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A libertarian review of Chappaquiddick Stephen Cox, Liberty Unbound The 19th century war on dogs Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily The NBA is thriving because it has embraced individualism Douglas French,...
View ArticleFeyerabend: Westernization and culture
There is a short thought, quoted by Paul K. Feyerabend in “Notes on Relativism”, that I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. Paul, ever critical of Western rationalism, is commenting at length on the...
View ArticleAfternoon Tea: “The Winning of the West: The Expansion of the Western Sioux...
There is, however, a second group of anthropologists, WW Newcomb, Oscar Lewis, Frank Secoy, and more recently Symmes Oliver, who have found this explanation of intertribal warfare unconvincing. These...
View ArticleAfternoon Tea: “Highland Chiefs and Regional Networks in Mainland Southeast...
This article is centered on the life story of a Mien upland leader in Laos and later in the kingdom of Nan that subsequently was made a province of Thailand. The story was recorded in 1972 but...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jackson Lears, London Review of Books Memoir of captivity in Iran John Tamny, RealClearMarkets Towards decentralization Andy Smarick, National Affairs Did humans tame themselves?...
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A German history of the Balkans Tony Barber, Financial Times A Brazilian history of the Atlantic slave trade Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Not Even Past A conservative history of America at its peak Ross...
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From Lahore to Lancashire: Untold stories from imperial Britain John Keay, Literary Review The younger sons in Jane Austen’s England had to work Richard Francis, Spectator How soon we forget Scott...
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How American anthropology redefined humanity Louis Menand, New Yorker China’s new Great Wall rises in the heart of Europe Katsuji Nakazawa, Asian Nikkei Review Chile: neoliberalism’s poster boy falls...
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The inverted anthropologist Arnold Kling, askblog Dishonesty is a core nationalist value Scott Sumner, EconLog What does the superhero craze say about our own times? Iwan Rhys Morus, Aeon “The ant...
View ArticleNightcap: Primitive communism
I should be jealous of Manvir Singh. He’s an anthropologist who publishes stuff in the academic and popular press. The stuff he publishes is the stuff I am interested in. It’s the stuff I would have...
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