I’ve been mostly offline and busy with other things lately, which is why things have been slow here. However, I just noticed that Nec Pluribus went past 100,000 views a week ago, which means it averaged about 500 views/day since…
Robert Kelly argues that North Korea’s nuclear program is almost certainly for deterrence, which I think is clearly right. Jonny Anomaly and Brian Boutwell published a good piece on Quillette where they warn against the danger of ignoring the possibility…
A software engineer at Google recently wrote a document that circulated internally before it was leaked, where he argues that instead of programs that promote gender/racial diversity by discriminating against white men, the company should try to promote ideological diversity…
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…
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…