Sunday, February 24, 2019

TIG of the dump

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This is a post about The Independent Group . My reading about the (now ancient - 1998) dispute between Ellen Meiksins Wood and Nicos Poula...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Theorising the contemporary left, its tasks and prospects

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Amazon link I've just read Ellen Meiksins Wood's rather turgid book (above) where she defends Marxism against the Eurocommunis...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

A quick review of my plans (no more French classes!)

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My little foray into improving my French did not last long. I sent the following email this morning [ translation at the bottom of the page...
Monday, February 18, 2019

The next 25 years

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Razib Khan has an interesting and well-written piece peering into the future: " The end of America as the world as we know it ", a...
Friday, February 15, 2019

On the "The Nurture of Nature"

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Peter Frost has an interesting post, " The Nurture of Nature" , where he writes about gene-culture coevolution , particularly over...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

The pointlessness of being right

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I was reading Danny Finkelstein in The Times this morning. His piece was urbane, civilised, a measured appreciation of Winston Churchill. ...
Thursday, February 07, 2019

China dominant in AI by 2025?

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Via Bruce Schneier 's site, Gregory C. Allen has an ...

Not sure about Quillette

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I've featured Quillette on the website Blogs sidebar here for a while. It was established to offer a home to those afflicted by th...
Monday, February 04, 2019

Diary: benchmarking my ability in French (February 2019)

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For a while I've had the vague idea that it would be good if I could upgrade my French to sort-of-conversational . It just seems wrong t...
Sunday, February 03, 2019

The Subjunctive and the Conditional in French

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This is an area I've been directed to study. I have to say I'm hazy about the real difference between the subjunctive and the condit...