Why measles is back in the US
19 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccines
That anti-fascist left is still absent without leave.
18 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
All I have argued, here and elsewhere, is that a left that no longer shows solidarity with the victims of totalitarianism–unless, of course, that totalitarianism can somehow be said to be the “fault” of the United States–is not a left worth having.
Todd Gitlin wrote a reply to my above review, which in my view missed every available point. You can decide for yourself by going to the Democracy site and searching for Gitlin.
Our exchange of letter in the current issue is below. Gitlin argues that he was criticised by Chomsky and the far Left in the Nineties and that excuses his uneasiness about showing solidarity with the victims of Islamo-fascism today. But that only goes to prove the argument I made in What’s Left? that extreme anti-western, anti-liberal ideas which began in obscure corners of the left in the Nineties, moved into the mainstream.
Anyway. Here is our exchange.
Issue #12, Spring 2009
Letters to the Editor
by Democracy Readers
Left, Right, Left . . .
Suppose officials in the Obama Administration are anxious to find ideas to guide America in a new direction. They might turn to Democracy and read Todd…
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Selina Soule, high school track athlete, speaks out about having her dreams shattered by the inclusion of trans identifying males in the girls competition
18 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, sports economics Tags: political correctness
. @povertymonitor shows 20 years of wages growth followed Employments Contracts Act after decades of wage stagnation
18 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, politics - New Zealand
From Child Poverty Monitor 2018: Technical Report
Duncanson, M; Oben, G; Wicken, A; Richardson, G; Adams, J; Pierson, M at https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/8697
Child poverty stable and child hardship falling for so long that @povertymonitor forgot to update this graphic for 2018
18 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality
Thomas Sowell – The Ethnic Flaw 1984 1/2
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in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: racial discrimination
Geoffrey Miller on Sex Differences, Masculinity & Political Polarisation
18 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, sports economics
Jordan Peterson: The Mind of Highly (Dis-)Agreeable People
18 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: personality psychology
Executive function skills — interview with Stephanie M. Carlson, PhD | VIEWPOINT
18 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics Tags: child development, cognitive psychology
How North Korea Deals With American Prisoners | The New York Times
18 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: North Korea
I thought the percentage was higher in Japan
17 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, law and economics Tags: marriage and divorce
The drop in murders on New York is stunning
17 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: law and order
Joseph Crampin: Precedent for Delaying Royal Assent: A Response to Professor Finnis
17 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
The ‘Cooper-Letwin Act’ (European Union Withdrawal (No 5) Act 2019) may yet come to be known as the constitutional crisis that wasn’t. But, the advocacy by some of the Government’s ability to advise the crown to refuse assent in order to legitimately prevent the Bill from becoming law has provoked significant debate. The object of this post is not to address the question of whether the Government can properly advise the Crown to refuse royal assent (among others: advocated by John Finnis, Robert Craig; rejected by Mark Elliott, Jeff King and Tom Poole). The aim is to address the slightly different issue, raised by Professor Finnis, that the ‘Lord Chancellor’ can legitimately withhold Bills from presentation to the Monarch (considered in terms of constitutional principle by Elliott and David Howarth). On this point, I suggest that Professor Finnis’s argument is constitutionally mistaken, as a matter…
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MIT Atmospheric Physicist Richard Lindzen Offers A Few Words
17 Apr 2019 2 Comments
Climate change is an urgent topic of discussion among politicians, journalists and celebrities, but actual climate scientists are not so much click-bait as real celebrities, and journalists seem more interested in click-bait than deeply informed commentary. We seem to be transforming into a society that values popularity more than accuracy, or perhaps we always were, but it just wasn’t as obvious as it is today. Richard Lindzen is one of the most esteemed climate scientists in the world, and one to whom you should pay attention.
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