Thinking Out Aloud

Christine Roy, Unsplash. My poor blog, how I have neglected you. I have abandoned you for my Substack, which is Lorenzo from Oz. It is here ...

The destructive non-electoral politics of institutional capture. Source: Economic Policy Institute . Have done two new posts on Substack. On...

Source: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash. Blogging has been very light here. Mainly because I have been doing a lot of researching and writing for ...

Ever since their inception, states have dominated the extraction of surplus. Tomb of Menna , Wikipedia commons. Two concepts that, in their ...

The problem with using a distorting social lens. Source: https://theweek.com/politics/1002300/progressives-are-aggressors-in-the-culture-war...

Property law rests on conventions that evolved before it and that can operate without it, or even against it. Waiting for the opening of a s...

Opinions that mark one off as one of the smart-and-the-good can have a disastrous effect on policy and organisations. Source In her review ...

And bad things come from pretending it was. Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933. Wikimedia commons. A friend forwarded me this ema...

We are the cultural species par excellence, and so the species that creates its own niches. Beaver dam, Hesse, Germany. The ecologist Paul C...