Timur Kuran

I’ve signed the Buckingham Manifesto, included in this thread. Distinguished thinkers of various political leanings participated in its preparation. If you’re an academic, please consider joining the signatories.

My first time on the Hayek Podcast with the one and only Peter Boettke, speaking about Foucault and Liberal Political Economy. Hope you enjoy as much as I did: tinyurl.com/ybek26ad

When girls were behind in school, society asked, "What's wrong with the system?" and made reforms. Now, as boys have fallen behind, people ask, "What's wrong with boys?" Maybe it’s not them, but us! Education systems must adapt for our boys too, with hands-on learning, more male…

Jessica: Do think one day people will look back and ask how America could let this this happen? Me: A lot of people are already asking that today.

An important kind of social network will be one where no bots whatsoever are allowed.

2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey with the caption: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life”

Kids need risky play and thrills. Dads have a special role to play. I hope this is not controversial, but dads more than moms seem to enjoy pretending to be a predator trying to catch and eat their own children. I discussed this with Parents Magazine: parents.com/next-gen-winne…

At first they said it was only polite to refer to someone by their preferred pronounds. Then, they demanded social media censorship. Now, governments are fining, and may soon jail, people who deny the lie that men can become women. This is as terrifying as anything in "1984."

1) Cindy McCain, director of the World Food Programme, wife of late Republican Senator John McCain, refutes claims Hamas is stealing aid. 2) A consensus of genocide scholars concludes that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, including Israeli scholars

A fringe of the Democratic Party genuinely believes that a man can become a woman. But the sane majority has trapped itself in that fantasy. Sane Democrats will renounce and pummel Rahm Emmanuel for saying what they know to be true—and wish they had the courage to say themselves.

Cultish and cringe-inducing. Also, insane.

The White House is explicitly saying it can kick out of the press pool any publication that doesn’t bow and scrape to the president’s whims. This is nothing but a blanket confession that the administration is retaliating for news coverage that displeases the president — and it is…

Canada used to be such a civilized country. Its captured sectors now make US progressives look sane by comparison.

Each one looks like a magnificent work of art.

There was one deeply troubling revelation for me from the Stanford covid conference last year from my personal conversations with other covid physician/scientist dissidents from around the world: the pattern in which the power establishment had targeted many of us was almost…

Terrific hires, who will make UF’s Hamilton School even more competitive vis-à-vis existing humanities departments. All UF humanists will benefit from the competition for students.

The Soviets abolished weekends. Instead they created a rolling 5 day week so that factories were always open. Workers would get time off on different days so they couldn't be sure their day off would overlap with that of their spouse or friends. eyeondesign.aiga.org/a-failed-sovie…

Canada is what a country without any countervailing political power to hold at bay the influence of the Borg looks like, and where the United States would be today, (and perhaps has merely postponed for a while), were it not for the exercise of countervailing political power