The years of hope?Richard asks:When in the past 25 years has the Republican Party ever made a |
A lot of who you are is in your genesA few years ago John Derbyshire made a comment in The Corner which referenced Judith |
Left tactics for Right endsMy friend Heather Mac Donald has a long post, The Right plays the race card, over at |
The limits of cynicismAm the only one who has reached the end of the line in terms of complacency about the |
A bourgeois future?A follow up to Richard’s post where he references the film Idiocracy, I though I’d |
Dogs are like babiesA few months ago I noted the peculiarities of domestic dog cognition, especially their |
The Blank Slate Of YouthIn the early part of this decade Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate took the country by |
New England Republicans & Southern DemocratsOne of the truisms of politics seems to be that what is “Republican” or “conservative” |
A solution to the national debtView the details here. |
The UntouchablesMichael Lewis has written a parody article from a putative Goldmanite. Here’s a |
The rise of feminine beautyWomen are more beautiful, declares the headline in Times Online:The researchers have |
Tissue specific gene expressionI hate to be the one to tell Robert Stacy McCain, but the fact that he points to really |
Evolved to be animal lovers?Follow up to my post about domestic dogs’ ability to relate to human beings, it turns |
Moral atomsBelow Patrick Ford points to a reasoned argument in regards to the rights of animals. |
A dog’s worldRichard pointed me to a new study which suggests that domestic dogs exhibit an ability |
America AbroadI recently read something which conflated neoconservative foreign policy views with |
Control locally!In Australian Outback, Efforts to Restrict Alcohol: Since Halls Creek recently became |
The Sarah Palin show ends with a twist?Well, since she’s resigning as governor of Alaska, perhaps she could relocate to South |
Breaking up is hard to do….Heather Mac Donald expresses some frustration at Mark Sanford’s antics the past week. |
The genetics of history & Thomas JeffersonKevin Gutzman alludes to genetic evidence pointing to a strong likelihood that Thomas |
There goes thatWell, going to Argentina without telling anyone is a bit weird. A politician having an |
South Carolina owns Mark Sanford, lock, stock & barrelMark Sanford went hiking without telling the powers that be. It seems that a public |
Empire as if it didn’t existI recently read The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914, a cultural history somewhat in the |
Reformed or not, does it matter for politics?I found Dr. Grant Havers’ rumination on the relationship between paleoconservatism and |
In praise of the falsity of FreudTo the scientifically trained my experience is that Freud, along with Marx, is the |
The politics of scienceBryan Caplan observes of Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy Implications: In most |
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