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Crooked Timber
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made
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It’s not like you start eating fried grasshoppers or join a bondage club just because someone gives you a half-price coupon
Scott reluctantly capitulates to the e-reader revolution.
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Getting the microfoundations right – some comments and a bleg
I recently had the pleasure of attending the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology conference in Bochum, Germany . The highlight for me was attending a talk by Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute, Leipzig on pre-linguistic communication. Getting home, I ordered a copy of Tomasello’s Why We Cooperate in which he argues, on [...]
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Oh, and I forgot to mention …
Not only is Christian nationalist libertarianism a problematic philosophy, but old DC Romance comics have issues as well. From Heart Throbs: The Best of DC Romance Comics. Tragically out of print but I snagged an old copy cheap – ‘for Belle’ – as I like to say. (Damn, I wouldn’t buy the hardback at that [...]
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An Embarrassment of Riches
I was going to snark about a week-old Jonah Goldberg column. “I confess, if Beck wasn’t a libertarian, I would find his populism terrifying.” But I see Will Wilkinson already said it: “If Mr Beck’s libertarian streak, such as it is, is all that keeps his demos-whispering puppetmastery from reducing Mr Goldberg to a quivering [...]
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For it before I was against it
Last time I looked at a proposal to spend $50 billion on infrastructure to stimulate the economy, I thought it was a great idea. This time, I think it’s scarcely worth the bother. Why have I changed my mind? Last time was in February 2009, and the proposal was made by the Rudd government for [...]
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