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LeBron points us to David Yves' 2012 paper on quality of life in America.  Tyler is interested in whether big cities are bad places to ...

So, a vote at NYU.  Grad students fight their oppressors. Except....grad students actually do very little of the grading.  VERY. LITTLE. ...

Hayek had this right, and people forget how often the point is illustrated by those we call "conservatives": There is some jus...

People, I never realized all the dimensions in which Felipe Calderon has been a bad president for Mexico. This recent article in the Wash...

Ur Union of Unemployed:  Ucubed. Gotta be a hoax, right?  RIGHT? You lost your job. You're not alone. 31 million Americans face the...

Here's an awesome anti-Yglesias screed where the author states the following: I support high employment in manufacturing. The reason ...

for managing to publish an article with the amazing title of "Nazis, Pollution, & No Sex" in the American Behavioral Scientis...

Will Wilkinson has a nice post on *a* (I won't say *the*) libertarian view on unions. Not sure why Will can't spell "labor,...

Interesting paper from Cornell . Here's the abstract: Using data on 11,000 graduate students from 100 departments over a 20 year period,...

I can't decide which is funnier; "quality guaranteed" or "in tomato sauce"!

Jeffrey Goldberg chronicles his battles with the "dick-measuring device". You really must read the whole thing, but here is a teas...

September and October were the highest traffic months in KPC history, so Mungo and I would like to thank the KPC nation for their patronage....

Nick Rowe has a great post on the woes of the central planner in university settings. You should definitely read the whole thing, but here...

Was out on the Mall in DC today with Tyler, museum hopping and people watching. No really big protest crowds anywhere, but a lot of small, w...

Did I Miss Anything? Tom Wayman From: The Astonishing Weight of the Dead. Vancouver: Polestar, 1994. ...

Judging from the look on the guy's face, it is somewhat painful to have this product installed!

Magic to test new arena's drainage with big flush ORLANDO, Fla. -- A massive toilet flush is set to take place at the new arena of the ...

No one in the National League has won the triple crown since Ducky Medwick in 1937. This year two players have a legitimate shot . One is t...

Pundits on the left decry the evil "deficit hawks" and demand more stimulus. They however are in favor of raising taxes on "t...

So another $26 billion goes out the door for teachers and police and fireman. But don't worry people, because it's all paid for an...