GiveDirectly Gives Poor Kenyan Families $1000

Via Business Insider: Paul Niehaus, Michael Faye, Rohit Wanchoo, and Jeremy Shapiro came up with a radically simple plan shaped by their own academic research. They would give poor families in rural Kenya $1,000 over the course of 10 months, and let them do whatever...

GiveDirectly Gives Poor Kenyan Families $1000

Via Business Insider: Paul Niehaus, Michael Faye, Rohit Wanchoo, and Jeremy Shapiro came up with a radically simple plan shaped by their own academic research. They would give poor families in rural Kenya $1,000 over the course of 10 months, and let them do whatever...

The Folly of Scientism

Via Arts & Letters Daily and The New Atlantis: The temptation to overreach, however, seems increasingly indulged today in discussions about science. Both in the work of professional philosophers and in popular writings by natural scientists, it is frequently...

The Folly of Scientism

Via Arts & Letters Daily and The New Atlantis: The temptation to overreach, however, seems increasingly indulged today in discussions about science. Both in the work of professional philosophers and in popular writings by natural scientists, it is frequently...