October 23, 2012

Tom Wolfe's "Back to Blood:" Buckle up, folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride

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I just picked up my copy of Tom Wolfe's first new novel in eight years, Back to Blood (a story of 21st Century Miami), and opened it at...
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Gopnik: America's historic prosperity = "white people with guns owning a giant chunk of well-irrigated, very well-harbored real estate"

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Adam Gopnik has an eloquent review in The New Yorker called " Faces, Places, Spaces: The Renaissance of Geographic History " of ...
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October 22, 2012

Presidential debate comment thread

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Tell me about it. Is it Baroque O'Blarney overwhelming the Underperformin' Mormon? Or Mathemagical Mitt exposing the Big Oh? ...
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How to fix Barack Obama? The Obama Administration has a plan: more quotas and less discipline

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Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy is a shiny new $79 million public middle school with 1,154 students in Los Angeles, complete wi...
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Villaraigosa in 2016!

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From Politico : The Los Angeles mayor gave a pretty obviously nonresponsive answer when Radio Iowa's O. Kay Henderson asked if he h...
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Just repeat after me: "Correlation Does Not Imply Caucasian"

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Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) wrote in his famous 1993 essay  Defining Deviancy Down : In a 1992 study entitled America's Sm...
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October 21, 2012

"Underperforming Barack Obama"

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From the L.A. Daily News : Most of the parents who sign up for LAUSD's Choices program hope to send their child to a specialty magn...
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Big Gay Gallup Poll

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Gallup included the question: "Do you, personally, identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender?" for 3 months of surveys,...
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John List on the virtual nonexistence of "stereotype threat"

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The concept of "stereotype threat" is a vastly popular explanation for The Gap. In 2004 , I argued that the most plausible expla...
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October 20, 2012

Gregory Clark on "Surnames and the Laws of Social Mobility"

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Economist Gregory Clark, author of A Farewell to Alms , has a new draft paper (via Marginal Revolution) called Surnames and the Laws of So...
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October 18, 2012

Dept. of Not Getting Moynihan's Joke about the Canadian Border

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From The New Republic, an elaborate article that doesn't seem to notice how literal its titular metaphor actually is: Blue States a...
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Correlation does not prove causation, but correlation does prove correlation

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It took a surprisingly long time for the modern statistical concept of correlation to emerge. It was implicit for a long time, but Francis ...
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George McGovern

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The 1972 Democratic Presidential candidate is gravely ill at age 90. From a reader review of popular military historian Stephen Ambrose...
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October 17, 2012

Daron Acemoglu is kryptonite to clear thought

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The ruins of the slums of Venice, a mere 417 years after La Serrata Some celebrated thinkers are so dumb that even when they are more o...
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Baseball gentrification

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GL Piggy offers an analysis of class at baseball stadiums, triggered by the decline in cheering at New York Yankees home games, featuring ...
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October 16, 2012

Post-Apocalypto: Mel Gibson in "Get the Gringo"

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From my new movie review in Taki's Magazine : Among literary critics, a controversy has been raging tepidly over what purpose revi...
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Debate comment thread

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Tell me about it.
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How we got here

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Here's an early 2005 post by a bar blogger named Manhattan Transfer that lucidly summarizes some of the ideological transformations of...
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