Abandoned Footnotes

What does it mean for an institution to be associated with “tolerable” outcomes over a period of time? The question is more subtle than I th...

Noah Millmann and Jim Manzi over at The American Scene (and Karl Smith at Modeled Behavior ) have been debating the degree of deference...

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...

(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...

One epistemic argument for conservatism (or rather, gradualism) goes more or less like this. We have grave epistemic limitations that preven...

A couple of months ago, there was a very interesting debate between Jim Manzi and others on the question of whether social science knowledge...

Adrian Vermeule, Law and the Limits of Reason (2009). I read this book for somewhat hazy reasons; perhaps I found the title in a footnote...