notes-to-self
From termite queens to the carbon cycle, nature knows how to avoid network collapse. Human designers should pay heed
The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP and The Honorable Henry A Kissinger
In the early 1930s, Eucken and the lawyer Franz Böhm had founded the Freiburg School of ordoliberalism as a research community in law and economics
written by Eric Kaufmann at quillette.com
via Jerry Coyne
Academia has become a closed system, a moral community defined by a set of sacred progressive values. The surge of no-platformings which took off in America in 2015 and hit Britain in 2018–19, or the fivefold jump in the rate of cancelling American academics which took place in 2019, present merely the tip of an iceberg of self-censorship ... (read on)
This report was prepared at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and forms part of the work of the Centre for the Future of Democracy.
