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Category: Links
Links I liked
Coronapod: the COVID scientists facing violent threats
Utterly depressing. Outrageous and despicable.
Illusions of empire: Amartya Sen on what British rule really did for India
This is well worth 30 minutes of your time
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/126427169
Marina talking about Brexit
Marina Hyde is my favourite Guardian columnist and quite possibly one of the funniest persons alive. She doesn’t normally do TV or radio but now she’s on Today in Focus and I can actually hear her talking about Brexit & stuff and OMG I’m having a fanboy moment here.
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/125822493
Some light reading to get in the mood for the French regional elections
The warning signs have been present for some time. Les Républicains are on the verge of a crackup. Caught between Macron’s LRM and Le Pen’s RN, the party’s electoral space […]
Sorry, we got hacked again
Apologies to anyone visiting here who was confronted with links to lotteries, flashing signs, and even (shudder) literal bells and whistles. It’s (by my count) the third time my site got hacked since it went up in flames earlier this year. Why, I hear you ask, would anyone bother? Why go through the trouble of…
Markets in everything
In this, your friendly neighborhood economist explains how extortion can reach a nice, efficient equilibrium where everyone is reasonably happy. Fascinating stuff.
Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying, Rachel Monroe writes.
The end of eternity and other small stuff
Sunday afternoon in Germany is the perfect time for contemplation, because there is absolutely nothing else to do. If you want to worry about catastrophic events slightly further in the future than climate change, listen to this wonderful episode of Big Picture Science about the end of everything 😱
Why slow scholarship is not necessarily the solution for academia’s problems
Filip Vostal thinks that slow scholarship is basically Goop for the academy. I think he is onto something
(Impact of Social Sciences)For several years the slow scholarship movement has gathered an international following in advocating for a more conscientious slower form of academic work. Arguing against this blanket rejection o…
Inglehart, Maaßen, Le Pen: two links I liked & one that makes me sad
I’m sad to hear that Ronald Inglehart has died. Hero worshipping is worse than useless, and great man/woman theories are just very bad sociology of knowledge. Having said that, Inglehart had an impact on the field of comparative political sociology that is hard to overestimate. He was enormously productive, and his work is cited far…