Christopher Hitchens on the Left’s Rudeness
24 May 2019 1 Comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness
Evolution of the British Infantry during World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
24 May 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Asymmetric Information and Health Insurance
24 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, entrepreneurship, health economics Tags: adverse selection, health insurance, moral hazard
Seymour should consult some American judges to avoid being denounced as a bully who speaks in inflammatory code
23 May 2019 Leave a comment
In case you missed it, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Trevor Mallard, reckons Act leader David Seymour is a bully.
The Speaker spoke on TV One’s Breakfast yesterday after publication of the review which found bullying is widespread in Parliament.
Interviewer John Campbell couldn’t resist dragging Seymour into considerations: he asked if it had been bullying or robustness, when Seymour described Green MP Golriz Ghahraman as “a real menace to freedom in this country.”
Mallard replied:
“In my opinion it did step over the line. Its not a breach of privilege because it didn’t happen in the House. It’s not a criminal offence but I think it showed poor judgement….”
Campbell: “Do you think it was bullying?”
Mallard: “Ah, yes…”
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Why Winston Peters should be paying heed to the outcome of Australia’s climate change election
23 May 2019 1 Comment
Winston Peters is too astute a politician to be oblivious to the outcome in what Opposition parties across the Tasman labelled the “climate change election”. Almost certainly, when he spoke in the debate of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill on Tuesday afternoon, he was thinking of how the Australian Federal Labor Party lost the “unloseable” election simply because it campaigned so hard on what voters assessed as too demanding, and too costly, measures to combat global warming.
How else to explain his rambling defence of NZ First’s support for the bill? It was, almost word by word, as if he could feel support for NZ First in the rural regions evaporating.
He started by asking why the House was having the debate. His answer: because the previous National government had signed up to the Paris Agreement.
He went on to say the bill fulfills…
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Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ “Islamophobia”
23 May 2019 Leave a comment
Well, here we go again: another Jesus and Mo strip that the Pakistani government will eventually deem “blasphemous,” forcing WordPress to block this post in Pakistan. So it goes:
Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “tax”, has this caption:
The story behind the problematic new definition of Islamophobia is here.
That story gives the definition of “Islamophobia” by the APPG (all parliamentary party group) as this:
The APPG’s definition, which was proposed in a report in November, says “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”.
Note the problem: conflating bigotry against Muslims with “target expression of Muslimness”, which could be Islamic doctrine itself. As the National Secular Society (NSS) reports, there are objections, expressed in an open letter to Home Secretary Sajid Javid:
The NSS’s chief executive Stephen Evans was one of a diverse range…
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Skepticism About Distributive Justice | Political Philosophy with Jason Brennan
23 May 2019 Leave a comment
in Rawls and Nozick Tags: distributive justice
Jason Brennan: Why Not Capitalism? (April 9, 2019)
23 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick Tags: Jason Brennan
The psychology of moral grandstanding | Brandon Warmke
23 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: evolutionary psychology, moral psychology, virtue signaling
The gender gap in labour supply
23 May 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply Tags: gender wage gap
The woke left regards milkshaking as a harmless form of protest
23 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, regressive left
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