How Falling Down Can Lead to Waking Up: Learning from Loss and Pain
Falling is often a life-changer; observations from someone who is adjusting.
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Six Things Urban Feminists (Make That Anyone) Should Never Say to Rural People
How urban people routinely sneer at their country cousins.
Read more...Why Is the American Left So Prejudiced About the South?
Yves here. Having spent time in the South, in general, Northerners carry huge class prejudice against Southerns. The same way a British accent is worth 20 attributed IQ points, a Southern accent is an attributed reduction of about 10 points. The Southerns I know who are not treated that way are people who managed to […]
Read more...There’s a Much Smarter Way for Cities to Plan Their Futures
Why the “smart cities” movement needs to adopt better goals and metrics.
Read more...The Revenge of the Places That Don’t Matter
The idea that people are attached to the places where they live has been ignored by economists and politicians, to their peril.
Read more...If You Want to Expand Our Welfare System, Call It ‘Assistance to the Poor’
“Welfare” as a case study in political positioning.
Read more...Whole Foods Becomes Amazon Hell Foods as Employees, Managers Quit, Cry on the Job….and These People Want to Run Your Healthcare?
Amazon is being its vicious self yet again, now at Whole Foods.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Democrats Laying Their Own Bonfire
The Democrats are increasingly cocky as potential voters become more and more angry over their pro-Establishment policies.
Read more...Increasing Minimum Wages Does More to Reduce Recidivism Than Prisoner Reentry Programs
Sometimes social engineering is easier than you think, as a new study on income incentives and recidivism shows.
Read more...How Black Businesses Helped Save the Civil Rights Movement
How black business owners helped support the Civil Rights campaign in the US.
Read more...Labour Scarcity and Labour Coercion: Serfdom in Bohemia
Institutions are widely viewed as a fundamental cause of economic performance. But what are the causes of institutions?
Read more...Why Pretty Much Everything You Know About Depression Is Wrong
A new book takes issue with the widespread medicalization of depression.
Read more...Social Media, the “Dopamine Loop,” and the Role of the Software Engineer
Thoughts on the social media and the “dopamine loop”, and the role of the software engineer in creating it.
Read more...What Happens at a Death Café?
Americans are particularly leery of thinking about, let alone talking about, death. Some people are trying to change that.
Read more...The Link Between Neoliberalism, Perfectionism, and Mental Health Disorders
Perfectionism is rising among the young, and that’s not a good thing.
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