Are conservatives smarter than liberals? If low IQs are linked to poverty and, as shown below, poorer people vote liberal, one can surmise that liberalism is more highly represented among those with low IQs than conservatism. Look at Communism, a collection far-left ideologies specifically designed to appeal to poor, uneducated people. Decline in small business… Continue reading The Daily View: IQ and Political Affiliation, Small Business, Obama, Healthcare, Women in STEM

To the left, America is always in decline – and that only more wealth redistribution from the coffers of the rich can pull us out of this imagined decline. From Braaaad DeLong, The American Economy Stumbles: The American economy has done badly over the past generation or so. This is not to say other economies… Continue reading Cheer Up, Libs, Things Aren’t So Bad

It seems like we’re all becoming economists now. You’ve got Marc Andreessen, a technologist with no economics degrees, engaging in a credible debate with one of the greatest living economists, Larry Summers. Then there’s Peter Thiel, who received his B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford, pontificating about monopolies and the size of government. The 700-page tome… Continue reading Eliminative Materialism and Economic Misconceptions

From the New York Times: Among the Disrupted This passage stood out: And even as technologism, which is not the same as technology, asserts itself over more and more precincts of human life, so too does scientism, which is not the same as science. The notion that the nonmaterial dimensions of life must be explained… Continue reading More on Biological Determinism and Useless Degrees

The Grey Enlightenment is probably the only conservative/libertarian themed blog that takes a more optimistic view of the millennials. On millennials, Gavin McInnes writes: Things have been getting progressively more insane since then. Today we have NYU students barricading themselves in the cafeteria, demanding the school provide them with Palestinian friends (see 10:16); Duke University… Continue reading In Defense of the Millennials

It’s better to self-actualize than work in a dead-end job . With all the free resources available online to acquire high-paying skills, why waste time with low paying, low-skill work – unless I guess you really need money. Well-intentioned adults are giving bad advice to young people by encouraging them work dead-end jobs instead of… Continue reading Adults, Stop Giving Bad Career Advice to Young People

From The Atlantic: Why the U.S. Government Never, Ever Has to Pay Back All Its Debt For years the doom and glomers have insisted that America’s debt burden will result in some sort of cataclysmic, hyper-inflationary ‘debt crisis’, but yields have been falling in the intervening years since the bank bailouts, with the 10 and… Continue reading Is the National Debt a Big Deal? Maybe not

Attention news readers: We will continue writing articles about the violence decline until you stop kvetching. http://t.co/G9YHHc3U8X — Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) January 14, 2015 Upon first glance, one would assume that a Cato report about the world being safer is good news, but to the discontent left who yearn for class warfare and crisis, it… Continue reading The World is Getting Safer, So Why Does this Make Libs Mad?

Until the stock market start going up there will be fewer posts. I can’t write about biological determinism, smartism, IQ and stuff like that if the market is not going up. What I want: 1. A big spike in unemployment This will: a. Prolong zero percent interest rates, boosting both stocks and bonds b. Lower… Continue reading What I Want

Besides the Charlie Hebdo attack, the other big story of the week is Obama’s plan to make community college free for everyone. A few thoughts come to mind: The timing of this announcement is conspicuous, coming just days after the Charlie Hebdo attack. It’s not unreasonable to assume Obama did this to take attention away… Continue reading Improving Obama’s Community College Plan