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December 2019

  1. Intersectionality vs dominant identity politics*
  2. Time for PhD supervision
  3. Tolerance, acceptance, deference, dominance
  4. Top 3 books of 2019
  5. Whimsy, Analysis, Alienation: Between Wodehouse and Brecht
  6. Sunday photoblogging: North Street, near sunset
  7. Britain since the seventies, impressionistic thoughts (repost)
  8. The Day after Brexit (repost from 2016)
  9. 40 years on
  10. Sunday photoblogging: Bristol, early morning
  11. Virtue signalling and vice signalling
  12. Ersatz Better Angels?
  13. Vavilovian Philosophical Mimicry

November 2019

  1. Redemption Arc
  2. Seeing Like a Finite State Machine
  3. Sunday metaphotoblogging: Wet plate collodion class
  4. Russia or California ?
  5. A cage went in search of a bird
  6. The architecture of exclusion
  7. Sunday photoblogging: Montpellier courtyard
  8. Oops
  9. Free MOOC on inequality and democracy – starting on Monday!
  10. England’s ruling pathology; Boarding School Syndrome
  11. Sunday photoblogging: Istanbul, Topkapi Palace, the harem
  12. What, if anything, is neoliberalism?

October 2019

  1. A modest proposal on migration, climate and brain drain, for Halloween
  2. Arrogance destroyed the World Trade Organisation …
  3. Sunday photoblogging: LA – downtown reflections (from 2009)
  4. 39 migrants found dead in Essex, England
  5. On seeing Astra Taylor’s What is Democracy?
  6. Sunday photoblogging: People’s Vote March, 19 October 2019
  7. No true war is bad?
  8. The Imprints’ Archive
  9. The third lesson ?
  10. Sunday photoblogging: 2-headed cow (from 2007)
  11. Why partisans look at the same planet and see wildly different curvature
  12. Harry on becoming a better college teacher (if you’re lucky)

September 2019

  1. Sunday photoblogging: storm in the Venice lagoon #2
  2. On photos and parental smirks
  3. The Enigma of Clarence Thomas: On sale today!
  4. Meanwhile, what the grown-ups are doing
  5. Cum ex
  6. A Level Playing Field: The Reform of Private Schools
  7. Three thoughts on the debate between gender critical feminists and the advocates of strong transgender rights
  8. Liberalism, Neutrality and the Gendered Division of Labor
  9. Sunday photoblogging: Hamburg
  10. The most blasphemous idea in contemporary discourse?
  11. Sunday Photoblogging: Palazzo Tursi, Genoa
  12. This is your phone on feminism
  13. 9/11 babies are voters
  14. Haters gonna hate
  15. Passports and Brexit
  16. Sunday photoblogging: Hamburg (former) warehouses
  17. Making participation count.
  18. But how will they pay for it?
  19. Lord Viv Stanshall Day
  20. Icebreakers
  21. Scatology not eschatology for these troubled times
  22. Could the Queen sack Johnson? Would she?
  23. Sunday photoblogging: Alte Pinakothek, Munich

August 2019

  1. The missing question
  2. Johnson’s putsch
  3. A tie would have been good enough
  4. Jimmy Carter gets advice about global warming
  5. Giovanni Buttarelli
  6. What to do about gender and geo/linguistic bias in academic citations?
  7. Advice for new college students
  8. Best moment of the academic year
  9. Cutting the financial sector down to size
  10. Sunday photoblogging: Venice: San Giorgio Maggiore
  11. Give children the vote
  12. Ossian’s Ride
  13. The Incarcerating Power of Stereotypical Beliefs
  14. Attribute To Stupidity That Which Qanon Inadequately Explains As Malice
  15. Sunday photoblogging: U-Bahn, Hamburg
  16. Who do I think I am?
  17. Does talent matter?
  18. How do student evaluations survive ?
  19. Right, Absolutely Not.
  20. What Are You Listening to This Week?

July 2019

  1. Cheap at twice the price
  2. Yeah, Sorta.
  3. Sunday photoblogging: storm in the Venice lagoon
  4. No.
  5. The R-word fifteen years on
  6. Movers and stayers
  7. Sunday photoblogging: flower
  8. The Lavatories of Democracy
  9. Sunday photoblogging: foxglove, backlit by the early evening sun
  10. A new two party system?

June 2019

  1. Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas pigeons
  2. Opportunity cost, MMT and public spending
  3. Sanders’ debt relief plan: what could you do with $1.6 trillion?
  4. Sunday photoblogging: Clark Street Bridge, Chicago
  5. Making universities safe for trans people doesn’t threaten academic freedom
  6. Tactical Voting
  7. Sunday photoblogging: Chicago
  8. Can globalization be reversed?: Part II (migration)
  9. Strangers on a Train
  10. Green new deals and natural resources
  11. My Mind’s Playing Tricks on Me
  12. Can globalization be reversed? Part 1: Trade (wonkish)
  13. How to debate universal basic income
  14. Roy Orbison and Judith Thomson
  15. Keynes and Versailles, 100 years on
  16. Managing Teaching Assistants — Help Sought.

May 2019

  1. Uses and Abuses of Tarps
  2. Hits and Misses
  3. What does Clarence Thomas’s opinion today about abortion tell us about his jurisprudence?
  4. I’ll Find You Ronnie
  5. Sunday photoblogging: car park
  6. May’s tears, and what’s to come
  7. Forgiveness
  8. Liverpool, near Albert Dock
  9. What would be useful to know about class size.
  10. Five stitches and Røbic’s music
  11. Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas archway
  12. On Eric Hobsbawm and other matters
  13. Wishing Is Free
  14. The Steelwool Scrub – A Fallacy
  15. Is Warren’s college plan progressive?
  16. Sunday photoblogging: yellow doors
  17. Evidence and conventional wisdom

April 2019

  1. The limits of impartiality in teaching applied philosophy
  2. Teaching applied ethics — surveying the students.
  3. Sunday photoblogging: the beach at Grau d’Agde
  4. In print at last!
  5. A moral puzzle on individual climate action
  6. Transactional Trumpism
  7. David Brion Davis, 1927-2019: Countersubversive at Yale
  8. Gene Wolfe has died
  9. The eye of the needle, again
  10. Good news day
  11. Pinker polymathic
  12. Kirstjen Nielsen
  13. Sunday photoblogging: the gardens of the Villa d’Este, Tivoli
  14. “If only someone had put baby Hitler on the web”, guest post by Andrew Brown
  15. Late to a really great party
  16. Vast
  17. Rebalancing rights

March 2019

  1. Sunday photoblogging: Strasbourg Cathedral
  2. Abolishing the future; why how we do policy is wrong, all wrong
  3. Rights of Nature, but not natural rights ?
  4. Sunday photoblogging: People’s Vote march
  5. Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road
  6. Next week: the EthicsLab launch in Yaoundé
  7. Lessons from Dutch academic activism (part 1)
  8. Whipping
  9. Why is carbon pricing so hard?
  10. Notes on Peterson, Shapiro, Facts, Feelings
  11. Monopoly: too big to ignore
  12. Locke and slavery, again
  13. MMT and the scope for seigniorage
  14. The transformation of left neoliberalism
  15. Do You Believe in Life After Hayek?
  16. Discussion Boards
  17. Sunday photoblogging: British Road, Bedminster, Bristol
  18. Coal, cronyism and corruption
  19. I posted this on Twitter but no one laughed at it.
  20. The Uses and Disadvantages of Historovox For Life

February 2019

  1. Sunday photoblogging: reflections
  2. The Historovox Complex
  3. The UK takes a step toward tyranny
  4. Wit’s End
  5. Adorno in America
  6. Democracy and inequality as a global foreign policy agenda
  7. Jacques Callot, “The Temptation of St. Anthony”
  8. Sunday photoblogging: The Apple Tree
  9. Politics and Forgiveness – a Proposal
  10. Art Young – From Caricature To Expressionism and Back Again
  11. Brexit top of the pops.
  12. Sunday photoblogging: stairwell, Tate Britain
  13. Jeremy Hardy is dead

January 2019

  1. At least you can leave
  2. Classroom Discussion
  3. Erik Olin Wright — the thinker and the person.
  4. Art Young and Dr. Seuss
  5. Sunday photoblogging: Diner
  6. Fake news: the medium is not the message
  7. There’s worse things, no doubt
  8. Belief In Hell As The Basis For Faith
  9. The Problem of Max Boot
  10. Save the nukes
  11. Erik Olin Wright 1947-2019
  12. Radically Transformative Virtue Ethics
  13. The Material Power of Ideas and Knowledge
  14. Getting on beneath the vaulted sky
  15. Maps and Legends
  16. Sunday photoblogging: Bedminster Lantern Parade
  17. Would you read “Goodnight Moon” to Baby Hitler?
  18. Socialist utopia 2050 …
  19. Marina Hyde Competition
  20. Green New Deal
  21. Sunday photoblogging: Liverpool, from Albert Dock
  22. Creative arts and investing in systems
  23. Globalization
  24. At Bertram’s Hotel
  25. Disentangling?
  26. Cults
  27. Conservative arguments for restrictive citizenship/nationality?
  28. Sunday photoblogging: Bradgate Park
  29. Published! (almost)
  30. On our way to zero net emissions
  31. New discoveries: Ali Smith

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December 2018

  1. New Year’s Eve photoblogging: Tate Liverpool at Albert Dock
  2. If Brexit goes ahead, say goodbye to radical redistribution
  3. Merry X-Mas!
  4. Done
  5. Sunday photoblogging: jet
  6. Trump gets it (half) right
  7. Sunday photoblogging: cobbles
  8. No planet but this one
  9. That’s not my department, says Wernher von Braun
  10. Britain convicts human rights defenders of terrorism offence
  11. Hack Gaps and Noble Lies
  12. Sunday photoblogging: Bristol dawn
  13. Saturday art blogging: making art with the help of AI
  14. A small piece of good news for the global climate
  15. A philosophical experiment about inequality
  16. Sunday photoblogging, and an appeal
  17. Abusive Legalism
  18. Saturday art blogging: patterns in Islamic art
  19. The three-party system in Australia

November 2018

  1. Democracy as an information system
  2. Sunday photoblogging: Lyon, France
  3. Saturday art blogging: learning about art through jigsaw puzzles
  4. Recipe Corner: Nut Roast with Stuffing
  5. Bitcoin’s belated bust
  6. A bridge not far enough
  7. Sunday photoblogging: fox
  8. Trolls
  9. Saturday art blogging: the Art Institute’s digital collection
  10. A question about referendums
  11. Brexit: this is it?
  12. Armistice Day
  13. Sunday photoblogging: Llanberis lake
  14. Saturday art blogging: public art in Turku
  15. There. Fixed it.
  16. Time to join the generation game? Definitely
  17. ‘Extremely Possible’?
  18. Sunday photoblogging: Bordeaux at night
  19. Saturday art blogging: Magritte in Lugano
  20. Lang leve de jarigen!

October 2018

  1. A superb new book on the duty of resistance
  2. Mary Midgley
  3. Sunday photoblogging: Death Valley
  4. Saturday art blogging: South End Open Studios in Boston
  5. How do you fit in reading academic books (not related directly to your research)?
  6. Please support Equal Citizens
  7. Saturday art blogging: some artists really do see the world differently
  8. Air Is Real
  9. Gene Wolfe on Gmail predictive text
  10. Law and Economics
  11. Why No One Wins a War over the South China Sea
  12. Sunday photoblogging: cormorants
  13. Saturday art blogging: Kitchen Trees in Manhattan
  14. This is Monstrous
  15. Normativity Erosion – #Make Norms Normative Again
  16. Three cheers for Urgenda!
  17. Sunday photoblogging: Cliftonwood houses through Vauxhall Bridge
  18. Kavanaugh
  19. Saturday art blogging: I am your father!
  20. Cool-headed deliberation is the job, after all.
  21. Hoaxes in general
  22. The REF: A Modest (and very Tentative) Proposal
  23. Move over, Sokal Hoax
  24. Proportion Conservation Notice

September 2018

  1. Sunday photoblogging: Newcastle
  2. Once Again: What Are The Odds? – Blue Pill Philosophy Edition
  3. Saturday art blogging: Sculpture Milwaukee
  4. Algorithms
  5. Zizek Says Something Smart
  6. What Are The Odds?
  7. Economics in Two Lessons: Introduction
  8. Owning the Peanut Gallery
  9. Sunday photoblogging: window
  10. Should immigration laws be respected?
  11. My last word on Nancy MacLean
  12. Time to join the generation game?
  13. Sunday photoblogging: Tenby
  14. Good Parenting vs. Good Citizenship?
  15. Kabaservice Contra Corey – Thoughts About How To Think About Conservatism
  16. Sunday photoblogging: junk shop in Marseille
  17. Absurdism
  18. Improving instruction on campus: concrete ideas.
  19. Think-tank Fiction
  20. Sunday photoblogging: Chair, Pézenas France

August 2018

  1. Oh I feel old
  2. Economics in Two Lessons: Acknowledgements
  3. As political scientists head to their annual convention, the workers at the convention hotels prepare to protest: Here’s what you can do
  4. The soft bigotry of low expectations
  5. One-Star Reviews of Chartres Cathedral
  6. So How Serious Is This?
  7. How Many Times, Sweethearts?
  8. On Avital Ronell, Nimrod Reitman, and Sexual Harassment in the Academy
  9. Do The Nordic Codetermination Moonwalk
  10. Decoding the Deep State
  11. Voter Fatigue: Why Brenda from Bristol wouldn’t complain if she knew what Americans have to put up with.
  12. Economics, Trumpism and Migration
  13. Arthur Machen – A Fragment of Life
  14. Sunday photoblogging: St Nicholas Market, Bristol
  15. Touched by the hands in Pech Merle
  16. Politics, Partisanship and Personality Types
  17. Brexit and the oral culture of journalism

July 2018

  1. Clouds
  2. Why the argument for democracy may finally be working for socialists rather than against them
  3. I Knew Henry Would Post That And Was Prepared
  4. Tales of Sporting Incongruity
  5. The Man with the Two-Storey Brain
  6. An act of solidarity in the face of state barbarism
  7. Some big news …
  8. “How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe” – or – I’ve got high hopes for IDW in 2019!
  9. The Enrightenment
  10. Sunday photoblogging – Window: Marsh Street, Bristol
  11. Would be/Wouldn’t be
  12. Negative Dialectics
  13. On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Palestine, and the Left
  14. On Lying and Politics: Michiko Kakutani, Martin Jay, and Hannah Arendt
  15. Sunday photoblogging: banana bridge
  16. Join me in my Twelve Stars Debate on why The European Parliament should be elected on transnational lists
  17. Cliff edge ahead!
  18. Steve Ditko: Neat Drawings, Much Thinking
  19. Sunday photoblogging: Steps
  20. Economics in Two Lessons Chapter 16: Environmental policy
  21. How eerie and unsettling it can be when people change their minds
  22. When copyright goes wrong
  23. What should I be reading?
  24. Podcast on Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?
  25. Economics in Two Lessons Chapter 15
  26. Head Lopper!
  27. Kennedy, The Magic 8-Ball Justice
  28. Paying for news
  29. Sunday photoblogging: cranes and tracks

June 2018

  1. What Now?
  2. World Cup open thread
  3. Economics in Two Lessons: Chapter 14
  4. Abolish the death penalty
  5. Say not the struggle naught availeth
  6. Ocasio-Cortez beats Joe Crowley
  7. Breakdown values
  8. Sunday photoblogging: Florence at the People’s Vote march
  9. The Example of Charles Krauthammer
  10. Economics in Two Lessons, Chapter 13
  11. Not in our name
  12. Complexity
  13. Sunday photoblogging: footbridge, Madison WI
  14. Economics in Two Lessons, Chapter 12
  15. Shibboleths (repost from 2011)
  16. The World Needs More Blogs
  17. Epistemic Sunk Costs and the Extraordinary, Populist Delusions of Crowds?
  18. Social security won’t be around long enough for me to collect it (repost from 2014)
  19. The Creative Class Gets Organized
  20. Economics in Two Lessons, Chapter 11
  21. Yet more on the generation game
  22. Democratic legitimacy and the ethics of asylum
  23. Keep your feet on the ground, but your head about you!
  24. Percentiles (repost from 2011)
  25. Sunday photoblogging: Port of Liverpool Building
  26. Eric Schliesser on Omelas and Ideology

May 2018

  1. Henry Sidgwick and the World Unseen
  2. Sunday photoblogging: Oslo, near the station
  3. The Solution To Slavery Is … More Slavery?
  4. Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants? (published today)
  5. The South China Sea: Reposts
  6. Kate Manne on 12 Rules for Life
  7. Frederik Pohl On The Ideas In Science Fiction
  8. Neo-Marxism
  9. Undergraduate Instruction
  10. Sunday photoblogging: yellow
  11. Conservatism and the free market
  12. Witches!
  13. Economics in Two Lessons, Chapter 10
  14. Twelve Stars project – join in!
  15. Our Underachieving Colleges
  16. What we talk about when we talk about sex in the academy
  17. Peter Beinart Makes Good Points
  18. Prescriptions
  19. Sunday photoblogging: Bristol, The Spotted Cow
  20. Dismantling the welfare state – the case of the Dutch disabled
  21. Dark Web Centrism
  22. Marxism without revolution: repost
  23. Sunday photoblogging: Mount Pleasant Terrace, Bristol
  24. Quinn Slobodian – Globalists
  25. The public choice of public choice
  26. “Illegal”

April 2018

  1. Own Troll
  2. Gelman’s Law
  3. The Windrush scandal and the predictable injustice of immigration enforcement
  4. The Impossible World Called America!
  5. GMI + JG = paid work as a choice for all
  6. Superstitious
  7. Sunday photoblogging: sculpture of divers, Oslo
  8. What’s in a name?
  9. Economics in Two Lessons, Chapter 9
  10. Spiritualism and Uncanny Fiction
  11. Blowing stuff up
  12. Sunday photoblogging: woods outside Madison, Wisconsin
  13. Hackery or heresy
  14. The History of the Uncanny Valley?
  15. Economics in Two Lessons, Chapter 8
  16. Who has any use for conservative intellectuals?
  17. Some thoughts for #WAAD
  18. Happy Easter!
  19. Sunday photoblogging: squirrel, Brandon Hill

March 2018

  1. Striking, social media, and building a better university
  2. Sam Harris and the ideology of reason
  3. There Are Walls
  4. Economics in Two Lessons, Chapter 7
  5. Is there too much immigration?
  6. Francis Bator has died
  7. Weird Results! Is The Universe Cold And Meaningless? Laird Barron!
  8. Economics in Two Lessons, Chapter 6
  9. The travesty of liberalism
  10. Posters for your March For Our Lives event
  11. Scalded Chait
  12. Weird Questions
  13. The Persistence of Mummery?
  14. Sunday photoblogging: snow
  15. Economics in Two Lessons: Chapter 5
  16. We’re all going to need safe spaces
  17. Economics in Two Lessons: Chapter 4
  18. Adam Roberts, “The Thing Itself” – a Review
  19. WTF FT?
  20. Annihilation?
  21. The Slippery Slope of the Sum of All Fears
  22. Sunday photoblogging: Pensions strike!
  23. Economics in Two Lessons: Chapter 3
  24. Youth In Action
  25. Crowley On Ancient Blurb Technology and Le Guin
  26. The Generation Game is over (at least for me)
  27. Themes! What Are They?
  28. The Right To Have Rights
  29. Why are UK academics striking? A beginner’s guide
  30. Young Man Has Crisis While Europe Stumbles Into War
  31. I don’t get it
  32. Post Democracy in Italy
  33. Free speech, unfair dismissal and unions
  34. Sunday photoblogging: Liverpool Cenotaph
  35. Galactic Poetry Sunday
  36. Brexit and data protection
  37. Support the Yaoundé seminar in political philosophy
  38. Ultimate Egoists – Is There A Solipsist In The House?
  39. A snippet on bounded rationality
  40. Coleridge Notes – Plants vs. Aliens; Signal vs. Noise; Pedlary and Motly

February 2018

  1. Economics in Two Lessons: Chapter 2
  2. Sunday photoblogging: Birds at Crosby
  3. Famous Monsters of Plantland: The Green Thing!
  4. A Note About Responsibility
  5. The Botanic Garden: Famous Monsters of Plantland
  6. The Hard Bigotry of Rock-Bottom Expectations
  7. This Does Not Look Like You Care About These Adults
  8. Psychomyths and Thought Experiments
  9. Economics in Two Lessons: Draft Outline
  10. Economics in Two Lessons: Chapter 1
  11. Panpsychism, Erewhon Edition
  12. Sunday photoblogging: pont naturel at Minerve
  13. The father of consumer sovereignty
  14. Economics in Two Lessons
  15. Food For Thought
  16. Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas house
  17. On Being Radical for Non-Ideal Reasons
  18. Introducing new blogger: Miriam Ronzoni
  19. Bitcoin kills the efficient market hypothesis (full article is now over the fold)
  20. Science Fiction At The End of Its Tether – Continental Philosophy Connections?
  21. Some Thoughts About Women’s Empowerment
  22. Pride and Prejudice and P-Zombies
  23. Input on instructional practices from undergraduates or recent undergraduates
  24. Sunday photoblogging: crane
  25. Schopenhauer On Philosophy’s Overton Window
  26. The gig economy and the future of work
  27. The Birth of Intermediacy?

January 2018

  1. The Overton Window As Metaphysics
  2. Democracy Is Norm Erosion
  3. Renationalisation: How to get there from here
  4. Should academic books exist any more?
  5. Sunday Photoblogging: Chicago, L
  6. Economics Textbooks
  7. Clancy Sigal
  8. Academics writing trade books: what should they know?
  9. The problem of cities is a problem of space, geometry, and elite projection
  10. Futures of the Past
  11. Ursula Le Guin has died
  12. Bitcoin’s zero-sum game
  13. Adam Smith against nativist immigration policy
  14. Sunday photoblogging: Medusa head in the Basilica Cistern, Istanbul
  15. A taxonomy of never-Trumpers
  16. Hey !!! Kids Webcomics: Bloody Cardinal and Cucumber Quest edition
  17. Hey !! Kids Comics: Carlos Nine and Nina Bunjevac edition
  18. Bad drivers should have their cars driven by robots (now with link)
  19. Sunday photoblogging: each to his own
  20. Trump’s power is shakier than American democracy
  21. The Rational Grounds for (Anti-Racist) Optimism
  22. Net Neutrality is a New Deal issue
  23. New Bloggers
  24. The Rise and Fall of Keynesianism after the GFC
  25. Sunday photoblogging: the ‘hood
  26. Where do people put the riches-line?
  27. Sometimes it’s the little things that are hard to spin
  28. Why “extremely unlikely” climate events matter
  29. Does Focus On The Mueller Investigation Normalize The Stuff We Know?
  30. UBI, work and unions

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December 2017

  1. Sunday photoblogging: Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert
  2. Why Does The US Lack A Major Center-Right Party?
  3. Fire and flood
  4. Clarence Thomas’s Straussian Moment: The Question of Slavery and the Founding
  5. Merry Christmas!
  6. Trump Everlasting
  7. On the marginal position of research on X in discipline A
  8. Sunday photoblogging: door
  9. Quizzical
  10. Moon of Alabama
  11. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
  12. The Cat, The Goof and Musical Mose – Some Notes
  13. The Capability Approach: an Open Access TextbookPlus
  14. Sunday photoblogging: Newport transporter bridge
  15. If taxes the “thunder of world history,” what kind of history are the Republicans about to make?
  16. The Fallacy of Unnatural Deceleration?
  17. Libertarian Judges Rule!
  18. Good news from Oz
  19. Bitcoin an even bigger waste of energy
  20. Dream Hoarders
  21. Sunday photoblogging: St David’s Cathedral
  22. Books, books, books
  23. Against Max Sawicky!

November 2017

  1. New(ish) Crime Writers: Benjamin Black
  2. The effects on the visible undergraduate curriculum of the hidden curriculum in graduate school
  3. Sunday photoblogging: I left my heart in the Grand Palais
  4. No True Scotsman: Generation Game Edition
  5. The Color Of Shadow
  6. Another Shadow Of A Mouse
  7. Happy Thanksgiving
  8. Frankenstein, Vampire, Robot, Zombie, Alien, Witch
  9. As Nature Shows Them
  10. New(ish) crime writers: Sharon Bolton
  11. Personal Statements
  12. Sunday photoblogging: Paris, Rue Bonaparte
  13. Shadowgraph of a Mouse
  14. Versailles et Paris en 1871, by Gustave Doré
  15. Clerihew corner (sport edition)
  16. The Reactionary Mind, 2nd edition – Meet The New Boss
  17. Law and Political Economy blog
  18. Paris Photo
  19. Sunday photoblogging: Puces St Ouen
  20. Armistice Day, 2017
  21. Saudi, Lebanon, Iran …WTF?
  22. Bendis?
  23. What Am I Seeing?
  24. Clerihew corner (politics edition).
  25. Sunday photoblogging: Uppsala, stormy sky
  26. Tolkien the Utopian
  27. The Trinet
  28. What Can I Say?

October 2017

  1. Clerihew corner (philosophy edition)
  2. The week after Open Access week
  3. The end of fossil fuels
  4. Should someone leak those Brexit reports?
  5. Sunday photoblogging: Lloyds Building, Bristol
  6. Working to Rule
  7. Sunday photoblogging: cormorants or shags?
  8. Judaeo-Christian (updated)
  9. Lafcadio Hearn In The Days Of The Machine
  10. Utopian Commonplace Book
  11. The Book of Dust
  12. Utopia and Fairy Tales
  13. Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas houses
  14. Robert A. Heinlein and James Branch Cabell
  15. The Political Theory of Trumpism
  16. Socialism for the Information Economy
  17. Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas
  18. Lord Dunsany On The Relationship Between SF and Fantasy
  19. Catalonia: petition for de-escalation
  20. The British Dream
  21. Catalan referendum – open thread
  22. Sunday photoblogging: at Bouzigues
  23. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a tweet stamping on a human face – forever

September 2017

  1. Miéville on revolution
  2. Crowd-funding Robert Heinlein
  3. Anthem Sprinting
  4. Of Penguins and Power
  5. Sunday photoblogging: Renaissance courtyard, Pézenas, France
  6. A rare outbreak of unanimity on PFI
  7. Chelsea Manning and Harvard
  8. Sunday photoblogging: Étang de Montady
  9. Harvard Kennedy School (discussion)
  10. Why I’m having nothing to do with Harvard’s Kennedy School for the foreseeable future
  11. Michelle Jones and the Shame of Harvard
  12. New DJ Earworm
  13. Richard Posner has finally become a pragmatist
  14. Center for Ethics and Education Essay Prize Competition
  15. Robert Heinlein writes letters to editors and librarians
  16. The capability book has been written – though not here
  17. R U Sure Tho?
  18. Sunday Photoblogging: Mouille Point Beach, Cape Town
  19. Irma
  20. H. P. Lovecraft – Precocious Provincial
  21. Don’t you hate it when the Prusso-Hibernian herd scores cheap debate points with outwardly technically correct but inwardly psychologically false arguments?
  22. The generation game, yet again
  23. Sunday photoblogging: clouds
  24. Restating the case against trickle down (updated in response to comments)
  25. Happy Hari Raya Haji

August 2017

  1. The Origins of Glibertarianism
  2. Review of Betts and Collier on refugees
  3. The Rise to Success in the Office: Female Style
  4. What have YOU done to celebrate the King’s 100th Birthday?
  5. What Music Are You listening to This Week
  6. I Hope If You’re In Houston You’re OK
  7. Sunday Photoblogging: flowers
  8. The Temptation of St. Anthony
  9. When Political Scientists Legitimate Torturers
  10. Sir Viv Stanshall Day
  11. From Buckley to Bannon: Whither the Scribbler Scrapper of the Right?
  12. What Music Are You Listening To This Week?
  13. Good Grief
  14. Sunday Photoblogging: view from another walk
  15. Groupishness TLDR, “Jubilation T. Cornpone” edition
  16. Thinking About Groups
  17. That’s another draft post gone
  18. Profiles in Courageosity
  19. What’s left of libertarianism?
  20. Sunday Photoblogging: Never forget
  21. From a logical point of view …
  22. Five Books
  23. Millennials are people, not clones
  24. What Really Matters
  25. Bandwagonesque-esque
  26. Sunday photoblogging: Sunflowers, before the evening rain
  27. Dark Matter
  28. The nuclear renaissance dies, forgotten and bankrupt

July 2017

  1. England Expects (a note on, though not a review of, Dunkirk )
  2. “The Sovereign Myth” asks the wrong question
  3. A trolley problem
  4. Evidence of childhood ambitions?
  5. Trump’s America
  6. Can we get to 350 ppm? Yes we can
  7. Why Coase’s Penguin didn’t fly *
  8. Come work in Zurich
  9. The Jewish Question has always been, for me, a European question
  10. Lost Time
  11. What Sharks Are Left To Jump?
  12. Morality Tale
  13. Wait, so what is this science-a-thon thing?
  14. How to Think about Digital Research
  15. It’s Science-a-thon!
  16. Branko Milanovic on the insatiable drive to maximize income
  17. Heterodoxy Contra Holbo
  18. Jacob Levy on “The Sovereign Myth”
  19. Games
  20. Science-a-thon next week – won’t you support scientists?
  21. Expertise and punditry
  22. Against epistocracy
  23. Happy 4th of July!
  24. Gellner, Mair and Europe

June 2017

  1. Michael Bond is dead
  2. Overton Thoughts
  3. What Music Am I Listening To This Week?
  4. I screen, you screen…
  5. Getting creative in a computer science course
  6. Doodle some music
  7. On China Miéville’s October
  8. Crowdfunding for Bristol Refugee Rights
  9. Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas, Bike and steps
  10. A bad agreement is worse than no agreement.
  11. From King’s Cross to Grenfell Tower
  12. How Do Low-Lying States Deal With Climate Change?
  13. What Songs Are You Listening To
  14. Trump is just trolling me, isn’t he
  15. Sunday photoblogging: Wiltshire field
  16. This. Is. The. Remix
  17. One of These Things Is Doing Its Own Thing
  18. Another Open Thread on the UK Election.
  19. Open thread on the UK election
  20. The Intercept Leaks
  21. Signal to Noise
  22. Sunday photoblogging: Mount Pleasant Terrace
  23. An Hypothesis About 2018: Collapse And Replace
  24. Golden Hill

May 2017

  1. The Color of Law
  2. The strange death of Anglo-American liberalism
  3. Is The Living Easy Yet?
  4. Sunday photoblogging: Redcliffe flats
  5. Less is more
  6. Name an athlete more unlike Donald Trump than Moeen Ali
  7. Drug Wars
  8. Mountain Goats Enter Their Steely Dan/Prefab Sprout Phase
  9. Prickly questions
  10. The fidget spinning fad and disability discrimination
  11. Would you eat bugs? How about a dog?
  12. Sunday photoblogging: runner bean field in Herefordshire
  13. A volume on Wealth, and a public lecture on having too much of it
  14. Every Picture Tells A Story
  15. Huh, so that happened.
  16. Grade compression and elite schools
  17. House of Cards
  18. Jane Jacobs, the tyranny of experts and Brexit
  19. Why majoring in Philosophy might make you a better citizen than you might have thought
  20. Kenneth Clark on Velazquez
  21. Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas, Place Gambetta
  22. Samurai Jack, Season 5
  23. Freedom of the City
  24. Back, Sack and Crack
  25. With Notably Few Exceptions
  26. Geoffrey Bayldon is dead
  27. Cory Doctorow seminar
  28. Coase’s Spectre
  29. Comey and Hypocrisy
  30. From Scarcity to Abundance
  31. Uber and conservative activists on campus
  32. Free Your Mind (And The Rest Will Follow?)
  33. Sunday Comics – Putting the “Oh, Reed!” back in Reading!
  34. Thoughts on the Hypatia affair
  35. Heckling is a criminal offence?
  36. Adults In The Room
  37. Walking away from hard problems
  38. Debt and taxes
  39. The One-Body Problem
  40. Just meat following rules
  41. The Thousand Day Reich: The Double Movement
  42. The Rapture of The Pretty Hip People, Actually

April 2017

  1. Sunday photoblogging: chair
  2. Virality is a double-edged sword
  3. On liberals, the left, and free speech
  4. Chatter chatter bang bang
  5. Yglesias on Obama
  6. The Quick vs the Strong: Commentary on Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway
  7. No Exit?
  8. Lest we forget
  9. Macron leads!
  10. Hey, Kids, Comics! – Vienna Genesis Edition
  11. Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas, Rue Conti
  12. Fourteen years of Krauthammer days
  13. Individual emission budgets & footprints
  14. Ada Palmer seminar
  15. A Dialog on Narrative Voice, Complicity, and Intimacy
  16. UK GE17 Open Thread
  17. Not Nothing and Speculating Late
  18. The poverty of psychology, again
  19. Unusual Experience and Second-Hand Plato
  20. Reappropriated Histories and a Different Set of Tools
  21. I stand by @dandrezner, even if he doesn’t
  22. The Dystopian Question and Minorities of One
  23. What’s It Like In Lombok In The Morning?
  24. Asylum-seekers have to eat too
  25. An unhappy coincidence ?
  26. The poverty of psychology
  27. Sunday photoblogging: Staircase in a mirror
  28. Some Weekend Music – Live Performances On Video
  29. Syria
  30. China, me old China
  31. Sunday photoblogging: Southville to Clifton
  32. Generation Trump

March 2017

  1. As We Near the 100-Day Mark of the Trump Regime
  2. Who’s Crying Now? I Mean, Other Than Paul Ryan
  3. Sunday photoblogging: March for Europe
  4. World Poetry Day Redux
  5. Ada Palmer’s Great Conversation
  6. Raphael Crucifixion
  7. Sunday photoblogging: Kingston Road, BS3
  8. Heroes and Aliens
  9. Deal or No Deal
  10. Hugo Suggestions 2017
  11. In Good Hands
  12. Trumpism and religion
  13. Gods of This Fictional Universe
  14. Elections in the Netherlands
  15. So This Is What The Volume Knob’s For
  16. Falling Into the Cracks of Identity
  17. Sunday photoblogging: building and wires, Pézenas
  18. A small defeat for Trumpism (and neoliberalism) in Australia
  19. The Old Dragon But Slept: Terra Ignota, the Sensayer System, and Faith
  20. Future’s Past
  21. De Sade, war, civil society
  22. The UK’s spousal visa regime, some reflections
  23. Alternate history: Kerensky edition
  24. Complicity and the Reader
  25. Sunday photoblogging: St Michael’s Hill, frosty morning
  26. Forthcoming seminars
  27. In praise of credentialism

February 2017

  1. Pézenas, street
  2. Decent conservatives
  3. Russell Hardin has died
  4. He Took It All Too Far/But This is an Excellent Article
  5. Hospitals Are Terrible
  6. Bastiat anticipates climate science denialism
  7. Kenneth Arrow has died
  8. Sunday photoblogging: crane
  9. Durkheimian Utilitarianism
  10. Not-Normal, To Be Sure. But How Normal Is That?
  11. What Are We Doing to Stay Sane?
  12. A double disaster for science and public health (updated)
  13. Happy Valentine’s Day
  14. Sunday photoblogging: steps
  15. Howl’s Moving Castle
  16. Alan Simpson is dead
  17. Why we should put ‘basic’ before ‘universal’ in the pursuit of income equality
  18. Purity, Partisanship, Pluralism
  19. Whose Strike?
  20. Sunday photoblogging: off to to the match
  21. She Decides
  22. Trumpism in Australia
  23. The Thousand Day Reich: Civil Society
  24. Workless, or working less?

January 2017

  1. Doctor recommendations needed.
  2. Snitching on those in breach of immigration law
  3. Card-Carrying ACLU Member
  4. Trump’s migration ban
  5. Trumpcare, in its majesty
  6. The Corrupted, detectorists, and the Events at Black Tor
  7. Clackity Claque
  8. A term whose time has come round again.
  9. Morgan And (Pseudo) Science Fiction
  10. Moral Polarization and Many Pussyhats
  11. One fine day
  12. 2009
  13. A neglected equity issue on college campuses: instructional quality.
  14. Bodies In Motion; Kittens At Tea
  15. For You, to Cheer You Up
  16. Empire Games
  17. Is Trump a president with precedents? Would you rather Brexit, or Mr. Brexit?
  18. Sunday photoblogging: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
  19. Algorithmic Price Fixing, Amazon Variations
  20. Ride a Painted Pony
  21. Tu quoque revisited
  22. The Political Thought of Stephen K. Bannon
  23. Grumpy Cat Face: Good
  24. Algorithmic price fixing
  25. Sunday photoblogging: Paris metro
  26. The Wish Power Are Together With You
  27. Health policy: Excerpt from Economics in Two Lessons
  28. DJ Earworm 2016
  29. Brexit and Labour’s Disaster
  30. Market Failure and Income Distribution: Notes for Economics in Two Lessons
  31. Look, It’s Halley’s Comet!
  32. Tony Atkinson has died
  33. Columbia and grad student unionization
  34. Derek Parfit Has Died (Physically)
  35. Reason and Persuasion … And Academic E-Publishing
  36. Flyin’ Saucers Rock n’ Roll

2016 397

December 2016

  1. Frankenstein’s Children
  2. Education: Excerpt from Economics in Two Lessons
  3. Public Services: Excerpt from Economics in Two Lessons
  4. Happy Christmas, Timberteers
  5. All Around My Hat
  6. Public Ownership: Excerpt from Two Lessons book
  7. Welcoming the new boy at school
  8. The economics of open borders
  9. Racist incidents on campus
  10. Open thread: best books of 2016
  11. Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road
  12. Monopoly and Regulation: Excerpt from Two Lessons book
  13. New-ish Crime Writers — the East Coast
  14. Mama In Her Kerchief and I In My Madness: A Visitation of Sog-Nug-Hotep
  15. Conscription and the media narrative on refugees
  16. Sunday photoblogging: Blackbird
  17. Charles Paris
  18. Arrest help sought
  19. Caistor Grammar School Must Be Very Proud
  20. And now a word from the nineteenth century
  21. Greg Lake is dead
  22. The Opposite of The Velvet Underground is Steely Dan
  23. Whither Opportunity?
  24. Charter Schools in Perspective
  25. Sunday photoblogging: Redcliffe flats from Gaol Ferry Bridge
  26. Consumer sovereignty is a postulate, not a given
  27. Richmond Park and North Kingston
  28. Solving Newcomb’s problem with (possibly non) expected utility theory

November 2016

  1. Letters of Recommendation
  2. The day after Brexit
  3. New(ish) Crime Writers: Sophie Hannah
  4. 18th Brumaire, everywhere
  5. Hazards of Evolutionary Psychology, Royalty Edition
  6. Castro is dead
  7. Happy Thanksgiving – Moana edition
  8. Globalized Green Lanternism
  9. Introducing the Sandpit
  10. Distributed Disconfirmation: Refute This Animal Interrogatives Hypothesis!
  11. Kissing the ring
  12. Sunday photoblogging: car, leaves
  13. Trade after Trump
  14. The Claypool Lennon Delirium
  15. R.I.P. SEK – You Will Be Missed
  16. Pink Floyd – The Early Years
  17. On the national and international causes of Trumpism
  18. The dog that didn’t bark
  19. On the alleged failure of “liberal progressivism”
  20. Sunday photoblogging: morning sun, France
  21. 2 cents
  22. Armistice Day
  23. There’s a lot of ruin in a country*
  24. American democracy
  25. What can we do?
  26. Teaching Logic with Presidential debates
  27. I (still) believe
  28. Before the Flood
  29. Trump voters are (mostly) Romney voters
  30. Viva Las Vegas!
  31. Robin’s Reactionary Mind In The New Yorker – The Book That Didn’t Predict Not-Trump

October 2016

  1. Symposia on Family Values and on Gender Equality
  2. The Stone Tape
  3. Sunday photoblogging: railway line, Orio
  4. Sunday Fichte Anecdotes Plus Comics For 13-Year Old Girls
  5. Arguing against racism
  6. Who’s Up For Tabletop Games?
  7. Tom Hayden is Dead
  8. Six reasons for optimism (and one big one for pessimism)
  9. It adds a whole new meaning to ‘secret masters of fandom.’
  10. Sunday photoblogging: more Bogota pigeons
  11. The mystery behind a group of electoral maps
  12. Snappy!
  13. Between Kant and Hegel: Hen Kai Pan
  14. Unnecessary wars
  15. Paddy’s paying out on the presidency
  16. Crooked Timber comments: a big change
  17. John Peel’s 40th Birthday Programme
  18. A Science Fiction Tasting Menu for the As Yet Uninitiated
  19. Sunday photoblogging: Pigeons, Bogota
  20. Locke + Nozick = Locke
  21. Viv Stanshall Day 2016
  22. Adrian Grey-Turner, 1955-1986
  23. “What’s This Little Boy Doing Here?”
  24. Trump the Ringmaster and His Unwitting Clowns
  25. CUNY, All Too CUNY: Or, what happens when higher-ed hoodlums aren’t brought to heel?
  26. Spending money on classrooms
  27. If professors made $500k/year, would they be Republicans? (updated and corrected)
  28. Sex, Dice, and the Trump Tapes
  29. Sunday photoblogging: Cathedral, Bogota
  30. Shock and Aw, we knew it already
  31. If only Harvard had a philosopher who could tell it how to distribute resources justly…
  32. The UK in 2016
  33. Uber Menschen
  34. Bowling in Bratislava
  35. Notes from Colombia
  36. Scholars and Writers for Trump
  37. [Updated to send you to where the stuff can actually be found]

September 2016

  1. Privatization as State Transformation
  2. Homesteading
  3. Donald Trump: The Michael Dukakis of the Republican Party
  4. Glenn Reynolds should not be disciplined
  5. Worse than the Bourbons
  6. Why surveillance capitalism is every bit as bad as Stansted Airport
  7. Why have classroom discussions anyway?
  8. Brexit and bigotry
  9. Capitalism in the Age of Revolution: Burke, Smith, and the Problem of Value
  10. Sunday photoblogging: Gothic portico, Laguardia, Spain
  11. A Double-dose of Thymos!
  12. An observation and a conjecture about HRC’s health
  13. 50 years and one day later…
  14. Recognising racism
  15. Making a classroom discussion an actual discussion
  16. William F. Buckley, Totalitarian Bureaucracy Apologist?
  17. When a history professor at Yale opposes a grad union but doesn’t know her history…
  18. “What’s it all about, boy? Elucidate!” – or – How To Avoid Huge, Shipwrecked Minds
  19. Spinoza’s Dream
  20. Phyllis Schlafly, 1924-2016
  21. The Facts of Life
  22. Knee Deep In The Hoopla

August 2016

  1. On Corruption at CUNY
  2. After neoliberalism: a snippet
  3. Sunday photoblogging: Herefordshire sky, today
  4. The University of Chicago is made of safe spaces
  5. More Zorn
  6. Great Minds Think Alike
  7. Why it is not unfair to think of (nearly all) Brexiteers as racists
  8. Sunday photoblogging: wires near St David’s
  9. The Six Bunny Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana
  10. Donald Trump is the least of the GOP’s problems
  11. Against Locke: Part 3
  12. Sunday photoblogging: St David’s Cathedral
  13. Swords Against Punditry!
  14. Show, through poems in our literature, to what extent poetry may venture to set itself the task of presenting the Idea in a form coinciding with the philosophical understanding of it?
  15. Captain’s Holiday
  16. Caricature and Kierkegaard
  17. The lost world of Albert Kahn
  18. Nauru, Australia’s shame
  19. Sam Tanenhaus on William Styron on Nat Turner: Have we moved on from the Sixties? The Nineties?
  20. I Contribute To Schwitzgebel’s Extremely Long (And Growing!) List of SF and Philosophy Recs – Plus Thought-Experiments As Pulp Fiction
  21. Sunday photoblogging: hospital
  22. Book report
  23. The Kith of the Elf-Folk – Unberufen?
  24. Second thoughts
  25. More On Gaus’ The Tyranny of the Ideal
  26. Is The Cato Institute A, You Know, Libertarian Think-Tank?
  27. Zarathustra, Competing Values, Complexity, Foresight
  28. Trump’s Indecent Proposal
  29. Demography and irreligion, one year on

July 2016

  1. Sunday Photoblogging: Sunflower Symmetry
  2. Philadelphia Stories: From Reagan to Trump to the DNC
  3. Pre and Post-Scarcity Ecotheonomics
  4. DNC Open Thread
  5. Gag Me With Calhoun
  6. Donald Trump: Moosbrugger for President
  7. Do climate sceptics exist?
  8. Check Your Amnesia, Dude: On the Vox Generation of Punditry (Updated)
  9. How could a research university systematically improve undergraduate instruction?
  10. Life in the party
  11. Nuclear math doesn’t add up
  12. Winners at the RNC
  13. Sunday photoblogging: Hunter
  14. A small story
  15. Zarathustra and Kierkegaard
  16. Where now for the UK?
  17. Parris on the Brexiteers
  18. We can get rid of the Hitlers and the Himmlers, but not the Speers
  19. Sunday photoblogging: bee and borage
  20. #asamother
  21. Why Clinton’s New Tuition-Free Higher Ed Plan Matters
  22. Anti-militarism
  23. My Resistance to Elie Wiesel
  24. Austrian presidential elections: why not a recount?
  25. On Public Intellectuals: From the Talmud to Judith Butler
  26. Summer Reading for a Rainy Day
  27. Friday Comics!

June 2016

  1. Podcasts I just listened to
  2. Boris Johnson
  3. PSA: ATM skimmers
  4. The Schengen option ?
  5. Kierkegaard: Jokes, Ideals, Revise and Resubmit
  6. Reaping the Whirlwind
  7. Sunday photoblogging: Floating Harbour in Bristol
  8. I’ve got a good idea: let’s all blame Corbyn!!
  9. Brexit: the bloodbath
  10. The New St George?
  11. Sawdust and Empire by Attila the Stockbroker and Referendum Open Thread
  12. On Beyond Zarathustra – Z Speaks!
  13. Why we should sign the Thomas Pogge Open Letter
  14. Forgetting Oneself
  15. Philosophy and Smarts
  16. Review: Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson – American Amnesia
  17. The Age of Em Won’t Happen
  18. Sunday photoblogging: better together
  19. Exploring your surroundings through GPS-based games
  20. The Sandworm Solution
  21. Making our peace
  22. On Beyond Zarathustra – We’ve Moved!
  23. Kierkegaard on Ideality and Anxiety
  24. Bad Articles about Grad Student Unionization
  25. Peter Singer demonizes refugees as “queue jumpers”
  26. Sunday photoblogging: Liverpool
  27. When Advertising is Action: Clarence Thomas Channels Hannah Arendt and Friedrich von Hayek
  28. Brexit, social trust, migration and welfare: an ugly thought
  29. Trump and Political Correctness
  30. |-|>
  31. Lesson Plan
  32. Required reading
  33. Sunday photoblogging: Cork, Hanover Street
  34. Muhammad Ali, Thomas Hobbes, and the Politics of Fear
  35. England: twenty years and hurting
  36. History’s Lowlifes
  37. Dave Swarbrick is dead
  38. On Beyond Zarathustra – Zarathustra gets into town!
  39. Relevant
  40. What to read about Rousseau
  41. Why Majoring In Philosophy is Less Risky than You Might Have Thought

May 2016

  1. No, But We Have a Word For That, Pt 2
  2. We Have a Word For That, Pt. 1
  3. Look what they’ve done to my song, Ma
  4. The relentless shabbiness of CUNY: What is to be done?
  5. Sunday photoblogging: Cork door
  6. What Kind of Belt Is That Guy Wearing?
  7. Vindictive billionaires
  8. Intellectual property: Extract from Economics in Two Lessons (expanded and amended)
  9. Polanyi and Clopenings
  10. On Beyond Zarathustra
  11. 2016 presidential elections in Austria
  12. Trump and tribalism
  13. Sunday photoblogging: At the Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool
  14. Post-Democracy
  15. Philosophical consistency about politics – what is it good for?
  16. Lefty poseurs and Brexit
  17. Robert Kagan, Donald Trump, and the Liberal Imagination
  18. Sunday photoblogging: Gaol Ferry bridge
  19. Minimum wages and predistribution: Extract from Economics in Two Lessons
  20. Predistribution and profits: extract from Economics in Two Lessons
  21. The Communist Manifesto In Pictures
  22. The Magic Bookstore
  23. What’s so brilliant about Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning
  24. Why is global finance so profitable ?
  25. Aristotle: On Trolling
  26. Rubin gets it right
  27. The Party Divides?
  28. UK elections open thread
  29. If Donald Trump is the George McGovern of the GOP, what does that make Hillary Clinton?
  30. The greatest achievement in the history of sport, possibly
  31. Pirates! (Militarism whack-a-mole #73)
  32. Antisemitism in the Labour Party – what’s going on?
  33. Sunday photoblogging: chairs by St Augustine’s Reach, Bristol

April 2016

  1. Neoliberalism: A Quick Follow-up
  2. A data point on minimum wages
  3. Nakul Krishna on Malory Towers
  4. Predistribution: wages and unions (extract from Economics in Two Lessons)
  5. When Neoliberalism Was Young: A Lookback on Clintonism before the Clintons
  6. At last some justice for the 96
  7. John Palattella: A Writer’s Editor
  8. Brad DeLong is Seeing Red
  9. Sunday photoblogging: San Francisco – car and houses, Haight-Ashbury
  10. The Ethics of Non-strategic Voting (That Looks Like Strategic Voting)
  11. Today is Krauthammer Day #13
  12. The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living
  13. Branko Milanovic advocates reinventing apartheid
  14. Dilemmas of Educational Ethics
  15. Victoria Wood is dead.
  16. Expatriation and duties to compatriots
  17. I, for one …
  18. Sunday photoblogging: San Francisco street
  19. Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.
  20. Magical Realism, and other neoliberal delusions
  21. Troilus and Cressida and the Commerce Clause, Part I
  22. Prethinking the Commerce Clause (and Quantified Selves)
  23. Samuel Beckett on the Quantified Self
  24. Sunday photoblogging: Golden Gate bridge
  25. I love my students
  26. Gaps and holes: How the Swiss cheese was made
  27. Pure Partisanship, The New Nonpartisanship
  28. Keeping sea lanes open: a benefit cost analysis
  29. Gaps and holes
  30. Gender dynamics in the philosophy classroom
  31. The ethics of strategic voting.
  32. Sunday photoblogging: chair shadows
  33. A Very Very Brief Intellectual Autobiography
  34. And its goodnight from him.

March 2016

  1. We need more data on people’s – as in everybody’s – Internet uses
  2. The Bernie Sanders Moment: Brought to you by the generation that has no future
  3. Caricatures – Russell and Wittgenstein
  4. Sunday photoblogging: Riviera
  5. National Hero
  6. 2016 Hugos
  7. Did that really happen?
  8. Substantial Burden Test?
  9. “Evidence based policy” and the replicability crisis
  10. Historically, liberals and the Left have underestimated the Right. Today, they overestimate it.
  11. Sunday photoblogging: saxophonist
  12. You can’t spell ‘Schumpeter’ without the ‘chump’
  13. Happy Day After St. Patrick’s Day – Illustrators Named ‘Neill’ Edition
  14. Trolling Alone?
  15. So! How ‘Bout Those Primaries?
  16. I wouldn’t even know where to insert underpants gnomes into that argument
  17. The Definitive Take on Donald Trump
  18. Sunday photoblogging: bus shelter
  19. Are we dying of history?
  20. Conservatism at Yale
  21. Pilgrim
  22. Parallel universes
  23. Colliding with Mystery – or – It is difficult to get a man to intuit p-values when his h-index depends upon his not intuiting them
  24. Bitcoin Frenzy
  25. The Politics of Hair
  26. Repeal Taft-Hartley
  27. Feminist Philosophy – Open Access resources
  28. Are we there yet? Sexual harassment at ICANN
  29. Creative Commons as Anti-Spam Technology, Plus Frankenstein
  30. Nancy Reagan: Straight Outta Dreiser
  31. Sunday photoblogging: monochrome tulips
  32. Trump Talk
  33. Oral Majority
  34. The making of a popular photo app
  35. Amusing Physics (Branch of the Recreational Sciences)
  36. Monster Manual

February 2016

  1. The three party system
  2. Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road burial ground
  3. Reason and Persuasion – I think it’s a pretty good book
  4. Is an exchange rate like a national share price?
  5. Pen and Ink Week: The Collector
  6. Mistake it ’til you make it
  7. A Disquieting Suggestion
  8. Peak paper
  9. Sunday photoblogging: Rouen gargoyles
  10. D&D for Me and for Thee
  11. Strategies for reaching out to students who have gone missing or are falling behind
  12. That Apple FBI back door thing
  13. A Few US Election-Related Thoughts
  14. Cash and freedom
  15. Just a thought about the Post-Scalia Situation
  16. Antonin Scalia: The Donald Trump of the Supreme Court
  17. Sunday photoblogging: Redcliffe flats and the Avon, a second look
  18. All Your Heart And Strength Less You Make The Same Mistake
  19. Why is “Laborism” an increasing influence within the Democratic Party even though union density continues to decline?
  20. Jo Walton Seminar
  21. A Dialogue With a Very Odd Bibliography
  22. Socrates as Mary Sue
  23. A follow-up on the UK charity speech ban: impact on university research
  24. Today’s WTF moment brought to you by the legal department
  25. Plato vs. Metaphysics, or How Very Hard it Is to Un-Learn Freud
  26. Nick Cohen endorses “authoritarian measures” to deal with “illegal immigration”
  27. It’s a gas
  28. Sunday photoblogging: Redcliffe flats and the Avon
  29. Facebook’s algorithms are not your friend
  30. The UK government moves to purge the public conversation of unwanted voices
  31. 6 Nations!
  32. Thinking Through Violence in The Just City and The Philosopher Kings
  33. DJ Earworm 2015
  34. 90% of what goes on at The New Yorker can be explained by Vulgar Marxism
  35. Original Sin
  36. EU to criminalize those who rescue drowning refugees?
  37. Gods Behaving Badly
  38. Q: When is a dollar pegged to gold not on a gold standard? A: From 1934-1971
  39. Intertextuality, Feminism, and Reinforced Arguments in Thessaly
  40. Liberal, Conservative, Pangloss, Plotinus, Galton

January 2016

  1. Sunday Photoblogging: Stop! (San Francisco 2009)
  2. Terry Wogan is dead.
  3. We Philhellenists
  4. A question about group selection
  5. Millian Liberalism and the Irish Famine
  6. Six Essential Readings on Donald Trump
  7. Walton’s Republic
  8. Under the Lemon Tree, Distracted by Chores
  9. Wrong on Reconstruction, wrong on the alternatives to Reconstruction
  10. Democrats need to choose a real candidate not a symbolic one
  11. Unknown knowns
  12. Shackleton Solo; Journey’s End
  13. The Bitter Butter Battle Book
  14. In praise of unconferences
  15. Cass Sunstein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Other Public Intellectuals
  16. Sunday photoblogging: Washington Monument
  17. ‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands
  18. Bile, Bullshit, and Bernie: 17 Notes on a Dismal Campaign
  19. Reason and Persuasion Now Available In Many Fine Formats
  20. You Keep Using That Word
  21. Today is a year before US presidential inauguration day. We’re very sure of this.
  22. On the inadequacy of “Great Recession”
  23. A note on Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet
  24. Sunday photoblogging: Llanberis
  25. An inconvenient gun fact for Nicholas Kristof
  26. Ellen Meiksins Wood, 1942-2016
  27. And these children that you spit on/ As they try to change their worlds
  28. The Passion of the West, being some notes on Tarantino’s Hateful Eight
  29. Aaron Swartz died three years ago today
  30. David Bowie
  31. Sunday photoblogging: Washington Monument with plane
  32. Plato Can Make You A Man!
  33. Happy Roy Batty Incept Date!
  34. The Great War of 1911 (updated)
  35. Thomas Piketty seminar
  36. Capital, Predistribution and Redistribution
  37. The Greatest Conman of the 20th Century
  38. Sunday photoblogging: the centre of attention
  39. Hitchens on the English and their history

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