This is a nice piece capturing an interesting observation by Dan Drezner (whom as you may have noticed from my blog is someone I find often stimulating) about the explosion in the past 10 or so years...

Semester's begun, and so life is getting complicated.  But I'm hoping to still deposit something on this blog most days.  Today, two things!  Here are some links.

This is really a good question...

This is good:

Being nice, in “Ted Lasso,” is not a naïve denial of the darkness of life. It’s a cleareyed adaptation to it. The series recognizes that nice guys do sometimes finish last. It just...

This, an older (2018) essay by Lauren Oyler, is really interesting. I think, at its heart, this is a critique of, or a resistance to, the idea that our lives should always and everywhere intentionally...

So cool, both in method of study and in conclusions drawn.  “This new evidence adds to a growing realization that the Bronze Age was surprisingly global, with long-distance trade connections...

Some colleagues and I have received a grant to study gratitude across several traditions.  We'll be looking at theological work on this, philosophical work on this, and literary work on this!  It's...

From today (Sat Feb 6 2021)'s POLITICO "Playbook" morning newsletter:

As regards the idea that QAnon supporters are uneducated, we have this:

Our partners at Morning Consult have done some...

Catch the allusion?

This I think is a good sign about governments standing up to tech companies.  The degree of tech pushback suggests how scared they are.

Phil Klay, great fiction writer, and...

Just some stuff I've got stored up.  Cool, though.

If you want to read something to think in a different register than we’re all thinking in now, and will all mostly be thinking in, for a while, t...

It's been a hard time, though this past week brought a restoration of sanity in the US Federal government--that's a big thing for the US, and really for the world.  But there's lots more insanity and...