tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136075022011-07-28T05:30:32.242-07:00Because I like to hear myself talk.Jadagulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01638430331326586502noreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13607502.post-81579488623174790542010-07-18T19:29:00.002-07:002010-07-18T19:31:06.785-07:00

The Dark Knight is, to a surprising degree, a film about politics by other means: Its antagonists wrestle over the public mood like Victorian novelists over the soul of a virgin.From Christopher Orr's reveiw of The Dark Knight.

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The Dark Knight is, to a surprising degree, a film about politics by other means: Its antagonists wrestle over the public mood like Victorian novelists over the soul of a virgin.From Christopher Orr's reveiw of The Dark Knight.

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New York Magazine has an interesting, weird, and rather prurient feature called the "Sex Diaries," where each week a random reader submits an account of his or her sexual experiences during the week. Last year they got a journalist to read through all 800 pages of collective entries and write a summary-cum-exegesis. And it's amazing. And very true to my own experiences of the psychological

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Just found this Michael Lewis Vanity Fair article on what, exactly, happened in AIG Financial Products during the housing boom and bust. Goes into detail about what caused the subprime blowup, what institutional factors inside AIG allowed it to happen, and why it was probably AIG FP's fault despite the fact that everyone inside was acting in good faith.Fun fact: the AIG FP employees invested

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Of classical groups performing songs that were never meant to be done that way:

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Or "Why I'm Not A Left-Liberal."There are two interesting posts today I want to comment on. The first is Yglesias's post on what he considers the real I-banking scandal: the brute existence of extremely wealthy people.It’s greedy, absurd, and morally indefensible for talented people born in favorable circumstances to be dedicating their lives to accumulating huge sums of money in order to engage

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So apparently young adult novels with Twilight-esque covers are the Next Big Thing. Dozens of badly-written novels about teenage girls and the vampires who love them, ensconced in minimalistic covers with flowers on the front.But if you buy such a book with expectations of truly crappy teen romance, you may be sorely disappointed. I was going to say life imitates art, but it seems the PA guys

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Every time I read an article on the obesity crisis, or public health, or food policy, or really anything involving the theme that Americans eat too much, I have a very strong gut reaction that the writer is crazy and has no idea what he's talking about. On reflection, I think it's probably more accurate that I am crazy and have no idea what I'm talking about.I am, depending on perspective,

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Ran across an excellent speech by Alex Ross, who writes on classical music for the New Yorker. He addresses an issue I've had for a long time: where did the (quite frankly insane) norms about behavior at classical concerts come from? Why can't we applaud excellent solos? A modern orchestra performance is more reminiscent of a wake than of a music concert. The change seems to date to shortly

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An old article, but I just got around to reading Renouncing Islamism by Johann Hari. It's a profile on British Muslims who were once radical jihadis, then renounced the Islamist movement and are trying to build a liberal counter-movement within Islam. Fascinating reading. I was particularly intrigued by this bit on identity crises:As children and teenagers, the ex-jihadis felt Britain was a

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Over the past few weeks, I've periodically said to myself, "Wow, that was a great article, I wish I had some way to recommend it to people." Or, "Here's this interesting thought, I should write it down somewhere." And it occurred to me that I do, even if it's...a bit stale. So I'm trying this again, and I'll see if I can post when I have that thought. Even if it's just a link.But no promises.

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At least for a little while. Sorry about the long hiatus (if anyone's still reading this); the school semester got really busy, and I didn't have time to keep this thing updated. I'll try to do better this coming semester, but I can't make any prmoises; if I get overwhelmed with my work, there's not much I can do. But there'll be a few articles I'll post before break ends, if nothing else.

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The idea of reductio creep has been pretty well established in libertarian circles. The idea is that a stupid policy will be suggested to demonstrate the absurdity of some seriously advanced plan; everyone will explain to the arguer that there's no way anything that absurd will happen. A few years later, the idea originally presented as a reductio ad absurdum will be honestly suggested as a

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Julian Sanchez posts on Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, a book on the Rwandan genocide. He then asks if postmodernism and ironism might provide an important check on tyrrany: Laughter is, after all, a powerful antiauthoritarian check: Egalitarian bands of foragers and hunters frequently used ridicule as a means of keeping (temporary) leaders within their proper

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by Robin Hanson (thanks to Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution).

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There are the several bad Effects of Whoring; and it is an unhappy Thing, that a practice so univeral as this is, and always will be, should be attended with such mischievous Consequences: But since few or none of them are the necessary Effects of Whoring, considered in itself, but only proceed from the Abuse and ill Management of it; our Business is certainly to regulate this Affair in such sort

Jadagulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01638430331326586502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13607502.post-1157247957050297542006-09-02T18:12:00.000-07:002006-09-06T11:22:15.526-07:00

Brad DeLong argues in favor of redistribution to assuage envy: Bill Gates's wealth makes everyone else unhappy because it makes them feel poor, so we can make most people much happier by taking wealth away from the rich. Greg Mankiw articulates the argument in more formal economic terms, and expresses distaste. Tyler Cowen responds, as does Jane Galt.The core of DeLong's argument is that we can

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And while I'm linking to blogs that I strongly advocate reading, let me plug Jennifer's Ravings of a Feral Genius. A very interesting and entertaining writer, with a lot of good things to say.

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D.A. Ridgely at Inactivist posted on his town's recycling regulations, and points to an excellent piece on the problems with environmentalism as a religious movement (as opposed to the environmental movement as an attempt to promote greater recognition of certain externalities generated by certain activities, a movement that now is largely triumphant).Read the piece. And read Ridgely and the

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Amy Alkon, a militant atheist, writes of a woman who complained about college Christian groups that threw pizza socials. "Of course they threw pizza socials," I want to say. "College students like pizza socials. That's half the point of a group like that. It's an excuse to have pizza socials."I'm not a religious person. But I'm often frustrated by atheism's most public figures; religion has

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Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek posts a critique of Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article on universal health insurance. A good post, but nothing shockingly new. But Tom West in the comments has a nuanced and interesting defense of a Canadian-style system that I'd not heard before: I think you misunderstand the advantages of a national health-care scheme. If the Canadian model is any indication,

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After last year's hurricane-induced destruction, you'd think New Orleans would have better things to do than run controversial and expensive experiments with large government programs. But with most of its sunk costs refloated on September's floodwaters, the city has a nearly unprecedented chance to try again and redesign its infrastructure properly (not that it could really design it any worse

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You know you're a hopeless dork when you laugh out loud—repeatedly—at one of the lead articles in The Economist. So I'm a dork. A sample: Men, studies show, are exceedingly good at rotating three-dimensional shapes in their head. Perhaps women once stared open-mouthed in wonder as their mates juggled pyramids of imaginary polyhedra. Such tricks are also quite handy for engineers who specialise

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I just ran across this old Orson Scott Card essay on Barry Schwartz's book The Paradox of Choice, and I think he gets it exactly right. Schwartz had great ideas about the way we process choices and how we can let the number of options available to us dominate our lives and make us unhappy. He wrote what seems to be an excellent book about these ideas. Then he used the same ideas to push an

Jadagulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01638430331326586502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13607502.post-1154746841182393442006-08-04T19:41:00.000-07:002006-08-05T18:56:13.770-07:00

Is anyone really surprised that a fast-track building permit program, designed to streamline large and complex construction jobs, has been used extensively by city commissioners and political donors?

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There've been a lot of rather dumb arguments against allowing Plan B to be sold over the counter. But one in yesterday's New York Times, from Concerned Women of America president Wendy Wright, takes the cake:There’s clearly no way that the F.D.A. or Barr Labs could put a gender restriction on who buys the drug. You could have a statutory rapist buy the drug in order to cover up his abuse.So, we

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At Reason's Hit and Run, Cathy Young has an excellent new article up about the Starchild Abraham Cherrix affair (and no, I didn't make that name up). The short version of the story: Abraham is a 16-year-old cancer victim. He went through a painful chemotherapy treatment, only to suffer a relapse. Deciding he didn't want to suffer through another chemo course, he declined and pursued an "

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There's been a lot of rather lively discussion on economics blogs lately about increasing income inequality. Don't think I can give a full roundup of the discussion—I probably haven't read even half of it—but Greg Mankiw kicks it off here arguing that the increase in inequality is caused by increasing returns to human capital (the differnece in pay between highly skilled workers and less skilled

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Club for Growth reports on a recent speech by Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) on farm price supports. I don't know that he really believes the arguments he was making—it's probably just an attempt to point out the complete hypocrisy displayed by Congressional Republicans—but that doesn't make his points any less accurate.

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I have an article published in the new issue (pdf) of my college's political journal, The Undecided.

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Winterspeak at Asymmetrical Information posted on a topic I've been meaning to talk about for a while. Some Harvard researchers have come up with a test for subconscious bias. In brief, you are given two categories: in the racial test, say, black and good, and white and bad. You are given a series of words and faces, and asked to categorize each. Most people take measurably longer to sort

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Until then, two new things to chew on.First, David Friedman, a leading libertarian/anarcho-capitalist thinker, has started a new blog. It's been really interesting so far; I'm adding it to the blogroll. Check it out.Second, if you want to waste several hours of your life, check out NancyButtons.com. You can browse through their catalogue of button slogans; I've killed way too much time reading

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And since men are not angels, no gold standard will be sufficient.Jane Galt blogs on the flaws of the gold standard. I think they can be summed up briefly. Obviously, it's inconvenient to peg a currency to a commodity like gold; it exposes our wealth to random swings in the market price of gold. Of course, with a fiat currency our wealth is exposed to random swings in the market price of

Jadagulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01638430331326586502noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13607502.post-1133053943603678072005-11-26T17:09:00.000-08:002005-11-26T17:12:23.613-08:00

I was reading a thread at Hit and Run, and one of the commenters was confused about link posting. I tried to post an explanation there, but the moderation on the server wouldn't let it go through. I eventually got fed up and decided to post it here instead. Sometime soon, I'll probably build a page with instructions on some basic HTML code useful for comments.Jennifer: the idea behind Shawn's

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Just got back from seeing the new Harry Potter movie. My first reaction, in brief: too much Michael Gambon. Not enough Alan Rickman or Ralph Fiennes.Longer version: The movie seemed rather rushed throughout. Understandable, since Mike Newell was trying to cram a seven-hundred-page book into a two-and-a-half hour movie, but I don't think anyone who hasn't read the book would have a clue what

Jadagulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01638430331326586502noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13607502.post-1131693484420679412005-11-10T23:16:00.000-08:002005-11-10T23:29:42.606-08:00

Jane Galt at Asymmetrical Information has a really good series on abortion up. The woman makes a lot of sense, although I don't agree with her 100%. I may post some of my own thoughts on the subject this weekend, but I thought I'd give my readers (all three of them) a heads-up while the discussion at AI was still going on.Update: I have now turned on word verification for comments. I've been

Jadagulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01638430331326586502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13607502.post-1131515905643106772005-11-08T21:54:00.000-08:002005-11-08T21:58:25.643-08:00

Added another new blog, Professor Bainbridge, to my links section. A conservative Catholic law professor at UCLA, the Professor is usually quite insightful. He was also one of the leading conservative anti-Miers bloggers. Go ahead and check him out.

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Sorry about the...long delay...since my last post. When school started up again I tried to kick my internet news habit so I'd have more time to do work. Now that that plan has failed resoundingly, I can go back to harassing all of you here.Jim Lindgren from Volokh has written a post arguing that daylight savings time should be in effect throughout the year—or that the entire country should

Jadagulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01638430331326586502noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13607502.post-1123809530645044762005-08-11T18:15:00.000-07:002005-08-11T18:18:50.663-07:00

This makes a lot of sense to me as an explanation for why American students fare so poorly on international tests. My senior year I was stubborn as hell, and wanted to do well for the sake of doing well—I'm probably the only high school student in America who worked harder his senior year than any other. But even I had trouble caring on the optional affects-nothing tests (I considered walking

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Warning: SpoilersDo not read on unless you've read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Not only will you spoil and excellent book for yourself, due to the magical nature of this post your eyes will rot and fall out of your head. You Have Been Warned.I've thought a lot about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince lately—in fact, I've really dwelt on it rather unhealthily for the past week.

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I added another blog, Environmental Economics, to my links section today. I find it very informative, even though I often disagree with some of the authors' claims. I was particularly amused by this calculation that discusses some of the costs of compliance with Kyoto; this comment estimates that Kyoto compliance might have been a net loss of $40 billion each year.

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Hit and Run has another post on the effects of the recent Kelo decision. The discussion, as usual, is excellent and thought-provoking. Specifically, it provoked thoughts about the Supreme Court's shift from being a protector of last resort to being one of last first resort.These days, people think of the Court as an institution to protect constitutional rights. The executive and legislature

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I recently started subscribing to Rhapsody, a service that lets you listen to all the music you want from an 850,000 song catalogue. I've been using this to try out a lot of music that I've been meaning to listen to for a while, especially the Rush album Moving Pictures. They're supposed to be really good, and their lyricist has a lot of Objectivist influences, which should appeal to me. I

Jadagulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01638430331326586502noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13607502.post-1120036147785897592005-06-29T02:02:00.000-07:002005-07-02T15:58:32.966-07:00

So. This started out as a response to a comment on a post at Left2Right, an excellent blog. However, this particular comment was not quite so excellent; and when I went to respond to it, I got a bit carried away. The response was much, much too long to post in the comments thread, so I decided to post it here instead. So, without futher ado:Caligreen:Why should wealthy conservatives or

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I really liked the play Wicked when I saw it last Christmas*, so I was excited to read the original book. I did think it was interesting, but it was very different from the play—so much so that it seems arguable whether they're telling the same story.I think this is another instance of a phenomenon I've been interested in lately, especially after the third Star Wars movie came out. In the ancient

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I don't really have much to add to this; Professor Zywicki pretty much nails it. The precautionary principle is a virtually useless guide, as the environmentalists typically formulate it: it doesn't tell us what we should precautionate against, and there's no guarantee that acting bears any more risk than not acting. The kind of action the Greens generally demand often has potentially severe

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I want one.

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I thought that this article at Tech Central Station (thanks to Bret, who blogs here) was really interesting. William Lewis and the McKinsey Global Institute did a huge study of wealth and productivity around the world, and they came up with some interesting, and often counterintuitive results. I found three particularly interesting:First, Mr. Lewis found that education levels really don't matter

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Welcome to my new blog. I'm hoping that this will be a place where I can have a productive discussion with interesting people on important (and sometimes not-so-important) topics. But based on my track record so far, I'm afraid it will break down into random bickering and people telling each other how stupid they are. I really, really hope I can avoid that.But I have to confess that I'm kind of

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