Robert Paul Wolff's "The Philosopher's Stone."
Robert Paul Wolff is most famous as the author of In Defense of Anarchism and as the "only person on the face of the earth who has read, cover to cover, Immanuel Kant's Inaugural Dissertation, Karl...
View ArticleThere's got to be a better pun than "Class War," right?
The Face of Student Debt: Natalia Antonova stopped paying when she realized that it was the loans or her child. (The response has been telling.) Kristin Rawls demands solidarity. Glenn Reynolds says...
View Article"It's a pretty obscure scandal, you probably haven't heard of it...."
remixes stories from Leiter Reports and New APPS in the Horatian style popularized by the Onion.
View ArticleOnly *You* Can Prevent Irrationality
The Irrationality of Politics is a TEDX talk by Michael Huemer.
View Article"At least it's an ethos."
What do American "values voters" actually value? The American Values Project gathers answers.
View ArticleA BIG Idea
Why I support the Basic Income Guarantee: "I write a lot about the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)—about its labor-market effects, its use as cushion against instability, and so on. In this essay I want...
View ArticleThe. Polls. Have. Stopped Making. Any. Sense.
“Maybe after the election I’ll have a better sense of the big picture,” he continues. “I do think I’ll probably try to learn statistics.”"The. Polls. Have. Stopped. Making. Any. Sense." profiles Nate...
View ArticleOccupy the Prisons
"Federal Prison Industries (FPI), which employs inmates in federal prisons, pays them between $0.23 and $1.15 per hour, with the average federal prisoner making $0.92 per hour. [F]rom this gross pay,...
View ArticleBecome a Citizen Election Monitor
My Fair Election crowd-sources pollwatching: "We hope that this information will be used by citizens, journalists, and election officials to identify the worst polling places and work to fix them. We...
View ArticleNow hear Friedrich Hayek sing a song of savings....
Deck the Halls with Macro Follies: EconStories.tv is at it again, with their signature brand of musical Austrian economics lessons poking fun at Keynesian stimulus. Sings Thomas Malthus: ♫Silent Night♫...
View ArticleHey girl, I gotta gotta have you 'cause I need ya need ya need ya so bad....
The Mostly German Philosophers Love Song
View ArticleSo we put our hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis do a tiny desk concert at NPR. (Includes Same Love, posted previously.)
View ArticleHow theory met practice …and drove it absolutely crazy
Thomas Frank (of What's the Matter with Kansas? and Pity the Billionaire fame) reviews Occupy's burgeoning research program in "To the Precinct Station.""Dear god why, after only a few months of...
View ArticleIf education were free and non-instrumental, what would it look like?
Reading Plato on Death Row (and a follow-up: Capital Punishment and the Specter of Reason)
View ArticleSo I guess it was worth perstering them about?
Forget Saturday delivery: The Postal Service is back! (site)
View Article...and with no more brains than you have....
Disclaimer (Autoplay MP3): "Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics. Please note...
View ArticleThe Past is a Different Color
The colorful stories of obsolete pigments, and more vibrant tales of colors lost.
View ArticleHunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement
30,000 prisoners in California have launched a hunger strike to protest the conditions under which "segregated" prisoners are being detained.The Five Core Demands: 1. Eliminate group punishments and...
View ArticleThe Method
"Obama’s new education policy neatly showcases the spectrum of choice we now have in our political system: to be ground down a bit at a time by technocrats who either won’t admit to or do not...
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