171. John Mueller — The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency
The Michael Shermer Show
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Why Do People Wear Their Baseball Hats Backward?
From a social science perspective, what of the half dozen variables that came into play? You know, as pinker points out, you can't just say war declined because people got less warlike. There has to be exogenous forces at work. Well, steve and i have argued a bit about that, and some of that is in this book. A ii i a. He wants to find exogenous variables, oginus varils thinks it cause this, and i can't find them. N i don't want o find any other one, because i is really great.
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