There was a Doonesbury series a few years ago about a student who gets a B in a course, fears this will prevent him from getting into law school and sues his professor for future loss of earnings from a lifetime of corporate law. Well, now the Invisible Adjunct brings us a story that puts […]
One sentence of mine, correctly described by Mark Kleiman as a bad pun, has, uh, triggered nearly five thousand words of attack from Dipnut at Isntapundit. He ranges freely over the question of guns and gun-ownership, my views about guns, my alleged insults towards gun owners and a (wholly imagined) history of my personal experience […]
Semester’s nearly over. Three options.
(1) Go to office, write final exam and exam key, do other dull-but-important end-of-semester tasks.
(2) Spend all day doing exploratory bike ride with John Pollock in Reddington Pass area.
(3) Get up really early, go on exploratory ride, then go to office and pursue option (1).
I chose (3). What do you […]
Here’s a great post by Henry Farrell that takes a classic paper in sociology—Padgett & Ansell’s Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici”—and shows how it informs the goings on in Survivor. He contrasts the sociological with the game-theoretic approach to good effect. As Eric Leifer once observed (I think in his paper “Interaction […]
David Adesnik posts a long response to the debate surrounding the Michael Totten piece about the alleged lack of interest shown by liberals in both the outside world and the study of history. I’ve already had my say about the poor quality of this piece, but apparently it had little effect as it’s just been […]
I went into a Krispy Kreme for the first time the other day. Every time I go by the place there’s a long line of cars at the drive-in window, and I’ve heard all about the company’s phenomenal growth rate. I wondered what all the fuss was about. So I went in. “I’ll just buy […]
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