SciFi is running a restored version of the schlock-classic Esperanto film Incubus, which starred a young, pre-Kirk William Shatner. It’s sort of bizarre watching a movie in which all of the actors have the awkward diction of someone delivering lines in an unfamiliar language… and it’s compounded by the fact that since Esperanto’s not a […]

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I’ve been meaning to make a few comments with respect to Jim Antle’s recent TCS piece on the right’s internal schisms. Except that instead of a thoughtful, well-structured consideration, I fear that at this hour I’m only up for a core-dump of free associations on the topic. I think I first wrote about it here, […]

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In the midst of an interesting post on IQ and Headstart, Mark A. R. Kleiman writes: The more general point is that the ‘heritability’ of a trait is not a constant across environments, and that the attempt to parse all differences into an environmental component and a genetic component whose coefficients sum to unity — […]

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In a new piece up at Reason, I take aim at proponents of the view that civil libertarian concerns about the PATRIOT Act represent a form of Chicken Little–style hysteria.

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