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Abortion and Public Policy
My essay on abortion and public policy has appeared in the Summer 2024 issue of the Independent Review, where it will gestate for nine months behind a paywall. In the meantime, here is a late draft,...
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The Next Democratic President
The Democrats keep telling us that Donald Trump poses a unique threat to democracy and global stability, so that even if you are disagree with almost all of their policies, you should still vote for...
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The Next Trump Cabinet
Here is a headline from this morning’s New York Times: Over the course of the day, I’ve heard three different radio commenters riffing on this theme, mocking the former president for not realizing that...
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Degrees of Delusion
No matter how this election turns out, the next president of the United States will be a crackpot. Donald Trump thinks you can fight Covid with bleach injections. Kamala Harris thinks you can fight...
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Harris’s 1922 Paths to Victory
Here’s what I want on election night: A complete list of all Harris’s paths to victory and a complete list of all Trump’s paths. Then as each path becomes impossible, I can cross it off and see...
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Is This Too Cryptic?
Now the physicists know what it was like to be an economist in 1978. Click here to comment or read others’ comments.
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Ben Powell!
If you are in the vicinity of the University of Rochester tomorrow, please join us!
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Jamie Whyte!
If you are in the vicinity of the University of Rochester on Thursday, please join us.
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Price Theory and Applications — Errata
The 10th edition of Price Theory and Applications has been out for several months now, and so far I’m aware of just one cluster of errors. [Of course zero would have been much better]. You can find...
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Specialists
I have a doctor I really like, partly because he is interested in many things and likes to talk about them and partly because most of that talk is insightful, thought-provoking and occasionally...
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Academia and Government
A stylized history of modern American academics: For decades, university administrators have somehow become adept at co-opting university resources to promote their personal social and political...
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Help With A Subtitle
The book shown here is about to go to press, but is on hold for a few days because the publishers have decided they don’t like the subtitle (An Invitation to the theory of relativity for anyone who is...
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Check it out
If you’re planning to attend the APS Global Physics Summit in Denver next week (along with about 14,000 other people), please visit the World Scientific booth to check out my book Understanding Time...
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Illiteracy, Mathematical and Economic
The number $2800 has been popping up in a lot of my Internet feeds lately. That, allegedly is the amount by which Elon Musk could enrich every American if he gave his trillion dollars away. I conclude...
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Lindsay Graham
Say what you will about him, but Lindsay Graham, perhaps uniquely, had both Trump’s ear and Ukraine’s back, and his death is a tragedy. Click here to comment or read others’ comments.
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Outsmarting Google — and More
The most controversial and most widely debated topic ever covered on this blog began with a post called Are you smarter than Google, which spawned a series of followup posts with over 1000 comments...
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