Human Interaction from: June 4, 2017 at 07:12AM
The future of conservatism in an age of alienation: A long-read Q&A with Yuval Levin “But I also think that we are now at a point—we have been for at least ten years—where the policy argument between left and right has become exhausted. Both the left and right in our politics are repeating old mantras […]
Yuval Levin on Conservatism from: June 3, 2017 at 11:59PM
The most important truth about hard work, and also reading, that you can find from: June 2, 2017 at 05:14PM
Simple math is why Elon Musk’s companies keep doing what others don’t even consider possible Once, I said to him, “Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics.” Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, “I’ll prepare a freshman lecture on it.” But he came back […]
Terry Healey Cal Football (Pac-12) Motivational Talk May 9, 2017 at 09:03AM
Will Hurd Is the Future of the GOP (If he can hold on to the toughest seat in Texas) “Remember, everybody in Texas used to be Democrats,” he says. “The tug-of-war will be over the center. My hypothesis is that 80 percent of Americans are around the center—40 percent left of center, 40 percent right […]
Three and a half degrees of separation “We’ve crunched the Facebook friend graph and determined that the number is 3.57. Each person in the world (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook) is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people. The average distance we […]
The Pros and Cons of Liberty “For many people, this raises the question of who will protect these natural rights. Although libertarian philosophers may rail against the state, most people (including quite a few libertarians) cannot see how these rights would be protected in the absence of a state. However, even if in theory a […]
America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People “The FTE (Finance/Technology/Electronics) citizens rarely visit the country where the other 80 percent of Americans live: the low-wage sector. Here, the world of possibility is shrinking, often dramatically. People are burdened with debt and anxious about their insecure jobs if they have a job at […]
What would people do if they had superpowers? from: April 28, 2017 at 10:56PM
Best Book of the Year? from: April 28, 2017 at 07:38PM
How to Tell a True Tale: Neil Gaiman on What Makes a Great Personal Story from: April 26, 2017 at 11:56PM
Life on a Möbius Strip: The Greatest Moth Story Ever Told, About the Unlikely Paths That Lead Us Back to Ourselves “I try to give him the essential data. I’m living in London Fields, and he tells me I’ve moved onto the block he lived on when he was nineteen and squatting in London. Out […]
Why people prefer unequal societies “Our own argument against a focus on inequality is a psychological one. In this paper we have outlined a wealth of empirical evidence suggesting that people don’t care about reducing inequality per se. Rather, people have an aversion toward unfairness, and under certain special circumstances this leads them to reject […]
Should you feel sad about the demise of the handwritten letter? “Temporal vagary is the final essential characteristic of the personal letter; with physicality, it sets the personal letter against digital messages. Correspondence presumes reply but not immediately. Punctual chasms allow emotions to clarify, deepen, resonate – Turkle celebrates time for reflection; Sankovitch finds ‘something […]
Jesus Was Crucified. But Why? “The belief that violence ”saves” is so successful because it doesn’t seem to be mythic in the least. Violence simply appears to be the nature of things. It’s what works. It seems inevitable, the last and, often, the first resort in conflicts. If a god is what you turn to […]
No Worship Without Skin in the Game “So, in the Eastern Mediterranean pagan world (Greco-Semitic) no worship was done without sacrifice. The gods did not accept cheap talk. Also, burnt offerings were precisely burnt so no human would consume them.”
What if Barry Bonds had played without a baseball bat? | Chart Party April 14, 2017 at 09:58AM