When they ask me a question, “What is the single most important thing?”, my answer is always, “The single most important thing is not to… Read More »Jared Diamond: No Single Most Important Thing; or, A Recipe for a Happy Marriage
Suppose that apples sell for more than oranges and Parliament in its wisdom decides that, at last, apples and oranges must be compared. Not by… Read More »Alex Tabarrok on equal pay for equal work
In short: reality is a messy place. I think we overrated intelligence, or misread what it is. Here’s how I’d define it. We hold a… Read More »Clifford Sosin (and Harold Ableson) on the limits to (artificial) intelligence
Something that I think many people don’t take into consideration is that the connective tissue in the body – the fascia and the tendons especially… Read More »Connective Tissue
TL;DR: In case you came in late… progress is possible! The number of people living in extreme poverty – both as a percentage of global… Read More »Not long ago; or, Little by little (12): Armentano, Niehaus and Vogl on How Poverty Fell
Patience’s first law of operations: Everyone wants a clear policy and a consistently implemented SOP… until you ask them to write a policy, create an… Read More »SOP
This is from his interview on the Coleman Hughes podcast. This section starts starts at 8:40. Coleman Hughes: What were the most surprising and informative… Read More »Tyler Cowen on the experience, culture and politics of poverty
Here’s MacIntyre writing in 1989: It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading… Read More »Alasdair MacIntyre: Barbarians inside the walls
Was not being rich, powerful or famous?
Affection, in the sense that I mean it, is a broad kind of love: a gentler, more abiding, more generous way of feeling-toward, and of… Read More »A politics of affection