This place is not normally a home to pop psychology of any kind or any kind of motivational coaching. But I do have to say that the latest newsletter from Tom Venuto at Fitness Renaissance had some wonderful gems.
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Some numbers on the Iraq conflict from Juan Cole: Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce Linda Bilmes has estimated the cost of five years of the…
1 CommentToday I had an eleven o’clock screening of Lapinthrope, followed by a lecture on arts filmmaking in the cinema department of Universidad Nacional in Bogotá.…
Leave a CommentFor a long time, I’ve been mildly contemptuous of Claude Lelouche’s films. Eminently français, these tired tales of bourgeois hypocrisy and venality, had lost all…
1 CommentHow to say someone is a murderer without saying it: Abramoff is under investigation by a grand jury in Guam for illegal contracts and money…
Leave a CommentThe first real show of the Tanzquartier season. The week before saw solo performances by Dutch creator Robert Steijn and Lebanese choreographer. There was also…
Leave a CommentDemocracy in action. America is truly a model to the world for freedom of the press. Nowhere has this been more clearly demonstrated than in…
Leave a CommentThe fact that someone is a judge, for example, is a social fact — the authority that attaches to judgeship is attached by everyone agreeing that a certain person has the right to make certain statements — “Court is adjourned”, “I sentence you to 5 years in prison” — that have real force in the world. Those statements are not magic; their force comes from the social apparatus backing them up.Ebay has become trustworthy over time because the social fact of its trustworthiness grew with the number of successful transactions and with its ability to find and rectify bad actors.
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