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With a title pulled from Immanuel Kant's famous statement that 'out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made', it's an amalgam of academic and political writing that has muscled its way into the epicentre of intelligent discussion since its conception in 2003. [Read More]
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Edward Snowden's Retail Psychoanalysts in the Media
As soon as the Edward Snowden story broke, retail psychoanalysts in the media began to psychologize the whistle-blower, finding in his actions a tangled pathology of motives. Luckily, there’s been a welcome push-back from other journalists and ...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
"The queer personality and floating mind": what did Keynes say to and about Roosevelt?
John Maynard Keynes met Franklin Roosevelt on Monday, May 28, 1934. Both afterward said polite things to Felix Frankfurter, who had urged the two to confer: Keynes described the conversation was “fascinating and illuminating,” while Roose...
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Auschwitz
Several years ago, I was at a conference in Krakow. The organizers put together a couple of excursions for the participants. One was to the Wieliczka Salt Mine and one was to Auschwitz. I was with my wife and daughter who was 6 at the time, so we wen...
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Rights of Labor < Tyranny of Capital
Remember that National Labor Relations Board regulation instructing employers to post notices in their workplaces informing workers of their right to organize under the law? I described this regulation last year: This is just a requirement that emplo...
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Urbanization in China
The NY Times has an interesting, but unsatisfactory, article, on government attempts to promote urbanization in China, with a target of 70 per cent by 2025. The story is mostly about farmers whose land has been acquired by fiat, which fits into well-...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Annals of anti-egalitarian hyperbole
Remember when Robert Nozick wrote in Anarchy State and Utopia that income taxation is akin to forced labour? Well it turns out that that is far far worse than that. Taxing the 1 per cent would be like the state forcibly ripping out their spare intern...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Follow the Turkish protests on Twitter
I know philosophers who are skeptical about the value of Twitter—they think it’s merely a time sink, or they make even more ridiculous claims, such as that it is undermining genuine social relations and friendships. Oh Boy. Right now it i...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Iraq 2003, looking back
British Tory MP and former diplomat Rory Stewart starts speaking about about 1h 30 minutes. Definitely worth a listen, particularly as we hear the usual suspects crank up enthusiasm for war again. — And (thanks to Chris Brooke) for those who wo...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
IAS Egalitarianisms
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton NJ will be inviting twenty visiting scholars to participate in a year-long program next year, and is particularly interested in applicants focusing on different forms of egalitarianism. What exactly is ...
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Friday, June 14, 2013
Clay Shirky guest-bleg: How do you describe bad economics reporting?
This is a guest-bleg, inspired by Quiggin’s Zombie Economics project. I teach in NYU’s Journalism department, where we have strong concentrations in both business and science reporting. I’m looking for some way to label and describe...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
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