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Crazy in the U.S.A.

The Daily Beast ranked America’s “craziest” cities by psychiatrists per capita, stress, eccentricity, and drinking. Read More »



Why Are Most of Football’s Sideline Reporters Women?

If college and professional football are the unique and entire domain of male athletes, such that former players are most likely the most knowledgeable as to the game’s nuances both on and off the field, why is it that, while all the off-field commentary is also male-dominated, all the on-field interviewing and commentary is done by females who never touched a football, let alone played a down? Read More »



Hayek Propped Up by Government Intervention

Sunday’s New York Times reported on attempts by the Texas Board of Education to rewrite the high school curriculum in accordance with its conservative values. So I find the raw ideological force exerted by these “educators” to be both striking and dispiriting. Read More »



Read Freakonomics at Your Peril

More trouble for Freakonomics readers. Read More »