Steven Pinker posted the >link< on Twitter – here is the text: ____________________________ Traditional news outlets might have you believing otherwise, but the developed world is getting safer The world is getting safer according to the World Bank’s latest homicide figures and crime survey data from England and Wales crunched by the UK’s Office for National StatisticsContinue reading “Positive News: Violent Crime, Mental Health”
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Man vs State
The only certainties in life are death and taxes. I am sick of taxes. Taxes are theft – a standard refrain from Libertarians – that I hold as a truism precisely because they are extracted under penalty of law. Thus taxation is a coercive act. The refrain of good socialist-minded folks is that the richContinue reading “Man vs State”
Walter Russell Mead
My high school experience was probably better than most, but I was dissatisfied nevertheless. I am not sure how my parents learned about it, but when I was a sophomore they took me to Simon’s Rock to be interviewed for acceptance. I recall that during the interview I was asked about my relationship with myContinue reading “Walter Russell Mead”
Protective Arts 