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Sorry I got so fired up about that guy criticizing Pinker. I guess he really pushed some some of my buttons. It’s not just academia – I guess I feel more broadly that “this person made some technical pratfall, so we get to ignore them about everything” can be…

Have you read either Christian’s “Maps of Time” or Graeber’s “Debt: The First Five Thousand Years”? If not, they might scratch that itch.

Haven’t read either, both both are on my list.  My father liked Maps of Time and bought me a Kindle copy as a Christmas present, and Debt has always sounded really interesting.

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    I have 228 books on my Goodreads “to-read” shelf, and those are just the ones I happen to remember to have put on...
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    Your reading list must be immense. How do you process it? When you’re finished a book, or when you put a book down, how...
  4. femmenietzsche reblogged this from xhxhxhx and added:
    Thanks! I loved Empire of Liberty & What Hath God Wrought, so that’s a good endorsement.