The demand that protest only be nonviolent helps preserve an often corrupt and abusive status quo.
Social Policy
The Scottish National Party has been a victim of its and Nicola Sturgeon's success. Scotland’s route to independence is now anyone’s guess
How a bleak Christian theology influenced the development of economics.
Progressives sat back when some clearly dodgy social change programs were being implemented, handing the right some easy wins.
Obama has an edifice complex! Who'd have thunk it?
Climate change and California are not getting on very well.
I’m writing an open access textbook on homelessness. Chapter 4 has just been published. A ‘top 10’ overview of the chapter can be found here:https://nickfalvo.ca/emergency-facilities/ The full chapter is available here:https://nickfalvo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Falvo-Chapter-4-Emergency-Facilities-30jan2023.pdf And all material related to the book can be found here:https://nickfalvo.ca/book/
The press talked up the UK's drop in the Corruption Perception Index. But the UK has long been an engine of corrupt conduct around the world.
Valiant attempts have been made to measure happiness and wellbeing. People much smarter than me have developed fancy indices, and people even smarter than that, such as our own Nicholas Gruen, has called bullshit on many of them. What I … Continue reading
Desai and Hudson debunk widely-believed, finance-and-elite-serving myths about inflation.