Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution–and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it–occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn’t industrialization make the whole world rich–and why did it make large parts of … Read more
Institutions progress but human beings don’t, and their capacity for cruelty and violence is infinite. A pessimistic thought, to be sure. But British philosopher Roger Scruton is rather optimistic about pessimism. Indeed, in The Uses of Pessimism he prescribes “a dose” of that very tendency as the tonic for the kind of utopian thinking indulged … Read more
Mr. Sargeant hat ein nettes kleines Review von monochrom #26-34 gepostet… An epic at some 500 pages long, the weight and length of this volume is like a fucking telephone book. Do you remember journals / ‘zines’ such as Vague or Semiotext(e)? This has the feel of publications like that. And amongst many other pieces, … Read more
Mr. Sargeant posted a nice review of monochrom #26-34… An epic at some 500 pages long, the weight and length of this volume is like a fucking telephone book. Do you remember journals / ‘zines’ such as Vague or Semiotext(e)? This has the feel of publications like that. And amongst many other pieces, it features … Read more
The field of law, as a consumer of scientific knowledge, should be of particular interest to those who study science and argue about the role of values in scientific work. In agencies and legislatures (and in administrative and committee hearings), science is used to produce or support policy decisions; “scientific” conclusions about risk or harm, … Read more
In Le Monde diplomatique‘s August podcast Chase Madar, a civil rights lawyer in New York and author of “The state versus a boy soldier”, talks to George Miller about the laws of war and the different ways in which they are violated. Link