Legal Immigration Into the United States (Part 7): An Exemplary Social...
Using estimations of the relationships between several sets of good data to infer causation is an old endeavor, of course. The difficulties to which I pointed above are not new. For a little over one...
View ArticleImmigration: Not Opinions, Facts
Immigration is in our newspapers and on our screens every day. Yet, between the factual confusion of most Republicans and the insult-laden cheery irresponsibility of Democrats, little of substance is...
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The St. Valentine’s Day massacre Evan Bleier, RealClearLife The Sons of Mars and the ancient Mediterranean Erich Anderson, History Today The two trilemmas today Branko Milanovic, globalinequality How...
View ArticleThe nonexistent moral decay of the west
Humankind’s struggle with moral is of course nothing new, it rather inherent to our nature to revolt against the meaningless world and the manmade system of reason. Furthermore, moral values vary over...
View ArticleDo we want criminals to ‘feel terror at the thought of committing crimes’?
Last week, Priti Patel, the new British Home Secretary, provoked a media stir when she announced that she thought the criminal justice system should aim to strike fear into the heart of criminals....
View ArticleJoker: an evidence-based criminology review (spoilers)
Last Friday, Joker hit cinemas to much acclaim and some anxiety. Hot takes claim it glamorizes violence while the Slate pitch is that it’s boring. Having seen it over the weekend, I don’t see anything...
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Life
No matter how old, frail or vulnerable it may be, a life isn’t something to take or risk at another’s discretion. Nor does it undermine culpability when someone dies as a result of negligence. The...
View ArticleLiberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement....
Increase punishments or increase the application of the norm As has already been pointed out on multiple occasions by various authors, when the utility maximizing agent makes the decision to...
View ArticleLiberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement....
It could happen that a government feels very comfortable collecting a certain amount of money in traffic fines for crossing a red light. For example, the fine amounts to $1,000 – and the probability...
View ArticleLiberal Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes: The Case for Law Enforcement....
Of course, for this hypothetical example to have an acceptable degree of relevance, a distinction must be made between highly probable consequences and merely contingent consequences. It is highly...
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