The Problem With Political Correctness
27 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Will this from @ExMuslimsORG be hate speech in New Zealand if the @NZGreens get their way on hate speech laws and minorities?
09 Apr 2019 Leave a comment

Marxist academic found it most unpleasant and expensive to be investigated for hate speech against Americans, a minority in Canada. No charges laid.
07 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, unintended consequences
In 2 countries, only in the provinces subject to sharia law. Will noting this exception be a hate fact if @NZGreens get their way on hate speech laws?
07 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left

Desperately seeking an anti-fascist left
07 Apr 2019 3 Comments
in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, British politics, free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left

Sharing this from @ExMuslimsOrg before @NZGreens get their way on hate speech laws
07 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, politics - New Zealand Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left

Steven Pinker: Four Themes of the Enlightenment
31 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in history of economic thought, Karl Popper, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: Age of Enlightenment, philosophy of science, regressive left, The Great Enrichment
The left doesn’t agree that freedom and equality are better, free speech is better, democracy is better, freedom of religion is better
30 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left

The most revealing passage of Hayek’s Road to Serfdom
28 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in F.A. Hayek, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Nazi Germany, political psychology, regressive left

Sad but true
27 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left

From an interview 25 years ago: how progress infuriates
26 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: pessimism bias, regressive left

Micheal Walzar is far more generous than me
26 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: regressive left
Will @JacindaArdern join women across the Middle East who burn their hijabs in protest and solidarity on #NoHijabDay?
25 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, gender, law and economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left
The left denies science mostly for reasons of solution aversion?
25 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-GMO movement, anti-intellectualism, anti-market bias, cognitive psychology, pessimism bias, political psychology, regressive left




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