Thinking Out Aloud

Daniel Kuehn makes a point that is often overlooked in discussions of labour markets and unemployment: To be in a labor surplus, you must ...

Picking on a vulnerable minority group has a great advantage and a great disadvantage. The great advantage is that one can sell effortless v...

Natural selection is one of the great breakthrough ideas in human understanding of ourselves and of our world. Particularly when added to t...

This is based on a comment I made here . With the ongoing public protests , Syria is in the situation where "honest (public) emotion...

This is based on comments I made here . Bob Murphy has a terrific (and funny) post on public debt and in what (if any) sense it is collecti...

There has been (and in a few places such as Queensland, still is) a legal defence in cases of murder that provides mitigation in cases of vi...

The fundamental normative conception of natural law theory is that, in the words of (pdf) natural law theorist David Oderberg: natural law...

US Presidents generally fulfill, or seek to fulfill, their campaign promises ( via ): Michael Krukones in Promises and Performance: Preside...

Glen Greenwald (who is not remotely a supporter of Ron Paul), puts his Presidential candidacy in a striking context ( via ). I often disagr...

This is based on a comment I made here . What people fail to notice about the "traditional" view of marriage as being people of th...

Arab Spring or Islamist Winter? is the title of a new piece (behind subscription wall) by Michael Totten. The Islamist surge is not good f...

Monotheism typically both universalises morality—on the grounds that we are all children of God, all part of the same moral order—and subver...

This is based on a comment I made here . The idea of the Euro was simple—a Deutschmark for everyone who signed up. With Deutschmark interest...

The term ‘totalitarian’ was originally coined by Mussolini : ironic, since Fascist Italy was not a totalitarian state. Most land, industry ...

This is the second part of my review of Charles Higham’s The Civilization of Angkor . The first part is in my previous post . "Sun King...

Charles Higham’s The Civilization of Angkor is very much focussed on the rise, achievement and decline of the civilisation of Angkor : of w...

Equality involves considerable complexity under apparent simplicity. The US Declaration of Independence famously declared that: We hold the...