Stuff reports: A speech which ordinarily would have failed to raise attention outside the walls of New Plymouth Boys’ High School has grabbed national attention after a student was banned from delivering it. Oliver Jull’s speech – The Decline of Western Civilization – was scratched from the school’s speech finals last week out of concerns […]
School speech censorship
School speech censorship
14 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Update: Woke Tyranny Vs. Jordan Peterson
12 Aug 2024 1 Comment
in economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Canada, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Jordan Peterson writes at National Post this update on his battle against censoring bureaucrats I will see this contemptible ‘re-education’ process through to its absurd end. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. Having failed to persuade the Supreme Court, I am going to see what constraints are put on my speech, and […]
Update: Woke Tyranny Vs. Jordan Peterson
Science versus religion
12 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of regulation Tags: Age of Enlightenment, conjecture and refutation, Freedom of religion, philosophy of science
My excellent Conversation with Paul Bloom
10 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, health economics
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Together Paul and Tyler explore whether psychologists understand day-to-day human behavior any better than normal folk, how babies can tell if you’re a jerk, at what age children have the capacity to believe in God, why the trend in religion is…
My excellent Conversation with Paul Bloom
Roots of Climate Change Distortions
08 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism
Roger Pielke Jr. explains at his blog Why Climate Misinformation Persists. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. H/T John Ray Noble Lies, Conventional Wisdom, and Luxury Beliefs In 2001, I participated in a roundtable discussion hosted at the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) with a group of U.S. Senators, […]
Roots of Climate Change Distortions
Pervasive myth of centralisation unravels in NZ
06 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, health economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle
Oliver Hartwich writes – New Zealand’s government sacked the entire board of Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora) last week, replacing it with a sole commissioner. The move marked more than just another shake-up in the country’s beleaguered health system. It signalled the spectacular failure of a grand experiment that has turned New Zealand into […]
Pervasive myth of centralisation unravels in NZ
Restoring the Standing and Reputation of Science in New Zealand: a Letter to the Coalition Government
04 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
from David Lillis, John Raine, Peter Schwerdtfeger, Rex Ahdar, Cathy Downes The recent news that GeoNet has been merging science with the myth, mysticism and legend of Māori traditional knowledge in their 2024 Geohazard Information has provoked a scathing response from international commentator, Professor Jerry Coyne (University of Chicago). This follows close behind publicity around…
Restoring the Standing and Reputation of Science in New Zealand: a Letter to the Coalition Government
Bakersfield College Agrees to $2.4 Million Settlement in Free Speech Case
02 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: academic bias, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Last year, we discussed the free speech case of Matthew Garrett, formerly a tenured history professor at Bakersfield College who was investigated and disciplined after he questioned the use of grant money to fund social justice initiatives. Bakersfield College has one of the worst records on free speech in higher education and has been repeatedly […]
Bakersfield College Agrees to $2.4 Million Settlement in Free Speech Case
Unsettling the settler colonial university: a “feminist decolonization” of higher education in New Zealand
01 Aug 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, conjecture and refutation, free speech, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
This link was sent to me by a despondent (and of course anonymous) New Zealander with the comment, “This is now unstoppable in NZ.” It’s from the Times Higher Education site, and the authors are Mahdis Azarmandi and Sara Tolbert, both on the Faculty of Education of New Zealand’s University of Canterbury. Click screenshot to […]
Unsettling the settler colonial university: a “feminist decolonization” of higher education in New Zealand
US attempt to “braid” indigenous knowledge with modern science collapses and is abandoned by the National Academies
29 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Last October I posted a critique of a new National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative designed to combine indigenous knowledge with modern science—in the U.S. this time, and to the tune of $30 million. The NSF was very optimistic, as you can see from the article below in Science (click to read; see also a similar […]
US attempt to “braid” indigenous knowledge with modern science collapses and is abandoned by the National Academies
Claudia Goldin with Kiana Scott: The Century-Long Fight to Close the Gen…
28 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
I Started Blogging 20 Years Ago Today
27 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
In the summer of 2004, Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok invited me to guest blog for their new Marginal Revolution. MR was less than a year old then. And while I started sidelining for listservs back in 1993, insiders told me that blogging was something new. So exactly 20 years ago I gave it a…
I Started Blogging 20 Years Ago Today
Gender gaps
26 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
“Let’s Hope Today’s Events Inspire Others”: Rutgers Professor Under Fire for Posting on Trump Assassination Attempt
24 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, crime and punishment, free speech, law and order, political correctness, regressive left
We have been following the controversies surrounding professors commenting on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Some of those responses have ranged from celebrations to spreading bizarre conspiracy theories. The latest controversy concerns Rutgers University Writing Program Assistant Teaching Professor Tracy Budd, who posted a Facebook message saying ”Let’s hope today’s events inspire […]
“Let’s Hope Today’s Events Inspire Others”: Rutgers Professor Under Fire for Posting on Trump Assassination Attempt
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