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LinkFest 2016-03-11

Everything is Crumbling Roy Baumeister's most famous theory, ego depletion, has been hit by the social science replication crisis. Baumeister has been featured in this space before. Baumeister's rebuttal to his failed replicators is that they didn't actually follow his methods. I kind of

LinkFest 2016-03-04

Liberal, Harsh Denmark Scandinavian welfare states work best when they stay largely Scandinavian. The Revolt of the Comedians: Tina Fey Edition When Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt came out, my wife said to me, "It is all one big race joke." How Trump Rules Twitter From the Twitter timeline of

LinkFest 2016-02-26

This link fest has been long delayed, so it got extra big. Enjoy! How to Construct the Ultimate Conspiracy Theory An interview with Tim Powers about how he researches his novels, and other fun things. America's Top Five Mistakes in Iraq John Schindler at XX Committee reviews what

LinkFest 2016-02-12

Sewell Wright: Evolving Mendel A retrospective of one of the seminal papers that helped to unite Mendel and Darwin. In the early twentieth century, some of Darwin's disciples, including accomplished scientists like Karl Pearson, opposed Mendelian theory. Darwin had advocated a continuous blending theory of inheritance, whereas Mendel

LinkFest 2016-02-05

This session of LinkFest is a week delayed, so I have included a double dose of love. Why Hilary's EmailGate Matters John Schindler continues to do yeoman's work on the true cost of Hillary Clinton's negligent handling of classified material on email. EMA will

LinkFest 2016-01-22

Source Criticism is not Credible Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is one of my recent follows on Twitter. Here, Gobry discusses one of the roots of the recent argument between Ross Douthat and members of the Catholic academy: source criticism. One of the most popular theories in the academy is that a hypothetical

LinkFest 2016-01-15

Ten Theses on Immigration Ross Douthat doing yeoman's work to point out that mass immigration has costs too. Deep State of the Union Another article by Steve Sailer on the Deep State.