Ben Landau-Taylor

@benlandautaylor

Analysis of power and society, now and historically. Please don't get your ought all over my is.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2018.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. 10. sij
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    From 1889— DUCHESS: I write letters blatant On medicines patent And use any other you mustn’t DUKE: Believe me, you mustn’t DUCHESS: And vow my complexion Derives its perfection From somebody’s soap – which it doesn’t DUKE: It certainly doesn’t!

  2. Odgovor korisniku/ci

    The talk sparked some great discussion! Thanks for speaking!

  3. Odgovor korisnicima

    Yeah, the demonstration of SafeGraph's tech is almost more interesting than the paper's conclusion.

  4. And thanks to all the Savoy Club attendees for another night of excellent discussion!

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  5. Thanks to for a wonderful talk at the Savoy Club last night! Lots of fascinating stuff on local governance.

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  6. Twenty minutes into Schumpeter and I'm already falling in love.

  7. 2. ruj 2019.

    I confess I had not considered "convince the border control agent that your luggage contains inventions critical to national security" as a method of getting intros to funders.

  8. Effective Altruism has clearly sold out. Here’s some highlights from their job recommendations page at :

  9. 9. kol 2019.
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    The GI Bill was the beginning of the transformation, not the end. PhD production tripled from prewar levels in the time of the GI Bill, then leveled off for a bit, then tripled again throughout the 60s:

  10. 4. lip 2019.

    In the West, you see very few powerful women throughout antiquity, a fair number through the middle ages, very few after the triumph of bourgeois urbanism, and then a fair number of powerful women post-WWII.

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  11. 4. lip 2019.

    People overstate the degree to which today’s society is unique in having women hold some positions of political and economic power. There’s a real thing there, yes, but it’s not as unprecedented as the narrative would have you believe.

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  12. 5. tra 2019.

    Durability of equipment as social technology: American weapons systems are "too delicate" for militaries that can't trust their soldiers with expensive spare parts and tools. From

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    “It's so nice to have integrity / I’ll tell you why / If you really have integrity / It means your price is very high”

  14. Here’s a fascinating story from Clausewitz’s account of mopping up the French after Waterloo:

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