“Invincible ignorance” refers to a state of ignorance that cannot be overcome because the individual has no way of accessing or understanding the necessary information. This concept is often discussed in moral and ethical contexts, particularly in philosophy and theology. In these contexts, invincible ignorance is the lack of knowledge that is literally impossible for […]
Invincible ignorance
Invincible ignorance
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of information Tags: cognitive psychology, conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Jon Haidt on the rise of antisemitism on campus
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
On his Substack site “After Babel,” social psychologist Jon Haidt, most of you know of, explains the rapid rise of antisemitism on American campuses. The piece is long and a bit repetitious, but well worth reading of a Christmas Eve. Click to read: I’ll just summarize his thesis and give some quotes. First, the problem: […]
Jon Haidt on the rise of antisemitism on campus
After COP28: What Transition From Hydrocarbons?
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
How Do You Want Your Energy ‘Transition’? Mario Loyola wrote at The Wall Street Journal The Impossible Energy ‘Transition’. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. After two weeks of negotiation, the United Nations climate conference in Dubai agreed last week to “transition away” from fossil fuels. Left unanswered is whether governments are supposed to do […]
After COP28: What Transition From Hydrocarbons?
Yielding to Temptation: Colorado’s Supreme Court Blocks Democracy to Bar Trump on the 2024 Ballot
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in The Messenger on the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election. There are now over a dozen states considering similar demands from advocates to prevent voters from being able to vote for the current leading candidate for the presidency. In California, Lieutenant Gov. Eleni […]
Yielding to Temptation: Colorado’s Supreme Court Blocks Democracy to Bar Trump on the 2024 Ballot
EV Push Imploding
25 Dec 2023 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Levi Russell writes at Heartland The Rush to Force Everyone into Electric Vehicles is Imploding. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. A recently published article in the peer-reviewed academic journal Transportation Research tells us that cars, even the supposedly anointed battery electric variety, are far too convenient and that the state must be empowered to “restrict […]
EV Push Imploding
Interview with Angus Deaton: Critiques of Cosmopolitan Prioritarianism and Randomized Control Trials
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, econometerics, experimental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought
David A. Price of the Richmond Fed carries out an interview titled “Angus Deaton: On deaths of despair, randomized controlled trials, and winning the Nobel Prize” (Econ Focus: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Fourth Quarter 2023, pp. 18-22). Here are a few of Deaton’s comments that caught my eye: On his shift from “cosmopolitan prioritarianism” to…
Interview with Angus Deaton: Critiques of Cosmopolitan Prioritarianism and Randomized Control Trials
Boris Spassky vs Bobby Fischer | World Championship Match (1972)
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in chess
The Case Against Offshore Wind
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, wind power
It might come in handy if anybody else wishes to grill their MP!
The Case Against Offshore Wind
The American Association of Biological Anthropologists denies the sex binary in humans (on ideological grounds, of course)
24 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
The other day I discussed how several anthropologists wrote a letter supporting the decision of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropological Society (CASCA) to cancel a panel on sex (“Let’s talk about sex, baby: why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology”) at their annual meeting. Appaerntly they objected to…
The American Association of Biological Anthropologists denies the sex binary in humans (on ideological grounds, of course)
24 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, law and economics Tags: dating markets, marriage and divorce
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Grand ‘Green’ Energy Flop: Europeans Wake Up to Wind & Solar Debacle
24 Dec 2023 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The results of attempting to rely on sunshine and breezes can’t be hidden forever. As wind and solar generating capacity increases, the inevitable consequences are soon revealed: namely, routine power rationing, mass blackouts and crippling power prices. And yet the acolytes continue to maintain that we’re only a few mythical mega-batteries away from an all-wind […]
Grand ‘Green’ Energy Flop: Europeans Wake Up to Wind & Solar Debacle
24 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, movies, survivor principle, television Tags: creative destruction
Calls to ban free speech at Auckland University in New Zealand
24 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, law and order, political correctness, regressive left
Troubles continue at the University of Auckland as it’s being sued by a somewhat off-the-rails professor named Siouxsie (real name Susannah) Wiles. Wiles apparently made some statements about Covid-19 as a public communicator of science, statements that the public didn’t like. The result was that she claimed to be inundated with hate mail and threats. […]
Calls to ban free speech at Auckland University in New Zealand
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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