Month: July 2024

Revealed: Secret 428-year-old letter reveals Elizabeth I’s spy network Guardian (Kevin W) The Secret, Magic Life of Lithium Nomea (Micael T) Snowball Earth and the […]

Big, sudden swings in election chances are not uncommon in American politics, although it seems we’ve had one recently. Here are some results, as reported […]

In a recent interview with Dwarkesh Patel, Former Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair discussed the principles of Lee Kuan Yew—the father of modern […]

Yves here. While NATO plans to escalate the conflicts of the Collective West to the point where they are too wide to win, it is […]

There is a long debate – centuries in fact – about whether you should consider your national (or regional) interest, or whether you should think […]

Last week we got the GDP and wages and salaries for Q1, as well as the employment and coincident indicators for May. With this data, […]

1. Ronan McGovern in Finland and the two Baltics. 2. Was housing overbuilt in Nevada? 3. How much of the universe is intellectually readable? 4. […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Very patient readers, I spent the day recovering from a bout of food poisoning I got last night (which was […]

To engage with the larger literature on the economic consequences of slavery, we use antebellum census data to examine demographic differences at the frontier for […]