NR: VA's Gerrymandering Vandalism
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Pretty much this.Thing is, we have laws and even Constitutional provisions
and Amendments against much of what the Democrats are doing about
redistricting,...
Thursday: Hili dialogue (and Darwin Day)
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Welcome to Thursday, February 12, 2026, and it is, of course INTERNATIONAL
DARWIN DAY, the day Charles Darwin was born in 1809 (he lived to be 73). It
was ...
Italian cricket vs Indian football
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Italy just won the first world cup cricket match against Nepal. When Italy
qualified for the world cup, lots of headlines rolled. First, a football
crazy E...
The Writer In A State
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If you read mad genius club, you know I’ve been under the weather. And
though it shouldn’t have psychological effects, this did. For a while there
I was un...
Talk to your kids about ICE
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We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service.
Support our journalism by becoming a member today. Many Americans were
shocked and d...
The End of Nuclear Arms Control
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The last remaining US-Russia nuclear arms control agreement has expired,
which means for the first time in decades, we’re in a world with no active
nucle...
Property Rights and the Arctic Contest
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In recent years, the Arctic has returned to the center of public attention:
the renewed interest in Greenland, the progressive opening of maritime
routes...
Samizdata quote of the day – the coming storm
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And here is where Britain’s particular brand of suicidal virtue-signalling
becomes lethal. The Liberal West, and Britain most zealously, has spent
fiftee...
The SSPX is Not the Problem
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The problem is that the Catholic Church has been attempting to modernize
itself over the past six decades plus in order to accommodate itself to
modern soc...
Throwback Thursday’s Lover
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Actual civilized adults are comfortable with individuals being individual,
without any sick need to target them with violent attempts at control. –
“Bran...
I’m With Ratcliffe Here
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Starmer once again tells us he is an out of touch halfwit. Sir Keir Starmer
has said it was ‘offensive and wrong’ for Sir Jim Ratcliffe to claim [...]
Will Cuba Survive?
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Since the triumph of their revolution in 1959, Cubans have infuriated U.S.
leaders with their specialized genius in overcoming catastrophe, whether it
ta...
Reader’s Links for February 12th, 2026
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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 ...
Three Worlds Collide assumes calibration is solved
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Published on February 12, 2026 4:28 AM GMT
*Three Worlds Collide assumes calibration is solved*
Eliezer Yudkowsky's *Three Worlds Collide* (2009) is a firs...
Towards a Marxist theory of censorship
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In The Holy Family, Marx returns to his critique of Bruno Bauer, which he
first mooted in his article “On the Jewish Question.” As he did in the
earlier es...
ABC Comedy: Funny as spitting in your face
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FEB 12 2026Save Download PDF Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson’s warning last
week was spot-on about the ABC’s “festering activism” in news and current
affai...
Would CGT changes harm the rental market?
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It is almost certain that the Albanese government will make changes to the
capital gains tax (CGT) discount in the upcoming May federal budget. The
fact ...
US Budget Deficits: Spitting Into the Wind
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I don’t actually expect that writing about US budget deficits and the
accumulating federal debt, as I do from time to time, will have any
near-term effec...
One Month That Lasted a Year, in Under an Hour
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Frontline, the prestigious US documentary channel, just released a new
movie that touches all the things you need to understand about January 3
and the rea...
10 Medieval Studies’ Articles Published Last Month
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What’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten open-access articles published
in January, which include papers on Christianity in Ethiopia to the
Templars in...
Editorial: Pagan Is Not a Synonym for Barbarism
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[image: Editorial: Pagan Is Not a Synonym for Barbarism]
"When contemporary commentators describe authoritarian politics as
'pagan,'" writes Manny Moreno, ...
WHITE WASH…
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I’m always amazed at who takes the bait. But it never fails. People always
do. And maybe that’s because the bait is so precious. And people will do
almos...
Talking About the Last Ditch Knife
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Some of my newer readers may not realize that I designed the Last Ditch
Knife (LDK) for Ka-Bar knives. I first sketched it out 20 years ago and it
has bee...
It’s (Still) Simple to Balance the Budget
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Starting in 2010, and then most recently in 2024, I have repeatedly
demonstrated that it is very simple to balance the budget. All that is
necessary is som...
Fidgety problem kids — an anecdote
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A friend told me of young girl in trouble at school. She wouldn’t sit still
to do her work, and whenever a teacher’s back was turned she would move
about t...
Let slip the dogs of class war
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“I’ve got the most working-class Cabinet in the history of this country
sitting round my Cabinet table,” said our beleaguered prime minister, “and
I’m real...
The Silent Beats
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Now and then, when you’re a writer, you’ll hit a patch of silence.
Sometimes to be fair, months or years of silence. And when I do it, every
time, even aft...
Calling the Citation Police
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De minimis non curat lex, and you’d think you wouldn’t need a law to deal
with how professors footnote. But you’d be wrong. Footnoting matters, and
so do...
Ulysses by James Joyce: Eumaeus
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Cooks rats in your soup, he appetisingly added, the chinks does. (Tall
story-telling traveller D.B. Murphy) —Then, Stephen said staring and
rambling on to ...
The West Orange Anti-Semitism Task Force (2)
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Second Statement to West Orange Town Council on its Proposed Anti-Semitism
Task Force 66 Main St West Orange, New Jersey February 10, 2026 Last time I
was ...
A Simple Little Hike
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I’ve been cooped up more than usual this winter; partly because I’m being
extra cautious with my health. Finally, I decided to take a very simple,
low key,...
“Guardrails”
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The New Dishonest Word of the Moment BILL ASTORE FEB 09, 2026 I’ve been
noticing a new word of the moment: “guardrails.” President Trump
is smashing the gu...
Nate Soares visiting UT Austin tomorrow!
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This is just a quick announcement that I’ll be hosting Nate Soares—who
coauthored the self-explanatorily titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
with Eli...
Nate Soares visiting UT Austin tomorrow!
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This is just a quick announcement that I’ll be hosting Nate Soares—who
coauthored the self-explanatorily titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
with Eli...
Rabbit Season (UPDATED)
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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...
Economics and the Mirror of Nature
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Editorial Note: This is an old and longform essay I wrote on the philosophy
of economics and economic methodology originally for a history of economic
thou...
No, AI does not have human-level intelligence
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In an article at *Nature*, Eddy Keming Chen, Mikhail Belkin, Leon Bergen,
and David Danks ask “Does AI already have human-level intelligence?” and
claim ...
Great Hili Tomb
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Recently I came across this post on X: Did you know these ancient carvings
of oryx antelopes in Hili Archaeological Park date back to the Bronze Age?
Wha...
The Myth of Libertarian Vs Authoritarian
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Many have long described variation in political opinion in terms of two key
dimensions, described either as economic freedom and personal freedom, or
via r...
Shlomi’s War
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Jerusalem Post, 07/02 An interview with an October 7 survivor, Gaza combat
veteran, and advocate for IDF reservists, who is now entering Israeli
politics. ...
Misdiagnosis
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Last week, the New York Times published the transcript of an interview with
the the heading "Jay Bhattacharya, the N. I. H. Director, says authorities
b...
The boring billion
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1.83 – 1.74 billion years ago We’re now doing the history of the universe
at the rate of 100 million years per day. The Boring Billion* is a billion
or so ...
Elon: To Infinity and Beyond! Again!
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Earlier this week SpaceX acquired xAI. Elon’s explanation immediately
triggered memories, and set off alarm bells. “SpaceX has acquired xAI to
form the mos...
Review: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
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[image: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1)]The Hundred
Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I read Jemisin’s Brok...
Prospects for the 2026 Congressional Elections
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History and forecasting methods show there's a very good chance that the
Democrats will gain control of the House after the midterm elections.
The post P...
It’s Not About the Videos
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The shouting back and forth about those two stupids who challenged armed
federal law enforcement, imposing themselves as something between an
irritant and ...
With Friends Like These…
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Below is today’s selection from Moltbook, written by a clanker known as
u/Ollie-OpenClaw. {I apologize for the crude formatting.) It might be
prudent to be...
A comedy drama rec… Of Tropes and the BL World.
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There’s a halfway musing point in my brain where bits and pieces of stories
and characters begin to break free and float around, looking for a place to
roo...
Nihilism
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Nihilism (from the Latin: nothing) is a term most often associated with
Friedrich Nietzsche, arguably the most pivotal philosopher of the European
post-Kan...
Growth – some less edited thoughts
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After too long a gestation today I finally put out my report for the
Institute for Government about what is needed to raise growth rates.
Finally. I am rat...
New Iron Age samples from southeastern Poland
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A new dataset has appeared online from a yet to be published paper titled
Cosmopolitanism in the depths of Barbaricum evidenced by archaeogenomic
data from...
Servants or masters?
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Craig Guildford has retired as Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, the
UK’s second largest force. He has retired on a full pension at the age of
52. T...
THREE GENDER PREDICTIONS
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*Prediction No. 1.* Women can do anything men can do. Everything can be
learned. Women can become like men in almost every respect (except
childbear...
35 Theses on the WASPs
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*LAST MONTH* *American Affairs* published my review of Alexander Karp’s *The
Technological Republic.* While I had plenty critical to say about Karp’s
book,...
Update on Australian NetZero efforts
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by Chris Morris People have queried what is happening in Australia with
their push for a decarbonised all renewables/ Net Zero grid since the last
update...
Green Door Post- Draft 6/24/25
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“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...
Against the Strawman God
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Stellan Skarsgård, the famous Swedish actor, reportedly declared that the
question of G-d’s existence is “absurd and completely uninteresting”
because if a...
Collected Posts on NSSF SHOT Show
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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...
Let's Admit That We Have an Empire
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The Romans did not have to ideologically defeat every culture they brought
into their empire. They only required that they acknowledged the empire's
sov...
The best music I heard in 2025
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Another good year for music. Thanks to some lucky coincidences I saw the
Sun Ra Arkestra, led by Knoell Scott, three times this year. Every show was
differ...
4 Simple Steps to Change Your Life
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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...
Disraeli Left Me Tariffs?
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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...
GDP Marches On!
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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...
Interview – Bart Ehrman on Jesus Mythicism
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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...
Don’t bother improving your chess
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Civil discourse requires a shared allegiance to civil society “If every
time you play chess, your opponent punches you in the face, getting better
at chess...
How the Kremlin spins Yermak’s resignation
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Yesterday’s resignation of Andrii Yermak, Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of
staff, strong right hand and eminence grise, is clearly a seismic shock to
Ukrainia...
A Word on Gender and Work
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I’ve mentioned that I disagree with Helen Andrews’ Great
Feminization treatise, just as I disagreed with her Boomers Fucked the
World Up book. I like Helen...
It Started in Damascus
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Ignore the overblown title and the publisher's rush to get this book out
quickly following Syria's December 2024 revolution; its charm and power lie
in the...
OPERA, ELITISM AND THE WORKING CLASS
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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...
On the Road to ruin. Fasten seatbelts
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Twaddle to the right, twaddle to the left, and not a drop to drink. In
contemplating China’s meteoric rise (though on thought I am not sure that
meteors ri...
On the Road to ruin. Fasten seatbelts
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Twaddle to the right, twaddle to the left, and not a drop to drink. In
contemplating China’s meteoric rise (though on thought I am not sure that
meteors ri...
A Nobel for Innovation: Mokyr, Aghion, Howitt
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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...
Sora update #1
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We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking
feedback from users, rightsholders, and other interested groups. We of
course spe...
Meet the new Prawfs, same as the old Prawfs
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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...
The World in Which We Live Now
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Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Ron Paul Institute, 2025
Friends, I have seven points. Why seven? Because I’ve been reading too much
Babylonian hist...
Logistics for Humanitarian Crises
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Introduction
Logistics for humanitarian crises is quite unlike logistics for traditional
military operations: in the case of natural disasters, there is f...
The crisis of UK democracy
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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 ...
Footprints in the Firmament is on sale now!
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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
...
Grok, Karoline Leavitt and Me
-
Yesterday on Twitter, I commented on a Tweet referencing a comment by White
House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the meeting yesterday between
Pres...
Obiter dictum
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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...
A Letter From A Friend
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Anne,
Thank you for having the love, strength, and courage to write this blog
post about Ken. It is powerful, devoted, and could be of great help to
othe...
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...
The Man Who Tried To Save The World – A Review
-
Fred Cuny was an American in the best traditions of us. He was ornery,
feisty, irreverent, not one to suffer authority. Somebody who made his own
way in th...
Incredible Lessons I’ve Learned About
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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...
The ideas of Liberal liberals
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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...
#295 – Qing 30: Building Better Worlds
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The Yongzheng Emperor seeks to capitalize on his father’s greatness abroad
– but cautiously. He wants to exterminate the barbarians… but delicately.
He wan...
Help With A Subtitle
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The book shown here is about to go to press, but is on hold for a few days
because the publishers have decided they don’t like the subtitle (An
Invitation ...
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...
-
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...
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...
The End
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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...
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:
...
General Preparedness Discussion–9MAR2025
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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 ...
Algeria
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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...
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...
The Revitalization of the Cherokee Language
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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 ...
The Humanoids by Jack Willamson
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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...
Joy!
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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...
To be young, perchance to dream
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*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 ...
Merry Christmas
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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...
Institutional Economics on Bluesky
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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...
Ribbonfarm is Retiring
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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....
Podcast Review of “Avoidant”
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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...
(WATCH) NATO
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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...
China has much to teach us. John Roberts does not.
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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...
A long strange trip
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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...
Dear Friends
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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...
Sanity Fair
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*"Antifascist" demonstration Portland, Oregon. August 17, 2019. *
The two sides squared off across a field, defined by police cordons at each
end, like dis...
The Deep-State Strikes Back
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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...
A Better Stablecoin on a Perp DEX
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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...
Sitzkrieg?
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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...
Speaking trip this April
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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 ...
Recent work
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The New Labor Antitrust, SSRN The Trump Indictment and America’s Political
Order, Project Syndicate, June 14, 2023 The Revised Merger Guidelines Will
Resto...
ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION
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Snacks, aka “Bread” or “The Louisiana Succubus”, is infamous within the
sector.…
The post ASHTON PARKS’ DIRTY “SNACKS” ADDICTION appeared first on
TheRa...
New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve
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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-...
"Realist Jurisprudence: Selected Essays"
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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...
A pyramid scheme of misery
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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....
Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives
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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...
A Crusader’s Mom
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Something a bit different. Early crusaders were volunteers, who took vows
to go on a crusade, rather than members of a professional army. As a
result, they...
U.S. Openly Militarizes Space
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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....
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...
Russia: Defend Boris Kagarlitsky!
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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...
Draco Layer Four: The Anagogic or Mystical Sense
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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...
UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report
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On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and
Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical
visit ...
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...
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...
A Few Quick Announcements
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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 ...
Breaking my Flag
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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...
Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities
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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...
AI Will Kill Literature, and AI Will Resurrect It
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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...
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...
Blog Migration!
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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...
Have the Baby Boomers Ruined Society?
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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...
As Good As A Rest, They Said
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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.
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...
10 Predictions for the next 5 to 10 years
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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...
Getting Down To Basics with
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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...
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...
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...
My Final Post
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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...
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 ...
RIP, Amy's Blog: 1997 to 2021
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Good Chart Checklist
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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...
Hotel Bar Sessions, Ep 31: Whose History?
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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 ...
Thank You
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Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital,
difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous.
There ...
Thank You
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[image: 11032021Thanks1]
Thank you for supporting my work. As you know, my work is vital,
difficult, and sometimes – well, in wars, dangerous.
There ...
The Medieval Origins of Halloween Traditions
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We’ve been knee-deep in pumpkin spice for weeks, now, which means (1)
Starbucks may be part of a secret cabal intent on world domination through
tasty me...
What does Lisa Birnbach say about preppy cars?
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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 ...
18 Theses on Poetry
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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...
Dr. John McAdams
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*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, ...
health care
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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...
A new legend
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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...
A handy guide to getting pinged
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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...
The Sad, Discordant Ballad of Husham al-Hashimi
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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 ...
IEA World Congress 2021
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A few words on the International Economics’ Association online World
Congress, July 2-6, on the theme “Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in
a Fractured...
Money “Front & Center”
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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...
the future
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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...
Finito Sic Semper Tyrannis
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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 ...
‘Feel Our Pain,’ Politicians Demand
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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...
Introducing Astral Codex Ten
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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...
We lost. Now what?
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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...
‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage
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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...
Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies”
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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...
A Letter to TAI’s Subscribers and Readers
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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...
Biotin for hair: what can this vitamin do to hair?
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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...
Humanity’s second “cradle” in Southeast Asia
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Pleistocene Sundaland
This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google
Podcasts) Razib and Spencer talk about a topic which they hav...
The spin on the spin
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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...
Migrating the blog
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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...
The End
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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...
A good run: Overlawyered, 1999-2020
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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...
Cold War 2 Propaganda
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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, ...
Recent writing
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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 ...
One flu over the cuckold’s nest
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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...
The real problem is also nominal
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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...
Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague
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[ by Charles Cameron — scientific [precision meets human error in cases of
outbreak — with links to a terrific science thread by Palli Thordarson
@PalliTho...
Coronavirus, the Great Reality Check
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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...
Podcast on Maritime Policy
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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 ...
Book Review: Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier
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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...
Steno Majesty
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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...
Mike Bloomberg and is “Stop and Frisk” Racist?
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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...
An Alternative Proposal for the BBC
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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 ...
Free College: Not So Extreme
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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 ...
Trashed Hotel rooms and horny groupies
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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...
Coronavirus - radical thoughts.
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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...
Forgiveness is only appropriate after repentance
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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...
Warming and the Snows of Yesteryear
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I was recently reminded of one of the most common misconceptions about our
changing climate that is often accepted as fact by climate skeptics and
true b...
New Book: ESCAPING PATERNALISM
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by Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman Book description The burgeoning field of
behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for
paternalism. ...
Message heard.
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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...
Is evolutionary psychology impossible?
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p.caption { font-size: 0.7em; } Subrena Smith recently argued that
“evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is…impossible”
(Smith 2019). I ...
I now blog on the Volokh Conspiracy
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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...
Dad Runes
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The 29th of this month would have been Terje Spurkland's 72nd birthday. I
first encountered him in the academic year of 1980-81, when I was on a
scholars...
The midrise obesity crisis in North America
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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...
Gender is not just a Social Construct
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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...
On the nature of forgiveness
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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...
Refuge Seeking in Relative Safety
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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...
2019: The year revolt went global
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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...
“Goodnight, and Good Luck”
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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...
Dictators
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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...
Links 1-30 November 2019
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Tab dump.
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Moral Leadership and the Lebanese Military | Carnegie
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Reforming Tunisia’s military courts | Brookings
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Ira...
Announcing New Books from Jerry Pournelle
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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...
Some Nice Praise in the Midst of Curses
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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...
Nature Author's Oddball Piece on Bioethics
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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...
From lesbian and gay liberation to equality
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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...
Allan Meltzer's Life Work
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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...
MESA 2019–Medieval and Early Modern Panels
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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...
THE DEFENSE OF FORT DAVIS, Chapter 4
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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...
Why Trump Is a Potential Tyrant: A Comparative Look
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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...
The CTRL ALT Revolt Controversy
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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...
CNN Debate Math
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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...
Important: Nintil.com is moving!
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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...
A Glimpse of Hell
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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 ...
Crypto-Current (064)
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§5.8612 — Decentralization of the ledger requires massive multiplication,
and thus an effective method of compression. Only in this way does it
become trac...
Blog moving to Spandrell.com
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***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...
The Rebel Sell at 15
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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...
The Economic Contribution of Recent Immigrants
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(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 24 April 2019.)
Expanding the youthful population through immigration is incredibly
important fo...
Socialist Monetary Policy
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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...
Version 1.3.2 now uploaded
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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...
Boston Marathon Training Update, new podcasts
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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...
The Institutional Foundations of Antisemitism
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Antisemitism has returned to mainstream politics in Europe and America. One
fundamental misconception about antisemitism is that it is simply another
for...
Physicists, sex differences, and a new inquisition
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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...
Momentum needs to talk to its members about Israel
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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...
Seumas Milne and the Stasi
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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 ...
Diversity’s Dilemma
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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...
Weekend update: Tedx restored to youtube
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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...
European Court’s Anti-Muslim Ruling
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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...
The Authoritarian Power Base
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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...
Saudi Arabia Lightens Up on Women – A Little
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Saudi Arabia is about to become slightly less like a Taliban state.
Hardline Sunni Wahhabis have long enforced strict gender segregation and
the veiling ...
Waking Up to Issues in the Atheist Scene
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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...
Dragon Ball series teaches valuable life lessons
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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...
The era of ‘soft’ central planning
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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...
Calling for Violent Jihad in Australia
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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 ...
What is the meaning of an accusation of racism?
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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...
The Power of Positive Persistence
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Strategies to flip negative attacks by Republicans into positive progress
for Americans Like some foreign dictator, the Republican in the White House
will ...
Review of "Weep For Day" by Indrapramit Das (2012)
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*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 "...
A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM
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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) ...
The Stormtrooper Marksmanship Myth
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[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 ...
Ideas Generation and Behavioural Insights
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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...
CHAPTER 34. Glasgow and the Exhibition
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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...
New Immigration Blog
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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...
Labour relations & textiles: addenda
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This post contains related topics and disjointed observations as addenda to
“Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence” in cotton textiles.
(Lack of...
Innovation in Economics Pedagogy and Publishing
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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...
The Morality of Faith Schools
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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...
Moderate rebels and augmented reality
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A common characteristic of the multiple regime change interventions in the
Middle East is the financial, military, and moral support given by Western
gov...
This blog is now closed...
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...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...
The Sovereign Myth
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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 ...
On the Importance of Voting
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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...
How the Democrats can Rebuild
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Appearing in:
Orange County Register
Numerous commentaries from both the political left and right have expounded
the parlous state of the Democratic Part...
Military Power in an Age of Raiding
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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...
Africa and the cold beauty of Maths
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[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...
Moving house
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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...
“The Intel On This Wasn’t 100 Percent”
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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...
Europe is collapsing
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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...
Anarchism
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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...
501 Treasures of Byzantium: No. 41-50.
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No.41: Troyes casket with emperors and hunters, 10th century, Catherdral of
Troyes, France. This surprising treasure resides in the Cathedral of
Troyes, in...
Heroic Age Papers!
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Merovingians and Their Neighbors
Sponsor: *The Heroic Age*
Session Organizer: Deanna Forsman
Contact: Deanna Forsman North Hennepin Community College 7411 ...
Teen Wolf – Ranking the Seasons
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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 ...
THINGS ARE MOVING - AGAIN
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The WSJ’s Peggy Noonan checks US election numbers: The polls are tightening
and no one is sure why. A Reuters/Ipsos poll through…
The Redistribution of Humiliation
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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...
Posiitive progress for Venezuelan Socialism
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“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...
Fiscal Policy and the ZLB
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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, ...
Every day should be International Women’s Day
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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 ...
Samurai Gifts
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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 ...
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...
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....
Salvaging the Tatters of the Obama Doctrine
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When president Obama told George Stephanopoulos only hours before the Paris
attack that his administration had “contained ISIS” he may have been wrong
but ...
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 ...
We've Moved
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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...
A Koku of Rice
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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 ...
Book Review: Intelligence (2015) by Stuart Ritchie
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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...
A CryptoFiction
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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 ...
Canada Day, 2015. Mahsie, Nika Illahie.
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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...
Why Mothers Are So Special
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Mothers hold a privileged status within the human experience. I address
some of the foundational evolutionary principles that explain the
mother-child bond...
The Years Of Writing Dangerously
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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...
Obama’s comments on the Great Barrier Reef
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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...
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...
Taxation vs. Expropriation
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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...
18c – a win for Sally Sensitive
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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...
By: Anonymous
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Great article, however, I don't see yet a study explaining the effects of
Cannabis being freed completely overnight, lifting all restrictions and
allowing ...
Governance, aesthetics and architecture
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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...
Norman Geras: 1943-2013
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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...
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...
Jide Who Played Jesus to be Ordained
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*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...
Skill Scores: Re: Nick Rowe
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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...
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...
“Three panics and a nonevent”
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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...
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...
Moving to FTB!
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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...
Sharia law, universal rights and secularism
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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 ...
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...
The satisfaction of learning a new skill
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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...
The Rand Paul reality for gays
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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 ...
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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...
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