Meanwhile in nature “Two groups of killer whales are engaging in a terrifying, bloody cannibalistic war beneath the ocean’s surface, where gangs of the colossal creatures are attacking and eating each other.”
Still uploading chapters of The Voice from the Darkness at Royal Road.
Alex Tabarrok on voter irrationality and demonic policies.
Richard Hanania takes on Paul Ehrlich of The Population Bomb; as population growth plummeted and many nations entered into what look like demographic death spirals, Ehrlich doubled down and wrote ever more unhinged screeds about the evil of human overpopulation. (Twitter/X)
The moral beauty of Middlemarch, arguing that the voice of the narrator is the "greatest repository of moral beauty in English Literature."
German anti-totalitarian activist may be in trouble with the law for using a picture of Hitler wearing a swastika armband in a meme.
Scott Siskind, Support Your Local Collaborator; instead of "calling out" the more reasonable people in the Trump administration, honor them for their behind-the-scenes efforts to maintain sanity.
The Hakka Chinese who dominate the leather industry in Kolkata.
Tyler Cowen interviews Harvey Mansfield, much about Machiavelli and Strauss among other matters.
As you probably would have guessed, most social science research over the past 50 years has been left-leaning.
Science publishes an excellent piece debunking the supposed early date of the Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile. And a summarizing news article.
Long but interesting article on the minds of intellectuals and the difficulty with balancing freedom of thought and commitment to meaningful politics, focusing on the decline of N + 1 magazine.
Interesting discoveries at a Roman-period sanctuary in Burgundy.
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