Nov
18th
Wed
18th
Nov
13th
Fri
13th
A further twist is added by those countries in which Communists allowed the explosion of capitalism, while retaining political power: they seem to be more capitalist than the Western liberal capitalists themselves. In a crazy double reversal, capitalism won over Communism, but the price paid for this victory is that Communists are now beating capitalism in its own terrain.
Nov
10th
Tue
10th
Why I won't buy an iPhone
If Apple is going to censor the iPhone’s contents, then I want no part of it.
Nov
5th
Thu
5th
…cannibals, [Lévi-Strauss] suggested, tended to boil their friends and roast their enemies.
Nov
2nd
Mon
2nd
If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don’t read the novel really.
Nov
1st
Sun
1st
Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated … At the individual level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with SAT, vocabulary, and analogy test scores. At the national level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with measures of education … and performance on mathematics and reading assessments.
Oct
13th
Tue
13th
The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries in the world with a drinking age of 21. For nearly every nation in the world, 18 is the legal drinking age - although in some countries it’s even lower, or nonexistent at all. And hardly anywhere is the problem as great as we have in this country.
