With Tesla reporting yet another quarter of blow-out earnings (and a surprise profit of nearly $3/share), it looks like I was right yet again and the the left-wing (although in fairness, some on the ‘right’ are also not fans of Tesla) media’s attempt to defame Tesla and Elon Musk failed as always. Tesla blew past… Continue reading Tesla posts surprise profit…right again

A study linking university success with genes, is going viral The genetics of university success University success, which includes enrolment in and achievement at university, as well as quality of the university, have all been linked to later earnings, health and wellbeing. However, little is known about the causes and correlates of differences in university-level… Continue reading The genetics of university success: study

From the 8000 Hours blog: Economist Prof Tyler Cowen says our overwhelming priorities should be maximising economic growth and making civilization more stable. Is he right? Tyler’s arguments can be broken into three parts: 1. Low GDP growth threatens U.S. innovation and competitiveness. 2. For the past few decades America has been afflicted by stagnation… Continue reading Disagreeing with Tyler Cowen about Stagnation and Innovation

From Jonah Goldberg Sorry, Elizabeth Warren: DNA doesn’t define who we really are I can’t believe I’m agreeing with the fake Indian. He concludes by writing: The idea that you are what your DNA says you are is illiberal, because liberalism (in the classical sense) is premised on the idea that the individual is more… Continue reading Jonah Goldberg wrong again

In what can be descried as “the great compromise,” the “left” will generally get its way on cultural/social issues (abortion, diversity, immigration, gay marriage, social security, etc.) and the “right” will get its way on foreign policy (defense spending, interventionism) and economics (tax cuts). However, immigration is an issue that splits the right (in spite… Continue reading “the great compromise”

What Saudi Arabia Now Knows About Bone Saws Nothing boxes in Trump. He will keep defending the Saudi prince as he has his putative paramour Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, and virtually every other despot on the planet who has crossed his path. Trump defends authoritarian leaders no matter what they do because he aspires to… Continue reading Is Trump too Cozy with Dictators? The evidence shows otherwise

The NPC meme finally breaks into the mainstream after Twitter bans 1,500 NPC accounts for ‘voter suppression’: Why has Twitter banned 1500 accounts and what are NPCs? What Is NPC, the Pro-Trump Internet’s New Favorite Insult? What is an NPC? The liberal-bashing meme sweeping social media ahead of the US midterms The propagation of this… Continue reading NPCs

From the 8000 Hours blog: Economist Prof Tyler Cowen says our overwhelming priorities should be maximising economic growth and making civilization more stable. Is he right? Tyler’s arguments can be broken into three parts: 1. Low GDP growth threatens U.S. innovation and competitiveness. 2. For the past few decades America has been afflicted by stagnation… Continue reading Tyler Cowen: Stagnation and Complacency, Part 1

Another wrong-thinker who has been disinvited by the ‘open-minded, pro-science’ left: Linda Gottfredson, an expert on occupational interests and intelligence, is the latest disinvited speaker. (She's also on a McCarthyite list of "extremists" by the Southern Poverty Law Ctr, once a respected civil rights org., now aggressively illiberal.) https://t.co/7DDmbobr8q — Steven Pinker (@sapinker) October 14,… Continue reading Why we should support Steven Pinker

What happened to that ‘trade war’ that the liberal media was insistent would happen? Trump’s tariffs on China are doing the exact opposite of what they’re supposed to: But at the moment, the primary conclusion to draw is that the US-China trade war isn’t yet hurting China all that much, says Evans-Pritchard: “This is a… Continue reading Economics report: tariffs, inflation, stock market