Two Tries at the Ideological Turing Test Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Jun 23 2011 SHARE POST: 1. DeLong pretends to be Nozickian. 2. I pretend to be conservative. Give me more examples of attempts to pass Ideological Turing Tests in the comments; I’ll link to them.
Jun 23 2011 Economics of Crime Prison Rape: Becker-Acton Model Confirmed Bryan Caplan The latest U.S. Department of Justice National Inmate Survey confirms my earlier report that prison staff commit more prison rape than prisoners. Lovisa Stannow of Just Detention International boils down the results in Reason:The U.S. Department of Justice recently released its first-ever estimate of the number o... 4 Read More
Jun 23 2011 Labor Mobility, Immigration, Outsourcing Define Courage: The Jose Antonio Vargas Story Bryan Caplan Incredible piece in today's NYT. Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas reveals that he's been illegally living in the U.S. for twenty years:After my uncle came to America legally in 1991, Lolo tried to get my mother here through a tourist visa, but she wasn't able to obtain one. That's when she de... 17 Read More
Jun 23 2011 Economic and Political Philosophy Two Tries at the Ideological Turing Test Bryan Caplan 1. DeLong pretends to be Nozickian.2. I pretend to be conservative. Give me more examples of attempts to pass Ideological Turing Tests in the comments; I'll link to them. 14 Read More