Monthly Archives: June 2017

Defending the indefensible: against government action on climate change

Posted on 23 June 2017 by zolltan

“Defending the indefensible” is a series of posts where I write arguments for viewpoints that normally make me angry. Instead of “devil’s advocacy” style arguments, I wanted to give the most honest argument I could for the other side. Partly … Continue reading →

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Defending the indefensible: anti-development

Posted on 17 June 2017 by zolltan

We used to write that this blog has a tradition of defending the indefensible, where we quibbled with attacks on Paul Ryan, Satoshi Kanazawa, and other people we found unsavoury. Now I wanted to try something slightly different. I wanted … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Кофемолка”

Posted on 11 June 2017 by zolltan

Attention Conservation Notice: a too-long and not particularly coherent review of the Russian translation of Michael Idov’s novel “Ground Up”. This should not be of interest to anyone, because Idov presumably can guess everything I’m going to say about it … Continue reading →

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