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June 10, 2022
The best thing I read this week was Michael Nielsen’s long, thoughtful, erudite criticism of Effective Altruism, the moral philosophy that argues for us to adopt an approach to life that relies on evidence and logic to establish how to achieve the most good for others over time, and to apply that un...
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May 13, 2022
Ok everyone, it’s clear where your time should go today. After five (loooong) years, during which his music became the soundtrack of one of the most important social movements of the century, Kendrick Lamar’s new album dropped today and you cannot start listening too soon. Within the first 90 second...
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May 06, 2022
Local elections are rarely pulse-quickening affairs in the UK; turnout tends to be something akin to county cricket match on a rainy day—that’s two men and a dog, for those who have never partaken of the peculiar pleasures of the English County Championship—but today something a little more exciting...
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April 29, 2022
It’s incredible how much there is to catch up on after just two weeks away. We went away over Easter to the wilds of Northumberland, where my son spent hours tramping around the forest, pointing out birds (ornithology clearly runs in the family) and demonstrating the bravery—or bad judgement, if you...
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April 08, 2022
I thought this VoxDev write-up of Julia Fonseca and Adrien Matray’s new paper on the effect of the extension of banking services to under-served areas in Brazil was superb. It’s structured wonderfully: they show the overall impact of the programme, provide evidence on why it works the way it does, a...
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March 11, 2022
The news is just unrelentingly grim, isn’t it? One of the worst things about the social media world is how hard it is to escape as well; once you’ve read the news and whatever analyses you trust and just want to scroll through Jeffrey Woolridge dropping bombs on economics twitter, or Racha...
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March 04, 2022
What is up with Q1 2022? Did somebody spill it’s drink? Why does it hate us so? Not content with the onset of a horrific—indeed, increasingly horrific—war of Aggression in Eastern Europe, it took Mark Lanegan last week and this week has taken Shane Warne, one of the two the most charismati...