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Via tumblr, I am sharing the full video of Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs singing “Fast Car” at the Grammys before this clip gets taken down by our evil copyright overlords; see here and here, for example. Hat tip: Kottke

The update is that I have made three significant additions/revisions to my truth market proposal: New subsections. I added to my paper a new subsection titled “A.I. to the Rescue?” (see Part IV of the paper, pp. 12-13) and streamlined … Continue reading →

Via John Burn-Murdoch of Financial Times (see here): “An analysis by David Jackson, professor of political science at Bowling Green State University, found that an endorsement by a major celebrity could even have polarising impacts. Jackson discovered that while Democrats … Continue reading →

Can you correctly spell words like corduroy, kinsman, or wheedle? My youngest daughter Adys Ann won her school’s spelling bee on the word “tomahawk“! Below is a video of her during an earlier round spelling out the word “cumbersome“:

I have been participating in an Adam Smith reading group this winter and have thus been rereading various parts of Adam Smith’s first magnum opus, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS), and I have also been sharing on this blog … Continue reading →

Happy Candlemas! I was honored to attend an activity at last night at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, where Taina Caragol, Kate Clarke Lemay, and Carolina Maestre presented their book 1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the … Continue reading →

I pre-ordered this little book many months ago (hat tip: Tyler Cowen), and my copy has just arrived. Suffice it to say, I will report back soon.

The great Adam Smith identifies three types of civil society in his first magnum opus The Theory of Moral Sentiments: A cut-throat “anti-social” society where people “are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another”; A utility-maximizing and … Continue reading →