Politics

Goodhart’s Law Explains Education Decay 0
- Politics, Education
- January 11, 2023
Everywhere in education, you see incentives at work. The incentives, though, are so far removed from the actual goals of education that they produce perverse results. Goodhart’s Law is usually stated, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Economics textbooks often use the allegory of a maker of nails,
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Time to Rethink the Core Question: What Is Health Care?4
- Politics, Science
- January 10, 2023
By now we’ve all heard many stories of health policy makers, medical institutions, and even doctors seemingly act against the best health interests of the people and their patients. Doctors ignoring the real facts that Covid was never that dangerous for large swaths of the population, and equally ignoring that the vaccinations may cause serious
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Federal government promotes eating unhealthy, sugary foods rather than meat 1
- Politics, Science
- January 9, 2023
The National Institutes of Health is encouraging unhealthy eating. It recently funded the development of a “food compass” that encourages people to eat sugary foods like Lucky Charms, while discouraging people from eating common sources of protein. The “food compass” assigns a high score of 78 to chocolate-covered almonds — which have lots of sugar and fat, and far less protein
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Shared Faith: How to Bridge America’s Racial Division 0
- Politics, Culture
- January 6, 2023
The woke antiracism espoused by many of our cultural elites constitutes little more than a remade racism. The view that bridging the racial divide in American society requires blaming all racial inequalities on white privilege and structural racism cannot possibly end in racial reconciliation. It purports that non-whiteness is a righteous position of vindictive judgment
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Why Academics Are Writing Junk That Nobody Reads 15
- Politics, Education
- January 5, 2023
Professors usually spend about 3-6 months (sometimes longer) researching and writing a 25-page article to submit to an academic journal. And most experience a twinge of excitement when, months later, they open a letter informing them that their article has been accepted for publication, and will therefore be read by… … an average of ten people.
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The New-Normaling of Blackouts 2
- Politics, Economics
- January 4, 2023
On Christmas Eve, 2022, in North Carolina, something happened that had never happened before in living memory. People across the state were alerted by their power company, Duke Energy, that there would be rolling blackouts in the aftermath of a severe (but “not exceedingly rare”) winter wind storm. At least 12 other states received similar and previously unheard-of
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