Objects Have Free Will; People Don’t
A review of The Hunger Games: Mockingbird: Part II. And some Rube Goldberg machines.
Author: Vikram Bath
Four Reasons You Probably Haven’t Thought of to be Horrified by Trump’s Presidency
Not paranoid enough!
What Trump has in Common with a Subsistence Farmer
Not paying taxes for 18 years is not necessarily tax evasion
The Straw Consequentialist Tries to Fix an Election
Consequentialists are allowed to think about the consequences of their actions. That’s the whole point.
Why Are There So Few Female Econ Bloggers?
Blogging is fun. Why do so few women in the economics profession do it? Vikram mansplains.
I Want to be Part of Western Civilization Too
Donald Trump is not the person who said the most annoying thing about race this week.
A New Love
Remember the embarrassing Chinese laundry detergent commercial? Here is an uncontroversial one.
How that Machine Algorithm Ended up being Racist
Racism can be a direct consequence of excluding race as a factor when you make judgments
An Unfair, Post-Hoc Critique of Nate Silver
Trump’s probability of winning the nomination was not 1.5625%.
Pre-peeled Oranges and Owning Your Ignorance
Are we addicted to outrage or just narcissistic opinion-having?
Aubrey McClendon, The Gambler
A CEO crashing his car is an accident. A CEO crashing his car and dying a day after being indicted for criminal charges is not.
Why was this Officer Held Responsible for his Actions?
A win for Black Lives Matter creates suspicion in China.
