An estimated 42% of adult Japanese women may end up never having children, the Nikkei newspaper reported, citing a soon-to-be-published estimate by a government research group. In a more optimistic scenario, a quarter of women born in 2005 may end up not having offspring. The midpoint estimate by Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security […]
Japan estimate of the day
Japan estimate of the day
11 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Legislating Sanctity: Protecting the Graveyard in Medieval England
11 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 10 August 2023. Chris Newman / Kirkconnel Church & Cemetery, Springkell. Wikimedia. Burial of the dead was a grave matter in medieval England. Last rites, a funeral mass, burial in consecrated ground – all were mandatory rituals intended to assist in the soul’s journey from the earthly realm to Purgatory and then […]
Legislating Sanctity: Protecting the Graveyard in Medieval England
Bockscar the plane that dropped ‘Fat Man’ on Nagasaki
09 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Most people will know the name ‘Enola Gay’ the plane that dropped the 1st Atomic bomb on Hiroshima but surprisingly not that many people will have heard of the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, some even think that Enola Gay dropped both. Bockscar, sometimes called Bock’s Car, is the name of the United […]
Bockscar the plane that dropped ‘Fat Man’ on Nagasaki
Enola Gay
07 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
I will not pass judgment about the event which involved the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay , there is nothing easier than to judge in hindsight. I try to stick to the facts as much as possible. These facts do actually start in 1937. What is often ignored in the whole debate of the dropping […]
Enola Gay
Lord Liverpool’s Ghost.
07 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Taking It From The Top: Though more than a century has passed since the outbreak of the First World War, there remains a deeply-embedded fraction of the New Zealand state apparatus which continues to regard New Zealand as simply a loyal cog in a much larger and more powerful imperial machine. Like their forebears, these…
Lord Liverpool’s Ghost.
New Working Paper: A Methodologically Consistent Measure of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917 to 2020
06 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
I have a new working paper with Phil Magness. In this paper, we show a major methodological inconsistency in the estimates of income inequality produced by Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez for the period from 1917 to 2020. The error is not just a level error but also a trend error. Below is the image […]
New Working Paper: A Methodologically Consistent Measure of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917 to 2020
Dazed & Confused: 5 Things About the ‘Inevitable Energy Transition’ That Make No Sense
04 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Confused about the grand wind and solar ‘transition’? It’s a sensation experienced by any rational thinker. None of what’s put forward makes even the vaguest sense, once the critical faculties are applied. Jude Clemente selects 5 subjects as a subset and does just that in the piece below. 5 Things I Truly Don’t Understand About […]
Dazed & Confused: 5 Things About the ‘Inevitable Energy Transition’ That Make No Sense
The true nature of American polarization
04 Aug 2023 1 Comment
Adding marital status to the mix, the GOP advantage among married men shoots up to 20 points (59% Republican to 39% Democrat) and shrinks among unmarried men to just 7 points (52% Republican to 45% Democrat). But what most people don’t know, including everyone who works at Politico apparently, is that among married women, Republicans still maintain […]
The true nature of American polarization
Making History in the Wrong Way: The Second Trump Indictment is a Threat to Free Speech
04 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in USA Today on second indictment of former President Donald Trump. While many are celebrating the charges, the implications for free speech are chilling. While Smith did not charge incitement or insurrection (or seditious conspiracy), commentators (and Special Counsel Jack Smith) portrayed the case as holding Trump accountable for the actual…
Making History in the Wrong Way: The Second Trump Indictment is a Threat to Free Speech
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