https://youtu.be/XWGl_VvbF5E The leading source of happiness is pleasant social interaction. - Dr. Bryan Caplan, Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better Book discussed: Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better: https://a.co/d/iEhSSMw As a...
https://youtu.be/ABZFsPh5I28 I know this is hard to believe, but builders try to maximize profits by cutting prices. - Bryan Caplan, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University...
https://youtu.be/VYvzjSG6ipI Listing the main ways that society appears to treat men less fairly than women requires only a little more reflection to complete. Topping the list: a. Men are overrepresented at the bottom levels of society. They do most of the nasty,...
Modern warfare almost always leads to killing lots of innocents; if governments were held to the same standards as individuals, these killings would be manslaughter, if not murder. This doesn’t mean that war is never justified. But the reasonable hawkish mood is...
https://youtu.be/FllJ0lKnEdg My case for pacifism, to recap, comes down to three simple premises. The first two are empirical: Premise #1: The short-run costs of war are clearly awful. [Empirical claim about immediate effects of war]. Premise #2: The long-run benefits...
Listing the main ways that society appears to treat men less fairly than women requires only a little more reflection to complete. a. Men are overrepresented at the bottom levels of society. They do most of the nasty, dangerous work, are much more likely to be...
Has it ever occurred to the "Fight for $15" Democratic Socialists that volunteer work and college violate their principle of "all work should render a $15 an hour wage"? College involves thousands of unpaid hours listening to trivial nonsense which no student...
https://youtu.be/zJCEQRVgUTs My case for pacifism, to recap, comes down to three simple premises. The first two are empirical: Premise #1: The short-run costs of war are clearly awful. [Empirical claim about immediate effects of war]. Premise #2: The long-run benefits...
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
