Robert VerBruggen
Wisconsin native, @MedillSchool alum, @NRO deputy ME, metalhead, gamer. 132nd top "New Political Center Thought Leader." Dad of two. Tweets my own.
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John Lott: BuzzFeed and me – The incredible thing the site's CEO did using my name without permission
BuzzFeed’s culture of fake news starts at the top with founder and CEO Jonah Peretti, who has a history of knowingly spreading false information. He has used fraudulent websites and email accounts to pose as people he wished to defame. I was one of...
Places of Persistence: Slavery and the Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
Robert VerBruggen
@swinshi @WilcoxNMP @NRO @SenMikeLee Finally! Variable was upward mobility. One of the most dramatic abstract vs. concession-in-footnote whiplashes I've ever experienced. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s… pic.twitter.com/mEgSUSJdqB
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Juggalo makeup has the power to beat certain facial recognition
Juggalo face paint is untrackable by facial recognition software.
Can you tell whether these guns are real or fake?
It's not as easy as you may think.
Gun-Confiscation Plan Backed by Va. Gov Defeated in House, Awaits Vote in Senate
A plan to ban the sale and possession of certain kinds of firearms and ammunition magazines backed by Ralph Northam failed a vote in a house subcommittee
If Only We Had Communist Health Care
If we’re looking for good examples of health care systems to follow overseas, why turn to this “poor and repressive” country with “dysfunctional economy”?
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Robert VerBruggen
So, yeah, it turns out that Cubans living in America have about the same infant mortality as Cuba claims it has domestically.
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Trigger Warning with Killer Mike
He decides to “live black” for three days, patronizing only black-owned businesses and limiting himself to products made by black-owned companies up the supply chain.
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Robert VerBruggen
If you noticed that Killer Mike has a Netflix show, your first thought was no doubt, "I wonder what Robert VerBruggen thinks of this." Fortunately I watched the first episode this morning and wrote it up
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Is a Serial-Killer Gang Murdering Young Men Across the U.S.?
Dozens of college-age men dead from ‘accidental’ drownings—but a team of retired detectives say the boys were drugged and killed by a shadowy gang with a sinister symbol.
Robert VerBruggen
Some of these cases may be murders for all I know, and heck, there might even be a serial killer in the mix. But this is f***ing ridiculous. thedailybeast.com/is-a-serial-ki… pic.twitter.com/PDwQpXcx2Z
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The Fight Over Men Is Shaping Our Political Future
Not to mention the present — and the way we think about the past.
3 Officers Acquitted of Covering Up for Colleague in Laquan McDonald Killing
Along with the three officers, the broad concept of a police “code of silence” was on trial in Chicago.
Impeach Donald Trump
Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs.
On Obamacare, Is Common Sense Really Judicial Activism?
Thomas Ascik on Judge Reed O'Connor's logic in finding Obamacare to be unconstitutional.
New Immigrants Are More Culturally Different than They Used to Be
New immigrants to the United States are more culturally different than those of the past, but not by much.
Why Ex-Churchgoers Flocked to Trump
This is a story about how the lack of faith, not factories, inspired a Middle American movement around one man.
Terrible Things Await Women Who Use Men's Razors, Says Gillette
Cosmo is shedding light on a terrible problem in our society: Ladies who use men's razors. A recent study by Venus found that 30% of women use razors made for beard-shaving, prompting the mag to write in an article encouraging ladies to use...
The New Obamacare
A silver lining in the current legislative stalemate surrounding Obamacare: Though two changes—Congress zeroing out the individual mandate and President Trump expanding other options through regulatory changes—both individuals and states now have...
Income Changes and Consumption: Evidence from the 2013 Federal Government Shutdown by Scott R. Baker, Constantine Yannelis :: SSRN
We use the 2013 federal government shutdown and a rich data set from an online personal finance website to study the effects of changes in income on changes in
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Robert VerBruggen
Stats Q: Did this paper slightly misinterpret its own results? Logged dependent variable, categorical independent variable -- you have to exponentiate the coefficients before interpreting in percentage terms right? poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?I… pic.twitter.com/HaAL57piqE
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We Need Stoicism More Than Ever: A Response to the New APA Guidelines
Recently, the American Psychological Association took aim at “traditional masculinity,” when they released their “first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys.” They summarize these as foll…