Roger Bate

Philadelphia

Fellow at American Enterprise Institute

Health economist, husband and father, golfer, tennis player, food lover

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Imaginary Consensus as a Legitimizing Philosophy of the New Antitrust Meta-Narrative

2 months ago | laweconcenter.org | Lazar Radic |Alden Abbott |Roger Bate

ICLE Issue Brief I.
Lessons from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control for the WHO Pandemic Treaty

Nov 26, 2024 | laweconcenter.org | Martin Cullip |Roger Bate |Eric Fruits |Geoffrey Manne

ICLE White Paper Foreword*Martin Cullip and Roger Bate’s thoughtful and important piece provides compelling arguments about whether the World Health Organization (WHO) can be trusted with a pandemic treaty. I compliment their work by going beyond trust to highlight several realities that make a future effective pandemic treaty unlikely to be delivered.
Is G Flip A Woman?

Mar 19, 2024 | quillette.com | Holly Lawford-Smith |Maarten Boudry |Meghan Daum |Roger Bate

If we siphon off all female diversity into categories like 'non-binary' we narrow the idea of what it means to be a woman.
The Metamodern Shift in the Culture Wars

Mar 19, 2024 | quillette.com | Peter Clarke |Maarten Boudry |Meghan Daum |Roger Bate

The concept of metamodernism isn’t particularly well-known, but once you learn about it, you will recognize it everywhere—in pop music, in movies, in social media posts, in podcast conversations. Here’s Eric Weinstein inadvertently articulating the spirit of metamodernism in a recent interview:You need to keep the scarcity mentality; it’s not a mistake. The problem is, you also need an abundance mentality, and then you need to selectively access them in different circumstances.
Google and the Gemini Debacle

Mar 17, 2024 | quillette.com | Maarten Boudry |Roger Bate |Greg Koabel |Freya India

As of 23 February 2024, Google’s new-model AI chatbot, Gemini, has been debarred from creating images of people, because it can’t resist drawing racist ones. It’s not that it is producing bigoted caricatures—the problem is that it is curiously reluctant to draw white people. When asked to produce images of popes, Vikings, or German soldiers from World War II, it keeps presenting figures that are black and often female.
Are Climate Doomers for Real?

Mar 17, 2024 | quillette.com | Maarten Boudry |Roger Bate |Greg Koabel |Freya India

Activists of all stripes will continue to preach that the end of the world is nigh, but that doesn’t mean that we should take them seriously. Keep Reading From the Blog 12 Mar 2024 23 Feb 2024 8 Feb 2024 Join the newsletter to receive the latest updates in your inbox. Your email address Please check your inbox and click the link to confirm your subscription.
Podcast #233: Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women

Mar 15, 2024 | quillette.com | Roger Bate |Freya India |Coel Hellier |Matt Johnson

As many regular listeners will know from her previous appearance on the Quillette podcast, Meghan Daum is a New York-based book author, writing coach, social-media maven, and, more recently, the woman behind a new set of events, known as The Unspeakeasy—where “intellectually curious women from everywhere on the political spectrum can talk honestly about complex issues and ask meaningful questions to which there are no easy answers.” Meghan joined us to talk about The Unspeakeasy and a dozen...
China, the West, and The Three-Body Problem

Mar 14, 2024 | quillette.com | Jason Andrew Garshfield |Roger Bate |Freya India |Coel Hellier

A review of the trilogyThe Remembrance of Earth’s Pastby Liu Cixin (The Three-Body Problem, 2006; the Dark Forest, 2008; Death’s End, 2010), 1472 pages, Chinese edition, Chongqing Publishing Group; English edition, Tor Books. Books 1 and 3 were translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu; book 2 by Joel Martinsen. Contains spoilers. The aliens of the planet Trisolaris have a big problem: their world is locked in an unstable orbit around three stars.
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Covid Pandemic

Mar 14, 2024 | quillette.com | Roger Bate |Freya India |Coel Hellier |Matt Johnson

When COVID hit in the winter of 2020, hospitals were overflowing with the sick and dying. Public health experts worried that we’d be isolating for years because, although vaccines were possible, none had ever been developed in fewer than four years. Yet, within weeks of the identification of the virus’s genetic structure, two companies had settled on the basic frameworks for mRNA vaccines, which were then developed on an accelerated timeline.
Not Everyone Who Disagrees with You Is An ‘Uncle Tom’

Mar 4, 2024 | quillette.com | Holly Lawford-Smith |Roger Bate |Freya India |Coel Hellier

Uncle Tom. Aunt Jemima. Judas. Aunt Lydia. Kapo. Self-hating Jew. Banana. Oreo. Quisling. Traitor. Sell-out. These are all pejoratives used to refer to someone accused of betrayal. Judas betrayed Jesus for money; Aunt Lydia betrays women for power; Uncle Tom betrays black people for his own protection. Actually, I’m not sure what Uncle Tom betrays black people for.