…is the title of my new piece at The American Prospect: The “Privacy is Awesome” campaign, one of the leading anti-CISPA efforts, is banking on Congress’s Memorial Day recess to encourage constituents to reach out to legislators and voice their … Continue reading
Some common fallacies in popular understandings of neuroscience The persistence of atheists as personae non gratae in the USA Philosophy can be useful for daily guidance, even if fundamental foundational questions are unresolved The U.S. Constitution is no longer the … Continue reading
The “expectations of privacy” standard means we get less privacy over time The “city of the confined” would be the second-largest city in the country How Roger Scruton lives “Mises wrote a thousand-page book on that. I can’t believe you … Continue reading
The Pulitzer Prizes are Worthless Gary Locke on China’s worsening environment for human rights A primer on the philosophical idea of “reflective equilibrium” The good and bad sides of sports, with plenty of reference to Plato and Homer thrown in … Continue reading
“To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.” – Christopher Hitchens, who passed away this week, in Letters to a Young Contrarian
Over at Forbes, Gene Marks has a piece up entitled “If I Were A Poor Black Kid“ that registers somewhere between “poorly thought through” and “awful.” Marks, a business tech writer, says: If I was a poor black kid I would first … Continue reading
Equality versus Efficiency Why Critics Praise Bad Poetry Post-Westphalian War? Fractions
Qingdao is fine, but it still isn’t developed enough – the salaries aren’t high enough…I like it more than Beijing, but it’s not as good as Shanghai. Or America, which is clean and rich. Development isn’t a bad thing, but … Continue reading
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Qingdao is a beautiful place, but the people aren’t beautiful…since the reform and opening, people have become more distant from each other emotionally; the space between them has gotten wider. In the past, you could walk up the hills in … Continue reading
