Tyler Cowen has an excellent response up to this bit from Bryan Caplan on education. Here’s Bryan: The other day, Tyler Cowen challenged me to name any country that I consider under-educated. None came...
Note: I hope I’m not boring everyone with these digressions into the history of the Crusades, but I’ll stick with this example because Erik brought it up originally and because it aptly demonstrates that...
Look, I don’t think all wars or even all the players involved in brewing up our wars are necessarily working with some nefarious plot in mind. But I think that war inevitably ends up...
[updated] So the pushback against my war posts is interesting and has me thinking. I suppose that if you peel back the ‘defense’ and ‘plunder’ binary you can see some other variations of war....
I’d highly recommend Walter Russell Meade on Melville’s Benito Cereno, a novella I remember slogging through in English class. Who knew high school reading lists could prove so useful?
Striking, hilarious results from OkCupid (an online dating site) reveal what different ethnic groups are really into.
In an uncharacteristically silly post, Erik asserts that all wars are either defensive or driven by “plunder.” He also suggests that the United States’ invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were somehow motivated by a...
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on About Last Night: Voting Fun in Wisconsin and FloridaThe Dems ran a gun control activist for the House in Florida? They probably weren’t going to win any… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25He's assuming an entire drawer full of can openers and also ignoring pretty much the entire field of… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yishan has an interesting take: Ok, so I am not an administration apologist but I have not heard any…
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