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Is Social Science a Joke?
Richard Biernacki exposes fatally sloppy sociology, covered up with fake science. Are quantitative methods hopelessly compromised in social science?
Truth and Muddlement
Of all the concepts that people simultaneously trumpet and denigrate, while not even being aware of the contradiction, truth must rank damn close to the top.
Gregor von Rezzori: An Ermine in Czernopol
I’m coming to believe that Gregor von Rezzori (1914-1998) was one of the greatest postwar German-language writers. His work has a sensitivity and more significantly an intelligence stronger than so many of his contemporaries. His ...
Robert Musil: from the Diaries
13 August 1910. Before I went to sleep, one or two other things occurred to me about my way of working (in the novellas). What matters to me is the passionate energy of the idea. ...
Burton Pike on Robert Musil: To Analyze and Order Experience Without Reducing It
Robert Musil is difficult to write about. He outsmarts most of his commentators. Burton Pike’s “Robert Musil: Literature as Experience” is one of the better essays I’ve read on him, trying to link Musil’s hard-to-pin-down ...
Shakespeare’s Sick, Twisted Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure is a sick and disturbing play. Every change Shakespeare made to the source material, including the shift from tragedy to comedy, made it even more twisted. It’s never a good idea to ...
From Robert Musil’s Diaries, 1919
I do not ever know if it is my good spirit or my evil spirit that speaks these words within me. But it simply has to get out. Since I awoke to life I have ...