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My last post started off as this post, so to speak, but mutated. Happily, the situation hasn't changed much in the last few days. Befo...

You'll likely be pleased to know that I'm not going to defend my headline too hard. But let's see how far I can get. Attempts t...

As the Police put it, respectfully touched up: The afternoon has gently passed me by Evening spreads itself against the sky Waiting for tom...

At Volokh , but it is Josh Blackman, who I think one of the weaker and distinctly more Trump-friendly, reporting Vance saying: You cannot h...

I've owned, and been meaning to read, this for years. Indeed my copy is marked up at the start of Vol II; but I get ahead of myself. Fi...

I'm not sure that the "midwit" text here is quite right; it is supposed, I think, to be something like "we derive our mo...

I seem not to have been optimistic since 2017 ; but really, life is better than that. The world is beautiful; I've made it out onto the...

I cannot resist a post on Trump and his foolish tariffs, mostly so I can look back in a few days or a year and think you fool, how could yo...

To the National Gallery for the Siena exhibition , but we were early so browsed around. And I was happy to find Lord R again; I think they ...

Conjectures and Refutations refers, naturally. But what is so charming about Popper is the way that an idea, that in our debased times woul...

This is a great book by Karl Popper ; you should read it. You can even do that online as rosenfels.org/Popper.pdf . The overall theme is the...

Every now and again one reads a paper saying something along the lines of "ZOMG we're all going to die of starvation". Perhaps...

A follow up to  Red team rows over , though I seem to have skipped 2024 (see here for the 2024 playlist ). Not to spoil the suspense, but t...