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Geopolitics

Build Partner Airpower, Not Air Forces

This paper examines lessons from U.S. efforts to build air forces in Iraq and Afghanistan during counterinsurgency operations from 2004 to 2021. The author offers recommendations for aviation security force assistance missions in irregular warfare

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Culture

DEBATE: Why Do Gen Z Women Hate Men So Much? - #1094

In this evolutionary psychology debate, we explore: - Why women feel much more negatively towards young men than young men feel about them. - Why men are more often demonised and women are seen as victims. - How differing political views are quietly becoming one of the biggest relationship dealbreakers for young people. - and much more. Guests - Freya India is a writer and journalist focused on female mental health and modern culture. - William Costello is a psychology researcher and Ph.D. st...

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Technology

William Stanley Jevons as polymath

In the 1860s Jevons built a Logical Abacus, sometimes called a logical piano, a kind of early computer that could perform (some kinds of) logical operations faster than humans could. It is held in the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University, and you can think of its structure and operation as broadly […] The post William Stanley Jevons as polymath appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsPutting the footnotes where they belong. Please downvote this . by MikePRelated Storie...

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Business

Justin Wolfers update

Wolfers’s moment of clarity ultimately sent him down a road less traveled by academic economists: creating his own media company. On Wednesday, Wolfers, 53, announced that he had founded Platypus Economics, an independent media start-up that aims to reach a mainstream audience. The name is a nod to his Australian roots, cheekily referring to the odd-looking mammal […] The post Justin Wolfers update appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsHow about a mini-series based around the legal, ...

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Economy

ICE has not improved U.S. labor markets

We provide the first causal, national empirical analysis of the labor market impacts of heightened immigration enforcement during the second Trump administration. Enforcement increased everywhere, but, we take advantage of the fact that the increases have been uneven across geographic areas to classify areas as treated or control and then implement an event study and […] The post ICE has not improved U.S. labor markets appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to TDS. Trump stil...

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