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Forgive me as I quote myself: Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education argues that employers value college degrees not because college imparts skills and knowl...

George Floyd’s death moved police brutality and mass incarceration beyond liberal activists and made them issues for all Americans. The riots and violence...

I don’t exactly know why, but we noticed the police started stopping gang members. Stopping them in the park and on street corners. We noticed more patrolling b...

I want to expand on this tweet from Justin Murphy: While Justin’s analysis is true, here’s another side of the story. I’m probably biased beca...

So at the end of my last post, I said that although 3 years ago I was gung-ho about arranging marriages, I’m now more hesitant. This post goes into why. F...

About 3 years ago my wife and I discussed how dating and marriage in her childhood church can be very similar to modern Hindu “arranged” marriages. ...

Last month I was happy to read Hans Fiene’s essay encouraging more people to become foster parents. My wife and I have been fostering for four years, and ...

Jonah Lehrer attributes success to grit and “deliberate practice” rather than talent: The first thing Duckworth, et. al. discovered is that delibera...

Another very busy week this week. Things should get less hectic next week, when I will hopefully have time to write something more substantial. Until then, here...

A couple months ago, Tyler Cowen kicked off a “top ten influential books” list.   Ezra Klein, Conor Friedersdorf, Matt Yglesias, and Ta-Nehisi Coate...