The Fifth Column - #379: Midterm Closing Arguments and Killing Kanye | Coleman Hughes and Nick Gillespie Yesterday, I made the same points to my girlfriend about the hypocrisy of categorically condemning a man for singling out an identity group as “too powerful”.

The Good Fight - Sam Harris: Whether Religion Really Does Make Everything Worse I’m prepared to accept the world wouldn’t have been better without religion in the past. That says nothing about what is worth keeping now.

[You Are Not So Smart - #245: Cautionary Tales | Tim Harford]() The story about the “truther” that changed his mind was optimistic.

EconTalk - Michael Munger: Industrial Policy Michael accepted that capitalism is cronyism in a democracy and was willing to entertain a group of elites who may know how to structure industrial policy to get “better” outcomes. However, even if they did know, they wouldn’t do it.

The Next Big Idea - STATUS: Does Our Need for It Explain Everything? They made Will Storr sound like a genius. I should support a British star.