My research habits are rather chaotic, but that often bears fruit when I come across some interesting note or commentary that helps me better understand a more general work or issue. For example, I am always interested in reading the footnotes and marginalia in “definitive editions” of classic works. Thus, in reading the sub-sub-sub footnotes [...]
Tags: Chester I Barnard, Hayek, ideology, marginalia, publication industry, Road to Serfdom
In addition to my “nightstand” reading, I am constantly looking for material for my classes and relevant to my research. There are certain “go to” writers who often provide interesting books or articles that I immediately give a “look see.” Two of the most notable on my list are Richard Posner and Cass Sunstein. Both [...]
Tags: Cass Sunstein, extremism, group behavior, polarization
My current “nightstand” reading is John Gray’s Two Faces of Liberalism, which I purchased after reading for first part of his Black Mass. Before picking up these books, Gray has been someone in the “background,” part of the political noise coming from the literati that I have been trying to track and make sense of [...]
Tags: John Gray, liberalism
This is my first entry on digress.it (and via transfer to accountabilitybloke), and I have decided to take it a bit slower than my approach to commentpress where I dove headlong — for at least a week or so — into trying to emulate McKenzie Wark’s project with some material that had been sitting around [...]