reading

I have trouble keeping up with all links to great long-form journalism and essays that stream past every day, but here are my favourites (out of the ones I managed to catch and read and either remember or save (thank you Longreads & Instapaper)). In not much of an order: How the Internet gets inside us, Adam [...]

Tyler Cowen started this meme, which I noticed via Michael Martin. Arnold Kling took it up as well. I’ve already written a very long post about all of the books that influenced me. The books on this list are by no means the ones I love or respect the most. Some of them influenced me in [...]

With me it varies a lot. Sometimes I’ll write a blog post about it. Depends though. For the last couple of fiction books I wrote little reviews immediately after I finished them. I think I was trying to articulate “what they were about,” or something. Sometimes I’ll write a post that isn’t exactly about the [...]

Lately I’ve been more inclined towards long-form — both in writing and in reading. I’m back in the rhythm I had in 2007: writing actual essays at a rate of one-per-week. Maybe that’s the last thing people want, but it’s where I perceive a need. It’s also where I’m most likely to add unique value and [...]

Pragmatism: From Philosophy to Politics

by OpenConceptual on 07-04-2009

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Read Carlin Romano’s piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Obama, Philosopher in Chief” (via aldaily). The article includes a number of useful references for further study (if you haven’t read them already). Adding to Obama’s speech in Cairo (as well as at Buchenwald and Omaha Beach), here are some key books mentioned: Kwame Anthony Appiah, [...]