Every now and again I mention a book I'm reading, especially if it's interesting. This week I finished Elijah Anderson's nice The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life (New York, WW Norton, 2011), and I thought I'd just mention it. The book is a thoughtful study of the...

There has been “an evolution in the way investors, economists and central bankers think about government debt.” This article usefully charts that evolution...

It's a new month! I didn't realize this till after noon today, scarily enough. This year will be strange to remember. A good review of what seems to be a pretty thorough biography of Zygmunt Bauman, the Polish social theorist who wrote Modernity and the Holocaust and Liquid Modernity, among other works. ...