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Conversation Piece
Over the past few months I’ve been listening closely to Heathen and haven’t tired of it at all, despite some minor annoyances. Echoing many others, the interesting thing about this album is that Bowie, finally and for once, consistently makes good on closing out the amazing legacy of his golden years (1970-1980). Heathen (see a couple of…
Dialogues in Scrutopia
Scruton conveys a world where the ideological “lie” reigned and where brave souls successfully resisted it. He also captures that in-between world between moral integrity and open collaboration that was the fate of so many in a decaying yet frightfully repressive ideological regime. Daniel J. Mahoney in New Criterion It was Roger who inspired me to go to…
State-sponsored segregation
From the very party that brought you the KKK and eugenics. Richard Rothstein chats about his new book The Color of Law. The publisher blurb here. (Unusually, it’s the subtitle that is more illuminating). Jane JacobsLiberalismracismregressive leftrichard Rothsteinthe color of law
Stigmergy-based modeling to discover urban activity patterns from positioning data
New working paper freely available for download here. In this paper, we present an innovative approach based on stigmergy that aims to handle both complexity and dimensionality of these data, providing an analysis of urban crowds dynamics by exploiting taxi GPS data. complexitydispersed knowledgedistributed cognitionhuman-human stigmergysituated cognitionstigmergicstigmergic cognitionstigmergic epistemologyStigmergy
On Liberty and Its Enemies: Essays of Kenneth Minogue
My late chum, Ken Minogue, has just had a posthumous collection of his classic essays republished and it is edited by none other than Tim Fuller. Conservatismkenneth minogueLiberalismPolitical philosophyTimothy Fuller
A Guide to the Classics or How to Pick the Derby Winner
A long anticipated reissue. A Guide to the ClassicsGuy Griffithhorse racingMichael OakeshottPeter OsborneSean Magee
Walker Percy Wednesday 134
The so-called détentes and reconciliations between “Science” and “Religion” are even more boring. What is more boring than hearing Heisenberg’s uncertainty relations enlisted in support of the freedom of the will? The traditional scientific model of man is clearly inadequate, for a man can go to heroic lengths to identify and satisfy his needs and…
Profile of David F. Hardwick
Here’s a profile of my incredibly accomplished colleague, collaborator, dear friend and accomplice in silliness. Dave’s wiki entry. David Hardwickdispersed knowledgedistributed cognitionHayekliberalitymedical scienceopen systemsSpontaneous order
Prelude to Douglas Murray’s new book
In The World of Yesterday, published in 1942, the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig wrote that in the years leading up to the Second World War, “I felt that Europe, in its state of derangement, had passed its own death sentence.” Only his timing was out. It would take several more decades before that death sentence…
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