Adorable and Harmless

College kids can't do math, either

UCSD is teaching elementary school math courses to freshmen. What happened?

Nov 14 • 

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Doing it yourself

What are you saving your time for?

Nov 10 • 

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October 2025

Are we at war?

Politics is war by other means, but is it sometimes just war?

Oct 21 • 

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September 2025

Conservative closet cases

Gay men in the 50s were less closeted than moderately conservative couples in blue metros

Sep 23 • 

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Nothing is ever easy

Life comes at you really slow, but it never stops or gets tired

Sep 9 • 

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Of course we can arrest our way out of crime

Living with crime is a choice we make because we are reluctant to incarcerate criminals

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August 2025

Explaining my latest twitter controversy to my wife

Mixed marriages can be challenging

Aug 27 • 

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Reactions and follow-up to "The H-1B Delusion"

Immigration is a touchy subject

Aug 13 • 

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The H-1B Delusion

Maybe you're just not very impressive as a programming candidate

Aug 1 • 

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July 2025

Screenshy

"Screentime" is the latest in a long line of moral panics around children and new media technology. Is it different this time?

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The Case for a National Compromise on Abortion

Guest poster proposes a compromise to put the national debate permanently behind us

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A conversation with Simon Laird

Simon reached out to me with a request for a podcast appearance. I countered with an offer for a written conversation.

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