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Left-Libertarianisms
A liberal in the 19th century was a believer in small government, free markets, and individual freedom, roughly what we now call a libertarian…
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Seducing Socialists
Markets not Capitalism: Individualist anarchism against bosses, inequality, corporate power, and structural poverty (hereafter MnC) presents a form of…
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Facts Do Not Speak For Themselves
In a recent online exchange, one poster claimed that Democrats were obviously better than Republicans, since blue states had a higher average income and…
Sep 6
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Nordhaus v. Nordhaus v. Nordhaus
The fourth contention by the sixteen scientists is that skeptical climate scientists are living under a reign of terror about their professional and…
Sep 3
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August 2025
Too Good to Be True
fiction disguised as fact
Aug 31
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Gerrymandering Strategies
a simplified account
Aug 28
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What I Left Out
of my previous post
Aug 25
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Lessons from Historical Recreation
what I have learned
Aug 22
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A Bad Argument
for a mostly correct conclusion
Aug 19
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Gerrymandering
There has been a good deal of talk recently about gerrymandering, set off by the attempt by Texas Republicans to redistrict their state and met by…
Aug 16
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The Past Two Weeks
I spent them in a small town — population a little under ten thousand — that exists for two weeks a year.
Aug 13
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Tribal Comments
I have commented in past posts on the tendency of people, online and elsewhere, to treat arguments as declarations of tribal affinity, to assume that…
Aug 10
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