The Pew Research Center conducted a survey/study recently, in which they claim to show that most Americans cannot adequately distinguish factual from opinion statements. But the study seems poorly designed,…
I keep seeing conservatives on Facebook justify the practice of separating refugee/illegal immigrant kids from their parents with the following argument: “They broke the law!” I guess the thought is…
If haven’t yet, you should read Munger’s new book Tomorrow 3.0 , just published by Cambridge. Munger carefully explains how technology is reducing transactions costs in such a way that, very…
The basic idea behind the public reason project: To justify imposing some norm, law, policy, or rule P on reasonable people, you need to show that they have sufficient reason…
If Black Lives Matter had made a flag like this, many people on the Right would be pissed, claiming they’ve defaced the flag. But when cops do it, it’s fine….
Roughly half the country apparently believes that abortion = baby murder.** Pro-choice people (including me): “Oh, yeah, we know that. We disagree. But we understand that they think killing a…