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Let's say we have two countries, A and B. They start out at equal levels of wealth, with residents making on average $100,000 a year. A chooses a more capitalist system, and B chooses social democracy. Let's say that, because of this, a poor person in B i

Up until the early 2000s, there were serious and respected academics who argued that the IQ gap between blacks and whites in America was at least partially genetic in origin. In 1969, a Berkeley psychologist named Arthur Jensen published "How Much Can We

Imagine you are writing a book about white supremacy. You obviously believe that this is a serious issue that society needs to work on. Whites hoard too much wealth and set our political system up to benefit themselves at the expense of everyone else.Now

There are now around 120,000 Flock cameras in operation across the US. These devices automatically read license plates and make their locations available to law enforcement. Flock now also makes it possible to look up cars by their descriptions, rather th

I decided it would be amusing to start LARPing as a West Wing liberal, so I published an article in the Houston Chronicle the other day calling on Democrats to endorse Mike Rogers in Michigan, and Republicans to endorse Talarico in Texas. It's reproduced

Michael joined me today to talk about two Congressional scandals recently in the news: the Chuck Edwards censure, and the abuse allegations being made against Congressman Max Miller by his former wife and former father-in-law, who happens to be Senator Be

All around the world, women care a lot more about their partners having money and high status than men do. There are good evolutionary reasons for this. Throughout the history of our species, males have more often had to materially provide for their partn

The US is wealthier than Europe, and the gap between the two keeps growing. No one can deny this anymore, so some have taken to arguing that we shouldn't care that much about GDP, because other countries do better on other measures. Here's one particularl

I used to be a big believer in the potential of prediction markets to radically transform the world. But over time, I have become less inclined to see them as something that could revolutionize the search for truth or as a phenomenon that might potentiall

If Xi Jinping finds a cure for cancer, you will probably get access to it too