Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Law & Liberty) Clausing’s Open: The Economist as Social Engineer
The inconsistencies between Clausing 1.0 and Clausing 2.0 are indicative of an economics profession that has eschewed its own humble insights.
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(Law & Liberty) Can Executive Legislating Be Deferred?
There is no precedent for a measure like DACA, concretely debated and rejected by Congress, to have been, nonetheless, put into effect by the president.
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(Our World in Data) Pneumonia — no child should die from a disease we can prevent
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Bernadeta Dadonaite at Our World in Data.
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(QC RSS) First Edition
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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(Law & Liberty) The Israelites and the Americans
A sourcebook on the Hebrew Bible’s influence on the formation of a new government in the New World.
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(Law & Liberty) Exit Stage Right
Mobility enables Americans to improve their well-being by pursuing more attractive opportunities elsewhere in this magnificent, sprawling country.
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(Our World in Data) Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture
Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture. More than three-quarters of this is used for livestock production, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world’s protein and calorie supply.
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(QC RSS) Two Birds, One Stone
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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(John McWhorter | The Atlantic) The Show-Trial Rhetoric That Took Down a Charter-School Founder
A petition accusing Steven Wilson of “white supremacist” language makes no sense, and barely tries to.
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(Jesse Walker – Reason.com) Monty Python Meets the Bishop
Friday A/V Club: The 40th anniversary of Life of Brian’s British debut—and of a legendary TV debate
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