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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made
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Machines and tools
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/05/01/52657/
Published: May 1, 2024 05:52
It’s International Workers Day, still celebrated as the May Day public holiday here in Queensland, at least when the Labor party is in office. So, it’s a good day for me to set out some tentative thoughts on work and its future. Via Matt McManus, I found…
The destruction of Argentina’s higher education and science system
Published: April 30, 2024 19:02
Scientific research, academic knowledge production, and higher education are under an obscene and direct attack today in Argentina. Milei’s attack is not an isolated case. To a certain extent, it is part of a global phenomenon, i.e. the rampant…
Sunday photoblogging: PĂ©zenas
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/28/sunday-photoblogging-pezenas-4/
Published: April 28, 2024 15:00
Going Meta on Culture Wars
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/26/going-meta-on-culture-wars/
Published: April 26, 2024 09:34
Culture wars have two main functions. First, to split an existing, dominant social or political coalition apart by the clever use of wedge-issues. (Not all wedge-issues are a part of a culture war.) So, a culture war reveals a latent or induces real…
Sunday photoblogging: crossroads
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/21/sunday-photoblogging-crossroads/
Published: April 21, 2024 05:49
Online talks
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/20/online-talks/
Published: April 20, 2024 01:22
I’ve been doing a bunch of talks and events online, mostly not CT related, but a couple that might be interesting to readers. One that certainly is is this conversation with Francis Spufford, which is a coda to Red Plenty. Some of my bits of the…
Expertise and naval power
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/20/expertise-and-naval-power/
Published: April 20, 2024 00:16
Robert Farley has replied to my recent post on the obsolescence of naval power. Unlike our previous exchange, a pile-on where I was (as he points out) in a minority of one, Robert’s tone is mostly civil this time, and I intend to reciprocate. Our…
Wenar on why you shouldn’t try to help poor people
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/17/wenar-on-why-you-shouldnt-try-to-help-poor-people/
Published: April 17, 2024 22:44
In all the discussion of Leif Wenar’s critique of Effective Altruism , I haven’t seen much mention of the central premise: that development aid is generally counterproductive (unless, perhaps, it’s delivered by wealthy surfers in their spare time). Wenar…
Academic Freedom, State Legislatures and Public Universities (Wisconsin edition).
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/17/52615/
Published: April 17, 2024 13:13
Gina’s post on Indiana’s DEI-related law came at a fortuitous time for me, because last week I participated in a panel about State Legislatures, Academic Freedom and Public Universities. The panelists were given about 6 minutes to present some prepared…
Crooked Timberish books and other writings
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/04/17/crooked-timberish-books-and-other-writings/
Published: April 17, 2024 07:03
I’m sure Crooked Timber readers would been keen to learn of exciting new books out just now from Daniel Davies and Kieran Healy. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy have published The Ordinal Society , arguing that “argue that technologies of information…