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About Simone and Malcolm Collins’ Smear Campaign Against Me

If you’re interested at all in pronatalism, you’re familiar with Simone and Malcolm Collins, the pronatal Silicon Valley…

Oct 22, 2024

About Simone and Malcolm Collins’ Smear Campaign Against Me

Oct 22, 2024

Effective Altruism Is Still Bad

Scott Alexander (who blocks me on Twitter?) has responded to my prior post on effective altruism. So has Bentham’s Bulldog. I will here…

May 31, 2024

Effective Altruism Is Still Bad

May 31, 2024

Why Effective Altruism Is Bad

I have recently found myself enjoying a young man online walking backwards into Calvinist Universalism by gradually conceiving of God as an…

May 28, 2024

Why Effective Altruism Is Bad

May 28, 2024

Fertility and Income: Some Notes

UPDATE: Forgot a section! Added now!

Apr 10, 2024

Fertility and Income: Some Notes

Apr 10, 2024

How Many Hobbits? 3,000 Years of Middle Earth Population History

This is the third post in my series on the demography of Middle Earth. The first piece introduced some methods for estimating the…

Dec 13, 2023

How Many Hobbits? 3,000 Years of Middle Earth Population History

Dec 13, 2023

How Many Hobbits? Middle Earth Population by People Group

In my prior post, I laid out some population estimates for Middle Earth’s Free Peoples by region. Here, I’m going to break it down by…

Dec 5, 2023

How Many Hobbits? Middle Earth Population by People Group

Dec 5, 2023

How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth

Part 2 of this essay on Middle Earth population, mapping specific populations, is here.

Dec 5, 2023

How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth

Dec 5, 2023

Would the True Christians Please Stand Up? A Review of “Cultural Christians in the Early Church”

I have just finished Nadya Williams’ “Cultural Christians in the Early Church.” The book is a delightful and thought-provoking romp through…

Dec 4, 2023

Would the True Christians Please Stand Up? A Review of “Cultural Christians in the Early Church”

Dec 4, 2023

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Who Has Claim? 3,000 Years of Religion in the Land Between

Israel and Gaza are at it again in a war. This post is not about that war. This post does not answer what rules for use of force Israel…

Oct 27, 2023

Who Has Claim? 3,000 Years of Religion in the Land Between

Oct 27, 2023

Babies vs. Baptisms

The discussion about singleness and the church continues. I’ve mostly said my piece on the singleness question, but this piece at…

Sep 18, 2023

Babies vs. Baptisms

Sep 18, 2023

Lyman Stone

Lyman Stone

Global cotton economist. Migration blogger. Proud Kentuckian. Advisor at Demographic Intelligence. Senior Contributor at The Federalist.

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