food Catering – Tips For Budget-Conscious Caterers For lots of, bar mitzvah food catering is a high-ticket item. […] The post Getting Down To...
4 years ago
The Economics Detective

Good and bad ways to learn - Learning a new skill is hard. Part of what’s so hard about it is, by definition, you don’t know the skill and so you also don’t know the best way to go abo...
4 years ago
Rabble Rouser

The Problem with Research on Microaggressions - Commentary: Some of the key claims made in microaggression research are backed by weak evidence.
4 years ago
Fake Nous

Who Cares About Diversity? - All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires. Everyone has to submit a statement explaining how they a...
4 years ago
Magnitude Matters

Moving to Substack . . . - The times, they are a changin'. Going forward, I will primarily be blogging on Substack: https://stevewinkler.substack.com. Bryan Caplan, who else, convin...
4 years ago
I Want a New Left

My Final Post - For various reasons, I have decided to quit blogging. For one thing, my numbers are down to a level that it doesn’t seem worth it to continue, though let m...
4 years ago
The Reference Frame

AdSense became unusable - For several months, I have been getting direct censorship requests from Google AdSense. In recent days, the frequency increased to "several articles to be ...
4 years ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

The 1/N portfolio versus the optimal strategy: Does a simple heuristic outperform? - Gerd Gigerenzer is fond of telling a story about Harry Markowitz, modern portfolio design pioneer and winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...
4 years ago
Advice Goddess Blog

RIP, Amy's Blog: 1997 to 2021 - I have two intense books I'm completing, and I've been increasingly unable to put the effort into blogging that I have done for years...
4 years ago
Declination

Filtering For Truth In The Age Of Google - Over the years, I’ve met several individuals of immense capacity for logical deduction, genuinely impressive education, and sky-high IQ (we’re talking well...
4 years ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

The shameful silence on the Waukesha massacre - Is silence still violence? If it is, then a whole lot of people, from the Hollywood set to the virtue-signalling left, are guilty of some serious violenc...
4 years ago
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
4 years ago
askblog

The blog has moved - It is now on substack (In My Tribe). There is still no charge to read it. I am trying to maintain the feel of this blog, including the daily scheduled post...
4 years ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Good Chart Checklist - Note: this was prepared for my ECON 3403 students, and is a list of all of the mistakes I commonly see in student charts. Please add your suggestions for t...
4 years ago
readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore

Hotel Bar Sessions, Ep 31: Whose History? - The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. to talk about whose history is (and isn't) being taught. Following on the heels of a recent and ...
4 years ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...
4 years ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Thank You - [image: 11032021Thanks1] Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital, difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous. There ...
4 years ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

Angelo Codevilla on changes in the educational landscape - Angelo Codevilla (circa 2010) whereas within living memory school nurses could not administer an aspirin to a child without the parents’ consent, the peopl...
4 years ago
Armed and Dangerous

Sample post. - Checking to see if RSS works.
4 years ago
Michael Totten

The Kruiser Kabana Episode 154: Trump Needs to Make Up His Mind About 2024 ASAP -
4 years ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

What does Lisa Birnbach say about preppy cars? - I happen to have a copy of The Official Preppy Handbook, and it seems that preppy cars barely changed at all since the book was written in 1980. That’s 41 ...
4 years ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

18 Theses on Poetry - The principal purpose of poetry is to lay bare the hidden powers of the language in which it is written. These powers are found both at the level of the ph...
4 years ago
Nec Pluribus Impar

Pourquoi le COVID-19 est là pour de bon, et pourquoi vous ne devriez pas vous en inquiéter - [Cet article est une traduction d’un billet de blog que j’ai publié en anglais sur le site de CSPI le 17 août. La traduction a été réalisée conjointement...
5 years ago
Marquette Warrior

Dr. John McAdams - *October 26th, 1945 - April 15th, 2021* Dr. John Charles McAdams passed away on Thursday, April 15th, 2021, at the age of 75. He was a devoted husband, ...
5 years ago
Veracities

health care - These two graphs really say it all: A few years ago I got a freak knee infection that landed me in the hospital. The experience was so smooth, non-st...
5 years ago
Vox Popoli

A new legend - Unauthorized is very, very pleased to announce that MADE BY JIMBOB has joined the intellectual outlaws of the Internet. Look for his videos on the Made b...
5 years ago
Point of no return

Point of.No Return has moved! - The new address is www.jewishrefugees.org.uk. See you there!
5 years ago
Priceonomics Blog

People Left Cities for Rural Zoom Towns. How Does That Impact Wildfire Risk? - Zoom towns with high wildfire risk are also seeing the fastest growth in home prices, and therefore the fastest increase in wildfire exposure
5 years ago
Satire .. not quite dead yet.

A handy guide to getting pinged - The NHS App could be expanded to help us make ‘informed decisions’ in all kinds of everyday scenarios. AI algorithms would replace the flawed notion of ‘wo...
5 years ago
Talisman Gate, Again

The Sad, Discordant Ballad of Husham al-Hashimi - The man who pulled the trigger on Husham al-Hashimi—by first misfiring an assault rifle and then pulling out his pistol to shoot the victim at point-blank ...
5 years ago
Dani Rodrik's weblog

IEA World Congress 2021 - A few words on the International Economics’ Association online World Congress, July 2-6, on the theme “Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in a Fractured...
5 years ago
Russian History Blog

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...
5 years ago
Historinhas

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...
5 years ago
Inconvenient Facts

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 the...
5 years ago
Kantoos Economics – Kantoos Economics

The advantages of working with a qualified exhibition stand builder - When looking for constructing services providers construction in all exhibitions in Europe, the primary is to get a competent exhibition stand builder pr...
5 years ago
GayPatriot

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 ...
5 years ago
Fredrik deBoer

the future - Hey gang, I’m excited to say that Substack approached me recently and made an attractive financial offer for me to blog over there. Given that I’ve been ou...
5 years ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Finito Sic Semper Tyrannis - We are done here. turcopolier.com is working now. I have cancelled all guest author ships here. RSS is enabled on the new blog. Comments will no longer be ...
5 years ago
Stories by Michael Tracey on Medium

‘Feel Our Pain,’ Politicians Demand - Congress is increasingly not a place where the average member partakes in what’s generally understood as legislative activity, but rather engages in a va...
5 years ago
The Independent Whig

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 ...
5 years ago
Slate Star Codex

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 years ago
Setting the Record Straight

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 years ago
Harry's Place

‘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...
5 years ago
Handle's Haus

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...
5 years ago
Via Meadia

A Letter to TAI’s Subscribers and Readers - Dear TAI readers,Due primarily to financing difficulties, The American Interest is taking a hiatus from publishing new material.We are glad that there is...
5 years ago
Stories by Tom X Hart on Medium

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...
5 years ago
Insitome - Medium

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...
6 years ago
Raedwald

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...
6 years ago
skepticlawyer

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 ...
6 years ago
Cop in the Hood

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...
6 years ago
Bleeding Heart Libertarians

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...
6 years ago
Overlawyered

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 o...
6 years ago
john hawks weblog

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...
6 years ago
The DiploMad 2.0

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...
6 years ago
Opinion - The Philosophers' Magazine

Philosophy, In a Sense - Constantine Sandis on Doing Nothing in the Time of Covid-19
6 years ago
Bloody Shovel 2

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, ...
6 years ago
Jonathan Tepper

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 ...
6 years ago
White Sun of the Desert

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...
6 years ago
Basil Halperin

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...
6 years ago
zenpundit.com

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...
6 years ago
Rachel Edwards — Medium

Coronavirus, the Great Reality Check - I’ve been watching the situation in China for nearly a month now, and I don’t think there are really words for how bad things are over there. I really am...
6 years ago
The Everyday Economist

Podcast on Maritime Policy - I recently recorded an episode of The Economics Detective podcast with Garrett Petersen. The subject of the podcast is my paper, “U.S. Maritime Policy and ...
6 years ago
Douglas L. Campbell

How to Respond to the Next Recession: Central Bank Fiscal Support - Now that it looks like like the next recession may be coming sooner rather than later, it's time to lay out what I think is clearly the best path forward f...
6 years ago
Blog - Traditions of Conflict

Book Review: Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier - There are two core arguments put forward in *Not Born Yesterday*, the latest book by cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier. The first argument, one which I be...
6 years ago
A Free Left Blog

On race and racism in everyday life – or how the race ideologues are winning - Public, political and institutional discourse can often appear strangely detached from ordinary, everyday life. On identity politics, now a specialist are...
6 years ago
Jadeluxe

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...
6 years ago
Heather's Homilies

Mike Bloomberg and is “Stop and Frisk” Racist? - With the entry of former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg into the race to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee, we have the inevitable. The other r...
6 years ago
Semi-Partisan Politics

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 ...
6 years ago
Easily Distracted

Free College: Not So Extreme - I’ve complained that for the most part, self-identified centrists and moderates prefer not to engage in direct arguments about their policy preferences in ...
6 years ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Laugh About It, Shout About It When You’ve Got to Choose - I’m going to be one of the moderators for the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidates’ debate on Friday, February 28th, in conjunction with the Alabama...
6 years ago
Tommy Ousslander

Trashed Hotel rooms and horny groupies - Hey y'all, starting on April first, I am hitting the virtual road on my first blog tour to support Feral Creatures. Over 14 days, we will be making twenty...
6 years ago
Chublic Opinion

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...
6 years ago
Ancestry matters

Coronavirus - radical thoughts. - On January 25th, Neil Ferguson said that it was sensible to plan for the eventuality that containment efforts will not succeed: I think the evidence now s...
6 years ago
The Great Realignment

Forgiveness is only appropriate after repentance - The people who tried to thwart the implementation of a vote they lost must not be forgiven until they repent. People like Jolyon Maugham QC could have push...
6 years ago
ThinkMarkets

New Book: ESCAPING PATERNALISM - by Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman Book description The burgeoning field of behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for paternalism. ...
6 years ago
Dalrock

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...
6 years ago
Ed Hagen

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 ...
6 years ago
Josh Blackman's Blog

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...
6 years ago
Academic Wonderland

Cautious Optimism for Accused Student in Critical Eighth Circuit Appeal - Today featured the second of what likely will be five oral arguments in accused student appeals during the 2019-2020 session of Eighth Circuit, which cover...
6 years ago
Urban kchoze

The midrise obesity crisis in North America - Well, it's been a long while since my last post. A combination of a busy life, a feeling that I had said most of what I felt comfortable saying and a des...
6 years ago
Ambit Gambit

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...
6 years ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

‘Two hands are a lot’ — we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos… - ‘This is possibly the single largest design flaw contributing to the bad Nash equilibrium in which … many governments are stuck. Every individual high-func...
6 years ago
Status 451

Gender is not just a Social Construct - As the decade ends, I’m still pondering gender. Everything was so different in 2010. No intersectionality. No rape culture. No toxic masculinity. No incels...
6 years ago
Caitlin Green

A man of possible African ancestry buried in Anglo-Scandinavian York - The aim of the following brief note is to direct attention to a burial from a late ninth- to early eleventh-century cemetery in York. The burials here were...
6 years ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Merry Christmas -
6 years ago
Jacob ex Machina

On the nature of forgiveness - Forgiveness is not an emotion or a single action. It is rather a change in your ontological* orientation towards the forgiven person, removing them fro...
6 years ago
InfidelsAreUs | 'Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you' 1 Peter 4:12-14

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...
6 years ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

2019: The year revolt went global - Revolt as Consumer Backlash Beyond Washington DC, Donald Trump, and impeachment, there lies a great big world – and that world, at the moment, is being con...
6 years ago
Rootless Cosmopolitan – By Tony Karon

“Goodnight, and Good Luck” - My February 2016 valedictory editorial note on the home page of Al Jazeera America the day we closed down. Still proud of the work we did, and the way we c...
6 years ago
Abandoned Footnotes

Dictators - In my corner of Twitter, I recently became obliquely aware of a kerfuffle about Michael Bloomberg saying that “Xi Jinping is not a dictator”. (Twitter is f...
6 years ago
Random Critical Analysis

Noah means Noah: the high income-elasticity of health expenditure does not mean we are all going to starve! - No, @Noahpinion, we can spend proportionally more on health care and still consume much more of everything else. This is easily explained by productivity.
6 years ago
The Arabist

Links 1-30 November 2019 - Tab dump. - Moral Leadership and the Lebanese Military | Carnegie - Reforming Tunisia’s military courts | Brookings - Ira...
6 years ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

On the referendum #34: BATSIGNAL!! DON’T LET CORBYN-STURGEON CHEAT A SECOND REFERENDUM WITH MILLIONS OF FOREIGN VOTES - Dear Vote Leave supporters LET’S HONOUR THE REFERENDUM RESULT AND GET BREXIT DONE SO THE COUNTRY CAN MOVE ON Summary: Tell your family and friends face-to-...
6 years ago
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle

Announcing New Books from Jerry Pournelle - Jerry’s son Alex has asked that we let you know of exciting book news for fans of Dr. Jerry Pournelle’s fiction. The “Best of Jerry Pournelle” is available...
6 years ago
glenntstanton.com

Some Nice Praise in the Midst of Curses - I am well used to getting trashed on the internet. It comes with the job. And truth be told, I […] The post Some Nice Praise in the Midst of Curses appea...
6 years ago
Random Critical Analysis

A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare - Properly understood, US healthcare is NOT an outlier. The slope is very consistent with the pattern of diminishing returns observed in other high-income ...
6 years ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

Nature Author's Oddball Piece on Bioethics - The journal Nature has published a lengthy Commentary piece by a UK based sociologist on Bioethics (the field, not the journal). It's part of a series of...
6 years ago
Miranda Yardley

From lesbian and gay liberation to equality - Ruth Hunt, for her hundred thousand a year pieces of silver, has sold out lesbians and gay men out to girl dick and corporate cock. The post From lesbia...
6 years ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

Allan Meltzer's Life Work - The Hoover Press and the Mercatus Center have just released a new book on Allan Meltzer's contributions to economics. The book is comprised of papers th...
6 years ago
The American Interest

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...
6 years ago
Ballandalus

MESA 2019–Medieval and Early Modern Panels - The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is holding its annual conference, one of the largest gatherings of scholars working on the history of the greate...
6 years ago
chrishernandezauthor

THE DEFENSE OF FORT DAVIS, Chapter 4 - Chapter 4 Six miles west of Fort Davis, Fall 1881 Chief Victorio blew into his clenched hands, rubbed them together and held them toward the flames. Even w...
6 years ago
On the Margin of Error

Why Trump Is a Potential Tyrant: A Comparative Look - The question is not about whether Trump will be a tyrant, but that he wants to. Trump wants to be a tyrant, his behavior shows he's behaving like other tyr...
7 years ago
Den of Inquiry

Abortion views by religion, 1970's-1990's - Variables: ABANY, RELIG16, Years (1972-1999), Race(1) Sample Size: 18,573
7 years ago
Nick Cole's Books

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...
7 years ago
Claritas

CNN Debate Math - The Democratic debates on July 30 and 31 were a little less than 3 hours long each. A conservative estimate would be 150 minutes. 150 minutes /10 candidat...
7 years ago
Noahpinion

Why Kevin Williamson is wrong about poverty and bad behavior - I recently wrote a post at Bloomberg Opinion arguing that "bad behavior" - drug use, violence, single parenthood, and idleness - is not the main cause o...
7 years ago
Nintil

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...
7 years ago
Secular Right

A Glimpse of Hell - Via Religion News: HOT SPRINGS, N.C. (RNS) — For years, liberals — even liberal people of faith — have been wary of fusions of faith and politics, careful ...
7 years ago
PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS

The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means for Investors - I just published a new long-form piece through OSAM Research Partners entitled “The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What it Means...
7 years ago
Refugee Resettlement Watch

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...
7 years ago
Tim van Gelder

What might an alternative to the ODNI Rating Scale be like? - In the previous post I raised various issues with the ODNI Rating Scale for intelligence products. At least some of these are serious problems. Some time i...
7 years ago
Urban Future (2.1)

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...
7 years ago
Bloody shovel

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...
7 years ago
In Due Course | Building the Republic of Letters, one keystroke at a time

The Rebel Sell at 15 - A funny thing about the book that Andrew and I wrote, *The Rebel Sell*, is that it was a bestseller in Spain. We recently did an interview with Manuel Ma...
7 years ago
Yue Chim Richard Wong 王于漸

The Economic Contribution of Recent Immigrants - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 24 April 2019.) Expanding the youthful population through immigration is incredibly important fo...
7 years ago
rethinking history

Which Powers could afford to ’do it all’ in World War Two - There’s an old saying that David and Leigh Eddings paraphrased in one of their fantasy books: “any fool can raise an army, but you start running into tr...
7 years ago
Monetary Freedom

Socialist Monetary Policy - Consider a command economy that doesn't fully dispense with money but rather pays wages to the workers in all of the nationalized industries and charges th...
7 years ago
View on IQ

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

Boston Marathon Training Update, new podcasts - The last time I updated my marathon training, things were going great. I had steadily increased my mileage, and by the end of January did my first half-mar...
7 years ago
Stories by Mark Koyama on Medium

The Institutional Foundations of Antisemitism - Antisemitism has returned to mainstream politics in Europe and America. One fundamental misconception about antisemitism is that it is simply another for...
7 years ago
Neven Sesardić

Physicists, sex differences, and a new inquisition - When a book entitled 100 authors against Einstein came out in Germany in 1931, Einstein allegedly exclaimed: “If I were wrong, then one [author] would have...
7 years ago
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MULTICULTURALISM

Offended by the term coloured? Let me show you what real racism looks like. - All the screeching about comments like Amber Rudd referring to a ‘coloured’ woman rather than a ‘person of colour’ or Angela Smith saying ‘funny tinge’ sug...
7 years ago
The Gladstone Diaries

Momentum needs to talk to its members about Israel - On Thursday afternoon, the left-wing activist group Momentum released a video designed to educate its members about anti-Semitism. It's the kind of init...
7 years ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
7 years ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
7 years ago
Nick Cohen: Writing from London

Seumas Milne and the Stasi - Spectator Few noticed in 2015 when Seumas Milne excused the tyranny that held East Germany in its power from the Soviet Invasion in 1945 until the fall of ...
7 years ago
The Kakistocracy

Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...
7 years ago
Wide Urban World

Social Infrastructure in Cities Today: Eric Klinenberg's “Palaces for the People” - I just finished reading Eric Klinenberg’s excellent new book, *Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization...
7 years ago
The Dissenting Sociologist

Reaction and Populism: Towards the Unpozzed Republic - Having been made by elites to dive headlong down the outhouse hole into the muck beneath, the common people have began to notice that it stinks and is very...
7 years ago
Global Guerrillas

The Long Night is Coming - Written by an anonymous friend who also ...
7 years ago
hbd chick

redecorating! - Whaddya think? (^_^)
7 years ago
China Matters

Debunking the China Debt Trap Myth, Sri Lanka/Hambantota Edition - *[I've come to the opinion that a not insignificant chunk of China coverage that currently pops up in the Western media is an info op curated by China ha...
7 years ago
Irtiqa

Please read this short story - "My Mother is a Lunar Crater" - *by Salman Hameed* There are very few writers who can provide a nuanced critique of politics in different cultures, bring science into their stories, an...
7 years ago
Cultural Cognition Blog

Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube - Apparently the original posting of this (staggeringly brief) talk suffered from imperfect audio (I never listened to it, so I can't say first-hand whethe...
7 years ago
The Audacious Epigone

Archived - This blog is now in archival status.
7 years ago
The Ex-Muslim

European Court’s Anti-Muslim Ruling - In a decision made this October, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has neglected the basic principle of freedom of speech to uphold the “right of o...
7 years ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/
7 years ago
Free Northerner

The Authoritarian Power Base - As I’ve written, political power is, in essence, the capacity for violence and the will to use it. The power of a leader comes from his authority over, his...
7 years ago
Colm Gillis Author

For Thomas Hobbes, Politics Was Simply About Doubt and Faith - Four hundred years ago, an English intellectual developed political ideas different to what we may recognize as familiar. 1. Schmitt and Hobbes In his cele...
8 years ago
The World is Not Enough

We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free!
8 years ago
Michael J. Totten's blog

Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little - Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state. Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and the veiling ...
8 years ago
A Taste for Desert Landscapes

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

UPDATE - UPDATE I AM NOT ALTOGETHER WELL I SHALL RETURN TO HOSPITAL TOMORROW FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. I'II KEEP READERS INFORMED. BEST WISHES. GAVON
8 years ago
Nice Mangos

Waking Up to Issues in the Atheist Scene - Not long ago, similar emails to the one I'll share below were only sent to me by Muslims questioning their faith, scripture and double standards, etc. I s...
8 years ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Dragon Ball series teaches valuable life lessons - Watching the Dragon Ball series life lesson nostalgia. Every episode hints at hidden esoteric gems. Allow me to provide a high-level overview of what’s r...
8 years ago
Spontaneous Finance

The era of ‘soft’ central planning - More than a decade ago, The Economist (at the time still a classical liberal publication – how times change…) published an excellent article on ‘soft pater...
8 years ago
Free Banking

New Release: Cato Journal on The Future of Monetary Policy - This issue of the Cato Journal is dedicated to Allan H. Meltzer who passed away on May 8, 2017. Allan spoke at the 1st Annual Monetary Conference in 1983...
8 years ago
Will Wilkinson

Shut Up and Listen: Intersectional Identity and the Value of Multi-Perspectival Diversity - That identity is complex is obviously true. And it’s obviously true that individuals with different “intersectional” identities are treated differently in ...
8 years ago
vitam fracta

Please Put Down Your Sledgehammers: On the Parkland Students, Left Reductionism, and Aversion to Strategic Alliance - By William J. Weikart When I Facebook reposted a .gif rendering of Emma González that said “I Stand With Her”, I was feeling her emotional courage, and ins...
8 years ago
markdurie.com blog

Calling for Violent Jihad in Australia - 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 ...
8 years ago
The March of the Virgin

What is the meaning of an accusation of racism? - Guy comes up to you on the street and says: “I know who you are. You may look like a human, but I know that’s a disguise. You have taken over the body of a...
8 years ago
ny mens action network

Are NY Republicans a friend to men, boys, fathers, or families? - While Republicans in NYS certainly talk a good game of supporting men, fathers, and families the talk is just that, cheap talk. Now that we have 20 years ...
8 years ago
George Lakoff

The Power of Positive Persistence - Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House will ...
8 years ago
Fantastic Worlds

Review of "Weep For Day" by Indrapramit Das (2012) - *Introduction: *Being well aware that this story was probably put at the head of the *Best New SF 26* anthology to highlight some sort of committment to "...
8 years ago
Gene Expression

A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM - Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter account) ...
8 years ago
Grand Blog Tarkin

The Stormtrooper Marksmanship Myth - [Jonathan Jeckell is a regenerated U.S. Army officer striving find unique ways to remain useful to his country.] Stormtroopers have been the butt of jokes ...
8 years ago
Simon Owens

Why AARP has an entire team dedicated to answering Facebook comments - AARP, the 60-year-old special interest group that advocates for older Americans, has never been shy about flexing its policy muscles or leveraging its enor...
8 years ago
Keith Burgess-Jackson

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) - Autie was born on this date 178 years ago.
8 years ago
The Ripple Effect

Ideas Generation and Behavioural Insights - Here is the ideas grid I use when working with local authorities to co-produce ways of using behavioural insights. Each effect has a ‘how can we use it?’ c...
8 years ago
The Travel Diaries of Mr Wallace

CHAPTER 34. Glasgow and the Exhibition - I tried to get permission for the ladies to accompany me, but that was not given and when I got into the yards I saw how utterly impossible it would be for...
8 years ago
Devin Helton - Essays and Articles

What caused the dramatic rise of crime and blight in American cities from 1950 to 2000? - On Reddit’s most lauded history subreddit (/r/AskHistorians) someone asked “What caused the dramatic rise of violent crimes and urban decay in the mid-to...
8 years ago
Economic Thought

New Immigration Blog - Long time no see! Just popping in to point toward a new immigration blog fresh on the ‘blogosphere’ (is that still a thing?). It’s infrequent, maybe a post...
8 years ago
Pseudoerasmus

Labour relations & textiles: addenda - This post contains related topics and disjointed observations as addenda to “Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence” in cotton textiles. (Lack of...
8 years ago
Rajiv Sethi

Innovation in Economics Pedagogy and Publishing - Well, it's Labor Day weekend, which means that Barnard and Columbia students are back on campus and classes are about to begin. This semester I'm teaching...
9 years ago
While We Slept | New Conservative Thought

Hurricane Harvey: Thanksgiving in The Wake of Tragedy - “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the ...
9 years ago
iramramzan | Just another WordPress.com site…but better

The Morality of Faith Schools - On Wednesday July 19 I appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze to discuss the Al-Hijrah school controversy. A long-running legal battle between Ofsted and the...
9 years ago
Stories by Orestis Tsinalis on Medium

Moderate rebels and augmented reality - A common characteristic of the multiple regime change interventions in the Middle East is the financial, military, and moral support given by Western gov...
9 years ago
The Archdruid Report

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

The Sovereign Myth - States have never had full control over their outcomes — a fact we tend to ignore only while things are going well. The post The Sovereign Myth appeared ...
9 years ago
southseaconversations 讨论南海

Chinese political operations in Australia: a popular pro-CCP reading - Hua Daodao, a deputy editor in the Huanqiu Shibao‘s commentary department, has written a piece offering useful insights into how the Australian media’s lat...
9 years ago
The Rambling Infidel

On the Importance of Voting - On this Thursday, 8th of June 2017, millions of people will be going to polling stations throughout the United Kingdom in order to cast their vote in t...
9 years ago
"Two Terms" Trump

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

Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel. 01:35: Bay Eats Candy Bay tries famous candies for the first time. You can read the results on her blog. 11:...
9 years ago
Ed Dolan's Econ Blog

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

Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyi...
9 years ago
Unenumerated

Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things - Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodyi...
9 years ago
Joel Kotkin

How the Democrats can Rebuild - Appearing in: Orange County Register Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded the parlous state of the Democratic Part...
9 years ago
Cantercap

Trump’s Immigration Fatwa - I recently read an article by a conservative writer who I normally respect. But this piece brought me up short. … More
9 years ago
The Offshore Balancer

Military Power in an Age of Raiding - I was lucky enough to be invited to speak as part of the Ministry of Defence’s new ‘Force Exploration’ Cadre. Here it is. I’m so grateful and honoured to b...
9 years ago
Psychological comments

Africa and the cold beauty of Maths - [image: Africa TIMMS equipercentile] Things move fast. A published paper comes to the attention of Steve Sailer and suddenly a section of a puzzle get...
9 years ago
Economic Sophisms

Moving house - People connected to me have justifiably asked that I move my blog to a more anonymous platform. Although I’ve made an effort to remove my name from this bl...
9 years ago
Box Turtle Bulletin

“The Intel On This Wasn’t 100 Percent” - Gee. Ya think? Mr. Welch, the father of two daughters, said he woke up Sunday morning and told his family he had some things to do. He left “Smallsbury,” a...
9 years ago
The Gorka Briefing

Europe is collapsing - A mini Brexit is happening in Italy and socialist policies are slowly going down, one by... The post Europe is collapsing appeared first on The Gorka Bri...
9 years ago
The Belgravia Dispatch

Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - In this most memorable of U.S. elections, it has become generally received wisdom that Donald Trump will have us slouching towards a dangerously erratic, p...
9 years ago
Three Sides to Every Story

Anarchism - Anarchisms are highly diverse in their visions of the society to replace both the State and other forms of social life which they judge undesirable, inclu...
9 years ago
Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play

Florida Election Officials Caught Filling Out Absentee Ballots, Affidavit Alleges #FloridaFraud - Florida voters have complained that they have not been receiving their requested absentee ballots. We may now know the reason why. According to a former Se...
9 years ago
Cliodynamica

Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done? - This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, near...
9 years ago
The History of the Byzantine Empire

501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50. - No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of Troyes, in...
9 years ago
Modern Medieval

Heroic Age Papers! - Merovingians and Their Neighbors Sponsor: *The Heroic Age* Session Organizer: Deanna Forsman Contact: Deanna Forsman North Hennepin Community College 7411 ...
9 years ago
GEEKLY

Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons - MTV’s hit show Teen Wolf returns this fall for it’s final season. It’s an emotional time for its fans. So I decided to take a look back at the seasons and ...
9 years ago
Tim Blair

THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN - The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…
10 years ago
Roundworm Eyed Doll

The Redistribution of Humiliation - The recent EU referendum in the UK has drawn a great deal of attention to voters who had previously been ignored. Communities left behind by the 21st Centu...
10 years ago
Arab Humanists العرب الإنسانويون

Statement delivered at the UN highlights restrictions on freedom of belief in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - At the 32nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the British Humanist Association teamed up with Arab Humanists to deliver a joint statement a...
10 years ago
James Campbell - The Rebel

EU vote: Scotland will ruin UK’s chance of a Brexit - If you could pick one person from British society and be certain they would vote Remain, who would you choose?
10 years ago
andrewmcintyre.org

Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism - “We have been impressed by the great effort that your government has taken to improve the living standards of the majority of Venezuelans. … what Venezuela...
10 years ago
Capitalism's Cradle

The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...
10 years ago
Evan Soltas

Fiscal Policy and the ZLB - I have been doing some reading for my undergraduate thesis, which looks at the role of credit-supply shocks in the Spain during its housing boom and bust, ...
10 years ago
Maryam Namazie

Every day should be International Women’s Day - Every day should be International Women’s Day Bread and Roses TV with Maryam Namazie and Fariborz Pooya 8 March 2016 Interview with Bangladeshi Author and ...
10 years ago
Social Evolution Forum

By: the unBalanced ecoLOGist | The Unbalanced Ecologist - […] weeks ago, I was invited to write a commentary about an online essay written by Erle Ellis for the Social Evolution Forum (a project of the Evolution I...
10 years ago
Seventh Voice

Convicted Pedophile Admits to Sexually Abusing Young Girl with Asperger’s Syndrome - Convicted pedophile Paul John Bickford, aged 70, has received a 16 month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting (sexually molest...
10 years ago
Blog: 1616 - Spectacular Accumulation

Samurai Gifts - The book's third chapter examines the role of gift exchange and other ritual performances in the politics of warrior relations in the late sixteenth and ...
10 years ago
uneconomical

Where are the “devaluationists”? - A Resolution Foundation report on UK monetary policy reminds me of the near absence of discussion about devaluation. The report has a section on policy op...
10 years ago
The History of the Byzantine Empire – Over a thousand years of glory !

Treasure and mystery in Byzantine Cappadocia. - Before the Romans, other ancient civilisations, notably the Achaemenid Empire, once inhabited the mountainous region of central Anatolia called Cappadocia....
10 years ago
Belmont Club

Salvaging the Tatters of the Obama Doctrine - When president Obama told George Stephanopoulos only hours before the Paris attack that his administration had “contained ISIS” he may have been wrong but ...
10 years ago
His Story is Bunk

The Sumner Also Rises (to the task) - We again interrupt our blogging hiatus, to acknowledge some fine work by Bentley University economist Scott Sumner (who is also the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair ...
10 years ago
Philosophy in Action: NoodleFood

Podcast #363: The Future of America, Vulnerability, Cheating, and More - On Sunday’s episode of Philosophy in Action Radio, Greg Perkins and I answered questions on the future of the United States, the value of vulnerability, ch...
10 years ago
The Mischiefs of Faction

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...
10 years ago
The XX Committee

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...
11 years ago
Akhilesh Pillalamarri: Analyst, Editor, Writer

A Koku of Rice - Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the concept of a koku (石) of rice: I find it pretty neat. A koku was a Japanese unit of volume (of rice) in use especially ...
11 years ago
Staffan's Personality Blog

Book Review: Intelligence (2015) by Stuart Ritchie - An Uphill Battle It’s no easy task to explain why intelligence is so important. The reason for this is oddly enough that many highly intelligent people i...
11 years ago
Julian Sanchez

A CryptoFiction - Here’s a micro-story I started with the Access Crypto Summit flash fiction prompt in mind, left half done, and then belatedly finished off anyway, because ...
11 years ago
Medieval Matters – Tor.com

Getting Medieval on George R. R. Martin - As my fellow medievalists around the world will attest, telling people that you specialize in the Middle Ages (roughly dated from 500 to 1500 CE) is a de...
11 years ago
Terry Glavin

Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie. - Further to my Canada Day column Finding the Right Words for Canada’s History I thought I’d put this up. It’s from Rain Language, a long poem in translation...
11 years ago
Facts & other stubborn things

Don Boudreaux seems to pick and choose his view on average product and wages depending on what the liberal du jour is arguing - Recently, Don Boudreaux called Robert Reich sophomoric for suggesting that productivity (as the BLS measures it) and real wages should move in tandem. Even...
11 years ago
Homo Consumericus

Why Mothers Are So Special - Mothers hold a privileged status within the human experience. I address some of the foundational evolutionary principles that explain the mother-child bond...
11 years ago
Modeled Behavior

Half Of Ferguson's Young African-American Men Are Missing - This is a guest post by Stephen Bronars, a Senior Economist at Welch Consulting, Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago. His opinions are his own. M...
11 years ago
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Years Of Writing Dangerously - Thirteen years ago, as I was starting to experiment with this blogging thing, I wrote the following: [T]he speed with which an idea in your head reaches th...
11 years ago
Thoughtlines with Bob Carr

Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef - In the last few days I’ve carefully read comments emanating from the Coalition government that suggested an undue intervention in Australian politics by Pr...
11 years ago
Dar Kush

Our first virtual Screenwriting Workshop! - T woke up on Monday with the idea, bubbling with notions, and I think it's a fabulous way to explore the new media potentials for a virtual classroom. We c...
11 years ago
Politakos

What does my research contribute to our understanding of the Hong Kong protests? - Did Xi Jinping miscalculate by not allowing free elections in Hong Kong? We cannot know whether the Chinese leadership expected protests of this magnitude,...
11 years ago
Home

Taxation vs. Expropriation - What’s the difference between a 50% marginal tax rate on income vs. 50% expropriation by a kleptocratic ruler or corrupt officials? Some models might sug...
11 years ago
The Black Steam Train

18c – a win for Sally Sensitive - Sadly, it looks like 18c is not going to be done away with in a hurry. It’s a shame, because making a crime out of causing offence to someone is an utte...
12 years ago
CrisisMaven's Blog

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

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

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

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

Governance, aesthetics and architecture - I have been meaning to write up a few thoughts that came out of a beer-fueled conversation with a friend some weeks ago. We both lived in Austin, TX for so...
12 years ago
normblog

Norman Geras: 1943-2013 - I am very sad to announce that Norm died in Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge in the early hours of this morning. Writing this blog, and communicating wi...
12 years ago
MILO NEWS

OxcOOd1199 Error - Windows Media Player is a great way to view your favorite movie content. However, with the program comes the risk of the occasional OxcOOd1199 error occuri...
13 years ago
Rowland Jide Macaulay

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

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

Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe - But if both forecasters are imperfect, how do we use the data to tell us which forecaster was better? Or how good each one is on a scale with pure gue...
13 years ago
The Wild Hunt

An Independent Wild Hunt - We at the Patheos Pagan channel bid The Wild Hunt much luck in its new phase as an independent website. To catch the latest from TWH, please check out wild...
13 years ago
Historinhas

“Three panics and a nonevent” - While exploring Blogs yesterday I came across this one from John Cochran at The Circle Bastiat: In a comment at Coordination Problem, “Is This How the Myth...
14 years ago
Shewing the fly

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

Moving to FTB! - Today I am freezing my Blogger account and moving my blog to Freethought Blogs, a prominent all-atheist venture. This move will help me earn an income doin...
14 years ago
Maryam Namazie

Sharia law, universal rights and secularism - See my speech and the ensuing discussion at a meeting organised by the Danish Atheist Association in Copenhagen, Denmark on 27 September 2011. There was a ...
14 years ago
The State of Play in Australian Politics

The tax forum as a platform for a grand bargain? - In his Challenges of Federation speech we referred to in a previous article, Prime Minister’s Department Secretary Terry Moran said: *There are business l...
15 years ago
An Opinionated Childless Woman

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

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

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