Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Strong Men Keep a-comin' on by Charles E. Cobb Jr.

Strong Men Keep a-comin' on by Charles E. Cobb Jr.

Tyler Cowen on Inequality and What Really Ails America by Eduardo Porter

Tyler Cowen on Inequality and What Really Ails America by Eduardo Porter

Building a Better College Ranking System. Wait, Babson Beats Harvard? by Kevin Carey

Building a Better College Ranking System. Wait, Babson Beats Harvard? by Kevin Carey

Principals in U.S. Are More Likely to Consider Their Students Poor by David Leonhardt

Principals in U.S. Are More Likely to Consider Their Students Poor by David Leonhardt

The Right, the Rich and Reciprocity by Ross Douthat

The Right, the Rich and Reciprocity by Ross Douthat

Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword Or: Why Mathematicians and Scientists don't like Philosophy but do it anyway. by Mike Alder

Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword Or: Why Mathematicians and Scientists don't like Philosophy but do it anyway. by Mike Alder

White Lies Make Social Networks Stronger by Sylvia Tippmann

White Lies Make Social Networks Stronger by Sylvia Tippmann

Neville Chamberlain, 1940 by Winston Churchill

Neville Chamberlain, 1940 by Winston Churchill

Palestinian Children Died Working On The “Terror Tunnels”. Does Anyone In The West Care? from Patterico

Palestinian Children Died Working On The “Terror Tunnels”. Does Anyone In The West Care? from Patterico

Yes, Prohibition “Worked” — In Terms of Reducing Alcohol Consumption by Patterico

Yes, Prohibition “Worked” — In Terms of Reducing Alcohol Consumption by Patterico

Don't Be So Dense About Housing by Joel Kotkin

Don't Be So Dense About Housing by Joel Kotkin

Monday, July 28, 2014

Is Race Plastic? My Trip Into the ‘Ethnic Plastic Surgery’ Minefield by Maureen O'Connor

Is Race Plastic? My Trip Into the ‘Ethnic Plastic Surgery’ Minefield by Maureen O'Connor

Can books cross borders? by Tim Parks

Can books cross borders? by Tim Parks

Spotted at last: “Homo economicus”? by Neuroskeptic

Spotted at last: “Homo economicus”? by Neuroskeptic

Average IQ by occupation (estimated from median income) from The Audacious Epigone

Average IQ by occupation (estimated from median income) from The Audacious Epigone

Turkish Researcher Claims that Virgin Mary Was a Hermaphrodite and Souls Are Dark Matter by Alex B. Berezow

Turkish Researcher Claims that Virgin Mary Was a Hermaphrodite and Souls Are Dark Matter by Alex B. Berezow

Low Education Makes Brain Age Faster by Bo Christensen

Low Education Makes Brain Age Faster by Bo Christensen

My Father, Fiddler, and the Left by Harry Stein

My Father, Fiddler, and the Left by Harry Stein

What Is a Woman? The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism by Michelle Goldberg

What Is a Woman? The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism by Michelle Goldberg

Stop Fem-Splaining: What ‘Women Against Feminism’ Gets Right by Cathy Young

Stop Fem-Splaining: What ‘Women Against Feminism’ Gets Right by Cathy Young

The Average American Man Is Too Big For His Britches by Serri Graslie

The Average American Man Is Too Big For His Britches by Serri Graslie

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Real Inequality: Why Things Are Better Than They Seem and Will Almost Surely Get Worse by John Nye

Real Inequality: Why Things Are Better Than They Seem and Will Almost Surely Get Worse by John Nye

The Blog Princess Ponders the Ineffable Wisdom of Dr. Joy Bliss, Individual Responsibility, Scope Creep, and the Venusian Arts by Cassandra

The Blog Princess Ponders the Ineffable Wisdom of Dr. Joy Bliss, Individual Responsibility, Scope Creep, and the Venusian Arts by Cassandra

Buzzkill: Washington State discovers that it’s not so easy to create a legal marijuana economy. by Patrick Radden Keefe

Buzzkill: Washington State discovers that it’s not so easy to create a legal marijuana economy. by Patrick Radden Keefe

Gertrude Stein Views Life and Politics by Lansing Warren

Gertrude Stein Views Life and Politics by Lansing Warren

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Eric A. Hanushek website

Eric A. Hanushek website

Economic Growth in Developing Countries: The Role of Human Capital by Eric A. Hanushek

Economic Growth in Developing Countries: The Role of Human Capital by Eric A. Hanushek

Educational Policy Evaluation through International Comparative Assessments by Rolf Strietholt

Educational Policy Evaluation through International Comparative Assessments by Rolf Strietholt

Look Who's Irrational Now by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway

Look Who's Irrational Now by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway

Foreign Policy Immaculately Conceived by Adam Garfinkle

Foreign Policy Immaculately Conceived by Adam Garfinkle

Love People, Not Pleasure by Arthur C. Brook

Love People, Not Pleasure by Arthur C. Brook

What’s Behind Canada’s Troubled Relationship With Its Aboriginal Peoples by Jake Flanagin

What’s Behind Canada’s Troubled Relationship With Its Aboriginal Peoples by Jake Flanagin

Choose your parents wisely from The Economist

Choose your parents wisely from The Economist

Law of Physics Helps Explain Airplane Evolution by Ken Kingery

Law of Physics Helps Explain Airplane Evolution by Ken Kingery

Wide-Faced Men Negotiate Nearly $2,200 Larger Signing Bonus by Sean Nealon

Wide-Faced Men Negotiate Nearly $2,200 Larger Signing Bonus by Sean Nealon

Friday, July 25, 2014

Is Every Speed Limit Too Low? by Alex Mayyasi

Is Every Speed Limit Too Low? by Alex Mayyasi

Why Are Books Getting Longer? by Jeremy Anderberg

Why Are Books Getting Longer? by Jeremy Anderberg

A Family's Lost Love Letters, a Stranger, and a History Revealed by Abigail Jones

A Family's Lost Love Letters, a Stranger, and a History Revealed by Abigail Jones

The Victor Hugo working naked story: myth or fact? from Druss

The Victor Hugo working naked story: myth or fact? from Druss

The Idea of Congressional Intent is Incoherent by Alex Tabarrok

The Idea of Congressional Intent is Incoherent by Alex Tabarrok

Trolls just want to have fun by Erin E. Buckels, et al

Trolls just want to have fun by Erin E. Buckels, et al

Is One of the Most Popular Psychology Experiments Worthless? by Olga Khazan

Is One of the Most Popular Psychology Experiments Worthless? by Olga Khazan

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Iceland Reads: The country of 320,000 punches well above its literary weight class by Mark Medley

Iceland Reads: The country of 320,000 punches well above its literary weight class by Mark Medley

Berlin Gets Bad News From PISA by Anatoly Karlin

Berlin Gets Bad News From PISA by Anatoly Karlin

Sweden Has an Education Crisis, But It Wasn’t Caused by School Choice by Tino Sanandaji

Sweden Has an Education Crisis, But It Wasn’t Caused by School Choice by Tino Sanandaji

The psychology of first impressions - digested by Christian Jarrett

The psychology of first impressions - digested by Christian Jarrett

Ethiopia Becomes China’s China in Global Search for Cheap Labor by Kevin Hamlin, Ilya Gridneff and William Davison

Ethiopia Becomes China’s China in Global Search for Cheap Labor by Kevin Hamlin, Ilya Gridneff and William Davison

Desire for Children Still Norm in U.S. from Gallup

Desire for Children Still Norm in U.S. from Gallup

How Many Americans Are Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual? by Jan Hoffman

How Many Americans Are Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual? by Jan Hoffman

Saturday, July 19, 2014

One Possible (but Highly Politically Incorrect) Reason Boys Don’t Read “Girl Books” by Mike Duran

One Possible (but Highly Politically Incorrect) Reason Boys Don’t Read “Girl Books” by Mike Duran

Boys and Reading: Is There Any Hope? by Robert Lipsyte

Boys and Reading: Is There Any Hope? by Robert Lipsyte

I have numbers! Stats on LGBT Young Adult Books Published in the U.S. – Updated 9/15/11 by Malinda Lo

I have numbers! Stats on LGBT Young Adult Books Published in the U.S. – Updated 9/15/11 by Malinda Lo

Danish DNA could be key to happiness from University of Warwick

Danish DNA could be key to happiness from University of Warwick

You Can’t ‘Steal’ a Culture: In Defense of Cultural Appropriation by John McWhorter

You Can’t ‘Steal’ a Culture: In Defense of Cultural Appropriation by John McWhorter

Friday, July 18, 2014

United 232 and the Miracle in a Cornfield by Carl M. Cannon

United 232 and the Miracle in a Cornfield by Carl M. Cannon

Inflation Vacation: Things are more expensive than government statistics say they should be. by Amity Shlaes

Inflation Vacation: Things are more expensive than government statistics say they should be. by Amity Shlaes

Part III: Saving Independent Filmmaking by Liam Boluk and Prashob Menon

Part III: Saving Independent Filmmaking by Liam Boluk and Prashob Menon

Part II: How The Major Studios Can Drive Domestic Growth by Liam Boluk and Prashob Menon

Part II: How The Major Studios Can Drive Domestic Growth by Liam Boluk and Prashob Menon

Part I: The US Film Industry is Not a Growth Business by Liam Boluk and Prashob Menon

Part I: The US Film Industry is Not a Growth Business by Liam Boluk and Prashob Menon

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

To change attitudes, don't argue — agree, extremely by Julia Rosen

To change attitudes, don't argue — agree, extremely by Julia Rosen

Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing by Meredith Broussard

Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing by Meredith Broussard

A Cascade of Failures: Why Government Fails, and How to Stop It by Paul C. Light

A Cascade of Failures: Why Government Fails, and How to Stop It by Paul C. Light

The Quiet Movement to Make Government Fail Less Often by David Leonhardt

The Quiet Movement to Make Government Fail Less Often by David Leonhardt

Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the Long Shadow of the ‘Lavender Menace’ by Stacy McCain

Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the Long Shadow of the ‘Lavender Menace’ by Stacy McCain

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Genome-wide analysis reveals genetic similarities among friends from Phys Org

Genome-wide analysis reveals genetic similarities among friends from Phys Org

The Data of Hate by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

The Data of Hate by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Piketty’s Can Opener by Jim Manzi

Piketty’s Can Opener by Jim Manzi

Free Countries Mock Their Presidents by Charles C. W. Cooke

Free Countries Mock Their Presidents by Charles C. W. Cooke

The Myth of Wealthy Men and Beautiful Women by James Hamblin

The Myth of Wealthy Men and Beautiful Women by James Hamblin

People who claim to worry about climate change use more electricity by Matthew Holehouse

People who claim to worry about climate change use more electricity by Matthew Holehouse

Removing Chronically Ineffective Teachers from Center for American Progress

Removing Chronically Ineffective Teachers from Center for American Progress

The 1% of scientific publishing by Erik Stokstad

The 1% of scientific publishing by Erik Stokstad

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Why are people suddenly downloading a 1960s-era book called "Business Adventures: 12 Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street from Ann Althouse

Why are people suddenly downloading a 1960s-era book called "Business Adventures: 12 Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street from Ann Althouse

WikiLeaks Show WMD Hunt Continued in Iraq – With Surprising Results by Noah Shachtman

WikiLeaks Show WMD Hunt Continued in Iraq – With Surprising Results by Noah Shachtman

Europe is dying, says France's leading demographer, and Britain would be better off with the Anglosphere by Daniel Hannan

Europe is dying, says France's leading demographer, and Britain would be better off with the Anglosphere by Daniel Hannan

Another example of a misleading, incomplete representation of facts about an important women’s issue by Mark J. Perry

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/05/another-example-of-a-misleading-incomplete-representation-of-facts-about-an-important-womens-issue/by Mark J. Perry

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Do Cities Really Want Economic Development? by Aaron M. Renn

Do Cities Really Want Economic Development? by Aaron M. Renn

In my post about a "spurious teaser," I ended with a spurious teaser of my own by Ann Althouse

In my post about a "spurious teaser," I ended with a spurious teaser of my own by Ann Althouse

The cause of population decline from Jim's Blog

The cause of population decline from Jim's Blog

The Summer's Most Unread Book Is… by Jordan Ellenberg

The Summer's Most Unread Book Is… by Jordan Ellenberg

Dave Barry Learns Everything You Need to Know About Being a Husband From Reading 50 Shades of Grey by Dave Barry

Dave Barry Learns Everything You Need to Know About Being a Husband From Reading 50 Shades of Grey by Dave Barry

The End of the Affair by P.J. O’Rourke

The End of the Affair by P.J. O’Rourke

Cars and freedom by Glenn Reynolds

Cars and freedom by Glenn Reynolds