Perhaps that is why I like the country so much: Ideally, Marianne Korkalainen’s high school in Rautavaara, a tiny town in eastern Finland, would enroll at least 20 new pupils each year. This autumn, her shrinking municipality will send her...
1. Ken Opalo on the Kenyan protests. 2. Cultural policy in the French elections. 3. An abundance agenda for California, by Samuel Trachtman. 4. The Welsh are committing to making lying in politics illegal? Solve for the equilibrium. 5. Paul...
Yes, I will be doing another Conversation with Nate, based in part on his new and forthcoming book On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything (I have just started it, but so far it is very good, dealing with...
Yves here. Your humble blogger has from time to time referred to the work of Jonathan Haidt, including on the effectiveness of protests (he says they work but often not directly or quickly) and more famously (or notoriously, depending on...
From Doggerels for Deplorables by D.M. Charette, with inspiration from Marginal Revolution. Hope III: Assortative MatingI hear how you proclaim the faultfor unequal shares in wealtharises from the greedinessrich enjoy at poor’s expense. But if you go through white papers...
Kidding, Not Kidding: The philosophy of wisecracks. The Chronicle of Higher Education (Anthony L) The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse YouTube (Micael T) Woman ‘in pain’ before death at slapping workshop BBC. Death by cult. Hurricane Beryl batters...
Yves here. As the Biden debate meltdown and what to do next have been monopolizing headlines, the Israeli genocide against Palestinians grinds on. And with it, the Houthi campaign against Israel’s shipping and its effects on seaborne commerce and supply...
Dear patient readers, Starting today and through next Monday, we will be on a light posting schedule. But we will have Links every day and at least two other articles, so you will not have to go on an information...
Frederick C. Beiser, The German Historicist Tradition. Lengthy and dense, but full of good material and written with extreme indeed almost unbelievable clarity. The historicists are these days the underdiscussed approach in the history of German thought. Have you ever...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” –Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of...
