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March 6, 2018Karl Popper

Karl Popper’s The Poverty of Historicism after 60 years

Jack Birner has this new article just published in Metascience. cognitive closurecomplexityFriedrich HayekHistoricismjack birnerKarl PopperLiberalismsocial epistemologyunintended consequences

September 3, 2016sociology

It was the third of September

Some powerful social commentary from 44 years ago, possibly the greatest psychedelic soul funk song of all time and distressingly, is more salient now than ever before; then check out the Pew Report Parenting in America; and last, but by no means least, Larry Elder’s crisp assessment/diagnostic of the problem: It was the third of September…

August 25, 2015jazz, new orleans

What is this “new” New Orleans?

Larry Blumenfeld reports: During a press conference at last year’s Jazz & Heritage Festival, Mayor Landrieu told me, “There is a way to organize culture without killing it.” Those words are either comforting or alarming, depending upon whom you ask. As David Freedman, the general manager of listener-supported WWOZ-FM (self-proclaimed “Guardians of the Groove”), told…