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On “Race and Culture”
I finished this book a couple weeks ago. It’s very good. If you’ve read a lot of Sowell there are some sections that are very redundant to other works of his. But there’s a uniqueness to how this one is arranged. It broadened and complexified my idea of how culture works, or rather how cultures…
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Giving up responsibilities
I am a father who served for many years as the primary caregiver for two young children. How did that happen? I made deliberate choices that sacrificed my earning potential in the formal economy for value and quality of life gains for my entire family at home. Did I earn less? Absolutely. Was it 100%…
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Medicated health
We’ve got our minds on medicines and treatments, but have no idea where health comes from. We need interventions, sure, but health and growth come from within. You can’t create them with policy or funding or initiatives. That’s not where the life of humanity lives. And there are inherent costs to choices we’ve made…
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Praxis in principia
I had a strange dream the other night where someone was trying to show me a family crest and tell me what it should be. They kept shouting at me and repeating the motto, so I wouldn’t forget. And when I woke up, I didn’t. I had to look it up to make sure what…
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Advice for short men
Let’s be brutally honest. There is a huge disconnect between what women say they want or even think they want and their actual instinctive reactions. Women are, almost universally, extremely prejudiced against short men as romantic partners. And they have some intense positive prejudices too. So yeah, money and status are the ideal ways to…
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My favorite Biblical texts
There are many great books in the Bible that have had great consequence for human thought, history, and personal living. But my own two personal favorites share the same attribution, someone with whom I’ve always felt a kinship. Everyone finds some person or story in the Bible that speaks to them personally, there’s such a…
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Notes from a 50th anniversary
This entry will be a bit scattered. My parents had their 50th wedding anniversary recently, and I had to give a couple different speeches in different occasions. And in preparation for that I wrote some notes. These are those notes. Dad took me places I didn’t want to go. My mom showed me places I…
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Backsliding is easy!
Gaining weight is so easy, and losing it is so hard. That says something about the fundamental structure of the world and our own constitution. I spent weeks of hard work losing weight this spring. I managed a few pounds, got down from 186 to almost 181. And then lately I’ve been very busy with…
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On Albion’s Sons
If you have a chance, you should read the book Albion’s Sons. It’s a book about four groups from Britain that settled early America and how drastically different they were and how each tried an entirely different theory of rule and culture. All of them became America, in the end. But seeing how radically different…
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Activism and evangelism
Activism is fundamentally, structurally, about wielding power over other people. That is its goal. That’s not a criticism, it’s a description. That’s what distinguishes activism from other kinds of social and moral activity. It is an attempt to influence, control, restrain, dictate, or guide the behavior of other people. In particular, people you don’t personally…
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