GrokInFullness

 Arnold Kling introduced me to a useful concept in a recent post: naive realism : [Ross Douthat] is responding to the views of his newspaper...

Libertarians seem to have something of a branding problem . Many people confuse libertarianism with libertinism. The first is a political ph...

 From Thomas Sowell's autobiography  A Personal Odyssey . It is well worth reading in full. Safety is much more a problem on a pistol ra...

 The profile of Covid-19's mortality by age suggests an obvious strategy for achieving herd immunity: let the relatively young and invu...

 Only once in history did democratic socialists manage to create socialism. That was the kibbutz. And after they had experienced it, they ch...

Something that has annoyed me in recent months is the unwillingness to distinguish between positive and normative statements. A positive sta...

Jonathan Haidt has an excellent metaphor for how people form their political opinions. (Also their opinions on moral and cultural questions....