Thursday, April 30, 2020

Pandemic epistemology: discovery, feedback, ideological pomposity and banana peels.

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I was going to forbear from posting on the Covid-19 pandemic , but this post by Arnold Kling prompted some more general observations about ...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Making sense of the Arab explosion

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Pastoralist peoples exploding out of the their lands and conquering farming peoples is a recurring feature of human history. Likely exp...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Self-refuting scholarship

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[ NB: this piece has been updated to incorporate links to further relevant scholarship .] One of the signs of the increasing intellectua...
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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Working class alienation as a driver of political polarisation

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This is based on a comment I made here . The US has a legislated two Party system. (Left-cynics say that if the Soviet Communist Party h...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Firms, Cities, States: who has open borders and why?

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This is based on a comment I made here . Econblogger Robin Hanson notes that firms and cities have open borders and argues that: So if...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Montesquieu and the US: explaining the US's Presidential aberration

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That pioneer political scientist  Montesquieu 's theory of the separation of powers  was both a very odd take on the English system of ...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Giving something away for free is not a sign of it having value

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The progressivist push against citizenship took another big leap forward with the British Labour Party decision committing the Party to gi...
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