Barry Lam

"Young people shouldn't go to college, they should go into trades...." as though students at at least four top academic universities in the country don't already treat them as trade schools for the tech industry.

RT @HiPhiNation: The previews at MI: Final Reckoning were Jurassic Park, Naked Gun, Fantastic Four, How to Train your Dragon, and the Smurf…

Tom Cruise needs an editor.

Ask not why pop music today is so bad, ask why the music you think is good is not popular.

I wrote about an old epistemological chestnut and economic projects from deceptive administrations. The "Grue" Problem and Economic Projections https://t.co/mIaY3Kea49

RT @KaiserKuo: I imagine many of you have now read @kyleichan's great op-ed in the @nytimes on how China is set to eclipse the US as a tech…

Kevin has laid out in a series of posts an incredibly accurate and thorough reading of my views in the book. He may still demolish its argument but at least he’s gotten them right.

Econlib @Econlib

How can law enforcement officers better employ discretion in their day-to-day operations? @IdeasandReality continues his deep dive into @ProfBarryLam's latest at EconLog: https://t.co/8HX3s4OYwm #policing #bookreview #legalism

RT @Econlib: How can law enforcement officers better employ discretion in their day-to-day operations? @IdeasandReality continues his deep…

Academics: If you feel the need to self-promote your stuff more, follow the 3-7 rule from internet marketing. People aren't going to click on your stuff until they've encountered it at least 3 times, and if they haven't clicked by seeing it 7 times, they're not going to.

Happy Mother’s Day! I wrote about why every mother and non-mother I know made morally decent decisions. https://t.co/ICIgZAB9RI

Forget about Harvard or Columbia, Trump and Hegseth already destroyed one of our most historically honorable and consequential institutions of higher learning. We academics need to stop just shaking our heads and offer jobs to the fleeing faculty. https://t.co/6aLzR8aG6d

A positive side effect of lower birth rates is fewer kids using ChatGPT for their high school and college essays.

By the time the demographic problem is supposed to be a problem (22nd century), we'll be able to grow people from cloning and incubation.

My first Substack post is a talk I gave at Berkeley, Santa Cruz, UCR, and Philadelphia six years ago, in which I argue that justice selects for justification. https://t.co/pj2MADSdh6

On live right now. Philosophy Talk with Ray Briggs and Josh Landis. https://t.co/MoUPgiL14l

I was on Big Books Books and Bold Ideas, Minnesota Public Radio, talking about Fewer Rules, Better People. Thanks for a great conversation Kerri Miller! https://t.co/4I7HkUkHUg

RT @eschwitz: Since word has begun to circulate, I might as well announce generally: I've been promoted to Distinguished Professor at UC Ri…