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A nice showing by both indeed. US came #1 by total – 110 medals in all, with China leading in Golds. Great Britain showed an impressive #4 overall, beating out the rest of Europe. The home office...
This letter comes from Evolution Charles on the American Civil War Darwin writes the great American botanist Asa Gray during a turbulent point in American history. Darwin’s feelings on slavery were...
From Flynn’s ordered-government liberalism, we turn to Future Imperfect author and hard-core libertarian David D. Friedman for his views on a very visible political party that doesn’t always...
James Flynn (as in, The Flynn Effect), asks in his latest book: “Where Have all the Liberals Gone?” But what does he mean by “liberal?” Thomas Jefferson Without Jefferson, we would...
August 19, 2008 No, the other one. Everyone is busy counting the US-China contest for medals. Rightly so; it’s close. Here in the New York office, we’re watching a different set of numbers: Now,...
[Update: take our poll below!] How to reduce your carbon footprint? This time, the answer is drink your wine from a box! ‘ITALY’S Agriculture Ministry announced this month that some wines that...
And were the Georgians’? I admit it: no matter how many news stories I read, I hadn’t sorted the whole thing out. Some Canadian law students have taken care of that, and on a site with a great...
Questions, questions. And lots of dead animals sent by post. Darwin was very inquisitive. He had to be. But this letter has a wonderful quality to it. He’s about to go collecting pigs’ jaws...
Yes, I have a background in religious studies, so this excites me more than many international crises, but still. Cambridge had their booth going strong near the Lambeth conference, and someone snapped...
True, I’m no expert. Don’t worry, I found one. Dr. Adut sends his apologies, he was abroad when the whole thing broke, and I commented on it earlier with his book in mind. But he has a few...
Full of whacking metaphors?! My favorite kind of review! Marginal Revolution takes Against Intellectual Monopoly to task. In addition to all the whacking, poster Alex Tabarrok does my other favorite kind...
It has nothing to do with a nuclear-armed drill, or liquid-hot mag-ma however. The US has spent $100 billion on contractors since 2003. And as we know, it was well accounted for, and spent prudently....
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