Wading Through Treacle

When I think back to my socialist-activist years at and after university, when I was marching with the International Marxist Group contingen...

Alex Honnold’s free, solo ascent of El Capitan  From " Rock climbing and the economics of innovation " via Marginal Revolutio...

' Scientism ' proposes the methods of the hard sciences - mathematical modelling - as the preferred , or sole approach to stud...

Perhaps every generation wakes up one day and realises that they live in a society of apparently-atomised individuals - and that the ideolo...

Cro-Magnons - early humans - entered Europe from the Middle East around 38,000 years ago . Their path took them through the Zagros mountains...

Amazon link A second pass these last few days at Hegel's The Phenomenology of Mind (Spirit) , a notoriously obscure but central wor...

Amazon link I joined this blog a couple of weeks ago. I'm pretty aligned with its view of the world. I've been writing politica...

Amazon link This is Wikipedia's summary. "The narrator, Florent-Claude Labrouste, is a depressed agricultural scientist who ...

This quote, " it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism ," has been attributed to the cu...

  Of course you can . Use the Y-combinator. This would look cleaner if the author had not used Church numerals. Here's something s...