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December 2015

  1. Happy Almost New Year, Timberteers
  2. Silver Machine
  3. Monday photoblogging: Anfield taxi
  4. This Muslim American Life: An Interview with Moustafa Bayoumi
  5. A Christmas post from 2004
  6. Merry Christmas!
  7. A placeholder for Piketty
  8. Piketty and the Australian exception
  9. Sunday photoblogging: cinema in Pirenópolis, Brazil
  10. Do we need a global tax to stop rising inequality?
  11. Which inequalities matter and which taxes are appropriate?
  12. Piketty, Meade and Predistribution
  13. Get your students to know each other and make them write for each other
  14. Safe Harbor and the NSA
  15. Resurgence of Capital or rise of the Working Rich? On Piketty’s Capital in the 21st century
  16. Piketty, in three parts
  17. It’s bargaining power all the way down
  18. No Hiding Place
  19. Climate change and the culture wars
  20. Education and Equality in the 21st Century
  21. Benedict Anderson, 1936-2015
  22. Benedict Anderson has died
  23. Sunday photoblogging: Braunton Road, morning sun
  24. Where are the power relations in Piketty’s Capital?
  25. A Critique of Piketty on the Normative Force of Wealth Inequality
  26. Piketty, Rousseau and the desire for inequality
  27. Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
  28. A New Agenda for the Social Sciences
  29. The Politics behind Piketty
  30. A History of Semi-Popular Philosophy of Mind (No, not a semi-popular history of philosophy of mind)
  31. Sunday photoblogging: Windmill Hill, Bristol
  32. Erik Olin Wright on how to be an anti-capitalist
  33. Catholic university declares First Amendment right to be not Catholic
  34. As all sensible media commentators predicted, the Labour Party is devastated in the first electoral contest under new left-wing leader who shares John Cleese’s initials.
  35. Book review – “My Turn” by Doug Henwood
  36. John Baron and Matthew Parris on British airstrikes
  37. Secular stagnation and technology

November 2015

  1. New(ish) Crime Writers, part 3.
  2. Secular stagnation and the financial sector (updated)
  3. Sunday photoblogging: Istanbul – Medusa Head in the Basilica Cistern
  4. The Singing Bones
  5. Happy Thanksgiving
  6. Doug North has died
  7. New(ish) Crime Writers, part 2
  8. When Universities Really Do Destroy the Past…
  9. Reappraisals (repost from 2011)
  10. Sunday photoblogging: Steps in Ortygia, Sicily
  11. What We Owe the Students at Princeton
  12. Should the atrocities in Paris affect our response to the refugee crisis?
  13. Private infrastructure finance and secular stagnation
  14. Nothing learned, nothing forgotten
  15. The Stuff Nietzsche Said
  16. Frazetta Auction – and French Academic Art
  17. Sunday photoblogging: Paris
  18. Mourn not just for Paris, but for the World
  19. Paris
  20. Time to take the “con” out of reformicon ?
  21. Steven Salaita and UIUC Reach Settlement
  22. What In God’s Name is the Head of PEN Talking About?
  23. Beware the commissars of political correctness!
  24. Armistice Day
  25. George Will’s Serious Historical Credentials
  26. Poppy Love
  27. Are recessions abnormal ?
  28. Sunday photoblogging: Bristol – The Floating Harbour
  29. Hungry Blog
  30. Extra-Judicial Arbitration
  31. John and Belle Used to Have a Blog
  32. Sunday photoblogging: fountain at Colmar

October 2015

  1. I Died When He Proposed ‘Tapping Dat EZ-Link Card’
  2. When We Betray Our Students
  3. No New Coal Mines
  4. Labour Lords Resign the Whip
  5. Sunday photoblogging: another boat at Gruissan
  6. Nietzsche On Migration and Immigration
  7. Sheldon Wolin, 1922-2015
  8. Richard Cohen on Tipping: To Ensure Proper Servitude
  9. Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
  10. Cultural anxieties about migration
  11. I Owe My Soul To The Company Store – And A Good Thing, Too!
  12. Locke’s Road to Serfdom
  13. Sunday photoblogging: beach huts, Quiberville-Plage
  14. Mill As Science Fiction Author
  15. Populism and Patrimonialism
  16. How Harvard Fights Unions: By Conceding the Union’s Most Basic Claims
  17. You’ve Changed, You’re Not the Angel I Once Knew: David Brooks on the GOP
  18. Publics That Don’t Exist and the Intellectuals Who Write For Them
  19. TANSTAAFL: What about “free” TV, radio and Internet content?
  20. Sunday photoblogging: Clifton house reflections
  21. When Conservatives Cite Lincoln: From Dred Scott to Obergefell
  22. Duly Noted
  23. Like It or Not, Talking Statues of Chicago Leave Little to the Imagination
  24. The one-way ratchet of the TPP
  25. Bitcoin, a waste of energy
  26. To Glorify His Majesty, King Squirrel I
  27. Would a significant increase in the top income tax rate substantially alter income inequality?
  28. Sunday photoblogging: boat at Gruissan
  29. I know the unknown, and the unknown knows me
  30. My comprehensive plan for US policy on the Middle East
  31. Brian Friel has died
  32. Clusterfuck of Corruption at NYT Book Review (Updated)

September 2015

  1. Alternative MacArthurs
  2. Trenchant Music Criticism
  3. Conservatism!
  4. Lynsey Addario’s autobiography, recommended
  5. The migration industry
  6. Sunday photoblogging: Boulangerie-Patisserie
  7. Income redistribution: Where should we start ?
  8. Conspiracy Theory
  9. A migration veil of ignorance
  10. The last Trump …
  11. Help Me Decide Which of These to Get For Rod Dreher
  12. When a Policeman Asks you For a Correct Philosophy of Time, You Give It
  13. Sunday photoblogging: fountain
  14. Rugby World Cup Open Thread
  15. Why Corbyn won, the Peter Mair explanation
  16. Spadocide and the future of Labour
  17. Sunday photoblogging: Downs League football
  18. One-Star Yelp Reviews By Five-Star Generals
  19. On the Other 9/11: Kissinger, Pinochet, Obama
  20. Teaching’s not exactly brain surgery, is it?
  21. George Scialabba is retiring from Harvard
  22. Two Songs Enter!
  23. What Means That Trump?
  24. Economics in Two Lessons: Income distribution
  25. Horror
  26. Writing numbers on refugees’ arms, are you f’ing kidding me?
  27. The great replication crisis

August 2015

  1. Fuck Nuance
  2. Conan
  3. Duke, Berkeley, Columbia, Oh My: What our students are trying to tell us
  4. Impressions from the first IPSP authors meeting
  5. NPCs: What Are They, Even?
  6. Why price control doesn’t usually work
  7. Trump and populism
  8. Sunday photoblogging: Brasserie Excelsior, Nancy, France
  9. War and Technological Progress
  10. Ta-Nehisi Coates: Three Not-So-Easy Pieces
  11. Best Sexism Analogy Ever
  12. Can ESPN please bring Women’s Cricket back?
  13. The opportunity cost of war (slightly updated)
  14. Harry Potter Moe
  15. Family Values Fascism: From Vichy to Donald Trump
  16. Sunday photoblogging: pinhole self-portrait
  17. Are natural disasters economic disasters ?
  18. Chancellor Wise Throws Down the Gauntlet; Consults with Attorneys to Consider Her Legal “Options” against UIUC
  19. Up and down, left and right
  20. The Political Classroom
  21. Open(ish) Thread on Labour Leadership Election
  22. Academic Freedom at UIUC: Freedom to Pursue Viewpoints and Positions That Reflect the Values of the State
  23. Nietzsche, Swiss Thinker
  24. Sunday photoblogging: Balloon over Bristol
  25. Learning by Doing
  26. Chancellor Wise Forced to Release Emails From Private Account
  27. On the One-Year Anniversary of the Steven Salaita Story, Some Good News
  28. Britain’s new government (2)
  29. The generation game and the 1 per cent
  30. The Senate (not that one) blocks the TPP
  31. Quotes About Nietzsche: A Commonplace Book For All And No One (Including Ladies!)
  32. Capitalism Can’t Remember Where I Left My Keys
  33. Sunday photoblogging: Rome, Sant’Andrea della Valle

July 2015

  1. Adam Smith in action
  2. Demography and irreligion
  3. David Frum on the crisis in the mediterranean
  4. Hey, Kids – Colors!
  5. Nietzsche Wins The Internet in 1886
  6. One of our Twitter accounts is missing
  7. Sunday photoblogging: Hekla, Iceland
  8. On the New York Intellectuals
  9. “Utilitarianism, with the potentially left-wing bits stripped out”
  10. Beyond Galilee
  11. The Curse of a Post-Storage-Scarcity Mental Economy
  12. A Brief Theory of Very Serious People
  13. Hurdy-Gurdy Facts and Fictions?
  14. Monday photoblogging: Boat at Solva
  15. Competitive equilibrium (excerpt from Economics in Two Lessons)
  16. Where is this going, someone tell me?
  17. New(ish) Crime Writers, part 1.
  18. It’s official.
  19. After Melos
  20. Hedgehogs
  21. Bluffed
  22. Sunday photoblogging – Strasbourg: Ponts Couverts
  23. The Overton Straitjacket? (The Santorum Interpolation? The Huckabee Propinquity?)
  24. Travel blogging: Zürichberg
  25. TISATAAFL
  26. The Genealogy of Trolling
  27. Why Greek debt is a problem
  28. Polygamy and Polyamory
  29. Derp: An irregular verb
  30. Orientalism at the Font
  31. Greece, decision theory, and the sure-thing principle
  32. Radio Silence
  33. Sunday photoblogging: near Nant Peris, Snowdonia
  34. Locke and the Declaration
  35. Syriza has hardly covered itself in glory either
  36. The IMF: An inexcusable, incorrigible failure
  37. What’s left of the European Union?
  38. Nicholas Winton is dead

June 2015

  1. Happiness and unhappiness
  2. From Whitney Houston to Obergefell: Clarence Thomas on Human Dignity
  3. Sunday photoblogging: Clifton suspension bridge
  4. Danielle Allen seminar
  5. Problems of Consensus: Responses to Goldman, Farrell, Wilson, Beltran and Miller
  6. Response to Gerken, Winant and Lebron
  7. An optimistic view on climate change
  8. Historical court ruling on CO2-reductions in the Netherlands
  9. What Is To Be Done?
  10. Slow Reading as a Practice of Reckoning with Love and Loss
  11. The Declaration of Independence isn’t egalitarian enough
  12. Thoughts on Charleston
  13. Sunday photoblogging: Dalmatian, Chipping Campden
  14. The Declaration as Patrimony
  15. You might have to believe in God to take the Declaration of Independence seriously
  16. To Carry the Past Around with You
  17. Reading Our Declaration in Support of Black Radicalism
  18. To help poor people, give them money (Draft excerpt from Economics in Two Lessons)
  19. Justice for Janitors Day
  20. The craft of interpreting the Declaration of Independence
  21. Sunday photoblogging: Liverpool, pier head
  22. The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
  23. Yeats’ birthday
  24. Why TPP sucks
  25. Economics in Two Lessons (draft excerpt)
  26. Big Oil changes sides in the War on Coal
  27. Hannah Arendt and Philip Roth: Parallel Lives
  28. Professors do far less teaching than the public imagines
  29. Hiding in Plain Sight (I)
  30. How Corporations Control Politics
  31. Sunday photoblogging: dusk
  32. Tomm Moore and Harry Clarke
  33. Hand-drawn!
  34. The Counter-Enlightenment as Gotcha!
  35. The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice

May 2015

  1. Sunday photoblogging: pulleys and davits (in Trieste)
  2. David Runciman writes something goofy about US vs. British Politics
  3. LIBOR for the universities?
  4. Opportunity cost: a Fabian idea?
  5. A Paris memoir from 1978
  6. Fight Racism. Confirm Clarence Thomas. (Updated)
  7. Cotten-Picking, Rootin’ Tootin’, Sassafrassing…Guitar Hero
  8. Sunday photoblogging: Florence scooters
  9. Irritable Gestures
  10. Draft Preface: Economics in Two Lessons
  11. Sharing information on student protests
  12. Where are the women in the history of open source?
  13. Not changing minds on TPP
  14. Ken MacLeod seminar
  15. Response
  16. The most misleading definition in economics (draft excerpt from Economics in Two Lessons)
  17. Blues Legend B.B. King Dies at 89
  18. The political is personal
  19. Sunday photoblogging: Pantheon
  20. Is the UK benefits system a CDO?
  21. Economics in Two Lessons
  22. Panel on Education in the Digital Age
  23. Rationalism and the True Knowledge
  24. But what does it mean for Ireland?
  25. Helical Construction in the Work of Ken MacLeod
  26. Harry Ree on Resisting (Updated so that the audio is actually downloadable!)
  27. Games, simulation, difference and insignificance in The Restoration Game & The Human Front
  28. Arendt, Israel, and Why Jews Have So Many Rules
  29. Viv Stanshall Day
  30. The last gasp of (US) neoliberalism
  31. Britain’s new government
  32. Peter Gay Has Died
  33. “The free development of each is the condition of the war of all against all”: Some Paths to the True Knowledge
  34. And This, Too, Is a Romance
  35. Rush Limbaugh and bedtime stories: definitely not the worst thing that happened last week.
  36. Why doesn’t the Labour Party divorce into a Scottish Socialist Party and English/Welsh Labour Party?
  37. Through the looking glass
  38. Politics and the English Landscape
  39. Sunday photoblogging: Hotwells and Cliftonwood
  40. Who came second in the UK election?
  41. The National Socialists as Conservative Revolutionaries
  42. UK election open thread.
  43. Why doesn’t Science publish important methods info prominently?
  44. Listen to This Killer Song
  45. Who Will Take Care of the Gravy Boat?
  46. Ken MacLeod Seminar
  47. Swift on Family Values
  48. David “Robin Hood” Brooks
  49. In What Sense Were The Nazis Socialists?
  50. Frederick Douglass in Baltimore
  51. Sunday photoblogging: Trieste
  52. Were The Nazis Right-Wing? – or – Weimar Culture: The Insider As Outsider
  53. When You Can’t Avoid Knowing Grandpa Was a Nazi
  54. UK Election Questions

April 2015

  1. Is Cosmopolitan Communitarianism still Possible? Was it ever?
  2. No Justice For Rekia Boyd, Either
  3. Real liberals fight fascism
  4. When George Packer gets bored, I get scared: It means he’s in the mood for war
  5. Sunday photoblogging: Puces de Vanves
  6. “That Notoriously Picky Publication”
  7. The World Is Squared: Episode 7 – Across the Pacific Islands
  8. Columbia University Bans Workers From Speaking Spanish
  9. Music Everywhere
  10. Krautmas came two weeks early this year
  11. Entitlements and expropriation
  12. Migrant deaths: who is responsible?
  13. Least Trumps
  14. Expectations and opportunities for Philosophy PhD students
  15. Sunday photoblogging: sculls in the Floating Harbour
  16. What Did Pippin Tell Denethor?
  17. Locke’s Theory of Just Expropriation and Kelo v. City of New London
  18. The Pace Picante Sauce Defense
  19. Whosoever Diggeth a Pit Shall Fall in It
  20. Sunday photoblogging: rent protest!
  21. Codes of conduct and the trade-offs of copyleft
  22. Ritchie Benaud is dead
  23. National-weighted consequentialism?
  24. Rank Delusions
  25. An Official Language from a Foreign Land
  26. Religious liberty and the Romance of Orthodoxy
  27. The inevitability of red tape
  28. Paul Campos probably does not know the real reason for tuition increases.
  29. G(o)rrrr
  30. Ow, a bee stung me!
  31. Sunday photoblogging: Enna, Sicily
  32. Sucky Hugos
  33. Passover goes geeky
  34. Thanking the folks who are reaching out #WAAD
  35. New app to bring “market-driven convenience and efficiency” into your bedroom

March 2015

  1. Migraines…and Music?
  2. Do the Jews Really Not Belong in the United States?
  3. Sunday photoblogging: Bristol, the bendy bridge
  4. It would explain a lot
  5. John Renbourn is dead
  6. I shall abhor you
  7. Why is so much of the discussion of higher ed driven by elite institutions?
  8. John Sladek Had Ted Cruz’s Number
  9. World Cup Open Thread
  10. Non-gory cases (in philosophy of education)
  11. Sunday photoblogging: Adriatic
  12. The World Is Squared: Episode 6 – Midsummer in Midwinter
  13. Some Responses to the Israeli Election
  14. What’s in an adverb? Difficulty dating the end of the US gold standard
  15. Happy St. Patrick’s Day
  16. Sunday photoblogging:
  17. Ancien Régime Turkophile Destroyed By Magnetizers?
  18. The US government didn’t lose the War on Poverty: it changed sides
  19. Political philosophy now illegal in the UK
  20. Terry Pratchett has died
  21. A hypothesis about “ideal theory” and justice
  22. Roosevelt’s money policy, 1933-1934
  23. Who is Aleksandr Dugin?
  24. Because good people doing bad things does not happen only in sepia
  25. Weirdies
  26. The Lives They Lived, The Lives They Touched
  27. Car(te) Blanche
  28. My Debut Column at Salon: On racism, privilege talk, and schools
  29. Sunday photoblogging: Florence, La Specola
  30. You Feel No Pain
  31. Travel bleg: Southern Germany & Northern Austria
  32. French Existentialism and the Theatre of the Absurd
  33. Guest blogger: Juliet Sorensen
  34. A pig in a poke
  35. Sunday photoblogging: Baltimore, Cork.

February 2015

  1. Awakening to Cultural Studies
  2. Anti-anti-anti-science
  3. How to keep your dignity at bonus time
  4. What Do Hannah Arendt and Mel Brooks Have in Common?
  5. Noted With Surprisingly Little Comment
  6. Maagdenhuis Occupation
  7. Who blinked?
  8. Is teaching undergraduates central to the mission…?
  9. Sunday photoblogging: Liverpool bus
  10. The Dread Pirate Roberts as Statebuilder
  11. Human Rights, Blah Blah Blah
  12. Reciprocity vs. Baseline Communism
  13. Another Guantanamo conviction overturned
  14. We won! UMass Backs Down!
  15. Law, property, society and the state government (some naive thoughts and questions)
  16. The Real Mad Men of History
  17. Sunday photoblogging: unicorn
  18. Male Nerds and Feminism
  19. State Department Expresses Surprise Over UMass Policy
  20. U. Mass. Will No Longer Admit Iranian Students to Graduate Schools of Engineering and Natural Sciences (Updated) (Again)
  21. After strange day the Wisconsin Idea survives.
  22. Safe Space For Possibly Unpopular Thoughts on Feminism, Leftism
  23. When Conservatives Didn’t Get Tough on Crime: National Review on the Eichmann Trial (Updated)
  24. The landslide winner’s curse?
  25. Response to Freddie deBoer, Just Like I Done Promised, Ye of Little Faith
  26. Reason to be cheerful
  27. It could have been worse, John. A lot worse.
  28. Democratic Attitudes Towards Jim Crow In 1944? A Cartoon View
  29. Sunday photoblogging: Southville reflections
  30. Has vaccination become a partisan issue?
  31. HR Tips from Roman slave owners
  32. In advance of tonight’s opening game, the annual Six Nations open thread!
  33. The Epic Bureaucrat
  34. California Vaccination Exemptions by Type of School
  35. Semper ubi sub ubi
  36. Asset sales and interest rates (wonkish)
  37. Greece – surplus, stimulus & strategy
  38. This one goes to 0
  39. I Aten’t Ignoring You
  40. Belle-ing the Chait
  41. A Tale of Two Snowballs
  42. Sunday photoblogging: Rue de Vaugirard
  43. Queensland election

January 2015

  1. Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Trollbird
  2. Master Teachers?
  3. Vaccination Exemptions in California Kindergartens
  4. But Wait…There’s More!
  5. it’s a small world
  6. Jonathan Chait: Political Correctness Gone Mad OMG I’m Scared
  7. The Corrupted
  8. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day
  9. Opinions May Vary
  10. Crying Babies
  11. A one-horse troika
  12. Greek games and scenarios
  13. Sunday photoblogging: bike
  14. My Fair Lady: A Series of Text Messages
  15. The Peripheral
  16. Daumier Does Socrates, Robo Hates Dr. D.
  17. Why do some students become philosophy majors: questions sought.
  18. Daumier Does Edward Gorey
  19. Travel photo blogging: MLK Memorial in DC
  20. Manspreading In 19th Century Paris
  21. The Race Card, circa 1871
  22. Sunday photoblogging: Alex sitting at the piano
  23. It’s like they had a camera in our apartment
  24. Collective Intelligence 2015
  25. Seeing the Monkees
  26. Predictions for 2015
  27. The Touchy Irving Howe
  28. Breaking news: world leaders gathering in Baga, Nigeria
  29. The World Is Squared Part 5 – Balinese Interlude
  30. The Internationalism of the American Civil War
  31. Sunday photoblogging: Birdcage Walk
  32. Some social science links of interest
  33. Happy New Year, Crooked Timber!
  34. Charlie Hebdo
  35. Social democrats in the twin-peaked world
  36. 31 days of garlic
  37. Sunday photoblogging: 19th arrondissement
  38. Best political philosophy/theory papers, a decade later
  39. Untimorous Beastie
  40. Happy New Year!

2014 417

December 2014

  1. Consequentialist arguments for deontological claims
  2. Even the liberal New Republic…
  3. Sunday photoblogging: North View houses
  4. Happy Christmas, Timberteers!
  5. A Christmas story
  6. Sandy Hook and Peshawar
  7. A Weimar-y Vibe (Updated)
  8. Sunday photoblogging: Natural History Museum, London
  9. Concluding Serial ; or, Koenig v. Ranke
  10. My God! It’s Full of Arse!
  11. Research Excellence Framework… the denouement
  12. Cars in Cuba
  13. Three words that make me stop reading your article, blogpost, comment, etc
  14. Teaching Marx to newbies, redux
  15. The Young Philosopher: Caption This!
  16. Sunday photoblogging: old boat in Reykjavik harbour
  17. Three Thoughts on BDS and Liberal Zionism
  18. Detention, torture and standards of legitimacy
  19. The socialisation of economists
  20. Cheney and Manning: A Modest Proposal (Repost)
  21. Sunday photoblogging: high noon in Solva
  22. So, All The Cups Got Broke, You Guys.
  23. Saskia Sassen…Willem Sassen…Adolf Eichmann
  24. The real problem with The New Republic
  25. More News on the Steven Salaita Case
  26. Wonder Woman
  27. Economists aren’t ‘superior’ just because
  28. Fly Air Gini
  29. Family Values

November 2014

  1. Sunday photoblogging: Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney concert hall, Los Angeles
  2. Speaking Truthahn to Power – or – How The Vikings Discovered Thanksgiving!
  3. PD James has died
  4. PR to PM, not much of a stretch
  5. Ferguson
  6. Sunday photoblogging: Oslo opera house
  7. Scabs, Scantrons, and Strikes at the University of Oregon
  8. Love Come Down
  9. Why is comedy more painful than tragedy?
  10. The World Is Squared: Episode 4 – In Hot Places
  11. Sunday photoblogging: Clifton steps
  12. Darkness Visible: The Depression of George Scialabba
  13. Jerks will be jerks
  14. Oranges and lemons – fairness intuitions and “best execution”
  15. David Ricardo: Machiavelli of the Margin
  16. Confessional Brezhnevism and Brian Farrell
  17. Planet saved … in Brisbane!
  18. Lud-in-the-Mist
  19. Adventures in Sexual Implicature
  20. Remembrance Day
  21. Multicultural, Intersectional, It’s not Your Daddy’s KKK
  22. Thoughts on Migration, Immigration, and Exile on the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
  23. Sunday photo(re)blogging: the Wall then, and borders now
  24. Inequality, migration and economists
  25. Learning Japanese; I Really Think So
  26. Do philosophers dream of saving electric cats?
  27. What Do You Tell Your Children About The Internet?
  28. Sunday photoblogging: Under the L

October 2014

  1. Brands of Nonsense
  2. Big Brother’s Liberal Friends
  3. Farewell to all that
  4. Grossman’s Life and Fate
  5. Sunday photoblogging: Saguaro cactus
  6. Dayenu in Reverse: The Passover Canon of Arendt’s Critics
  7. Three things the US has (just about) seen the last of
  8. Great bad writing
  9. The Tomb of the Unknown Deserter
  10. Ride a Painted Pony, Bounce, Skate, Rock, Roll
  11. David Brooks, Edmund Burke, and Me
  12. Gough Whitlam has died
  13. Adolph Eichmann, Funny Man
  14. Two Great Parties
  15. Sunday photoblogging: houses
  16. Of Collaborators and Careerists
  17. Gobrey, Smith, Hume
  18. There’s got to be a better way to prepare for class
  19. r > g
  20. Sunday photoblogging: reflection
  21. The World Is Squared – Episode 3: The Greek Calends
  22. Legal reasoning
  23. Because what the hell were we thinking all that time, that’s why!
  24. Yesterday’s enemies, today’s allies … and tomorrow ?
  25. My dear Mr. Quiggan …
  26. Sunday photoblogging: the Old Blind School, Liverpool
  27. Kirby Copyright Case
  28. The Arendt Wars Continue: Seyla Benhabib v. Richard Wolin
  29. The Law, in its Majesty, Allows Rich and Poor Alike to Keep Their Private Jets While Waiting to Declare Bankruptcy
  30. Ebola; send in the army!
  31. Render unto Caesar
  32. Why I’m always on the internet…
  33. Medicaid Expansion Lets Convicts Rob the Elderly and Vulnerable of Health Care
  34. The Personhood Dodge

September 2014

  1. Sunday photoblogging: Boat, Bristol floating harbour
  2. Occupy Central: Civil disobedience in Hong Kong
  3. Copyrights and Property Wrongs
  4. Why Tony Atkinson should get the Nobel Prize in Economics (but perhaps not alone)
  5. Thinking about Hannah Arendt and Adolph Eichmann on Erev Rosh Hashanah
  6. Milgram and Kitty Genovese
  7. If she weighs the same as a duck … she’s made of wood … and therefore
  8. From derp to denial
  9. Every single IT guy, every single manager …
  10. You have got to see this
  11. Thomas Piketty has power that heterodox economists never had
  12. Workplace Freedom: A Primer for Alan Dershowitz
  13. Jim Henley needs your help
  14. Expand your perspective
  15. Sunday Photoblogging: On The Water
  16. Sunday photoblogging: garlic
  17. Scottish Voter Turnout
  18. Scotland Referendum Open Thread.
  19. The Infinite Leisure Theory of Chattel Slavery
  20. The Freedom of the University
  21. Night Will Fall and German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
  22. Eine Bundesrepublik Britannien?
  23. Krautmas only comes once a year …
  24. Perhaps difficult to read, but do enjoy the cover!
  25. The World Is Squared – Episode 2: Days on the Roof of Europe
  26. Monochrome swans
  27. Sunday photoblogging: Pembrokeshire bull
  28. Finally, a solution to the problem of political correctness – political correctification of names!
  29. Scotland
  30. Musical Purity and Odd Histories
  31. Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
  32. Rawls, Bentham and the Laffer Curve
  33. Sunday photoblogging: Uppsala – window, shadow
  34. UI Trustee Breaks Ranks! Chancellor Distances Herself from the Decision! We Have an Opening!
  35. Not to Mention, I Respect You With My Art
  36. How to survive the Internet Governance Forum in Istanbul and why bother?
  37. Universities are highly responsive to very rich people
  38. Reading the Salaita Papers (updated, with more and better email addresses for trustees)
  39. Breaking News! Wise to Forward Salaita Appointment to Trustees! Updated
  40. Salaita By the Numbers: 5 Cancelled Lectures, 3 Votes of No Confidence, 3849 Boycotters, and 1 NYT Article (Updated Thrice)

August 2014

  1. Sunday Photoblogging: The Last Day of Summer
  2. The peculiar status of PhD-employees
  3. Hoover channels LaRouche
  4. Sunday photoblogging: Liverpool, St Luke’s Church steps
  5. American Exceptionalism – A Double-Edged Word
  6. Rescuing the miners and the babies
  7. The “Other Operation” (crossposted at my blog)
  8. The World Is Squared: Episode 1 – “Switzerland, Country of Joyce”
  9. Follow the Money at the University of Illinois
  10. Sunday photoblogging: Bristol, the centre
  11. Freedom of the Press (if you own one?)
  12. Republicans see Ebola, think DDT
  13. 2700 Scholars Boycott UI; Trustees to Meet Tomorrow; Salaita’s Teaching Evaluations Superb; Philosopher Cancels Prestigious Lecture (Updated) (Updated Again)
  14. How can we convince rightwingers to accept climate science …
  15. Lincoln in Manchester
  16. Coming soon, to a city near you
  17. The Laffer Event Horizon?
  18. Ferguson, disorder, and change
  19. “Bad Cess”
  20. Ferguson, Missouri, update
  21. The road from Sinjar to Tilbury is blocked
  22. A myriad of posts
  23. Sunday photoblogging: Severn Beach toward Avonmouth
  24. The end of a glittering career ….
  25. A libertarian moment, after all ?
  26. Some notes on Ferguson, Missouri
  27. Nearly 300 Scholars Declare They Will Not Engage With the University of Illinois
  28. Origami
  29. New Spoon – Good!
  30. Sunday photoblogging: Tivoli, gardens of the Villa d’Este
  31. What’s left of libertarianism? (slightly updated)
  32. Reagan and the Great Man in history
  33. Shit and Curses, and Other Updates on the Steven Salaita Affair (Updated)
  34. Reagan and plagiarism
  35. The Persistence of the Old Regime
  36. Another Anti-Zionist Professor Punished for His Views (Updated)
  37. The Unsung Romance of Incompetence
  38. Sunday photoblogging: war memorial
  39. Capitalism and Slavery
  40. Job search, 40 times a month

July 2014

  1. Jean Jaurès, 1859-1914
  2. Give It Your All – Then Give Some More
  3. Corey arrested
  4. Wouldn’t want to face a machine gun without this.
  5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  6. The Higher Sociopathy
  7. Austrian economics and Flat Earth geography
  8. So What Gives? (About Tolerance)
  9. Sunday photoblogging: bike shadow
  10. A Gaza Breviary
  11. Hazlitt, Keynes and the glazier’s fallacy
  12. Severian of Nessus, Amateur Bayesian
  13. Richard Thompson: Acoustic Classics
  14. Incongruous songs
  15. Sunday photoblogging: meerkats
  16. The unravelling of the global financial system
  17. Why “Ann Coulter” would love cricket
  18. Death and taxes: morality versus bureaucratic casuistry
  19. Condemned by history (crosspost)
  20. Uncensored
  21. Le Père Goriot
  22. Democracy is Bad for Business
  23. Dreams and Plagiarism
  24. Zombie DDT ban myth reanimated
  25. Fun summer reading
  26. Drip, drip, drip; and the next thing you know, democracy has been washed away
  27. To apply or not to apply?
  28. Sunday photoblogging: Bicycles on the Via Cavour, Florence
  29. Bullshitting about Gaza
  30. Anti-Freedom Conservatives and Anti-Liberty Conservatives
  31. In search of search theory
  32. Unread Books?
  33. Vast, Conservative Literary-Persecution Complex
  34. Sunday photoblogging: Steps in Siracusa, Sicily
  35. With Reformicons like this, no wonder the Reactobots always win
  36. Let Freedom Ring!
  37. The Uncertainty of “Least Restrictive Alternative”
  38. Tobacco International, Inc

June 2014

  1. The location of memory
  2. The 100 Years War
  3. Reverse engineering Ross Douthat
  4. Lepore on disruption
  5. Sunday photoblogging: Refugee Week
  6. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: Joseph Carens replies (part two of two)
  7. Cross-national intelligence and national democracy
  8. The Rhetoric of Having Been Wrong
  9. When Presidents Get Bored
  10. In search of a Father’s Day card
  11. Sunday photoblogging: Lifeguard and Antony Gormley figure
  12. My Dirty Little Secret: I Ride the Rails to Read
  13. World Cup 2014: open thread
  14. Genre Police, Arrest This Man
  15. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: Joseph Carens replies (part one of two)
  16. What’s The Score?
  17. Rik Mayall is Dead
  18. Gesture Drawing
  19. Sunday photoblogging: Horse in a field
  20. Caricature
  21. Mash Up For What?
  22. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: index
  23. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: So what does The Ethics of Immigration tell us about the European Union?
  24. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: On Method
  25. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: The argument from democratic principles
  26. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: Is Carens still advocating open borders?
  27. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: On Social Membership
  28. Sunday Photoblogging: Cruiseship

May 2014

  1. Sunday* Photoblogging: slave cabins
  2. [CA04] capabilitarian justice and meta-theoretical concerns
  3. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: Democratic equality and internal movement
  4. What Made Evangelicals Come Out of the Closet?
  5. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: Social Membership and Territorial Rights
  6. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: Right arguments, wrong order
  7. George Packer and his problems
  8. The Ethics of Immigration symposium: Communities, social anxiety and open borders
  9. The Ethics of Immigration Symposium: Movement within and between states
  10. Political Economy is Political
  11. The Ethics of Immigration Symposium: The Theory of Social Membership
  12. When Intellectuals Go to War (updated)
  13. Book Symposium on Joseph Carens’s The Ethics of Immigration
  14. Sunday photoblogging #6: Reims Cathedral
  15. These Housekeepers Asked Sheryl Sandberg to Lean In with Them. What Happened Next Will Not Amaze You.
  16. Education and opportunity
  17. Basic rights, membership and the UK’s toxic immigration debate
  18. I Don’t Know Whether This Point Needs to be Belabored …
  19. Stalinism on the Installment Plan
  20. The War on Workers’ Rights
  21. Piketty crossing the Delaware
  22. Sunday photoblogging #5: cranes
  23. Big Love – Oh Brunhilda Edition
  24. From The Mouths of Babes
  25. Makessense Stop!
  26. The Gender Gap in Political Theory
  27. Sunday photoblogging #4: staircase in Rome
  28. Step away from that white background
  29. Clarence Thomas’s Counterrevolution
  30. Gene Wolfe is 83
  31. Wealth: earned or inherited?
  32. Does Inequality Help Artists? Not So Much
  33. The Calculus of Their Consent
  34. Gary Becker, an Appreciation by Michel Foucault
  35. Sunday photoblogging #3: Houses in Totterdown, Bristol
  36. Enjoy
  37. Tree photoblogging #1
  38. The fading buds of May
  39. Queering the Strike
  40. Keeping your personal info private, why opting out is much harder than checking a box
  41. Political Correctness: A Proposed Definition

April 2014

  1. Right wing tribalists: A lost cause
  2. Inequality and the arts
  3. Elizabeth Bear on knowledge in pre-modern society
  4. What is Enlightenment when the state is schizophrenic? It’s The Jewish Question!
  5. A Parade of Improbabilities
  6. Not Actually Sunday Anymore Sunday Photoblogging
  7. Has There Ever Been a Better Patron of the Arts than the CIA?
  8. Sunday photoblogging #3: Boats moored at Reykjavik
  9. How We Do Intellectual History at the New York Times
  10. Karlo Marx and Fredrich Engels / Came to the checkout at the 7-11
  11. On the death of Gabriel García Márquez
  12. Happy Krauthammer Day
  13. Tu Quoque
  14. Max Weber’s Birthday
  15. Why Does the Winger Whine? What Does the Winger Want?
  16. Monday photoblogging: Lakes
  17. Sunday photoblogging #2: stripes
  18. Let’s bury – I say, let’s bury the hatchet, but not in anyone’s head, boy.
  19. Southern Gothic
  20. Submit to Elsevier with gusto and abandon! A Modest Proposal
  21. Yolo
  22. Becoming an American
  23. Eleven Things You Did Not Know About Clarence Thomas
  24. You Poor Bastards
  25. Fuzzbot Wingfield
  26. “The Luck in the Head”
  27. The Color Of His Presidency
  28. Not Actually Sunday Anymore Sunday Photoblogging
  29. Sunday photoblogging: Staircase
  30. The Stale Catnip of Contemptsmanship
  31. Wherever you live, it is probably Egypt: Thoughts on Passover
  32. Sue Townsend is Dead
  33. Richard Hoggart is Dead
  34. Teaching Rawls after Piketty
  35. Good Cheer
  36. To the point of collapse, and beyond
  37. PhRMA and the political economy of sponsored content
  38. Best Video Ever
  39. You’re Not Reading Enough Japanese Comic Books: Guest Post by mcmanus-sensei
  40. Piketty on Capital: A Footnote
  41. Time-recognition for having a baby by the ERC
  42. Humanities and social sciences within the ERC
  43. The Secret!
  44. It’s complicated, and hard to understand if you’re not part of it

March 2014

  1. Assigning one’s own books to one’s students
  2. Foxes and Hedgehogs, Angels and Hacks: Oh, the humanity!
  3. Today posted 328 in the us but 329 in the uk
  4. The Game of Wrong, and Moral Psychology
  5. Journalism and Astroturfing
  6. Anyone Remember Tech Central Station?
  7. ICANN Public Forum Bingo
  8. Silver vs Krugman
  9. Is Today’s Left More Opposed to Free Speech Than Yesterday’s?
  10. All the things I knew I didn’t know …
  11. Paying for the Party
  12. Social security won’t be around long enough for me to collect it
  13. Hannah Arendt, Lawrence of Arabia, and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
  14. [CA03] Unpacking functionings and capabilities, part 1: internal capabilities, combined capabilities, basic capabilities (Nussbaum)
  15. Fine, So Fine
  16. Q&A: Internationalising the Internet’s IANA function
  17. Tony Benn is Dead
  18. Further Thoughts on Nick Kristof and Public Intellectuals
  19. David Brooks: Better in the original German
  20. Wonders of the Invisible World
  21. Capabilities as menus: A non-welfarist basis for QALY evaluation
  22. IPPR on immigration: cup half full or half empty ?
  23. [CA 02] The helicopter view: What is the capability approach?
  24. [CA 01]: Functionings and capabilities
  25. [CA 00]: purpose, what to expect, rules of the game – and a disclaimer
  26. Principled bigotry is still, you know, bigotry
  27. Happy Birthday, Ward Kimball (& Maybe “The Croods” Should Have Won)
  28. Puddles Is Good, But Not, You Know, Steely Dan Good
  29. Sad Clown
  30. Should teachers of controversial issues disclose their opinions?
  31. Why your snazzy PDF report looks like *%$# on my desk
  32. If You Want to Be Truly Pessimistic about the Ukraine Crisis’s Geopolitical Consequences …
  33. Ukraine: who to read, what to believe?
  34. Short Announcements

February 2014

  1. A note on an argument about open borders
  2. Notes on “academic blogging”
  3. More on US hypocrisy
  4. Trouble ahead for Ukraine if “the people” is understood in ethnic terms
  5. A Problem Like Viktor
  6. DJ Earworm: Just What It Says On The Tin
  7. Not Just Geopolitics: The Institutional Background to Ukraine’s Problems
  8. James Madison and Elia Kazan: Theory and Practice
  9. In the dark shadow of history
  10. Look Who Nick Kristof’s Saving Now
  11. The tooth fairy and the traditionality of modernity
  12. Announcing the Capability Project
  13. Silence and Segregation
  14. Death and Taxes
  15. Two cheers for Scottish independence
  16. Third Time Lucky for EU and Internet Governance
  17. Why, Exactly?
  18. Socialism in America
  19. Macroeconomics made easy?
  20. Work and beyond
  21. Reason and Persuasion On Coursera – or – Look, Ma, I’m a MOOC
  22. Did Bob Dahl Really Say That? (Updated)
  23. Wait, so what do you still own?
  24. Anti-Boycott Bill Discussion Post
  25. An Open Letter on the Anti-Boycott Bills (Updated)
  26. Energy storage (dull but important)
  27. C’mon Volkswagen
  28. Staff of Life
  29. Squeezing the rich is good: even when it raises no money
  30. The Ring of Gyges

January 2014

  1. Jewfros in Palestine
  2. Insert “Looking forward to the big game this weekend” joke Here
  3. Conservative Taken Aback At President’s Reaction To Death Of Seeger
  4. The Beauty of the Blacklist: In Memory of Pete Seeger
  5. The Suspense Breaks
  6. Pete Seeger, RIP
  7. What’s The Math Made of, Ding-Dong?
  8. Alan Moore Interview
  9. Where Would the Tea Party Be Without Feminism?
  10. Images From Ukraine
  11. New Old Keynesianism
  12. Please Go Away Mao, You Are Banned As Well
  13. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + … = -1/12
  14. The Liberal Surveillance State
  15. Since Crooked Timber is now a music blog …
  16. Shoes: The Only Band That Really Matters. Part I
  17. Aristocrats of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your…shame.
  18. Redditor Convinced Women “Have it Easy” on OKCupid Poses as Woman, Lasts Two Hours
  19. Freedom Isn’t Free
  20. The Repubs won’t Douthat
  21. Love Is Gonna Let Me Down. Not Reggae, Though
  22. HHhH and Dead Lions ; or, notes on recent reading
  23. This Is Only a Test
  24. Belle’s Record Collection, Um, II: The Reddingsing
  25. Dwarf Fortress: A Marxist Analysis
  26. Some Desperate Glory
  27. Philadelphia Story
  28. We could all get back to nature if it weren’t for these damned hippies, discouraging us with their weed!
  29. Holy Off-Model Batmans, Batman!
  30. The Great Oil Fallacy (repost)
  31. New Year’s Day open thread

2013 501

December 2013

  1. Happy New Year!
  2. What is Self-Control?
  3. A Very Bourgeois Post on Buying a House
  4. Duck … Duck … Goose?
  5. American Vista
  6. Does the ASA Boycott Violate Academic Freedom? How? (Updated)
  7. Small Worlds
  8. The biggest game in town
  9. Have An Uncanny Christmas!
  10. 99 1/2 Won’t Do
  11. Another perspective on boycotts
  12. Everyone does it and in any case, there’s nothing anyone can do about it
  13. Of Boycotts and Double Standards
  14. David Brooks Says
  15. Thought Leading
  16. Affluenza As Liar’s Paradox
  17. You can check out any time you want, but …
  18. Wow, That is Kind of Appealing. Are the Attackers Regular Zombies or Fast-running Zombies?
  19. Idoru
  20. A Response to Michael Kazin on BDS and Campus Activism (Updated)
  21. Why TPP Counts
  22. Sorting Hat’s Gotta Sort
  23. Dead to Rights
  24. Brother, that’s socialism. You know it is.
  25. Domestic Helpers
  26. Socialism: Converting Hysterical Misery into Ordinary Unhappiness for a Hundred Years
  27. Riot In Singapore
  28. The Trouble With Obamacare
  29. How To Dance To Radiohead
  30. Mandela sanitized
  31. 15 Step bleg
  32. When Professors Oppose Unions
  33. Not now, but soon, soon.
  34. Stereotype threat and Philosophy’s problem
  35. A non-violent, unfunny trolley problem
  36. Because I Love You
  37. Speech-and-Debate vs. The Agon of Authenticity: How Least Badly To Fight, in Philosophy?
  38. How To Tell A Philosophy

November 2013

  1. Laugh if you like, but death on the tracks is funny
  2. Alleged Former Exalted
  3. Tiger, Tea, Political Economy
  4. Against (most) aggression in philosophy
  5. Karl Marx or Pope Francis?
  6. Word targets and creative procrastination
  7. Insert the Usual Princess Bride Joke About Words and Their Meanings
  8. Rabbi Goldberg, Can I Come Back Into the Tent?
  9. Fave Plato Bits
  10. The Global Bezzle – whence it came, where it went and why it matters (repost from 2011)
  11. If this is “secular stagnation”, I want my old job back
  12. What a F*ing Scandal the Senate Is
  13. Walzer anticipates Cameron (and Miliband)
  14. Konfrontasi
  15. William Weaver has died
  16. Something Changed on the Internet
  17. In Addition to Being Racist, Everyone is Pro-Infanticide
  18. Lysander: Proceed, Bushwick Bill
  19. The Night of the Doctor
  20. Peter Singer, Round 2
  21. Only Bertrand Russell
  22. On the migrant trail to Australia
  23. Scott on Diamond (and Pinker)
  24. Wall Street Isn’t Worth It
  25. Top Shelf Sale On Comixology; also, Kindle Matchbook
  26. The Chattering Absence of Epistemic Humility
  27. How We Got Somewhere Else – Very Briefly
  28. I’m not waving, I’m drowning, and why punt rhymes with banker, once more
  29. Armistice Day (crosspost)
  30. Kidnapped, raped, murdered: the migrant trail through Mexico
  31. Overton Straitjacket
  32. Speak, Memory
  33. Epistemic humility
  34. Two by Scott
  35. The recovery of the degenerate
  36. Screw the taxpayer
  37. Dayenu at Yale
  38. Blame utilitarianism!
  39. Is the Paradox of Thrift Actually a Paradox?

October 2013

  1. Economics as a moral science
  2. Surprising support for the Post-Crash Economics Society
  3. There is no crisis in crisis-mongering
  4. Compliments Shall Pass
  5. Web of Fear 2.0
  6. Can you get students to read your comments?
  7. When Richard Nixon Met Karl Polanyi
  8. Academics for hire
  9. The Reason I Jump
  10. You shall know their names
  11. The macro foundations of microeconomics
  12. Edmund Burke, Welfare King
  13. The Moderate and the McCarthyite
  14. False equivalence enabling apologetics for treason
  15. The Politics of Hypocrisy
  16. Summer of the Cat
  17. Hypocrisy (Is The Greatest Luxury)
  18. A minor life-hack
  19. The Napoleon of Nothing Hill
  20. How I Met Your Mother, or, When Unions Disrupt the Disruptors
  21. The Port Huron statement and the Southern Strategy
  22. Eric Alterman v. Max Blumenthal
  23. They named them the Special Collections
  24. Catechism of Cliches – Repeat Offender Edition
  25. A remembrance of Montagu Norman
  26. The History of Fear, Part 5
  27. Words speak louder than actions: a natural economic experiment
  28. Snark versus Trains
  29. Neo-Liberalism as Feudalism
  30. Segregation centennial
  31. Sveriges Riksbank prize actually , blah blah blah
  32. Why do we *still* have a Nobel Prize in economics?
  33. And the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics…
  34. I Think We’ll All Understand The Problem Better After This
  35. One woman, two votes
  36. The Web of Fear
  37. The History of Fear, Part 4
  38. Upstairs, Downstairs at the University of Chicago
  39. Questions that are just a little too long to fit into 140 characters
  40. The only people who cared about literature were the KGB
  41. The History of Fear, Part 3
  42. Lighter Than My Shadow
  43. History of Fear, Part 2
  44. What I did over my summer “vacation”
  45. Former Tory Cabinet Minister on Ralph Miliband
  46. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
  47. Everyone else is doing it so why can’t … oh, I see, we already are … sshhh!
  48. Whoever invented the Daily Mail
  49. The History of Fear, Part 1

September 2013

  1. The crisis of 2011, in 2013
  2. Yes, for the Millionth Time: You Can Be Fired for This
  3. De Correspondent
  4. Moonstruck, a Better Film
  5. Raiders of the Lost Ark, a Pretty Good Film
  6. The far right, political control and the crisis of authority
  7. There Are Men Eating Menstrual Pads
  8. Van Jones Does Gershom Scholem One Better
  9. This Is The New Most Racist Field Trip of All Time
  10. It May Interest You to Know, But If Not, There Is a Scroll Feature
  11. Ugh
  12. Voldemort Comes to CUNY
  13. The global party of stupid
  14. Drink The Haterade
  15. Here Comes Everybody – And She’s Karl Kraus!
  16. Faculty to University of Oregon: Oh No We Don’t!
  17. The King’s Speech
  18. With a bottle of wine, and some pills on the shelf
  19. Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves
  20. Sociological Science
  21. Who got to design our uniforms?
  22. Some days are better than other days
  23. Bookplugs
  24. Three Cheers for the Token Woman
  25. Trivia Question For Classicists
  26. University of Oregon to Faculty: You Belong to Me!
  27. Income Inequality and College Tuition
  28. Fun with languages
  29. What is it like to be a bug?
  30. The Gods Will Have Blood – or – the Autosarcophagarch’s Dilemma
  31. Customers who liked “Tech Intellectuals” may also like …
  32. Another two-step
  33. Marshall Berman, 1940-2013
  34. Clean Those Coffee-Mugs with Zest and Aplomb!
  35. Forty years after Pinochet’s coup
  36. Homeopathy and vaccination
  37. Bodacious cowboys / Such as your friend / Will never be welcome here / High in the Custerdome
  38. Internet Intellectuals
  39. SWIFT, the NSA and Glenn Greenwald
  40. Throw me a lemon rope
  41. Assad and the ICC
  42. An undeserving PM (crosspost from johnquiggin.com)
  43. What if they held a vote for war, and no one came, so there wasn’t a war?
  44. Jews Without Israel
  45. At the still eye of the storm
  46. The Rise of Ransom City Book Event – The PDF! (and EPUB and mobi!)
  47. Propping up dictators, and knocking them down
  48. Gateway
  49. Frederik Pohl Has Died
  50. Ronald Coase has died
  51. The Ballad of the Woggler’s Moulie
  52. Science Imitates Eddie Izzard
  53. Cosmopolitans and Zoopolitans

August 2013

  1. L.A. Paul at 3:AM Magazine
  2. Bombing Syria Seems Like A Bad Idea
  3. Seamus Heaney
  4. War and waste
  5. How Moral Revolutions Happen (They Had A Nightmare)
  6. Democratic values? A nice idea ….
  7. More Nones than Republicans?
  8. J K Rowling for grown ups
  9. Tom Stoppard and Pink Floyd
  10. Jesus Christ, I’m at Yale
  11. LOVEINT
  12. Hit or Run
  13. Cronyism and the global city (again)
  14. Eternal Sunshine of the Conservative Mind
  15. Because they can
  16. Trust Us
  17. Krugman, Keynes, Kalecki, Konczal
  18. “He may not, as unvalued persons do/ Carve for himself; for on his choice depends …”
  19. Vietnam and Historical Forgetting
  20. When it came to torture (and much else), Jean Bethke Elshtain was no realist (Updated)
  21. Humanities! Science is not your enemy, it’s a friend who owes you money
  22. A Woman Rice Planter
  23. I hate to be a pest, but …
  24. The Cronut of The Summer of The August. Of Racism
  25. It Was Probably Rodeo Classism
  26. Awkward Conversations We Have Had
  27. The diaries of Hannah Senesh
  28. Maternity leave; not ALL bad, you know
  29. Fingerprinting migrants in France: the back story
  30. Why Is Racism Unacceptable?
  31. On the buying of the Washington Post
  32. Migration and the least advantaged
  33. The Politics of Payday Loans
  34. Larry Summers: not enough of a jerk (with added link)
  35. Migration woes in the UK
  36. The research process and academia explained
  37. Robert Bellah, McCarthyism, and Harvard (Updated)

July 2013

  1. Robert Bellah Has Died
  2. Lessig on MIT, Neutrality and Aaron Swartz
  3. What Can’t Moocs Teach?
  4. Manning and Cheney
  5. Why not make available reviews of an article when it’s published?
  6. What’s a Jew Like You Doing Writing a Book Like This?
  7. Amusing, perhaps
  8. Home court advantage
  9. Must the identity of an article referee remain confidential? How about the referee report?
  10. The right’s anti-wind campaign is pure scaremongering
  11. The historians’ proposed embargo on dissertations
  12. Are We Not All the Child Memoirists of Writers?
  13. New kings in the Low Countries
  14. Carbon pricing in Australia
  15. Tariffs and secession: the Australian experience
  16. Libertarianism, the Confederacy, and Historical Memory (Updated Again)
  17. Why You Should Never Trust a Data Scientist
  18. The Sociology of Jack Vance III: Robust Action Among the Breakness Wizards
  19. One Minute of James Baldwin…Four Centuries of US History
  20. CUNY Backs Down (Way Down) on Petraeus (Updated)
  21. What makes a popular philosophy book a good book?
  22. Gillard and Rudd: a short history
  23. Still a ways to go with online targeted ads
  24. Assimilated by the Borg
  25. Can You Believe CUNY Is Paying Me This Much Money for This Sh*t (Updated Again)
  26. Perceived looks matter more than sports accomplishments, naturally
  27. Hortatory Uplift Is Not a Plan
  28. With Fortresses Like These …
  29. Debating Fortress Unionism
  30. Adler on Shelby
  31. Shorter Kevin Vallier
  32. Truckin’: ten years of Crooked Timber
  33. Not Even a Bourgeois Freedom: Liberty of Contract in John Roberts’s America
  34. Gentlemen don’t read other gentlemen’s mail, again (and updated)
  35. #AllWhiteFrontPages
  36. What do bubbly, endless, obsolete, twisted and xylographic have in common?
  37. Noted Without Comment
  38. Petraeusgate: Anatomy of a Scandal
  39. Despicable Me 2 and The Making of Longbird
  40. Douglas Engelbart, legendary inventor dies
  41. Half-Poulantzas, Half-Kindleberger
  42. The Strange Case of James Cartwright
  43. CUNY Petraeus Battle Heats Up
  44. And the culture marches on …
  45. Panitch and Gindin Seminar at Jacobin
  46. Pay us like you pay Petraeus
  47. Robin on Bloggingheads

June 2013

  1. Can The Republicans Be The White Party And Win?
  2. Unintended Consequences of Shelby?
  3. One huge step forward
  4. Another Day, Another Billion
  5. It was crime at the time, but the laws, we changed them
  6. If Reagan Were Pinochet…Sigh
  7. The Hayek-Pinochet Connection: A Second Reply to My Critics
  8. Nietzsche, Hayek, and the Austrians: A Reply to My Critics
  9. Hope and climate change
  10. Gentlemen don’t read other gentlemen’s mail (repost from 2004)
  11. The Original Liberal Fascist World War Z – Now on Blu-Ray!
  12. Monsters University: the Aftermath
  13. 401
  14. I, for one …
  15. Journal of Practical Ethics: a new open-access journal
  16. The obesity paradox paradox
  17. Edward Snowden’s Retail Psychoanalysts in the Media
  18. “The queer personality and floating mind”: what did Keynes say to and about Roosevelt?
  19. Auschwitz
  20. Rights of Labor < Tyranny of Capital
  21. Urbanization in China
  22. Annals of anti-egalitarian hyperbole
  23. Follow the Turkish protests on Twitter
  24. Iraq 2003, looking back
  25. IAS Egalitarianisms
  26. Clay Shirky guest-bleg: How do you describe bad economics reporting?
  27. Insubordination and the surveillance state
  28. The Sociology of Jack Vance II – Positional Goods and the Columns at Tustvold
  29. Using Metadata to find Paul Revere
  30. Freedom is slavery
  31. Iain Banks has died
  32. Prism
  33. “They then chuckle together in a self-congratulatory academic manner”
  34. Why this army wife says no to the Snoopers’ Charter
  35. Once the system gets there, it stays there… or does it?
  36. Asap
  37. No country for young men… or young women either
  38. The Convention on the Constitution in Ireland
  39. Unoriginal impressions of Brasilia
  40. Why Aren’t You Two Ponies?
  41. Outrage, schmoutrage

May 2013

  1. The last three on the island
  2. Mastertapes: Down by the Jetty
  3. The Sociology of Jack Vance I: The Spirit of Market Capitalism in Master Twango’s Establishment at Lutic
  4. Jack Vance Has Died
  5. The Sociology of Jack Vance
  6. Employing a student to criticize my teaching
  7. That light went out.
  8. Memorial Day
  9. Paris in the Spring
  10. Random Access Memories
  11. Call for Participation: Doctoral Workshop
  12. A Monster In Paris
  13. O upright judge! Is Hayek Like Nietzsche or not?
  14. Good (and bad) news from the Open Access front
  15. Marianne Ferber died
  16. Some Scattered Points Circling About In Search Of An Argument
  17. Nietszche and the Marginalists
  18. Do not name these things
  19. Meanwhile, in Jasper City…
  20. Utopophobophilia
  21. The arithmetic of interstellar travel
  22. You Had Me at “Swedish-American Economist Ronald Coase”
  23. Ronald Reagan: Efraín Ríos Montt is “totally dedicated to democracy”
  24. Stories Behind Stories
  25. Minority Outreach Report
  26. The Leopold and Loeb of Modern Libertarianism
  27. On the Meeting of Epic Fantasy and Western in Felix Gilman’s Half-Made World Duology – Abigail Nussbaum
  28. When is copying not plagiarism?
  29. But When This Grand Cause of Terror Makes Its Appearance, What Is It?
  30. Kickstarter Ethics: Zack Braff and Charlie Kaufman
  31. Sympathy and the sources of Keynes’s critique of the peace
  32. The Half-Believed World
  33. The Wrongly Attributed Statement (WAS): Our Democratic Poetry
  34. Google Glass and the need for XU Design
  35. Gilman’s Claustrophobic West
  36. Bournemouth Books & Coffee
  37. In the new issue of Jacobin
  38. Young people these days
  39. Edmund Burke to Niall Ferguson: You know nothing of my work. You mean my whole theory is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.
  40. Felix Gilman Seminar Starting Monday
  41. What the F*ck is Katie Roiphe Talking About?
  42. Dragonbox and The Philosophy of Mathematics
  43. Bubbles

April 2013

  1. Heads, you lose
  2. Benn Steil seems upset.
  3. The Bangladesh Catastrophe and International Supply Chains
  4. Pakistan Calling
  5. Strumpet City
  6. General Petraeus is Coming to CUNY: Just “like the invasion of Iraq.”
  7. Upcoming Felix Gilman Seminar
  8. The Reinhart-Rogoff Two-Step
  9. Gallipoli and Crimea
  10. Would it not be easier for Matt Yglesias to dissolve the Bangladeshi people and elect another?
  11. Post-Democracy in Italy and Europe
  12. Squid & Owl!
  13. Greece’s trap
  14. Running v walking
  15. Freedom!
  16. Dragons and Credible Commitments [Warning: Dubious Economic Theory and Game of Thrones Quasi-Spoilers]
  17. Ten Years of Krauthammer Days
  18. God Bless Benno Schmidt
  19. Persuasive and convincing
  20. Calling Timberteers on the south coast of England
  21. Children, and Chances
  22. Schools, and Children
  23. Bitcoin: the perfect bubble
  24. Annals of the gold standard: medium of exchange, store of value
  25. New Tools for Reproducible Research
  26. Du kan gå nu.
  27. Fraktur-ed F(airy) Tales
  28. One Newspaper, Two Elections: NYT on America 2004, Venezuela 2013
  29. Social mobility and higher education in Britain, some further thoughts
  30. More on The Org
  31. Master of Sockpuppets
  32. Britain since the seventies, impressionistic thoughts
  33. Heinrich Kley on Politics and Metaphysics
  34. How good was gold? (compared with Bretton Woods and the float)
  35. Shulamith Firestone, Feminism, and the Private Life of Power
  36. 1975 and 2013
  37. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Jon Lee Anderson
  38. On Harry Dexter White and Pearl Harbor
  39. The Lady’s Not for Turning
  40. Baroness Thatcher is dead.
  41. Being or Nothingness redux
  42. The Org
  43. Reflections on Real Utopias
  44. Iain Banks is dying of cancer
  45. Some objective moral truths?
  46. Good Reads for #WAAD 2013
  47. Alternative Hugo Ballot

March 2013

  1. Barack Obama Attends Dapper Day
  2. Socialism Without a Map
  3. Another Pro Same-Sex Marriage Argument
  4. The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy
  5. Mainstreaming utopia (updated)
  6. UBI vs GMI: Utopia vs Realism, or just different packaging?
  7. A new party to the left of Labour?
  8. Why Did Liberals Support the Iraq War?
  9. The Possibility of Little Utopias: Russell Fox on Erik Wright
  10. Envisioning Real Utopias: response from Bill Barnes
  11. On Erik Olin Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias – Diane Coyle
  12. The end of gold
  13. A Little Bit Utopian?
  14. Edmund Burke on the Free Market
  15. Economists and the theory of politics
  16. What would you do: Part 2, the Island of Surpyc
  17. We have Changed the Wording in the Workflow Drop-down Box
  18. Inspecting Iraq, in retrospect
  19. Utopianism, Conservatism, Ideal Theory: Who is Trying to Get Where, From Here?
  20. Envisioning Real Utopias seminar (now with added links)
  21. Bush Did Not Simply Lie in the Run-up to the Iraq War
  22. On the 45th Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre…
  23. Why Utopia ?
  24. Educate a Straussian: Support the Workers at Pomona College
  25. Art and Life
  26. More of the same
  27. I am not a racist. I just don’t like democracy.
  28. The US Senate: Where Democracy Goes to Die
  29. Weird Arguments About Love and Marriage
  30. The Smartest Guy in the Room
  31. Iconic Photos blog
  32. Austerity as an Idea
  33. Giving women in academia genuine equal opportunities
  34. Open Thread on Hugo Chavez
  35. Great sentences on the modern condition.
  36. How to Tell a Story: A Review of Ari Kelman’s _A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek_
  37. Louis Menand and New Deal Denialism in The New Yorker
  38. Fervent and Furious: The Hawkeye Initiative As Late Mannerism
  39. Post-Democracy in Italy and Europe

February 2013

  1. What you Can’t Expect when you’re Expecting
  2. Hugo nominations
  3. Italian voters are revolting
  4. I need a new word, something like ‘richness’
  5. Explaining Democracy
  6. Has the tide turned?
  7. Defending The Priority of Democracy
  8. Two Risks for Second-Order Democracy
  9. Falsely Shouting Fire in a Theater: How a Forgotten Labor Struggle Became a National Obsession and Emblem of Our Constitutional Faith
  10. Village Life
  11. GOP Outreach Efforts Proceed Apace
  12. Dissent Is the Health of the Democratic State
  13. Institutional Problems Demand Institutional Solutions
  14. Can Ideal Political Theory Be Valuable For a Pragmatist?
  15. Ronald Dworkin has died
  16. Inside the Division of Historical Defense
  17. Some Microfoundations for Pragmatist Democracy
  18. The girls are not alright
  19. Democratic Legitimacy and Democracy’s Priority
  20. The Political Consequences of Learning
  21. Seminar on The Priority of Democracy
  22. Popen Thread
  23. Post-Democracy
  24. Who’s your daddy?
  25. Remembering Aaron Swartz Again
  26. Reality breaks through the Overton window
  27. It’s over. The politicians have backed down. We won.
  28. From Monster Dick to monster dicks: Christine Quinn’s evolving position on “balance” at CUNY
  29. Where Does Mayor Bloomberg Stand on Academic Freedom?
  30. Live by the flaming sword of true religious spirit technicality, die by the technicality
  31. The Question of Palestine at Brooklyn College, Then and Now
  32. BDS BS
  33. Six Nations (and some other sports) open thread

January 2013

  1. Austerity measures in crisis countries – updates from the Eurozone periphery
  2. Is college education really expanding ?
  3. Aaron Swartz Memorial in Washington DC
  4. Everyone’s a winner!
  5. Does anyone ever get the revolution they asked for?
  6. BReakout?
  7. Cameron’s gamble
  8. Veneer of What?
  9. Ecco l’Euro!
  10. Africa Cup of Nations open thread
  11. The White Moderate: The Greatest Threat to Freedom
  12. Calories or kilojoules?
  13. Trifecta
  14. Obama should pardon Aaron Swartz … and Bradley Manning
  15. The State Should Not Pardon Aaron Swartz
  16. Aaron Swartz
  17. MIT and Aaron Swartz
  18. More than a hacktivist
  19. Remembering Aaron Swartz
  20. Aaron Swartz, 1986—2013
  21. Buchanan and market Leninism (re-re-post)
  22. Invisible Men
  23. Home truths about Euro crisis
  24. Hyde Park on Hudson and some special relationships
  25. Krugman on 2013 vs 1958 macro
  26. How effective is fiscal policy: Guest post from Roger Farmer
  27. Tom Slee’s Self-Assessment
  28. Shirky, Udacity and the University
  29. The illusion of consistency
  30. The state of macroeconomics: it all went wrong in 1958
  31. The big issues in macroeconomics: the fiscal multiplier
  32. Poor Little Burckhardt
  33. The big issues in macroeconomics: unemployment
  34. SASE Conference: States in Crisis
  35. The (failed) state of macroeconomics

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