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Lyman Stone

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Oct 22, 2024

About Simone and Malcolm Collins’ Smear Campaign Against Me

If you’re interested at all in pronatalism, you’re familiar with Simone and Malcolm Collins, the pronatal Silicon Valley…

About Simone and Malcolm Collins’ Smear Campaign Against Me

Lyman Stone

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May 31, 2024

Effective Altruism Is Still Bad

Scott Alexander (who blocks me on Twitter?) has responded to my prior post on effective altruism. So has Bentham’s Bulldog. I will here…

Effective Altruism Is Still Bad

Lyman Stone

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May 28, 2024

Why Effective Altruism Is Bad

I have recently found myself enjoying a young man online walking backwards into Calvinist Universalism by gradually conceiving of God as an…

Why Effective Altruism Is Bad

Lyman Stone

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Apr 10, 2024

Fertility and Income: Some Notes

UPDATE: Forgot a section! Added now!

Fertility and Income: Some Notes

Lyman Stone

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Dec 13, 2023

How Many Hobbits? 3,000 Years of Middle Earth Population History

This is the third post in my series on the demography of Middle Earth. The first piece introduced some methods for estimating the…

How Many Hobbits? 3,000 Years of Middle Earth Population History

Lyman Stone

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Dec 5, 2023

How Many Hobbits? Middle Earth Population by People Group

In my prior post, I laid out some population estimates for Middle Earth’s Free Peoples by region. Here, I’m going to break it down by…

How Many Hobbits? Middle Earth Population by People Group

Lyman Stone

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Dec 5, 2023

How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth

Part 2 of this essay on Middle Earth population, mapping specific populations, is here.

How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth

Lyman Stone

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Dec 4, 2023

Would the True Christians Please Stand Up? A Review of “Cultural Christians in the Early Church”

I have just finished Nadya Williams’ “Cultural Christians in the Early Church.” The book is a delightful and thought-provoking romp through…

Would the True Christians Please Stand Up? A Review of “Cultural Christians in the Early Church”

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Lyman Stone

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Oct 27, 2023

Who Has Claim? 3,000 Years of Religion in the Land Between

Israel and Gaza are at it again in a war. This post is not about that war. This post does not answer what rules for use of force Israel…

Who Has Claim? 3,000 Years of Religion in the Land Between

Lyman Stone

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Sep 18, 2023

Babies vs. Baptisms

The discussion about singleness and the church continues. I’ve mostly said my piece on the singleness question, but this piece at…

Babies vs. Baptisms

Lyman Stone

Lyman Stone

Global cotton economist. Migration blogger. Proud Kentuckian. Advisor at Demographic Intelligence. Senior Contributor at The Federalist.

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