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…
Month: July 2017
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…