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April 2025

March 2025

The Case Against Superforecasting
The keystone chapter (Chapter Zero) of the book I'm working on.
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What Does the Recent German Election Say About Immigration and Integration
If integration is straightforward how is it that the former East Germany is so different ideologically from the former West Germany?
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews: Volume 5
Preference falsification, Anti-War on Terror, Solzhenitsyn, climate warnings, the years before World War I, and the Six-Day War.
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Meta Discussion and Book News
Things are changing. Hopefully in good ways.
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R.W. Richey

February 2025

January 2025

Reviews of Strange Religious Books: Volume 1
The best book (epic poem) ever, Jungian shadowstuff both pleasurable and nightmarish, a 21st century history of 2nd century gnosticism, and the religion…
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The Everest Fallacy
A method for making better decisions should you ever find yourself in Kathmandu, or paying for SEO, or hoping to see the Supreme Court.
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews: Volume 4
Bryan Caplan, the birth of science, eusociality, a page a day book, StoryBrand, how to 10x your productivity by playing World of Warcraft for 30 minutes…
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Ten Child Sex Abuse Rings in Search of a Narrative - 2025
I revisit a 2018 post on the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal.
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Why Did They Really Close Schools?
Okay, that title is a little bit clickbait-y, but I do think there was one big reason for closing schools during the pandemic that (almost?) no one is…
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December 2024

Short Fiction Book Reviews: Volume 2
An actual gentleman in the Soviet Union, an alien gentleman in Cambridge, a lot of psychopaths pretending to be gentlemen in the south of France, and…
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Band of Brothers? - Women on the Front Lines
A discussion of women in combat, with some weak steel-manning of the side I disagree with. Also many reflections on the miniseries and book "Band of…
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews: Volume 3
WEIRD gods, intelligence, both natural and artificial, the (mis)management of savagery, two books on investing, anti-productivity, history to make you…
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November 2024

Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews: Volume 2
AI skepticism—road-trips through rural China—the philosophy of grand strategy and leisure—Libertarianism—another mediocre business book—another amazing…
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Review: Nate Silver, The Election, and "On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything"
He talks about the Village, and the River, but what we really need is a Redoubt.
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Evaluating Epstein: Conspiracies and a Review of One Nation Under Blackmail
How does one evaluate the evidence for a conspiracy?
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October 2024

Short Fiction Book Reviews: Volume I
A strange YA story from Gaiman, an even stranger one from qntm, Arthur Miller being kind of sad, Richard Llewellyn being really sad, two pulpy but good…
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AI and Forecasting
There are many areas where AI might appear to do great, but on deeper inspection it's actually awful. Forecasting is one of those areas and this is that…
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews: Volume I
Multiple books on ruminating without marinating—techniques drawn from Buddhism, Christianity, and Science! Also a review of Dumb Money (the book) and…
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Reviews: "Journey of the Mind" and "Against the Grain"
Book reviews from my post Superminds, States, and the Domestication of Humans
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