Abandoned Footnotes

(A review of Randall Collins’ Interaction Ritual Chains , with speculative detours into the political theory of ritual) I have previous...

Here's a bit of interesting speculation I'd never heard before, from Peter Watson's " The Great Divide: History and Human N...

(Contains some work in progress, baroquely complex graphs to illustrate the obvious, rank speculation, and half-baked argument. It also cont...

I normally don’t write much about Chávez or Venezuelan politics here. I find it emotionally complicated for a variety of reasons; and at t...

It's the summer solstice here in Wellington, which always feels like the end of the year to me . The longest day should end the year, in...

(Quick graphical follow up to this post on malevolent democracies and benevolent autocracies ; part of this series , asymptotically approach...