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LinkFest 2016-05-20

The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much Colleges and universities provide an incredible array of services today. They aren't free. Why Doesn't Personality Psychology Have A Replication Crisis? In part, because it is boring. In practice, that is a synonym for successful. John McAfee and

LinkFest 2016-05-13

Turns out Friday the 13th falls on a Friday this year. The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies Spying is a daily reality in the world. 50 years on, one of Mao's 'little generals' exposes the horror of the Cultural Revolution Fortunately, Mao doesn&

LinkFest 2016-05-06

The 'white squatter camps' of post Apartheid South Africa The South African apartheid regime was memorably described as "socialism for the Afrikaners, capitalism for the English-speaking whites and Indians, and fascism for the blacks." Now that the boot is on the other foot, the Afrikaners and

LinkFest 2016-04-15

Between traveling to my brother-in-law's wedding and getting sick after said wedding, posting has been light of late. So here is an extra huge linkfest for your reading pleasure. Tom Wolfe's View of Trump Tom Wolfe applies his keen eye to Trump's campaign. Wisconsin&

LinkFest 2016-04-01

April Fool's Edition The CDC is trying to make 86 million Americans sick I've long thought the pre-diabetes thing was a bit foolish. While it is a good thing to be able to quantitate, if you don't understand what you are doing it can

LinkFest 2016-03-26

Holy Saturday Edition Ruby Slippers Gabriel Rossman makes a persuasive case that social construction is real, but the concept is mostly used by people who don't understand it, and have no sense of proportion. How Does America "Reshore" Skills that have Disappeared? The first couple of

LinkFest 2016-03-18

We've Been Measuring Inequality Wrong Lots of people forget that US tax and welfare policy is actually pretty progressive, in the fiscal sense. So you need to account for transfer payments to properly assess inequality. You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat If the United States is