July 23, 2014
BHL Goes to Brasil?
A story (in Portuguese, but you can easily translate it) from Brasil about U.S. libertarianism. And, quite rightly, BHL-ists figure prominently in the discussion. Excerpt (of a bad translation): According…
Month: July 2014
July 22, 2014
Why Philosophers Should Stay Out of Politics
Two years ago I participated in an NEH summer seminar for political philosophers. This was during the campaign for the 2012 Presidential election. One evening over drinks, I asked the…
July 21, 2014
Historical recognition of cognitive biases ?
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the ways in which cognitive biases (such as confirmation bias, framing effects, and the bandwagon effect) lead to errors in reasoning, and…
July 19, 2014
Weekend Links
Yet more evidence that exposure to markets ennobles, while socialism corrupts. The Other Cohen Fallacy isn’t just mistaken, but backwards. Is Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” hate speech, or just rather evil? Read…
July 17, 2014
This Is What Happens When You Call the Cops
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlY9C6pzxKc]
July 17, 2014
Yglesias on the Gold Standard
In a column at Vox yesterday morning, Matt Yglesias gave us 7 reasons to think a gold standard is a terrible idea. They are not all completely wrong (a low…