Driverless Crocodile

Alex Tabarrok on equal pay for equal work

Clifford Sosin (and Harold Ableson) on the limits to (artificial) intelligence

Connective Tissue

Not long ago; or, Little by little (12): Armentano, Niehaus and Vogl on How Poverty Fell

SOP

Tyler Cowen on the experience, culture and politics of poverty

Alasdair MacIntyre: Barbarians inside the walls

What if the best thing that ever happened to you…

A politics of affection

Edmund Burke on virtue, experience and political leadership

Driverless Crocodile Knot Course (1): Foundations – The One Knot; or, The Overhand Variations

Michael Oakeshott on apprenticeship and practical knowledge: “It takes two generations to learn a profession”

Design Matters (25): Wingèd Urinal à la Toto with istinja spout; or, Fount of Knowledge

Michael Oakeshott on political activity and continuity

Edmund Burke on Circumstances and Political Principles; or, Context is King

Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) on getting the right bus

Luck Magnet: David Elikwu’s ‘Sovereign’ is out now

Love and Respect

Uproar in the East, Strike in the West: Samuel B. Griffith on Mao Zedong’s Yu Chi Chan (Guerrilla Warfare)

Worldview: Sarah Paine on Japanese culture and strategy in World War 2

Ceteris Paribus; or, Local Conditions (Surf Lessons #9)

Hannah Arendt on science, language, politics and our future machine overlords

Fact check: Comparing Leaf Blower Carbon Emissions with Pollution from Cars

G. K. Chesterton on Hearsay Evidence

Surfing: Why does it help to arch your back when paddling? (it isn’t for leverage) – Surf Lessons #8

Neal Stephenson on augmentation as amputation