Both liberals and conservatives tend to have a Euro-centric view of history. That is to say, both camps tend to view the rise of the Europeans as something that was bound to happen. This view enables liberals to avoid confronting the cultural failings of the countries that were conquered by Europeans on the grounds that Click Here to continue reading.
I have a new essay up on my essay site called “On Holy Fear”. Well, at least it is new to my readers. I actually wrote it about this time last year (all except for a few paragraphs anyway). But it was so awful I could not stand to post it.
Sad to say, I Click Here to continue reading.
Pakistan is a tribal country that has a lot of guns. You have violent Islamic insurgency in that country that has killed a lot of people and fought the army to a standstill. You have a dictator running the country who has almost been killed several times. Some of those attempts on Musharraf’s life raise Click Here to continue reading.
Over at the Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen asks….
The question is, when inflation comes, why doesn’t the expectation of that inflation lead to proportional increases in nominal interest rates, thus keeping the real rate constant?
In the comment section on his post I said…
I am going to reveal my ignorance here, but it would seem to me Click Here to continue reading.
For those few who check my blog regularly in the hopes that I have posted something new I thought I might explain a little why I have not be posting.
The heroic version is that I have been working lots of overtime. I mean, working over 16 hours without anything to eat but candy bars Click Here to continue reading.
Genocide and hard work made this country what it is. Sloth and wealth are making this country into something else. Some people think that this change is a good thing. I don’t.
I know that the ghosts of the dead Native Americans haunt our historical consciousness. I can still hear the echoes of the slavers’ chains Click Here to continue reading.
I always get mad when I hear people spouting off about how the immigrants are taking away jobs from those poor blue collar Americans. Speaking as a blue collar American, I know that this is not so. There are plenty of good jobs out there for blue collar Americans; you just have to want Click Here to continue reading.
Megan McArdle ran a post entitled Demography is Destiny today. I was happy to see it. For some reason I had her pegged as part of the “Demographics don’t really matter” group because of some posts that I saw go up on Free Exchange. Recent posts at her new site have demonstrated that I was Click Here to continue reading.
The writers over at Architecture + Morality have decided to experiment with podcasting. So for the first time ever, I listened to a podcast.
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. They certainly pulled off the format far better than I would have. I think that it does me good to hear intelligent Click Here to continue reading.
This was a comment that I left on this post over at Marginal Revolution. For those too lazy to follow the link, Tyler Cowen has this conceit that he has the evil twin Tyrone. Tyrone provides Mr. Cowen with an opportunity to argue against his own positions just for the fun of it.
Tyrone makes Click Here to continue reading.