The trouble with writing about the first two Terra Ignota books is knowing quite where to begin. They’re dense in ways that much modern science fiction is not. They engage with the existing literature and traditions, but quite unashamedly demand that readers abandon the usual reading protocols. If Gene Wolfe is one obvious point of reference (not […]
Henry Farrell
Henry Farrell is an associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University.
Posted inPolitics
The Thousand Day Reich: Civil Society
A new lens for thinking about the surge of right wing populism around the world.
Posted inEconomy
Algorithmic Price Fixing
Radically cheaper communication makes new forms of collusion possible that ultimately squeeze consumers.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Columbia and Grad Student Unionization
It’s not surprising that businesses are likely to take advantage of the incoming Trump administration’s hostility to unions. It’s infuriating that some academic institutions are looking to do the same. Graduate students in Columbia University just voted to organize, citing frustrations with late pay, poor working conditions and so on. The university administration is looking […]
Posted inEducation, K-12, Politics
Consumer Sovereignty is a Postulate, Not a Given
Tyler Cowen on school vouchers: Since Donald Trump has picked Betsy DeVos to be education secretary, many commentators have been pulling out their anti-school choice arguments from the closet, and for the most part it isn’t a pretty sight. To insist on a single government-run school and trash school choice, while out of the other side […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics
Privatization as State Transformation
It’s more complicated than you think.
Posted inPolitics
Glenn Reynolds Should Not Be Disciplined
People should not be punished on the job for stuff they do off it.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
The University of Chicago is Made of Safe Spaces
“There’s something fundamentally wrong with the claim that the ideal of academic freedom and the idea of the safe space are opposed to each other.”
Posted inEconomy
Book Review: American Amnesia by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson
Hacker and Pierson’s political argument has a lot in common with that of old-style liberals like J.K Galbraith and Charles Lindblom.
