Where @Greens @NZGreens @AOC @BernieSanders trip-up
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit
#COVID19 quarantine rules can only ask so much of others
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in health economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of pandemics
Andrew Sullivan’s latest lucubrations
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Andrew Sullivan’s site is still free, but will shortly go to a fee scheme whereby you can pay $50 a year for full access (I’ve already subscribed). The format is still a weekly tripartite column, but with additions like his famous “The View from My Window” contest, in which readers have to guess exactly where a reader’s photo was taken. There’s also selected feedback from readers, which Andrew answers.
This week’s column (click on screenshot below) has a section on diversity, one on the possibility of a rebuilt Republican Party, and a small “1620 project” piece, in which Sullivan extols the Pilgrims’ arrival in America and, sadly, has gone back to extolling religion as well. I’ll concentrate on the diversity bit, but here’s an excerpt from his “1620 project” piece (the name, of course, is mocking the NYT’s “1619 Project”):
The [Mayflower] Compact was a way to keep the company…
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Government’s ‘pitiful’ planning reforms ‘will cost Britain decades in fighting climate change’
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“First they came for the bird names. . .” Woke craziness creeps into bird taxonomy
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The latest gambit of Woke politics is to trawl back through everyone’s history, and, if you find something unsavory, that person must be canceled. Now sometimes this is okay, as when statues are taken down that honored Confederates, particularly postbellum statues meant to solidify the established system of segregation. (I’d prefer, however, that those statues be left in place with a prominent caveat.)
But when you do that with scientific names, it causes a problem. Sometimes a “problematic” person is part of a species’ name, either the common name like Audubon’s shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri), or both the common name and the Latin binomial, like these birds: Audubon’s warbler (Setophaga auduboni), Townsend’s warbler (Setophaga townsendi), Hammond’s flycatcher (Empidonax hammondii) , and McCown’s longspur (Rhynchophanes mccownii). These names confer instant communication between birders and other biologists, and the Latin binomials are entrenched…
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Was the Glorious Revolution a Dutch Conquest?
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in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of religion, international economics, International law, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Glorious revolution, Protestant Reformation
Cancer referrals fall to record low due to #COVID19
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in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Joe Rogan Experience #1520 – Dr. Debra Soh
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Could an Old Vaccine Help Against #COVID19?
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in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics, vaccines
Tanks, but no Tanks – Hitler Hinders the Blitzkrieg – WW2 – 102 – August 8, 1941
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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