by Erik Kain on November 21, 2011
I have written as a friendly critic – or a skeptical supporter? – of the Occupy movement many times now. Over the weekend I wrote several posts condemning the police violence at UC Davis and UC Berkeley that occurred this past week. Before that, I wrote several posts about the limits of the protest movement [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 28, 2011
Steven Pinker has an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on the decline of violence across the world, and the decline of war. Pinker suggests a number of reasons for the decline in war, from the state’s monopoly on violence to the rise of global commerce. He also includes this chart: Charts like [...]
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