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Check out this post by ‘Air Genius’ Gary Leff: “Terrorists Attacked Our Freedoms on 9/11–Then Washington Spent 25 Years Taking More of Them Away“. Today, air-travel passengers in the U.S. are less safe (see here, for example) AND less free … Continue reading →

My most recent paper “Adam Smith in the City of Light” (with Alain Alcouffe) was recently published in volume 15 of the Adam Smith Review. (Here is a link to an ungated preprint of my paper.)

One (“The Social Reckoning“) is about Mark Zuckerberg’s response to a Wall Street Journal investigative report known as the Facebook files; the other (“You Can See Everything“) is about disgraced Theranos founder and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes. The theatrical release … Continue reading →

File under: the history they did not teach me in school. The Stono Rebellion (also known as “Cato’s Conspiracy”) begins on this day (9 September) in 1739 in the colony of South Carolina. It is the largest and most violent … Continue reading →

As you probably have heard by now, last Friday (4 September) the judge presiding over the Lindsay Clancy case in Plymouth, Mass., declared a mistrial after a lone holdout juror had blocked a unanimous verdict after seven days of tense … Continue reading →

If this haunting track sounds familiar, it’s because it was released by the Swedish artist Kasbo back in 2018.

I began this series of blog posts on 22 August by asking whether Adam Smith was a closet Bayesian. Today, I draw this series to a close by concluding that Adam Smith was a closet behavioral economist who made several … Continue reading →