Thinking Out Aloud

Economist Deepak Lal usefully divides cultures—interwoven ways of doing things passed across generations by learning—into their material and...

This concludes my review of P. D. Jonson's (aka Henry Thornton ) Great Crises of Capitalism . The first part is here , the second part i...

This continues my review of P. D. Jonson (aka Henry Thornton ) has written Great Crises of Capitalism . The first part is in my previous po...

P. D. Jonson (aka Henry Thornton ) has written Great Crises of Capitalism , a history of economic crises in capitalism since the C17th and ...

A friend who practises Chinese medicine put me on to this Webinar by Lonny Jarrett, a Chinese medicine practitioner who runs the Nourishing...

This dispatch provides examples of what observer after observer remarks about the Middle East: it is rife with conspiracy theories. Conspir...

Like many people, I have been doing a lot of reading on Islam and Islamic history since September 11 2001. But my interests in history – par...

[An earlier version of the discussion of Carey and Chan as examples of Taoism in SF was previously posted elsewhere.] I once asked a friendl...

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This is based on a comment I made here . A recent piece suggests choice of topic or issue is a major mechanism of media bias. A classic exa...

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , Humpty Dumpty famously holds that a word means what he wants it to mean : "When I use a word,...

Anti (Muslim) immigrant sentiment is proving increasingly an electoral winner in Europe. Adding anti-bailout sentiment seems to increase th...