Cliodynamics Talk
I talked about Peter Turchin's Cliodynamics on this BlogTalkRadio show. We talk about the validity of macrohistory and the 2020 prediction. Listen in and let me know what you think.
View ArticleCamplin Creative Consulting Online
Camplin Creative Consulting is officially online! If you have any editing or proofreading needs, this is the place to go. Only $10 per page. I can also do writing consulting.
View ArticleInterview on "Getting to the Hayekian Network"
I was interviewed by Kevin Rollins for Free Liberal.
View ArticleA Science of Cultural Change Is Possible (and Necessary)
T. Greer asks the eminently sensible question Is a Science of Cultural Change Possible? I think it is, but Greer is more skeptical (while acknowledging the interesting work in the field so far).Greer...
View ArticleWhat Is Life? How Common Is It?
How common is life in the universe? To answer that, we have to first answer the question: what is life?What is life? Life is a complex self-organizing network process capable of reproducing itself. In...
View ArticleAppropriate Literatures for Appropriate Psychological Levels
If people go through different stages of psychosocial complexity, it would make sense for our schools to teach whatever literature is appropriate for each of those levels. While there are different...
View ArticleSome Observations on Dominance Hierarchies and Human Society
Humans are a species of social primate, so we should not be surprised to find we prefer to organize ourselves into dominance hierarchies. In fact, humans are unique in that we will organize ourselves...
View ArticleThe Uber Economy and the Distribution of Labor
One of Marx's more famous statements is thatas soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he...
View ArticleCecil the Sacred
Walter James Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, is currently one of the most hated men in the world. His crime? Killing Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe.Palmer has killed many animals in his life, including...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Populism
Anyone trying to understand the popularity of Donald Trump among Republicans and Bernie Sanders among Democrats needs to understand the fact that both men are populists.A populist is someone who...
View Article2020: Civil War in the GOP?
Infamously, the 1968 Democratic Convention, held in Chicago, was wracked with protests -- from the far left. There had been a civil war within the Democratic party, for the soul of the party,...
View ArticleContradiction vs. Paradox
I affirm a metaphysics of paradox. Anyone who has read enough of my works -- academic, popular, and blogs -- knows I affirm paradox. But what is a paradox?First, a paradox is absolutely not a...
View ArticleMacrosocial Evolution -- Cycles and Emergence
I am convinced that human social history demonstrates a variety of patterns. There is increasing evidence for this, ranging from Kondratieff waves (K-waves) to Peter Turchin's secular cycles. The...
View ArticleApproaches to Economics: A few definitions
Classical Economics -- complex model building using a combination of empirics and logic to explain those empirical observations. Econometrics -- making simple mathematical models of the economy and...
View ArticleWelfare is NOT Socialism
I have come to realize that too many people -- on the left, on the right, and even far too many libertarians -- are deeply confused about the nature of socialism. I keep hearing people claiming to want...
View ArticleWhen Government Colonizes Different Spontaneous Orders
There are a variety of spontaneous orders. We too often only think of the economy as a spontaneous order, but there are also the scientific order, the philanthropic order, the philosophic order, the...
View ArticleCivil Society Man, Not Economic Man
If idle hands are the Devil's workshop, the Protestant work ethic would seem to naturally emerge from Christian theology. Of course, one can work as well as a serf under a lord for as for oneself, so...
View ArticleCan Someone Point Me to the Road From Serfdom?
Under serfdom, the serfs lived on the land owned by the feudal lords, who took a portion of what the serfs produced in exchange for allowing them to live on and work the land.Fortunately, we no longer...
View ArticleNew Podcast on Spontaneous Orders
There is a new podcast hosted by Kevin Rollins in which I participate. Well, I participate as much as my technology would let me. The microphone in my computer wouldn't work, and then for some reason,...
View ArticleCivil Rights and Mental Differences
Differences in thinking is the next area in which there needs to be social reform. We insist that people accept women, racial and ethnic minorities, gays, transgendered people, and cultural...
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