The Late Enlightenment

We're still in the Enlightenment, only now reason has shown us that we are not reasonable - and a more empirical study of man helps us remember the point of the whole program

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Who Among Us Would Not Say The Same

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Cross-posted from my outdoors and trail-running blog . An interesting short piece at Reason about Gary Johnson: One of the worst things y...

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Emperors and Constitutions: Illusions of Continuity?

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A quirk of Japanese history is the survival of the Emperor, for over two thousand years. This, despite multiple violently-ascendant governm...

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Why You Should Avoid News

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Great piece, available here . One of the points is that it makes us passive, a conclusion which this argument also converges upon . "...

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Chargemasters and Used Cars

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Recently there's been a lot of discussion about the use of chargemasters in hospitals. It's an often baseless fiction used for barg...

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Business Using Government to Stifle Competition

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A smartphone app in New York that would let people find and hail cabs is being profoundly retarded by the city . No doubt such an app would...

Monday, April 22, 2013

Urbanization in the U.S. and Canada

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Australia is often used by demographers as an example of a highly urbanized country, but the contrast between Canada and the U.S. is perhaps...

Monday, April 15, 2013

The GOP's Push to Change the World at the State Level

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There's been a recent, clear push by the GOP to aggressively focus on social conservative issues at the state level. Sam Brownback...

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