Ideology is the Enemy: Prelude
Over the next several weeks months I will be writing about the recent ascendance of ideology in the United States and why it worries me. Specifically, I worry that the voting public’s generations-long desire...
Daily Archive: May 6, 2013
Perhaps You Should Adjust Your Priorities
The Ottawa Senators took it to the Montreal Canadiens in last night’s playoff game, eventually winning 6-1. It had been close for much of the game, but things quickly got away from the Habs...
At My Real Job
Libertarianism.org has picked up the second installment of my series on the socialist calculation debate. And this month’s Cato Unbound is on libertarian-conservative fusionism — in essence, the idea that libertarians fit most naturally...
What Alyssa Rosenberg Gets Wrong About Iron Man 3 (Spoilers)
I just read Alyssa Rosenberg’s write-up on Iron Man 3. I like most of what Rosenberg writes, even when I deeply disagree with her. For more insightful commentary on entertainment and culture I think...
Iron Man 3: One Big Joke
Tony Stark suffers from PTSD, Pepper Pots is mad because he bought her a giant stuffed rabbit for Christmas, and an enigmatic terrorist called the Mandarin is taking responsibility for supposed suicide bombings in...
Why Bloggers (and Reporters!) Should be Statistically Literate.
I’m going to leave the political dimensions regarding the prognosticating about the Medicaid study to my co-blogger Elias, and instead think about the importance of statistical literacy among bloggers. Over the past 18 months...
