Labor + naval historian | they/them
political economy, ships, and shipbuilders
CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso 5/26/26
currently an adjunct at UConn
words at buttondown.com/anotherway
Henry Snow
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(I have a lot more context on this in here)
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Take that, Grotius!
Extremely satisfying and comprehensive pan of a guy I have disliked for a long time, here. Simply no feeling like it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
when Henry Manne decided to bribe right-wing econ into relevance in the legal establishment the price was pretty good. behold the results academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
but I appreciate the perspective downthread here and generally don't trust myself when I'm doomsaying
Retired Orioles star Adam Jones talked about this a lot — he was from a single-parent household and only able to play baseball as a kid because of community and school groups, which are in danger of disappearing today because of competition from travel leagues bsky.app/profile/goth...
I'm starting to think that a lot of our society's problems are downstream from the fact that theories of the user have displaced theories of the political subject in much of political life. And our mainline theories of the computer user are truly, truly awful.
In a new book, the conservative pundit Arthur C. Brooks offers tips to “young strivers” on maximizing their daily meaning quotient.
that's not to say many individual legal academics don't! the 14th revisionism is as stark as it gets. but it reveals a rot that goes back decades; the rise of "law and economics" can't be the only example but it's a sufficient one