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The US Navy loses another war

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/09/04/the-us-navy-loses-another-war/

Published: September 4, 2026 01:23

… but that won’t change any minds It’s now six months since the US-Israel war on Iran began with air attacks which killed the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei as well as around 200 schoolchildren. The war has dragged on a long time. But before that…

Don’t use a gmail.com address

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/09/03/dont-use-a-gmail-com-address/

Published: September 3, 2026 05:12

We are being flooded with spam coming from fake gmail.com addresses at the moment. So, for the moment, I’ve set our spam filter to delete everything from gmail.com If you want to post a real comment, just give a spurious address like anon.com and use your…

Taylor Swift: The Good Billionaire?

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/09/03/taylor-swift-the-good-billionaire/

Published: September 3, 2026 04:38

I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago, responding to a challenge* to write about the economic aspects of Taylor Swift. Not long after that, the world lost the marvellous Dolly Parton. Parton’s lifetime income almost certainly exceeded a billion dollars,…

Teaching pluralizing political philosophy

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/08/31/teaching-pluralizing-political-philosophy/

Published: August 31, 2026 19:49

A couple of years ago, I edited a volume on pluralizing political philosophy, in particular in relation to economic and ecological inequalities. It was put together under the Covid-pandemic, so we had to swap the authors-conference for online meetings,…

Gold and Myth in the Australian Blue Mountains

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/08/28/gold-and-myth-in-the-australian-blue-mountains/

Published: August 28, 2026 05:51

At the end of a glorious day hanging out at galleries, antique shops and the pub with friend and historian Matt Allen we walked to the station at Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, Australia (where I live) for Matt to get the train back to the city. We were…

Why Ceuta is European, and what came of it

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/08/25/why-ceuta-is-european-and-what-came-of-it/

Published: August 25, 2026 21:43

Ceuta, the small Spanish enclave on the coast of North Africa, has been in the news lately.  And I’ve seen a couple of articles mentioning that Ceuta has been a Spanish possession since 1668. Which triggered my inner history nerd, because on one hand…

AI and the reshuffling of labor

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/08/21/ai-and-the-reshuffling-of-labor/

Published: August 21, 2026 06:36

A summer anecdote: when on holidays in France, on a sunny August day, we visited a castle garden in rural Normandy. When buying the tickets, we got the usual: “Your postcode or country of origin?” We said “Germany,” and suddenly the face of the young woman…

The economics of Swifties

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/08/18/the-economics-of-swifties/

Published: August 18, 2026 18:29

Yesterday, I ran my first gimmick promotion for the Brisbane to Gold Coast Ride against Cancer [1]. I invited anyone who donated $100 to nominate a topic on which I should write a post. Reader Daniela Brins-Norris has taken me up on the offer, and asked…

Ceuta Summit: What Vitoria would tell Sánchez about migration

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/08/18/ceuta-what-vitoria-would-tell-about-migration/

Published: August 18, 2026 10:26

The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, likes to invoke international law. Imagine that one day, someone had finally responded to him. Not just anyone, but one of the founding fathers of international law. It happened just after the Ceuta incident, in…