Thinking Out Aloud: August 2013

Blog List

www.counterpunch.org

The Fight to Stop Cop City Won’t Stop - The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, intended to consume at least 85 acres of forest adjacent to Atlanta’s Black working-class neighborhoods, is mo...
5 minutes ago
Blazing Cat Fur

Why ‘wokeness’ is doomed to fail - There are two dishonest conversations about wokeness, or identity politics if you prefer the less contentious term. The first from conservatives is wearily...
1 hour ago
Marginal Revolution

*Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy* - That is the new book by Costin Alamariu, who also has self-identified as the very famous BAP. It is a published version of his Yale doctoral dissertatio...
1 hour ago
A Voice for Men

Small penis rule -
2 hours ago
Vlad Tepes

Reader’s Links for Sept. 24th, 2023 - 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 ...
2 hours ago
macrobusiness.com.au

Big Australia starts to shimmy - Flying High II (Airplane II), 1982 A couple of pieces made it into the Nine pages on Friday betraying just a touch of nervousness about immigration num...
2 hours ago
JoNova

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3 hours ago
LessWrong

Five neglected work areas that could reduce AI risk - Published on September 24, 2023 2:03 AM GMT Tldr: We identify five areas of work that should be further investigated: 1. Helping information aggregators...
4 hours ago
Althouse

Sunrise — 6:43, 7:08. - [image: IMG_3505 2] [image: IMG_3508 2]
4 hours ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Reuters: Equal Protection Project At Center Of Fight To Eliminate Racial Preferences in Higher Ed - "A non-profit group opposing race-based education policies has filed more than a dozen U.S. civil rights complaints this year against universities, chall...
5 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Demographic Doom and the Welfare State - Many nations face a slow-motion fiscal crisis because of demographics. To be more specific, politicians last century created welfare states and social-insu...
5 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Review: The Little Red Wolf - [image: Review: The Little Red Wolf] The Little Red Wolf is a story that reminds me of this: that stories change, that people change, and while we need to ...
5 hours ago
Belmont Club

Americans Somehow Managed to Get Fatter the Past Four Years -
6 hours ago
The Burning Platform

They ain’t making any more land - 1/8 The average price of houses sold in the United States is 26 times the price in 1963. Keep that number in your head — 26 times the price. THREAD. pic.tw...
7 hours ago
Medievalists.net

Privacy in the Middle Ages - Is privacy is a relatively new idea?
7 hours ago
educationrealist

The Pandemic Counterfactual - If only. If only the governors had just waited it out. Hung on for six more weeks. Once Mike DeWine stepped up and declared Ohio’s children an acceptable s...
7 hours ago
Butterflies and Wheels

We hate hatred except our own hatred - Good grief. The Undergraduate Program Director at @YorkUniversity Faculty of Education @YorkUeducation denounces "Hateful Million Child March," and predi...
7 hours ago
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog

Heavy Rainfall is Now Certain for the Northwest. But Why Are Some Folks So Worried About Drought? - The latest water-vapor channel satellite image is quite ominous, with a series of very wet weather systems approaching our region. The weakest of the bun...
7 hours ago
neo-neocon

I like to look at singers while they sing - I find that I like to be able to see singers when they sing. That means I prefer watching live performances of my favorites. I wonder why. Maybe I like t...
8 hours ago
The New Neo

I like to look at singers while they sing - I find that I like to be able to see singers when they sing. That means I prefer watching live performances of my favorites. I wonder why. Maybe I like t...
8 hours ago
Vox - All

What India’s parliamentary gender quota can — and can’t — do for women - [image: A crowd of women in red, orange, and gold clothes gather around sparklers, and raise their hands to the sky, smiling. Posters bearing the face of ...
9 hours ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 23 Natl Sec Adv Rice said Iraq would be next stage in war on terror - 1948 Shafiq Ades Jewish merchant in Basra hanged on accusation he smuggled weapons to Palestine Part of anti-Jewish feelings that spread after crea...
10 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

IDW WRECKED Again After Full Quarter Of Heather Antos In Charge! - ------------------------------ Support Jon Join My Patreon! Get FREE Books! Independent journalism isn’t easy and I can use all of the help I can get. ...
11 hours ago
Sharyl Attkisson

Request Sharyl Attkisson to speak to your group - Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson has a limited amount of time for speaking engagem...
12 hours ago
Philosoraptor

NDG Morphed Into Bill Nye "The Science" Guy So Gradually I Didn't Even Notice - A shorter version of the previously-posted Triggernometry episode.NDG's performance is shameful.As one of the comments pithily puts it: a scientist asking ...
12 hours ago
Samizdata

The obesity of the State and its consequences - In his book, After America (published in 2011, which already seems a loooong time ago), Mark Steyn wrote this: “Any visitor from the Fifties would soon d...
13 hours ago
PsyPost

Republican police officers in Florida show greater racial bias than their Democratic counterparts, study finds - A recent study published in the American Sociological Review found that white police officers' political affiliations may be associated with racial biases ...
13 hours ago
Whatever

View From a Hotel Window, 9/23/23: Pittsburgh - Well, folks, if we’re talking parking lot views, it appears that we have hit the motherlode. This is an extremely impressive collection of loitering vehicl...
14 hours ago
View From The Porch

Automotif CDIX... - Why, I haven't seen a Ferrari California T in the 'hood since, oh, July or thereabouts. Those steering wheels look the business... Photographed with a...
15 hours ago
International Liberty

Demographic Doom and the Welfare State - Many nations face a slow-motion fiscal crisis because of demographics. To be more specific, politicians last century created welfare states and social-insu...
15 hours ago
Isegoria

A super-skilled AI might negate any risk of jamming and enable fleets of smart FPV drones to attack simultaneously without human operators - An AI racing drone recently beat human pilots, raising the question of when AI drones will transform warfarer: “The AI is superhuman because it discovers a...
15 hours ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

This is how I feel about history - "Philosophy was the mission of my life. I had to philosophize; otherwise, I was not able to live in this world." Edmund Husserl “I don't want people wh...
15 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

(again) why I don’t like to talk so much about “p-hacking.” But sometimes the term is appropriate! - Part 1 Jonathan Falk points us to this parody article that has suggestions on how to p-hack. I replied that I continue to be bothered by the term “p-hackin...
16 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

(again) why I don’t like to talk so much about “p-hacking.” But sometimes the term is appropriate! - Part 1 Jonathan Falk points us to this parody article that has suggestions on how to p-hack. I replied that I continue to be bothered by the term “p-hackin...
16 hours ago
EconLog

We’re Number 5, We’re Number 5 - The Economic Freedom of the World: 2023 Report came out this week. The Fraser Institute in Vancouver, Canada publishes a new report each year. The data a...
16 hours ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

Tit for tat? - This is a follow-up to my post arguing that American political institutions, which were traditionally held to reduce polarization (and probably did), pr...
16 hours ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

The Epic Tale of Revolutionary Venezuela - Venezuela continues to be in the news daily. The efforts by that beautiful, valiant, sad Caribbean country to find rock bottom continue to be befuddled by ...
16 hours ago
Caracas Chronicles

China Will Not Rescue Venezuela - Venezuela has been disappointing China for over 15 years, and it has taken a toll. But China could be interested in Venezuela's new Special Economic Zones ...
17 hours ago
Jonathan Spyer

Ain al Hilweh fighting reflects Palestinian and Sunni Arab weakness - Jerusalem Post, 23/9 A truce brokered earlier this week by the Lebanese General Security Service to end the ongoing fighting in the Palestinian Ain al-Hilw...
17 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

Saturday Snippet: A (very) young man goes to sea - John D. Widden was a sailor in the 19th century, starting at the most tender of ages in 1834 and retiring as a ship's captain in 1870. He wrote an au...
18 hours ago
Simple Justice

The Pimps Of Northwestern - Cheerleading has become more varsity sport than the old idea of young women in short skirts shouting “go team.” Cheerleaders are recruited like top athlete...
18 hours ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

Saturday: Hili dialogue - PCC(E) is in transit back to the Windy City. Meanwhile, in Dobrzyn, Hili is showing that with age comes wisdom. Szaron: I’m going to check whether there ar...
18 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

Gov. Newsom Attacks Federal Judge as Child-Killing, Extremist, Right-Wing Zealot Owned by the NRA - It seems that we continue to struggle with a chief executive who goes on social media to personally attack judges…
18 hours ago
According To Hoyt

Laissez Faire, Laissez Meme! -
19 hours ago
The Honest Courtesan

Mabon 2023 - The apparent path of the sun crossed the celestial equator southbound at 06:50 UTC today, making this the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere an...
20 hours ago
Mad Genius Club

The Mythos of AI - I did not want to have to write this post. I’m a little grouchy about being in a place where I think it’s needed. There’s a myth, and while I love mytholog...
20 hours ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

Using a Pigovian tax to correct for a negative (consumption) externality - In my previous post, I demonstrated that, if left alone, a market with a negative externality produces too much of a good, and creates a deadweight loss....
20 hours ago
Longrider

Oh, Do Fuck Off - They really can’t help themselves, can they? The next major pandemic is coming. It’s already on the horizon, and could be far worse — killing [...]
21 hours ago
Cold Fury

Eyrie up! - Finally, I got ‘er done and posted: “Je refuse!”, consisting of musings based on a couple of browser tabs covering vat-grown Frankenmeat, artificial sweete...
23 hours ago
The Unz Review:

Elite Race Denialism Continues, But New Study Shows the Walls Are Closing In, by Lance Welton - Earlier: The ATLANTIC Wants To Cancel Richard Hanania's THE ORIGINS OF WOKE The Race Denialists are at it again. Black academic Tyler Austin Harper [Email ...
1 day ago
Policy of Truth

Structural Realism and Newman’s Objection: Three Arguments against Reference, Part 4 - It’s now time for me to make a small confession, which is that I don’t care very much really about Hilary Putnam’s late-career misadventures with “internal...
1 day ago
Notes On Liberty

Nightcap - 1. Can we learn anything from Africa’s pre-colonial polities? (pdf) Oyebade Oyerinde, *C+T* 2. B.S. jobs and the coming crisis of meaning Bri...
1 day ago
Manhattan Contrarian

Why Do The Poor Countries Always Stay So Poor? - * It’s now more than sixty years since the independence movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s transformed nearly all of sub-Saharan Africa into indepe...
1 day ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

The Battle of Desert Swamp - Okay, I am still thinking this one through, but I will throw out what I have for this now. Cast o’ Characters: The intruders consist of one Invid Command U...
1 day ago
Logarithmic History

“The Aryans” - For more than two centuries scholars have known that most of the languages of Europe, Iran and Northern India, and assorted other places, are sprung from a...
1 day ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

A Time Capsule from the 1930s: What's Different Now - *If we compare health and endurance, well-being, security, general attitudes, family and community ties and values, we would conclude that it is we who are...
1 day ago
Sultan Knish

Woke James Bond Novels Replace Him With Disabled Black Gay Superspy - “Do you expect me to talk?” No, I expect you to go woke.” Earlier this year word came that Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, which controls the rights to the d...
1 day ago
Chicago Boyz

Ginny Machann - Ginny Machann, who contributed to this blog from 2004 until July 2023, died this past Friday. An obituary is here. The funeral will be tomorrow, Saturday, ...
1 day ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Rising Coffee Prices: A Story of Supply Shocks - The US produces almost no coffee, other than small quantities from Hawaii. However, the US market imports about 15% of global coffee production each year...
1 day ago
The Federalist

Meet ‘Ad Fontes Media,’ The Left’s Latest Tool For Annihilating Conservative Voices Like The Federalist - [image: Ad Fontes]'Ad Fontes is complicit in the defunding of real journalism and turbocharging the revenue stream for legacy media propaganda.'
1 day ago
Alt-M

India Poised to Scrap its Jones Act - India appears poised to scrap the country’s cabotage law as part of an effort to promote domestic shipping, and other countries have relaxed similar restri...
1 day ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

Resurfacing - Two months. A person I loved has died. I stand on shaky legs; missing the “before”, uneasy in the bereft “after”. It was both too long and too short; I sup...
1 day ago
Overcoming Bias

Can Govt Debt Solve Fertility? - The last month has greatly change my default future. Instead of seeing the last few centuries of exponential world growth continuing until a new much faste...
1 day ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

Natural Laws Are Moral Rules for Choosing Sides in Conflicts by Impartial Rules of Action: DeScioli and Locke - Here's the Abstract for Peter DeScioli's article--"On the Origin of Laws by Natural Selection"--in the May 2023 issue of *Evolution and Human Behavior*: ...
1 day ago
The Splintered Mind

Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 -- Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle - Back in 2017, I noticed that the percentage of women philosophy majors in the U.S. had been 30%-34% for "approximately forever". That is, despite the incre...
1 day ago
Communalism Watch

In rural India, private schools run by the Ekal Foundation Are Indoctrinating Poor Children | The Diplomat - The Diplomat In India, Hindutva Schools Are Indoctrinating Poor Children In rural India, private schools run by the Ekal Foundation provide access to educa...
1 day ago
Peter Zeihan

Armenia vs. Azerbaijan: Unpacking the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict - Today, we’re looking at some of the recent developments and shifting dynamics in the South Caucasus. The assault on Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh ...
1 day ago
The Objective Standard

Ayn Rand on ‘Moral Sanction’: What Bryan Caplan Gets Wrong - Practicing what Rand advocated requires not only having (and, when appropriate, providing) valid reasons for one’s views and values, but also raising one...
1 day ago
Alexander Boot

The BBC said the magic word - Normally, I’d be the last man to praise the BBC for anything, least of all for its political commentary. But this time they put paid to a serious matter wi...
1 day ago
Moneyness

Coinbase: "What if we call them rewards instead of interest payments?" - Here's a question for you: which U.S. financial institutions are legally permitted to pay interest to retail customers? We can get an answer by canvass...
1 day ago
Thought Catalog

‘Spy Kids: Armageddon’ Review: A Little Less Magic but Just as Much Heart as Its Predecessor - In the early 2000s, Robert Rodriguez penned and directed the original Spy Kids franchise.
1 day ago
4 gravitons

Cause and Effect and Stories - You can think of cause and effect as the ultimate story. The world is filled with one damn thing happening after another, but to make sense of it we organi...
1 day ago
Regie's Blog

PIZZA RECORD … - It started with Michael Jackson. Well, sorta… I was watching the documentary about Michael Jackson’s alleged abuse of those young boys. This isn’t about t...
1 day ago
War Is Boring - Medium

Zelensky claims liberation of Bakhmut and two other towns - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country's soldiers have liberated Bakhmut and two other towns. The post Zelensky claims liberation of Bak...
1 day ago
Daily Nous

The Study of Consciousness, Accusations of Pseudoscience, and Bad Publicity - Earlier this week, a letter signed by over 100 researchers, including several philosophers, was published online, calling a popular theory of consciousne...
1 day ago
Bracing Views

Everything that’s wrong with America in one sentence - W.J. Astore Guess who’s exempt from a potential government shutdown? I saw this today at CNN. The Pentagon has also determined that the training and suppor...
1 day ago
Mostly Economics

India gets green light to join JPMorgan bond index - A much awaited and anticipated decision has finally happened. JP Morgan has decided to include India in its Government Bond Index-Emerging Markets. JP Morg...
1 day ago
Eurogenes Blog

The Caucasus is a semipermeable barrier to gene flow - The scientists at the David Reich Lab are a clever bunch. But they're not always on top of things. And this can be a problem. For instance, they fail to un...
1 day ago
Dr. Andrew Bostom

WPRO’s Matt Allen: Local Rhode Island Media Succumbed to “Social Pressure” Not To Question Covid-19 Pandemic Response - Matt Allen: “I spoke to a couple of (Rhode Island) journalist types during the pandemic, & I’d say to them, ‘Why don’t you ask questions (about dubious pan...
1 day ago
The Z Blog

Dissident Happiness - This week is one of those shows where I just turn on the mic and talk for an hour off the top of my head without knowing where I am going with it. Some peo...
1 day ago
Minding The Campus

WU: Taking DEI to Court - While the cabal of far-left ideologues and interest groups complain that America’s zealous pursuit of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is not far-re...
1 day ago
Political Calculations

Outside the Box Thinking: The Future of Automotive Manufacturing - Automobiles have been manufactured on assembly lines since the days of the Model T in the early years of the twentieth century. The following four minut...
1 day ago
Active Response Training

Weekend Knowledge Dump- September 22, 2023 - Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. More About Tactical and Partial Reloads I thi...
1 day ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

The FTC Needs To Focus Arguments on Technological Transitions After High-Profile Losses - [image: The FTC Needs To Focus Arguments on Technological Transitions After High-Profile Losses] Joshua Gray and Cristian Santesteban argue that the Federa...
1 day ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

A Shrewd Diagnostician - Niebuhr saw clearly the catastrophe that was about to befall America.
1 day ago
Crisis Magazine

Heartbeat Laws Are Not a “Terrible Mistake,” President Trump - While president, Donald Trump achieved many pro-life goals. But now he hides in ambiguity, trying to sound ethical while opening a loophole for abortion th...
1 day ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

SCSS#12, 19 September 2023: Virtual Round Table: “Ukraine’s Sustainable Victory and Russia’s Evolving Regime Dynamics” - This is a summary of the discussion at the last of the current series of online Strategic Competition Seminar Series (SCSS) webinars held on 19 September 2...
1 day ago
Books & Boots

Orientalism by Edward Said (1978) part 2 - Orientalism is the generic term that I have been employing to describe the Western approach to the Orient; Orientalism is the discipline by which the Orien...
1 day ago
The History of China

#257 – Qing 3: Lose Your Hair, Or Lose Your Head - Manchu occupation of the lands south of the Yangtze River proceed smoothly… right up until Prince Dorgon is convinced by some of his advisors that everyone...
1 day ago
Information Processing

Hacking State 13 - Steve Hsu: Polygenic Embryo Selection, Improving LLMs, & Getting Nearly Cancelled - Alex Murshak is a Michigan State grad working as an AI engineer in Austin TX. This conversation is Episode 13 of his podcast Hacking State. Episode descri...
2 days ago
Information Processing

Hacking State 13 - Steve Hsu: Polygenic Embryo Selection, Improving LLMs, & Getting Nearly Cancelled - Alex Murshak is a Michigan State grad working as an AI engineer in Austin TX. This conversation is Episode 13 of his podcast Hacking State. Episode descri...
2 days ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Peterson Academy live studio schedule for *Modern Philosophy* and *Postmodern Philosophy* - Below is the recording schedule for each lecture in my two courses, which will be presented live before a studio audience in Miami. For those in the area (...
2 days ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Interviewing the Man Who Ended Affirmative Action | Dr. Peter Arcidiacono | EP 384 - Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and econometrician Peter Arcidiacono discuss the recent landmark decision by the Supreme Court to end Affirmative Action, how his ...
2 days ago
Streetwise Professor

The Rock of Chickamauga, Reconsidered - One hundred sixty years ago, the battered Union Army of the Cumberland gathered at Rossville, Georgia, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the aftermath of its...
2 days ago
The Mitrailleuse

AIA Welcomes Former BNM Governor Shamsiah Yunus to Its Board - AIA Group has appointed Shamsiah Binti Mohd Yunus as an independent non-executive director, with effect from 21 September 2023. She will also be a member...
2 days ago
Discover Blogs

Much Like Humans, Pandas Can Experience Jet Lag, Too - Captive pandas outside of the latitude of their normal habitat range tend to be less active.
2 days ago
Rhys Ford

Rhys Ford’s Merchandise Shop Updates! - The Dirt & Sin shop has been updated! Some designs have been retired and new ones added. And a different version of the Kirin is now out. There are TWO Cof...
2 days ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

A White Imperium Ain’t Gonna Happen. Maybe a Backyard Barbecue Would Be a Better Idea - In the media there is much noise about “white extremists,” a group said to be a threat to our (largely imaginary) democracy. There indeed exists an ill-d...
2 days ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

A White Imperium Ain’t Gonna Happen. Maybe a Backyard Barbecue Would Be a Better Idea - In the media there is much noise about “white extremists,” a group said to be a threat to our (largely imaginary) democracy. There indeed exists an ill-d...
2 days ago
bellingcat

Chaos and Crisis as Azerbaijan Attacks Nagorno-Karabakh - Azerbaijan and representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh’s de-facto Armenian government have begun re-intergration talks for the territory after a 24 hour offe...
2 days ago
Raymond Ibrahim

New Documentary Exposes the Shady Origins of the Persecution of Christians in Syria - The Stream The Broken Cross, a new Arabic-language documentary, was launched and screened in Damascus on September 2 before a large audience of religious a...
2 days ago
Gun Culture 2.0

What’s the Answer? - I recently began teaching my Sociology of Guns course at Wake Forest University for the 9th consecutive year. Each year the class begins with a field trip ...
2 days ago
Martin van Creveld

Oppenheimer - What has not been written about the movie, Oppenheimer? That it does not sufficiently bring out the fact that the chief character, Robert Oppenheimer him...
2 days ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi - [image: From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (From a Certain Point of View, #3)]From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi by Saladin Ahm...
3 days ago
The World is Not Enough

The end for Artsakh - The Armenians of Artsakh meet defeat in their more than thirty-year struggle for self-determination.
3 days ago
Edward Feser

The Death Penalty and Genesis 9:6: A Reply to Mastnjak (Guest article by Timothy Finlay) - *Genesis 9:6 famously states: “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image” (RSV). This has traditi...
3 days ago
The Syrian Intifada

Remembering Korea: The First “Hot War” of the Cold War - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 September 2023 Read the article over at Substack.
3 days ago
Brown Pundits

A Light Goes Out in Lahore - Posted on February 21, 2013 by omar. Reposting today because that old post got lost and I recovered this via the wayback machine. A light goes out in Laho...
3 days ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

More On Wide Binary Stars - This somewhat mixed result is the latest episode in the wide binary star dynamics debate. It shows strong signs of non-Newtonian behavior, although not nec...
3 days ago
RyanHoliday.net

These 14 Small Mindset Shifts Will Change Your Life - For the most part, we can’t change the world. We can’t change the fundamental facts of existence–like the fact that we’re going to die. We can’t change oth...
3 days ago
Freethinking Economist

The Myth of “No Austerity” - If you attend to enough right-wing commentary on the dismal state of the UK, at some point you will hear or read some version of the following: “But they n...
3 days ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

The newest round of the Karabakh conflict: who fights for Armenian independence? - Elina Bardach-Yalov PSCRP-BESA Reports No 4 (September 20, 2023) Azerbaijan’s current military mission in Karabakh has been portrayed in Baku as an anti...
3 days ago
I aim to misbehave.

Don't Break the Rules... Except When You Do - "The Moscow Rules" exist in various versions dating from the Cold War - originially developed as a set of guidelines for CIA personnel operating in the unf...
3 days ago
No B-S here (I hope)

And the Walter Duranty Award Goes Too… - Tony Thomas In 1932, Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty of the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prizefor his glowing reports of happiness and progress in t...
3 days ago
The Angry Staff Officer

Are We Hearing What We Want to Hear? - A few months ago, this blog published the post “On Command: A Confession,” wherein I talked about my personal struggles with the idea of taking a battalion...
4 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Quantum miscellany - 1. Tomorrow at 1:30pm US Central time, I’ll be doing an online Q&A with Collective[i] Forecast about quantum computing (probably there will also ...
4 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Quantum miscellany - 1. Tomorrow at 1:30pm US Central time, I’ll be doing an online Q&A with Collective[i] Forecast about quantum computing (probably there will also ...
4 days ago
Climate Etc.

Australian Electricity Generation – 2023 Update - by Chris Morris This report brings readers up-to-date with happening in the Australian generation industry since the previous posts: Australian Renewables ...
5 days ago
Leah Schnelbach – Tor.com

A Haunting in Venice Is a Mystery Wrapped Inside a Gothic Horror - Let me start by throwing my cards on the table. I didn’t like Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express when I watched it the first ti...
5 days ago
n+1 » Articles

Winter Editions: Launch Party - Please join us for a celebration of the first publications from Winter Editions, a new small press recently founded by Matvei Yankelevich. Richard Hell, G...
5 days ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

Babies vs. Baptisms - The discussion about singleness and the church continues. I’ve mostly said my piece on the singleness question, but this piece at Christianity Today by K...
5 days ago
Bernard Gaynor

Australian councils lend child porn comics to children - Ken Akamatsu defends child porn cartoons because he draws child porn cartoons. And Australian councils have made him very rich indeed buying 1000s of his...
6 days ago
TheMoneyIllusion

How not to think about monetary policy - This Bloomberg piece caught my eye: Faced with only limited signs of a slowdown in US demand despite more than five percentage points of interest-rate hike...
6 days ago
Paul Musgrave

The Moderately Skilled Person’s Guide to Making a Bluesky Feed - In this post, I’ll lay out the basics of how to create a curated Bluesky feed–that is, a feed for a list of approved posters, like the Polisky feed. With a...
6 days 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...
1 week ago
traditionalRIGHT

Breakthrough or Break-In? - The papers are full of reports that the Ukrainians have broken through on their southern front, opening the way for an armored offensive on the operational...
1 week ago
LaborEcon

หวยออนไลน์ lotto เว็บหวยออนไลน์ อันดับ 1 ซื้อได้ตลอด 24 ชม. - หวยออนไลน์ lottoคือหนึ่งในหวยชั้นนำยอดฮิตในใจใครหลายๆคน … หวยออนไลน์ lotto เว็บหวยออนไลน์ อันดับ 1 ซื้อได้ตลอด 24 ชม. Read More »
1 week ago
Mark Manson

Mark Manson’s 3 Rules for Life - Hey party people! It's Mark Manson, and today I want to talk about Dr. Jordan Peterson and his books, "12 Rules for Life" and "12 More Rules for Life." ...
1 week ago
The Observation Post

The ‘Rise and Fall’ of the Torch Commando - Torch Commando Series – Part 4 In part 1, we outlined the Nazification of the Afrikaner right prior to and during World War 2 and their accent to power in ...
1 week ago
Darwinian Reactionary

The Tragedy Of Richard Dawkins On What Is A Woman - Richard Dawkins has recently written an article in The New Statesman defending the position that “woman” means adult human female. Dawkins bases his positi...
1 week ago
How Material Are We? – MADE IN AMERICA

An Epidemic of the “Epidemic of Loneliness,” Part 1: There Probably is No Epidemic and It May Not Be Loneliness - Experts tell us that we are experiencing an “epidemic of loneliness.” This metaphor is all over the media[1]; the Surgeon General repeatedly warns us of it...
1 week ago
waka waka waka

Been Slow, I Know - Once again I must apologize for the spotty content here lately (aside from the item I popped up for discussion yesterday, which is really just me picking a...
1 week ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

The politics of stagnation - The government is changing the rules of the work capability assessment in an effort to push more people into work and thinking of cutting benefits. There's...
1 week ago
Peter Turchin

My African Vacation - I went to Africa for the first time more than 30 years ago, and I was immediately hooked. Now I try to get there every year for a mind-clearing vacation — ...
2 weeks ago
Academic Wonderland

On the Dangers of Futile Appeals - In 2016, Gary Pavela, a longtime educational consultant and fellow for the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), referenced the...
2 weeks ago
Facing Islam Blog

Raymond Ibrahim: "The genocide of Armenians at the hands of Turkic peoples has reached a new level" - *Several genocide watchdog organizations are accusing Azerbaijan of committing genocide against the 120,000 Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh.* *Read...
2 weeks ago
ribbonfarm

Worlds in Waiting - I learned the phrase Keep the Lights On (KTLO) several years ago in a consulting gig with a big company, where it’s an official planning term. Projects in ...
2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Practical Ethics

Guest Post: Nothing if not family? - Written by Daniela Cutas Lund University What are genetic relatives to each other if they are not de facto relatives? Is there no relation between a donor-...
2 weeks ago
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH Global Temperature Update for August, 2023: +0.69 deg. C - The Version 6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for August 2023 was +0.69 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean. This is a li...
2 weeks ago
PinkNews

Nazis take to the streets in Orlando, Florida chanting ‘white power’ and throwing Hitler salutes - Shocking video footage has shown a group of Nazis chanting “white power” and waving swastika flags on the streets of Orlando, Florida, as they threw Hitl...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
Uneasy Money

The Road to Incoherence: Arthur Burns and the Agony of Central Banking - UPDATE: My concluding paragraph was inadverently deleted from my post, so even if you’ve already read the post, you may want to go back and read my conclud...
2 weeks ago
Old European culture

Eye idols from Tell Brak - Various "eye idols" from the settlement of Tell Brak, which flourished in Upper Mesopotamia from the 4th millennium BC Mother and child? Ideal family? ...
2 weeks ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

Someone Has to Die - The piling up on Mr Trump is so obvious that my sense of honor requires that I vote for him. The grotesque sentences imposed on the supposed organizers of ...
3 weeks ago
The Sociological Eye

INSIDER RESEARCH IN MAFIA, STREET GANGS, TERRORISTS AND NEO-FASCISTS - Researchers on violent criminal organizations have grown more intrepid over the years. Until the 1980s, most information came from interviews in prison,...
3 weeks ago
globalinequality

Thinkin’ ‘bout a revolution - As I suppose many older people do, I was thinking about the most important parts of my life, not only personally, but socially: how did the ...
3 weeks 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 weeks ago
History for Atheists

The Closing of the Athenian Academy - In 529 AD Damascius, the last head of the Academy in Athens, closed down the philosophical school and, with several fellow scholars, went into exile in P...
3 weeks ago
The Grumpy Economist

Interest rates and inflation part 3: Theory - This post takes up from two previous posts (part 1; part 2), asking just what do we (we economists) really know about how interest rates affect inflati...
3 weeks ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

Reclamation - Braude, founder and head of the Center for Peace Communications, an organization focused on improving Arab-Israeli relations, has written an important and ...
3 weeks ago
Andrew Holt, Ph.D.

A Crusader’s Mom - 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...
4 weeks ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

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4 weeks 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....
4 weeks ago
Andrew Norton

The Accord equity target that cannot, and perhaps should not, be achieved - The Universities Accord terms of reference asked the review panel to recommend higher education equity and attainment targets, and in their interim report ...
4 weeks ago
House of Eratosthenes

The Pink Billion - Okay, so there’s just no getting around it at this point. I’m going to have to blog the Barbie movie. People are asking for it on multiple fronts, in the e...
4 weeks ago
Norse and Viking Ramblings

One Day Towards the End of Summer - The following is an extract from something I am working on at the moment - an analysis of the killing of Earl Rǫgnvaldr of Orkney, as reported in chapter...
5 weeks ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

A Chance to Do Some Good - I know very little about Asa Hutchinson (ex-governor or Arkansas, current candidate for president) but I’ve heard him on the radio a few times and he seems...
5 weeks 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 […]
5 weeks ago
Club Troppo

The unbearable lightness of grey academia: note to self - Wikipedia defines ‘grey literature’ thus: Materials and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and...
5 weeks ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

The political position of the private sector - Are China’s private-sector businesspeople unhappy about living under a Communist government? That is the increasingly explicit contention of some commentat...
5 weeks ago
Andrew Norton

Donald Horne’s life in the lucky country (some comments on Ryan Cropp’s Horne biography) - Donald Horne’s Death of the Lucky Country, his attack on the dismissal of the Whitlam government, its title an allusion to Horne’s 1964 bestseller, was the...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
THE LAST DITCH

Lionising the lionesses - Football has kept me sane during a difficult part of my life. There have been weeks in the past two years when the only place I’ve left my home to visit ha...
1 month ago
The Market Monetarist

Are interest rates moving up or down? – a long-term view - I have been interviewed for the podcast “Rig på Viden”. Despite the Danish name of the podcast the podcast is in English and is about my research at part o...
1 month ago
MAN ABOUT TOWN

Author’s notes: Britannia and Beyond - Hibernia - If you’re reading this, that probably means you’ve purchased a copy of the latest *Cthulhu Invictus* sourcebook from Golden Goblin Press: *Britannia and ...
1 month 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…
1 month ago
La Bocca della Verità

"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness - I am currently reading *The Master and His Emissary*, which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature...
1 month ago
Corey Robin

How ChatGPT changed my plans for the fall - Until now, I’ve avoided getting myself worked up about chatgpt. Prompted by this article by a Columbia undergraduate this past spring, I thought that if a ...
1 month ago
Lead and Gold

The wilderness of mirrors and games journalists play - One easy trick to turn a partisan into an honest reporter When collussion is part of building a brand Winston Churchill called columnist Drew Pearson “t...
1 month ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

Geoffrey Brennan (9/15/44-7/28/22) - Long-time Duke faculty member and friend Geoffrey Brennan died in Canberra, Australia of complications from acute leukemia. “Geoff” joined the Duke ...
1 month ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

L'Inde sous le choc après la vidéo de deux femmes nues agressées en public dans le Manipur - Le crime a été perpétré par des membres de l'ethnie des Meitei, majoritairement hindoue et dominante dans les plaines, contre des femmes Kukis, ethnie ma...
1 month ago
Fabius Maximus website

Vivek Ramaswamy: Rebuilding America - Vivek Ramaswamy looks best positioned to win the GOP nomination, with most of Trump's advantages and few of his negatives. He is the cutting-edge candida...
2 months ago
Wide Urban World

Why I rarely get excited by news stories about ancient cities - There is a media story going around this week about the discovery of a new, "hidden Maya city." Here is the story in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes....
2 months ago
MacroMania

Constrained efficient inflation - I haven't had time to do much blogging lately. But I have been studying the recent burst of inflation and thinking of how to interpret what we're experie...
2 months ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

Space Hookers Must Die! - Whether they were “Socialators” in Battlestar Galactica, or “Companions” in Firefly, or any number of other euphemisms, one SF trope that seems particularl...
2 months ago
MountainGuerrilla

Summer Schedule Classes–Updated - Summer Class Schedule, 2023–Updated 25/26/27 AUG 2023 Small Unit Tactics/Battle Drills This course covers the fundamental principles of small-unit battle d...
2 months ago
Brad R. Torgersen

The persistence of belief and certainty - Long thought. Don’t say you had no warning. The explicitly secular perspective is that there is no proof of a spiritual layer to human experience, Continue...
2 months ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

Riots in France are a poignant reminder for Britain to examine its own policy of multiculturalism - By Khadija Khan The killing of 21-year-old Nahel Merzouk by police in a Paris suburb has sparked fierce clashes in France. The young man, of North African ...
2 months ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

Protected: Story Post (Private) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
2 months ago
The Scholar's Stage

Soviets, Cybernetics, and China: A Reading Program - Two years ago I ran a small reading group that met over zoom. Our reading topic: Leninism. Curious about the claims that modern Chinese politics are an out...
2 months ago
Agony and Hope

One thing all women should know about men - There is a little-known and almost never-publicised truth that I think all women need to understand about men...
2 months ago
Pandaemonium

TALKING NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE - I have been taking part in a number of podcasts and interviews, talking about the themes of Not So Black and White. Below are three of my most recent ones,...
2 months 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...
2 months 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 ...
2 months ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

CLEA Provides Student Opportunities for Impact and Growth - Housed in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research, The Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) is a repository of detai...
2 months ago
Ideas

My Substack - I now have a substack and have been posting regularly to it. I am keeping this blog up for the archives and to notify subscribers of substack posts, with l...
2 months 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 months 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 months ago
PrawfsBlawg

US v. Trump: Multiplicity and Mistake of Law - A team of lawyers at Just Security posted a remarkable Model Prosecution Memo addressing the possible charges against Donald Trump; it predicted with great...
3 months 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 months ago
Bondwine Books

From the lecture notes of H. Smiggy McStudge - ‘We encourage the humans in the belief that every other job in the world, especially that of running the world, is so simple that only a malicious idiot co...
3 months ago
Henry the Young King Blog

''King John’s Right Hand Lady: The Story of Nicholaa de la Haye''. Interview with Author Sharon Bennett Connolly - *840 years ago today, Henry the Young King, aged twenty-eight, died at Martel, Limousin. In the closing days of May he had contracted dysentery, called "...
3 months 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 months 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 months ago
ERIC POSNER

recent work - Constitutional Challenges to Public Health Orders in Federal Courts during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 102 B.U. L. Rev. 1729 (2022) (with Kenny Mok) The Politic...
3 months ago
Cantercap

Basel: Faulty – The Financial Crisis Revisited - This post is a work in progress. Will be updated soon.
3 months ago
Augean Stables

France24 “debates” the conflict with a panel of like-minded participants - On March 1, 2023, Nadia Massih held a “Debate” about curbing the violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Her choice of participants, her questions, her...
4 months ago
The Other Side of History

Christopher Floyd Smith18 May 1946 - 4 May 2023 - Note: this is the eulogy I delivered this afternoon for Chris Smith, my ex. There were children in the audience, so it was best to redact some *spicy* comm...
4 months 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 ...
4 months ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

Tucker Carlson’s War on Official Narratives. Fired from Fox News. What’s Next? - Theories abound for why Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News. The bottom line: he's a truth-teller on the issues that count, and was operating in a media...
4 months ago
Miranda Yardley

Genspect 2023: Transgender as Political Backlash - This was my contribution to the Genspect ‘The Bigger Picture’ 2023 conference on Saturday 29... The post Genspect 2023: Transgender as Political Backlash...
4 months ago
Thermidor

Beauty In The Details: Home Interior Decoration Tips - The way you decorate your home can have a significant impact on how it feels and functions. From the furniture you choose to the colors you paint your wall...
4 months 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...
4 months ago
Evonomics

How Interest Rates Redistribute Income - The evidence suggests that interest rates play a key role in the game of class warfare The post How Interest Rates Redistribute Income appeared first on ...
5 months ago
Abandoned Footnotes

Using Large Language Models to generate democracy scores: An experiment - In case anyone is still reading this, I have a big data-rich post on my Github site on using ChatGPT aka GPT-3.5-Turbo and Claude (the Anthropic AI bot)...
5 months 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
5 months ago
Ballandalus

Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada - The following is my newly-published article, which will be appearing in the April 2023 volume of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. The full article ...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
Falkenblog

FTX's Mythical Origin Story - One of the biggest mysteries about the Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) debacle has been how he initially vaulted into the wealth stratosphere. The standard stor...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
interfluidity

Excerpts! - I continue to write these days beneath the shelter of my “drafts blog“. A big benefit of that is almost nobody reads it, so I feel much freeër to write. A ...
5 months ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

The Erdmann Housing Tracker - For my latest work, please see my new substack newsletter: The Erdmann Housing Tracker
6 months 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...
6 months ago
The Gladstone Diaries

(How) Do We Talk about Fascism? - When the sports presenter Gary Lineker sent a tweet about the Illegal Migration Bill, comparing some of the language around the policy to 'that used by...
6 months ago
Semi-Partisan Politics

Hanging Up The Keyboard - I wrote this incomplete draft way back in 2019 but never finished or published it in the mêlée of law school. Posting the fragments now for completeness....
6 months ago
Supply and Demand (in that order)

ChatGPT: Marshall, Hicks, or Cliff Clavin? - Marshall discusses his Laws of Derived Demand in his Principles of Economics. Specifically, in Chapter VI of Book V. Marshall listed four “conditions” t...
6 months ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

My (hilariously inaccurate) biography according to ChatGPT - Warning, what follows is what ChatGPT came up with when I asked it to write a biography for me. It sounds very plausible and some of it is, indeed, based...
6 months ago
Coyote Blog

Hope Springs Eternal... - In preparation for a return to active blogging I have torn down this server to the root and reinstalled everything clean. I am hoping the errors and probl...
7 months ago
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.
7 months 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.
7 months ago
In Due Course | Building the Republic of Letters, one keystroke at a time

Wrapping things up here - I thought I should mention to any long-time readers that I am going to be letting this domain name lapse at the end of the month. I notice that certain p...
7 months 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...
7 months ago
Heather's Homilies

Heather’s Funeral Service - A Service for Heather Hastie will be held at 2:30pm NZ Time on Thursday 9th February. If you would like to view the service please click on the link belo...
7 months ago
mathbabe

Fat shaming food columnist in WaPo - It’s kind of amazing but here we are: a food columnist writes about how diets are shams, how they statistically don’t work, and they play on people’s desir...
7 months ago
Michael O. Church

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

My posts on Substack - I have lately been posting on *Substack* and not here. My aim is to write longer articles that build on earlier posts from *Evo and Proud*. Some of them ...
8 months ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

Bitcoin is the Detector of Imbeciles: - Bitcoin is the Detector of Imbeciles*On The Cluster of Charlatans, Zero Interest Rate Virgins, & Crypto Tumors* *Interview with Laeticia Strauch-Bonart in ...
8 months ago
Order of the Coif

The British Land Corporation : A Housing Manifesto - In recent decades, successive governments have presided over a crash in the level of home ownership in the UK, coinciding with skyrocketing inequality. 30 ...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
West Hunter

Books 2022 - You might also be interested in my booklists from from 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Defeat into Victory Natural Selection: Domains, Lev...
9 months ago
Monetary Freedom

- Year To Date Inflation -- Not the Right Metric During the Great Moderation, the Fed kept the inflation rate close to its target of 2%. However, ther...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
Phillip W. Magness

How Eric Hobsbawm anticipated Synthetic Marx - I have to admit that I expected some pushback against the thesis of my paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) “The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the ...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
10 months ago
milescorak

Public Policy for Equality and Opportunity: Evidence-based and Ethically Grounded - Inequality erodes opportunity, and limited opportunity exacerbates inequality. This vicious intergenerational cycle has brought inclusive growth into quest...
10 months ago
Ex Urbe

All People Are Created Educable, a Vital Oft-Forgotten Tenet of Modern Democracy - (I have one of my more traditional history posts underway, but wanted to post this separate thought first. Felt timely.) Many shocking, new ideas shaped th...
10 months 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.
10 months ago
Cherokee Gothic

The True and Tried Method for Healthy Food from Cherokee Gothic In Detailed Detail - [image: Healthy Food from Cherokee Gothic]BH Fitness is the main specialist in sports activities actions gear for residence (Residence Fitness) in additi...
10 months 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...
11 months ago
CrisisMaven's Blog

Who blew up the Nordscream Popelines? - Well, one does have his or her sources … But, honestly, anyone with a brain can solve this no-brainer. For once – Russia has absolutely no interest do to s...
11 months ago
Institutional Economics

The Canadian-Australian Productivity Gap: Comparative Institutions and Policy Settings - I have a new report out with the Fraser Institute, The Canadian-Australian Productivity Gap: Comparative Institutions and Policy Settings.
11 months 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 ...
11 months ago
Caitlin Green

Al-Idrīsī’s twelfth-century description and map of Lincolnshire - *The following short piece was originally published in the Lincoln Record Society News Review, 18 (2021), pp. 2–4; the version presented below is the ful...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
Council on Global Security

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1 year 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...
1 year ago
PARALLAX OPTICS

Interview with Anon: On Subversion - Don't contribute to a system that hates you.
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Sam Altman

Helion Needs You - Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to desi...
1 year ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

Ethical Progress on the Abortion Care Frontiers on the African Continent - The Supreme Court of the United States of America has overridden 50 years of legal precedent and reversed constitutional protections[i] for abortion in t...
1 year ago
The Economics Detective

Good and bad ways to learn - [image: anonymous kid in helmet riding run bike on pavement in countryside] Learning a new skill is hard. Part of what’s so hard about it is, by definition...
1 year ago
CSPI Center

CSPI is Moving To Substack - A couple of months ago, I wrote about why, if you’re a writer, you should be on Substack. At the same time, CSPI was publishing all of its material on ou...
1 year ago
Rabble Rouser

The Problem with Research on Microaggressions - Commentary: Some of the key claims made in microaggression research are backed by weak evidence.
1 year ago
PressThink

He used to edit political stories at the Chicago Tribune. Now he says the press is failing our democracy. - "You don’t get a lot of complaints if you just write down what everyone says and leave it at that." The post He used to edit political stories at the Chi...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
chrishernandezauthor

Col. Beckwith’s Rolex 1675 - The IG account @watchesofespionage doesn't suck. This bit about Charlie Beckwith and his Rolex 1675 is an example why.
1 year ago
Blog - Traditions of Conflict

Appeasing the Dead - *I’m more…than just…a little curious…how you’re planning…to go about…Making your amends…to the dead. To the dead* — A Perfect Circle, *The Noose*. Dea...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The Arabist

The cost of living - “a rhetoric feast of meaningless blah”.
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
Rajiv Sethi

Moved to Substack - This post is long overdue. About a year ago, I copied over all posts from here to Substack, and have been publishing occasional posts there ever since. ...
1 year ago
Medieval Matters – Tor.com

The Medieval Origins of Halloween Traditions - 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...
1 year ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

The mirror of Narcissus and the labyrinth of the Minotaur - The fugitive thoughts captured below came to me while I was reading about, then visiting, the city of Vienna, Austria, a place much more famous for its com...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Rachel Edwards — Medium

A Few Thoughts - It occurs to me that not enough people are really looking at the glaring hypocrisy currently unfolding in our post-pandemic world. The most obvious one b...
1 year ago
Armed and Dangerous

Sample post. - Checking to see if RSS works.
1 year ago
Michael Totten

The Kruiser Kabana Episode 154: Trump Needs to Make Up His Mind About 2024 ASAP -
1 year ago
Ambit Gambit

AmoLatina Revisión - AmoLatina anuncia los medios de acceso impresionante latinas contactos mujeres y comunicación usándolos. La cosa es que estas damas son conocidas como atra...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Today - [cross-posted at facebook] Today’s a fine day an especially beautiful day the kind of day when you know just how you want to spend it but the place you wan...
2 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...
2 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, ...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Point of no return

Point of.No Return has moved! - The new address is www.jewishrefugees.org.uk. See you there!
2 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
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 years ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

I’ve moved my blog to Substack… - Hello I now blog HERE. If interested in why I did the referendum, read THIS. In 2019, just before going to No10, I wrote about the likely failure of UK cri...
2 years ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

I’ve moved my blog to Substack… - Hello I now blog HERE. If interested in why I did the referendum, read THIS. In 2019, just before going to No10, I wrote about the likely failure of UK cri...
2 years ago
The Mermaid's Tale

Let's get Genetic Drift in K-12 evolution education standards - An undergraduate reflecting back on what they learned in introductory human origins and evolution. Perpetual chance change is the only way evolution make...
2 years ago
Paula Wright

The Cure for Feminism is Not More Feminism - “In the media, politics, arts, humanities and increasingly the sciences, feminist gatekeepers stand guard with an explicit agenda to keep non-feminist, ega...
2 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...
2 years ago
A Free Left Blog

A Response to a Response to my piece on The Lark Ascending - An Open Letter to Tom W Green, a composer and musician based in Glasgow. Dear Tom, Thank you for alerting me to your blogpost entitled ‘The Farts As...
2 years ago
ThinkMarkets

“Old Chicago” and the Freiburg School - Stefan Kolev and Ekkehard Köhler have published a paper in the Working Paper Series of the Stigler Center at Chicago University on the history of the polit...
2 years ago
Easily Distracted

Still Distracted, But Not Here - My online writing goes back to Usenet, early bulletin-boards and the pay service GEnie, but my public identity as an online writer really began a few years...
2 years ago
rethinking history

What if Japan's attempt at a decisive June 1942 'Midway' battle, had been at Ceylon instead? - Another amusing 'what if' that came out of the current series of 'what if' articles. Enjoy. *What if Japan had made a serious effort to finish off the US...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
A Fine Theorem

Statistics for Strategic Scientists – A Clark for Isaiah Andrews - Today’s 2021 Clark Medal goes to the Harvard econometrician Isaiah Andrews, and no surprise. Few young econometricians have produced such a volume of work ...
2 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 t...
2 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...
2 years ago
Status 451

Movie Night – Dry Wind (2020) - Marketing a movie in the midst of a pandemic is a tough job. Doubly so when it’s a piece of esoteric queer cinema. At least one clever person has figured o...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
Jeb Kinnison

Mailbag: “Avoidant” - I get a lot of good feedback on my attachment books, even seven years after publication. This one was really touching. I hope you’re well. I read your book...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Happy New Year 2021 - Health and Happiness to all.
2 years ago
Little Atoms

Indoors and introspective - 2020’s cultural highlights - The books, stories, records and shows that got me through a strange year These are personal choices from the culture that I consumed in 2020. If you choos...
2 years ago
Rightly Considered

Apakah Slot Online Terbaik Punya Banyak Bonus - Situs judi slot online kini hadir sebagai solusi ketika banyak orang tidak bisa mengikuti gambling secara konvensional. Sejak internet mulai menjadi tekn...
2 years ago
Neven Sesardić

An amazingly short history of philosophy - 1. In the beginning everyone searching for knowledge was doing philosophy. There was nothing else. 2. Then, gradually, one scientific discipl...
2 years ago
Noahpinion

Noahpinion has moved to a new website! - Well folks, it's been a fun 10-year run at this little website. I'm moving on to a new platform: Substack! Here's the new Noahpinion: https://noahpin...
2 years ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

Storytelling: Friday Chart Edition - I have not posted here in awhile, so I thought it would be good to share a few recent charts that tell interesting stories. *Central Bank Balance Sheets* F...
2 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...
2 years ago
Jacobite

Nation – Large Space – Network - Three topological considerations beyond the US elections.
2 years ago
glenntstanton.com

Yes Atlantic, What If Friendships, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? - The ridiculousness of the article is crafting these two great life riches – spousal love and deep friendship – into competitors. Life needs both and each d...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
3 years ago
PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS

Upside-Down Markets: Profits, Inflation and Equity Valuation in Fiscal Policy Regimes - I just published a new long-form piece through OSAM entitled “Upside-Down Markets: Profits, Inflation and Equity Valuation in Fiscal Policy Regimes.” In th...
3 years ago
Civil Politics Blog

2020 Update - Civil Politics remains a free resource and we continue to support some partners who we previously worked with but due to time and funding constraints, we a...
3 years ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Socialism: The Greatest Enemy Of Freedom - Every nincompoop who’s been educated into stupidity will define socialism as state or social ownership of the means of production. Socialism is basically...
3 years ago
vitam fracta

Left Critics and the Biden-Harris Ticket - .. . By Darren Barany Unsurprisingly (and sadly), many Americans relate to campaigns for major elections in ways that reflect the society’s pervasive indiv...
3 years ago
untethered

notice - This blog will not be updated. Any new material will be posted *here.*
3 years ago
Tommy Ousslander

where the cupcake lovers at? -
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
The Everyday Economist

In Memory of Bob Rossana - Robert “Bob” Rossana died back in February of this year. I was inadvertently left off of the university announcement email and did not hear about it until ...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 years ago
The Ex-Muslim

Turkey: 28.5% of Generation Z have abandoned Islam - A recent study conducted by Gezici Research Center recorded a massive shift in social and religious attitudes in Turkey among cohorts of Generation Z. In t...
3 years ago
Douglas L. Campbell

John Cochrane on Stephanie Kelton's New Book: ‘The Deficit Myth’ Review: Years of Magical Thinking - John Cochrane has a review of Stephanie Kelton's new book, "The Deficit Myth". Here it is, for those who don't have access, with a few comments from me, o...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Opinion - The Philosophers' Magazine

Philosophy, In a Sense - Constantine Sandis on Doing Nothing in the Time of Covid-19
3 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, ...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 years ago
deflationite.com

Where are the voices of those most at risk of Covid19? - We are in the midst of the most important economic and health crisis for a century on a global scale. Are we tackling the crisis in the correct manner? ...
3 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...
3 years ago
Ancestry matters

We need our fear and anger to tackle COVID-19 - The most important thing that the response to COVID-19 has lacked in the West, compared to East Asia, is fear. President Xi and his subordinates are afrai...
3 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...
3 years ago
Random Critical Analysis

A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.
3 years ago
Random Critical Analysis

A response to my least charitable critics on health care - Yes, health care is growing non-linearly, and US spending is still well explained by income.
3 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...
3 years ago
Jacob ex Machina

Network Behavior and Christian Ethics - In designing software for computer networks, the Robustness Principle states "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept" The firs...
3 years ago
The Great Realignment

In spite of Brexit… - Now that the British exit from the European Union is a legal reality, the economic situation in the UK has been surprisingly sedate. This will be a surpris...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 years ago
Urban kchoze

The utility of directly regulating Floor Area Ratio - In my last post on the obesity of midrise apartments, I mentioned that one possible solution to what I perceive as a problem is to restrict FAR (Floor-Area...
3 years ago
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle

The Estate of Jerry Pournelle Announces New Website and Facebook Group - To save Chaos Manor and provide ongoing care for Jerry Pournelle’s widow, the Estate of Dr. Jerry Pournelle has launched a new website at http://www.jerryp...
3 years ago
Money, Markets, and Misperceptions

Using Python to Gather Data from FRED for the Solow Model - This script gathers and generates data for Solow. The second two functions plot the data using matplotlib and save the visualizations in a PDF. import pan...
3 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...
3 years ago
Rootless Cosmopolitan – By Tony Karon

The Braais that Bind - A brief meditation on the meanings of South African cuisine for Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. Excerpt: South Africa’s identity is complicated, contest...
3 years ago
Claritas

The Twelve Days of Christmas: An Analysis - There was a funny piece on the radio about the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," imagining the woman's response to all those gifts. She starts out thril...
3 years ago
On the Margin of Error

My Pronoun is U: My Life as a Non-Binary Iranian - An article about how my Iranian and non-binary identities have interacted in predictable and surprising ways.
3 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...
3 years ago
China Matters

The Cold War Roots of the African Swine Flu Plague - *[This is the script of a segment on African Swine Flu that I did for Newsbud China Watch in July 2018. Things have gotten worse since then, with the vi...
4 years ago
Den of Inquiry

White views on spanking, 1980's-2010's - 1980's (above) 1990's: 2000's: 2010's: Variables: SPANKING, Years (1986-2018), Race(1)
4 years ago
Tino Sanandaji

Den ofördelaktiga utvecklingen av dödligt våld i Sverige - Förra veckan frågade SVT statsministern om ökningen av dödligt våld: ”Du har varit statsminister sedan 2014. Sedan dess har det accelererat. Vilket ansva...
4 years ago
Secular Right

Sex, Schisms and Pseudo-Scholarship - We are seeing open warfare between various feminist and other progressive factions on social media and in the universities. A key divide is between so-call...
4 years ago
NGDP Advisers

Giving Credit Where It’s Due - The US economy is probably going into recession. Manufacturing production is down from the late-2018 highs, retail spending growth, wages and payroll gai...
4 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...
4 years ago
ny mens action network

Moved to http://nymensactionnetwork.org - This site is no longer moderated. Newer posts are at nymensactionnetwork.org and these posts have been moved there also. http://nymensactionnetwork.org Ad...
4 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...
4 years ago
Will Wilkinson

Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash - I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live cha...
4 years ago
View on IQ

A Corrigendum to V1.3.2 and a Comment to V1.3.3 - Preface The publication of the book written by Richard Lynn and me (Lynn & Becker, 2019) and of V1.3.2 of the NIQ-dataset got a lot of attention and feedba...
4 years ago
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

Last Posting - To everyone that reads this blog, I want to thank you for following Gavin Kennedy 's expert insights into Adam Smith from this site. Unfortunately, Gavin ...
4 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...
4 years ago
Yue Chim Richard Wong 王于漸

The Cold War and the Ascendance of America’s Research University - (This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 29 May 2019.) ……… These three young universities, all founded in the second half of 19th century...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
The Pleistocene Scene – A.P. Van Arsdale Blog

Running for Science: Science for Running – The Complete Series - The 12-episode series is now a wrap! Thank you to everyone who helped in the process, both as a contributor and as a listener. This post is intended to bri...
4 years ago
Modeled Behavior

Data Driven Parenting - A leading economist helps you dig through the empirical evidence on parenting, and the result is essential reading.
4 years ago
Stories by Mark Koyama on Medium

Catholic Emancipation as a Constitutional Revolution - Antonia Frazer’s new book *The King and the Catholics* brings to light a neglected topic in British history, the removal of legal restrictions on Catholi...
4 years ago
Spontaneous Finance

Some news + MMT and endogenous money - I know I haven’t posted in a long while, but I thought I’d give some news. And no it’s not an April fools’! Work and personal matters have taken much of my...
4 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...
4 years ago
Free Northerner

Why Are Children So Expensive? - I wrote this a few months back, but never got around to posting it. Scott’s post on wage stagnation reminded me to post it, because I discuss some of the s...
4 years ago
The Dark Herald

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

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
4 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 ...
4 years ago
markdurie.com blog

Linguistics and Theology Scholar Challenges Qur'an Origin Story - This blog post has been moved. Click HERE to read it. * Subscribe to markdurie.com blog by email. This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Global Guerrillas

The Long Night is Coming - Written by an anonymous friend who also ...
4 years ago
Irtiqa

Moghul Emperor Jahangir's Interest in Science - *by Salman Hameed* Growing up in Pakistan, I did hear a lot about the Moghul Emperors, but rarely about science. In fact, if science was brought up, it wa...
4 years ago
Publishing Archaeology

When big data are bad data - As archaeologists turn increasingly to the analysis of large, systematic databases, we need to confront an epistemological problem: How do we identify bad...
4 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...
4 years ago
The Audacious Epigone

Archived - This blog is now in archival status.
4 years ago
Fantastic Worlds

Review - "Some Zombie Contingency Plans," by Kelly Link (2005) - *Introduction: *There is a sort of story which pretends to be about one thing but is actually about something else entirely. This can be done well -- in ...
4 years ago
Nice Mangos

IDW Halloween Cards - Happy Halloween Folks! (I'll add the rest below the blogpost) I thought I’d have some fun with IDW/Classical Liberal Halloween cards. There's so many more...
4 years ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/
4 years ago
The March of the Virgin

Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle - Gloria Steinem once famously said that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Point taken, but let’s play with it a bit. Let’s ask whether a woma...
4 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...
5 years ago
The World is Not Enough

We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free!
5 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 ...
5 years ago
A Taste for Desert Landscapes

Blog moving to new address - A taste for desert landscapes has moved here.
5 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...
5 years ago
The Ripple Effect

A guide to using behavioural insights in local government - I wrote this for Sunderland City Council, following some work using behavioural insights in a range of projects. Although written for an internal audience,...
5 years ago
southseaconversations 讨论南海

Caixin’s investigation of CEFC and Chairman Ye Jianming - On March 1, Caixin broke the news that Chairman Ye Jianming of the China CEFC Energy Co. has been detained by PRC authorities, and is under investigation f...
5 years ago
Unenumerated

The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...
5 years ago
Unenumerated

The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i) - The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out “educational material” on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). Th...
5 years ago
Big P Political Economy

Top 100 in Global Economic Weight - According to the IMF China is the largest economy in the world and has been since 2014. This is on a PPP basis (see here for discussion) and all data is re...
5 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 ...
5 years ago
Anonymous Mugwump

Assorted Thoughts #1: Applying Averages - This series contains some of the key books, studies, papers and events that I’ve read over the last year. I’ve decided to try to write one of these posts f...
5 years ago
The Travel Diaries of Mr Wallace

CHAPTER 60. Pacific Islands - The last chapter of Mr Wallace's travel diary.
5 years ago
Grand Blog Tarkin

The Last Jedi AAR - The Star Wars movies have never been particularly concerned with accuracy when it comes to military tactics and strategy. From the start, the movies are de...
5 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) ...
5 years ago
Devin Helton - Essays and Articles

Introducing Left-Versus-Right Book and Article Pairings - While I have spent my life living in a more liberal milieu, through personal experience and independent study I have found many truths on the right side ...
5 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...
5 years ago
Keith Burgess-Jackson

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) - Autie was born on this date 178 years ago.
5 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...
5 years ago
Pseudoerasmus

Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence - There used to be more research and debate on the negative effects of labour resistance on economic development, but that topic has been crowded out by the ...
5 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 ...
6 years ago
iramramzan | Just another WordPress.com site…but better

Book review: Western Fringes - When I read the blurb of Western Fringes – a Muslim man trying to find a Sikh woman who has run away from home to escape an arranged marriage – I admit tha...
6 years ago
The Offshore Balancer

Dunkirk: A Deliverance Worth Cheering - My review of the film Dunkirk and case for celebrating the evacuation: https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/dunkirk-a-deliverance-worth-cheering/
6 years ago
The Rambling Infidel

For Democratic Internationalism - Recently while surfing the Twittersphere I came across an incredibly moronic tweet by the everlasting twit that is Mark Ames, who likes to make alot of no...
6 years ago
Stories by Orestis Tsinalis on Medium

Plato’s hijacking of Socratic aporia and media-friendly radicalism - In Plato’s early dialogues Socrates leads his interlocutors to *aporia*, a state in which they are unconvinced by their own beliefs and arguments, and do...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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 ...
6 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:...
6 years ago
Modern Medieval

Heroic Age Issue 17 - On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!! That will be further explained below. We are ve...
6 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...
6 years ago
Being Classically Liberal

Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.
6 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...
6 years ago
Psychological comments

Goodbye - [image: Snapshot corrected moving to unz] It’s goodbye to drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk After 4 years of blogging, and 1,062,720 page views, here i...
6 years ago
Box Turtle Bulletin

The Things You Learn from the Internet - The Spiritual Science Research Foundation (“Bridging the known and unknown worlds”) has discovered the cause of homosexuality for 85% of all gay people: 4....
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
7 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…
7 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...
7 years ago
Richard Carrier Blogs

My Blog Has Moved Again! - My new blog location is www.richardcarrier.info. I will maintain this old blog as a historical archive as I did before. But every other post I've blogged s...
7 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...
7 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?
7 years ago
Seventh Voice

‘Gen Why?’ – Perception Deception - “Most days are full of meaningless uninvited interactions with the same kind of simple minded individuals, that indeed would have definitely complained abo...
7 years ago
Maryam Namazie

My blog moving to my website - I just wanted to give a heads up to readers that I have moved my blog to my website, which now houses all my work, videos, press coverage, photos and more....
7 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...
7 years ago
Capitalism's Cradle

The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...
7 years ago
His Story is Bunk

Along came Phil - Gramm, former Senator from the state of Texas to set a few facts straight in the Wall Street Journal about the cause of the financial crisis. I.e., it was...
7 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, ...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 years ago
The Black Steam Train

Changing Stations - At the beginning of October, I packed up my family and we made the move ‘home’. The house is fairly new, but the place is old. It has a lot of history...
7 years ago
hbd chick

do france and belgium have a berber problem? - i don’t know the answer to that question — i only ask because it turns out that several of the paris terrrorists (from the recent attacks) are of berber ex...
7 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....
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 years ago
Facts & other stubborn things

A few more thoughts on monopsony and the minimum wage (and what I think is a much stronger post from Don) - In the last post I noted that monopsony is definitely not the only and not even really the best theoretical argument for why we see no disemployment effect...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 years ago
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

It Is Accomplished - As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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,...
8 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...
9 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 ...
9 years ago
The Becker-Posner Blog

Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 years ago
Modeled Behavior

Modeled Behavior’s RSS Feed - Hopefully within the next day or two we will be able to get Modeled Behavior.com to redirect to our Forbes Blog. Yet, it looks as if there is no way to ge...
11 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...
11 years ago
Maryam Namazie

One Law for All campaign in Turkish media - Here's an article quoting an interview with me on Sharia law and One Law for All published in Turkish media.
11 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...
12 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...
12 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 ...
13 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...
13 years ago
Tim van Gelder

What is hypothesis mapping? - A quick, 15-point overview of hypothesis mapping.
14 years ago
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