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April 2014

   21 Women Who Kick Butt
   06 I Don’t Always Vote, But When I Do…
  
01 Don’t Get Fooled Again

March 2014

   29 Earth Hour Prayer  
   28 Norman Borlaug Saved a Billion Lives
   24 Left and Right Both Wrong on Poverty  
   21
Humanity Doomed, Says Chicken Little  
   20
Vaccine “Skeptics” Are Too Credulous
   17 Once Upon a Time in Quebec
    
13 David Friedman: His Reputation Precedes Him
12 Have You Given to Ford… Lately?
09 Reading, Fast and Slow
06 Bilingualism for Everyone!
03 You Got Your “Vision” in My Freedom
02 Dallas Buyers Club Is Outstanding

February 2014

   27 The Gold Medal for Freestyle Homophobia
   24 Arresting Mexican Drug Lords Is No Solution
   21 The Minimum Wage Hike Trolley Problem
   18 The Stimulus Debate and the Trouble with Counterfactuals
   17 Sitting in a Chair in the Sky

13 The Glass Bead Game as Meditation
06 But Who Would Build the Bullet Train Lines?
04 Machines vs. Jobs: This Time, It’s Personal
02 US Farm Bill Is 948 Pages Too Long

January 2014

   31 Trust Me, I’m a Blogger
   30 Who Really Cares
   29
State of the Individual
   27 Asset Forfeiture Comes to Canada
   22 Suzuki Retracts Off-the-Cuff Fear Mongering
   20 The Poverty of Minimum Wage Laws
   17 Varieties of Climate Skepticism

16 Is Doing What You Love a Bad Thing?
11 We Need More Basketball Diplomacy
10 “Promise Zones” All But Irrelevant
07 The Impressionists Battled Giants, and Won
06
Fear of “Agent Orange” Crops
03 Up with Pot, Down with Tobacco
02 Ration Your Resolve

December 2013

   23 Two Nights Before Christmas, 1913
   20 Eight Lives
   18 More Than Just a Film about a Wall
   16 Of Course Americans Are More Generous
   13 Global Cancer Scare
   12 The Passion of Barbara Branden
   11 US Proudly Loses $10.5 Billion Saving GM

10 Where’s My Calvin and Hobbes Merch?
06 A True Freedom Fighter
05 Overstating Male-Female Brain Differences
04 Price Fixers of the World, Unite!
03 Drawing a Line in the Sky
02 The Pleasure of Driving and the Pain of Traffic

November 2013

   28 Why Not Be Kind to Yourself?
   27 Montreal and Its Literature Celebrated in Song
   26 Romancing the (Kidney) Stone
   25 Rogue Dentist Guilty of Something or Other
   22 JFK: Deciding What to Believe
   21 Electronic Cigarettes and Regulatory Capture
   20 Intellectual Property Is Weird
   19 Quebec Will Not Toughen Language Laws, For Now
   18 China’s Long March to Reproductive Freedom
   14 A Symbolic 1,776 Feet

13 Can You Make a Pencil?
12 Wealthier Is Healthier
11 Remembrance Day 2038
08 Is the Pursuit of Happiness Antisocial?
07 The Future of Solar Power Is Bright
06 A Mayor, a Crack Pipe, and a Whole Lotta Booze
05 Ender’s Game and The Book of Mormon
04 New Montreal Mayor Has 13% Voter Support
01 Oh Happy Danes: Is It Really the Welfare Programs?

October 2013

   31 Scariest Halloween Costume: Fully Informed Juror
   30 The Counterintuitive Workings of Gravity in Orbit
   29 Us and Them and Our Biases
   28 Democracy or Freedom?
25 EU-Canada Trade Deal Is a Good Thing
24 Most Americans Now Support Legalizing Pot
23 Why You Should Stop Worrying and Read This Blog