Kieran Healy

Posts from January 2004

Coffee Time

A bit late to the David Brooks party, Josh Chafetz of OxBlog seems to be suffering from a clear case of jetlag. Daniel, Kevin Drum, Mark Kleiman, Matt Yglesias and Josh Marshall have more on this.


Social Engineering in the 1790s

A choice bit from Juliet Barker’s gigantic Wordsworth: A Life.
Tom Wedgwood was a committed philanthropist and Godwinian. Anxious to do his part for the furtherance of mankind, he had, in correspondence with Godwin, determined to devote a portion of his wealth to the education of a genius … Wedgwood had come up with a […]


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4 January 2004 @ 3pm

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Illocutionary Vegas Act

If Britney Spears were gay, I suppose this would be an excellent example of the kind of thing that’s ruining the institution of marriage.


Mob Rule at the BBC

The results are in from the “Listeners’ Law” feature on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, where the show’s audience chose between five bills, with Labour MP Stephen Pound agreeing to propose the winner in Parliament. More than 25,000 people voted. The winner was a “proposal to authorise homeowners to use any means to defend their […]


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