Archives for April 2018

April 30, 2018|bank runs, Financial Crises, global warming, Nuclear Energy, Peer to Peer Banking, securities regulation

Deregulate Peer to Peer Lending to Help Forestall Economic Crises

by John O. McGinnis|5 Comments

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Banking regulations, as onerous and complicated as they are, often fail in preventing runs.

April 30, 2018|Channel Zero, creepypasta, folk tale, science fiction, Syfy

Channel Zero and the Modern Folk Tale

by Scott Beauchamp|1 Comment

Still from Channel Zero, with Amy Forsyth in "No-End House" (Syfy/NBC Universal).

Syfy's Channel Zero refines the "creepypasta," genre, offering us insights Americans' collective anxieties about community, technology, & family.

April 27, 2018|

Taking Religion Seriously

by Rémi Brague, Pierre Manent, Daniel J. Mahoney, Paul Seaton|33 Comments

Pierre Manent and Rémi Brague. (Benjamin de Diesbach, L'Incorrect)

Prominent French thinkers Pierre Manent and Rémi Brague discuss religion, secularism, and the future of life in the West.

April 27, 2018|Administrative State, Adrian Vermeule, D.C. Schindler, Democracy, integralism, Liberalism, Patrick Deneen, throne and altar, Toleration

Returning to Throne and Altar? Integralism, Liberalism, and Toleration

by Brian A. Smith|4 Comments

The Coronation of Charles VII of France (1429), depicted in Jeanne d'Arc (1886–1890) by Jules Eugène Lenepveu.

In leaving liberalism behind, is it possible integralists have failed to remember the benefits of toleration?

April 27, 2018|A Beautiful Mind, congestion game, Game Theory, John Nash

The Game Theory Glitch in A Beautiful Mind

by James R. Rogers|2 Comments

Still from A Beautiful Mind (2001, Universal Pictures/Dreamworks).

A Beautiful Mind is a great film, but the one example it provides of game theory is misleading.

April 26, 2018|2001: A Space Odyssey, Aeschylus, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stanley Kubrick

Kubrick’s Odyssey at 50

by Titus Techera|8 Comments

Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The movie that inserted existentialism into our understanding of science fiction on screen.

April 26, 2018|Administrative Law, Chevron deference, Immigration, Neil Gorsuch, Sessions v. Dimaya

Immigration Cases Make Strange Bedfellows. But Is It a Long-Term Relationship?

by Michael Kagan|11 Comments

U.S. Supreme Court (Brandon Bourdages/Shutterstock.com).

Dimaya v. Sessions is a milestone simply because the Court struck down a provision of immigration law, but it has wider implications.

April 26, 2018|Big Data, C.P. Snow, City Journal, Corpus Linguistics, Education, sociobiology

Making Our Universities a Source of Universal Knowledge

by John O. McGinnis|6 Comments

Dunster House, Harvard University (Jorge Salcedo/Shutterstock.com).

The distance between the humanities and sciences has grown wider since C.P. Snow discussed it six decades ago in "The Two Cultures." We need both.

April 26, 2018|Amos Tversky, behavioral economics, Cass Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, efficient markets, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, Richard Thaler

Moneyball Illustrates Efficient Markets, Not Behavioral Economics

by James R. Rogers|4 Comments

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Many have the story of Moneyball wrong: it's not a story of systematic error but one of eliminating systematic error in a market.

April 25, 2018|Academic Freedom, Free Speech, John Henry Newman, Liberal Arts, Tenure