Later this afternoon, I’ll be heading off to join the Social and Political Theory Program at the Australian National University’s Research School of Social Sciences, where I’ll be spending most of the next year. I probably won’t be posting much for the next few days while I find my way to Canberra. On the […]
My draft paper on OSS development (co-authored with Alan Schussman) is picked up this morning by Linux Today.
I teach a course on 19th Century Social Theory [pdf] at the University of Arizona, of the kind often required of Sociology majors around the world. I usually begin with the question “How can there be a city as big as Tucson in the middle of the desert?” and go on to give them a […]
Crooked Timber has officially started up. It’s a new group blog by myself, Chris Bertram (aka Junius), the Farrells (aka Gallowglass), Brian Weatherson (aka Thoughts, Arguments and Rants) and serveral other fine people still TBA. I’m still figuring out what happens to this blog now that I’m affiliated with CT. I’ll probably just duplicate my […]
Here’s a side-point from my post on nepotism that came out of an exchange with James Joyner, and that I wanted to rescue from the comments section. James says
a major difference between affirmative action and nepotism, though, is that the former tars all and the latter just the one involved. It’s not so much […]
Both Armed Liberal and Kevin Drum are bemused and I think a little disgusted by Adam Bellow’s article “In Praise of Nepotism,” which appears in the current issue of The Atlantic. (It isn’t available online.)
The Marxist daemon who lives on my left shoulder says with enthusiasm that it would be great if the national myth […]
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