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What the Ape Man Can Teach Us About a Common Mental Mistake

What the Ape Man Can Teach Us About a Common Mental Mistake

Pithecanthropus is the ape-man. He's also known as the Java Man and the Peking Man. Latin-loving scientists call him Homo erectus, Homo modjokertenses, Meganthropus palaeojavanicus, Pithecanthropus robustus, and Pithecanthropus dubius. He is the creation of Dutch physician Eugene Dubois. In the 1890s, Dubois discovered a few bony remains

In the Shallows: Why Do Public Intellectuals Condescend to Their Readers

In the Shallows: Why Do Public Intellectuals Condescend to Their Readers

Becca Rothfeld at The Yale Review

Not Just Tulsa: Black Neighborhoods Were Often Destroyed by Urban-Renewal Policies

Not Just Tulsa: Black Neighborhoods Were Often Destroyed by Urban-Renewal Policies

Howard Husock at City Journal

Experts Killed Ethnic Neighborhoods in the Name of "Progress"

Experts Killed Ethnic Neighborhoods in the Name of "Progress"

It also killed Polish, Maltese, Italian, and pretty much every other ethnic neighborhood. "Dwight Eisenhower, who had admired Hitler's autobahn and got one of his own: the tellingly titled National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Cohesive working-class neighborhoods in countless American cities were sacrificed to the

Prohibiting Things with the Experts

Question: What do government COVID lockdowns and Prohibition have in common? Answer: They were both advocated by “the science” and “the experts.” That's Jeffrey Tucker's point in a great essay he just published: The “Expert Consensus” Also Favored Alcohol Prohibition [https://www.aier.org/article/the-expert-consensus-also-favored-alcohol-prohibition/

Seven Days Make One Weak

Covid, Wikipedia, Experts, and Other Flotsam Sidney Powell made unequivocal and strong statements this week, claiming she has the proof that Trump won in a landslide and fraud prevented it. I don't know the woman, but John Zmirak and Trey Trainor vouch for her. Wikipedia doesn't