“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Rudyard Kipling Recent research has done a great deal to remind us that, as a species, humans are made out of stories. The political scientist Leslie Paul Thiele’s Heart of Judgement discusses the ways in which narrative helps [...]

Will Wilkinson on the reasonable suspicion of racism about bad social science that purports to prove conclusions that just happen to be tropes of racism. (See also– this is me, not Will– Mearsheimer and Walt on “The Israel Lobby,” Summers on women’ in math and science.)

Holbo on Robin on Hayek [...]

Who Spends More, Left or Right?”, a report from the Montreal Economic Institute by by Michel Kelly-Gagnon and Vincent Geloso. In an analysis of spending per GDP in Quebec, Canada, and the U.S., they found that “In reality, there is no systematic relation, for any of the three governments, between the left-wing or [...]

I was looking around the website of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona, with which many of the BHL bloggers have been affiliated in one way or another. I ran across a page I hadn’t noticed before, with a mission statement that seems to me worthy of [...]

The fine folks at Mercatus have released an index of freedom in the fifty U.S. states that’s attracted quite a bit of attention, mostly uncomplimentary. (See the libertarian-leaning Timothy Lee, as well as Matt Yglesias, for example.) I have some substantive quarrels with both inclusions (right-to-work laws, for [...]