Month: April 2019

Weak Threats and Racist Assumptions

President Trump’s plan to bus immigration/asylum applicants to major U.S. cities as political retribution, which he is still considering, is premised on dubious assumptions. As Philip Bump points out in the Washington...

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Friday Foto Flog: Vol. 2.24

Greetings photography enthusiasts. It’s Friday, and I am still trying this as a weekly feature. I took this one in Tampa last year, near the Convention Center. Please note that this is a reboot of a series that went to...

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Presidential Moral Leadership Really Matters

Maybe it’s because my family is dominated by academics, but I’m fortunate not to have any close or even remote relations that watch Fox News or regurgitate the network’s toxic talking points. A lot of people...

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Confirmation Bias?

In Off the reservation I wrote I would “make some far out predictions based only on the most tenuous of currently observable facts.” At the risk of confirmation bias I will hereunder examine what evidence to support...

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