Justin Weinberg was kind enough to mention Nec Pluribus Impar on his blog and noted that, so far, I had mostly been talking about politics, which reminded me that I wanted to post something about a philosophical issue I have been…
Month: January 2017
David Byler published a very good piece in which he comes back on the theory that, as a result of demographic change, American politics was headed to a permanent Democratic majority. It was made popular by John Judis and Run Texeira’s book, The Emerging Democratic…
While liberals are busy losing their mind over a decision which, compared to what the US has been doing for years all over the world, is relatively benign, the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 just murdered several innocent civilians in Yemen, including…
I’ve been giving more thought to Trump’s executive order and I’m increasingly convinced that Bannon fucked liberals again. I don’t think everything about this was planned, and I’m sure that incompetence played a role, but I have no doubt that it was Bannon’s…
In my post on slavery and capitalism, I mention Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s view that, despite what some people have claimed, slavery was actually economically efficient and it wasn’t abolished because it was not profitable. A survey of economists…
As you no doubt know, Trump signed an executive order about immigration on Friday, which led to mass hysteria since yesterday as some people were denied entry into the US and detained in airports. Let me start by saying that I…
For as long as I have been in the US, and I arrived in 2010, I have heard people say that Obama deported more illegal aliens than any other President. The people who say that are usually liberals, progressives or libertarians who…
I wanted to post a quick note about Christopher Browning’s book, which I read a few months ago. I had been meaning to read it for a while and I really wish I had done it sooner. It may be the best book…
Sean Trende and David Byler recently published a series of posts on RealClearPolitics in which they analyze the results of the presidential election and put them in historical context. Among people who are paid to talk about politics, Trende is…
Chetty et al.’s study about the evolution of absolute income mobility in the US since 1940 has received a lot of attention. It purports to show that, since the 1940’s, absolute income mobility has radically decreased in the US. Absolute income mobility…