The years of hope?September 24, 2009 Richard asks:When in the past 25 years has the Republican Party ever made a |
A lot of who you are is in your genesSeptember 23, 2009 A few years ago John Derbyshire made a comment in The Corner which referenced |
Left tactics for Right endsSeptember 23, 2009 My friend Heather Mac Donald has a long post, The Right plays the race card, |
The limits of cynicismSeptember 11, 2009 Am the only one who has reached the end of the line in terms of complacency |
A bourgeois future?September 08, 2009 A follow up to Richard’s post where he references the film Idiocracy, I though |
Dogs are like babiesSeptember 05, 2009 A few months ago I noted the peculiarities of domestic dog cognition, |
The Blank Slate Of YouthSeptember 03, 2009 In the early part of this decade Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate took the |
New England Republicans & Southern DemocratsAugust 23, 2009 One of the truisms of politics seems to be that what is “Republican” or |
A solution to the national debtAugust 04, 2009 View the details here. |
The UntouchablesJuly 28, 2009 Michael Lewis has written a parody article from a putative Goldmanite. Here’s a |
The rise of feminine beautyJuly 27, 2009 Women are more beautiful, declares the headline in Times Online:The researchers |
Tissue specific gene expressionJuly 22, 2009 I hate to be the one to tell Robert Stacy McCain, but the fact that he points |
Evolved to be animal lovers?July 21, 2009 Follow up to my post about domestic dogs’ ability to relate to human beings, it |
Moral atomsJuly 15, 2009 Below Patrick Ford points to a reasoned argument in regards to the rights of |
A dog’s worldJuly 15, 2009 Richard pointed me to a new study which suggests that domestic dogs exhibit an |
America AbroadJuly 14, 2009 I recently read something which conflated neoconservative foreign policy views |
Control locally!July 05, 2009 In Australian Outback, Efforts to Restrict Alcohol: Since Halls Creek recently |
The Sarah Palin show ends with a twist?July 03, 2009 Well, since she’s resigning as governor of Alaska, perhaps she could relocate |
Breaking up is hard to do….July 01, 2009 Heather Mac Donald expresses some frustration at Mark Sanford’s antics the past |
The genetics of history & Thomas JeffersonJuly 01, 2009 Kevin Gutzman alludes to genetic evidence pointing to a strong likelihood that |
There goes thatJune 24, 2009 Well, going to Argentina without telling anyone is a bit weird. A politician |
South Carolina owns Mark Sanford, lock, stock & barrelJune 23, 2009 Mark Sanford went hiking without telling the powers that be. It seems that a |
Empire as if it didn’t existJune 20, 2009 I recently read The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914, a cultural history |
Reformed or not, does it matter for politics?June 19, 2009 I found Dr. Grant Havers’ rumination on the relationship between |
In praise of the falsity of FreudJune 16, 2009 To the scientifically trained my experience is that Freud, along with Marx, is |
The politics of scienceJune 09, 2009 Bryan Caplan observes of Behaviorial Geneticists versus Policy |