TL;DR: In case you came in late… progress is possible! The number of people living in extreme poverty – both as a percentage of global… Read More »Not long ago; or, Little by little (12): Armentano, Niehaus and Vogl on How Poverty Fell
This is from his interview on the Coleman Hughes podcast. This section starts starts at 8:40. Coleman Hughes: What were the most surprising and informative… Read More »Tyler Cowen on the experience, culture and politics of poverty
Words from the past for the present. … no name, no power, no function, no artificial institution whatsoever, can make the men, of whom any… Read More »Edmund Burke on virtue, experience and political leadership
I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society [the English Revolutionary Society, which wrote… Read More »Edmund Burke on Circumstances and Political Principles; or, Context is King
Sarah Paine is a professor of History and Grand Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. This excellent lecture sheds a lot of light on… Read More »Worldview: Sarah Paine on Japanese culture and strategy in World War 2
Arendt wrote the prologue to The Human Condition not long after the successful launch of Sputnik raised the first realistic prospect of humanity taking its… Read More »Hannah Arendt on science, language, politics and our future machine overlords
The Digital Antiquarian tells the history of computers and specifically computer gaming. It’s an amazing resource, and most of the articles are downloadable in .epub… Read More »Wonders of the Internet: Jimmy Maher, the Digital Antiquarian on The Fall of Sierra
Despite my silence for the last few of weeks, rest assured that I have not been asleep at the wheel… Greetings First off, Merry –… Read More »Driverless Christmas
(And relevant, I suspect, to more developed ones). This piece from Oliver Kim resonates with my struggle to get good (methodologically clear, sufficiently granular, consistent,… Read More »Quixotic Monuments to False Prediction: Oliver Kim and Morten Jervens on GDP in developing countries
… we [the representatives of Corinth] consider that we have as good a right as any one to point out a neighbour’s faults, particularly when… Read More »Thucydides: Innovation and Rapid Iteration vs Conservativism in the Peloponnesian War