This story is going viral, having been shared and up-voted hundreds of times on Reddit and elsewhere: For years, engineers have warned that Houston was a flood disaster in the making. Why didn’t somebody do something? Who is ‘somebody’? The flood fairy? The most obvious answer is that insurance is cheaper than re-engineering everything. That… Continue reading Hurricane Harvey Analysis
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Getting the correct story is hard
Following the Charlottesville Unite the Right Protest, Trump was criticized for not sufficiently condemning ‘hate groups’ such as the KKK and Neo Nazis. Bret Stephens of the NYTs in a column Trump, Obama and the Politics of Evasion ended by saying: None of this history excuses Trump’s stubborn reluctance, rectified far-too belatedly on Monday, to… Continue reading Getting the correct story is hard
The ‘Metamodern Condition’
A podcast by Ezra Klein featuring guest Angela Nagle, author of Kill All the Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right: From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it’s going And Embracing metamodernism: Perhaps why we’ve so far struggled to make ourselves comprehensible is that… Continue reading The ‘Metamodern Condition’
Debunking more white v. black discrimination
Floyd Mayweather made $350 million for a fight that lasted 27 minutes, which works out to about $700 million/hour. Obviously, that 27 minutes was the culmination of a lifetime of practice and dedication to the sport, but it deals a blow to the notion that there is systemic racism in America against blacks. Of course,… Continue reading Debunking more white v. black discrimination
Jared Taylor truth bombs everyone
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War with North Korea is certain. The question is when.
We had one chance to stop this. That was in 1994. As I wrote 2 weeks ago, I agree. The way you prevent a problem from becoming big is to stop it when it’s small. However, invading a nation comes with the cost of having to rebuilt it, but it’s still a small price to… Continue reading War with North Korea is certain. The question is when.
Anti-activism going mainstream
It seems like the anti-activist approach is gaining as more traction, as people realize that activism does not work: I told people to stop those marches for now, Cville changed everything and all marches will been seen as "Nazi," and complaining won't stop. https://t.co/1HEpSqxaqX — Mike CernovichAugust 26, 2017 And a recent article from The… Continue reading Anti-activism going mainstream
Black-White wage gap
White Economic Privilege Is Alive and Well – The New York Times Most studies and articles purporting a ‘wage gap’ between blacks and whites do not control for IQ, skills, hours worked, prior job experience, educational attainment, and employment status. From the paper: Basic Skills and the Black-White Earnings Gap, controlling for AFQT (a proxy… Continue reading Black-White wage gap
On a ‘general theory’ of social behavior and government
A large portion of NRx writings, but also the rational-left and the rational-right, concerns social theory: How humans behave, what motivates their behavior and actions, the interaction between individuals and institutions, etc. By answering such questions, one can get a better understanding of human behavior, and hence build a better society upon such understanding (because… Continue reading On a ‘general theory’ of social behavior and government
The left comes full circle
From Alternet (republished on Salon) The dangerous delusions of Richard Dawkins: Richard Dawkins has been responsible for popularizing an updated version of this Cartesian myth, writing famously that “life is just bytes and bytes and bytes of digital information,” adding: “That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn’t be any plainer… Continue reading The left comes full circle