Thinking Out Aloud

Postings on books (mainly non-fiction), a few films and matters of interest by Lorenzo from Oz (aka Downunder)

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

The urban rural divide in the US and other complexities of polarisation

Former libertarian, now progressive, Will Wilkinson has a report up on the rural urban divide in US politics (pdf), connecting the conc...

Monday, July 8, 2019

Silver is the monetary metal with proven historical resilience

This is based on a comment I made here : Milton Friedman suggested that the pre-1873 mix of silver standard, gold standard, and dual stan...

Friday, July 5, 2019

Save us from historically tone deaf academics living in intellectual bubbles

The Evolution Institute wants to apply up to date Darwinism to politics . In their own words: The Federalist Papers sought to convince t...

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Clades not clusters: about the folk theory of race

A clade is a group of organisms with a common ancestors. Identifying clades in human genetics maps out the ancestry of human groups. Like ...

Friday, June 14, 2019

How to play intersectionality

I recently read, in quick succession, “ Whiteness as Property ” published in 1993 by Cheryl L. Harris and Kimberle Crenshaw’s 1991 essay “...

Friday, June 7, 2019

Sex, Sexuality and doing evolutionary reasoning badly

This post by Darwinian Reactionary provides an excellent example of using evolutionary reasoning badly. He is using evolutionary reason...

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