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Moans Sabine  (5:25 in the video), in the context of GW. The answer of course is because that's what the system rewards; it's what ...

Gangsters in El Salvador are terrified of strongman Nayib Bukele says the Economist, and after noting He protects citizens from crime it ...

At last a somewhat slow spring becomes warm, so it is time to head out to the olde country and check in on the girls. I had gone out a mont...

Ninth Circuit Puts An End to the Kids Climate Case says Volokh. For those not paying attention, in the dim and distant past of 2016,  Phot...

We citizens of comfortable liberal western democracies tend to believe that we have a "right to protest" 1 . But as someone who d...

My title is taken from La Curry ( arch ); but apart from that I can't recommend her post; and sadly but predictably the comments are w...

Following  Wood, 1909, continued I realise it might be worth putting up some of the other old stuff here; and since it came up, I present ...

Via Xitter ,  Moral universals: A machine-reading analysis of 256 societies ; which appears to be a project at the LSE . My  Book Review: ...

Many years ago I transcribed  R. W. Wood: Note on the Theory of the Greenhouse onto my personal website (yes, it really was that long ago;...

Re-reading - for reasons of my own - my much-lauded review of Crowley's Beasts , I find  I will repeat what I said in my review of Hear...

Per SCOTUSblog and any number of other sources Supreme Court rules states cannot remove Trump from ballot for insurrection . This looks lik...

In Godel Escher Bach  there is a story about an Ant Heap. I think it's a conversation between Achilles and the Anteater, but I could be...

I remember - vaguely - the good ol' dayes when I used to talk about climate. So let's consider The Conversation's Atlantic Oce...

Or so said Ford. Or somewhat more exactly , " History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live ...

Sez the Graun ; h/t Timmy . With subhead " Existing production destroys more value than it creates due to medical and environmental co...

Shamelessly and I think unironically posted in the Economist  ( arch ). It is the usual lazy unthinking tripe that such people can spew out...

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals / Everybody happy as the dead come home , as Shriekback put it . However once again I am going t...