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My attempts to wait for the end of the little tiff between the MM and the MMs 1 has failed: here am I . My graph shows one measure of the...

The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History by Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas. First published in 1973, this is a radi...

This was going to be a post about the end of the MM-MMs war, but that doesn't seem to be quite over yet , so instead it is about the ho...

Another year, another Mays. They flow past like water. 2025 ; 2024 ; 2023 ... With Inigo and the bucket gone I'm not really sure what i...

I'm just back from a trip down to the Chamonix valley for some low level alpine type fun, but being now a retired gentleman of leisure,...

I don't have a lot to say about this but want to record reading it. See some  Goodreads  reviews for things I might have said, if my m...

Dead famous , but also dead boring 2 . The surface veneer is tolerable: La Atwood has clearly been to writer's school and learnt how to...

There Is No Progress in Philosophy will be an idea familiar to us all; my particular text is taken from an article published in 2011 but br...

It is always charming to be the bearer of good news, so I am pleased to reveal to you that  Donald Trump is the war’s biggest loser , in th...

The Case Against Education   is a book written by libertarian economist Bryan Caplan and published in 2018 by Princeton University Press. Dr...

The classic Science advances one funeral at a time refers; and I swear I have at least one other riffing on the theme. And today brings us...

We interrupt your war coverage for a struggle of a different kind, the Red team - (minty) Blue team wars. Last year the Reds were untoucha...

So it finally happened: the MM ran out of patience and decided to twat the MMs , though this was perhaps a little late for the tens of tho...

Wiki tells me 1 that The Foundations of Modern Political Thought is a two-volume work of intellectual history by Quentin Skinner, publishe...

Art for Art's Sake is a song by 10cc , but I prefer the He's Dead Jim version ; the original is thin. Although the song is really ...

A rare post about climate; I do apologise. But first: I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A wast...

We start with a nice little cartoon. Perhaps a good reminder that the left can poke fun at itself, or can't resist doing so. Anyway: da...