notes for the coming community

I have been using this strange medium for the past six years as a public notebook. Some of the sketches posted in this blog found their wa...

I have a question for you: What is the proportion between the time you spend, on the one hand, reading and thinking and writing in your ...

1. The great fear of the nineteenth century was that amorphous blob called “the masses.” The masses were irrational, unpredictable, ungove...

An academic job is much more demanding than it seems. You need to do a lot of work to hide the fact that you don't really have anything ...

“How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life” --Wittgenstein Granted, there is not much money to be made doing theoretical work. Which...

"The finest thing about New York City, I think, is that it is like one of those complicated Renaissance clocks where on one level an al...

This diagram was prepared by Bruce Jessen, a psychologist whose work was instrumental in the design of the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques...