Thursday, June 30, 2016

You need to watch this

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I don't want to give anything away except to say that the journalistic criticism you'll find here is a damned sight sharper than any...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

This would also be perhaps the first time a question starting with "how does it feel" will produce an interesting answer

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As we've observed before, a handful of journalists and pundits have actually managed not only to maintain but to enhance their reputatio...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Brexit Bregrets or Polls as Self-refuting Prophesies

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I haven't been closely following either the Brexit in general or the Brexit polling in particular, so I don't want to go out on any...
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Monday, June 27, 2016

Still coming up to the edge of the 1964 analogy

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As mentioned before, I don't want to push this too far. For one thing, I don't see anything analogous to the Vietnam War and the dra...
Friday, June 24, 2016

"Whom are you voting for? This guy can read your mind." -- with that headline, what could go wrong?

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A few quick thoughts on this WaPo piece by Jacob Bogage: Neuroscientist Ryan McGarry swabbed a brain activity headset with saline s...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

How long does Trump stick around after the fun stops?

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I'm always leery of attempts to speculate too much about the character and motives of presidential candidates, at least not in real time...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

It's not "vibranium." Hell, it's not even a "hyperloop."

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[Caveat: I've been getting up to speed on the Hyperloop and reaching out to knowledgeable people in the field, but I'm no expert an...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Red flags -- when contradiction becomes confirmation

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Ariel Sabar as a great long-form piece up at the Atlantic profiling an extraordinarily disreputable figure  called Walter Fritz. If you hav...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Best pop culture reference by an economist

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via Brad Excellent post by Dietrich Vollrath. In particular, the discussion of the World Bank’s Doing Business index ("Apples and Ora...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

The coming of Trump -- what we were saying about journalistic decline and Republican dysfunction here at the blog in 2013 [Part 2]

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With few exceptions, the failure to recognize the viability of Trump was directly tied to the failure to acknowledge the decline and, in s...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

The coming of Trump -- what we were saying about journalistic decline and Republican dysfunction here at the blog in 2013 [Part 1]

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With few exceptions, the failure to recognize the viability of Trump was directly tied to the failure to acknowledge the decline and, in som...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

We haven't done one of these for a while

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A few points on the latest Success Academy controversy: While supporters of no-excuses charters like Success frequently argue that these s...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

I always tried to do my best on tests. Now I learn the real money is in bombing them

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... or more precisely, making the school think you're going to bomb them. We've been writing a lot about the various often subtle ...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

The rule for distinguishing the serious Hyperloop articles from the BS

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Good reporting on the Hyperloop spends most of its time on infrastructure and cost (mainly infrastructure). Bad reporting spends most of its...
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Friday, June 10, 2016

"Life as seen in Dickens' fiction"

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Mark Evanier points us to a site-relevant tune from the Austin Lounge Lizards.