Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Why Do Climate Alarmists Dislike Climate Realist-Optimists So Much?

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F. A. Hayek, the Nobel-Prize-winning economist of the Austrian tradition, provided a possible answer to the question posed in the title. Alt...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Global Warming and Intuition

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I recently was asked whether the proposition that a "dramatic increase" in CO2 since industrialization could cause worrisome globa...
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Saturday, September 18, 2021

CO2 and Global Cooling

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If CO2 is implicated in global warming, not in its own right, but because it ​indirectly ​​leads to more water vapor , the dominant greenhou...
Friday, September 17, 2021

TGIF: Get Rich Quicker!

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"I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class...
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Thursday, September 16, 2021

Constitution Day, September 17

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Celebrate Constitution Day tomorrow by buying and reading America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited . Dedicated to the co...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Why I Write

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I write to improve my understanding and to entertain myself. If what I write does the same for others, that's icing on the cake.
Friday, September 10, 2021

TGIF: Bad Sign?

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When I see four of those yard signs on my morning walk, I chuckle. If I'm in a mischievous mood I might someday suggest a couple of meme...
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Friday, September 03, 2021

TGIF: Why Do We Question Motives?

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I don't know if we're in the heyday of questioning the motives of people we disagree with rather than simply rebutting them--charact...
Wednesday, September 01, 2021

Really?

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Someday our descendants will laugh with embarrassment at the people today who pore over weather records prepared to proclaim an existential ...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

Who Are the Real Climate Change Deniers?

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Seems to me that the real climate change deniers are those who say that but for human beings, the climate would not change or change very mu...
Friday, August 27, 2021

TGIF: Safety Can Be Hazardous to Our Health

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Kudos to Glenn Greenwald, a rare leftist voice of sanity on so many issues, for opening his recent article this way: In virtually every rea...
Friday, August 20, 2021

TGIF: Thinking about Energy

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The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its sixth "assessment report" earlier this month. As usual i...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Afghanistan Aftermath: No Firings? No Resignations?

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Joe Biden, who says the buck regarding Afghanistan stops with him in the White House, claims that the Taliban's final takeover of the ca...
Friday, August 13, 2021

TGIF: Evict the President

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President Biden has reversed himself under pressure from his progressive flank and has given the go-ahead for a new moratorium on renter ev...
Friday, August 06, 2021

TGIF: Why Wouldn't Government Grow?

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One of the least mysterious things in life is why the government grows. The better question is why it ever shrinks. People who devote lots o...
Friday, July 30, 2021

TGIF: How Science Becomes Religion

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The popular slogan today is "Believe in science." It's often used as a weapon against people who reject not science in princip...
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Friday, July 23, 2021

TGIF: Critical Race Theory and the Schools

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The government's K-12 schools--aka "public schools--are once again a battleground on which a bitter dispute is playing out. Wait!--...
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Friday, July 16, 2021

TGIF: Who's the Aggressor? Who's the Victim

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When a libertarian says that the most basic individual right is the right not to be aggressed against , a clever interlocutor may accuse the...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Podcast Discussion of Coming to Palestine

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Keith Knight and I discussed my book Coming to Palestine  on his podcast, Don't Tread on Anyone . Watch and listen here .
Friday, July 09, 2021

TGIF: Watch the Forest as Well as the Trees

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It's always important not to miss the forest for the trees. U.S. government announcements, such as its report of the turnover to the Afg...