globalinequality

Working on global inequality makes you ask questions you would never ask otherwise simply because they would not occur to you. It is li...

L ast night I was quite intrigued by Brad DeLong post about how some several thousand years in the future, professors (if they still ex...

D eath of Fidel Castro made me think again of the idea that I had for a while about our lack of understanding of what is the place of comm...

T his is a different post from my normal posts. It is a primer and I must ask indulgence from many readers for whom this is all too well-kn...

I enjoyed tremendously Mary Beard’s “Confronting the classics” . Beard is the most engaging writer, her style is fresh and open, and s...