Nick’s coconut-lentil soup 2 yellow onions 4 cloves garlic 2 tbsp cooking oil (grape seed, veggie, olive) 2 cups lentils…
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Everyone Gets Government Money Eventually, so What’s So Special about College Debt Forgiveness?
My initial reaction to Biden’s announcement of student loan forgiveness was to have no reaction: Since then, I’ve heard…
Continue reading →Notes on Giving Presentations
August 2022 I was recently asked by a grad student for pointers on giving a presentation, so here we…
Continue reading →An Open Letter to Patrick Deneen about the Family
Background: on May 13, 2022, the self-described “post-liberal” conservative Patrick Deneen appeared on Ezra Klein’s podcast. He got some things…
Continue reading →Abortion Rights are Fundamental to Equality Between the Sexes
Abortion has remained America’s most intractable political issue because it defies compromise. If you believe that abortion is the murder…
Continue reading →The (Almost) Complete Crowd-sourced Bibliography of Apocalypse Fiction
What I’ve read, more or less in order of preference: 1) Earth Abides (plague) 2) Alas, Babylon (nuclear war) 3)…
Continue reading →Report: Area Studies are a Tiny Part of American Higher Education
Area studies (ethnic studies, gender studies, and the like) are magnets for criticism. These are the fields harboring the…
Continue reading →An Assault Weapons Compromise to Save Lives
Almost 70 percent of Americans (including a bare majority of Republicans) want to ban new assault weapons sales, but…
Continue reading →An Open Letter to a Young Libertarian
In a recent podcast, journalist Cathy Young drew an unlikely comparison between libertarian icon Ron Paul and the Soviet Union:…
Continue reading →Evaluating the Accuracy of General Social Survey Sex Data
Since the release of the 2018 wave of the General Social Survey, the big story has been about the sex…
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