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Figuring out the strange new rules of resource constraint
Just a decade ag
William Hague gets on board
William Hague has caught the bug for democratic lottery. And he writes about it well. This simple sentence is a nice little microcosm.
Michael Polanyi in 1960 on Teilhard de Chardin on evolution
Michael Polanyi was highly suspicious of the hyper-reductionism of neo-Darwinism. It’s reduction of the evolution of a thing so vast as life into a single causal mechanism. And it was a good call.
The Voice For John Stuart Mill
The biggest winner from the referendum on the weekend is John Stuart Mill.
There’s a strand of left-wing orthodoxy these days that deprecates free speech and brands opposing viewpoints as dangerous wrongthink. This firebrand mode of thinking is excellent at producing an engaged cabal of supporters, but its fruits will often face oblivion in the privacy of one’s own voting booth.
Sotto Voce: The case for an informal vote
I find it hard to understand how passionate some folks are about voting Yes or voting No. Not because I do not understand passion, but because the cases for either position are so unconvincing.
The unbearable lightness of grey academia: note to self
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