Political scientists Eric Kaufman and Matt Goodwin, in a recent online dialogue, discussed how centre-right parties have not found a language to deal with the current woke surge. There is language available: it is the language of citizenship. For the woke surge is, by its nature, a profound attack on citizenship.
African-Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be poor than Euro-Americans.
I was going to forbear from posting on the Covid-19 pandemic, but this post by Arnold Kling prompted some more general observations about social dynamics.
He refers to a podcast by biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein where they, in his words:
I was going to forbear from posting on the Covid-19 pandemic, but this post by Arnold Kling prompted some more general observations about social dynamics.
He refers to a podcast by biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein where they, in his words:
Pastoralist peoples exploding out of the their lands and conquering farming peoples is a recurring feature of human history.
Likely expansion of the Indo-Europeans.
[NB: this piece has been updated to incorporate links to further relevant scholarship.]
One of the signs of the increasing intellectual conformity of the academy, particularly the social science and (even more) the humanities, is the rise of scholarship that treats voting the “wrong” way as a pathology, to be explained pathologically.
[NB: this piece has been updated to incorporate links to further relevant scholarship.]
One of the signs of the increasing intellectual conformity of the academy, particularly the social science and (even more) the humanities, is the rise of scholarship that treats voting the “wrong” way as a pathology, to be explained pathologically.
This is based on a comment I made here.
The US has a legislated two Party system. (Left-cynics say that if the Soviet Communist Party had divided itself into two wings who disagreed on abortion, it would still be in power.)
This is based on a comment I made here.
The US has a legislated two Party system. (Left-cynics say that if the Soviet Communist Party had divided itself into two wings who disagreed on abortion, it would still be in power.)
This is based on a comment I made here.
Econblogger Robin Hanson notes that firms and cities have open borders and argues that:
So if nations act differently from firms and cities, that should be because either: