Manzi on the Wright-Coyne dispute (What's Wrong with the World)

Edward Feser

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:42:28 GM

In an interesting commentary over at The Daily Dish on the dispute between biologist Jerry Coyne and Robert Wright (author of The Evolution of God), . Jim Manzi. makes some observations which dovetail with these points. ...

Waxman-Markey Cost-Benefit Analysis | Climate Change | Economics ...

Jim Manzi

Wed, 20 May 2009 01:38:46 GM

Jim Manzi. May 19, 11:26 PM #. It sounds so clean when you say that the United States is expected to experience no net material economic costs till 2100. Why don't you complete your thought and lay out your position clearly: that we ...

Sotomayor, Wisdom, and Context - Jim Manzi - The Corner on ...

Jim Manzi

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:48:25 GM

Sotomayor, Wisdom, and Context [. Jim Manzi. ]. Many bloggers have made the argument that Judge Sonia Sotomayor's famous wise Latina comment has been taken out of context. If you read the whole speech, they say, her statement is far more ...

Credit Cards Don't Kill Credit Ratings, People Do | Economics ...

Jim Manzi

hu, 28 May 2009 15:11:18 GM

Jim Manzi. May 28, 12:34 PM #. forestwalker: You say: Because we are in debt to them? If their business is, as they claim, the issuance of credit and not the usury that their model and practices actually suggest, then their primary ...

Carbon Tax Fantasies | Climate Change | Economics | The American Scene

Jim Manzi

Fri, 15 May 2009 18:41:08 GM

Jim Manzi. May 15, 10:01 PM #. How do we decide how high SS / MC ought to be? My point is just that I think it's the same voodoo with or without the c-tax. It depends on our views about retirement ages, benefit levels and so on. ...

Popper is my homeboy: a manifesto | Economics | The American Scene

Jim Manzi

ue, 03 Feb 2009 03:07:54 GM

As per the post, macroeconomics will not for a long, long, long time be addressable by induction and experiment. There's a lot of economics that is interesting and important that is not macro. . Jim Manzi. Feb 4, 03:15 PM #. . Jim. , ...

The European Social Welfare State Bill - Jim Manzi - The Corner on ...

Jim Manzi

ue, 27 Jan 2009 20:11:37 GM

The European Social Welfare State Bill [. Jim Manzi. ]. Let's start with some basics about the stimulus bill (H.R. 1: the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009). According to my quick read (so all numbers here are subject to ...

In A World Better Than Ours...: In which I agree with Jim Manzi ....

Nemo

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:27:00 GM

I initially became aware of . Jim Manzi. in a fairly extended argument/series​ of posts in which he argued forcefully and reasonably against cap and trade, and if I recall correctly, climate change legislation on the whole. ...

The Multiverse, Intelligent Design and Science: Much Ado about ...

Jim Manzi

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:44:57 GM

Since we take this world to be a world in which some propositions are not true (for instance it is not true that my name is . Jim Manzi. ), this world is one in which a valid premise may not entail a contradiction. ...

Conservative Renewal: A View from the UK | Politics | The American ...

Jim Manzi

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:40:36 GM

This is what . Jim Manzi. didn't cover above. The main purpose for ideology in the day to day political sphere is to rev up the troops. It didn't matter if Hitler and his crew believed that the germans were the master race, ...

Cato Unbound Blog Archive Keeping Our Cool: What to Do about ...

Jim Manzi

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:25:13 GM

June 30th, 2009 at 6:41 am. [...] course, this is hardly a novel position; . Jim Manzi. has been saying it for a long time and saying it much better than me. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)All that needs [...] ...

Re: What's The Point? - Jim Manzi - The Corner on National Review ...

Jim Manzi

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:48:00 GM

Saturday, June 27, 2009. Re: What's The Point? [. Jim Manzi. ]. Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a post in which I tried to predict the course of the climate-change debate. In it I said this: Given current projections, the costs of ...

Balloon Juice Blog Archive Fin de Semaine Fil Ouvert

Tim F.

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:20:55 GM

I've enjoyed . Jim Manzi. getting filleted by Dish readers. Also, the GOP doesn't want to win me back. If there's to be a make work program, I think they should hire people to clean up litter in the cities and along the highways. ...

Random Musings From A Random Geek: Evolution, Purpose, & Bad Arguments

KCProgramr

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:41:00 GM

I'm just now getting a chance to write about this post yesterday by . Jim Manzi. , who's filling in at Andrew Sullivan's, on The Evolution of God and . Manzi's. defense (or at least argument for plausibility of) the thesis of divine purpose ...

Nyet So Fast - Jim Manzi - The Corner on National Review Online

Jim Manzi

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:15:23 GM

Friday, June 19, 2009. Nyet So Fast [. Jim Manzi. ]. Kevin Drum, someone I have always considered to be an exceptionally smart and sensible blogger (for Mother Jones !), criticizes my recent post on Waxman-Markey, saying that the reason the ...

Pinker: I Don't Get It | Culture | The American Scene

Jim Manzi

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:44:47 GM

Jim Manzi. Jan 16, 12:19 AM #. The point of my post was that Pinker never actually addresses the question of morality, but merely considers prudence. Um, but Pinker isn't even trying to address the question of morality. ...

The Implicit Teleology Fallacy PowerUp

Tyler DiPietro

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:03:25 GM

Jerry Coyne recently took apart a writer named . Jim Manzi. , who attempted to defend Robert Wright against the former at The Daily Dish. . Jim Manzi. has put up a response to some of his critics, which is not too impressive. ...

Overcome | Politics | The American Scene

Jim Manzi

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:04:23 GM

by . Jim Manzi. . 11/05/08. Filed under: Politics · Overcome. I have argued in this space that I believe that ... . Jim Manzi. · Cameo Appearance · Michael Brendan Dougherty · Graeme Wood · Jeremy Reff · David Robinson · John Schwenkler ...

Open Thread #16 Open Mind

tamino

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:56:22 GM

Rather than that, I would like to discourage him (him being . Jim Manzi. ) from telling a large group of readers (Andrew Sullivan's blog won the 2008 Weblogs Award for Best Blog it has a lot of readers) that climate change is nothing to ...

The West Virginia Rebel's Blog: One Man's Libertarian Society Is ...

WestVirginiaRebel

hu, 03 Sep 2009 23:56:00 GM

Jim Manzi. wonders whether some libertarians really want liberty, or social engineering at the local level: What the liberty-as-mean​s libertarian calls for is the freedom to experiment: let different localities try different things, ...