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February 2024

There Are More Things In Heaven And Earth
The celestial origin of meteoric iron had been recognized at an early date, although it was disregarded subsequently. A fall of meteorites in 644 B.C…
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The Three Chinese Civilizations
Historians usually divide the history of China into three rough periods, “Ancient China”, “Imperial China”, and “Modern China”. I don’t think this is…
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My Mom's Rules For Cults
I wasn’t the first person in my family to run off to San Francisco to join a movement of fringe countercultural weirdos that later somehow found itself…
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What's The Deal With The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution is the most important event in economic history, and naturally it gets a lot of attention. While James Watt’s steam engine…
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December 2023

November 2023

Markets Are Thin
When people talk about a “market economy”, what exactly does that mean? You might assume it means a society where all or most economic decisions are…
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Book Review: The Great Illusion
Normal Angell’s The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage, published in 1910, is the author’s attempt to…
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On The Franklin Effect
The Franklin Effect is a concept in pop psychology which asserts that, if Alice does a favor for Bob, then Alice will be more inclined to do more things…
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