There are a lot of reasons to hate Facebook. They collect data on you, and sell it. They even do it when you’re not logged in to Facebook. They do it even…
Intellectual Explorers Club Podcast
I did another podcast. It too was pretty fun. Actual conversation starts about 6 minutes in. If the embed doesn’t work, heres’ the link. Content: 30% re-hash of material from the @BenjaminABoyce…
Gun Buybacks Don’t Work (if you Believe in Math)
This just needs to be put to bed, once and for all. Background I started writing in March on this topic, and since then I’ve ranged to a lot of other far…
Lying with Gun Data. Again.
I only got on Twitter recently, and I think I’ve done a pretty good job overall of not picking fights on it. Fighting on Twitter is really, really dumb. For one, you…
In Defense of Atlanta
As a long time Atlanta resident, I like my town. It’s a good town to live in, and it gets a tremendous amount of shit from the nationwide media that’s almost entirely…
The Gun Lane We Need Doctors In, and Government Out
Much has been said recently of the NRA’s hyperbolic statement that doctors need to “stay in their lane.” The freakoutery over this is thick, and palpable, and almost entirely misses the most…
Benjamin Boyce Podcast
I did a podcast. It was pretty fun.
The Violence Will Increase No Matter Who Wins
HWFO November Housekeeping will take place in two sections. First, we’ll unravel a recent study by Nathan Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason, from LSU and the University of Maryland, respectively, that puts some…
Social Justice is a Crowdsourced Religion
Future historians chronicling the Grand American Culture War of the Twenty Teens will identify three mostly distinct factions. The Blue Tribe, who vies for control so they may push Blue values on…
The Freakoutery about Kavanaugh is a Sociobiological Outburst
Everyone’s triggered, everything’s fucked, and there’s no good way out of this mess. The reason why this one is deeper, and uglier, and more FUBAR than most or all previous culture war…