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Are Middle-Aged White Men Dying from Despair?
Economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton have a couple of well-known papers, here and here, identifying a marked increase in death rates for middle-aged white American males without a college degree due...
View ArticleTwitter, Defamation, and New York Times v. Sullivan
One of the new features of our world is social media and Twitter. We now have the phenomenon known as a Twitter Mob, where a large number of people tweet or retweet negative information about a...
View ArticleThe Coming War over Intelligence
When I was a child—aged seven or eight—I was diagnosed with dyslexia, something known in the trade as a “specific learning disorder.” My problems were identified in the usual way for dyslexics—I was...
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