Jason Manning
@bullfishhole.bsky.social
I read things and write about them. Also do archival research, even the odd survey. Crime, law, deviance, violence, morality, among other things.
What was crazy to me was reading other ethnographies of Samoa getting the picture of corporate kin groups led by firm patriarchs. Had that family structure ever been a recipe for young women being given libertine sexual freedom?
How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked.
The Sexual Paradise That Never Was
How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked.
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December 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
What was crazy to me was reading other ethnographies of Samoa getting the picture of corporate kin groups led by firm patriarchs. Had that family structure ever been a recipe for young women being given libertine sexual freedom?
The Explaining Behavior series is back! What makes pure sociology so pure? How does it explain law, partisanship, lynch mobs, science, and why most sociology is so goofy?
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Explaining Behavior 14: Pure Sociology
The geometry of law, partisanship, lynching, and science
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December 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The Explaining Behavior series is back! What makes pure sociology so pure? How does it explain law, partisanship, lynch mobs, science, and why most sociology is so goofy?
jasonmanning.substack.com/p/explaining...
jasonmanning.substack.com/p/explaining...
I write a Substack called Bullfish Hole. It’s mostly essays and links about conflict, history, and how people actually behave. If that’s your sort of thing.
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Bullfish Hole | Jason Manning | Substack
Sociology, science, history, and books. Click to read Bullfish Hole, by Jason Manning, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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December 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I write a Substack called Bullfish Hole. It’s mostly essays and links about conflict, history, and how people actually behave. If that’s your sort of thing.
jasonmanning.substack.com
jasonmanning.substack.com
“The number of known serial killers peaked in the United States in the 1980s (840) and has declined each decade since then”
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Links for November 2025
Social Control, Homicide, Genius, Witches, Squanto, Schools
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December 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“The number of known serial killers peaked in the United States in the 1980s (840) and has declined each decade since then”
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New monthly roundup -- Life of Squanto; Medical mistakes; lynching; how smart was von Neumann? Newton's weird ideas; was the Salem witch scare intentional fraud? Why is everything ugly? Why grade levels don't work
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Links for November 2025
Social Control, Homicide, Genius, Witches, Squanto, Schools
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November 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
New monthly roundup -- Life of Squanto; Medical mistakes; lynching; how smart was von Neumann? Newton's weird ideas; was the Salem witch scare intentional fraud? Why is everything ugly? Why grade levels don't work
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Covering Donald Black's pure sociology this week in my #sociologicaltheory courses. It's become more poignant for me since he passed.
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Remembering Donald Black
Some personal reflections
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November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Covering Donald Black's pure sociology this week in my #sociologicaltheory courses. It's become more poignant for me since he passed.
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Here I describe our homeschool preschool curriculum, in which we taught our young children to read, write, do arithmetic, and do over a kilometer on the rowing machines.
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Homeschooling Notes: Our Preschool Curriculum
Reading, Writing, Rithmetic and Rowing
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November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Here I describe our homeschool preschool curriculum, in which we taught our young children to read, write, do arithmetic, and do over a kilometer on the rowing machines.
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Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 43 physicians from two academic health systems, we find that assertive social control (e.g. public ridicule) is more likely to occur in a downward direction than in an upward direction
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Vertical Direction and the Social Control of Medical Mistakes
How doctors police mistakes among themselves varies. Physicians support, tolerate, avoid, ridicule, confront, report, and banish colleagues for errors. What explains this variation? An established ...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 43 physicians from two academic health systems, we find that assertive social control (e.g. public ridicule) is more likely to occur in a downward direction than in an upward direction
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
On the great feminization, Dutch Disease, spooky stuff, weird crime, and weird science. jasonmanning.substack.com/p/links-for-...
Links for October 2025
Spookiness, Feminization, Dutch Disease, Heists and Cons, Biology
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October 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
On the great feminization, Dutch Disease, spooky stuff, weird crime, and weird science. jasonmanning.substack.com/p/links-for-...
More than you wanted to know about witchcraft.
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Halloween Special: The Slubgub Epistles
A demon explains witchcraft
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October 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
More than you wanted to know about witchcraft.
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Being a homeschooler married to an Easterner, I often have occasion to reflect on how strange it is that I start my kids learning about “my” culture by talking about Hebrews in Egypt and Achaeans in Anatolia.
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Links for September, 2025
Current Things, Comics and Fantasy Books
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October 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Being a homeschooler married to an Easterner, I often have occasion to reflect on how strange it is that I start my kids learning about “my” culture by talking about Hebrews in Egypt and Achaeans in Anatolia.
jasonmanning.substack.com/p/links-for-...
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Tylenol was around for long decades before autism diagnoses spiked, so it is unlikely the association is causal. (Update 10/3: And it is likely not even a real correlation) But if not Tylenol or vaccines, what is causing the autism epidemic?
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Links for September, 2025
Current Things, Comics and Fantasy Books
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October 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Tylenol was around for long decades before autism diagnoses spiked, so it is unlikely the association is causal. (Update 10/3: And it is likely not even a real correlation) But if not Tylenol or vaccines, what is causing the autism epidemic?
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In this episode, I talk with strategist Martin Skold about great power competition, the German/British naval arms race, the US v. China, America's core competencies, the Triffin Dilemma, petrodollars, and more.
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Bullfish Hole Podcast 7: Skold on Strategy
Martin Skold on great power competition and the struggle for hegemony
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September 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In this episode, I talk with strategist Martin Skold about great power competition, the German/British naval arms race, the US v. China, America's core competencies, the Triffin Dilemma, petrodollars, and more.
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Inclusive killing: One BLA strike hit a black cop and his white partner. They'd become close friends serving together in Vietnam and requested to be partners on the NYPD. After they were dead, the BLA team kept pumping bullets into their groins while letting out war whoops.
September 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Inclusive killing: One BLA strike hit a black cop and his white partner. They'd become close friends serving together in Vietnam and requested to be partners on the NYPD. After they were dead, the BLA team kept pumping bullets into their groins while letting out war whoops.
"With the little ones, I like to emphasize that they’re new buds on a deeply rooted tree."
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Homeschooling Notes: More Folk Tales
Johnny Appleseed, Br'er Rabbit, Davy Crockett, and Sort-of Grendel
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September 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"With the little ones, I like to emphasize that they’re new buds on a deeply rooted tree."
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New books post! On numbers as a miracle of cultural evolution, how people counted before numbers, and why Alanis was right to thank India.
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Books: The Universal History of Numbers
From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer
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September 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New books post! On numbers as a miracle of cultural evolution, how people counted before numbers, and why Alanis was right to thank India.
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Never underestimate the likelihood that an assassin was a politically incoherent schizo. But since this sort of thing is on everyone's mind:
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September 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Never underestimate the likelihood that an assassin was a politically incoherent schizo. But since this sort of thing is on everyone's mind:
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Bullfish Hole Podcast 6: Real Fight Promotion
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Bullfish Hole Podcast 6: Real Fight Promotion
Watch now | Boxer Eric Watkins on the Business of Fighting
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September 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Bullfish Hole Podcast 6: Real Fight Promotion
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Bullfish Hole Podcast 6: Real Fight Promotion
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Bullfish Hole Podcast 6: Real Fight Promotion
Watch now | Boxer Eric Watkins on the Business of Fighting
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September 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Bullfish Hole Podcast 6: Real Fight Promotion
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New monthly roundup: Fertility and the future of the Amish, archaeology of prehistoric violence, book reviews and recommendations, maximum wage laws, criminals, sex, orcas, and drunk Richard Harris.
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Links for August 2025
Babies, books, bones, crime, wages, sex, orcas
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August 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
New monthly roundup: Fertility and the future of the Amish, archaeology of prehistoric violence, book reviews and recommendations, maximum wage laws, criminals, sex, orcas, and drunk Richard Harris.
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이 마스터 클래스에서는
14년간 유학생 진로를 연구하고 수백 명을 취업코칭한 큰물쌤이
미국 기업이 실제로 어떤 기준으로 신입을 뽑는지,
그리고 성공한 유학생들은 어떻게 그 기준에 맞게 전략을 세웠는지
구체적으로 알려드립니다.
www.schoolofbigfish.com/thebigwaters...
14년간 유학생 진로를 연구하고 수백 명을 취업코칭한 큰물쌤이
미국 기업이 실제로 어떤 기준으로 신입을 뽑는지,
그리고 성공한 유학생들은 어떻게 그 기준에 맞게 전략을 세웠는지
구체적으로 알려드립니다.
www.schoolofbigfish.com/thebigwaters...
더큰물 마스터 클래스 — DR. SONG'S SCHOOL OF BIG FISH
미국에서 취업하고 싶다면, 더는 ‘스펙 쌓기’나 ‘서류 뿌리기’에만 의존해선 안 됩니다. 이 마스터 클래스에서는 14년간 유학생 진로를 연구하고 수백 명을 취업코칭한 큰물쌤이 미국 기업이 실제로 어떤 기준으로 신입을 뽑는지, 그리고 성공한 유학생들은 어떻게 그 기준에 맞게 전략을 세웠는지 구체적으로 알려드립니다. 지원서, 이력서, 네트워킹, 인터뷰—그...
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August 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
이 마스터 클래스에서는
14년간 유학생 진로를 연구하고 수백 명을 취업코칭한 큰물쌤이
미국 기업이 실제로 어떤 기준으로 신입을 뽑는지,
그리고 성공한 유학생들은 어떻게 그 기준에 맞게 전략을 세웠는지
구체적으로 알려드립니다.
www.schoolofbigfish.com/thebigwaters...
14년간 유학생 진로를 연구하고 수백 명을 취업코칭한 큰물쌤이
미국 기업이 실제로 어떤 기준으로 신입을 뽑는지,
그리고 성공한 유학생들은 어떻게 그 기준에 맞게 전략을 세웠는지
구체적으로 알려드립니다.
www.schoolofbigfish.com/thebigwaters...
Also on Youtube: youtu.be/d8ghEM3KHY8?...
Bullfish Hole Podcast Ep.6: Real Fight Promotion
YouTube video by Jason Manning
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August 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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