Thinking Out Aloud

This is based on a comment I made here . The problem with zoning solutions for traffic congestion problems is that they do not work. In...

This is based on a comment I made here . Matt Yglesias is a very clever guy, so it is sad to read him writing Rortarian mush . Yes, of ...

This is the second part of my review of David Chandler’s A History of Cambodia (2nd edition). The first part is in my previous post . Betwe...

I mentioned to a friend that I was interested in why Buddhism and won out over Hinduism in South-East Asia, when matters had gone the other ...

This is based on a comment I made here . I do not like the Austrian concept of "malinvestment" because what is or is not a good i...

Went to a paper at Melbourne University by Francois Soyer on Monstrosities of Nature: Demonic Possession, Ambiguous Gender and the Inquisiti...

Striking events such as the recent England riots provide opportunities for all sorts of attempts to “explain” the events (in this case riot...

How do you judge a political party? From their rhetoric? From their behaviour in legislatures? By their activists? By their voters? From the...

A friend who is a registered wizard (no, really) used the term “post modern conservatives”. The term niggled at me until I decided he was on...

Political scientist Xavier Marquez has proposed a suggestive political triad building on Albert O. Hirschmann’s analysis of exit, voice an...

This concludes my review of archaeologist David W. Anthony’s The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Step...

This continues my review of archaeologist David W. Anthony’s The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Step...