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 Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Judge Crawford easily wins in Wisconsin despite or because of Musk’s 25 million spent on her opponen…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yes, but everybody knows that Israel is held to the standard of perfection while other countries are… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/2554 at final count but an easy 9 point lead on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25The most important stat is civilian:military ratios. My link is to a listing of estimates. The vario… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Did you hear about New York University cancelling Dr. Joanne Liu's speech? Just happened earlier tod…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It’s being widely reported that Facebook is taking down recent posts by historian Heather Cox Richar… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Worth noting that the Wisconsin Supreme Court went to the Democrat by 57%.
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