#Intellectual

Matto Mildenberger

mmildenberger

Something I've been meaning to say about The Tragedy of the Commons. Bear with me for a small thread on why our embrace of Hardin is a stain on environmentalism.

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

"Critical Theory" is to the contemporary Right what "Communism" was to the right from McCarthyism to Reagan. It is a catch all term that can be used to lump together

Matthew D. Morrison

DrMaDMo

If we’re gonna reimagine copyright law, the place to start (I think) would be with the fact that CR law (developed in the US during slavery in the colonial era)

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

History often reveals the specificity and contingency of social, cultural, intellectual or political arrangements that appear natural or universal. At the same time, historical contextualization and comparison often undermine categorical

Zito

_Zeets

"The Midwest is, in fact, fairly frequently written about, but almost always in a way that weirdly disclaims the possibility that it has ever been written or thought about before."https://getpocket.com/explore/item/on-being-midwes

Niskanen Center

NiskanenCenter

NEW ESSAY from @Lindsey_Brink: The initial goals of the libertarianism were simple: lower taxes, less spending, fewer regulations. But the champions of free markets made deep-seated intellectual errors. As a

Simon Allison

simonallison

It was tweeting about this story that got my account and several others blocked on Twitter.It’s about Bill Gates, and why he refuses to support calls to drop patents on

Jeremy Littau

JeremyLittau

I worked in journalism before academia, and we often relied on experts to help us understand things. So, the UNC news reminds me one of the surprising things about academia

Joshua Leifer

joshualeifer

The right-wing responses to @PeterBeinart's article are very telling. They show a striking inability to engage with the arguments the article actually makes. They reflect the intellectual exhaustion of Anglo-American

Ben Kelly

TheScepticIsle

I get a lot of snide comments on here for writing for The Telegraph. Well, frankly, sod off. In 2015 I was an obscure blogger. It's progress to now be

Ashley Holub, PhD

ashtroid22

1. In trying to understand the extent of the CDC whistleblower reports I did some reading. One of the top hits on Google is actually an old CDC Whistleblower report

saket साकेत ಸಾಕೇತ್ 🇮🇳

saket71

Brahmins are the Jews of India. I say that as a non-Brahmin. People have been fed on propaganda of rich and powerful Brahmin. Then why all stories start with -

Adam Robbert

AE_Robbert

Pierre Hadot’s work is marked with a certain antipathy to philosophy’s modern formulation in the university system. Hadot is fond of quoting Thoreau to express this sentiment, as he says,

©️as Mudde 😷

CasMudde

Before people think I am depressed (again), let me share my reflections of the past months and lay out my plans for next few years. #AsIfAnyoneCares https://twitter.com/CasMudde/status/1335700644326465538 1. I am

Christina Larson 可心

larsonchristina

So much of China’s recent intellectual history is crystallized - and mourned - in this moving piece by @LiYuan6. “Has the difference between Hong Kong and Beijing come down to

Sean Last

Sean__Last

If you've followed his work for a while, it's been obvious that Scott Alexander is, or at least was, secretly a hereditarian. If all the secret hereditarian intellectuals were honest,

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