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Crooked Timber is a widely-read political blog run by a group of (mostly) academics from and working in several different nations, including the USA, the UK, Ireland, Australia and Singapore. Crooked Timber was founded in July 2003 as a merger of several individual blogs, including Junius and Gallowglass, along with some new contributors. Additional members were added over subsequent months until the group reached an agreed optimum of 15 members. Crooked Timber ranked in Technorati's Top 100 blogs between 2003 and 2005 and is still widely linked to in the academic blogosphere.
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CROOKED TIMBER · 10 HRS, 28 MINS AGO
I really don’t know what to say
Sad and upsetting times in Ireland. Cardinal Brady, it turns out, was instrumentally involved in the closed investigation of the monstrous ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 22 HRS, 14 MINS AGO
Stalinesque
Tyler Cowen links to a post on a blog that I had hitherto been unaware of, True Economics (proprietor: Constantin Gurdgiev, ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 2 DAYS, 6 HRS AGO
15 Great Articles in Ethics for Undergraduates
My friend Tony Laden says, “I am toying with an idea for a new upper-level undergraduate ethics class that would take ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 3 DAYS, 6 HRS AGO
A toppolitician who chooses for his family
Dutch politics was shaken up today, when Wouter Bos, the political leader of the social-democrats, PVDA, announced that he will leave ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 3 DAYS, 10 HRS AGO
Determinism
(found at Luke Surl: H/T to CT commenter, tiredofblogs)
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CROOKED TIMBER · 3 DAYS, 16 HRS AGO
Washington, Reagan and Jefferson (not the atheist one!)
The Republican campaign to rename everything after Ronald Reagan has reached new heights of absurdity with the suggestion that Reagan should ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 4 DAYS, 12 HRS AGO
Carroll on Colbert
Cosmic Variance’s Sean Carroll doing a very good job indeed on The Colbert Report. That shit is hard. Along the way ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 5 DAYS, 9 HRS AGO
The EMF as camel’s nose
Charlemagne’s prediction 1 that the Greek crisis would have no substantial effects for EU integration is looking decidedly wobbly. Radical plans ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 5 DAYS, 12 HRS AGO
Imprints: the final issue
I now have in front of me the final issue (vol. 10 no. 3) of Imprints, currently subtitled “egalitarian theory and ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 5 DAYS, 14 HRS AGO
What’s the point of having a Philosophy department in a University?
This story (via Leiter) concerns the requirement in Pennsylvania that any university department within the PASSHE system that graduates fewer than ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 6 DAYS, 19 HRS AGO
America’s Brush With Slavery
Ponnuru and Lowry have responded to critics of their American Exceptionalism piece, I see. I’ll just quote a bit from the ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 1 WEEK AGO
Counting our blessings, but especially looking ahead at the work that still needs to be done
I wrote a year ago that it was the 100th International Women’s day, but looking at the status updates of my ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 1 WEEK AGO
ICANN Nairobi blogging
As foreshadowed a while back, I’ve taken myself off to Nairobi for the week to take part in the ICANN meeting ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 1 WEEK AGO
Bookblogging: The final instalment
I’ve finally completed a near-final draft of my book, although some bits, such as the following ‘Reanimation’ section of the chapter ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 1 WEEK, 1 DAY AGO
Sleepers
My namesake, Tom Quiggin has been in the news lately, debunking the idea that Al Qaeda cultivates sleeper agents and also ...
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CROOKED TIMBER · 1 WEEK, 3 DAYS AGO
Building Better Teachers
A riveting piece by Elizabeth Green in Sunday’s Times magazine on the coming revolution in teacher preparation. Rarely for a Sunday ...
