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The 2008 book Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity is hard for me to understand, but I’ve been trying to figure it out, as the concepts it considers seem interesting and important:
Rob Henderson has a great essay summarizing the expert vs elite distinction I discussed in 6 prior posts (1 2 3 4 5 6):
You might expect us to understand our romantic couple breakups very well.
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Mainstream economics’ inability to explain domestic inequality and competition between nations
“The whole county is my studio. I used to go work under a certain bridge if it was pouring, because people used to hide there from the rain” – Mark Cohen Mark Cohen shot from the hip, taking photographs with his camera hung low as his took a daily walk in New York … Continue reading "Tall Socks and Strangers: A Low-Level View of 1970s NYC" The post Tall Socks and Strangers: A Low-Level View of 1970s NYC appeared first on Flashbak.
‘Hitler’s Deserters’ by Douglas Carl Peifer review JamesHoare Mon, 05/19/2025 - 09:01
Heraclitus, Strife and the Need for Conflict
The place: Tenochtitlan, a metropolis built in the middle of a lake, with floating islands supported by piles. The date: November 1519. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men must have been astonished. Tenochtitlan had more inhabitants than London or Paris and, in many ways, was better organized. Standing before Cortés, a 34-year-old university […]
