The lighter blogging pace will continue next week
I am not an every-day-a-post blogger, so the fact that I am headed out this week on a trip visiting colleges with Younger Offspring will not otherwise be noticed, except that I will be taking notes on the Art of Visiting, which some readers may remember from a few years hence with Older Offspring (who […]
Where did the work ethic go for Charles Murray?
Charles Murray “has said all of these things about black people before” — Joan Walsh, review of Coming Apart in Slate. When you’re well past your prime of peddling racist venom to elites who want to feel better about themselves, you have to reinvent things for the new century. Charles Murray has long argued the intellectual […]
An historian’s messy attempt to understand neoliberalism
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings. ((Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter, in Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)) “… And homo economicus, and sanctions that […]