Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Government Gone Wild, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., Special Privilege on Dec 23rd, 2020
1 This thread commemorates those brave politicians who didn't let lockdowns slow them down Send me other examples by DM, and I'll add them First, Deborah Birx: retiring in disgrace after gathering 2 households and 4 generations for a Thanksgiving partyhttps://t.co/LjktJbHeee — Bachman (@ElonBachman) December 22, 2020
Posted in Classical Liberalism, Disingenuous, If I Really Hated the Poor ... on Dec 3rd, 2020
I’d add, “just leave people the hell alone” and our world would be immeasurably better. Here is a bit from Alex Tabarrok’s tribute to Walter Williams: Our colleague, the great Walter Williams, died on Tuesday shortly after teaching his last class–which is exactly how he would have wanted to go. He was 84 and had […]
Posted in Environment, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., You Can't Have it Both Ways on Jul 28th, 2020
OK, if the scientific method is a tool of western cis-white-privilege, how will the case to fight global warming be made? And wouldn’t proposed solutions therefore be thinly veiled ways to further ensconce that privilege? Throttling economic development, localism, banning of gas and conventional fuels, etc. will all hurt people who have yet to experience […]
Posted in Education, If I Really Hated the Poor ... on Oct 4th, 2018
I almost have a hard time believing that this article and experience is not a case of double trolling. Underlying these alleged “social constructions” is the most deeply concerning of them all. This is the belief that in urgent need of “disrupting” is the simple truth that science itself—along with our best methods of data-gathering, […]
Posted in Central Planning, Disingenuous, Environment, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., You Can't Have it Both Ways on Sep 11th, 2018
If you look at the major risks to human health and well-being around the world, you will quickly come to realize that climate change ranks nowhere near the top of the list. For example, the WHO and various other estimates show that something like 10 million people per year die from easily curable infectious diseases […]
Posted in Disingenuous, Economic Illiteracy, Economics 108, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., You Can't Have it Both Ways on Aug 31st, 2018
… for the “rules of economics” not to apply! How often have you heard things like, “during an emergency, the rules of economics don’t apply!”? Or, health care and the environment are too important for the rules of economics to apply. Economics just doesn’t belong here. If only! To suggest that the rules of economics […]
Posted in Disingenuous, Dynamism - Not, Economic Illiteracy, Government Gone Wild, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., Taxation on Dec 11th, 2017
As you ponder the inane debates about tax “reform” (i.e. deck chairs and symbolism), suppose you take the work of Martin Feldstein seriously. He has previously estimated that the dead weight loss in an economy due to taxation would be up to 30% of the size of the tax take. Now, I suspect the direct […]
Posted in Disingenuous, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., Innovation, Knowledge, Special Privilege on Nov 7th, 2017
So, it turns out that this is what is being taught to students about markets outside of our economics classes: I suppose then that when I discuss “single-payer” health care (I don’t actually talk about it, but if I did …), I should hand this printout to students with the title, “Crazy Ideas” … the […]
Posted in Central Planning, Government Thuggery, If I Really Hated the Poor ... on Oct 27th, 2017
Heaven forbid if it were. Happy 100th Anniversary! The following is from “the secret archive,” published as “The Unknown Lenin” (1996), and the entry is dated March 1922: “It is precisely now and only now, when in the starving regions people are eating human flesh, and hundreds if not thousands of corpses are littering the […]
Posted in Classical Liberalism, If I Really Hated the Poor ... on Oct 24th, 2017
I have this really uneasy feeling these days. That uneasy feeling is coming from the people who are trying to convince me that one of the more serious existential threats we face is the possibility of dangerous, runaway AI. I get it, I do. We were having a discussion of Asimov’s i,Robot the other day. […]
