https://youtu.be/2nLWCLsmpJ4 On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in...
Keith Knight | Jun 10, 2023
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
Keith Knight | Jun 1, 2023
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Keith Knight | May 28, 2023
https://youtu.be/kQToT7640h4 A democratic vote is like the captain of a ship having to consult every passenger about the best course to chart through an approaching storm. – The School of Life, Philosophy in 40 Ideas (2020), p. 13 Watch on...
Keith Knight | May 18, 2023
https://youtu.be/mYfH_9arsRk In 1981, the cheapest IBM personal computer cost $4,459 (in 2018 U.S. dollars), or 210 hours of labor. An Insignia tablet and keyboard combo cost $120 in 2018, or 5.6 hours of labor. - Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know,...
Keith Knight | May 4, 2023
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Keith Knight | Jan 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNSMrawCmcM Volodymyr Zelenskyy has: Instituted Military Conscription (Also Known As Slavery and Forced Labor) Bombed Poland Then Lied Blaming Russia Trying to Start World War Three w/ NATO Nationalized (Monopolized) the Media Banned...
The Libertarian Institute | Jan 13, 2023
https://youtu.be/K2-ME6D1bB0 If the government didn't have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were...
Keith Knight | Dec 31, 2022
