This piece makes an increasingly common argument about how higher end needs to disenthrall itself from the spell of “growth” ideology. In some ways it’s part of a larger critique of growth coming out...

Last full week of summer, before the academic year starts next week.  This means of course that the foreshadowing of the near future has eclipsed my possibility of enjoying this week as summer, at...

Off in some part of the world that is not home, I post these links just to give proof of life.

Good interview with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, a young philosopher whose work is interesting on several...

Nothing too exciting:

A sober assessment, by a progressive, of the deeply un-sober course the conservative movement in the United States is likely to take in coming years.

A really nice piece...

Sometimes my posts provoke more feedback than other times.  Those are typically the bad posts.  Some other times, no one notices them at all.  That seems to be the case with the demographics piece I...

Adam Tooze on what’s coming: A world not anchored in either Eastern or Western Eurasia, but elsewhere, and increasingly in Africa: “Asia’s return to the center of the world economy dominates the...

I have long appreciated George Orwell’s little essay “Politics and the English language,” though I am not a fanatic about it, as some, I think mistakenly, are. What I admire about the piece is what I...

Just a few links today:

Very good piece by my friend Johann Neem about the current state, and future prospects, of America's historical self-understanding. 

A great story about when scientists...

Just some stuff:

Nice piece on Adorno’s Minima Moralia. “The task of Minima Moralia is to assist us in seeing the redemptive surplus that lies unrealised at the interstices of everyday experience...

A small thing for Saturday: 

There will be 8 billion people alive on this planet by the end of this year; a max human population of 10.4 billion will be reached by 2086; next year, there will be more...