Better to lose to a wise man than to win against a fool. – Polish proverb If you lose to a wise man, you learn something. If you win against a fool, the fool has learned nothing, and you’ve wasted your time. Corollary:  If I refuse to argue with...

Regular readers of The Thinker will of course know by now that I am an unabashed proponent of free markets. But every economic system has its disadvantages. Even though capitalism is better than any other system ever tried, it is not perfect. It does...

This Overcoming Bias post talks about this NY Times article which discusses this research into the question of why college professors are so overwhelmingly liberal. (In related news, I’ll soon be posting my research findings on the question of why the...

David Boaz at Cato At Liberty brings us a list of the ideas for new taxes being considered by Obama and his aids and allies. The list includes raising top tax rates, limiting itemized deductions for people at high tax rates, increasing capital gains...

This FactCheck.org article sounds off on the “spread the lie” strategy, one of the dirtiest tricks in sociopolitical discourse today: A Sept. 4 article in the Post discussed several recent studies that all seemed to point to the same conclusion: ...