Ranked choice voting in Canada is pushed by partisans who stand to benefit. You can have proportional ranked choice voting (STV) or add a dozen MLAs to keep local representation but he pushes a system that models his party doing super well […]

If this were true, New York and DC would have the best educational outcomes in the country

"Oct. 6 will be remembered in mathematics as the day the bomb went off. OpenAI, the [...] “public benefit corporation” that has been making impressive mathematical advances every few weeks for a while now, unleashed a flood of 377 new machine-generated papers, each of which contains a new result […]

Which holds more power in the NA, the PCQ with 19 seats or QS with 9? They have equal theoretical power. When you consider voting coalitions, the PQ plus any one of the other parties would have enough votes to pass a motion. (On the other hand, all three of the other parties would need to agree […]

Ooh the new 2015 edition of Shiller's "Irrational Exuberance" has a chapter on whether ten-year bond yields have any relationship to future inflation (in the USA they do not, but they correlate with past inflation ie. buyers demand high bond yields when inflation has recently been high) […]

When I teach Oakeshott's "Rationalism in Politics" to students, one of the several things they always react against is the claim that politics is a practical knowledge acquired over generations, i.e. within a family, not a techne acquired at university by smart law or econ students.

Thread on one of my favorite pet peeves. "Medieval" is not a synonym for "bad" or "barbaric" or "cruel" or "violent." Modernity has seen plenty of new and worse ways to be all of those things.

"‘It’s way beyond an epidemic’: Food demand is surging across Canada as non-profits struggle to keep up. Organizations in the Second Harvest [food bank] Network say growing demand is leaving some with waitlists, while others have been forced to turn people away due to a lack of food […]