Free speech for thee but not for me
Most countries have severe limitations on free speech. Historically, freer speech was a characteristic of western countries, but not so much anymore, with the exception of the United States. And…
January book reviews (3): Matt Ridley’s How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time (2020)
I decided to review all books I read, which also serves as a motivator for making notes when reading (actually, I only highlight text and memory is usually enough reconstruct…
Against the economists on school spending
Some days ago I posted a chart about school spending (per-pupil spending) and math test scores: Note how I didn't say this cross-sectional scatterplot proves anything about causality, but we…
James Watson’s Greek ANTIFA experience
Most people know that if you at some point say something the left doesn't like, your life may became hell. You may get stalked, assaulted, and occasionally killed and so…
The benefits of monarchy, maybe also for Jamaica
I was busy attending a wedding this weekend, so there were no posts. In the mean time, Lipton Matthews (X profile, Substack, Aporia articles) asked if he could write a…
Reader survey 2025 results
OK, I got tired of waiting for more willing subjects (that is, maybe you), so here's the results of this year's survey. There were 664 subjects of which 320 complete…
Who values academic rigor and freedom?
I was browsing studies out in Lee Jussim's newish journal, The Journal of Open Inquiry in Behavioral Science (JOIBS), and saw this one: Rausch, Z. M. (2023). The value gap:…
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,…
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