Abandoned Footnotes

Rereading the   long post below , it occurred to me that I didn’t mention why the argument I describe there should be called a “resilience” ...

(Fourth in the series promised here . Usual disclaimers apply: this is work in progress and so it is still a bit muddled, though comments ar...

There was a recent paper in the news by Michael Norton and Dan Ariely arguing that Americans substantially underestimate the degree of inco...

Justin Smith has recently written a very interesting series of posts on anarchism as a certain kind of political and moral sensibility (rat...

Preparing for the "policy forum" about Wilkinson and Pickett's "The Spirit Level" I mentioned here , I found Deinige...

A fascinating bit from The Art of Not Being Governed that I never got around to blogging when I first read it: In general, roots and tubers...

(Another one in the series promised here ; I’m writing a paper. This is still somewhat muddled, so read at your own risk, though comments ar...

The NY Times has a really  nice piece on the conflict between the San Bushmen and the Botswanan state that illustrates pretty well some of ...

In his classic Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Albert Hirshmann suggested that “voice” and “exit” are the two basic responses to organizational pr...

I should find this book more appealing. I mean, I am receptive to its basic thesis: that high inequality is bad for a society. I find it pl...

Like many other people, when reading the political blogosphere I am often struck by the prevalence of expressions of contempt . It is not si...

R. John Parkes , a researcher at the University of Cardiff, Wales, studies microbes found in core samples collected by the  Ocean Drilling P...

The pot is a god. The winnowing  fan is a god. The stone in the  street is a god. The comb is a  god. The bowstring is also a  god. The bush...

(Warning: 2000 words or so on the place of “hills” and “valleys” in Greek political thought). As I mentioned in a previous post , reading S...