- The Smartest Guy in the Room
"No one, it turns out, can ever really be the smartest guy in the room. For two reasons. First, to make sure that everyone keeps fighting to get in, and stay in. Second, to make sure that everyone who doesn’t get in is kept out."
- JN-T: The Life And Scandalous Times Of John Nathan-Turner (review)
"Scrupulously researched… strives for fairness and balance… Yet it’s also a book one hesitates to recommend – you may feel this is one scab you’d prefer not to pick, one car crash you choose not to rubberneck at."
- Wealth Inequality in America – YouTube
Everyone’s linking to this, but it is really worth watching if you haven’t already.
- “Palaeofantasy”: Stone Age delusions
"It is striking how fixated on the alleged behavior of our hunting-and-foraging forbearers some educated inhabitants of the developed world have become."
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