Tag: Books
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The ‘hidden center’ of 2666
Last night I finished Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. It is excellent. Apparently, Bolaño’s notes refer to a ‘hidden center’ nestled within the ‘physical center’ of the text. The physical center — at least in my copy — is Part 4: The Part About the Crimes. This section runs through a series of investigations into the mysterious…
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The Cognition Reformation?
But when cognition really became emancipated from its social bondage, it also ceased to be linked to a distinct social category. I’ve just finished Ernest Gellner’s Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History (1988). It’s a thought-provoking exploration of three human activities across time: production, coercion, and cognition. The quote up top refers to an…
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Favorite Books of 2023
The best books I read in 2023
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Favorite Books of 2022
My five favorite books that I read in 2022.
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The Coming of the French Revolution
Snippets from the conclusion to Georges Lefebvre’s “The Coming of the French Revolution.”
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Favorite Books of 2020
Nine of my favorite reads from 2020.
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Galt’s Gulch, Higher Education, and the Blockchain
Will the credential of a university degree be valuable in 15 years?
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Globalization in the Age of American Primacy
A syllabus for an international political economy course I developed in 2016.
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Favorite Books of 2019
Nine of my favorite reads from 2019
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Favorite Books of 2018
Four of my favorite reads from 2018