Articles by Jim Manzi
2010
August
24
Stimulus Debate with Jon Chait by Jim Manzi19
Stimulus Humility by Jim Manzi04
Round-Up of Some Reactions to Experiments and Social Science by Jim Manzi02
Knowledge and Prejudice by Jim ManziPutting Social Science Claims to the Test: Stimulus Edition by Jim Manzi
Re: Innovation and the Gas Tax by Jim Manzi
July
29
Re: Innovation Is the Only Answer by Jim Manzi26
Ross Douthat and the Fight Against Cap-and-Trade by Jim Manzi19
John Zogby's Open Letter to Nate Silver by Jim Manzi15
Climate Storm by Jim ManziJune
24
In-House Critic by Jim Manzi14
Career Choices by Jim Manzi07
Four Excellent Ideas on Education, but How Do We Make Them Happen? by Jim ManziApril
28
The Non-Paradox of Choice by Jim Manzi26
Esther Duflo and the Experimental Revolution in Social Science by Jim ManziRe: Reply to Jim Manzi by Jim Manzi
22
Re: The Real Epistemic Closure by Jim Manzi21
Liberty and Tyranny and Epistemic Closure by Jim Manzi20
Krugman on Climate III: Resorting to Pascal’s Wager by Jim Manzi19
Krugman on Climate II: Assuming a Can Opener by Jim ManziEmployers versus Colleges by Jim Manzi
18
James et Jim by Jim Manzi16
Krugman on Climate I: The Cost – Benefit Analysis by Jim ManziJanuary
29
Delayed Reaction to the State of the Union by Jim Manzi21
President Obama’s Excellent New Banking Proposal by Jim Manzi20
The Implications of Massachusetts by Jim Manzi13
Omnibus Reply to Criticisms of Keeping America’s Edge UPDATE by Jim ManziOmnibus Reply to Criticisms of Keeping America’s Edge by Jim Manzi
10
Keeping America’s Edge, Yet Again by Jim Manzi07
Keeping America’s Edge, ctd. 2 by Jim ManziKeeping America’s Edge, ctd. by Jim Manzi
06
More Reactions to Keeping America’s Edge by Jim Manzi2009
December
30
More on Keeping America's Edge by Jim Manzi19
In a Land without Minarets by Jim Manzi14
Keeping America's Edge by Jim Manzi12
Hot Air on Climategate and Copenhagen by Jim ManziNovember
25
Hacked Climate Science Emails by Jim Manzi09
Climate Change Discussion by Jim ManziOctober
20
Whistling Past the Graveyard by Jim ManziSeptember
26
Paul Krugman. Pot. Kettle. Black. by Jim Manzi17
Talk vs. Action by Jim Manzi11
Does Evolution Preclude Teleology? by Jim Manzi07
Why Don't I Get It on Evolution? by Jim ManziIn Defense of Jim Manzi against Jerry Coyne by Jim Manzi
03
The Paradox of Libertarianism by Jim Manzi02
In Defense of Robert Wright against Jerry Coyne by Jim Manzi01
The Socialism Implicit in the Social Cost of Carbon by Jim ManziAugust
31
Does Universal Health Care Reduce Employment? by Jim ManziWhat I Didn't Do on My Summer Vacation: Blog by Jim Manzi
July
25
Has Global warming Stopped?, ctd. by Jim Manzi24
Has Global Warming Stopped? by Jim Manzi15
Is Inequality a Problem? by Jim Manzi14
Bienvenue, ctd. by Jim ManziThat Dog Schwenkler Beat Me To It by Jim Manzi
09
Government Motors, ctd. by Jim Manzi07
Models, Models Everywhere And No One Stops to Think by Jim ManziJune
30
Money is Not the Measure of All Things by Jim Manzi29
What Are The Stakes in The Climate Change Debate? by Jim ManziI'm Not Worthy by Jim Manzi
27
Re: What's The Point? by Jim Manzi26
Re: How Much Would You Pay for Cap-and-Trade? by Jim ManziThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information II by Jim Manzi
24
Dear Member of Congress: Why You Should Vote Against Waxman-Markey by Jim Manzi23
Prediction Model Bias by Jim ManziClimate Change Back-and-Forth by Jim Manzi
22
Nice Try II, ctd. by Jim ManziNice Try II by Jim Manzi
19
Nyet So Fast by Jim Manzi18
The Deep Cynicism of Waxman-Markey by Jim Manzi15
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Jim Manzi11
C-Span Shows Horror Movie by Jim Manzi09
Matt Yglesias, Making Sense by Jim Manzi06
Knowledge is for Sissies by Jim ManziThe Slow Road to Serfdom by Jim Manzi
05
Discount Rates and Academic Mau-Mauing by Jim ManziCEOs Matter by Jim Manzi
03
Liberty, Fraternity, Inequality by Jim Manzi02
GM's Bankruptcy by Jim Manzi01
Sotomayor, Wisdom and Context by Jim ManziMay
29
Do Credit Cards Really Encourage Spending? by Jim Manzi28
Credit Cards Don’t Kill Credit Ratings, People Do by Jim Manzi27
Management by Headline II by Jim Manzi22
Yet More on Waxman-Markey by Jim Manzi21
The Emperor's New Cap-and-Trade Clothes by Jim Manzi20
Responses on Waxman-Markey by Jim ManziCAFE and Climate Change: Nada by Jim Manzi
19
Waxman-Markey Cost-Benefit Analysis by Jim ManziEmissions Offsets by Jim Manzi
15
Carbon Tax Fantasies by Jim ManziI Believe Professor Krugman Is Wrong About Climate Change and China by Jim Manzi
11
Obesity, Time Spent Eating, and Storks Bringing Babies by Jim Manzi03
President Obama and the Rule of Law by Jim ManziApril
29
Against Waterboarding by Jim Manzi27
Why Is Torture Wrong? by Jim Manzi23
Re: Torture, Tactics, and Strategy, ctd. by Jim Manzi21
Torture, Tactics and Strategy by Jim Manzi18
Hong Kong: Prepare to Be Assimilated by Jim Manzi05
The Multiverse, Intelligent Design and Science: Much Ado about Nothing by Jim Manzi01
New Fusionism, ctd. by Jim ManziMarch
30
Management by FIAT by Jim Manzi23
Looking Ahead by Jim Manzi19
Konichiwa! by Jim Manzi18
Emotions and Money Don’t Mix by Jim Manzi17
The Way We Live Now II by Jim Manzi13
Makes Me Say ‘Oh My Lord!’ by Jim Manzi10
Fusionism Revisited by Jim Manzi09
Taxes and Entrepreneurship and Causality by Jim ManziNew Fusionism by Jim Manzi
February
20
Epistemological Modesty by Jim Manzi19
Homogeneous Economicus by Jim Manzi17
The IQ of Where to Be by Jim Manzi16
Homogeneous Economicus by Jim Manzi12
Families, Freedom and Responsibility by Jim ManziWhat Should We Do About The Stimulus? by Jim Manzi
10
Yes You Can by Jim ManziThe Costanza-Hoover Principle by Jim Manzi
09
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Jim Manzi06
Stimulus predictions: put up or shut up by Jim Manzi04
Limits on Executive Comp: Where I Think We’re Headed by Jim Manzi02
Popper is my homeboy: a manifesto by Jim Manzi01
Science and Religion in The New Republic by Jim ManziJanuary
28
Who would finance a camcorder in 2009? by Jim ManziThe Phantom Menace by Jim Manzi
27
The European Social Welfare State Bill by Jim Manzi23
Delayed Inaugural Reactions by Jim Manzi20
His Initials are KSM by Jim Manzi13
Who’s Fooling Who? by Jim Manzi11
Conservative Renewal: A View from the UK by Jim Manzi10
Unnatural Evolution by Jim Manzi06
More Clinical Trials Blogging: Experiments, Causality and Decisions by Jim Manzi05
Goose Sauce, Meet Gander Sauce by Jim Manzi02
Foxes and Henhouses by Jim Manzi2008
December
23
My Worst Blog Post of the Year by Jim Manzi18
Thinking About the Bank Bailout by Jim Manzi16
The Way We Live Now by Jim Manzi15
No Free Lunch, Part 1 million by Jim Manzi10
Simple Questions about the Auto Bailout by Jim Manzi09
Is There a Good Auto Bailout? by Jim Manzi04
GM’s Magical Thinking by Jim Manzi02
Red Friday by Jim Manzi01
Your Fist and My Nose by Jim ManziNovember
18
Factory Guy by Jim Manzi17
Two Questions about the Motor City Shakedown by Jim Manzi16
Detroit: Same Old, Same Old by Jim Manzi14
That 70s Show by Jim Manzi13
Bankruptcy for GM by Jim Manzi11
Conservative Coalition-Building by Jim Manzi07
More on Inequality by Jim Manzi06
Re: Inequality by Jim Manzi05
Overcome by Jim Manzi04
Overcome by Jim ManziOctober
30
Still on Strike Against Campaign Blogging: Why It’s Plausible that Epistatic Interactions Are Complex and Central by Jim ManziThe Campaign Is Too Depressing to Blog I: Dawkins by Jim Manzi
20
Chess, Not Checkers by Jim Manzi14
So Simple a Caveman Could Do It by Jim Manzi10
The Current Stock Market Decline… by Jim Manzi06
Winning by Jim Manzi03
Handicapping the Impact of the Bailout by Jim Manzi01
Are Paulson and Bernanke Fear-Mongering? by Jim ManziSeptember
30
Hot Air Again by Jim Manzi29
The Bail-Out Vote by Jim Manzi25
Are We living Through a Liberal Realignment? by Jim Manzi22
What to Do Now? by Jim Manzi19
Welcome to History by Jim Manzi18
Goldstein, Genes and the Fatal Conceit by Jim Manzi15
Big Enough to Fail by Jim ManziDo More Unequal Places Tend to Vote for Democrats? by Jim Manzi
10
McCain, Reagan and Greatness by Jim Manzi08
Wilma Jennings Bryan by Jim Manzi03
More on The Icarus Syndrome by Jim Manzi02
More on Experience and Presidential Performance by Jim Manzi01
The Icarus Syndrome by Jim ManziAugust
31
Experience and Presidential Performance by Jim Manzi14
Hot Air by Jim Manzi11
Brad DeLong Thinks Taxing An Activity Doesn't Discourage It: I'm Not Sure Why by Jim Manzi08
Old School by Jim Manzi07
Paris Hilton and Offshore Drilling by Jim ManziDrilling in ANWR by Jim Manzi
05
Wanna Buy a Watch? by Jim ManziJuly
31
High Taxes Kill Jobs by Jim Manzi24
One Lesson from MoveOn by Jim Manzi16
Oil: Are We In A Bubble? by Jim Manzi15
The Luxurious Growth by Jim ManziFreeman Dyson's Got My Back by Jim Manzi
11
Chance and Necessity by Jim Manzi08
The Wisdom of Craps by Jim Manzi07
Nice Try by Jim Manzi05
Shut Up and Eat Your Spinach by Jim ManziJune
30
A Tricameral Legislature? by Jim Manzi26
Re: We All Deserve to Die by Jim Manzi24
Urban Schools by Jim Manzi19
The Debate is Moving by Jim Manzi18
Why Conservatives Are Going to Win on Global Warming by Jim Manzi17
Scientific American and Climate Change II: Discounting by Jim ManziScientific American and Climate Change I: Distributional Ethics by Jim Manzi
15
Liveblogging Heathrow, in spite of no real need for speed by Jim Manzi14
A conservative, a liberal and a scientist walk into a bar by Jim Manzi06
In Defense of a Small Town by Jim Manzi03
Rent Control by Jim Manzi02
Bienvenue! by Jim ManziCorzine to Mayberry: Drop Dead by Jim Manzi
May
28
Obamerica by Jim Manzi22
Undetermined by Jim ManziSome Observation about Middle-Class Taxes by Jim Manzi
19
More Peak Oil by Jim Manzi18
Peak Oil Hysteria by Jim Manzi16
Conservatives and Gay Marriage by Jim Manzi12
Is Harvard Just a Tax-Free Hedge Fund? by Jim Manzi07
Zakaria II: Am I Crazy? by Jim ManziA Post-American World? by Jim Manzi
02
Show Me the Science by Jim ManziApril
30
Can The Optimum Carbon Tax Possibly Be Zero? by Jim Manzi21
Hotheads by Jim Manzi14
Don’t Disperse Me Bro by Jim Manzi13
Formalism Still Running Amok by Jim Manzi11
New Jersey and Yon, Perfect Together by Jim Manzi10
Storks Bring Babies by Jim Manzi09
Family Feud by Jim Manzi03
Huh? by Jim ManziLibertarian Paternalism by Jim Manzi
02
Hate the Game, Not the Player by Jim ManziMarch
31
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio by Jim Manzi26
Half-Truth by Jim Manzi20
The Martingale’s Song by Jim Manzi17
Picking Up Nickels in Front of a Steamroller by Jim Manzi14
More on Prostitution and the Law by Jim Manzi10
Completely Objective Journalism by Jim Manzi07
Involved by Jim Manzi06
Legacy of Anecdotes by Jim Manzi05
McCain’s Excellent Speech by Jim Manzi04
Conservatives and Libertarians by Jim Manzi01
Fingerprints by Jim ManziFebruary
26
Why Do You Think They Call It Data Mining? by Jim Manzi25
Democracy and Objectivity by Jim Manzi06
So What Are People Who Analogize Politicians to Technology? by Jim ManziLiberal Fascism by Jim Manzi
January
27
The Ecology Narrative by Jim Manzi22
Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust by Jim Manzi17
Calling George Orwell by Jim Manzi16
Mitt Romney and Industrial Policy by Jim ManziWill Ferrell: L’Etranger by Jim Manzi
15
Pinker: I Don’t Get It by Jim Manzi10
Who Wants Some Votes In Michigan? by Jim Manzi09
God and Darwin by Jim Manzi08
Pride Goes Before The Fall by Jim Manzi07
Rational Energy Policy I by Jim Manzi05
Coalition Politics by Jim Manzi03
Weitzman: Formalism Run Amok by Jim ManziThe Wire: Life Doesn’t Imitate Art by Jim Manzi