Quote about movements from Tyler Cowen “Every movement…has a smart version and a stupid version, I try to (almost) always consider the smart version. The stupid version is always wrong for just about anything.”
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Radical Efforts to End Homelessness: A Sober Utopia
2017.01.12 – 23:41
Radical Efforts to End Homelessness: A Sober Utopia from: January 12, 2017 at 11:34PM
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
2017.01.10 – 11:21
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority Nassim Nicholas Taleb: “It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences. Further, an optical illusion […]
An Expert Called Lindy
2017.01.10 – 10:43
An Expert Called Lindy Nassim Nicholas Taleb: “Ideas need to have skin in the game. You know that the idea will fail if it is not useful, and can be therefore subjected to the falsification of time. The more an idea has been around without being falsified, the longer its future life expectancy. Note that […]
Stephen Skowronek’s theory of the cycles of presidential history
2017.01.08 – 16:21
Stephen Skowronek’s theory of the cycles of presidential history “He claims all of presidential history follows a distinct pattern: “Reconstructive” presidents like Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan (to take only the last two cycles) transform American politics in their own image, clearing the field of viable competition and setting the terms of political debate. They […]
How To Be Calm Under Pressure: 3 Secrets From A Bomb Disposal Expert
2017.01.08 – 16:18
How To Be Calm Under Pressure: 3 Secrets From A Bomb Disposal Expert from: January 8, 2017 at 04:07PM
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi
2017.01.08 – 16:00
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi Safi has compared reading Rumi without the Koran to reading Milton without the Bible: even if Rumi was heterodox, it’s important to recognize that he was heterodox in a Muslim context—and that Islamic culture, centuries ago, had room for such heterodoxy. Rumi’s works are not just […]
THE NATIONALISTS’ DILEMMA
2017.01.06 – 13:52
THE NATIONALISTS’ DILEMMA from: January 6, 2017 at 12:37PM
2016 LIEBERMAN AWARD WINNER: TIM KAINE
2017.01.05 – 00:46
2016 LIEBERMAN AWARD WINNER: TIM KAINE from: January 4, 2017 at 11:32PM
‘To Those Who Follow in Our Wake’ by Bertolt Brecht
2017.01.04 – 23:26
'To Those Who Follow in Our Wake' by Bertolt Brecht Every time I talk about baseball on Twitter now, I think about these lines: What times are these, in which A conversation about trees is almost a crime For in doing so we maintain our silence about so much wrongdoing!
Adrienne Rich Reads “What Kind of Times Are These”
2017.01.04 – 20:46
Adrienne Rich Reads “What Kind of Times Are These” from: January 4, 2017 at 06:47PM