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The latest issue of EconJournalWatch is available here. (The table of contents of the new issue is also pictured below.) Two articles in particular caught my attention: one calling into question a series of studies by McKinsey & Company claiming … Continue reading →

Alas, the front-runners for this year’s U.S. presidential elections are a senile octogenarian and a crooked businessman! So, who else is voting for RFK Jr.?

By the way, why is Easter Sunday so “early” this year? Via the Royal Museum Greenwich (RMG), “The simple standard definition of Easter is that it is the first Sunday after the full Moon that occurs on or after the … Continue reading →

File under: FINALLY! Via Wired, check out philosopher Leif Wenar’s devastating and definitive critique of such intellectual con artists like William MacAskill, Toby Ord, and Peter Singer. By way of example, below is a key passage from Professor Wenar’s brutal … Continue reading →

That is the subtitle of this fascinating 2023 report by Brian Reinhart explaining why jalapeño peppers are less spicy now. (Hat tip: Aaron Cohen.) Yes, some conspiracies are real!

During my visit to the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University (which, by the way, is an exact replica of the Fortune Theatre in London’s famed West End; see here), I saw the 1950 movie Rashomon in one of … Continue reading →

I am also following the progress of another experimental aircraft, the hypersonic ‘Stargazer’ (see here, for example). Tweet hat tip: Internet ‘information monster’ extraordinaire, Tyler Cowen.

Toyko update 3/25: I forgot to mention my two favorite papers from this year’s International Adam Smith Society (IASS) meeting at Waseda University in Tokyo earlier this month. One was “Adam Smith’s theory of music” by Tetsuo Taka (Kyushu University); … Continue reading →

My daughter Adys and I overheard this beautiful ballad the other day while walking along Takeshita street, a crowded and narrow alley in the colorful Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo.