Bad blog posts and their costs
It's time for another unpopular post, but the principle is right. During human history, there has been a very large number of civil wars, coups, and state collapses due to…
Give women what they want: more babies
Central to the decline of the West and now almost all high income countries is that they have too low fertility. Just a reminder from the prior post: Why the…
Power laws and human society
Granted, it is a bit of a strange name, a power law. Is that a particularly powerful piece of legislation? Not at all. It is a kind of statistical distribution,…
Ending the IRB nightmare
Suppose you are running a company that has a website. You are wondering whether marketing campaign A or B works best. Which one do you go with? Why not both?…
A hereditarian revolution, maybe
Back in February, Nathan Cofnas wrote an influential piece A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution, in which he wrote: The prospect of a hereditarian revolution strikes some people as inconceivable…
Heterodox Academy’s big payday
Everybody knows academia has severe political bias issues. Some people have been trying to do something about it for decades. The main academic organization that has been talking up the…
Sometimes you should speak up with an unpopular view
Every year I try to read a set number of books (30 this year). I've been decreasing the number over the years because blogs and academic articles have become so…
Is language dumbing down?
In the media, we can read that political speeches are getting simpler (2013): This kind of article is typically used to bash the current right-wing president if such exists. E.g.,…
On the limits of free speech
Are you in favor of free speech? Most readers and most people in general will say yes, and many even consider themselves free speech absolutists. If asked why, they might…
The Wikipedia fundraising scam
Wikipedia, and its parent organization Wikimedia, has been making the rounds on Twitter. This seems to be because Chris Rufo is attacking the new CEO of NPR (US public 'radio'),…
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