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A theory of cynicism and conspiracy
And how to challenge them
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Wyclif's Pod pilot episode 1 - The Unjournal
Here is a new experiment – I’m trying a podcast This is an interview with two of my colleagues at The Unjournal, David Reinstein and David Jintcharadze…
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June 2024

Five toy worlds to think about heritability
Empirics is blind without theory. Heritability on its own may not tell us much about what can happen. Perhaps economic models can help.
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Your society is lying to you about ethics
I hope you are appropriately grateful
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Thought bubble: maybe refugees are bad for your mental health, but this paper doesn't prove it
Controlling for time 1 doesn't usually work
The UK election reflects our flawed political institutions
A basic task of any political system is dealing with change.
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May 2024

The academic literature on smacking children is not load-bearing
Is it OK to smack, spank or physically punish your children? Billions of parents have a deep interest in this question. But answering it is very…
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The end of the boarding school?
There is a small eddy in the discourse about boarding schools, for example here and here. Just a couple of books and articles, but I think they…
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Decline?
I’ll start with genes but then go wildly off-topic, or rather, I’ll start off-topic and then get to what I really want to say. An updated version of the…
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April 2024

Ten quotations from my scrapbook
I’ve been away for a while.

February 2024

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