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Ian Underwood

Ian Underwood is the author of the Bare Minimum Books series (BareMinimumBooks.com).  He has been a planetary scientist and artificial intelligence researcher for NASA, the director of the renowned Ask Dr. Math service, co-founder of Bardo Farm and Shaolin Rifleworks, and a popular speaker at liberty-related events. He lives in Croydon, New Hampshire.

Anthony-McRae

Your Conception Permit, Please

It distresses me to hear conservative media figures like Tucker Carlson and Howie Carr jumping on the ‘we need to enforce the gun control laws we already have’ bandwagon.

ATF shield

The Bureau of Arbitrariness, Tyranny, and Fear

In one of his eponymous lectures, Richard Feynman told a story about a lady who was pulled over for speeding.  Told that she was going 60 miles per hour, she replied that she’d only been driving for seven minutes.

Norman Thomas Socialist Minister

The New McCarthyism

As we watch the GOP squabble over whether it wants yet another Speaker of the House from California, it’s worth taking a moment to remember Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party candidate for president (from 1928 through 1948).

Reading education sunset Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

Using Outrage to Protect Incompetence

I recently had lunch with a group of people who are concerned about the problems that we’re having with public schools, and who wanted to discuss ways to do something about those problems.

Fork measuring tape diet

Put Schools on an Elimination Diet

There is something called an ‘elimination diet,’ which people use to find out what foods their bodies have trouble processing.  You start by cutting out everything but one food — typically beef, because you can stay healthy indefinitely eating just beef.  It’s boring but sustainable.

Guns Image by WorldSpectrum from Pixabay

Sauce for the Gun

I recently watched a YouTube video that promised to show Ben Shapiro ‘destroying’ Piers Morgan in a discussion about gun control. But a few minutes into it, I realized that Shapiro had already conceded the larger argument in order to score a few technical points.  In particular, he said his answer to gun violence was …

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