April 22, 2005

Isn't it a logical inevitability that abortion reduces the crime rate?

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While the historical evidence raises strong doubts about this popular theory, many people assume it must be true on simple logical grounds...

Crime Misery Index Feedback

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A reader writes: Good work with the crime misery index . I can think of two factors that would af...

Nietzsche on KICS: "Keep It Complicated, Smartie:"

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A reader writes: Nietzsche said: "It's a lie that what thinkers hate most is being misund...

I'm not the only bestseller-hater:

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Matt Taibbi on Thomas Friedman's book The World Is Flat: I think it was about five months ag...

New Tech-Support Caste Arises In India

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NEW DELHI—Thanks to widespread outsourcing of telephone-service jobs, a fifth caste has blossomed in India: the Khidakayas, a mid-level jati...

The advantage of going to Harvard:

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A reader writes: You are absolutely right wh...
April 21, 2005

Non-Lethal Youth Violence Peaked After Roe, Too

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The kids born after abortion legalization didn't just go on a murder spree. Here's a ...

Is the Pope Catholic? New York Times Alarmed to Find Answer is "Yes."

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Colby Cosh points me toward this quote from the NYT: ...

KICS: Keep It Complicated, Smartie!

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One amusing aspect of the controversy over economist Steven D. Levitt's abortion-cut-crime a...

Pope Benedict XVI:

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From what little I know, it appears that by electing Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope, the College of Cardinal...
April 19, 2005

Introducing the Crime Misery Index!

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Based on the traditional Economic Misery Index (unemployment rate plus inflation rate), the purple line above is the sum of the hom...

Legalizing Abortion Spread Venereal Diseases:

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Legalizing Abortion Spread Venereal Diseases: Law professors Jonathan Klick and Thomas Stratmann wrote a paper entitled "The Effe...
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April 18, 2005

A Crime Misery Index?

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The murder rate is down, but we are still paying a huge price for this improvement. How we can quantify the total picture? ...

Almost 100 Times Worse than 9/11

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At GNXP, Dobeln has an important posting on " The Second American Civil War :" the doubling of the murder rate from 1964 to 1974...
April 17, 2005

Almost 100 Times Worse than 9/11

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At GNXP, Dobeln has an important posting on " The Second American Civil War :" the doubling of the murder rate from 1964 to 1974...

How to Ease the College Admissions Arms Race:

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From my new VDARE .com column : So, why do employers care about which college applicants attended...

Dueling Dual Dual Negatives in Time:

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From Time's cover story on Ann Coulter comes a headache-not-uninducing sentence: ...

"The Roe Effect"

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For a long time, James Taranto of the WSJ web page has been pushing the idea that legalized abortion has had a huge effect on American dem...