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An election post-mortem

…culture war concerns (“critical race theory”, trans rights, etc.). [Both seem plausible.  Unhappiness with pandemic school closures seems like largely a retrospective voting problem, with limited relevance for Democratic strategy…

RIP David M. Grether

theory, although they found that if people redo the experiment numerous times they tend to start behaving more like economic theory predicts. Cal Tech has since then been a leading…

The COVID funding fiasco

…same thing happened with the Republican / right-wing media attack on critical race theory:  Koch-affiliated national think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, FreedomWorks, and the Manhattan Institute, among others, have…

The Obsolescence of Nostalgia

…how Kandiaronk’s (or Kondiaronk’s) criticisms of European customs became the basis for the Enlightenment critique, which was subsequently blunted by Turgot’s theory of four evolutionary stages of society and Rousseau’s…