Doc Hammer's Anvil

News, views, and commentary from a free market point of view. I moved from Blogger to Substack in December 2023. For previous posts back to 2011 see my Blogger page at https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com

Extra Muros explores ways people can obtain the benefits of higher education while remaining "outside the walls" of our dying universities.

Ideas about a wide variety of subjects

Mostly just links.

What can Economics tell us about the world?

I'm a regular human trying to make sense of this crazy clownworld. Let's compare notes and share strategies.

Pathopolitics, psychopathy, and mass hysteria

Caplan and Candor

Social science, common sense, and skepticism applied to controversial topics, and occasional personal takes and twists.

chronicling the quest to save the Army (implement H2F)

All the latest news to help expose the narrative. I also write articles on a range of interesting topics including Covid, Politics, Finance, Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Technology and Ancient Mysteries.

A world made of gears. Doing both speed premium short term updates and long term world model building. Currently focused on weekly AI updates. Explorations include AI, policy, rationality, medicine and fertility, education and games.

Federalist Wisdom in a Modern Society

Elite class ritual performance, cultural and political decline, military culture, and the dismal state of American journalism.

Understanding the world through Classic Art and Literature

A player's guide to the Apocalypse

Bric-a-Brac, Curios, and Complaints from a professional irritant, novelist, and retired lawyer.

Opinionated investigative journalism.

Navigating a world of infinite knowledge

improving social epistemology, rewarding reasoned discourse

Exploring the shared upheavals of our era, including technological and cultural change, the ideological revolution consuming the West, the rise of China, and the crisis of liberalism.

science and existential angst

come for the cat. stay for the toxoplasmosis.

It's Ed West's sub stack

cool but rude

Pandemic, Bitcoin, education, finance, science, health, economics, statistics, and other topics that need attention.

A newsletter by Connor Tabarrok, centered around Science, Engineering, and Progress

We are witnessing an unprecedented, comprehensive failure of policy, medicine and science. The world will never be the same.

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

This is a song about culture wars, futurism, apocalypta, and gun math.

Hamhanded metaphors and questionably interesting thoughts

Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

A rumination on the collapse of culture on the left. Is it really that bad? Yes, it is really that bad.

You'll never think of Foucault the same way again