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What the European Right Believes
I recently had a conversation in Spain which reminded me of the more extreme ranges of American right-wing opinion.
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Rearing Children Who Will Like You
and why they sometimes don't
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Drones
capitalism in Russia
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Optimizing On A Single Variable
why not to
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Harvard
Trump’s support is largely from flyover country, people who believe that the coastal elites look down at them, literally when flying between the east…
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Market Failure
an argument both for and against laissez-faire
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Utilitarianism and Politics
Reading comments on my recent post on implications of different versions of utilitarianism I was struck by the number of commenters who identified…
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