October 13, 2012

As immigration becomes more of a sacred civil right for foreigners, free speech becomes less of a one for Americans

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From the NYT, a column that won't be terribly novel to iSteve readers, but it's good to see this kind of sensible analysis getting ...
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Awardable Housing news: "Petition Calls for 'Shulamith Firestone Memorial Apartment' for Low-Income Feminists"

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The New York Times reports: Petition Calls For ‘Shulamith Firestone Memorial Apartment’ For Low-Income Feminists   By MARY REINHOLZ ...
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It's always 1980 for Republicans

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When I was young, it was always 1932 for the Democrats. They were always running against Herbert Hoover. It was fun for Democrats and broug...
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Reagan's hidden historical advantage over Carter: the military enlistment exam misnorming fiasco of 1976-80

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Many people who lived through the 1970s recall a pervasive sense of national cruddiness. American cars were lousy, our greatest city, New Y...
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October 12, 2012

Chinese government, worried about quality as well as quantity of population, advises smart women not to waste their attractive years; American feminists outraged

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From the NYT: OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR  China’s ‘Leftover’ Women  By LETA HONG FINCHER BEIJING — The headlines scream like sensational t...
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Huh?

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Headline in the NYT: BREAKING NEWS 5:01 AM ET European Union Wins 2012 Nobel Peace Prize For what? Not invading Poland? Coul...
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"How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?"

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Here's an extract from a lengthy new paper assessing various acceptable economic history theories of everything: How Deep Are the R...
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Another victim of the Word Gap

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The 21st Century upper-middle class parent speaks constantly and encouragingly to his or her child, thus readying the little one for the SA...
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October 11, 2012

VP Debate open thread

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You watch it so I don't have to ...
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Advice for economists contemplating incorporating genetic information in their theories

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In the wake of the latest brouhaha with anthropologists denouncing two economists for daring to correlate "genetic diversity" wi...
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Can somebody please dumb down the theory and practice of Bitcoin for me?

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Several readers have suggested that I accept contributions in Bitcoin. I've gone to the Wikipedia page on Bitcoin several times to...
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The latest car crash in trendy economics: "The Out of Africa Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development" by Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

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Recently, Science and the American Economic Review teamed up to splash a paper by two economists correlating the wealth of nations with g...
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October 10, 2012

Let's invent some new quotas

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A reader writes: As you’ve written earlier, I think the value of affirmative action is that it co-opts dissent by including the most in...
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Amazon will deign to take your money again!

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My apologies to all the readers who attempted to give me money via Amazon on Wednesday afternoon, only to find that Amazon had once again d...
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More high comedy at the High Court

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More from the transcript of oral questions at the Supreme Court in the Fisher affirmative action case today:  CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: ...
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Why it pays to read iSteve: Naive Hong Kong parents pay conman $2.2 million to bribe their sons into Harvard

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From the Boston Globe : To Gerald and Lily Chow, education consultant Mark Zimny must have seemed like the answer to many parents’ pray...
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The irony of "critical mass" in the pursuit of academic diversity

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After the Grutter / Gratz cases of 2003 legalized racial/ethnic preferences in college admissions to ensure a "critical mass" of ...
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