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Scottie Barnes and Uncertainty

During the 2021 NBA Draft, the Raptors drafted Scottie Barnes 4th overall, their first draft pick this high since Andrea Bargnani in 2006…

Aug 1, 2021

Aug 1, 2021

Riley Haas

You Do Not Deserve Your Race

Pardon the clickbait headline. The actual title is “you do not deserve your ethnicity.” But How am I going to get Americans to read that?

Apr 26, 2021

Apr 26, 2021

Riley Haas

Zip.ca: In Remembrance

I don’t have any idea if I was one of the first Zip.ca customers, but I was certainly an early one. The company was founded in 2004 and I…

Apr 19, 2021

Apr 19, 2021

Riley Haas

It’s Status, Stupid

Note: I wrote this in January and then it set in my Drafts. So I’m publishing it now, with very few edits, in the hopes that it still…

Apr 14, 2021

Apr 14, 2021

Riley Haas

Pandemic Restrictions for Thee but Not for Me

We’re so close to being out of the woods. People are getting vaccinated and more and more governments are adopting “first doses first.”

Mar 23, 2021

Mar 23, 2021

Riley Haas

70 Million Americans Voted to Re-Elect a Con Man to the Presidency

In August of 2016, before his election to President, I wondered whether or not Donald Trump was the Greatest Con Man of All Time. (The…

Nov 16, 2020

Nov 16, 2020

Riley Haas

International Tax Compliance

The biggest problem the world faces should go without saying: climate change. Human behaviour is changing the climate to the extent that…

Sep 11, 2020

Sep 11, 2020

Riley Haas

Black Parents Deserve to Be Shot, Armed White Teens Deserve Due Process

It’s a story out of a bad Hollywood message movie:

Sep 9, 2020

Sep 9, 2020

Riley Haas

High Fees Don’t Mean High Value

Aka the Cult of Charging High Fees Just Because Others Do

Aug 28, 2020

Aug 28, 2020

Riley Haas

Essentialism: The Terrible Legacy of Western Philosophy

In 2017 I wrote a piece about the root of so-called “alternative facts.” I blamed the ability of people to accept alternative facts as…

Aug 25, 2020

Aug 25, 2020

Riley Haas

Riley Haas

I am the author of three books and working on a fourth. I am a liberal, an existentialist, an atheist, and anti-utopian.

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