In this post, I want to explain why I’m not a feminist and why I think you shouldn’t be either. Of course, I cannot discuss everything I think is wrong with feminism, so I’m just going to focus on what…
Bryan Caplan wrote a very good essay in The Atlantic in which he makes the case that investment in education is socially wasteful. It’s based on a forthcoming book he wrote on that issue, which I’m sure will be very…
Shikha Dalmia just published a piece in The Week about Robert Putnam, professor of sociology at Harvard, which is a total smear job. It’s headlined “The alt-right’s favorite academic” and the opening lines set the tone: “Diversity is overrated.” …
I have been really busy lately and didn’t have time to write for the blog, but readers might be interested in my conversation with Glenn Loury, who kindly invited me to talk about police violence on his podcast after he…
I recently came across this interesting blog post, in which the author describes his experience dealing with state insurance regulators in the US. He points out that regulators are often ignorant of even the most basic statistical techniques used in the…
Justin Wolfers recently published a piece in the New York Times in which he describes the results of a study about discrimination by local public officials in the US. I was going to publish a post about gun control, but…
I don’t have time to write another post for the blog at the moment, though I have several of them in the works, but I wanted to let you know about a few things I published elsewhere. I already mentioned…
L. J. Zigerell had an interesting exchange with the authors of a recent meta-analysis of field experiments about discrimination on the labor market. According to him, the data suggests there is a strong publication bias, but they argue that’s not really…
A few days ago, the AfD won 12.6% of the vote and 94 seats in Germany, which immediately prompted the usual hysteria about how the nazis are coming back. I don’t know what’s with the sophisticates and this need to…
Helen Pluckrose wrote a fantastic essay about patriarchy on Areo Magazine. She goes over the history of patriarchy and criticizes the way in which most contemporary feminists use the term. It’s rare when I’m so completely in agreement with something.…