Thinking Out Aloud: August 2013

Blog List

Marginal Revolution

What do economists believe about infrastructure? - Support for massive investments in transportation infrastructure, possibly with a change in the share of spending on transit, seems widespread. Such prop...
33 minutes ago
Point of no return

Let's not forget the Righteous Muslims in the Farhud - *This Farhud story from Avner Ishak Shaib, as told to his daughter Oshra, appeared in this 2014 article in +972 magazine by Orit Bashkin. An academic at ...
40 minutes ago
Advice Goddess Blog

The Campus War Against Men That They Pretend Is Justice - The Campus War Against Men That They Pretend Is Justice At the College Fix, Jeremiah Poff reports on a panel about how Title IX cases on college campuses h...
1 hour ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

The Nucletouch Periodic Table - A new periodic table is designed to highlight the numbers of protons in a nucleus that make an atom most stable from a nuclear perspective, as opposed to t...
1 hour ago
Mostly Economics

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a crisis in the UK universities (UK univs resemble leveraged and overexposed banks!) - Prof Peter Dolton of Sussex University says UK universities have relied increasingly on Chinese students. This model has broken down now. In a way the UK u...
1 hour ago
Mercatornet

Vaccines trials give hope but should be handled with caution - The development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a beacon of hope as the world emerges from the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic. Scientists believe that an e...
1 hour ago
OrientalReview.org

Geopolitics Visibly Heading Toward Confrontation - The recent developments in geopolitics are a clear indication of conflicts. The US was a unique superpower for a couple of decades and unwilling to share o...
1 hour ago
macrobusiness.com.au

CBA: Q1 GDP to fall 0.3% - CBA’s head of Australian economics, Gareth Aird, forecasts that tomorrow’s March quarter GDP will fall by 0.3%: Key Points: We expect Q1 real GDP to cont...
1 hour ago
Raedwald

Public order and disorder - Forget the silly copycat virtue signalling on the streets of London - I think this was merely our exuberant minority having a post-lockdown knees-up - but ...
2 hours ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Biological and Cultural Evolutionary Analysis - The post The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Biological and Cultural Evolutionary Analysis appeared first on Heterodox Academy.
2 hours ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

Truth Is What We Hide, Cover Stories Are What We Sell - *The fact that self-serving cover stories are now the norm is making it difficult to love our servitude with the slavish devotion demanded of us.* *The need...
2 hours ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

The Mountains - I am haunted by mountains, ancient and immutable, unconquerable and mysterious fortresses to the past. Sinews and muscles attached to bone, enveloped by a ...
2 hours ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Coronavirus, China, and the Middle East - The Middle East was already plagued by war, famine, and wholesale death in the form of multiple civil wars when the outbreak of Covid-19, a novel coronavir...
3 hours ago
EconLog

What I’m Doing - 1. The U.S. political system is deeply dysfunctional, especially during this crisis. Power-hunger reigns in the name of Social Desirability Bias. Fear ...
3 hours ago
Vlad Tepes

Reader’s Links for June 2, 2020 - 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 ...
3 hours ago
The Unz Review:

Assaulted and Vilified, the Cops Save the Cities, by Pat Buchanan - On the fifth night of rioting, looting and arson in Minneapolis, the criminal elements were driven from the streets. By whom? By the same cops who had been...
3 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Der Bismarck: Doomed to Fail? – WW2 Biography special -
3 hours ago
Slate Star Codex

Book Review: Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind - I. Julian Jaynes’ The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind is a brilliant book, with only two minor flaws. First, that it purport...
3 hours ago
Sultan Knish

Another Night in Lootopia - Race riots usually begin with criminality and end with criminality. They're protests by criminals on behalf of a dead criminal. The stores with smashed win...
3 hours ago
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog

The Darkest Late May Day in Twenty Years - Saturday, for many reasons, was an extremely dark day here in Seattle. The view at 1 PM Saturday, near solar noon, was ominous and forbidding. Meteorologi...
3 hours ago
Maverick Philosopher

Anarcho-Tyranny: Where Multiculturalism Leads - Samuel Francis: Unwilling to control immigration and the cultural disintegration it causes, the authorities instead control the law-abiding. This is precis...
4 hours ago
JoNova

Tuesday Open Thread - … Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/*10* (0 votes cast)
4 hours ago
Notes On Liberty

Nightcap - Are the liberal internationalists wrong? Peter Henne, Duck of Minerva Order and the wealth of nations Arnold Kling, Econlib How libertarians plan to profit...
4 hours ago
LessWrong

C̶a̶m̶b̶r̶i̶d̶g̶e̶ Virtual LW/SSC Meetup - Published on June 2, 2020 3:17 AM GMT The May Cambridge, MA Less Wrong / Slate Star Codex meetup will be online due to plauge. Hangouts Link Discuss
4 hours ago
Brown Pundits

Browncast Episode 104: The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia - Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, Spotify, and Stitcher (and a variety of other platforms). Probably the easiest way to keep up t...
4 hours ago
Philosoraptor

Trump Walks To St. John's - I'm not wild about the strange, ostentatious holding up of the Bible...and, sure, this is kind of a stunt. But a good one. A little physical bravery in a l...
4 hours ago
The World is Not Enough

The continuing debate over realignment - A new book about political realignment raises important questions.
4 hours ago
Cold Fury

What are we gonna do now? - Kenny outed my hijacking of a Clash song for a post title the other day, whereupon subsequent events brought one of their earlier tunes to mind for some st...
4 hours ago
PsyPost

Study suggests ‘book therapy’ could help improve men’s performance in bed - A new study provides evidence that reading a book chapter about female sexuality can improve young heterosexual men’s sexual functioning. The findings have...
5 hours ago
Althouse

At the Sunrise Café... - [image: IMG_5811] ... you can talk 'til dawn. [image: IMG_5821] And because those are 2 views of a Type #6 sunrise, you may find you'd like to use the Al...
5 hours ago
Vox - All

Trump used a damaged DC church for a photo op. The bishop is furious. - President Donald Trump holds a Bible while visiting St. John’s Church across from the White House after the area was cleared of people protesting the deat...
6 hours ago
A Voice for Men

Man imprisoned for 28 YEARS after woman dreamed that he raped her -
6 hours ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

More insurrection points: - 1- Where do all the fireworks come from in ALL these riots? They are now generally restricted for sale in the US. 2- As you can see today, the instruction ...
6 hours ago
The Federalist

Trump Pays Homage To Church Burned In Riots With Bible In Hand - Donald Trump walked across Pennsylvania Avenue as the District of Columbia's 7 p.m. curfew went into effect following brief remarks from the Rose Garden.
6 hours ago
Butterflies and Wheels

Coup in progress - The Guardian Live reports: Trump is predictably painting a picture of violent protests, focusing on “professional anarchists” and “Antifa”. He says “we...
6 hours ago
Pandaemonium

LAUNDERING STATE ACTION, POLITICISING FACT CHECKING - This essay, on the relationship between the public, technology companies and the state, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 31 May 2020,...
6 hours ago
Scott Adams Blog

Episode 1013 Scott Adams: Chinese Fentanyl Was in George Floyd. Explains Everything. - My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Find my “extra” content on Locals: https://ScottAdams.Locals.com Content: Geo...
7 hours ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Trump declares crackdown on riots and looting, walks to fire-damaged historic St. John’s Church - Promises to use “all available federal resources” if Governors fail to call out the National Guard.
7 hours ago
Sharyl Attkisson

Patrick Underwood: Another tragic, unjust death - As many in the nation mourn the death of suspect George Floyd after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes, the violent a...
7 hours ago
Bracing Views

Last Night, Donald Trump Disqualified Himself - Originally posted on Bracing Views: Hail the Leader (Trump at FreedomFest, July 11, 2015 (AP Photo/John Locher) W.J. Astore As a retired military officer, ...
7 hours ago
Peter Turchin

2020 - America is burning. Dozens of cities across the United States remain under curfews at a level not seen since riots following the 1968 assassination of Ma...
8 hours ago
The Burning Platform

Riots Are Coming To A City Near You: Here’s What You Need To Do Right Now - Authored by Karen Morris via The Organic Prepper blog, Some of you may know my story. For those of you who don’t, to put it succinctly, a great part of our...
8 hours ago
Lawfare

Riots, White Supremacy and Accelerationism - The Unite The Right Rally, Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 2017 (Source: Susan Melkisethian, https://flic.kr/p/XrTioB; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommon...
8 hours ago
Fredrik deBoer

Haidt’s belief in belief - Jonathan Haidt: “I think of myself as an atheist, just meaning I don’t believe that there is a God, but it’s not a part of my identity that I think that,” ...
8 hours ago
Chicago Boyz

Deja- Poo - Why, yes, as a matter of fact – I have seen this sh*t before; several times, as a matter of fact. The first go round of racial/political rioting, looting, ...
8 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Pagan Community Notes: Statements from Pagan organizations, Witches protesting, Antifa statement, and more! - [image: Pagan Community Notes: Statements from Pagan organizations, Witches protesting, Antifa statement, and more!] In this week's Pagan Community Notes: ...
9 hours ago
neo-neocon

The American press: Antifa, the right, Palestine and the Jews - I was thinking about this sort of analogy earlier today, and now I see that Ace has written a post about it, so I’ll just link to and quote him: “Antifa, ‘...
9 hours ago
The New Neo

The American press: Antifa, the right, Palestine and the Jews - I was thinking about this sort of analogy earlier today, and now I see that Ace has written a post about it, so I’ll just link to and quote him: “Antifa, ‘...
9 hours ago
untethered

New Normal: Commuting - *"Looking to carpool, Portland downtown, nightshift. Smokers okay."* This was taken around 130AM. Small groups of protesters lingered harassing cops who ...
9 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

MARVEL STANDS FOR TERRORISM: Uncanny X-Men Artist Posts Solidarity With ANTIFA - ------------------------------ Support Jon Patreon Newsletter Independent journalism isn’t easy and I can use all of the help I can get. Please conside...
9 hours ago
CDR Salamander

In the End, it Always Comes Down to Leadership - Given we’ve touched on similar issues a bit over the years, I would not be a good blog host if we did not offer at least one opportunity to discuss the pr...
9 hours ago
Medievalists.net

Project to datamine medieval medical texts wins fellowship - Dr Erin Connelly of the University of Warwick has been awarded a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship for her research on the use of medieval medical texts for mo...
10 hours ago
The Mermaid's Tale

It is unethical to teach evolution without confronting racism and sexism (updated, additional resources) - It's been 1.5 years since I posted this: https://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2018/11/it-is-unethical-to-teach-evolution-no.html There were so many ugly comment...
10 hours ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

Independent autopsy: George Floyd died of asphyxiation - Well, this isn’t a surprise. What was a surprise was the exculpation of the cops by the state’s medical examiner, especially in view of that video showing ...
10 hours ago
War Is Boring - Medium

As the country burns, Americans are embracing their inner “Roof Koreans” - With the civil unrest of 2020 sending plumes of black and acrid smoke billowing into the skies over several American cities, many Americans are finding the...
11 hours ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

Pakistan: Women Action Forum Condemns Assault on Uzma Khan and Denounces Zina Laws and Moral Policing - WAF has been dealing with the horrific expanse of sex crime cases for nearly 40 years and while some high-profile ones draw outrage and moralistic preach...
11 hours ago
Whatever

Five Things: June 1, 2020 - For the month of June I thought I would try something sort of new, sort of not: A brief daily write-up of five things I’m thinking about in one way or anot...
11 hours ago
Longrider

Time to Share the Link - Spiked online reminds us that YouTube is doing what the tech giants like to do – stifling voices that they find inconvenient. YouTube has become a censorsh...
11 hours ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

Hypocrisy of the left - “Labour MPs and woke leftists are kicking up a storm about the tactics being used by American police right now. But the exact same tactics were used by F...
11 hours ago
PrawfsBlawg

"We have a different Court" - In an apparently unhinged Monday phone call with governors, the President urged states to enact new laws prohibiting flag burning. According to sources, th...
11 hours ago
Caracas Chronicles

Why Is There a Cooking Gas Shortage in Venezuela? - 89% of Venezuelan homes use propane gas to turn on their stoves, but finding canisters gets harder every day. Why does this happen and how do we solve it...
11 hours ago
The Evolution Institute

Pragmatism and the Third Way with Trygve Throntveit - Listen: Spotify – Google – Apple – Stitcher In the late 19th century, a tiny group of intellectuals who called themselves Pragmatists were to have an outsi...
11 hours ago
PinkNews

Everyone needs to hear what Human Rights Campaign president Alphonso David has to say about Pride Month and racism - Human Rights Campaign president Alphonso David has said that the LGBT+ community needs to put anti-racism at the heart of its agenda, in a powerful speec...
11 hours ago
Peter Zeihan

A Faint Flicker of Hope in Europe - The past few several weeks have been busy for the Europeans, easily generating more events of consequence than at any time since at least the 2007 financ...
12 hours ago
Shtetl-Optimized

The US might die, but P and PSPACE are forever - Today, I interrupt the news of the rapid disintegration of the United States of America, on every possible front at once (medical, economic, social…), to b...
12 hours ago
Shtetl-Optimized

The US might die, but P and PSPACE are forever - Today, I interrupt the news of the rapid disintegration of the United States of America, on every possible front at once (medical, economic, social…), to b...
12 hours ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts - The post Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts appeared first on Pro Market.
12 hours ago
International Liberty

If We Want Better Policing, Eliminate Qualified Immunity - Yesterday’s column focused on how police unions protect the bad apples who misbehave and therefore cause some people to resent law enforcement, especially ...
12 hours ago
Discover Blogs

Snapshot of a Super Sucker - Scientists are using biological suction cups as inspiration for new bioengineered tech.
13 hours ago
Vox Popoli

ATTN UATV subscribers - The new site is now at UNAUTHORIZED.TV. To subscribe, or to manage or change a subscription, go to SUBSCRIBE.UNAUTHORIZED.TV and hit the blue SUBSCRIBE but...
13 hours ago
Mark Manson

How to Make Sense of the Chaos and Uncertainty - It might seem impossible to make sense of a nation-wide racial revolt being dropped into the middle of a pandemic in a country that's already seething w...
13 hours 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...
13 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Statistical Workflow and the Fractal Nature of Scientific Revolutions (my talk this Wed at the Santa Fe Institute) - Wed 3 June 2020 at 12:15pm U.S. Mountain time: Statistical Workflow and the Fractal Nature of Scientific Revolutions How would an A.I. do statistics? Fitti...
13 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Statistical Workflow and the Fractal Nature of Scientific Revolutions (my talk this Wed at the Santa Fe Institute) - Wed 3 June 2020 at 12:15pm U.S. Mountain time: Statistical Workflow and the Fractal Nature of Scientific Revolutions How would an A.I. do statistics? Fitti...
13 hours ago
TheMoneyIllusion

Will the UK go first? - David Beckworth directed me to this piece: Officials in the UK Treasury are “probably” considering whether to change the Bank of England’s inflation-target...
14 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

If you haven't got a gun, GET ONE. NOW. - Over the past few weeks and months, I've harped on personal security and self-defense issues, particularly in the light of the coronavirus pandemic and th...
14 hours ago
Alexander Boot

Modernity is revolting - One can’t read today’s newspapers without first having to wade through spread after spread of riot stories complete with lurid pictures, eyewitness account...
14 hours ago
waka waka waka

Repost: Death Of A Nation - I’m browsing my old posts, to see how much of our current state of affairs was visible in prospect years ago. Here’s a long excerpt from something I publis...
14 hours ago
According To Hoyt

I Can See Clearly Now - So who has markers on UFO landing for 2020? Rain of frogs? Plague of Locusts? Oh, wait, I’m confused, aren’t I? Even though I’ve picked up a friend’s res...
15 hours ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

Security In Iraq, May 22-28, 2020 - In April 2020 the Islamic State started its annual spring-summer offensive. Attacks went up to the highest amount since the same time in 2018. The fourth ...
15 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

Minnesota City Council Member Declares Support For Antifa - While many have condemned Antifa and similar groups for destroying Minneapolis and other cities, Minneapolis city council member for Ward…
16 hours ago
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

Racial disparity does NOT help make sense of patterns of police violence - Unfortunately, this essay by Adolph Reed is timely again. "Black Lives Matter," as I've noted before, identified a real phenomenon--police violence--and th...
16 hours ago
I Want a New Left

Minnesota’s Cold Weather Fails to Keep Out the Riff-Raff - I was frequently told when I still lived in Minnesota that I shouldn’t complain about the cold because it kept out the riff-raff. See here for my earlier p...
16 hours ago
Blazing Cat Fur

Shocka! Mass gatherings, erosion of trust upend coronavirus control - NEW YORK (AP) — Protests erupting across the nation over the past week — and law enforcement’s response to them — are threatening to upend efforts by healt...
16 hours ago
Old European culture

Oldest Arabic poem - I love that in this ancient poem, Mot, a personification of Death from the Ancient Canaanite religion, the enemy of Baal, the Thunder, Rain God, is explici...
17 hours ago
askblog

The agony of the conservative intellectual, 2016 - I review a Never Trump, by Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles. The book does well in capturing conservative intellectuals’ thought process in 2016. Befor...
17 hours ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Sabotaging the Competition: A Home Construction Example - Why are monopolies bad? In a standard intro-econ textbook, the problem of monopolies is that because of the lack of competition, they can reduce output fro...
17 hours ago
Mick Hartley

A Rabbi in Saudi Arabia - Further signs of the changing tectonic plates in the Middle East. In Tablet, Rabbi David Rosen from Jerusalem describes his visit to Riyadh - the first rab...
17 hours ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Chris Williamson podcast: Socialism and Pomo for Dummies - England’s Chris Williamson hosted me on his podcast series. We had fun. #171 – Stephen Hicks – Socialism & Postmodernism
17 hours ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

Fact-checking the president: A study in post-truth - “What is truth?” Pontius Pilate asked, and famously did not hang around for an answer. Lately I have been asking, Pilate-like, about “post-truth” – and th...
17 hours ago
The Z Blog

Anger Management - Watching the events of the last few days, it is impossible for a sensible white person to not get angry. Blacks and now Antifa are running wild in the stre...
18 hours ago
View From The Porch

A three-hour tour... - Being stuck on a cruise ship during the Time of the 'Rona would be bad, but being stuck on a teeny sailboat anchored in a deserted atoll must be surreal......
18 hours ago
Alt-M

Let Investors Decide, Part 1 - The SEC's "accredited investor" definition bars investors who earn less than $200,000 a year or have a net worth less than $1 million from taking part in...
19 hours ago
Mad Genius Club

What other answer could there be? - A fool can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. But if you take the question which seemingly has an obvious answer: and needs must you work out how...
19 hours ago
Isegoria

California trash-to-hydrogen plant promises dirt-cheap, super-green H2 - Lancaster, California will be home to a “greener than green” trash-to-hydrogen production plant three times the size of any other green H2 facility: SGH2 s...
19 hours ago
Simple Justice

Short Take: Not All Cops - Sheriff Christopher Swanson of Genesee County, Michigan, took off his riot helmet, put his baton on the ground, and walked with protesters. Elsewhere, cops...
19 hours ago
Working-Class Perspectives

Will Lawyers Stand Up to Defend Working-Class Consumers? - Three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 40 million Americans have lost their jobs. 4.2 million homeowners have placed their mortgages in forbear...
19 hours ago
Daily Nous

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - Here’s the weekly report on new and revised entries in online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books. SEP New: Scientific Research and ...
19 hours ago
Practical Ethics

Podcast and Event Summary: New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading, presented by Professor Arthur Schafer (Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of Manitoba) - Written by: Dr Amna Whiston In this seminar (available on podcast), Professor Arthur Schafer discussed the ethical challenges involved in the Canadian euth...
20 hours ago
Active Response Training

Stockpiling Ammunition - Written by: Greg Ellifritz With the recent COVID-19 pandemic and lots of civil unrest, I’m getting more and more people asking questions about stockpilin...
20 hours ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

Big Tech and the Regressive Project of the Neo-Brandeisians - Making antitrust great again in order to chasten Big Tech requires using theories that were abandoned for good reason.
21 hours ago
The Honest Courtesan

Diary #518 - Last week was such a busy one, I actually need a few days in Seattle to catch up on my writing. Most of my time was spent marking out locations for posts ...
21 hours ago
Thought Catalog

If They Wanted To Be In Your Life, They Would Be - It sounds harsh, I know. Yet the sooner you realize this, the better.
21 hours ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

Russian Newspaper Coverage of the US Time of Troubles - Seeing America tear itself apart again is a depressing sight; watching police wade into protesters along streets where I’ve walked my dog or eaten ice crea...
21 hours ago
Muddy Colors

Zirda, the Dawnwaker - Zirda, the Dawnwaker. She is a legendary fox from the world of Ikoria Lair of the Behemoth, the newest released set from Magic the Gathering. When asked t...
22 hours ago
Crisis Magazine

The Curious Case of Bishop Zhu Baoyu - On May 7, Bishop Joseph Zhu Baoyu of Nanyang died peacefully in his sleep. The 98-year-old prelate is known throughout the world as the oldest person to co...
22 hours ago
www.counterpunch.org

It’s a Class War Now Too - The people who became known as the looters were a fraction of those who stayed behind after the earlier protests dispersed. They are now deemed “thugs” a...
22 hours ago
The Arabist

Links April-May 2020 - Belated linkdump… * The American Virus | LRB Elliot Weinberger on Trump and Covid. * No Bark, No Bite | Jewish Currents Peter Beinart: "With each passing w...
22 hours ago
Jonathan Spyer

A New Alliance - Jerusalem Post, 29/5 Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia and Qatar form emergent power nexus in the Islamic World The name of fugitive Indian Salafi Islamist preach...
23 hours ago
Books & Boots

Poetry of the Thirties edited by Robin Skelton (1964) - Even before they were quite over, the Thirties took on the appearance of myth… It is rare for a decade to be so self-conscious… (Robin Skelton in his intro...
23 hours ago
Taki's Magazine

Oh, Cool, More Riots! - The peaceful protesters turned violent on Friday night here in the Atlanta area, sacking and burning downtown as well as the cushy-cushy Lenox Mall in the ...
23 hours ago
Raymond Ibrahim

“I Don’t Like Christians”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, April 2020 - Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of April, 2020: The Slaughter of Christians N...
23 hours ago
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day - “It is high time we stopped talking about the Chinese Government as if it were presiding over just “another way of doing things”. For all its economic pr...
23 hours ago
Political Calculations

S&P 500 Breaks Back Above 3,000 In Upside Down Market - The upside down stock market has continued powering upward, with the S&P 500 (Index: SPX) breaking back above the 3,000 level to close the month of May a...
1 day ago
Communalism Watch

Babri Mosque, Ram Janmbhumi Temple and Buddhist Relics - Babri Masjid, Ram Janmbhumi and Buddhist Relics Ram Puniyani Country is under lockdown. Most of the activities related to production and construction have ...
1 day ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

Note to Self: Books & Articles to Save... - **Note to Self**: Without access to the Berkeley library, I feel that my brain is 2/3 gone. And it is time-consuming to... take steps... >Daisy, Daisy, giv...
1 day ago
Coyote Blog

George Floyd, A Memo to Conservatives - A good many of my conservative friends are in shock at the reaction to the killing of George Floyd. "We saw the video. We agree its awful. No one we kn...
1 day ago
Rhys Ford

Damn it, Brain… get it together! - Sighs….. So I’m going to recalibrate. I started Saint. I wasn’t happy with it. I restarted Saint. I realized it’s getting way too soapboxy and I’m not in t...
1 day ago
Andrew Norton

Why did universities become reliant on international students? Part 1: Government funding cuts - A decline in international student numbers has triggered Australian higher education’s biggest-ever financial crisis. But why did universities became so fi...
1 day ago
The Scholar's Stage

On Days of Disorder - Let us say you are a man inclined towards a riot. Perhaps breaking stuff gives you joy. Maybe the chemical cocktail that courses through you as you go abou...
1 day ago
globalinequality

Why making economic predictions now is useless - In one of his poems, Constantine Cavafy distinguished, in the art of foretelling future events, three groups: men who are able to see what exists now, Go...
1 day ago
davidthompson

My Kingdom For A Haircut - Yes, it’s time to remind patrons that this rickety barge, on whose seating your arses rest, is kept afloat by the kindness of strangers. If you’d like to h...
1 day ago
Setting the Record Straight

Blaq Violence & Aidan’s Guide to Da Streetz - Blacks get extremely pissed when the cops arrest and kill them because they are used to getting away with crimes. They resist arrest because they are used ...
1 day ago
Against Jebel al-Lawz

Thank Xi Jinping - Five years ago, I wrote my “strange utopia”, doing a bit of forecasting into America’s grim future. The situation now has become much worse than I ever exp...
1 day ago
Policy of Truth

Suicidal Tendencies - For decades now, Americans convinced of their moral superiority to the rest of the world have sat around wondering what could possibly motivate someone to ...
1 day ago
Regie's Blog

DONE … - Okay, so I’m officially done with being told where I can go and how many people I can go with. I’m officially done being told I can go to Wal Mart but not ...
1 day ago
TheRalphRetort.com

Anonymous Arrives in Our New Alternative Timeline - We should have expected Anonymous. New Alternate Timeline If you’ve been feeling… The post Anonymous Arrives in Our New Alternative Timeline appeared fir...
1 day ago
bellingcat

US Law Enforcement Are Deliberately Targeting Journalists During George Floyd Protests - Bellingcat has identified and collected multiple instances of US law enforcement deliberately targeting journalists during the protests against the killi...
1 day 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 onc...
1 day ago
Stories by Tom X Hart on Medium

Jordan Peterson is wrong about meaning - He offers a meaningless world. Jordan Peterson claims that his work will provide people with a meaningful life, but he does not actually understand the nat...
1 day ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

S3 E8: Biblical Series – The Phenomenology of the Divine - As we continue the Jordan B. Peterson series of biblical lectures, we'd like to also mention that Mikhaila Peterson now has a podcast that can be found her...
1 day ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

If robots are coming for our jobs, someone forgot to tell the labour market data - It seems that every other week there is a new article written about how robots are coming to take all our jobs - the coronavirus pandemic is just the lates...
2 days ago
Roy Spencer, PhD.

Record Cold Upper Mesospheric Temperatures Suggest Another Good Noctilucent Cloud Viewing Season - Noctilucent clouds (NLCs) are often visible in the extreme upper atmosphere (80-85 km altitude) well after sunset in the late spring and summer at high nor...
2 days ago
The Reference Frame

"Stay at home" switched to "looting is justified" in a blink of an eye - AMS: The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer claims new surprises in PRL, see CERN. For some elements, the dependence on rigidity is universal above some rigidity ...
2 days ago
The Other Side of History

Or What? - The mainstream media's coverage of the large riots occurring in cities has been very superficial and "safely reported," meaning that reporters are behind...
2 days ago
Manhattan Contrarian

Virginia Is Deluding Itself About Green Energy - * A few days ago I had a post about how tightening “green” energy regulations in Europe are gradually strangling sectors like the automobile and chemical i...
2 days ago
Jim’s Blog

Praise the Holy StarProphet! - Americans back in space on an American rocket, launched by Musk, who was protected from Nasa by Trump. The reason he can successfully launch stuff from the...
2 days ago
Logarithmic History

The Great American Interchange - 3.10-2.95 million years ago For most of the last 100 million years, South America was an island continent, like Australia, with its own peculiar mix of spe...
2 days ago
Moneyness

How the Bank of Canada's balance sheet went from $118 billion to $440 billion in eight weeks - Ever since the coronavirus hit, the Bank of Canada's balance sheet has been exploding. In late February its assets measured just $118 billion. Eight weeks ...
2 days ago
A Myth in Creation

Medical Disorders: From Definition to Nature - There are different philosophical ways of conceptualizing "medical disorders". You could take an essentialistic approach, that medical disorders have nece...
2 days ago
Rationalist Judaism

Frum Racism - Growing up in England, I saw much more racism against Pakistanis and other groups than I saw against blacks. But I saw racism against blacks in my *frum *...
2 days ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

Footnote 3 - I located the questions on limiting executive salaries that I mentioned the other day: March 2009 (Fox News/Opinion Dynamics) Do you think the federal gove...
2 days ago
Fake Nous

How to Spot a Liar - Humans evolved for social interaction, right? And lies and manipulation are common in social life, right? So you’d think that humans would be pretty sophis...
2 days ago
Quillette

Fighting COVID-19: Australia’s (Largely Untold) Success Story - On Friday, May 15th, pubs around Sydney re-opened after being closed for two months, a development that caused one delighted Sydneysider to observe: “Cli...
2 days ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Peter Ridd versus Prestige, and Clown Fish Beyond that Mudflat - To be truly curious we must confess our ignorance. The person who knows everything would have no reason to question, no need to experiment. If they went ...
3 days ago
Club Troppo

Culture and language as public goods - Herewith a weekend half-hour read. Comments and corrections appreciated. A culture survives principally, I think, by the power of its institutions to bind ...
3 days ago
The Grumpy Economist

Podcast and Goodfellows - Here are links to this week's grumpy economist podcast, and Goodfellows discussion with Niall Ferguson and H.R. McMaster. Grumpy on the careful reopening ...
3 days ago
Edward Feser

Metaphysical taxidermy - I’ve often emphasized that the reason consciousness poses such a persistent problem for materialism has less to do with consciousness itself than it has t...
3 days ago
The Objective Standard

Contra Tim Bray and Co., Amazon Is a Paragon of Virtue - Jeff Bezos is a hero, and the company he’s built unquestionably is among the greatest and most life-enhancing in all of human history. Any claims to the ...
3 days ago
The Electric Agora

Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics: People - by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ I shouldn’t need to tell anyone that there are people. You’re a person, as am I. There likely are others in your house. Certainly,...
3 days ago
Rabble Rouser

Political Biases in Academia - A list of mostly peer-reviewed articles and academic books and chapters addressing the problem of political bias in academia.
3 days ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

America at War With Itself: A Conversation with PV@G Editors - The United States is more polarized than it has ever been. People are angry and vulnerable, worried about…
3 days ago
Overcoming Bias

The High Cost of Masks - In my debate las night with Tomas Pueyo, after I emphasized the high costs of lockdowns, he said lockdowns are over; now we’ll let people go out, as long a...
3 days ago
4 gravitons

Zoomplitudes Retrospective - During Zoomplitudes (my field’s big yearly conference, this year on Zoom) I didn’t have time to write a long blog post. I said a bit about the format, but ...
3 days ago
Climate Etc.

When does government intervention make sense for COVID-19? - By Nic Lewis Introduction I showed in my last article that inhomogeneity within a population in the susceptibility and infectivity of individuals would red...
3 days ago
Bernard Gaynor

What’s missing? - What important date doesn't the Navy think is important? The post What’s missing? appeared first on Bernard Gaynor.
4 days ago
Armed and Dangerous

Looking for C-to-anything transpilers - I’m looking for languages that have three properties: (1) Must have weak memory safety. The language is permitted to crash on an out -of-bounds array refer...
4 days ago
The Syrian Intifada

Islamic State Spokesman Addresses Coronavirus, Expansion in Africa, and Qatar - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2020 After trailing the release yesterday, an audio statement from the Islamic State (IS) spokesman, Abu Hamza al-Qur...
4 days ago
Facing Islam Blog

VIDEO: David Wood on Global Persecution of Christians (Banned by YouTube as Hate Speech) - *David Wood of Acts17 Apologetics had posted a video discussing the facts and statistics of Open Doors' 2020 World Watch List, their annual report on the p...
4 days ago
Minding The Campus

Who Succeeds, and Why? - This is the third of a three-part review of Charles Murray’s latest book, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race and Class. Self-identified progres...
4 days ago
Eurogenes Blog

An early Mitanni? - I've updated my Global25 datasheets with most of the ancients from the new Skourtanioti et al. paper. Here's a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) based on ...
4 days ago
Sam Altman

Idea Generation - The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for ...
4 days ago
Coordination Problem

Ostroms: The Movie - |Peter Boettke| Actual World, Possible Future will air tonight.
4 days ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

Does the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 by Natural Selection Depend on Intelligent Design? - A Colorized Electron Microscopic Image of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus (in Red) Attacking a Human Cell (in Green) Was the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the CO...
4 days ago
Andrew Holt, Ph.D.

Buddhist Holy Warriors in Modern Tibet - While working on a book (Sacred Violence: Holy War in World History) for Hackett Publishing that considers holy war in a broader world history context (co-...
4 days ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

I Was Going to Blog about a Rebuttal - …to my assessment of the problem with anime fandom, but Bradford C. Walker, author of Star Knight Saga, does a far better job of assessing them than I ever...
4 days ago
Information Processing

Michael Kauffman: Cancer, Drug Development, and Market Capitalism (Manifold Podcast #48) - Note: the part of the conversation I found most interesting -- venture and capital markets aspects of drug discovery, complexity and scale of biotech ecosy...
4 days ago
Information Processing

Michael Kauffman: Cancer, Drug Development, and Market Capitalism (Manifold Podcast #48) - Note: the part of the conversation I found most interesting -- venture and capital markets aspects of drug discovery, complexity and scale of biotech ecosy...
4 days ago
Martin van Creveld

What is Life? - The question how dead matter could have given rise to conscious, sentient living beings such as ourselves has been preoccupying people for millennia past...
4 days ago
Gun Culture 2.0

How Many Individuals and Households in the United States Own Guns? - Although I’ve addressed U.S. gun ownership levels previously, I realize that I have done so by looking at percentages of individuals and households rather ...
4 days ago
PressThink

You cannot keep from getting swept up in Trump’s agenda without a firm grasp on your own - The 2020 campaign is here. Those who are covering it had better figure out what they are *for*, or they will end up as his enablers— as they were in 2016...
5 days ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

TW200 Mods, Cargo Carrying In Style - Many posts on my blog are about how I’ve screwed up. Which, if you think about it, is where a lot of the fun in life happens for everyone. I’m just sayin’....
5 days ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

What Would Ben-Gurion Do? - My colleague Nave Dromi disagrees with my negative view of Israel's annexing some parts of the West Bank. My six-part argument, as spelled out here, boils ...
5 days ago
Leah Schnelbach – Tor.com

Read N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season Along With Us! - [image: Author NK Jemisin and the book cover for The Fifth Season] The Socially Distant Tor.com Read-Along continues! We recently wrapped up Katherine Add...
5 days ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

Sucks to be Amy Cooper - The genuine hysterical fear of the woman in the video is obvious to me, but there are thousands of comments at the NY Times article, and just about every s...
5 days ago
The Splintered Mind

The Most Visible Academic Presses in Philosophy - Now that I've signed the contract for my fourth book (working title, *The Weirdness of the World,* with Princeton University Press), I've been thinking of ...
5 days ago
Lead and Gold

Department of bad predictions - Today marks the anniversary of the of the Battle of Tsushima (1905). In the Empire of Japan it was celebrated as Navy Day from 1906-1945. In 1942 the off...
5 days ago
educationrealist

Life During Lockdown - I am living my best life. I sleep in until 8:00. In the early days of the shutdown, my beloved Starbucks abandoned me. Only two little independent coffee s...
5 days ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

Mitch Daniels on reopening colleges in the fall - Mitch Daniels: this bug, so risky in one segment of the population, poses a near-zero risk to young people… If you’re running a nursing home, it means one ...
6 days ago
john hawks weblog

Looking for the vulture assist with Neolithic burials - The archaeological site of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is one of the most significant early Neolithic villages to have been excavated. It was occu...
6 days ago
ribbonfarm

Through a Glass Lightly - On May 18, 2020, architecture’s overlong twentieth century was brought to a symbolic close with the simultaneous (second) postponement of the Venice Bienna...
6 days ago
RyanHoliday.net

How Marcus Aurelius Conquered Stress (and the Rest of Us Can Too) - To say that Marcus Aurelius had a stressful life would be a preposterous understatement. He ran the largest empire in the world. He had a troublesome so...
6 days ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: The First Rule - [image: The First Rule] The First Rule by Robert Crais My rating: 5 of 5 stars View all my reviews
6 days ago
Harry's Place

Terrorism Financing: How Qatar Again Finds Itself Embroiled in Controversy - Since the recent release of Italian aid worker Silvia Romana from the grip of a group apparently linked to Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia, Al-Shabaab, Qat...
6 days ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

Extensions to the NGDP Gap - The monetary policy program at the Mercatus Center recently released a new measure called the NGDP gap. We created it as an alternative way to gauge the st...
6 days ago
The Angry Staff Officer

Leader, Know Thyself - Stay in the military long enough, and you’ll gain rank. Rank comes with privileges and responsibilities. But it also comes with something else: something m...
6 days ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Hoist by his own petard - There is genuine anger at the behaviour of Dominic Cummings not just among the usual suspects but among some Tory MPs such as Roger Gale and Douglas Ross. ...
6 days ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Hoist by his own petard - There is genuine anger at the behaviour of Dominic Cummings not just among the usual suspects but among some Tory MPs such as Roger Gale and Douglas Ross. ...
6 days ago
interfluidity

Pandemic diary 2020-05-25: Two big questions - My broad take on the pandemic has been and remains pretty grim. Early on, I thought that after decades of prioritizing efficiency over resilience in our su...
1 week ago
Marquette Warrior

Media Can’t Recognize Conservative Women -
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Fabius Maximus website

Make Memorial Day mean more than beer & barbecue - Here are ways to make this a special Memorial Day. Not just another empty holiday, but a day that makes a difference to America. The post Make Memorial D...
1 week ago
mathbabe

Students are in a game of chicken with colleges. - I’ve got a new Bloomberg column out today, about the game of chicken that colleges are playing with students and their parents: Covid-19 Will Make Colleges...
1 week ago
Uneasy Money

An Austrian Tragedy - It was hardly predictable that the New York Review of Books would take notice of Marginal Revolutionaries by Janek Wasserman, marking the susquicentenial o...
1 week ago
Institutional Economics

The US is central to this China trade quarrel - I have an op-ed in The Canberra Times on why Australia-China trade tensions are as much about our trade and industry policy as they are about our foreign...
1 week ago
West Hunter

AIDS follies - Was thinking about similarities and differences between the reaction to AIDS and to SARS-2. AIDS hit much more slowly, of course. It was way more dange...
1 week ago
A Fine Theorem

Alberto Alesina and Oliver Williamson: Taking Political and Economic Frictions Seriously - Very sad news this week for the economics community: both Oliver Williamson and Alberto Alesina have passed away. Williamson has been in poor health for so...
1 week ago
Talisman Gate, Again

This is the best time for America to quit Iraq - (7400 words; approximate reading time 57 mins) The Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against the Iranian regime has bifurcated into two co...
1 week ago
Uncouth Reflections

COVID and the Law - Fenster writes: In crises, events first everything else later, including post-mortems, recriminations and oopsies. This is true with the law as well. I don...
1 week ago
rethinking history

William the Marshall… the Greatest Of All Time (Athlete and Sportsman) - (This is a bit of tongue in cheek fun, but I wanted to sneer a the idea that the world’s best athlete ‘obviously’ has to have been around within living me...
1 week ago
Evonomics

Evidence for Tribalism in Economics - While economists like to pretend otherwise, humans are social animals. The post Evidence for Tribalism in Economics appeared first on Evonomics.
1 week ago
House of Eratosthenes

What I Remember About 2020 - A hundred years ago the Spanish Flu was a real problem. But this year, nobody was talking about it anywhere until the Chinese Virus made it relevant. And t...
1 week ago
Chris Blattman

IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action Coronavirus patient, comedian Noam Shuster, found herself at the center of an accidental so...
1 week ago
The Economics Detective

Climate, Disease, and the Fall of Rome with Kyle Harper - Historian Kyle Harper joins the show to discuss his book The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire. We discuss the fall of the Roman e...
1 week ago
Evo and Proud

This is where the virus is least deadly - Patterson Town Hall, (Wikicommons - Anthony22). Putnam County NY has the lowest IFR for COVID-19 in the United States. SARS-CoV-2 is more virulent in s...
1 week ago
How Material Are We? – MADE IN AMERICA

Asteroidal Change or Glacial Change? Peering Over the Covid-19 Horizon - May 22, 2020. As we await the nation finding an equilibrium between Covid-19 deaths and routine life, observers are biding their shelter time forecasting t...
1 week ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

The Fractal Nature of the AD&D Game - Peter Conrad writes in with a question about the AD&D: Hi Jeffro, I’m really enjoying these play reports, and have been planning to run “orthodox AD&D” as ...
1 week ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

The History of Philosophy in Global Context: Three Case Studies - This is a slightly modified version of a talk delivered to the Department of History and Civilisation, European University Institute, Florence, on May 21, ...
1 week ago
History for Atheists

Jesus Mythicism 6: Paul’s Davidic Jesus in Romans 1:3 - The opening of Paul’s letter to the Romans contains a statement that Jesus was a descendant of King David (Romans 1:3). Most Jesus Mythicists claim that ...
1 week ago
Ideas

Virtual Meetup - Back before the pandemic, we hosted meetups every month or two for people who read Slate Star Codex, the blog I spend a good deal of time on. People came o...
1 week ago
Streetwise Professor

Whoops! WTI Didn’t Do It Again, or, Lightning Strikes Once - The June 2020 WTI contract expired with a whimper rather than a bang yesterday, thereby not repeating the cluster of the May contract expiry. In contrast t...
1 week ago
Priceonomics Blog

How Many Healthcare Workers Have Gotten Coronavirus? - According to our estimate 10.9% of coronavirus cases in the United States are healthcare workers.
1 week ago
Thermidor

Reasons to visit Quebec City - Majority of the foreigners confuse Quebec and Quebec City. Quebec is the province of Canada and Quebec City is a Canadian city in Quebec. Companies and con...
1 week ago
THE LAST DITCH

Where we are and what we see - Nine years after I gave up legal practice, I have stopped calling myself a lawyer. If you ask me now, I would say I am a photographer. I devoted my profess...
1 week ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

This is What a Pandemic Looks Like - This was Woodstock. As Jeffrey Tucker reminds us, Woodstock took place in the midst of a global pandemic that claimed more American lives than has Covid-19...
1 week ago
Inconvenient Facts

Naomi Seibt, the anti-Greta, needs your financial support now - Guest post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
1 week ago
milescorak

The Canada Emergency Response Benefit, what now? Government policy as the economy re-opens should be rules-based - We have learned from past experience that public policy proceeds through two phases during major crises: first, as one influential economist has said, “wha...
1 week ago
Easily Distracted

Knowing Better - I’m struggling to process my own discomfort at the thought of either cancelling a fall semester or doing it only online with the primary intention of prote...
1 week ago
The Market Monetarist

Why have epidemiological forecasts been so wrong and what to do about it - Why have epidemiological forecasts been so wrong and what to do about it If we look at the forecasts, we got from epidemiologists initially in the Covid-19...
1 week ago
Freethinking Economist

Keynes on how to pay for the War, and what to worry about most - It is marvellously calming to pick up a hitherto unread piece by Keynes at a time like this. For some reason, a number of the epoch-making economists of th...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
Opinion - The Philosophers' Magazine

Philosophy, In a Sense - Constantine Sandis on Doing Nothing in the Time of Covid-19
2 weeks ago
Dr. Andrew Bostom

Americans Must Disregard Fauci’s Covid-19 Pediatric Panic Porn - Dr. Anthony Fauci, eminence grise Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is America’s most prominent and vocal advocat...
2 weeks ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

One COVID to Rule Them All - I meant to write this post yesterday, but I got distracted on social media... And, well, I had a paper to read for an exam I am participating in this aft...
2 weeks ago
No B-S here (I hope)

The Asylum Atop Their Ivory Tower - 28th April 2020 Comments (6) All right, all right! I’ve been wrong all along. My bad. Sorry. Get over it. Don’t beat a dead horse. I’ve long suggested tha...
2 weeks ago
Magnitude Matters

Partial List of Meaningless, Vague Phrases - I like foreign films. I am listening to the experts. I want to work for a non profit. I support worthy causes. Failure is not an option. The cost going f...
2 weeks ago
glenntstanton.com

Is Science Our One True Source of Finding Truth? - We are hearing, especially in the midst of the COVID crisis, that science is the only true and reliable means of finding truth. But is this true? Ironicall...
2 weeks ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

Xi Zhongxun’s failed attempt to moderate land reform - There are not too many sympathetic figures to be found in the waves of violence that swept the Chinese countryside during the Communist Party’s early pursu...
3 weeks ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

Unicorn: Sighted! - The video YOUR GOVERNMENT does not want you to see! Because the truth is out there, people. And it has a horn in the middle of its forehead. (From the mos...
3 weeks ago
Neven Sesardić

LSE, Lakatos, and disappearing biographies - In my book When Reason Goes on Holiday (Encounter 2016) I argued that the biography of Imre Lakatos at the London School of Economics website was economica...
3 weeks ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Luke Island Blues - Rian Johnson has been either praised or blame, according to taste, for subverting, in The Last Jedi, the expectations raised by J. J. Abrams’ The Force Awa...
3 weeks ago
Augean Stables

Profiles in Lethal Journalism: Janine de Giovanni, She Who Cannot Err - The following is from my book ms: They’re so Smart cause we’re so Stupid: A Medievalist’s Guide to the 21st Century. It is part of a chapter on the Jenin “...
3 weeks ago
Corey Robin

CUNY, Corona, and Communism - The coronavirus has hit CUNY, where I teach, hard: more than 20 deaths of students, faculty, and staff, and counting. Yet the impact of the virus on CUNY h...
3 weeks ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

April 2020 Yield Curve Update - The Eurodollar charts are updated through today. The Treasuries chart is monthly. The Treasuries chart suggests that the yield curve is functionally inve...
3 weeks ago
Order of the Coif

Strategic surprise and far-right terror - In June 2001, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz gave the commencement address to the incoming class at the West Point military academy. His them...
3 weeks ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Protests: Do They Work Or Are They Futile? - Nobody cares until it’s them. When black people across America protested and demonstrated in the streets and on the internet, the conservative right had ...
3 weeks ago
Falkenblog

Evolutionary Biology of Left-Right - not really true, but funnyIt's straightforward to explain why a binary set of competing coalitions within a collective is common. Given the non-linear pol...
3 weeks ago
The Ex-Muslim

Algerian and Tunisian Free Thinkers under threat for ‘ridiculing’ Quran - A series of verses mimicking the style of the Quran titled Surah (Chapter) Corona have lit Arab social media on fire. The verses were written by an Alger...
3 weeks ago
Nec Pluribus Impar

Let’s have a honest debate about “herd immunity” - As you probably know if you’ve been following the discussions regarding the best way to deal with the pandemic, there has been a fierce debate about whet...
3 weeks 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 weeks ago
The Gladstone Diaries

What Happens If A Prime Minister Dies in Office? - Less than a month ago, Britain's prime minister was in an Intensive Care bed, infected with a virus that has killed more than 28,000 people in the UK sin...
4 weeks ago
traditionalRIGHT

The Gathering Storm - As I write this in late April, the most probable course of the coronavirus (a.k.a. Flu Manchu) is that it is at or past its peak medically and case numbers...
4 weeks ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

A Rare Civilized Exchange with the Other Side - 05/03/20 I had an unusual experience yesterday and today, a civilized exchange with a liberal. It was on Facebook. I think it’s worth sharing, maybe only a...
4 weeks ago
Blog - Traditions of Conflict

Does Male Competition Help Explain Human Sex Differences in Body Size? - Anthropologist Holly Dunsworth has a new paper questioning the common emphasis placed on sexual selection for explaining sex differences in human height....
4 weeks ago
Jacobite

Barnham - Unsatisfied with the inefficacy reality’s justice, I took to creating ugly little men so that I might torture them in stages.
4 weeks ago
A Free Left Blog

A response to David Lammy - In his recently-published book *Tribes*, the Labour MP David Lammy, newly-appointed as Keir Starmer's Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, makes a number...
4 weeks ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

More Censorship On Social Media. This Time, it’s Facebook - This morning, a missive from Ron Unz, editor and publisher of alternative media site The Unz Review, appeared in my inbox. He was reporting that everything...
4 weeks ago
chrishernandezauthor

Legends of the Old Corps: Gustav Hasford and the “Snuffies” - Guys, I’ve been in a hell of a writing slump. But a couple weeks back I unexpectedly encountered a Marine who served in Vietnam with Gustav Hasford, author...
4 weeks ago
Henry the Young King Blog

Robbing Saint Martial. The War Campaign of 1183 - Ca. 17 April 1183, Henry the Young King, desperately in need of money to pay off his mercenaries in the war he was waging against his brother Richard, plu...
4 weeks ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

More Thoughts on a Better Income Support System for the Next Crisis - This post was written by Mike Veall of the Department of Economics at McMaster University. I appreciated the comments on my earlier post, where I suggested...
4 weeks ago
skepticlawyer

Pandemic epistemology: discovery, feedback, ideological pomposity and banana peels. - I was going to forbear from posting on the Covid-19 pandemic, but this post by Arnold Kling prompted some more general observations about social dynamics. ...
4 weeks ago
Russian History Blog

Road rage - This blog post is inspired by petty anger. In this deeply weird and unsettling time, I am, like virtually everyone, staying at home. I am in almost every w...
4 weeks ago
Supply and Demand (in that order)

Measuring Employment between Monthly Surveys - The Employment Situation Report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics comes only monthly. It measures only the seven-day week (or, with the establishment surv...
5 weeks ago
The Independent Whig

The Viewpoint Hypothesis - The Viewpoint Hypothesis proposes that the World View (output) of an individual is a function of that individual’s relatively fixed innate nature* (process...
5 weeks ago
Belmont Club

There Are Some Mistakes Science Can't Save Us From - The COVID-19 pandemic has forced popular consciousness to face mortality after decades of anticipating life extension and even the Singularity as a birthri...
5 weeks ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

New Releases - I have a story in the upcoming Four Horsemen Universe anthology The Gates of Hell, due out May 1st. I’ll put in an Amazon link as soon as it goes live.In c...
5 weeks ago
PARALLAX OPTICS

Iconoclastic Terraformation - Iconoclastic Heretics must terraform the territory of the symbolic.
5 weeks ago
Cop in the Hood

CUNY Policy - CUNY Central has created a new FAQ resource specifically for faculty, which attempts to address clearly and concisely academic policy issues relevant to th...
5 weeks ago
Little Atoms

Gaby Charing - Gaby Charing Having lived with it for seven years, Gaby is now preparing for bowel cancer to kill her, which she will bear with varying degrees of grit a...
5 weeks ago
La Bocca della Verità

How to Prep for Surprise Zoom Questions - You are at a boring Zoom meeting, and naturally, you are napping, or playing Word with Friends, or doing shots of tequila... anything but paying attention....
5 weeks ago
I aim to misbehave.

A change in plans... - At one point, I had my life and years clearly mapped out. See, after my time in the Navy, I was going to take my skills and put them to appropriate use. N...
1 month ago
Homo Consumericus

Life Is a Series of Trade-Offs - Life is about a trade-off between competing objectives. Remember this when criticizing politicians during the current COVID-19 crisis.
1 month ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Happy Easter -
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Douglas L. Campbell

Debate Over Covid Fatality - So, first came this horrendous WSJ article by a Stanford couple claiming the true Coronavirus death rate may be much less than what people think. They sugg...
1 month ago
The Sociological Eye

DOCTORS AT WAR: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL COST - Mark de Rond’s book *Doctors at War*(Cornell Univ. Press, 2017) is one the most painful books you’ll ever read. De Rond, a organizational ethnographer at ...
1 month 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 ...
1 month ago
readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore

A Conversation with Your Past Self - This semester, I'm giving my students the option to submit a video "Conversation with My Past Self" in lieu of taking the Final Exam. I was inspired by t...
1 month ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

Religious superstitions and the coronavirus pandemic - By Khadija Khan In the past, in the absence of scientific explanation, superstitious beliefs and unfounded assumptions about what causes deadliest plagues ...
1 month ago
Cameron Harwick

Let’s Move Past the Hayek-Keynes Debate - The debate between Hayek and Keynes on the question of depressions still looms large in the economics profession, at least in the way it’s taught and commu...
1 month ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

Let’s Move Past the Hayek-Keynes Debate - The debate between Hayek and Keynes on the question of depressions still looms large in the economics profession, at least in the way it’s taught and commu...
1 month ago
Tommy Ousslander

Just ordered my casting couch - How we all doing today? Quarantine life got you down and you don't know what to do with yourself? Wel...
1 month ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

The twisted passions of the anti-Catholics - *The Australian, 11 April 2020* I want you to carry out a thought experiment. Imagine if it was discovered that some men of the Muslim faith had engaged ...
1 month ago
The Observation Post

A South African Korean War hero … killed in the Vietnam War - What! South Africa never took part in the Vietnam War, true – but some South Africans did, and two of them lost their lives. Of the two South Africans sac...
1 month ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

The limits of behavioural science: coronavirus edition - Most articles on how behavioural science (or “behavioural economics”) can explain “X” are rubbish. “How behavioural economics explains Donald Trump’s elect...
1 month ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Michael Yon on the The Jordan Harbinger Show - Check out my interview on *The Jordan Harbinger Show* episode 314
1 month ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Michael Yon on the The Jordan Harbinger Show - Check out my interview on *The Jordan Harbinger Show* episode 314
1 month ago
Growth Economics Blog

Economic impacts of the coronavirus - part 3/n(?) - If you’re wondering what I’m attempting to do in these posts, then join the club. I’m just sort of grasping around for a way of thinking about the aggreg...
2 months ago
Academic Wonderland

Possible Victory for Accused Student in Third Circuit Appeal - Oral argument in a somewhat below-the-radar appeal suggests a possible, even probable, victory for the accused student in Doe v. University of the Sciences...
2 months ago
Insitome - Medium

The Insight Show Notes — Season 3, Episode 13: Pandemic! - The Insight Show Notes — Season 3, Episode 13: Pandemic! This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib and Spence...
2 months ago
The Baseline Scenario

COVID-19: Winners and Losers - By James Kwak I think it’s highly likely that the dust will clear eventually and that our economy will come back to life at some point in the next two or t...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
The Everyday Economist

The Coronavirus and Lessons for Preparedness - My new Mercatus policy brief is up. It is entitled, “The Coronavirus and Lessons for Preparedness.” You can find it here.
2 months ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You - (With Mark Spitznagel) Continue reading on INCERTO »
2 months ago
Michael O. Church

Quitting WordPress – April 30, 2020 - I’ve gotten several complaints about ads on my blog. When I set this thing up in 2009, I didn’t know much about the web— I’m an AI programmer, web stuff I ...
2 months ago
Agony and Hope

Why Coronavirus might not be such a bad thing after all… - So since my impassioned letter to the Sydney Archbishop, my perspective on the ban on religious services has changed.
2 months 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? ...
2 months ago
Rajiv Sethi

Time for Individual Accounts at the Fed - As the COVID-19 virus tears through our bodies and our economy, policy makers are struggling to come up with a response that is bold enough to meet the cha...
2 months ago
Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog

COVID19 and the ethics of hospital triage decision-making - There is a lot of talk these days about the predicted coming wave of COVID19 patients needing ICU beds and ventilators in particular, and the inevitable ne...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
Darwinian Reactionary

Progress Report Regarding Our Efforts To Reestablish Theocracy - Thank you all for coming today. I’d like to take this opportunity to provide an update on our efforts to … Continue reading →
2 months ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

Maasai Remix - Post developed by Kelly Askew and Katherine Pearson Maasai Remix, a documentary directed by the award-winning team of filmmaker Ron Mulvihill and anthropo...
2 months 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.
2 months 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.
2 months ago
Rachel Edwards — Medium

Coronavirus, the Great Reality Check - I’ve been watching the situation in China for nearly a month now, and I don’t think there are really words for how bad things are over there. I really am...
3 months ago
ERIC POSNER

Coming soon! - Pre-order here.
3 months 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 months ago
The History of China

The Punishment of God: The Temüjin Suite (1162-1227 CE) - Part 1: The Blood Clot In the wilds of the Khentii Mountains, a child is born to a poor mother on the edge of the world. Part 2: The Black Sable A youn...
3 months ago
Cantercap

Even Stranger Things - The Stock Market Outlook (Plus: The Reasons Why Our Nation is All Upside Down.) Charles Cranmer … More
3 months ago
Heather's Homilies

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

An Alternative Proposal for the BBC - by Douglas Carter I want to pay more money for product from the BBC. That’s not an intentionally incendiary sentiment. In terms, it’s exactly the correct ...
3 months ago
Andrew Norton

The rise of liberalism in colonial Australia (a review of the first volume of David Kemp’s history of Australian liberalism) - (A shorter version of this review, omitting discussion of how the American experience influenced Australian politics to the mid-19th century, is cross-post...
3 months 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 months ago
MacroMania

Kalecki on the Political Aspects of Full Employment - Michal Kalecki 1899 - 1970Sam Levey reminded me of Kalecki's 1943 article on the political aspects of full employment. This a very interesting and thought...
3 months 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 months 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 months ago
ThinkMarkets

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

A Product Review - Last year, the host of a class gave me a ballistic helmet. I’ve never been much of a fan of helmets except as “air items,” but I graciously accepted the gi...
4 months 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...
4 months 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 ...
4 months ago
Jeb Kinnison

Negative Reactions to “Avoidant” and “Bad Boyfriends” - Most of the reviews of Avoidant and Bad Boyfriends are positive, some embarrassingly so (“You saved my life / marriage /sanity!”) — I read the reviews and ...
4 months ago
Norse and Viking Ramblings

Dad Runes - The 29th of this month would have been Terje Spurkland's 72nd birthday. I first encountered him in the academic year of 1980-81, when I was on a scholarsh...
4 months ago
Ambit Gambit

Australian bushfires on Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera - Last night I was interviewed by TRT – Turkey’s answer to Al Jazeera – on a panel moderated by Adnan Azwaz on the Australian fires. My fellow panellists wer...
4 months 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...
4 months ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

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

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

Nineteen Eleventy-Ten - First off: Happy New Year to my 3.6 Loyal Readers, and anyone else who may drop in! I have been terribly silent these last few months, and I believe I ough...
5 months ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

You Can Circumnavigate Taiwan In a Long Weekend - Oh yeah.And Do Tons of Fun Stuff Along the Way Living in Hong Kong, it seems like everybody around us had been to Taiwan. So we decided, with a long weeken...
5 months ago
Status 451

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

A man of possible African ancestry buried in Anglo-Scandinavian York - The aim of the following brief note is to direct attention to a burial from a late ninth- to early eleventh-century cemetery in York. The burials here were...
5 months ago
The XX Committee

Top German Spies Unload on Merkel’s Kowtowing to Putin - One of the West’s open secrets is that Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, consistently behaves in an obsequious manner towards Vladimir Putin and his a...
5 months ago
Popehat

Murum Aries Attigit, Y'all - This here case is a pretty good story. It all starts in Orange County, North Carolina. Folks there, well, everywhere, say the wheels of justice turn slowly...
5 months 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...
5 months 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...
5 months 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...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
Abandoned Footnotes

Dictators - In my corner of Twitter, I recently became obliquely aware of a kerfuffle about Michael Bloomberg saying that “Xi Jinping is not a dictator”. (Twitter is f...
5 months ago
Miranda Yardley

A Plea for Third Spaces for Transmen and Transwomen - We are asking you to support our call for the provision of Third Spaces for transgender individuals of both sexes. The post A Plea for Third Spaces for T...
6 months ago
Kantoos Economics – Kantoos Economics

Exhibition stand hire provides adaptability and cost proficiency - First-time exhibitors, who wish to experiment with the market, are a novice to exhibiting or have finances constraints, usually would rather hire a stand...
6 months ago
Phillip W. Magness

Something’s fishy with the Saez-Zucman tax stats - Just over two weeks ago, Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman approached the New York Times and Washington Post with an astonishing claim. ...
7 months ago
Dani Rodrik's weblog

Announcing the US-China Trade Policy Working Group - Concerned about where the US-China trade relationship is going, we recently formed a “US-China Trade Policy Working Group.” Yang Yao, Jeff Lehman and I are...
7 months 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.
7 months ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

Science Fiction as a Lens into Future War - *(This is the written version of my presentation at a panel on “**Science Fiction and Futurism – Philosophy and Ethics for a Global Era”. The panel was pa...
7 months 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...
8 months ago
Ballandalus

MESA 2019–Medieval and Early Modern Panels - The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is holding its annual conference, one of the largest gatherings of scholars working on the history of the greate...
8 months 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...
8 months 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)
8 months 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...
8 months ago
Stories by Gore Burnelli on Medium

Is it even worth for people to work on non-AI based TTS? - Is it even worth for people to work on non-AI based TTS? Most voices out there are terrible. Why bother with the default ones from Amazon Polly when we c...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
GayPatriot

GayPatriot Manifesto - Any gay person, and/or person of color, is suicidal if they would willingly give up their Constitutional rights of self-protection to a government run by P...
9 months ago
Ex Urbe

2019 Campbell Speech + Refugee Charity Fundraiser - It was my honor last night to, for the second time, present the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, on behalf of last year’s brilliant winner Rebec...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
Noahpinion

Why Kevin Williamson is wrong about poverty and bad behavior - I recently wrote a post at Bloomberg Opinion arguing that "bad behavior" - drug use, violence, single parenthood, and idleness - is not the main cause of...
9 months ago
Satire .. not quite dead yet.

Climate Crisis: We Must Learn From Other Countries - We have a global climate crisis, what are different countries doing? The UK Parliament was the first in the world to declare a ‘climate emergency’, followe...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
10 months 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 chat.
10 months ago
PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS

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

Guest Post: On Libertarianism - A friend of mine formerly known as Glomar Responder (Mr. X) on Twitter sent over this screed as a guest post. It’s an interesting commentary on the bifur...
11 months ago
Tim van Gelder

Where might better ratings come from? - Suppose you wanted better ratings of intelligence reports. Where could that improvement come from? How could you possibly get it? Some years ago the U.S. ...
11 months ago
JudgyBitch

Seeing poor white people makes me happy - The following piece was written by Nicholas Powers, an associate professor at State University of New York (SUNY), and first published by hate website Race...
11 months 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...
11 months ago
Paula Wright

Sexy Isn’t Sexist or The Allegory of the Peacock’s Train - Discussing human sexuality is a tricky, if not fraught, enterprise today. Critiques of human sexuality abound in the popular and academic press. That’s why...
11 months 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Medieval Matters – Tor.com

War Crimes on Westeros and Daenerys’ Missing Character Arc - The general consensus is that a lot has gone wrong in this last season of Game of Thrones. To quote a friend of mine, “Jon can’t pet Ghost, but Drogon ca...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Fred on Everything is moving! - Henceforth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review NEW! Current column (June 13) is HERE The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of colu...
1 year ago
Fred On Everything | Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Fred on Everything is moving! - Henceforth the column will be hosted at The Unz Review NEW! Current column (June 13) is HERE The column will always be found in the alphabetic list of colu...
1 year ago
In Due Course | Building the Republic of Letters, one keystroke at a time

The Rebel Sell at 15 - A funny thing about the book that Andrew and I wrote, *The Rebel Sell*, is that it was a bestseller in Spain. We recently did an interview with Manuel Ma...
1 year ago
Modeled Behavior

Data Driven Parenting - A leading economist helps you dig through the empirical evidence on parenting, and the result is essential reading.
1 year ago
Monetary Freedom

More "Interesting" Thoughts about Socialist Monetary Policy - Interest income is forbidden in a socialist society due to socialist ideology. Someone is earning income on their money, when the only legitimate form of...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
1 year ago
The Dark Herald

- https://darkherald.net/ See you there.
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Paul Musgrave

The Sixth Risk is Boredom - Every chapter of Michael Lewis’s The Sixth Risk, as it sounds to somebody who had heard of the federal government before November 2016. John “Curley” Stoog...
1 year ago
Wide Urban World

Social Infrastructure in Cities Today: Eric Klinenberg's “Palaces for the People” - I just finished reading Eric Klinenberg’s excellent new book, *Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization,...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Global Guerrillas

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

redecorating! - Whaddya think? (^_^) Advertisements
1 year ago
Stories by Michael Tracey on Medium

Notes On The Withdrawals - Trump announced the withdrawal of US troops from two warzones, which prompted the resignation (and now, firing) of James Mattis. It’s one of the most con...
1 year ago
Historinhas

Market Monetarism – Roadmap to Economic Prosperity – a free book (pdf) - You can download it here: Market Monetarism and Economic Prosperity Advertisements
1 year ago
Historinhas

Market Monetarism – Roadmap to Economic Prosperity – a free book (pdf) - You can download it here: Market Monetarism and Economic Prosperity Advertisements
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The Audacious Epigone

Archived - This blog is now in archival status.
1 year ago
GayUganda

De-criminilazing Homosexuality in Botswana - They have pushed, Queer Batswana, they have pushed to the point that now they believe there is a great chance of getting to the point when they are NOT cri...
1 year ago
Brad R. Torgersen

Wednesday double-barreled book BOMB! - WEDNESDAY MORNING DOUBLE-BARREL BOOK BOMB! My friend and colleague Larry Correia has been kind enough to double-promote Tuesday’s releases of A STAR WHEELE...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Tim Duy's Fed Watch

New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Handle's Haus

Excerpts and Discussion of Rod Dreher’s “The Benedict Option” - Prologue (mine, not Dreher’s) The book is an extended exposition of what is at heart a very simple thesis and message. That premise: “Genuine, traditional ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
vitam fracta

Modern Evidence and Speculation: Or, “What if Trump Did It?” - By H. Alexander Welcome The 2016 U.S. Presidential election signaled a number of important changes in U.S. society, including approaches to evidence and s...
1 year ago
The World is Not Enough

We’re moving! - This blog is moving! Please join us at the new address – it's free! The post We’re moving! appeared first on The World is Not Enough.
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
A Taste for Desert Landscapes

Blog moving to new address - A taste for desert landscapes has moved here.
1 year 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...
2 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,...
2 years ago
n+1 » Articles

Two Stories - Improvisation Is the Heart of Music “The rest was pure Arabian Nights. Gazelle-eyed maidens with perfumed robes brought inlaid boxes of Turkish delight an...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
LaborEcon

NYT Op-Ed on Trump’s DACA Proposal - The New York Times asked me earlier this week if I had any thoughts on President Trump’s DACA proposal. I did. And here they are.
2 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...
2 years ago
Rightly Considered

Are journalists an “enemy of the American people”? - The Committee to Protect Journalists proclaimed President Donald Trump its winner in “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom” earlier this...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
The Travel Diaries of Mr Wallace

CHAPTER 60. Pacific Islands - The last chapter of Mr Wallace's travel diary.
2 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...
2 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) ...
2 years ago
Civil Politics Blog

The Positive Inter-Religious Effect of Reading About Peace First’s Programs - In our last post, we wrote about how we are currently working with numerous partners bridging divisions and one of the common questions that partners get c...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
Keith Burgess-Jackson

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) - Autie was born on this date 178 years ago.
2 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...
2 years ago
Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play

Sam Biddle of The Intercept Accused of Masturbating in Front of Coworker - Several female journalists have accused their male colleagues of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and worse. They have been compiling their accusations i...
2 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 ...
2 years ago
When You Say Tomato and Your Sister Says Tomahto – spottedtoad

Tora Bora - In the mid-2000s, I was in a teaching methods class with an Army vet who had recently come back from Afghanistan and had been at the Battle of Tora Bora in...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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/
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
The Liberty Zone

I guess I need to say this again - Anyone who’s been reading this site for any length of time knows this, but apparently there are some drooling shit stirrers who haven’t gotten the message,...
2 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 issue...
2 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 ...
2 years ago
MAN ABOUT TOWN

Being Human - I've just discovered that the pilot episode of UK series *Being Human *is online again, after having been taken down for a while. I first wrote about it ba...
3 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 ...
3 years ago
The Diecast

Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Being Classically Liberal

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

Japan and Philippines Challenge China on New Fronts - Japan is deploying a warship to the South China Sea while the Philippines pushes back against Chinese encroachments in the east.
3 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...
3 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...
3 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....
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 years ago
Council on Global Security

What Motivates a Jihadist? - (McLeans) A new study based on interviews conducted over social media with foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria raises doubts about the commonly held notio...
3 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…
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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?
3 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...
3 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....
4 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...
4 years ago
Critical Thinking Applied

結婚したい！それなら電話占いピュアリの占い師に聞いてみよう！ - 結婚したい皆さん、なかなかいい出会いがないと思っている方も多いかと思います。そんな時は占い師さんに色々聞いた […]
4 years ago
Capitalism's Cradle

The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...
4 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 wasn...
4 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, ...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 years ago
Akhilesh Pillalamarri: Analyst, Editor, Writer

History’s Most Exciting Period - What is my favorite period of history? While I love both the ancient-classical and medieval worlds (to use an oversimplification of time not equally applic...
4 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...
4 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....
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Cherokee Gothic

ニキビと遺伝の関係について - ニキビが出来やすい肌は遺伝するのだろうか…と思ったことはありませんか？親もニキビが出来やすい肌の場合、子どももそうなるのでしょうか。 ■ニキビが出来やすい肌とはニキビが出来やすい肌というものは、実際にあるのです。そ […]
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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,...
5 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...
5 years ago
The Mitrailleuse

Families and time preferences: Should a libertarian society be childfree and polyamorous? - Usually when libertarians talk about marriage, it’s about how the government shouldn’t be involved. When we talk about children, we debate whether or not w...
5 years ago
CrisisMaven's Blog

Why Indians are Too Stupid to Build Toilets – were it not for the Media! - There has been a ghastly rape in some Indian village. Two girls got raped and later hanged by the perpetrators after “they left their toilet-less home duri...
5 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 ...
6 years ago
The Becker-Posner Blog

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

classical perfection - I'm gonna geek out about classical music for a minute or many. I'm in Berlin and in three days have seen two of the best classical concerts of my life (and...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 years ago
Healthy Curiousity

Have You Heard Your Inner Voice Today? - New Study Shows There's A Reason Why We "Hear" Our Inner Voice
6 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 Ne...
6 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...
7 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 gues...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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.
8 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...
8 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...
8 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 ...
10 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...
10 years ago
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