Are You Tired of Rage Culture? This Sucks Way Less
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Setting It Straight: Nuclear Power Sets the Gold Standard For Safe & Reliable Power Generation
03 Feb 2020 1 Comment
The French get 85% of their power from nuclear plants and haven’t suffered so much as a scratch since they started in 1962. By contrast, the wind industry (which really only got off the ground in the late 1990s and still generates a trifling amount of electricity) has clocked up around 190 fatalities, so far (eg, see above).
Climate alarmists railing about carbon dioxide gas and not talking about nuclear power generation, can’t be taken seriously. Nuclear power is the only stand-alone power generation source that does not emit carbon dioxide gas during the process.
The fact that, among climate warriors, those seriously promoting nuclear power are few and far between, speaks volumes about what’s really driving them. If CO2 really was about to destroy the planet, these characters would be talking about nothing else but nuclear power, and how to deliver it to all and sundry.
Instead…
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Guy Ritchie’s best film! Played a blinder after a long dry spell
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Why is there still a gender pay gap?
03 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams on Donald Trump’s “Linguistic Kill Shots”
03 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, election campaigns, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2016 presidential election, 2020 presidential election
Everything on Demand
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in industrial organisation Tags: The Great Enrichment
Domestic violence: when bliss turns to biffs (and blokes can be on the receiving end of beatings in the home)
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OECD Ministers and other global leaders will gather at the OECD in Paris this week to discuss how to prevent, address, and eradicate violence against women.
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría will open the conference on Wednesday, followed by a keynote address by French Minister Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State in Charge of Equality between Women and Men and Anti-Discrimination Policies.
Whether it is discriminatory to devote a conference to the prevention and eradication of violence against women could be the stuff of robust debate.
What about violence against men?
The allegations of film star Johnny Depp against his former wife, actress Amber Heard, go a small way to raising questions about the extent to which males are the victims of domestic violence.
It’s a tawdry case.
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More on the 1619 Project
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The opening page of the 1619 Project in the New York Times (click on screenshot to go there)
by Greg Mayer
Last August the New York Times Magazine launched what it called the “1619 Project“. The project’s promoters wish to change the general understanding of American history, and to have their view of American history adopted by schools. The project has generated a wave of backlash from historians. (The Times‘ Project is run by journalists, not historians.) While being sympathetic to some of the Project’s ideological goals, historians have decisively refuted many of the factual claims that are key to the Project’s interpretation. (We’ve discussed the Project in previous posts here at WEIT: here, here, and here, with links to some of the historians’ critiques.)
Not all historians are critical though, and Alexander Lichtenstein, an historian at Indiana University, has published an article
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