Peaceful anarchist. Interested in criminology, international relations, 20th century history, evolutionary biology/psychology, philosophy and economics.
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Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️ retweeted
Too often, we immigration experts soften or withhold inconvenient findings because we fear they can give ammunition to an anti-immigration side we see as completely devoid of reason.
But as I argue in my new paper, our silence has cost the case for immigration more than candor.
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This report analyzes unintentional firearm-related fatalities and their relation to other mechanisms involved in unintentional fatalities. Since record keeping began in 1903, as shown by the data in the National Safety Councils Injury Facts, unintentional deaths involving firearms remain at a record low. The report is FREE to members via the NSSF online store with your login credentials.
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The relationship between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan extends at least as far back as the 1970s, when the kingdom funded Islamabad's nuclear weapons programme.
Pakistan seeks to add an additional layer of alliance complexity to deter India.
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India's plan for Operation Sindoor: confuse Pakistani intelligence as to the date of the airstrikes, wage an immediate media campaign and prepare to dominate every step of the escalation ladder, while giving Pakistan a way out at every stage.
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Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️ retweeted
When India reserves seats for members of scheduled castes -- the untouchables -- we can confidently show that it does not cause a large backlash against them. If anything, it reduces violence and conflict. 1/
Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️ retweeted
How often have you heard the claim that the Second Amendment's individual right was "invented by Scalia in Heller."? How about the Warren Burger quote asserting the individual right is a "fraud" invented by the "gun lobby"?
It's a common claim from the antigun academics, and one that is totally wrong.
Our latest fact sheet compiles 77 pieces of historical commentary from before 1900. They confirm that the Second Amendment was always understood to recognize and protect an individual right. Each quote is linked to their full sources so you can go read each for yourself.
The Soviets did carry out forensic investigations of Holocaust sites.
Coase’s "Net effect?" Ghost 🏴🕊️ retweeted
"Patients already use advance directives to refuse life-sustaining treatment after losing decision-making capacity. Authorizing someone to administer life-ending medication requires additional legal consideration. But the principle of planning ahead deserves the same respect: People should have a meaningful say over what happens to their bodies when illness prevents them from speaking for themselves." My latest. reason.com/2026/10/26/canada… via @reason
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I have a different proposal for-posture in the Middle East—closing U.S. bases and leaving the region entirely. Just out today:
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Heads of the Ukrainian nationalist partisan intelligence service were told to execute Ukrainian women who had relationships with Soviet police officers and soldiers.
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Juozas Aleksynas, whose Nazi-led Lithuanian police battalion shot Jews across Belarus in 1941:
Interviewer: “If a parent was holding a child, did they lie down together in the pit?”
Aleksynas: “They lay down beside the child, with an arm over the child.”
Interviewer: “Did you choose whom to shoot, the father or the child?”
Aleksynas: “You shot the father first. That’s how it was. The father. A child doesn’t feel anything. You put yourself in his place. How would the father feel if his child was shot beside him? That’s how it was.”
Interviewer: “Did they scream as you shot?”
Aleksynas: “Women sometimes cried as they walked. Mostly not. They didn’t scream or anything.”
This comes from USHMM’s interviews with Lithuanian witnesses (Juozas Aleksynas interview, RG-50.473.0010). English captions translated from Aleksynas’s Lithuanian. Cut and captioned by me.
Scholar of the Cold War M. Leffler: decolonization hurt the USSR and reversed the post-WWII communist bump, denying it propaganda.
The top goal of the U.S. was to keep the resources and skilled labour of Europe and East Asia out of Soviet hands.
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With the Soviet Union's threat to South Asia gone (with Pakistan as the counter), the immense latent power of China and the Pakistani economy frozen while India develops, the dubiousness of America not actively and persistently courting New Delhi.
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The dubious ethics of the anti-doping regime: cyclists began to switch to the more dangerous blood doping method after a test for the performance-enhancing drug EPO was developed and end up taking smaller doses of EPO, anyways, as a masking agent.
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The basic English grand strategy through centuries: the English Channel makes dominating Europe impractical, but offshore balancing is possible to prevent a continental hegemon.
For example, England supported Portugal against both Spain and France.
In the 1930s, British grand strategy is caught between two potential hegemons, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and elite anti-communism leads to the sabotage of an alliance with Moscow, despite Berlin being most aggressive, wealthier and geographically closer.