You can read Chuck Schumer’s recent op-ed in the NYT, “What American Jews fear most,“, or you can watch his 40-minute speech on the topic given in the Senate (video below). I recommend listening to the speech, of which the op-ed is a short distillation. Alternatively, read the transcript, which you can find here. Schumer […]
Chuck Schumer delivers Senate speech on antisemitism
Chuck Schumer delivers Senate speech on antisemitism
04 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The Holocaust
‘Antisemitism’ is an ideological abstraction that leftists reject….
04 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
… because it appears to refer to a certain type of person and behavior that their ideological purity tells them that they couldn’t be. They’re not the sorts of people who talk about ‘jewing down’ or believe in the inferiority of races and therefore, even while they’re smashing Jewish store windows and attacking a Holocaust […]
‘Antisemitism’ is an ideological abstraction that leftists reject….
The double irony of classes voluntarily segregated by race
01 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Here we have a news piece (not an op-ed) from a recent Wall Street Journal, reporting that a high school in the Chicago-adjacent town of Evanston, Illinois, is offering voluntarily race-segregated classes as a way to achieve “equity”. These classes, called “affinity classes”, are of course optional, because mandated race-segregated classes are illegal. The claim […]
The double irony of classes voluntarily segregated by race
Censorship in science: a new paper and analysis
29 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Well, a paper criticizing the “woke” aspects of science has finally appeared in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, though peer-reviewed critiques of scientific censorship or ideological pressure have appeared in the Journal of Controversial Ideas (a push for judging science on merit rather than ideology), and in the Skeptical Inquirer (an explication of how evolutionary biology […]
Censorship in science: a new paper and analysis
Our latest department and its social-justice obscurantism
28 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Last year the University of Chicago established a new department, The Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity (RDI). The vote for this department by the Council of the University Senate was overwhelmingly positive. This is the mission statement on its homepage: Now the first thing you notice is that this statement is laden with the…
Our latest department and its social-justice obscurantism
David Seymour: Treaty principles, Pharmac, and being minister for regula…
26 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, public economics
Professors: Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity are Not Essential to Higher Education
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
In “The Indispensable Right,” I discuss how academics are now leading an anti-free speech movement on campuses that challenges the centrality (or even the necessity) of free speech protections in higher education. The latest such argument appeared this month in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Professors: Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity are Not Essential to Higher Education
AASLE 2021 Bob Gregory Lecture – Claudia Goldin
23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
My Chris Williamson Interview
23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Several good friends warned me not to publish Don’t Be a Feminist. I appreciate their concern, but I’m glad I kept my own counsel. Here’s my interview with Chris Williamson on the book and beyond. Apparently he’s kind of a big deal…
My Chris Williamson Interview
Queensland University of Technology completely ditches merit-based hiring, favoring gender, “looks”, and personality
18 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: affirmative action, sex discrimination
This gem of a story is about how one Aussie university went to the logical endpoint of the diversity-trumps-merit controversy: Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane is apparently about to hire solely on the basis of diversity, and has erased any mention of the word “merit” in its hiring policy. This of course is ridiculous, […]
Queensland University of Technology completely ditches merit-based hiring, favoring gender, “looks”, and personality
Out of Africa
17 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: Africa
My Conversation with the excellent Jennifer Burns
17 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, economics of education, Euro crisis, F.A. Hayek, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode description: Jennifer Burns is a professor history at Stanford who works at the intersection of intellectual, political, and cultural history. She’s written two biographies Tyler highly recommends: her 2009 book, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and her latest, Milton Friedman: The […]
My Conversation with the excellent Jennifer Burns
On the 50th anniversary of the DPB
16 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: economics of fertility, marriage and divorce
The Domestic Purposes Benefit has been variously described as a “disaster” (David McLoughlin 1995), an “economic lifeline” (Jane Kelsey 1995) and “an unfortunate experiment” (Muriel Newman 2009).Its effect on family formation can never be definitively ascertained. But the growth of the sole parent family dependent on welfare has correlated with more poverty, more child abuse…
On the 50th anniversary of the DPB
Boys are faster
15 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, sports economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Does learning te reo make you virtuous?
14 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: economics of languages
Graham Adams writes: A week before election day, TVNZ’s John Campbell went to a polling station in Ōtara, South Auckland, to lie in wait for voters. When he encountered a young Māori woman who was about to vote for the first time, his trademark gushiness was unleashed: “Mere is nineteen. She speaks fluent te reo […]
Does learning te reo make you virtuous?
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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