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Month: July 2017

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Links – 07/31/2017

  • Posted on July 31, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

According to a Pew Research Center survey, Democrats and people who lean Democrat in the US are way more intolerant of political disagreement than Republicans and people who lean Republican, at least when it comes to Trump. Interestingly, but not…

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  • Politics

A case study in propaganda about Trump’s imaginary collusion with Russia

  • Posted on July 28, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

A week ago, the Washington Post broke another non-story on Trump’s imaginary collusion with Russia during the election, by revealing that Sessions had discussed “campaign-related matters” with Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the US, during the campaign. I wanted to write a…

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  • Statistique

Les principes sur lesquels reposent les sondages et pourquoi il est difficile de prédire le résultat d’une élection

  • Posted on July 27, 2017July 24, 2020
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Les sondages sont devenus omiprésents dans l’univers médiatique et jouent notamment un rôle indispensable pour prédire le résultat des élections, mais peu de gens savent vraiment comment ils marchent et pourquoi le résultat final d’une élection est généralement incertain. J’ai…

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  • Immigration

A quick look at immigration and crime in Germany

  • Posted on July 25, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

The Ministry of the Interior in Germany released data about crime a few months ago. Ines Laufer had a look at them on her blog and noted they showed that immigrants in general and asylum seekers in particular were massively…

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  • Books

The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze

  • Posted on July 23, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

There are few books which completely change your way of thinking about a historical episode, especially one that has received as much attention as Word War 2, but Adam Tooze’s history of the Third Reich’s economy is one of them.…

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  • Politics

Moving the goalposts on Trump’s collusion with Russia

  • Posted on July 19, 2017June 13, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I thought my last post on the Trump/Russia nonsense was clear, but it must not have been clear enough, since I’m still accused of having moved the goalposts on this story. In fact, not only have I done no such…

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Links – 07/16/2017

  • Posted on July 16, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

The Atlantic has a good piece on the growth of left-wing websites peddling conspiracy theories since Trump’s election. I have to say that I don’t really think these websites are what is really problematic. Most educated people don’t really take…

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  • Politics

On Trump’s collusion with Russia, if you add nothing to nothing, what you get is still nothing

  • Posted on July 14, 2017November 9, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

A few days ago, the New York Times published yet another story about the allegations that Trump’s campaign had colluded with Russia during thee election, which has since then resulted in massive hysteria in the media. It may have been…

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  • Immigration

The public/elite divide on immigration

  • Posted on July 11, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Chatham House, a prestigious think tank in London, recently published a study about the public/private divide in Europe on various political issues. Here is a brief description of the study, taken from the introduction of the paper: This research paper…

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  • Politics

Trump is absolutely right about CNN

  • Posted on July 7, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

People at CNN often throw a tantrum because Trump say they are fake news. Of course, they’re not really mad, because they know it’s good for business to be one of Trump’s targets. Anyone who is targeted by Trump automatically becomes…

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