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Hazlitt, Keynes and the glazier’s fallacy — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2014/07/24/hazlitt-keynes-and-the-glaziers-fallacy
Hazlitt, Keynes and the glazier’s fallacy. July 24, 2014. I’ve been working for quite a while now on a book which will respond to Henry Hazlitt’s. Economics in One Lesson. A book that was issued just after 1945 and has remained in print ever since. It’s an adaptation of the work of the 19th century French free-market advocate Frederic Bastiat for a US audience, specifically aimed at refuting the then-novel ideas of Keynes. My planned title is. Economics in Two Lessons. Second, they can target their effor...
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Nietzsche Wins The Internet in 1886 — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/28/nietzsche-wins-the-internet
Nietzsche Wins The Internet in 1886. July 28, 2015. Couple weeks back I pointed out. Nietzsche was an internet theorist. He is a nice observer of the psychology of it. Stand tall, you philosophers and friends of knowledge, and beware of martyrdom! Of suffering “for the sake of truth”! Even of defending yourselves! And you of all people, her Knights of the Most Sorrowful Countenance, my Lord Slacker and Lord Webweaver of the Spirit! Beyond Good and Evil. 8217; – corner stander. Does it mean:. She is defen...
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Hurdy-Gurdy Facts and Fictions? — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/20/hurdy-gurdy-facts-and-fictions
Hurdy-Gurdy Facts and Fictions? July 20, 2015. I’m still preparing to teach Nietzsche. Today I was rereading “The Convalescent”, in. 8211; the key chapter in which the animals clue Z. in that his job shall be to teach Eternal Recurrence. A minor linguistic detail auf Deutsch. He is moping in the depths of his most abysmal thought and they – the animals – sing to him about how everything that goes around, comes around, and he calls them ‘barrel organs’ [. And accuses them of bothering him with a mere.
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Demography and irreligion — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/30/demography-and-irreligion
July 30, 2015. A few months ago, I was a bit surprised to read a report put out by the Pew Research Center predicting that the proportion of the world population without a religious affiliation would decline sharply by 2050. Which suggests the analysis should be solid. Still, I thought I would dig a bit, and found a longer version of the report here. Those born from 1981 onwards). This report showed that less than 60 per cent of Millennials currently report a Christian religious affiliation, compared...
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Hey, Kids – Colors! — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/29/hey-kids-colors
Hey, Kids – Colors! July 29, 2015. Do you like colors? Do you like art? If you answered ‘yes’ to both questions, you might find this site. 072915 at 1:09 am. Thank you. This is completely amazing. 072915 at 1:41 am. Coincidentally – Colors and the Kids by Cat Power is another song about me, and Matador Records won’t act on my complaint that it is not right for Chan Marshall to have written songs on Moon Pix recorded in Australia about me. The pertinent lyrics are:. 8220;It must be the colors. And what is...
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The generation game — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2012/08/17/the-generation-game-2
August 17, 2012. The generation game is played with particular vigour in cultural commentary, but its reach seems to be extending all the time. No US. Presidential election would now be complete without voluminous commentary on the generational backgrounds of the contenders. There is even a branch of economics called generational accounting, which is supposed to show whether one generation is subsidising another through the tax and welfare system. Age-group posturing of this kind changes in response to c...
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On the New York Intellectuals — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/26/on-the-new-york-intellectuals
On the New York Intellectuals. July 26, 2015. I first read Irving Howe in college, in Andrew Ross’ seminar on intellectuals. We read Howe’s ” The New York Intellectuals. 8221; I don’t remember what I thought of it. What I remember is that Howe was an object of great attraction for someone like me, the epitome of the independent left intellectual. This past year, I’ve been re-reading Howe. His literary criticism, which I used to love, now leaves me cold. 8221; It first appeared in . 3 The one politic...
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Real liberals fight fascism — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2015/04/27/real-liberals-fight-fascism
Real liberals fight fascism. April 27, 2015. Now, or recently, at newsagents. For 17 April, you can find my essay. On Nicholas Wapshott’s The Sphinx. About the presidential election of 1940, the isolationists, and how Franklin Roosevelt engineered the US shift toward war. The essay starts like this:. The New Deal gave Americans not only the material capacity to fight fascism, but faith in American institutions. Which is why, of course, the prevalence of remarks like this one. 042715 at 11:49 pm. Cassande...
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31 days of garlic — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2015/01/04/31-days-of-garlic
31 days of garlic. January 4, 2015. I like garlic and I’m also convinced that it has health benefits. I’d like to make fresh garlic a regular part of my diet. I realized that I’m not traveling at all in January so I will have more say in what I eat than is often the case when I travel. Thus my 31 Days of Garlic challenge was born. I’m fine with repeating approaches, but I’d also like to spice things up a bit (sorry). Will you help me? What should be next for my 31 Days of Garlic challenge? Thank you....
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Housework in Utopia — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/03/housework-in-utopia
May 3, 2012. The immediate reason for this post is the Crooked Timber discussion of my previous post on world meat supplies which morphed into a (mainly First World) arguments about cooking. But my bigger concern is the need for the left to offer a feasible utopian vision as an alternative to the irrationalist tribalism of the right. The second condition is the one that’s politically interesting, of course. But unless the first, primarily technological condition is satisfied, there’s no p...4) we can con...
