U.S.A. fact of the day
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Latin American immigrants are starting businesses at more than twice the
rate of the U.S. population as a whole. The jump in Latino entrepreneurship
has ...
Wenar on why you shouldn’t try to help poor people
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In all the discussion of Leif Wenar’s critique of Effective Altruism , I
haven’t seen much mention of the central premise: that development aid is
generall...
Greeks but Few Romans in the Granite City
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Four years, an epidemic and a job change after a conference I co-convened
with Dr Tom Mackenzie (and blogged about), on the Scottish leader Calgacus,
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How do we stop a resurgence of fascism?
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Is it bad to write for hard-right outlets?
There is no doubt that the Overton window has shifted to the right during
the last decade or two. It is now c...
Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives
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Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet
its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and
joined the...
Viral Variants
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Scary mutant COVID-19 Since the news of a potentially more transmissible
strain of C19 broke in the UK, I’ve been thinking about the mechanics. I
was initi...
A brief note on the blog and on COVID-19
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The subject of COVID-19, a virus that burst forth from its rom obscurity in
(most likely) one population or another of wild mammals in China to become
a gl...
The Harsh Truth About India’s Godmen
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Late last month, two Indian states and the national capital were upended by
rioting mobs protesting their spiritual leader’s conviction on two counts
of ...
The US Treasury’s missed opportunity
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The US Treasury recently published the first in a series of reports
designed to implement the seven core principles for regulating the US
financial system ...
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