Tag: liberals
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Confronting Liberal and Conservative Biases on Science
New York Times reporter Eduardo Porter has an excellent piece about how ideology shapes our embrace/rejection of science. The left loves to rant about the "anti-science" right when the left participates just as much in the same anti-science behavior, and the left's anti-science behavior is every bit as destructive. "The left is turning anti-science," Marc…
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How extremely poor families earn their money, with my thoughts about small to medium enterprises
MRUniversity. "What do we know about how extremely poor families earn their money? This video focuses on families earning $2 a day or less." The video notes that most poor people earn their money with undercapitalized small enterprises. To get a cycle of prosperity going, capital investment is needed. Very small capital improvements can add…
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Liberals and ‘libertarian populists’ are wrong: politics isn’t a zero-sum fight between corporations and the poor – Ezra Klein
Washington Post: Liberals and ‘libertarian populists’ are wrong: politics isn’t a zero-sum fight between corporations and the poor – Ezra Klein …Positing this zero-sum death struggle between corporate America and poorer Americans is the key to the emergent arguments around “libertarian populism.” The basic idea there is that if Washington would simply close its doors…
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Saturday Links
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in Business, Capitalism and Markets, Christian Life, Demography, Ecclesia, Economics, Education, Europe, Links – Saturday, Politics, Public Policy, Race, Religion, Sociology, Sports and Entertainment, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Theology, Vocation1. Conventional wisdom says wearing the red shirt in Star Trek will get you killed. Not so fast. Statistical analysis in Significance Magazine disagrees. (Keep your redshirt on: a Bayesian exploration) "… In spite of wearing a redshirt, there is only an 8.6% chance of a member of the operations or engineering departments becoming a…
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Politicized Christians, Symbolic Hostility, and an Israeli Web-Designer
Many conservative Christians have embraced government as a tool for achieving their moral vision for society, a mindset that dates back to at least the 1970s. Many people are now questioning the wisdom of this alliance. Stephen Prothero recently wrote, "Americans have historically opted to split the difference between living in a nation in which…
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Peter Schiff: The Fantasy of a 91% Top Income Tax Rate
Wall Street Journal: Peter Schiff: The Fantasy of a 91% Top Income Tax Rate I'm not making a case either way about the battle over the tax increases on the wealthy currently being debated. Strategically, I think the Republicans would have been better to compromise on the tax rate increase. That would put the question…
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Democrats: Losing their Religion
Black, White and Gray: Democrats: Losing their Religion Mark Regnerus was running some numbers using New Family Structure Study (NFSS) data when he found out this about people disassociating from religion: … The most dramatic shifts, however, appear around personal politics. Political affiliation—a one-measure, 1-5 scale of just how politically conservative or liberal our respondents…
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The psychology of libertarian views
Matt Ridley: The psychology of libertarian views … In recently published paper, Ravi Iyer from the University of Southern California, together with Dr. Haidt and other researchers at the data-collection platform YourMorals.org, dissect the personalities of those who describe themselves as libertarian. … … The study collated the results of 16 personality surveys and experiments completed…
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Where Are the Liberals? (David Brooks)
New York Times: Where Are the Liberals? Why aren’t there more liberals in America? It’s not because liberalism lacks cultural power. Many polls suggest that a majority of college professors and national journalists vote Democratic. The movie, TV, music and publishing industries are dominated by liberals. It’s not because recent events have disproved the liberal…