American Mobility
In a follow-up to the discussion of American inequality, here’s an interesting pair of charts produced by the Economic Policy Institute and found by hbd chick that show a measure of income mobility for...
View ArticleThe Troublesome Differences among Humans (I)
Last week, the NPR program All Things Considered ran a segment on sounds derived from the electromagnetic radiation of sources in outer space. During the segment, they interviewed Jill Tarter, one of...
View ArticleThe Troublesome Differences among Humans (II)
While the attempt to trivialize human differences by using cosmic comparisons is largely non sequitur, an attempt to distract from matters close at hand with others far more distant, that does not mean...
View ArticleIdeological Competition
At the end of May this year, Bloggingheads.tv hosted an hour-long discussion between Amanda Marcotte, an atheistic feminist, and Michael Brendan Dougherty, a traditionalist Catholic, which covered a...
View ArticleTwo Liberals Discuss Fertility
Just as I stopped blogging with a discussion of how fertility and proselytism shape the ideological landscape with a Bloggingheads discussion as its centerpiece, I’m returning with another...
View ArticleNight Lights
Last year, NASA posted a new high resolution map of the lights present across the world at night using the Suomi NPP satellite, which was launched in 2009. While the overall appearance of the map is...
View ArticleQualified Reservations
Over the course of the past year, I’ve silently admired the emergence of a community of blogs influenced by the writings of Mencius Moldbug who call themselves neoreactionaries. It’s generally been...
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