Thinking Out Aloud: August 2013

Blog List

macrobusiness.com.au

Retiree reverse mortgage scheme needs overhaul not facelift - The federal government is considering renaming its “Pensions Loan Scheme’ (PLS), which was broadened in the May 2021 Budget . The expanded PLS allows ret...
1 hour ago
Vlad Tepes

Tucker Carlson opener for May 17, 2021 - Tucker’s monologue is about more reveals on UFO’s with some fairly stunning information. Apparently many nuclear weapons were knocked offline by these thin...
1 hour ago
Althouse

More of this morning's luscious sunrise. - [image: IMG_4765] [image: IMG_4768]
2 hours ago
Magnitude Matters

Two Methods of Improvement - Let's compare two general methods of improvement: 1. Truncating the left tail so as to eliminate the undesired portion of the distribution 2. Inc...
2 hours ago
Dr. Andrew Bostom

Dr. Andrew Bostom, in Support of Rhode Island Bill to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine Passports, Provides Hard Data on Convalescent Immunity to Covid-19, and “Asymptomatic Transmission” [Audio/Text/References] - The following very understated, self-explanatory comment is from a CDC document entitled, “Questions & Answers: Vaccine Against 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus...
2 hours ago
Whatever

Charlie Photo: Deployed - Just in case anyone here could benefit from a photo of a happy pup in the yard with her tongue out. If you are that person, here you go. If you’re not, wel...
2 hours ago
Cold Fury

Don’t hate me ’cause I’m beautiful a neurotic, narcissistic bitch - Ace flenses this scrunt so enjoyably it inspired me take a crack at her myself. Y’know, so to speak. I’m All For Feminism, But It’s Kinda Making It Harder ...
2 hours ago
Butterflies and Wheels

Pals - Oh, one of *those*. Jeff gave Bill advice on how to get away from That Woman . Bachelor sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein gave Bill Gates advice on ending his ...
2 hours ago
PrawfsBlawg

Blogging from Mount Vernon - I'm staying on the Mount Vernon estate as part of my fellowship at the library here. I'll post some photos of the estate later in the week, but I cannot pa...
2 hours ago
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Two Months After Biden Slammed Gov. Greg Abbott’s ‘Neanderthal Thinking,’ Texas Reports Zero COVID Deaths - Congratulations to the Lone Star State for following the science! The post Two Months After Biden Slammed Gov. Greg Abbott’s ‘Neanderthal Thinking,’ Texas...
2 hours ago
LessWrong

Surge Pricing to Mitigate the Risk of Respiratory Pathogens - Published on May 18, 2021 12:52 AM GMT I very much doubt this is going to be relevant in the current pandemic; my hope is that it might be a useful economi...
2 hours ago
Philosoraptor

Hatefacts: Twitter Suspends Spanish Politician For Tweeting "A Man Cannot Get Pregnant" - Again, via Insty.
3 hours ago
Sharyl Attkisson

(READ) Proposed bill to defund the Wuhan Institute of Virology - Republican members of Congress have introduced "The Defund the Wuhan Institute of Virology Act." It would permanently cut U.S. funding to the Wuhan Institu...
3 hours ago
Quillette

Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns—A Review - Review of Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left by Ben Burgis. Zero Books, 136 pages (May 2021). In 2013, British...
4 hours ago
EconLog

Ridicule or Reach Out? - In my recent reading, following a number of links led me to this extensive article by Byron York about R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., who began a magazine called...
4 hours ago
The Burning Platform

Israeli air strikes destroys Qatar Red Crescent headquarters in Gaza - Israeli air strikes destroys Qatar Red Crescent headquarters in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/6l9X37Bpwx — [image: 🧢]מאק (@beingrealmac) May 17, 2021
4 hours ago
Vox - All

Parler is back in Apple’s App Store, with a promise to crack down on hate speech - [image: The Parler app on a phone screen.] Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images That’s a commitment that’s easier said than done. P...
4 hours ago
PsyPost

Newer generations prefer simpler song lyrics - Studies have demonstrated that song lyrics are reflective in key ways of the generation that produced them. A shift in focus in song lyrics from the 1980s ...
5 hours ago
Mercatornet

‘Euthanasia could become a shortcut’ - The arguments by some that they are speaking from an “ethical” position, not from their religious beliefs, is almost always a fallacy. The so-called ethi...
5 hours ago
Corey Robin

Double Trouble: The Identity Politics of Philip Roth and Hannah Arendt - Philip Roth has been in the news, as has Palestine. By sheerest coincidence, a piece I’ve been mulling over for some time—on the uncanny convergence betwee...
5 hours ago
The Wild Hunt | A modern Pagan perspective.

Pagan Community Notes: Week of May 17, 2021 - [image: Pagan Community Notes: Week of May 17, 2021] In this week's Pagan Community Notes: the Witches of Scotland seek a memorial, Penn Museum issues apol...
5 hours ago
Climate Etc.

How epidemiologists try to fool us with flawed statistical practices - by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski Climate Etc. recently carried several insightful posts about How we fool ourselves. One of the posts – Part II: ...
5 hours ago
Philosophy Blog

Review: The Lincoln Lawyer - [image: The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller, #1)]The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly My rating: 5 of 5 stars As a fan of Connelly's Bosch books (and tv sh...
5 hours ago
JoNova

Tuesday Open Thread - …. 0 out of 10 based on 0 rating
5 hours ago
Mick Hartley

Rugby inclusivity - This BBC report misleads straight from the headline - Transgender women allowed to play rugby in France after unanimous Federation vote. The implication - ...
6 hours ago
The Federalist

Reporter Julio Rosas Responds To Intercept Hit Piece On Covering Violent Black Lives Matter Riots - On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Townhall's Julio Rosas defends the conservative journalists who covered last summer's violent riots.
6 hours ago
- The blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Why Are So Few Law Professors Interested in Antitrust? - Over the past five years, there have been 417 self-reported new US law professor hires. Over those five years, only seven candidates have reported an int...
6 hours ago
The Writings of Jon Del Arroz

Do We Need A Star Trek: Enterprise Revival? - ------------------------------ Support Jon Join My Patreon! Get FREE Books! Independent journalism isn’t easy and I can use all of the help I can get. ...
6 hours ago
neo-neocon

What the January 6th surveillance tapes show - I think we already knew some of this, but here’s further video confirmation [emphasis mine]: …[N]ewly-obtained video shows United States Capitol Police off...
7 hours ago
The New Neo

What the January 6th surveillance tapes show - I think we already knew some of this, but here’s further video confirmation [emphasis mine]: …[N]ewly-obtained video shows United States Capitol Police off...
7 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Webinar: Fast Discovery of Pairwise Interactions in High Dimensions using Bayes - This post is by Eric. This Wednesday, at 12 pm ET, Tamara Broderick is stopping by to talk to us about pairwise interactions in high dimensions. You can re...
7 hours ago
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Webinar: Fast Discovery of Pairwise Interactions in High Dimensions using Bayes - This post is by Eric. This Wednesday, at 12 pm ET, Tamara Broderick is stopping by to talk to us about pairwise interactions in high dimensions. You can re...
7 hours ago
Longrider

What a Buffoon - Andrew Lloyd Webber repeats the mantra of the hard of thinking. The whole video is an embarrassing example of a complete lack of reason, logic [...]
7 hours ago
Maverick Philosopher

Tennyson Strikes a Chord - The bolded passage below is a beautiful poetic summation of my philosophical position. IF thou would’st hear the Nameless, and wilt dive Into the Temple-ca...
7 hours ago
Rationalist Judaism

Die and Don't Learn?! - It's unbelievable. Instead of "live and learn," people are dying - continually - and the lessons are not being learned. Over the last year, charedi commu...
7 hours ago
JONATHAN TURLEY

Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Major Abortion Challenge - Over the strong opposition of pro-choice groups, the Supreme Court just granted cert in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,…
7 hours ago
CDR Salamander

Army: Climate, Politics, and Pork - No, it is not. Today, no nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis. We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but fe...
7 hours ago
Thought Catalog

These Are The Most Sentimental Zodiac Signs - You’re incredibly sentimental, Cancer.
7 hours ago
PinkNews

Iran must investigate brutal ‘honour killing’ of young gay man, human rights group says - Human rights group Amnesty International has called for a full investigation into the brutal “honour killing” of young gay man in Iran. This month, Alire...
7 hours ago
Utopia - you are standing in it!

Supersonic Planes are Coming Back (And This Time, They Might Work) -
8 hours ago
Caracas Chronicles

Venezuela and Israel: from Cautious Balance to Inflamed Rhetoric - Caracas used to have an equidistant stance in the Middle East since the creation of Israel. Chávez flipped our foreign policy and fully aligned with Hama...
8 hours ago
CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Taxation Tales and the Window Tax - H.L. Mencken once wrote: "Taxation . . . is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as muc...
8 hours ago
War Is Boring - Medium

More than 1,000 march in Dearborn, MI while chanting “Free, free Palestine.” - The streets of Dearborn were flooded with protesters for the second day in a row Sunday, joining demonstrations across the world demanding an end to violen...
8 hours ago
Medievalists.net

Cerne Giant was made in the Early Middle Ages, researchers find - The origins of the Cerne Giant have been speculated about for hundreds of years. Now, new research reveals that it was likely made in the early tenth century.
8 hours ago
National Reptile Awareness Day – Why Evolution Is True

The man with a memory only seven seconds long - I was fascinated and horrified by the story of Clive Wearing (video below), once a good musician and conductor (and still can play music) but, laid low in ...
9 hours ago
Lawfare

This Is What the Death of the Two-State Solution Looks Like - Palestinians collect belongings from ruins in Gaza after witnesses say a tower was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on Aug. 24, 2014. (United Nations Ph...
9 hours ago
Marginal Revolution

Monday assorted links - 1. “We suggest that economic growth explains the survival of constitutional monarchy rather than vice versa.” 2. Why the EU fails repeatedly (NYT). 3. “A...
9 hours ago
Raymond Ibrahim

Khan’s Con: When Terrorists Feign Repentance - The degree to which Muslim terrorists can feign remorse for their crimes and convincingly pretend to have reformed—while secretly despising and plotting to...
9 hours ago
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

S4 E22: An Atheist in the Realm of Myth | Stephen Fry - On this episode of the Jordan B Peterson Podcast, I am joined by Stephen Fry. Stephen Fry is a noted British actor, writer, comedian, political figure, j...
9 hours ago
Bayou Renaissance Man

Exactly two weeks to go! - Just a reminder that our raffle for an AR-15 pistol closes on May 31st. You've got just fourteen days to get your entry in, as per the rules posted e...
10 hours ago
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

The work of philosopher and psychologist U.T. Place - A new page devoted to his career and contributions. (Thanks to George Graham for the pointer.)
10 hours ago
Vox Popoli

Capitalists provide the rope - In which it becomes apparent that Vladimir Lenin wasn't entirely wrong about capitalism: One-shot cures for diseases are not great for business—more spe...
11 hours ago
Scott Adams Blog

Episode 1378 Scott Adams: UFOs Confirmed, Fake News Tries Erasing Trump’s Obvious Successes, Virus Gain of Function - My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Find my “extra” content on Locals: https://ScottAdams.Locals.com Content: Abr...
11 hours ago
Policy of Truth

Hamas, Civilians, and Hypocrisy - It’s become common wisdom in American political discourse that what distinguishes Hamas’s military tactics from Israel’s is that Hamas deliberately targets...
11 hours ago
The Electric Agora

The Spirit of the Game - by Mark English ____ Though I was not a natural sportsman, forces associated with school and family pushed me into various sporting activities which (as Co...
11 hours ago
International Liberty

When Capitalism Wins, Poverty Loses - Why do folks on the left support punitive policies such as high tax rates and a bigger burden of government? Some of them are motivated by resentment again...
11 hours ago
MUSINGS ON IRAQ

Protest Parties Withdraw From 2021 Election After Activist Assassinated - (Atlantic Council) The assassination of activist Ihab al-Wazni who was a leader of demonstr...
12 hours ago
Mostly Economics

Rest in Peace: Sunil Jain - Last month and last 15 days in particular have been really tough. Have seen several close associates pass away. I was really shocked to hear of passing awa...
13 hours ago
Bracing Views

Marxism in the Military! - W.J. Astore A friend sent along an article on a certain lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force who is being disciplined because he wrote a book warning a...
13 hours ago
Belmont Club

The COVID-19 Test No One Is Talking About: Make Sure Your Children Have It Before They Are Vaccinated -
13 hours ago
Michael Totten

The COVID-19 Test No One Is Talking About: Make Sure Your Children Have It Before They Are Vaccinated -
13 hours ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

“Dirty” Jungle: Colombia tried to send a force of 2,000 men through Darien — turned back - [image: IMG 2981] Panama City, Panama *Quick mind-dump* In 1903, Panama was in process of seceding from Colombia. The French canal already had failed s...
14 hours ago
Michael Yon - Online Magazine

“Dirty” Jungle: Colombia tried to send a force of 2,000 men through Darien — turned back - [image: IMG 2981] Panama City, Panama *Quick mind-dump* In 1903, Panama was in process of seceding from Colombia. The French canal already had failed s...
14 hours ago
I Want a New Left

An Idea to Show Solidarity with Workers Hurt by the Lockdown - How about a button with the word lockdown with a bar through it? We know who is hurting these workers: it is all those people who insist that the lockdown ...
14 hours ago
OrientalReview.org

Lavrov Reminded The World About The Importance Of Legitimate Multilateralism - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s latest virtual speech to the UN reminded the world about the importance of legitimate multilateralism and sharply ...
14 hours ago
According To Hoyt

Style Sheet, Peeps, Style Sheet - One of the advantages of the collectivists is that they organize like nobody’s business, while we liberty minded…. Well — pats heads all around — well, you...
14 hours ago
HeterodoxAcademy.org

Why Free Speech? - The post Why Free Speech? appeared first on Heterodox Academy.
14 hours ago
View From The Porch

Boomer-ang - When I got back into film photography back at the end of 2013, it was mostly by accident; the result of buying a Leica R4 on a lark just because it was so ...
14 hours ago
The Z Blog

The Weapon Of Language - Note: There is a new post up at Taki. This week the topic is a written version of the podcast from last week, slimmed down for space reasons. There is a re...
14 hours ago
The Reference Frame

Thirst for dividends and financial illiteracy - My country restarted the capitalist system over 3 decades ago, and it's had centuries of experience with it before 1948. Western countries (in the Cold War...
14 hours ago
Active Response Training

The Need for Truth - This is a guest article written by a friend who has more than 25 years experience as a Federal law enforcement officer, supervisor, and firearms instructor...
15 hours ago
Advice Goddess Blog

Insulting, Dehumanizing "Inclusiveness" - "Sorry, but they're called 'mothers' -- not 'birthing people'"...
15 hours ago
Daily Nous

Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update - The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… SEP New: ∅ Revised: Ikhwân al-S...
15 hours ago
Mad Genius Club

The Easy way - ‘And see ye not that braid braid road,That lies across that lily leven?That is the path of wickedness,Tho some call it the road to heaven.’ Continue reading
15 hours ago
Notes On Liberty

Monday’s Reserved Judgements (and Satisficing Hopes) - Or, some Monday links on central banks, manners over matters and hard-boiled decisions That bond salesman from the Jazz Age was right. Reserving judgement,...
15 hours ago
Isegoria

Graf was at the top of every single test - Psychologist Wolfgang Schneider had no idea in 1978, David Epstein explains (in The Sports Gene), that he was being handed the study sample of a lifetime w...
15 hours ago
Working-Class Perspectives

The Healing Web of Solidarity: Lessons from a Favela - “A spider without their web is like an Indian without land or a community without solidarity.” — Tremembé Indian saying, Brazil As most of us sat at home d...
15 hours ago
askblog

Why health officials were slow to understand COVID transmission - Zeynep Tufekci writes (NYT), If the importance of aerosol transmission had been accepted early, we would have been told from the beginning that it was much...
16 hours ago
Simple Justice

A Champion’s Tale - They encircled him, dressed in their former Jeopardy! contestants’ robes. They pointed their index finger at him and began to chant: Sinner, sinner, sinner...
16 hours ago
Alexander Boot

Isn’t diversity grand? - As founder, president and so far the only member of the Charles Martel Society for Diversity, I’m happy to see that London is making giant strides towards ...
17 hours ago
The Honest Courtesan

Tweetums - More tweets! The grossness of this actually caught me off guard, and I've been a sex worker on and off for 36 years. https://t.co/7GOLheuQM3 — Maggie McNei...
17 hours ago
Muddy Colors

A Traditional Artist’s Approach to Digital Color - This past winter, I got the chance to illustrate the variant cover for Young Hellboy #3 for Dark Horse Comics! I’m obsessed with Mike Mignola’s work, so i...
17 hours ago
Online Library of Law & Liberty

Civilising the Red Menace - *Ruin and Renewal* exhibits a lack of understanding of just how terrible the communist system that dominated half of Europe was.
17 hours ago
A Voice for Men

Giving Gates the Gate - Some decades ago, I remember my cousin’s son saying that when he grew up he wanted to be like Bill Gates. I don’t remember how old the kid was at the time...
18 hours ago
davidthompson

Not Yul Brynner - A detail I mention as I re-watched the 1973 film Westworld shortly before finding this. Open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
18 hours ago
Crisis Magazine

Bring Back Scopes - [image: Scope Trial]Nearly 100 years ago my great-great grandfather, T.T. Martin, descended upon Dayton, Tennessee, in the heat of July. Typically, his eva...
18 hours ago
Sex, Drugs and Economics

UWE and the gender gap in economics (results pending?) - I've written a number of posts on the gender gap in economics (see the list of links at the end of this post for examples). Most of those posts review or...
18 hours ago
www.counterpunch.org

‘Anti-Zionist Naples’: Award-Winning Italian Artist Speaks about Palestine and Why He Quit Photojournalism - On April 1, a mural appeared in the Southern Italian city of Naples, depicting Palestinian workers lining at an Israeli military checkpoint near the occu...
18 hours ago
Political Calculations

Volatility Increases for S&P 500 as Inflation Expectations Go into Flux - The S&P 500 (Index: SPX) may be entering a new regime for inflation expectations. In the dividend futures-based model we use to project the future for ...
19 hours ago
Books & Boots

Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen (1986) - Reading the final novel in William Gibson’s Blue Ant trilogy was like having my teeth pulled out one by one. It was a gruelling slog. Several times, as I f...
19 hours ago
Samizdata

Samizdata quote of the day - “There’s also the problem of, as our liberal friends would put it, power dynamics. At least when Stewart was battling the Bush administration, you could ...
20 hours ago
Point of no return

The dispossessed Jews you will never hear about - *The Sheikh Jarrah properties owned by Jews in East Jerusalem are the tip of the iceberg: it may come as a surprise to many that Jews owned land all over t...
21 hours ago
The World is Not Enough

Britain debates preferential voting, again - Ten years after rejecting a move to slightly improve its electoral system, Britain is proposing to go backwards.
22 hours ago
A Political Refugee From the Global Village

1961 story "This Godless Communism" American Catholic comic book 'Treasure Chest' - Treasure Chest was published and distributed in Catholic schools from 1946 to 1972, In 1964, a ten-part serial told the story of the presidential c...
22 hours ago
The Unz Review:

THIS IS ANARCHO-TYRANNY: Biden Regime Criminalizes Wrongthink, Lets Armed Robbers Walk Free, by Washington Watcher II - Previously: Federal Government Achieves Full Anarcho-Tyranny. This Can’t Go On Just-released footage showing the Mostly Peaceful Protestors co-operating wi...
23 hours ago
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith

Sickcare is the Knife in the Heart of Employment--and the Economy - *We need to change the incentives of the entire system, not just healthcare, but if we don't start with healthcare, that financial cancer will drag us into...
1 day ago
Logarithmic History

Toumaï - 7.04 – 6.67 million years ago Sahelanthropus is a 7-6 million year old species whose remains have been found in Chad. “Toumaï” (“hope of life” in the Daza ...
1 day ago
Daniel Pipes :: Writings

Interview: "Israel's Policy Should Be Victory" - L'Informale: The conflict between Israel and Hamas has led to a new phenomenon: widespread riots by Israel's Arab citizens. Do you agree with Israeli histo...
1 day ago
bradford-delong.com: Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand...

PODCAST: Hexapodia XIV: The Capital Gains Tax - Noah Smith & Brad DeLong's 30:00 Key Insights: Economic arguments against higher taxes that may have been somewhat plausible back in the days of 70% or so ...
1 day ago
Chicago Boyz

The Destruction of the US Military - There is an old saying in the military, “Trust No one above O-6” They are all politicians. The Obama years saw more generals retired or relieved than there...
1 day ago
traditionalRIGHT

The Chauvin Show Trial and the State’s Crisis of Legitimacy - On Tuesday, April 20th, a Minneapolis jury found police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of three counts, including second-degree murder, in the death of Georg...
1 day ago
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog

The Daily Cycle of Coastal Low Clouds and Flowing Fog - During the middle to late spring, the northeastern Pacific fills will low clouds, as illustrated by the visible satellite image from two days ago (shown...
1 day ago
mathbabe

Is Hyperinflation Coming? - This is a guest post by Aise O’Neil. Inflation is growing out of control, or so we are told. Tucker Carlson recently said, “we wound up with frightening le...
1 day ago
Brown Pundits

Lakshmi - I’m spending a lot of time reading about the Corded Ware for my series on the steppe. The Corded Ware is a culture that appeared that abruptly in Northern ...
1 day ago
Adaptive Curmudgeon

More Humor - From Knuckledraggin My Life Away:
1 day ago
House of Eratosthenes

Templates - People all throughout the First World are wondering, if we’re all supposed to want the same things then why is there so much arguing on the Internet? The I...
1 day ago
Overcoming Bias

Who Watches Discrimination Watchers? - Two LA area colleges, UCLA and USC, have a famous rivalry. Imagine that local law firms took sides, preferring to hire graduates from one or the other law ...
1 day ago
Coyote Blog

Masks as Virtue Signaling - I want to thank David Hogg for this remarkably honest explanation for why he wears a mask when it is completely unneeded. While others may not be doing it ...
1 day ago
Information Processing

Ditchley Foundation meeting: China Today and Tomorrow - China Today and Tomorrow 20 MAY 2021 - 21 MAY 2021 This Ditchley conference will focus on China, its internal state and sense of self today, its role in ...
1 day ago
Information Processing

Ditchley Foundation meeting: China Today and Tomorrow - China Today and Tomorrow 20 MAY 2021 - 21 MAY 2021 This Ditchley conference will focus on China, its internal state and sense of self today, its role in ...
1 day ago
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Defending Israel - In order to meet the external and domestic security challenges confronting it, Israel must promptly take two main steps: substantial expansion of the IDF’s...
1 day ago
The Angry Staff Officer

#NextWar: A Fictional Cautionary Tale - The armored JLTV’s diesel engine growled as the transmission downshifted to avoid getting stuck in the rutted, muddy road. The hulking four-wheeled truck’...
1 day ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Markets & the right - Samuel Gregg reminds us of an important fact about rightist thinking – that the right has always been ambivalent about markets. This is as true in the UK a...
1 day ago
Stumbling and Mumbling

Markets & the right - Samuel Gregg reminds us of an important fact about rightist thinking – that the right has always been ambivalent about markets. This is as true in the UK a...
1 day ago
Jonathan Spyer

Sheikh Jarrah and Shimon Hatsadik: a Tale of Two Jerusalem Gravesites: - Jerusalem Post, 14/5 The current tensions in Jerusalem are not traceable to a single source. The always charged period of Ramadan, the cancellation of Pal...
1 day ago
Sultan Knish

Biden Put Past Life Healer in Charge of School Reopenings - In November, the American Federation of Teachers was touting Kelly Trautner's views on safe school reopenings. Earlier in the pandemic year, Trautner had p...
1 day ago
Blazing Cat Fur

Some Latin American countries endorse Hamas’ violence against Israel. It’s shameful - While the Biden administration and several Latin American countries have rightly supported Israel’s right to defend itself from the more than 2,000 Hamas r...
1 day ago
globalinequality

A global ideology that was neither - When an author writes a historical-political book whose objective is to privilege a certain point of view or a certain explanation, to show how it might...
2 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

What I told my kids - You’ll hear that it’s not as simple as the Israelis are good guys and Palestinians are bad guys, or vice versa. And that’s true. But it’s also not so compl...
2 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

What I told my kids - You’ll hear that it’s not as simple as the Israelis are good guys and Palestinians are bad guys, or vice versa. And that’s true. But it’s also not so compl...
2 days ago
Old European culture

Golden boy - Inlaid ivory panel depicting "lioness devouring a boy"... From the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, part of an almost identical pair, originally part of a piece...
2 days ago
Just the social facts, ma'am

Tolerance, part 7 - A couple of weeks ago, Philip Bump had a column about Senator Tim Scott's response to Joe Biden. One of Scott's themes was criticism of "cancel culture...
2 days ago
Fake Nous

The Gender Pay Gap & Empirical Facts - “It’s not the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s all the things we know that just ain’t so.” –Unknown (often attributed to Mark Twain) Fil...
2 days ago
Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Capitalism’s Modern History [Waterfall course] - This week in the Waterfall course on Capitalism we consider Robert Hessen´s opinion on Capitalism´s Modern History, sustaining that the economic individual...
2 days ago
Communalism Watch

Video: How Israel Helped Create Hamas | The Intercept -
2 days ago
Moneyness

The overconsumption theory of bitcoin (and decentralization in general) - Bitcoin mining farm (via CoinDesk) There are two extreme theories about cryptocurrency energy consumption, both of them bitterly opposed to each other. T...
2 days ago
Minding The Campus

The Screwed-Up Emails: Part I - Editor’s Note: The following is the first in a series of satirical articles loosely inspired by C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. In honor of C.S. Lewis...
2 days ago
Satire .. not quite dead yet.

What is this ‘Culture War’? - Was the term ‘culture war’ coined by a privileged white man who should have gone home before his fifth pint of Old Spittle and Twig at the Fox and Crumpet..
2 days ago
Edward Feser

Intellectuals in hell - It is by virtue of our *rational or intellectual*powers that we are made in God’s image and have a dignity nothing else in the material world possesses....
3 days ago
Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics

What is an E-flat idiot? - So I was clicking through the stations on Sirius XM and came upon a rebroadcast of an old Jack Benny radio program from 1953, with Bob Hope as the guest st...
3 days ago
FACTS MATTER | Jacques Delacroix' blog, Santa Cruz, CA, Facts Matter, Monterey Bay

Not Our Business - A couple of days ago, someone in Kabul bombed a girls school (middle and high school). Fifty girls were massacred. I am not sure if the Taliban claimed the...
3 days ago
The Objective Standard

My New Website, Blog, and Podcast, “Excluding the Middle” - I’m happy to announce that, with Jon Hersey’s promotion to managing editor of The Objective Standard, I’ve relaunched my personal website, CraigBiddle.co...
3 days ago
Gun Culture 2.0

Shooting Lessons During and From COVID Times - Although I and my family have been fortunate not to have our health or finances disrupted too much by the COVID-19 pandemic, it definitely took a toll on m...
3 days ago
TheMoneyIllusion

Recent articles - Our tort system is a huge part of our broader regulatory system. Thus while repealing Section 230 (which shields tech companies from liability for material...
3 days ago
The Splintered Mind

Creeps and Creepiness - A few weeks ago, my colleague Georgia Warnke asked me if I have a theory of creeps to go alongside my theory of jerks. Are jerks creepy? Are creeps alw...
3 days ago
bellingcat

Berlin Group 21, ‘Ivan’s’ Emails and Chemical Weapons Conspiracy Theories - In March this year, a new website for a group set up by two former diplomats and an Ivy League academic concerned about the activities of the Organisatio...
3 days ago
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

If COVID Leaked from a Wuhan Lab, Should We Blame Francis Bacon? - IT CAME FROM WUHAN Zhengli-Li Shi is a virologist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who is a leading expert on bat coronaviruses. In 2015, she co-auth...
3 days ago
4 gravitons

A Week Among the Pedagogues - Pedagogy courses have a mixed reputation among physicists, and for once I don’t just mean “mixed” as a euphemism for “bad”. I’ve met people who found them ...
3 days ago
Practical Ethics

A Juror’s Guide to Going Rogue - Written by Doug McConnell A jury recently acquitted several activists charged with causing £25,000 worth of damage to Shell’s HQ in London despite the defe...
3 days ago
Evo and Proud

Damunwha in South Korea - Graffiti in Ansan (Wikicommons – Piotrus) I've published a paper on the *Damunwha*children of South Korea. In that country, foreign brides, mainly ...
3 days ago
Austro-Athenian Empire

Tomfoolery in the Overhead Compartment - [cross-posted at POT] The Agoric Cafe is serving once again! In my latest video, I chat with globetrotting, gunslinging, contraband-smuggling libertarian s...
3 days ago
Eurogenes Blog

A Greek tragedy - I wasn't going to blog about the Clemente et al. "Aegean palatial civilizations" paper, because I think that it's a rather strange effort overall. But appa...
3 days ago
ribbonfarm

Comet Bob -
4 days ago
Andrew Norton

The Budget and higher education - The Commonwealth Budget has triggered confusion about higher education funding. How much does the government spend? Has there been a cut or not? The Budget...
4 days ago
Manhattan Contrarian

EPA Updates Its "Climate Change Indicators" - * It appears that some time last month the EPA provided a major update of what it calls its “climate change indicators.” The EPA’s web page is headed “Clim...
4 days ago
The Evolution Institute

Evolutionary Mismatch, Partisan Politics, and Climate Change: A Tragedy in Three Acts - Climate change is the quintessential Tragedy of the Commons1 problem of our time. We are collectively exploiting the world’s resources and producing poll...
4 days ago
Rhys Ford

Thursday’s BORKING REPORT! - Today’s BORKING REPORT! It’s an overcast day over here in Potato Land. About 65ºF (18ºC) but it doesn’t look like it’s going to rain. I see a hint of blue ...
4 days ago
Joel D. Hirst's Blog | A More Intense Significance

My Last Night in Yerevan - The quiet hum of Ashtarak highway reverberates in the background; the wind rustles the trees, new leaves – excited to show them off after a long cold winte...
4 days ago
Ex Urbe

Online talks: Apocalyptic Renaissance, Teaching Power in History, Inquisition, Rare Books - Hello, readers! The past few weeks have been very intense for me with the 2021 run of my Papal Election Simulation, but I wanted to post some links and ann...
4 days ago
Rawle Nyanzi -Rawle Nyanzi

Gamestream #1 - Today, I will be streaming a non-RPG game at 3 PM Eastern Standard Time. I hope everyone enjoys what I have to offer.
4 days ago
Alt-M

Digital Currency: Risk or Promise?—New Issue of the Cato Journal - (This editor's note is cross-posted from the Spring/Summer 2021 edition of the Cato Journal.) In 1996, Cato held its 14th Annual Monetary Conference, "T...
4 days ago
Dispatches From Turtle Island

Hiatus Notice - My day job includes tax law. The tax deadline this year is May 17, 2021. You won't be hearing from me until that deadline has passed and then I've had a ch...
4 days ago
Martin van Creveld

Under Fire (2) - Note: This article was first posted in July 2014. Almost word for word. My wife and I live on our own in a townhouse a few miles west of Jerusalem, w...
4 days ago
Andrew Batson's Blog

China census reveals the true scale of the Northeast’s decline - China’s northeastern rust belt, dominated by state industry and comparatively isolated from global trade, has been in relative economic decline for decades...
5 days ago
Pandaemonium

NAPOLEON, CHURCHILL AND HORRIBLE HISTORIES - . This essay, on the need to acknowledge the complexities of historical figures, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece ...
5 days ago
The Economics Detective

What learn-to-code websites can teach us about the future of education - I’ve spent most of my life in school. Mostly as a student but occasionally as a TA or prof. Since finishing my PhD this year and striking out into the pr...
5 days ago
The Scholar's Stage

The Navy's Knives Must Come Out - Graphic from Reuters (2019)A few weeks ago Blake Herzinger kicked up a bit of a storm when he published an essay titled “Give the U.S. Navy the Army’s Mone...
5 days ago
Secularism is a Women's Issue

Sri Lanka: Institutional theories about the use of torture - There are a number of entrenched beliefs which have become institutional doctrines within the policing system which contribute to the continuing practice...
5 days ago
Leah Schnelbach – Tor.com

18 of Our Favorite Books on Writing - [image: black typewriter on a desk] Are you a writer? Do you like learning about the creative process, either for your own projects, or just cause you thi...
5 days ago
Club Troppo

Vale David Savage, behaviouralist extraordinaire - We lost David Savage this week to a heart attack at the age of 48, leaving a wife Deborah and many colleagues around the world. He was a Queensland boy who...
5 days ago
Regie's Blog

SAVING THE WHALES (AND OTHER REASONS WHY I LOVE FOSSIL FUELS) … - Whale oil. That’s what we (humans) used to use to light our world and clean our bodies. Whale oil was pretty much the only fuel source for lamps as well a...
5 days ago
Lyman Stone on Medium

A Sad End - So Scott Winship has responded to my response to his response to my response to his article. And he’s said it’ll be his last word on the subject. That’s ...
5 days ago
RyanHoliday.net

50 (Short) Rules For Life From The Stoics - What is the job of a philosopher? “When the standards have been set,” Epictetus said, “the work of philosophy is just this, to examine and uphold the sta...
5 days ago
Political Violence @ a Glance

Would Denuclearization Make North Korea Less Dangerous? - Guest post by Francesco Bailo and Benjamin E. Goldsmith The Biden administration’s newly disclosed policy towards North Korea…
5 days ago
Lead and Gold

When intellectuals celebrated rudeness - These New York writers constituted the first intelligentsia in American history – which is a shade different from a group of intellectuals. The figures n...
5 days ago
No B-S here (I hope)

Cool the Planet or We Kill the Dog - 12th M My spaniel, Natasha, has outworn her welcome at our house. According to apex climate scientists doing their peer-reviewed work at universities, dogs...
5 days ago
SEDAA – Our Voices

What went wrong with the Labour Party? - By Khadija Khan Where did it go wrong for Labour? The party’s strong ties with the towns and cities that were once their heartlands have been slowly weaken...
6 days ago
Ideas

When I Was Young - In the process of working on my current book, I came across three different talks that I gave at various times in the past. Two are webbed videos, one a ...
1 week ago
THE LAST DITCH

Age and wisdom - Every stage of life has its joys, sorrows and consolations. Looking back, I smile at how stressful I found it to be young. I was so afraid of failure; so a...
1 week ago
Streetwise Professor

Combat Is Not Gender Normed, or Died of a Theory. Literally. - One of the developments that has distressed me most over the past years is the descent of the US military into what is now called wokism. The descent began...
1 week ago
Lost Generation Philosopher

Mother. Snapshots of Lives Outside the Limelight #1 - Author’s note: this was written on April 14, and is the first in an occasional series profiling ordinary people whose lives touched mine one way or another...
1 week ago
rethinking history

If Japan had attacked the US, but not Britain – An earlier Midway? - *If Japan had attacked the US, but not Britain - An earlier Midway?* This fun little concept comes from my previous articles about what would have happe...
1 week ago
The Syrian Intifada

Islamic State Profiles the Godfather of its Media Department - By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 May 2021 The 285th edition of Al-Naba, the weekly newsletter of the Islamic State (IS), released on 6 May, had a biograp...
1 week ago
Augean Stables

La Guerre Cognitive - Avant-hier j’ai fait une conference zoom avec ELENET sur la guerre cognitive. Voici le video. Suit mon texte, plus long. J’accepte de mes lecteurs dont le ...
1 week ago
PressThink

A current list of my top problems in pressthink, May 2021 - The things I spend the most time puzzling about these days. Ranked by urgency. Updated from time to time. The post A current list of my top problems in p...
1 week ago
The Grumpy Economist

Weisbach advice - I got a chance to see the page proofs of Michael Weisbach's upcoming book, "The Economists' Craft." This leapt out at me from the preface: A second obs...
1 week ago
Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium

Safe Heaven - Foreword to Mark Spitznagel’s book *Safe Haven [**Amazon**]* *Santa Marina — Karl Popper — Herman Hesse’s Sidharta — Mutua Muli — Porsche’s no substitute...
1 week ago
Institutional Economics

Higher corporate taxes make paying for Biden’s spending harder - I have an op-ed in the AFR noting that the Biden Administration’s proposed higher corporate tax rate will penalise US companies relative to foreign compe...
2 weeks ago
I aim to misbehave.

Discoveries - For a long time, I've enjoyed my IPAs, and a single malt scotch, and good wine. I have now found the Old Fashioned, and realize what bourbon was meant ...
2 weeks ago
A Myth in Creation

Common Conceptual Mistakes in Psychiatry & Psychology - Some common conceptual mistakes in psychiatry and psychology, in my opinion: 1. Thinking that scientific explanations must necessarily reside at a certai...
2 weeks ago
Lion of the Blogosphere

Red Planet by Robert Heinlein - Warning: I suppose this contains some minor spoilers. Over the past few years I’ve been re-reading Robert Heinlein books that I read a long time ago when I...
2 weeks ago
The Gladstone Diaries

Forget the Wallpaper. Follow the Money. - Forget the wallpaper. Forget John Lewis. Forget the curtains and the chintzy sofas. This isn't a story about the Prime Minister's divorce, or his love l...
2 weeks ago
Coordination Problem

SEJ Symposium on Covid -- open access for next month - |Peter Boettke| Ben Powell and I edited a symposium for the Southern Economic Journal on Covid -- looking at the economic logic, political economy context,...
2 weeks ago
Roy Spencer, PhD.

UAH Global Temperature Update for April 2021: -0.05 deg. C - The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2021 was -0.05 deg. C, down from the March, 2021 value of -0.01 deg. ...
2 weeks ago
waka waka waka

Service Notice - I’ve reopened the site for now, but may soon have to take it offline again for a bit. Sorry about the weird situation here.
2 weeks ago
Historinhas

Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...
2 weeks ago
Historinhas

Money “Front & Center” - This is a note to my long time readers that I have earlier this year moved my blogging to Substack. At Substack, posts are called newsletters, and so no on...
2 weeks ago
The Market Monetarist

Heading for double-digit US inflation - I have spend a lot of my time since 2008 arguing that US monetary policy was much less expansionary than most people thought and has been arguing for a mor...
2 weeks ago
Peter Zeihan

Video Dispatch: China’s Demographic Decline - Bit by bit we are getting back to normal. Over half of the American adult population is now vaccinated, and vaccines will soon be available in most locat...
2 weeks ago
Growth Economics Blog

How sensitive is GDP to capital? - This is an odd post because it is an advertisement for a new paper that is …. in an advanced draft state? “Finished” is wrong because I’m about to embark...
2 weeks ago
Against Jebel al-Lawz

The TRICIPS of the world economy - In every era, there is a conflict between the new emerging forces and the old established forces. However, stagnant forces which are not emerging are often...
2 weeks ago
MacroMania

Labor Force Participation Gaps Between the U.S. and Canada - Am hearing some talk about whether the U.S. labor market can fully recover to its pre-Covid19 levels. Is it possible that a sizeable number of workers wi...
3 weeks ago
West Hunter

Henry’s Buffalo - Probably most of our readers don’t have personal experience with old-fashioned, Pleistocene-style big game hunting. The only place in which it is still po...
3 weeks ago
History for Atheists

The Great Library of Alexandria – Part One - The latest video on the History for Atheists video channel is Part One of a two-part episode on the Great Library of Alexandria. What was the Great Libra...
3 weeks ago
Fencing Bear at Prayer

Big Bear and the Trinitarians - *It was just supposed to be an interview...* *A conversation between brothers who have both been on the front lines of the culture war.* But then came the ...
3 weeks ago
Chris Blattman

IPA’s weekly links - Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. A quick note, my posting frequency has slowed down in 2021, thanks for sticking with it....
3 weeks ago
interfluidity

Our governance problem in a nutshell - Will Wilkinson writes: But “my way or the highway” cannot be the basis of any form of genuinely liberal politics. All durable liberal societies have evolve...
3 weeks ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

Statement regarding No10 claims today - The Prime Minister’s new Director of Communications Jack Doyle, at the PM’s request, has made a number of false accusations to the media. 1. Re Dyson. I d...
3 weeks ago
Dominic Cummings's Blog

Statement regarding No10 claims today - The Prime Minister’s new Director of Communications Jack Doyle, at the PM’s request, has made a number of false accusations to the media. 1. Re Dyson. I d...
3 weeks ago
Jennifer Marohasy

My Daughter is Getting Married, And - They went in search of oysters. He didn’t find a single pearl, rather he found the whole world. That’s true love. I’ve always wanted the very best for my...
3 weeks ago
In Moscow’s Shadows

The Grand Old Sergei Shoigu, He Had 10(0),000 Men… - Oh, the grand old Duke of York He had ten thousand men He marched them up to the top of the hill And he marched them down again There’s a fair amount of be...
3 weeks ago
Thermidor

Benefits of exhibition stands - There are numerous businesses that want to earn success and development. Now success is surely possible but you have to work hard for it. A firm owner even...
3 weeks ago
A Fine Theorem

Statistics for Strategic Scientists – A Clark for Isaiah Andrews - Today’s 2021 Clark Medal goes to the Harvard econometrician Isaiah Andrews, and no surprise. Few young econometricians have produced such a volume of work ...
3 weeks ago
Taki's Magazine

Minnesota Gats - One of the stranger things to happen in what is a very strange age is that the great state of Minnesota has become the focus of race relations in America. ...
4 weeks ago
Jim’s Blog

Make women property again - Women are different. Very different. This is not a game post. This post is about the application of Game and Evolutionary Game Theory to religion and polit...
4 weeks ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

Fifty Years of Fantasy Gaming and You Still Don’t Get It - Fifty years ago the first fantasy campaign was announced thusly: “There will be a medieval ‘Braunstein’ April 17, 1971 at the home of Dave Arneson from 130...
4 weeks ago
Andrew Holt, Ph.D.

Guest Essay: Santiago Matamoros in the Americas by Alfred J. Andrea - Main Image: Santiago Mataespañois, (Santiago, Killer of Spaniards) Museo das Peregrinacións e de Santiago. Photo by A. J. Andrea. See also: Guest Essay: Sa...
4 weeks ago
Nec Pluribus Impar

Misère de l’épidémiologie et variant anglais du SARS-CoV-2 - [Cet article est une traduction du billet de blog que j’ai écrit en anglais pour CSPI et qui a été publié le 9 avril. Une traduction a été réalisée par @...
4 weeks ago
The Mermaid's Tale

How to participate in the 2021 AAA meetings! - Hi all, I'm president/chair (conflicting info as to which) of the Biological Anthropology Section (BAS) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA...
4 weeks ago
Discover Blogs

What the Oldest Known Cave Painting Reveals About Early Humans (and What It Doesn't) - Ancient humans began to draw symbols on caves at least 45,500 years ago, according to a surprising finding on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
4 weeks ago
Andrew Gillen's Blog

Meir Kohn on how he became a libertarian - Meir Kohn: [Under socialism] there is no material incentive for effort and not much incentive of any kind. There are two kinds of people who have no proble...
4 weeks ago
Evonomics

How Redistribution Makes America Richer - Modeling the numbers on bottom-up and middle-out economics. The post How Redistribution Makes America Richer appeared first on Evonomics .
4 weeks ago
Stories by Brendan O'Neill on Medium

Philip knew real suffering, unlike the Sussexes - *The Australian, 13 April 2021* There was a dark, sad irony to the Harry and Meghan circus that cast a shadow over the final months of Prince Philip’s li...
4 weeks ago
Cantercap

“Ain’t Nothin’ but a Party.” - The Tragedy of Liquid Excess – Ultimately, 4 – 6% inflation (conservatively) will stall the bull market – For now, … More
5 weeks ago
Inconvenient Facts

Inconvenient Facts is driving Norwegian warming hysterics nuts - Other than by misspelling "fjord," how would an American geologist draw the ire of a pair of Norwegian politicians? Answer: Write a book that counters t...
5 weeks ago
Facing Islam Blog

The Six-Thousand Martyrs of Georgia (†1615) - *On April 10 we commemorate two large groups of Georgian Orthodox martyrs under the sword of Islam: the Six-Thousand (†1615) recounted below, and the Mar...
5 weeks ago
Henry the Young King Blog

The Lion by the Ant Was Slain. A Guest Post by Richard Willis - Today I am very happy to welcome Richard Willis, the historian and friend of mine, to the blog. Richard has kindly decided to share his thoughts on the p...
5 weeks ago
Paula Wright

Articles published in The Post Millennial - Link to published articles-> https://thepostmillennial.com/author/paula-wright https://thepostmillennial.com/author/paula-wright
1 month ago
Andrew Norton

The decline of liberalism in early 20th century Australia (a post on the third volume of David Kemp’s history of Australian liberalism) - The first volume of David Kemp’s history of Australian liberalism told the surprising story of how, between 1788 and 1860, a penal colony became an early l...
1 month ago
Cameron Harwick

Money’s Mutation of the Modern Moral Mind: The Simmel Hypothesis and the Cultural Evolution of WEIRDness - A great number of theories have been offered as to the root of the difference between the modern mind and the premodern mind. One neglected account comes f...
1 month ago
Blog Archives – Cameron Harwick

Money’s Mutation of the Modern Moral Mind: The Simmel Hypothesis and the Cultural Evolution of WEIRDness - A great number of theories have been offered as to the root of the difference between the modern mind and the premodern mind. One neglected account comes f...
1 month ago
Norse and Viking Ramblings

The Tale of the 'Holiday Shocker' - Christine Fell in 1965 from a photo kindly provided by Gillian Fellows-Jensen One of my most treasured possessions is my copy of Sigurður Nordal's scho...
1 month ago
The History of China

#212 – Ming 7: The Incredible Vanishing Emperor! - The civil war between the Jianwen Emperor and his uncle, the Prince of Yan, rages on across the realm. Both sides will feel the terror and pain of the fear...
1 month ago
How Material Are We? – MADE IN AMERICA

Opening Day, 2021: Baseball’s Crises - Baseball is back! Well, sort of. The Toronto Blue Jays may still be banned from playing in Toronto. At least initially, fan attendance (outside of Arlingto...
1 month ago
Uneasy Money

Monetarism v. Hawtrey and Cassel - The following is an updated and revised version of the penultimate section of my paper with Ron Batchelder “Pre-Keynesian Theories of the Great Depressison...
1 month ago
Uncouth Reflections

Damn Yankees - Fenster wrote: Fenster has a good friend, a doppelganger, really, who is on the board of a non-profit farm in upstate New York. The farm is situated in the...
1 month ago
ThinkMarkets

PROMARKET – Economic History series: “Power is Evil in Itself” - PROMARKET has launched a new Economic History series. Stefan Kolev’s fabulous first article of the series discusses “The Ordoliberal Quest for a Privilege-...
1 month ago
Supply and Demand (in that order)

Misleading Baltimore Stats for Celebrating Lax on Crime - In 2020, the City of Baltimore stopped prosecuting "minor charges" such as drug crimes. The headlines are that 2020 crime "went down a lot" from 2019. ...
1 month ago
Healthy Curiousity

A Face for the Faces We Meet - The Neurocognitive Basis of Bias Against People Who Look DifferentSummary: Neuroimaging revealed when people saw an anomalous face, the fusiform gyri and ...
1 month ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Do the self-employed opt out of the Canada Pension Plan? - In 2017, anyone with earnings was required to pay $4.95 in Canada Pension Plan contributions for every $100 of earnings (up to a maximum earnings threshold...
1 month ago
Rabble Rouser

How Social Norms Create a Culture of Censorship - Part 2: Rising censoriousness can be seen in everything from changes in popular idioms to extensive survey data.
1 month ago
Status 451

Movie Night – Dry Wind (2020) - Marketing a movie in the midst of a pandemic is a tough job. Doubly so when it’s a piece of esoteric queer cinema. At least one clever person has figured o...
1 month ago
When You Say Tomato and Your Sister Says Tomahto – spottedtoad

“Little Platoons” - In Little Platoons: a Defense of Family in a Competitive Age, the writer Matt Feeney offers a finely observed and persuasively argued set of reflections on...
1 month ago
Idiosyncratic Whisk

Brig Burton and Carly Burton, again - I have good news, or at least not bad news, I guess. I sold my business to Brig Burton in 2010. He ended up defrauding me in that transaction. I had to...
1 month ago
GayPatriot

Humiliation: The Greatest Gift Our Adversaries Have For America - The country of slut and body shaming is about to learn the positive influence of shame. The only question will be, will we learn shame’s lessons? America ...
1 month ago
Marquette Warrior

Marquette to Update University Seal - From the Office of the Provost today: • In case you missed it: Committee working on updating university seal – A university committee appointed by Preside...
1 month ago
Armed and Dangerous

This is a test - This is a test to see if the database server issue that froze this blog is resolved.
2 months ago
Justin Erik Halldór Smith

Verbal Mood in Sakha: A Comprehensive Analysis - These are notes I have compiled on the system of the Sakha verbal mood (Sakha: туохтуур киэбэ; Russian: наклонение глагола). I am drawing here mostly on th...
2 months ago
Mark Manson

The Virtue of Delayed Gratification - What do Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Shintoism, and just about any other “ism” that's survived more than a few Kool-A...
2 months ago
milescorak

“We don’t have a chance in hell …”, Canada’s poverty reduction strategy needs real voice - The Minister of Employment and Social Development in the Canadian federal government, Ahmed Hussen, recently tabled an annual report taking stock of the co...
2 months ago
ERIC POSNER

Force majeure, antitrust, and more - Why all the Sturm and Drang Over Force Majeure?, Clauses and Controversies Podcast Why Joe Biden Must Not Shy Away From the Full Power of the Presidency Wh...
2 months ago
Priceonomics Blog

The Fortune 500 CEOs with the Best (and Worst) Headshots - What do the headshots of the world's top executives have to do with the performance of the companies they lead?
2 months ago
Kids Prefer Cheese

Sam Peltzman Drops the Mic - As you may recall from my NY Times a piece a few years ago, one has to recognize that the regulatory problem is not just parametric optimization. In my ...
2 months ago
Freethinking Economist

Is all GDP created equal? - Scott Corfe of the Social Market Foundation* has with his team produced an eye-catching report about gambling regulation**. The major headline: while gambl...
2 months ago
chrishernandezauthor

EBR: The Most Beautiful Battle Rifle EVAR - I put my trigger finger on the safety of my M14 Enhanced Battle Rifle (EBR), the most beautiful rifle in the entire world. As soon as the team leader gave ...
2 months ago
Peter Turchin

The dark side of “eating lower on the food chain” - Nine years ago I made one of the most consequential decisions of my life—I switched to the so-called Paleo Diet (“paleo” is a bit misleading, as I explai...
2 months ago
Agony and Hope

The Magic of Finding Your Spouse - Hello, friends! Yes, I know it’s been five months since I last updated Agony & Hope (eek!) – I appreciate your patience with my non-activity. Unfortunately...
2 months ago
readmorewritemorethinkmorebemore

BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, Ep 22: "Smithereens" with James Buchanan Wallace - For Episode 22 (our last episode!), I am joined by Dr. James Buchanan "Bru" Wallace to talk about religion, techniques of the self, guilt, the imperat...
2 months ago
TheRalphRetort.com

WHEELS OF DECEPTION: Cawthorn Caught Lying About Car Crash That Crippled Him - Madison Cawthorn, one of the the youngest people ever elected to the… The post WHEELS OF DECEPTION: Cawthorn Caught Lying About Car Crash That Crippled H...
2 months ago
Fredrik deBoer

the future - Hey gang, I’m excited to say that Substack approached me recently and made an attractive financial offer for me to blog over there. Given that I’ve been ou...
2 months ago
Bernard Gaynor

Gay activist who claims sex with children is not always harmful fronts campaign for gender indoctrination in NSW pre-schools - The Australian gay lobby was quick to spruik that global 'gay icon' Peter Tatchell opposed Mark Latham's efforts to remove gender indoctrination from NSW...
2 months ago
Caitlin Green

Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and the evidence for people named Muhammad in medieval England - The aim of the following draft is to offer some thoughts on a local name from thirteenth-century Lincolnshire, *Macamathehou*, that involves a version of...
2 months ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Finito Sic Semper Tyrannis - We are done here. turcopolier.com is working now. I have cancelled all guest author ships here. RSS is enabled on the new blog. Comments will no longer be ...
3 months ago
Fabius Maximus website

Nazis Take Over America and Establish a New Reich - With Joe Biden safely in the White House, America’s most powerful corporations have launched a new privatized reign of terror almost identical to Hitler’...
3 months ago
Shoplifting in the Marketplace of Ideas

Quick Update - One of the usual precursors of the death of a blog is the post that begins “Sorry it’s been so long since I last updated.” But, Sorry it’s been so long sin...
3 months ago
Stories by Michael Tracey on Medium

‘Feel Our Pain,’ Politicians Demand - Congress is increasingly not a place where the average member partakes in what’s generally understood as legislative activity, but rather engages in a va...
3 months ago
Jeb Kinnison

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

The limits of the proposed 'behavioral immune system' - Many evolutionary psychologists argue that humans have a sophisticated ‘behavioral immune system’. We are, so the story goes, endowed with a suite of sop...
3 months ago
Homo Consumericus

The Moral Hypocrisy of Celebrities – The Case of Seth Rogen - If you are going to signal your virtue, make sure to live out your convictions fully.
3 months ago
Heather's Homilies

Life Without Trump - I feel like a big weight is gone from my shoulders now that the White House is seeing Life Without Trump. However, he is still infecting the GOP like a f...
3 months ago
The Independent Whig

The Tragic Effect of the Left’s One-Dimensional World View on the Multi-Dimensional World - I recommend the documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” by historian Shelby Steele. Two things about it struck me. 1) Steele’s term “Poetic Truth” sounds ...
3 months ago
The Sociological Eye

ASSAULT ON THE CAPITOL: 2021, 1917, 1792 - The iconic image of January 6 is a protestor sitting with his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk, and another in the Senate Chair. These are reminiscent of ...
3 months ago
Michael O. Church

A Reply to Alex Danco: Revisiting MacLeod and the Three Ladders in the Wake of Trump - I will soon be migrating to an alternative site, because WordPress is garbage for running garbage ads without my say; stay tuned. Eight years ago, I wrote ...
3 months ago
the fifth wave | Information and influence in the age of the public

My most excellent cable news adventure - Five days ago I received an email from a person who turned out to be a young woman, I’ll call her “Karma,” inviting me to a television interview on a famou...
3 months ago
The Mitrailleuse

memenangkan pelanggaran agen slot online - bernama sebagus kesempatan campur tinggi terbaik proyeknya agen slot online pelanggaran menambahkan belum dengan konvensi salah kepada keraguan luar meng...
3 months ago
Medieval Matters – Tor.com

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Alfred the Great, and Viking History - [image: Assassin's Creed: Valhalla] A couple years ago on this site I “reviewed” Assassin’s Creed: Origins, which takes place in Cleopatra’s Egypt, the sa...
3 months ago
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club

Freedom For the Speech We Oppose - This piece from 2015, published by *The Philosophers' Magazine*, is something of a blast from the past, but it still seems to me to be about right. It al...
3 months ago
Slate Star Codex

Introducing Astral Codex Ten - Thanks for bearing with me the past few months. My new blog is at https://astralcodexten.substack.com/. I’ll try to have a less unwieldy domain name workin...
3 months ago
PARALLAX OPTICS

Land > Moldbug / Jim - Land’s analysis is always cold and calculated, featuring zero ego or emotion.
4 months ago
Easily Distracted

Curse Your Sudden and Inevitable Betrayal - The question on my mind this morning is why anybody is loyal to Trump. We are reading today of how Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump forced the Secret Service...
4 months ago
The Other Side of History

Muh Private Company - Over the past two weeks we have witnessed big tech flexing their muscles against President Trump and against a social media site. After a month of labell...
4 months ago
Rachel Edwards — Medium

The Classist Undertones of Anti-MAGA Sentiment - Democrat politicians wearing cloths worn historically by an African empire responsible for enslaving conquered peoples and selling them into the Euro-Ameri...
4 months ago
Talisman Gate, Again

The ‘Winning’ Narrative, and the Promise of the Trumpian Way - (75k words; approximate reading time 4hrs 45 mins) Why hello there! I see you looking perplexed, that you’re searching for something. Can I help you? What’...
4 months ago
Setting the Record Straight

We lost. Now what? - I was preparing this post, anticipating that nothing would happen on January 6, that the certification of Biden would go forward with minor bluster and maj...
4 months ago
EVOLVING ECONOMICS

Best books I read in 2020 - The best books I *read* in 2020 - generally released in other years - were: - Albert Camus, *The Plague* - Tom Chivers, *The AI Does...
4 months ago
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog

Happy New Year 2021 - Health and Happiness to all.
4 months ago
Little Atoms

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

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4 months ago
Neven Sesardić

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

The current concept of ‘violent crime’ is outdated, racist, and a tool of white supremacy - Key points What the law considers violent crime is too broad and needlessly locks up Black men more than white males. It has been proven that white people ...
5 months ago
The Baseline Scenario

Quick Housekeeping Note - By James Kwak I’ve been asked if you can sign up for email notifications when I write stories on Medium. Apparently you can, but the option is a bit buried...
5 months ago
Kantoos Economics – Kantoos Economics

Get ready to supply Boomers with land parcels - Realtors, get ready to supply Boomers with land parcels. What does that mean to us who are land professionals? What type of land parcels are they looking...
5 months ago
Falkenblog

Dates of US Bear Markets Since 1873 - It's useful to test longer-term rules, such as trend-following, across many cycles. To this end, it is useful to have dates for bull and bear markets. If...
5 months ago
Sam Altman

The Strength of Being Misunderstood - A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong ...
5 months ago
Noahpinion

Noahpinion has moved to a new website! - Well folks, it's been a fun 10-year run at this little website. I'm moving on to a new platform: Substack! Here's the new Noahpinion: https://noahpin...
5 months ago
MountainGuerrilla

Update and New Contact Information - For those new to the page, since the move to Patreon, you can follow the weekly conversation there, at patreon.com/mountainguerrillablog. There are even so...
5 months ago
Macro and Other Market Musings

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

Biden's "unexpected powers of resistance" against the blob - David Bromwich, writing in the *London Review of Books* on Biden’s foreign policy nerve: On the face of things, Biden has surrounded himself with the con...
6 months ago
Harry's Place

‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage - Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than the govern...
6 months ago
Jacobite

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

Yes Atlantic, What If Friendships, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? - The ridiculousness of the article is crafting these two great life riches – spousal love and deep friendship – into competitors. Life needs both and each d...
6 months ago
Hotep: The meaning and definition

Subconscious Racism Amongst Whites? - I am compelled to believe that the majority of white people (only in America?) have some kind of subconscious racism implanted in their minds by the indo...
6 months ago
Critical Thinking Applied

元彼・元カノと絶対に復縁するための復縁方法 - 別れてもずっと心の底にひっかかっていた元カノ。なんとかやり直したい、と思っているあなた。復縁したいならばどう […]
7 months ago
Handle's Haus

Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies” - Two years ago, when reviewing “The Benedict Option”, I wrote, “Almost all Dreher’s critics accuse him of crying wolf or being a Chicken Little at best … Me...
7 months ago
Academic Wonderland

Likely University Wins in Sept. Appeals - Three accused student lawsuits went before Appeals Courts in September—Marian University (Seventh Circuit), University of Missouri (Eighth Circuit), and Un...
7 months ago
Veracities

JoEP's excellent editorial on standards and practices - I was so thrilled to read this editorial in the Journal of Economic Psychology. I think they've hit the right balance on every point except possibly 14, ...
7 months ago
Stories by Tom X Hart on Medium

Biotin for hair: what can this vitamin do to hair? - What is this vitamin? How does it act on the wires? Does it make hair grow faster? For more insights jump to: best biotin shampoo We know that our hair l...
8 months ago
PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS

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

Now Posting At Substack - I'll be writing at The Popehat Report at Substack, and (generally) not here. This blog will remain as a historical artifact and collection of writing. Not ...
8 months ago
Civil Politics Blog

2020 Update - Civil Politics remains a free resource and we continue to support some partners who we previously worked with but due to time and funding constraints, we a...
8 months ago
Order of the Coif

Punish the Jezebel, Or, The King versus Joan in Parliament, 1432 - In 1432, a great lady appeared at the bar of the House of Lords. For my money, it was the trial of the century. She came with a first-class legal team of s...
9 months ago
vitam fracta

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

Was Abolitionism a Free-Market Triumph? - The Economic Historian blog has a fascinating discussion at the moment on the “New History of Capitalism” (NHC) school of historiography, and its attempt...
9 months ago
untethered

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

where the cupcake lovers at? -
9 months ago
Ballandalus

Mapping the Mercantilist World Economy - via Mapping the Mercantilist World Economy
9 months ago
Insitome - Medium

Humanity’s second “cradle” in Southeast Asia - Pleistocene Sundaland This week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib and Spencer talk about a topic which they hav...
9 months ago
Darwinian Reactionary

Religion As Source of the Social Emotions, part 2 - In The Meaning of Human Existence, E.O. Wilson writes: “Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of … Continue reading →
9 months ago
Raedwald

The spin on the spin - There's been something of a triumph of spin on the EU's MFF share-out. Oh I don't mean the headlines, which we summarised last week, but the rationale. Spa...
9 months ago
La Bocca della Verità

The biggest intellectual nothing burger of the last century? - Douglas Hofstadter's *Gödel, Escher, Bach* contained some interesting musings on recursion, computation, self-reference, and so on. But of course is main "...
9 months ago
Abandoned Footnotes

Unscrupulous Flattery - (A footnote on Crabtree, Kern, and Siegel, “Cults of Personality, Preference Falsification, and the Dictator’s Dilemma”, *Journal of Theoretical Politics* ...
9 months ago
The Everyday Economist

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

The social justice steamroller: a pervasive and profound attack on citizenship - Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue, discussed how centre-right parties have not found a language to deal with ...
10 months ago
Cop in the Hood

Migrating the blog - It should be back soon. If you really want it find something right now, it’s all still there, just hiding at a slightly different (temporary) address: http...
10 months ago
Dani Rodrik's weblog

Economics' race (and other) problems - There’s been much discussion in recent days about Economics’ race problem. Some of what has come out is quite disturbing. I have not said much, but I have ...
11 months ago
The Ex-Muslim

Turkey: 28.5% of Generation Z have abandoned Islam - A recent study conducted by Gezici Research Center recorded a massive shift in social and religious attitudes in Turkey among cohorts of Generation Z. In t...
11 months ago
A Free Left Blog

Black Lives Matter - how should we respond? - *This article was posted yesterday, 10th June 2020, on the SDPtalk website.* Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a masterpiece of political marketing. It’s a sloga...
11 months ago
Douglas L. Campbell

John Cochrane on Stephanie Kelton's New Book: ‘The Deficit Myth’ Review: Years of Magical Thinking - John Cochrane has a review of Stephanie Kelton's new book, "The Deficit Myth". Here it is, for those who don't have access, with a few comments from me, o...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months ago
Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog

Not which ones, but how many? - Perspective on research from Guoer Liu, doctoral student in Political Science, and recipient of the 2019 Roy Pierce Award “Not which ones, but how many” i...
11 months 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...
11 months ago
Opinion - The Philosophers' Magazine

Philosophy, In a Sense - Constantine Sandis on Doing Nothing in the Time of Covid-19
1 year 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, ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 year 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 year 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...
1 year 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? ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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.
1 year 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.
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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.
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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)
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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.
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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. ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
2 years ago
Bloody shovel

Blog moving to Spandrell.com - ***This blog is moving to Spandrell.com ***Please update your bookmarks/RSS readers. Spandrell.com, two ls. First they banned Youtubers, but I didn’t say a...
2 years ago
The Pleistocene Scene – A.P. Van Arsdale Blog

Running for Science: Science for Running – The Complete Series - The 12-episode series is now a wrap! Thank you to everyone who helped in the process, both as a contributor and as a listener. This post is intended to bri...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
In Due Course | Building the Republic of Letters, one keystroke at a time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When big data are bad data - As archaeologists turn increasingly to the analysis of large, systematic databases, we need to confront an epistemological problem: How do we identify bad...
2 years ago
Cultural Cognition Blog

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

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

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

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

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

Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle - Gloria Steinem once famously said that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Point taken, but let’s play with it a bit. Let’s ask whether a woma...
2 years ago
Colm Gillis Author

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

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

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

Blog moving to new address - A taste for desert landscapes has moved here.
2 years ago
Free Banking

New Release: Cato Journal on The Future of Monetary Policy - This issue of the Cato Journal is dedicated to Allan H. Meltzer who passed away on May 8, 2017. Allan spoke at the 1st Annual Monetary Conference in 1983...
3 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,...
3 years ago
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Two Stories - Improvisation Is the Heart of Music “The rest was pure Arabian Nights. Gazelle-eyed maidens with perfumed robes brought inlaid boxes of Turkish delight an...
3 years ago
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Caixin’s investigation of CEFC and Chairman Ye Jianming - On March 1, Caixin broke the news that Chairman Ye Jianming of the China CEFC Energy Co. has been detained by PRC authorities, and is under investigation f...
3 years ago
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...
3 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...
3 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.
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 years ago
The Travel Diaries of Mr Wallace

CHAPTER 60. Pacific Islands - The last chapter of Mr Wallace's travel diary.
3 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...
3 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) ...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 years ago
Keith Burgess-Jackson

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) - Autie was born on this date 178 years ago.
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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/
3 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...
3 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...
3 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,...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
4 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 ...
4 years ago
The Diecast

Diecast #197: BATTLEGROUNDS, Westerado, Call of Duty - Hosts: Rutskarn, Shamus, Campster and Baychel.
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Being Classically Liberal

Progressivism is a Cancer to True Liberalism - The Left now owns the "liberal" label - but they're anything but.
4 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.
4 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...
4 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...
4 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....
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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…
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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?
4 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...
4 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
Capitalism's Cradle

The Coming UK Productivity Recovery - Duncan Weldon has written an excellent article about the UK’s productivity puzzle. Slowing...
5 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...
5 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, ...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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....
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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 […]
5 years ago
The XX Committee

What Russian Intelligence Knows About Hillary Clinton - It is my privilege to reveal to you this highly classified National Security Agency intercept which reveals just what Russian intelligence knew about Hilla...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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...
6 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,...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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
7 years ago
hbd chick

not totally slacking off! - i have been researching crime and punishment in medieval europe so you don’t have to! (^_^) remember my last post sneak preview: violence, punishment, outb...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 years ago
educationrealist

Teacher Quality Pseudofacts, Part II - In Part I, I looked at the Richwine/Biggs criteria for judging school teachers’ cognitive ability based on GRE scores, which primarily involves secondary s...
9 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.
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
11 years ago
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