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November 2009
09: Climate Change Discussion {25} by Jim Manzi
October 2009
20: Whistling Past the Graveyard {4} by Jim Manzi
September 2009
26: Paul Krugman. Pot. Kettle. Black. {14} by Jim Manzi
17: Talk vs. Action {21} by Jim Manzi
11: Does Evolution Preclude Teleology? {134} by Jim Manzi
07: Why Don't I Get It on Evolution? {52} by Jim Manzi
07: In Defense of Jim Manzi against Jerry Coyne {5} by Jim Manzi
03: The Paradox of Libertarianism {16} by Jim Manzi
02: In Defense of Robert Wright against Jerry Coyne {67} by Jim Manzi
01: The Socialism Implicit in the Social Cost of Carbon {21} by Jim Manzi
August 2009
31: Does Universal Health Care Reduce Employment? {14} by Jim Manzi
31: What I Didn't Do on My Summer Vacation: Blog {4} by Jim Manzi
July 2009
25: Has Global warming Stopped?, ctd. {26} by Jim Manzi
24: Has Global Warming Stopped? {41} by Jim Manzi
15: Is Inequality a Problem? {41} by Jim Manzi
14: Bienvenue, ctd. {1} by Jim Manzi
14: That Dog Schwenkler Beat Me To It {3} by Jim Manzi
09: Government Motors, ctd. {5} by Jim Manzi
07: Models, Models Everywhere And No One Stops to Think {21} by Jim Manzi
June 2009
30: Money is Not the Measure of All Things {17} by Jim Manzi
29: What Are The Stakes in The Climate Change Debate? {14} by Jim Manzi
29: I'm Not Worthy {0} by Jim Manzi
27: Re: What's The Point? {14} by Jim Manzi
26: Re: How Much Would You Pay for Cap-and-Trade? {5} by Jim Manzi
26: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information II {40} by Jim Manzi
24: Dear Member of Congress: Why You Should Vote Against Waxman-Markey {37} by Jim Manzi
23: Prediction Model Bias {6} by Jim Manzi
23: Climate Change Back-and-Forth {4} by Jim Manzi
22: Nice Try II, ctd. {2} by Jim Manzi
22: Nice Try II {7} by Jim Manzi
19: Nyet So Fast {17} by Jim Manzi
18: The Deep Cynicism of Waxman-Markey {0} by Jim Manzi
15: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised {77} by Jim Manzi
11: C-Span Shows Horror Movie {2} by Jim Manzi
09: Matt Yglesias, Making Sense {3} by Jim Manzi
06: Knowledge is for Sissies {23} by Jim Manzi
06: The Slow Road to Serfdom {13} by Jim Manzi
05: Discount Rates and Academic Mau-Mauing {7} by Jim Manzi
05: CEOs Matter {5} by Jim Manzi
03: Liberty, Fraternity, Inequality {11} by Jim Manzi
02: GM's Bankruptcy {5} by Jim Manzi
01: Sotomayor, Wisdom and Context {19} by Jim Manzi
May 2009
29: Do Credit Cards Really Encourage Spending? {8} by Jim Manzi
28: Credit Cards Don’t Kill Credit Ratings, People Do {57} by Jim Manzi
27: Management by Headline II {2} by Jim Manzi
22: Yet More on Waxman-Markey {6} by Jim Manzi
21: The Emperor's New Cap-and-Trade Clothes {14} by Jim Manzi
20: Responses on Waxman-Markey {5} by Jim Manzi
20: CAFE and Climate Change: Nada {2} by Jim Manzi
19: Waxman-Markey Cost-Benefit Analysis {15} by Jim Manzi
19: Emissions Offsets {2} by Jim Manzi
15: Carbon Tax Fantasies {6} by Jim Manzi
15: I Believe Professor Krugman Is Wrong About Climate Change and China {3} by Jim Manzi
11: Obesity, Time Spent Eating, and Storks Bringing Babies {6} by Jim Manzi
03: President Obama and the Rule of Law {49} by Jim Manzi
April 2009
29: Against Waterboarding {42} by Jim Manzi
27: Why Is Torture Wrong? {92} by Jim Manzi
23: Re: Torture, Tactics, and Strategy, ctd. {24} by Jim Manzi
21: Torture, Tactics and Strategy {50} by Jim Manzi
18: Hong Kong: Prepare to Be Assimilated {9} by Jim Manzi
05: The Multiverse, Intelligent Design and Science: Much Ado about Nothing {46} by Jim Manzi
01: New Fusionism, ctd. {18} by Jim Manzi
March 2009
30: Management by FIAT {3} by Jim Manzi
23: Looking Ahead {5} by Jim Manzi
19: Konichiwa! {8} by Jim Manzi
18: Emotions and Money Don’t Mix {2} by Jim Manzi
17: The Way We Live Now II {8} by Jim Manzi
13: Makes Me Say ‘Oh My Lord!’ {3} by Jim Manzi
10: Fusionism Revisited {10} by Jim Manzi
09: Taxes and Entrepreneurship and Causality {14} by Jim Manzi
09: New Fusionism {0} by Jim Manzi
February 2009
20: Epistemological Modesty {32} by Jim Manzi
19: Homogeneous Economicus {14} by Jim Manzi
17: The IQ of Where to Be {22} by Jim Manzi
16: Homogeneous Economicus {0} by Jim Manzi
12: Families, Freedom and Responsibility {10} by Jim Manzi
12: What Should We Do About The Stimulus? {19} by Jim Manzi
10: Yes You Can {35} by Jim Manzi
10: The Costanza-Hoover Principle {9} by Jim Manzi
09: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information {15} by Jim Manzi
06: Stimulus predictions: put up or shut up {9} by Jim Manzi
04: Limits on Executive Comp: Where I Think We’re Headed {14} by Jim Manzi
02: Popper is my homeboy: a manifesto {27} by Jim Manzi
01: Science and Religion in The New Republic {98} by Jim Manzi
January 2009
28: Who would finance a camcorder in 2009? {1} by Jim Manzi
28: The Phantom Menace {1} by Jim Manzi
27: The European Social Welfare State Bill {19} by Jim Manzi
23: Delayed Inaugural Reactions {6} by Jim Manzi
20: His Initials are KSM {4} by Jim Manzi
13: Who’s Fooling Who? {19} by Jim Manzi
11: Conservative Renewal: A View from the UK {23} by Jim Manzi
10: Unnatural Evolution {6} by Jim Manzi
06: More Clinical Trials Blogging: Experiments, Causality and Decisions {2} by Jim Manzi
05: Goose Sauce, Meet Gander Sauce {22} by Jim Manzi
02: Foxes and Henhouses {6} by Jim Manzi
December 2008
23: My Worst Blog Post of the Year {3} by Jim Manzi
18: Thinking About the Bank Bailout {4} by Jim Manzi
16: The Way We Live Now {5} by Jim Manzi
15: No Free Lunch, Part 1 million {19} by Jim Manzi
10: Simple Questions about the Auto Bailout {13} by Jim Manzi
09: Is There a Good Auto Bailout? {4} by Jim Manzi
04: GM’s Magical Thinking {20} by Jim Manzi
02: Red Friday {8} by Jim Manzi
01: Your Fist and My Nose {5} by Jim Manzi
November 2008
18: Factory Guy {34} by Jim Manzi
17: Two Questions about the Motor City Shakedown {1} by Jim Manzi
16: Detroit: Same Old, Same Old {13} by Jim Manzi
14: That 70s Show {7} by Jim Manzi
13: Bankruptcy for GM {24} by Jim Manzi
11: Conservative Coalition-Building {17} by Jim Manzi
07: More on Inequality {26} by Jim Manzi
06: Re: Inequality {41} by Jim Manzi
05: Overcome {5} by Jim Manzi
04: Overcome {1} by Jim Manzi
October 2008
30: Still on Strike Against Campaign Blogging: Why It’s Plausible that Epistatic Interactions Are Complex and Central {11} by Jim Manzi
30: The Campaign Is Too Depressing to Blog I: Dawkins {17} by Jim Manzi
20: Chess, Not Checkers {17} by Jim Manzi
14: So Simple a Caveman Could Do It {36} by Jim Manzi
10: The Current Stock Market Decline… {20} by Jim Manzi
06: Winning {29} by Jim Manzi
03: Handicapping the Impact of the Bailout {3} by Jim Manzi
01: Are Paulson and Bernanke Fear-Mongering? {15} by Jim Manzi
September 2008
30: Hot Air Again {9} by Jim Manzi
29: The Bail-Out Vote {1} by Jim Manzi
25: Are We living Through a Liberal Realignment? {32} by Jim Manzi
22: What to Do Now? {8} by Jim Manzi
19: Welcome to History {38} by Jim Manzi
18: Goldstein, Genes and the Fatal Conceit {9} by Jim Manzi
15: Big Enough to Fail {1} by Jim Manzi
15: Do More Unequal Places Tend to Vote for Democrats? {24} by Jim Manzi
10: McCain, Reagan and Greatness {12} by Jim Manzi
08: Wilma Jennings Bryan {42} by Jim Manzi
03: More on The Icarus Syndrome {11} by Jim Manzi
02: More on Experience and Presidential Performance {11} by Jim Manzi
01: The Icarus Syndrome {2} by Jim Manzi
August 2008
31: Experience and Presidential Performance {34} by Jim Manzi
14: Hot Air {1} by Jim Manzi
11: Brad DeLong Thinks Taxing An Activity Doesn't Discourage It: I'm Not Sure Why {14} by Jim Manzi
08: Old School {5} by Jim Manzi
07: Paris Hilton and Offshore Drilling {4} by Jim Manzi
07: Drilling in ANWR {23} by Jim Manzi
05: Wanna Buy a Watch? {1} by Jim Manzi
July 2008
31: High Taxes Kill Jobs {21} by Jim Manzi
24: One Lesson from MoveOn {0} by Jim Manzi
16: Oil: Are We In A Bubble? {10} by Jim Manzi
15: The Luxurious Growth {13} by Jim Manzi
15: Freeman Dyson's Got My Back {13} by Jim Manzi
11: Chance and Necessity {18} by Jim Manzi
08: The Wisdom of Craps {8} by Jim Manzi
07: Nice Try {2} by Jim Manzi
05: Shut Up and Eat Your Spinach {16} by Jim Manzi
June 2008
30: A Tricameral Legislature? {21} by Jim Manzi
26: Re: We All Deserve to Die {23} by Jim Manzi
24: Urban Schools {7} by Jim Manzi
19: The Debate is Moving {2} by Jim Manzi
18: Why Conservatives Are Going to Win on Global Warming {31} by Jim Manzi
17: Scientific American and Climate Change II: Discounting {9} by Jim Manzi
17: Scientific American and Climate Change I: Distributional Ethics {3} by Jim Manzi
15: Liveblogging Heathrow, in spite of no real need for speed {2} by Jim Manzi
14: A conservative, a liberal and a scientist walk into a bar {6} by Jim Manzi
06: In Defense of a Small Town {8} by Jim Manzi
03: Rent Control {3} by Jim Manzi
02: Bienvenue! {5} by Jim Manzi
02: Corzine to Mayberry: Drop Dead {6} by Jim Manzi
May 2008
28: Obamerica {54} by Jim Manzi
22: Undetermined {83} by Jim Manzi
22: Some Observation about Middle-Class Taxes {6} by Jim Manzi
19: More Peak Oil {19} by Jim Manzi
18: Peak Oil Hysteria {4} by Jim Manzi
16: Conservatives and Gay Marriage {13} by Jim Manzi
12: Is Harvard Just a Tax-Free Hedge Fund? {24} by Jim Manzi
07: Zakaria II: Am I Crazy? {7} by Jim Manzi
07: A Post-American World? {7} by Jim Manzi
02: Show Me the Science {26} by Jim Manzi
April 2008
30: Can The Optimum Carbon Tax Possibly Be Zero? {11} by Jim Manzi
21: Hotheads {0} by Jim Manzi
14: Don’t Disperse Me Bro {20} by Jim Manzi
13: Formalism Still Running Amok {1} by Jim Manzi
11: New Jersey and Yon, Perfect Together {2} by Jim Manzi
10: Storks Bring Babies {3} by Jim Manzi
09: Family Feud {0} by Jim Manzi
03: Huh? {4} by Jim Manzi
03: Libertarian Paternalism {8} by Jim Manzi
02: Hate the Game, Not the Player {10} by Jim Manzi
March 2008
31: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio {0} by Jim Manzi
26: Half-Truth {12} by Jim Manzi
20: The Martingale’s Song {0} by Jim Manzi
17: Picking Up Nickels in Front of a Steamroller {3} by Jim Manzi
14: More on Prostitution and the Law {3} by Jim Manzi
10: Completely Objective Journalism {4} by Jim Manzi
07: Involved {3} by Jim Manzi
06: Legacy of Anecdotes {5} by Jim Manzi
05: McCain’s Excellent Speech {8} by Jim Manzi
04: Conservatives and Libertarians {2} by Jim Manzi
01: Fingerprints {4} by Jim Manzi
February 2008
26: Why Do You Think They Call It Data Mining? {11} by Jim Manzi
25: Democracy and Objectivity {0} by Jim Manzi
06: So What Are People Who Analogize Politicians to Technology? {3} by Jim Manzi
06: Liberal Fascism {12} by Jim Manzi
January 2008
27: The Ecology Narrative {1} by Jim Manzi
22: Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust {3} by Jim Manzi
17: Calling George Orwell {5} by Jim Manzi
16: Mitt Romney and Industrial Policy {0} by Jim Manzi
16: Will Ferrell: L’Etranger {8} by Jim Manzi
15: Pinker: I Don’t Get It {19} by Jim Manzi
10: Who Wants Some Votes In Michigan? {1} by Jim Manzi
09: God and Darwin {13} by Jim Manzi
08: Pride Goes Before The Fall {10} by Jim Manzi
07: Rational Energy Policy I {2} by Jim Manzi
05: Coalition Politics {5} by Jim Manzi
03: Weitzman: Formalism Run Amok {1} by Jim Manzi
03: The Wire: Life Doesn’t Imitate Art {4} by Jim Manzi
December 2007
31: Discounting Discounting {1} by Jim Manzi
17: Why Are CEOs So Underpaid? {9} by Jim Manzi
14: Emissions Equity {3} by Jim Manzi
11: My Newfound Sympathy for David Gergen {0} by Jim Manzi
05: Dawkins Wants It Both Ways {14} by Jim Manzi
04: Coase Club {6} by Jim Manzi
November 2007
30: Why I Oppose a Carbon Tax {9} by Jim Manzi
29: culture g {9} by Jim Manzi
27: Where’s The Beef? {75} by Jim Manzi
21: Does Moral History Have A Direction? {7} by Jim Manzi