Last week’s TWiR finally made it up last night (Gambier Islands time) over at Social Matter. The Committee’s picks were as follows…
Honorable Mentions:
James A. Donald: Fertility and corporal punishment. Causation implies correlation. Jim links the ebbs and flows of Western fertility to the public permissability of corporal punishment (of wives). That plus assorted nuggets of related wisdom and humor (and often both).
Alf: Iconoclasm. A bit of retrospective on the gains that the Alt-Right has made in memetic spaces, and a warning not to put too much hope in them.
Henry Dampier: Terrorism Creates Jobs. A joking but not joking exposé of the symbiotic relationship between terrorists and the bloated nanny state.
Evolutionist X: Cathedral Round-Up #12: The Rise of Mommy-Law. A very perceptive article about the barely perceptible, yet inexorable transformation of anglophone law from protecting the individual from encroachments of the state, to protecting special snowflakes from of encroachments of regular people expressing their opinions. Yale Daily News provides much of the target practice entertainment.
Matt Briggs: The Hierarchy Of Models: From Causal (Best) To Statistical (Worst). A useful guide to the epistemology of science ranks of the reliability of various models we use to apprehend the natural world.
… And the Winner Is:
Ryan Landry: Meaning, Globalism, And Death. Nationalism, it is thought, once led to world wars. That’s a story that might be worth revisiting, because of who-whom. But this iteration seems quite different. Diverse sets nationalists are more in sympathy with each other and united against a common enemy: the Neoliberal Globalist Elite. A very fine meditation on the truly essential things in life, which cannot be bought.
Thanks for the award!
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