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Via Tyler Cowen, Lev Grossman of Time and The Magicians (which I liked quite a bit, up to the end, but didn’t love) provides his personal list of the six best fantasy novels of all time . I’ll observe that any list of ‘best novels’ which includes one series consisting of ...
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3 Quarks Daily are running another competition, this time for best political post, with Tariq Ali as final adjudicator. Those so inclined should get over there and nominate. NB that this is not an implicit bleg to nominate CT posts – if you really want to, go ahead, but the major social ...
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Okay, so he’s 65 and perhaps his voice isn’t what it once was – actually, I’m not sure his voice was ever what it once was – I haven’t seen him play live for probably 25 years, so I can’t really remember too well. But oh, those songs! He’s touring ...
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Ezra Klein has a bloggingheads diavwossname in which he makes – among other points – pretty much the same point he makes at the end of this column . Namely, a good diet isn’t a function of not eating a huge amount on Thanksgiving. It’s a matter of eating a little better ...
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The British government recently changed its immigration policy . Well, I say it changed it, but perhaps what it did or, worse, “signalled”, was to intensify its existing policy. Immigration to the UK from outside the EU is, henceforth, to be driven by the needs of the labour market. ...
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British Retail Consortium
For anyone interested, the Liberal (=conservative) Party of Australia is imploding, in real time, on Twitter
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23spill
The issue: climate change.
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In this Newsweek piece, Sharon Begley suggests that a failure of the Copenhagen climate talks may not be such a bad thing, but hastens to add
Seeing the failure of Copenhagen as something short of Armageddon is not contrarianism for contrarianism’s sake.
It’s good to see that ...
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crookedtimber.org - 26 hours ago
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I’d almost be happier if this turned out
to be some kind of fake. But in the...
meantime, while you may think of it as a badly flawed and unfair pie chart, I prefer to see it as actually just an extreme version of a genuine pie chart.
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The Visual Display of Stupid
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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight ...
found this 26 hours agofound this
Ilya Somin at the Volokhs
I am no fan of populism of either the left or right-wing variety. In my view, most populist movements exploit voter ignorance and irrationality to promote policies that tend to do far more harm than good. That said, I have been pleasantly surprised by the ...
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Barack Obama
Via Kevin Jon Hellee and Una Vera , I just came across Jeremy Scahill’s Nation piece about Blackwater’s operations in Pakistan . Nasty stuff, not the least of which is the allegation that Blackwater operatives are masquerading as aid workers. The predictable consequence will be that ...
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I hereby declare – for the benefit of anyone at Oxford UP who might be reading – that I was going to require my (probably 50-or-so) students next semester to buy your serviceable little paperback volumes: Woolhouse’s The Empiricists and Cottingham’s The Rationalists . I ...
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I was cleaning out the files the other day—not the files in my office file cabinets (I did that in August for the first time in years, and let me tell you, it was so much fun I kept it up for days), but the files in my trusty little laptop, the very device on which I write these words ...
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This post is going to have it all: comics, fonts, broadbrush high-lowbrow cultural opinionation, curiously reasonably priced British TV.
We’ll start with fonts. Why did the modernists go ga-ga for sans serif? Take Tschichold, my recent subject of study . Early in his career, he ...
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crookedtimber.org - 3 days ago
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Ten types of commenter, of which the last
are the rarest. The commenter who has not read...
the post properly, decides they know what it says anyway, and fires off a series of disgusted observations. Commenter who applies the most ...
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A vaguely passive-aggressive post on commenters
I’m finally collecting my thoughts in response to Chris’ post on Consequentialism and Communism , particularly this remark imputing to consequentialists in general the very same disregard for, or scepticism about, the rights of individuals, the same willingness to sacrifice ...
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So as Ingrid notes , EU member states have chosen Von Rompuy as the new President of the European Council. To use the terms that Euro-politicians have themselves been using (which were nicked, presumably by Brian Cowen, from the title of a political science text on Irish Taoisigh), they have ...
Currencies
To judge by an Associated Press report, the field of Oprah Studies will soon become a historical discipline:
I’ve now spent more time reading the literature than I ever have watching the show. Some of it has been very instructive. There was, for example, a journal article from a few ...
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So the news is spreading that the Belgian PM, Herman Van Rompuy, would be the first president of the EU. I am not going to comment on what that means for the EU now. It’s after nine in the evening here, and I’m preparing my teaching for tomorrow morning (and for reasons I need not ...
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crookedtimber.org - 6 days ago
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It’s been slow going, but I’ve finally finished
the draft chapter of my book-in-progress that looks forward...
to a new research program for macroeconomics, an absurdly ambitious task, but one that needs to be tackled. Of course, what ...
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Bookblogging: What next for macroeconomics ?
