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Is warfare getting less likely? Are we entering a new and more peaceful era of history? Quite a few people -- Steven Pinker and Niall Fergus...

Here's a radical idea -- we can best safeguard the future of humanity not by learning to live with nature, but by turning our backs on h...

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My most recent thing in Bloomberg touches on the Common Core standards for learning. It's amazing how some things that ought to be pret...

Excellent post by Noah Smith examining the question of why so many people who aren't trained economists like to weigh in with views on ...

Lars Syll quotes an interesting passage from Hans Albert on the weird use of theoretical abstraction in economics; "weird" as in ...

How many economists go out of their way to examine in public what they got wrong in their past views, and what they learned by making such m...