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C. Wright Mills on Thorstein Veblen: Outside the Whale
I picked up the recent Oxford anthology of Mills, The Politics of Truth, for cheap. While there’s plenty of problems with Mills’s sociology, he still represents, along with Thorstein Veblen and Erving Goffman, a sort ...
Brian Barry on Robert Nozick
Here’s something less controversial, courtesy of John Protevi and Lawyers Guns and Money: Brian Barry’s amusing review of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, from 1975. According to the jacket of the book, “Robert Nozick’s ...
Charles Sanders Peirce: Summary of Human Knowledge
Unrealized. Winter–Spring 1892 Plan for a scientific dictionary, to be called Summa Scientiæ; or,Summary of Human Knowledge. To be contained in one volume of 1500 pages of 1000 words per page. The articles, though elementary, to ...
Battle Lines
Reductionistic Framework Alert! I recently ran across an old essay by Lisp expert, venture capitalist, and general software guru Paul Graham. Graham is a very sharp person and his Lisp books are excellent, but he ...
Jose Donoso: The Garden Next Door
This is a late novel by Donoso, and it bears very little resemblance to anything else I’ve read by him. The Obscene Bird of Night and A House in the Country are two of the ...
Triptych of Ideologies
John Clute on Cory Doctorow. The Heinlein comparison is significant and important in tracing the mainline of science-fiction. One good way to detect the secret handshake hidden in plain view in tales by Heinlein or ...
Alexander Herzen’s Father
For people he had an open, undisguised contempt–for everyone. Never under any circumstances did he count upon anybody, and I do not remember that he ever applied to any one with any considerable request. He ...