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Links – 01/29/2018

  • Posted on January 29, 2018April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

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…

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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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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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Beware of propaganda about Syria (part 3)

  • Posted on July 4, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

Some of the people who criticized my post in April just repeated some of the claims made by Higgins in the debate he had with Postol about the attack in Ghouta of August 2013. For instance, he claims that even…

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More on the chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun (part 2)

  • Posted on July 3, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

My post about the chemical attack in Syria last year has been widely shared and some people have criticized it, so I wanted to reply to some of the criticisms, which is long overdue. (If you haven’t read it yet,…

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  • Health

Why the US health care expenditures are so high (it’s not what you think)

  • Posted on May 18, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

I recently discovered this amazing post on Random Critical Analysis, which argues very convincingly that, despite a widespread belief to the contrary, the US doesn’t actually spend significantly more on health care than other developed countries once you take into…

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  • Politics

On the chemical attack in Syria (part 1)

  • Posted on April 6, 2017April 23, 2019
  • by Philippe Lemoine

As you probably know unless you live in a cave, another chemical attack is alleged to have taken place in Syria on Tuesday, which killed several people in the town of Khan Sheikhoun. The New York Times published a story about…

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