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- When Armor Met Lips https://crookedtimber.org/2024/03/16/occasional-paper-when-armor-met-lips 58 comments
- The Religion of the Engineers; and Hayek Its True Prophet https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/13/the-religion-of-the-engineers-and-hayek-its-true-prophet/ 4 comments
- Silicon Valley's worldview is not just an ideology; it's a personality disorder https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/15/silicon-valleys-worldview-is-not-just-an-ideology-its-a-personality-disorder/ 95 comments
- What ChatGPT reveals about the collapse of support for higher education https://crookedtimber.org/2023/01/05/what-chatgpt-reveals-about-the-collapse-of-political-corporate-support-for-humanities-higher-education/ 83 comments
- No laptops, no phones in class https://crookedtimber.org/2022/12/22/no-laptops-no-phones/ 30 comments
- Seeing Like a Finite State Machine http://crookedtimber.org/2019/11/25/seeing-like-a-finite-state-machine/ 40 comments
- In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You (2012) http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/ 109 comments
- Can we get to 350 ppm? Yes we can http://crookedtimber.org/2017/07/22/42710/ 26 comments
- A Brief Theory of Very Serious People http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/22/a-brief-theory-of-very-serious-people/ 4 comments
- Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings http://crookedtimber.org/2011/07/30/text-editors-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/ 5 comments
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- Voyager 1’s Lonely Death https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/ 24 comments science
- Working to Rule http://crookedtimber.org/2017/10/23/working-to-rule/ 3 comments europe
- Kissing the ring http://crookedtimber.org/2016/11/20/kissing-the-ring/ 4 comments politics
- The Bernie Sanders Moment: Brought to you by the generation that has no future http://crookedtimber.org/2016/03/29/the-bernie-sanders-moment-brought-to-you-by-the-generation-that-has-no-future/ 28 comments politics
- Nietzsche and the geneology of trolling http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/10/the-genealogy-of-trolling/ 38 comments philosophy
- John Quiggin: "It’s now possible for someone to have spent their entire working life believing that Social Security would not last long enough for them to receive it, and now to have retired and started collecting benefits." http://crookedtimber.org/2014/03/23/social-security-wont-be-around-long-enough-for-me-to-collect-it/ 31 comments politics
- Ukraine: who to read, what to believe? http://crookedtimber.org/2014/03/03/ukraine-who-to-read-what-to-believe/ 12 comments russia
- Squeezing the rich is good: even when it raises no money http://crookedtimber.org/2014/02/02/squeezing-the-rich-is-good-even-when-it-raises-no-money/ 7 comments politics
- If this is “secular stagnation”, I want my old job back http://crookedtimber.org/2013/11/21/if-this-is-secular-stagnation-i-want-my-old-job-back/ 3 comments politics
- “capitalism is a rigged game, in which the ability to fix the next round is part of the prize for winning this one.” http://crookedtimber.org/2013/08/22/cronyism-and-the-global-city-again/ 7 comments politics
- To inform workers of their rights is an infringement of liberty for employers. http://crookedtimber.org/2013/06/17/rights-of-labor-tyranny-of-capital/ 3 comments politics
- I am not a racist. I just don’t like democracy. http://crookedtimber.org/2013/03/14/i-am-not-a-racist-i-just-dont-like-democracy/ 5 comments politics
- Post-Democracy: "What we have seen is not an expansion of free markets, but instead increased oligopolistic concentration, combined with an ever-larger set of ambiguous relationships in which government and business interests are impossible to distinguish from each other." http://crookedtimber.org/2013/02/11/post-democracy/ 3 comments politics
- Let It Bleed: Libertarianism and the Workplace | What makes the private sector, especially the workplace, such an attractive instrument of repression is precisely that it can administer punishments without being subject to the constraints of the Bill of Rights. http://crookedtimber.org/2012/07/01/let-it-bleed-libertarianism-and-the-workplace/ 36 comments politics
- So, what would your plan for Greece be? http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/16/so-what-would-your-plan-for-greece-be/ 39 comments greece
- I love it so much: a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' style article that puts everyone (left or right) to shame who thinks there is an easy answer to the financial crisis. http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/16/so-what-would-your-plan-for-greece-be/ 18 comments europe
- So, What Would Your Plan For Greece Be? Daniel Davies | Crooked Timber | 16 February 2012 It's easy to criticise the Troika's rescue efforts. But could you do better? Use the options here to cobble together a plan of your own http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/16/so-what-would-your-plan-for-greece-be/ 5 comments worldnews
- Page 72 http://crookedtimber.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/2010-02-24-determinism.png 5 comments reddit.com
- Gender divides in Philosophy and other disciplines http://crookedtimber.org/2011/02/04/gender-divides-in-philosophy-and-other-disciplines/ 44 comments philosophy
- Scientists create artificial meat in a test tube. Hope to roll it out into sausages in the next 5 years http://crookedtimber.org/2009/11/30/artificial-meat/ 79 comments reddit.com
- Artificial, test-tube grown meat. It is finally here. http://crookedtimber.org/2009/11/30/artificial-meat/ 8 comments science
- CIA says torture investigations will make operatives more hesitant in future - the problem being...? http://crookedtimber.org/2009/08/30/the-problem-being/ 13 comments politics
- Bait and Switch - a cool idea for a new Mac ad http://crookedtimber.org/2009/04/18/switch-and-bait/ 9 comments apple
- Amazon’s price discrimination: Get charged more for being logged in! http://crookedtimber.org/2008/12/22/amazons-price-discrimination/ 4 comments reddit.com
- The Department of Sensitive Words - actually exists in the UK. The US should have one. http://crookedtimber.org/2009/03/26/the-department-of-modest-proposals/ 9 comments politics
- What elections would look like: poor voters vs rich http://crookedtimber.org/2007/10/26/rich-state-poor-state/ 18 comments politics
- The crisis in Belgium - comprehensive intro to the situation from Ingrid Robeyns of CT http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/19/the-ingredients-of-the-belgian-cocktail/ 5 comments politics
- Starting to look like the White House and Republicans are afraid of the Daily Show... http://crookedtimber.org/2007/08/28/suspicious-timing/ 20 comments reddit.com
- Republican support is contracting to a base of about 25 per cent of the population whose views are getting more extreme,...because of the party’s success in constructing a parallel universe of news sources, thinktanks, blogs, pseudo-scientists http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/27/eumerica/ 15 comments reddit.com
- Most 'economists' aren't: study finds econ Ph.Ds fail basic quiz http://crookedtimber.org/2006/02/18/most-economists-arent/ 12 comments reddit.com