Religion
US still hates gays…
In an unsurprising - and selfish - move the United States has decided that it should still have to right to criminalize the mere existence of homosexuality. The reason the US delegation put forward for not supporting the declaration is that as the federal government they are not legally aloud to contravene laws of individual [...]
US Libertarians demonstrate why they are unelectable
An article titled The Left-Libertarian vs. Right-Libertarian Controversy is a clear example the kind nitpicking that makes the US libertarian movement marginal.
Libertarianism is generally defined as individualism, with clear property rights and minimal (but not zero) government - and is clearly an antonym of authoritarianism. A pretty simple definition. Getting into the line between left [...]
O’Rourke on how “the movement” blew it
P.J. O’Rourke writing in the Weekly Standard as usual delivers in a libertarian bent with highly engaging and only slightly hyperbolic prose. Writing about how the US conservative movement (in my parlance: libertarianism) blew it over the past many years. I aspire to write as cleanly and here are a few choice quotes:
“After the events [...]
Abstinence pledges
In the New Yorker Margaret Talbot has an article on abstinence that has a couple/few interesting points to make:
More than half of those who take such pledges … end up having sex before marriage, and not usually with their future spouse
communities with high rates of pledging also have high rates of S.T.D.s
if too many teens [...]
Starting small
Couple of moderatly interesting papers ended up in the this week’s NBER newsletter:
#1 - Henry Sauermann & Wesley M. Cohen in What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation write: “Overall, intrinsic motives, particularly the desire for intellectual challenge, appear to benefit innovation more than extrinsic motives such as pay.”
While the abstract is lean [...]
